The Moose Police Showed Up!

"Hello, May I help you?"
"Ma'am, we have reports that there is a crazy moose lady living here. She seems to be harboring all of the worlds moose supply. May we come in and look around?"
"Why sure, if you must."
"Ma'am, why are your Christmas cards still up?"
"Don't ask."

"Ma'am this is worse than we suspected! You have a real problem here. They are everywhere!"

"Oh, sir, you ain't seen nothing yet!" (note to self: When Rebekah cleans her window have her come dust my ledge and throw away my DH's "utility pin"!)

"Your livingroom is overflowing with Moose...where did they all come from Ma'am? By the way-there are still Christmas Decorations in here."

"Christmas is a state of mind, sir! And the Moose, I don't know, they come from where ever moose come from. They just must know I love them all and can't turn them away!"

"There are moose in your bathroom, Ma'am! Is that really necessary?"
"Why of course! Moose are people too!"

"Moose in your bedroom, Ma'am?"

"Hmph! I'm NOT showing you my moose jammies!"

"Moose in the rocker and on the hearth! This woman is just crazy!"

"Well, honestly now, how could I turn them away?"

"The picture frames too?"

"They were on sale!"

What can I say...I am busted! There are even moose in my books! I am a hard core moose addict! How could I resist?
~Blessings All!

Beemoosie's Picture Day!

Hurray!

It's Picture Day!

Another lovely moose all the way from Washington state, along with a neat box and Valentine from my lovely farmgirl pal, MB

I just adore sending and receiving Farmgirl mail! These Valentine's cards are from (center, clockwise): Tina Michelle, Nancy Jo, Sunshine, Sandy and Denise! All so beautiful!

This beautiful little pouch is from Kay. How did she know I LOVE toille? As you see I use it for my current embroider project.

Goodies I received in trade from Tina Michelle.

An absolutely adorable giftie from Aunt Jenny! Can you believe that game? I've never seen it before-I love it!

Grandma Looked Good

Grandma looked excellent yesterday for having surgery the day before. She said they had her out of bed to eat breakfast in the chair. She ate lunch while we were there and ate a good deal, not all of it, but it WAS hospital food! Her sugar isn't regulated, but the nurse said that is common after surgery.

I am hoping she will go to a rehab facility from here. My grandfather isn't the nicest man in the world. If she goes home he will not help her and expect her to cook breakfast, lunch and dinner. I guess that is a whole other story. She is doing well and seemed upbeat so that is important.

Thank you all for your prayers!

XO

Prayers for Grandma

My dear Grandma fell Wednesday night and broke her hip. It almost sounds as if her hip disintegrated causing the fall. She was able to have surgery today, but they could only give her a spinal, not full anesthesia. My mom was with her yesterday, but because of the weather couldn't make it back today. (Mom should have never driven home in the weather Thursday night, but that is a whole other story!) Tomorrow, mom and I will go see Grandma together. I will feel better once I see her. Say a prayer, if you would. Thank you! :)

Tagged

I am accepting Sue's tag:
10 Things About Me

1) My passion is quilting, also love to garden, embroider, make cards and cook (well, bake!)

2) I have a weakness for ice cream

3) Never owned a dog until I was 24, can't imagine life without one now!

4) I collect moose (duh!) but also love books, transferware plates, toille, vintage papers.

5) I was widowed at 22, been remarried for 9 years-best 9 years of my life!

6) I love the Lord with all my heart!

7) My dream vacation is to one of the great National Parks, Yellowstone, Denali, Yosemite, ect.

8) If my husband wanted, I would have another baby in a heartbeat, but he doesn't and that is fine too!

9) If I could change ONE thing, I wish I finished college.

10) I am addicted to MaryJanesfarm.com and blogging!


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Long Week

I know everyone has them - those long weeks that feel like they will never end! Lots too do and it's 10 degrees outside to do it in! The snow is beautiful people, but the cold can suck the life right out of you! You can't just go jump in the car and go, you got to get up early go warm it up, brush it off and so on. The thought of driving anywhere past town on slippery roads can be overwhelming in itself! Ah well, I guess all of us in the snow belts deal with this...it's just one of those weeks!

