Waffles!

Waffles!!  I love waffles... and while what you see is gone now...(moments after the picture actually) I will definitely have more in my future. 

Thanks to all my kids - #1 stood in line getting the waffle maker on Black Friday, #2 shared her bestest recipe, and #3 put the two together and created a fantastic waffle.....yum

My past waffle maker was way too shallow and just took too long to make inferior waffles.  This is one of those flip waffle makers like this one.  Flip-Waffle-Maker  These waffles are nice and thick and beautifully done.   I'm so happy!!!  Thanks kids!

Honoring a Veteran

Thank you

New Home for an old Favorite

We've had this chair for a while now that was curbed shopped. Despite being an easy project, it took a couple of years to get a new seat (from the burn pile) put on it and this beautiful ivy leaf geranium 'seated' on it. I love the look and the cost was right! $0.00 unless you count the cost of 4 screws! 
   I realize this is the third post in a row that has this geranium in it.  I sure do love it and hope I'll be able to successfully winter it over again this year.  I also hope to get some cuttings off it to start some new plants so I can have even more of them.

Salvage wheelbarrow

Look what I just finished from a wheel from the farm, an old drawer, and some scrap wood.   I want to show my inspiration piece too, but I can't get it to load.  I'll try again later.

Third year geranium

This is the 3rd year for this geranium that my Uphoff kids gave me.  While it's not at it's showy-est in this picture, it's the only picture I've managed to take of it so far this year.  I just wanted to show off that it's still around!!

The fence came down

This doesn't really show the fence so much, but you can see at least part of the combination of snow fence, chain link and latice (among other things) that we put up for a temporary barrier to keep the dogs off of where we needed to put grass in the back yard. 

    Since building the shop, we've had nothing but barren ground (like you see to the left of the tree below) and a few weeks.  Nothing to keep the soil from washing down into our brick and covering about a foot or two along the edge. 

You can see here - my hostas aren't doing so good this year either - none of my flowers / plants seem to be doing so well this year.

We finally took the fence down and the dogs weren't sure what they could do, but they loved running, playing and just plain rolling on it!  There still is some areas that will need some patching, but hopefully it will work out.

Zep's Haircut

Megan was over today and.....




Zep got himself a haircut

He actually was quite relaxed here.

Lots of fur left behind.












It will even out in a couple of days, but for now, he's so much cooler, and not so prone to those hot spots he keeps getting.