Meet Your Neighbors !

For the past year or so I have thought about how to get to know my neighbors better....it is sad how now days neighbors don't know eachother except for the smile and a wave as you drive by or a simple "hi-how-are-you" as they walk by and you happen to be out front.  What do you do? I finally wrote out invitations to have "coffee" at my house.  Finally this morning was the day.....4 grandma's came over and we had snacks and visited for 2 hours.  It was fun.  Next time there are 2 other gals that are younger that also may come.  Today the quietest lady, when it was time to go spoke up and said " Next time we can do it at MY house!"
 They were all thrilled!  Made me glad!  2 of them are widows, one has parkinsons and the other is a loud mouth, hahaha.  All in all it was a great time and it is nice to get know my neighbors. 

Good way to think for the New Year !!!

Take twelve fine, full-grown months; see that these are thoroughly free from old memories of bitterness, rancor and hate, cleanse them completely from every clinging spite; pick off all specks of pettiness and littleness; in short, see that these months are freed from all the past—have them fresh and clean as when they first came from the great storehouse of Time.

Cut these months into thirty or thirty-one equal parts. Do not attempt to make up the whole batch at one time (so many persons spoil the entire lot this way) but prepare one day at a time.

Into each day put equal parts of faith, patience, courage, work (some people omit this ingredient and so spoil the flavor of the rest), hope, fidelity, liberality, kindness, prayer, meditation, rest (leaving this out is like leaving the oil out of the salad dressing—don't do it), and one well-selected resolution.

Put in about one teaspoonful of good spirits, a dash of fun, a pinch of folly, a sprinkling of play, and a heaping cupful of good humor.

As I was reading a few blogs today I ran across this post.  So I copied it off of http://www.pamsmidwestkitchenkorner.blogspot.com/  please visit this site. 
 Also http://www.mykindofcooking.blogspot.com/ is a great recipe blog!

Red Neck Woman Like Me

A couple of weeks ago it had been unusually cold here at night! FREEZING! You would never know I was from the mid-west!  Anyway our house was built in the 60's and none of the bedroom windows have been updated.  Needless to say they are quite drafty and I even have to lay towels on the window sill from moisture.  It is freezing up there when it gets so cold so I put sweat pants on..tuck the bottoms in my socks so the legs stay put, a tank top and a long sleeve shirt!  And that is how I go to bed!  Dan looked at me laughing and said " nothing like a red neck negligee! "  Yep! that's me!  LOL !
Hey!  at least I was warm!  
won't be posting a real photo of that one! 

Christmas ! 2010

The camera was taking pictures on it's own so we got some funny pictures.



The whole family !  Usually one of the guys or one of the girls are missing so it is a big deal to have everyone together at one time!



FINALLY a new photo of Jerid!!!!!!!

Isaac and Cassie

Luke and Allison

For the last three weeks it has been this way! Not totally in a bad way just a ZOO !

biting the bullet....cutting landline and going to cell phones.

    this is my kind of phone as a kid....many hours spent on this baby!
  In fact when we moved to the boonies in the mountains of Colorado we
 had a party line....I think it had something to do with being in the Mt. because
  no, I am not that old.  Anyway...it was fun listening in on other peoples          
   conversations! ( yes I did that! ) 

   Then it was a big deal to get the push button phone...man, to
    be able to dial that fast! Awesome!

   Now, the cordless phone!  How great is that to be able to
   walk around the house, continue what ever you are doing
  while talking on the phone!  This is great except for the neck
   ache that would follow.

   Now the cell phone...we have been sharing one for 4 years now.
  The kids had to have a job and pay for there own when they wanted
  one.   Well here we goooooooo....no land line!? No sence
   in paying for both!  feels crazy!  going  total cell.  I will stick to the basic
FREE phones though! I AM a tight wad you know. Great. Next
 thing I know I will be texting like a mad woman.....then again...maybe not!
  Feels weird but this will be good....

The never ending job of dishes!

I find that if I use the dishwasher as a "drying rack" I will stay caught up better!

It is SO OLD that ya pretty much have to "wash" the dishes before you load it!

So why not wash them really good then let them dry....now I do dishes several times a day, a 

few at a time, then there is a lot less to put away before I wash some more!  Now I never have a 

sink full of dirty dishes because I hate to unload a full dishwasher!  Wish I would have thought of 

this a long time ago !  

( this in not a picture of my dishwasher....mine is too ugly to show! )