Today is my daughter's final practice for the Middle School play that will be held Friday and Saturday. She's asking for prayers! She thinks the practices haven't gone well. Every actor thinks that, don't they? :) So after practice, they have a spaghetti dinner and I volunteered to help out. Between work and the dinner I have errands to run and dinner to cook for my men. They would honestly do it themselves since I will be out, but I decided to make them homemade mac and cheese since it is the boys' favorite and my daughter can't stand it. (she'll be at the spaghetti dinner)

Then my daughter has a slumber party tonight. The kids have off of school tomorrow for a Superintendents Conference day. I volunteered to work. We will be feeding the teachers. My boss originally told me I could come in early and leave earlier. I hope that is still the case. Friday night I think we will go to the play. My husband kind of wanted to go Saturday, thinking all the bugs will be worked out of the play. I rather be home on a Saturday night! I am such a homebody!

Sunday afternoon we are taking my daughter to a meeting for Flower City Work Camp. She participated in this ministry last year. Children spend their Easter Vacations working on homes in the city for people who can not afford these repairs. They spend each night at a church and have fellowship. It was a great experience for my daughter. She is already asking to do missions south of the border!

Of course at the same time Sunday, my son has a birthday party to go to! The meeting is about 30 miles away, so I am concerned about the weather and have asked my husband to drive us. He is being a dear b/c I KNOW this is the last thing he wants to do on a Sunday afternoon!

Well, this is a boring, rambling post! Thanks for sticking through it if ya did! My blogging buddies really are the best!

I Love My Tunz

I really enjoy this Ipod Shuffle my DH gave me for Christmas! He knows I love my music and that I would borrow DD's Ipod nano whenever I could get it out of her hands. I love to pop it in when I am sewing or cleaning, and it has REALLY helped with my excercise routine. (ok, I just walk, routine sounded so....so...major!) There is just no radio station that could keep up with my tastes, so I love that I can put a little bit of everything on here and switch what I am not in the mood for and FIND what I am in the mood for. Here's some of my favorites lately:

The Beatles - Rubber Soul and 1

The Best of Booker T and the MG's

Vivaldi

Boston Pops Orchestra Romance Classics

Audio Adreneline

Superchic(k)

Josh Turner

Benny Goodman

Something sweet from the homestead!

A "Miss Bee Haven" moose from Kentucky!

A special snowman from Nancy Jo!

I Love Making

Pillowcases! I finally remembered to take a picture of my son's fave...his cows (and other farm animals)

Baby It's Cold Outside!

Yes, indeedy! It's blowing and cold and snowy out there! Looks like we got about six inches of snow over night. Not a whole lot for us, but enough that I really don't want to GO anywhere in it. And of course I must! DD's basketball game is 20 miles away in about 2 hours. DH is at work, so mom has driving duty. Then we have hair appts and THEN my DD is have (that is my abbreviation for dear daughter, not designated driver!) anyways she is having 10 girls over for 10 hours of FUN! :)

This tree is another one of my felted ornaments. I love making them and figure if I make them all year long I will have enough to give away next Christmas. I always find good Christmas crafts AT Christmas time and never get as many done as I'd like.

On the quilting front, the log cabin quilt is still in it's cutting stage. I have been cutting strips mostly on weekends, so it isn't going very quickly. I've just not had enough energy or time after work lately. I can do embroidery, but cutting and measuring on weeknights can be a little dicey. It doesn't bother me though, no time limit. When I see other projects I want to do, that gets me going on the current project.

I am going to get my Valentine's cards finished this weekend. I think I counted around 33 girls involved. I am about half way there. They go fairly quickly once I sit down and get at them.

Did I ever mention I am a budding 4H leader? I truly have a passion to teach sewing and crafts and nature to my kids and their friends. They loved the idea and I even have 3 moms on board with me. I completed all the paperwork in September, have made numerous phone calls, and finally was told to go to a leader meeting last week. The meeting was really worth my time and very well organized. The woman I had been corresponding with was there...I ask "am I ready to get started?", "I don't think I sent you such and such form," she says! Oy! 4 days later I still don't have it. I'll give a week, then I'll start the phone calls again. I am pretty disappointed, but I am keeping at this. I have really never had such a desire to do something like this and I am determined to make it happen. I feel bad for the kids that have been waiting patiently. Some day soon I hope to be telling you 4H stories.

