Scrapping

I got motivated to do a little scrapping this weekend. I can't seem to take a good photo of the pages...so you will see my couch at the edges of these photos.


This is the last page I did.... I had a couple of good photos of us and our dad's so I came up with this.

George loves to hunt and he spends as much time as he can hunting during deer season. This one has a skinned deer in the photo so view at your own risk.
Here's a page dedicted to Robert Earl Keen. He's my favorite singer. I have seen him 6 times. I thought is was interesting that I had a piece of paper with music notes and it even had a train on the page.....so I used the music for the page! Then I cut out the train and used it because REK has a song called Linville Train (one of my favs.)
This page is missing a photo. I want to get a good photo of me riding Goldie and add it to this page. I have a photo from the first trail ride where I met her, but none since... I do have photos of several other people riding her...just not me...and this is my page :-) I also added a new technique (for me) to this page....stitching with my sewing machine....I will probalby be doing more of that at some point...it was pretty cool. This is Goldie's page....it's the first one that I did this weekend. I realized that I did't have a page about here yet. I often say that she and I are so much alike.... we are both "Princesses" and stubborn......and we both "have a mind of our own".This afternoon I've been getting ready for the Superbowl (Go Saints).... we're cheating on our diets today and having......our special recipe hot wings with homemade bleu cheese dressing , little smokies, cheese dip, hot spinach/artichoke dip, pita chips, tortilla chips and chocolate cake.

Bring on the BOWL.

Sweet Giveaway

http://tinyurl.com/ygwadkl


A friend of mine shared this super sweet giveaway on Twitter. I really love these Lisa Leonard designs and would love to win one!

Take a look and remember these designs when you need an extra special gift...I know I'm going to!

Day 3

So, we had all of the snow fall and then yesterday, I stayed in out of the snow...but I just couldn't do it again today...so we went for groceries and when we got home it was time to play.




See, when you have the camera, you can put the blame on others...here's the culprit...there is no proof that I was involved :-) HAHAHAHAHAHA

Day 2

This was the view on day 2 of the snow. I took my camera with me to feed and got a couple of shots....

George is such a good husband...he shoveled a path on the porch and later he got the 4-wheeler out and made paths to everywhere that I go. I feed our animals (my choice) and so he made me a path from the shop to the horses and from the horses to the goats and back to the shop...so now I don't have to trudge through snow up to my knees. :-)

Hat was at the fence waiting for me this morning. He really stands out in all of this white wonderland.

I took a picture of Goldie and Hat eating their breakfast. They have a barn, but they won't stay in it out of the weather...they do use it some though. Have you ever seen a buckskin the color of Goldie right now...she's soooooo DIRTY!!!!

Tess loves to play in the snow...it was a little deep this moring :-)

I was lazy today. I watched the What Not to Wear marathon today, finally ironed my clothes (that means my hands are well enought to iron again). I really wanted to go to Little Rock but knew it really didn't make sense....so I surfed the web and chilled out.

I think I will have to get out tomorrow though...... :-)

Snow Day

Today was a snowy day all across the state.... I got the phone call this morning that let me know that our school would be closed for the day. I stayed in bed and was lazy for a while...then I got up....I had promised myself that I would clean the house this weekend...or on the snow day if we got one....so I had to get started....but first, I had to feed my horse and mule.

Tess and I went out and I though man, I'm already "truding" through the snow and it's 8:30.

Tess had to play in the snow some more but I had work to do...so I threw the ball in the front yard and she played there and on the porch.

This is a photo of the snow falling taken from the front porch.....

Tess loves to play catch and chase...no matter the weather. She is on the porch here.


Here she is again...trying to decide if she wants to give me the ball again....or keep it for herself.
And another.....

George worked today, so after he got home (and of course he said the road was fine, not slick at all) we went for a drive. We didn't meet a lot of traffic but we did manage to get behind a couple of people that shouldn't have been out driving :-/.... Anyway... we didn't have any trouble at all and it was beautiful out there.... but apparently some people would say it was slick since we saw about 5 in the ditch.

This shot, through my window and side mirror, is of the snow flying up from behind the truck as we drove down the highway...

After we got back, I had to feed the animals. The trudging was much more difficult now. I waded through drifts up to my knees on the way across the yard..... Did get a 4-wheeler ride back to the house when George got done getting hay for the goats.

I haven't taken any photos of the final snowfall but I will tomorrow. It should be a beautiful white wonderland.

Days gone by.....

On this cold winter night, I sat down at my computer and thougth...I really need to update my blog..... however, I have not taken any photos recently...I've been letting my hands heal from carpal tunnel surgery...and thankfully they seem to be about healed! So, I though surely there is a photo in my archives that would be blog worthy tonight....

So....sitting here, wondering if the ice and snow will come....I came across this photo and thought this little guy deserved to make his debut on my blog....
One Sunday afternoon during the late summer, George and I went to Horseshoe Bend to do some early deer scouting. This guy landed on the window and rode back home to Brockwell with us. He had good staying power.

So...now I'm sitting here remembering that great summer afternoon and still wondering if the snow and ice will come our way.

Relaxing

For some reason the horse and mule prefer to be in the yard than in their pasture. You can walk outside and they go to a gate in hopes of getting into the yard. I don't know why the like it more because it's fenced and gated as well, so they are still "not out". But....they do love the yard. They enjoyed some time relaxing in the sunshine over the weekend....

This is Goldie my Missouri Fox Trotter mare.

This is Hat. George's mule.

Here they are together.