Well, no phone call from the coach telling me it would be crazy to drive 20 miles to a game on a day like today! Of course not! So I best get myself ready~it may take a half hour to unbury my car!

~Blessings!

Just Gotta Love That Face!

Oh, I wish he was mine! No, this cuddly teddy bear of a sheep belongs to a farm near us. We visit in the fall when they have their Harvest Festival. I just thought he needed to say hello to all of you today to warm your hearts! :)

Being Known

We human beings like to be known, whether we admit it or not. These pictures are from the walls inside my shed. The man who lived in this house for 40+ years used the walls as his journal. When we moved in and I found these notes right out in the open, I was ecstatic! My husband thought I was goofy, but I just thought it was the neatest thing in the world. There is nothing earth-shattering written on the walls. He wrote down what he planted in his garden, when he bought a vehicle, when the oil was changed and by whom. He wrote down the dates of his career with the local railroad; guy stuff. But I just think it is so cool, that man's history, or part of it is on the walls of our shed; it connects us. He didn't stop there either, his granddaughter's birth date is etched into our cement patio. His named is carved in numerous places in our basement. Did he do it because he "owned" the place, or just out of some need to be remembered? I don't know. I didn't know him personally so I can't say. But I do know he put his words in the places he knew, and I blog...whether anyone sees or cares, we just want to be known!

Oh, For a Snow Day

Yes, I know, I am as bad as the kids! I work at the school and I am sitting here waiting for that news that we are closed. See, there is lots of ice in the trees and on the wires, and the wind is supposed to pick up today, so...

Uh, and I think there is a couple inches of snow on top of all the ice and I REALLY would rather hibernate indoors...

And HOW long will it take for my car to thaw out?

Is it spring yet? :)

Choices

That is a picture of my grandfather plowing his field a little more than 50 years ago. My Great Grandparents, grandparents and their 8 children all lived on a large dairy farm in NY. In the late 1960's, my great grandfather died so my great grandmother sold the farm. Word is she never offered it to her children or grandchildren. I know my father in some ways has always missed the farm, but he also doesn't know if at 20 years old he had much interest in being a farmer. He really wasn't big on the animals. He loved the fields and equipment. He has always been able to buy and fix tractors and plow and plant, so he really had the part of farming that he loved. It's just fun to think of how different life would have been if the choices everyone had made would have been different.
It's often daunting to think of how many people our choices affect, so many times we don't think of that at all. But many times we should think of it more. I am not talking about the farm. Great Grandma's choice to sell may have made a difference in many people's lives, but you can't say whether it was bad or good. Her offspring made a living either way. The choices I am talking about are the choices of the things we say and do. Do I choose to loose my temper and say something I will later regret, or do I keep the damaging words to myself? Do I choose to spend time with my children on something that may not be my favorite thing to do, or do I push them aside? These choices, that we make each and everyday, that seem so insignificant at the time, are often the most important choices we make. Dealing with other peoples feelings is a delicate situation that we take for granted anymore.
Thinking in these terms may seem overwhelming, but I tell you, it does not have to be. Asking God to help you make these important choices brings in a partner that will never steer you wrong. He will show you how to navigate through each and every day!
~Blessings!

Lazy Day

It's Saturday, and I am off to a lazy start! It's almost 9:00am and I am still in my robe, sipping tea! I have plans of some housework and some card making, but I am in no hurry today!

The snow is coming down outside. It's not sticking as of yet, the ground is pretty wet. Tomorrow night we are supposed to get some sort of snow/sleet/ice storm. Monday is a holiday so it can do whatever it wants, I am going nowhere!

Sounds like a good cozy, crafty weekend!

Eye Candy

I participated in a charm (12x12) fabric swap with some girl's at MaryJane's (funny I say it like it's a place!). This is the package of fabric I received today! I love it all! Thanks gals!

Grandma's Cookbooks

My grandma loves to give me her books! She keeps her time honored favorites, but still has boxloads to share! Even the ones she has passed down to me have been well used with notes inside in grandma's writing! These are just a sampling of the cookbooks I have from her!

I love the covers of these books!

Time to get cooking!

Super Mail Day

Farmgirl friends are such blessings! Looky what Suzyhomemaker sent me! One of her very own homemade aprons!

Friday Musings

This week back to work has been a good one. The kids got back into the school routine and all is well. I am sad for my son, he didn't make the modified basketball team. He LOVES sports and wanted to play so much, but he is just at an awkward stage and doesn't have "natural athletic ability". When too many kids go out for a team unfortunately, there are cuts. He was upset last night, but he cuddled with me on the couch and perked up as the night went. He will find his niche. It just takes some of us longer than others.

I have been working on my Valentine's cards for the exchange I am in. I have never really been into card making, dabbled in it some, but I am really enjoying this. Maybe it's more enjoyable because I know the girls receiving the cards will appreciate them!

Hopefully this weekend I will get more cutting on my quilt accomplished. My daughter has a basketball game tomorrow morning, (she's the athletic one...), then I need to take her to get jeans. I hope she is able to find what she wants in a decent amount of time! Then I head to get the rest of my fat quarters for another exchange I am in. I have 12 more to pick out! I love picking out fabric, even for other people! THEN the house needs a major dusting! So, like I said, hopefully there will be quilting time!

Have a great weekend all! :)

A Wonderful Book

I know Christmas is over, but I just can't put this book down! My mother had bought it first for a childhood friend of mine that she always buys a book for. On the phone mother tells me that the book includes Christmas stories by Dickens, Alcott, Tolstoy, O Henry and then she named stories that were included. "O, I would love that, I am ashamed to say that I have never read those." Whether she went out and bought another, or had already bought a copy for me, I do not know, but my friend and I both received a copy of The Greatest Christmas Stories of All Time.

I am a sucker for a beautiful book. I don't mean the insides only, I mean the cover. And this book is gorgeous. Then to open it up and find that the FIRST story is the Birth of the Christ Child in Luke 1:1-2:40 simply melted my heart. The introduction to this account is so God inspired that I am still reading it over. It is worth the cost of the book.

The stories have been rich. I have read Dicken's the Christmas Carol for the first time. There is a story called The Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke that includes the quote, "It is better to follow even a shadow of the best than to remain content with the worst. And those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone." Talk about words that could change my thinking!

So although I know reading material is a matter of taste I highly and heartily recommend this book. There are about 46 stories in here, from the well known "Twas the Night Before Christmas" to stories you may have never heard of but will be glad you found!

Be blessed! :)http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product_slideshow?sku=719535&actual_sku=719535

Resolutions?

Isn't that the funniest thing? Ok, maybe not, but it just tickled me this morning! My mom found it in a box of my Grandma's pictures that she is copying and trying to make sense of! Many of the pictures are my Great Grandmothers! This is probably one of hers.

I have read many New Year Resolutions...many great one's. Do I make them? No not really. Why? I don't know. I guess it has to do with the fact that when I start making resolutions I start thinking of tomorrow and the next day and ect and I kind of freak. I like one day at a time, enjoying the moment, waking up and visiting with God and setting my priorities with Him. I do have to look ahead, don't get me wrong. Like everyone, I have to plan, write things down on my calendar, and make sure my family is taken care of. But I'm just not one to say I am going to try to do this,this and that this year. Right or wrong? I don't know. Does it work for everyone? Of course not!

I have started some "new" things in the first two days of the year. Yesterday, 1/1/07, I started a log cabin quilt. It has been one of my "goals" to make some traditional quilts, so yesterday I started cutting strips. It will be red,white & blue.

And today I walked again, hopefully I will keep that up. I work with a lady that works out in the school weight room when we finish our day, and she is willing to show me what to do. She does that on M/W/F, so maybe tommorow I will dive into to that!

See, I may not call them resolutions...but it does tend to sneak up on you doesn't it? :)

Happy New Year!