Tag--I'm It!

Thanks, Maxine! Guess I'll go along with it though! Hmmm--seven things about me?!

1. I love my morning cup of coffee, (too). And I do love it flavored or plain. I don't like Starbucks coffee though. I always wondered why my Mom always made a bee line for the coffee pot when she got up in the morning! Now I know!

2. I have been an aunt ALL my life--since my nephew is 8 months older than me! (We claimed to be cousins when we went to school together--it was easier that way!)

3. I like to travel--and I especially love to come back home! There's no place like home!

4. I have actually enjoyed all the projects we have had over the past few years. There have been quite the messes, but the finished product (or project) has sure been worth it. It has been fun to try to "help" Wayne with all these projects!

5. I like to mow the lawn--and I need to get off of here and go do it. I haven't got to mow yet this summer, so I am looking forward to doing it now. (I'll continue this later!)

6. I have good intentions to do lots of things--but don't get them all accomplished. I am interested in scrapbooking and have collected lots of stuff-but don't have time to do it--yet.

7. During the school year I get to spend lunch with 55+ kids! (think ONE kid can create a mess-- seeing what that many will create!)

On The Road Again....

....except this time it's going to be on the tracks again. The boys and I are heading to MN tomorrow to see Grandma and Grandpa. I'll be there for ten days and Deidre will come back with me. The kids are all excited to be taking their first train ride. It will be great not having to drive through Chicago!

Happy TRails!

The All American Pie!

We should be able to enjoy a few cherry pies this year. The boys and I picked three dishpans full. They were dwarf cherry trees and the branches were dragging on the ground from the weight. Very tasty though!

Another Eyesore Gone--Almost!

We (the guys) worked on a project that we have wanted to do for the past thirteen years! The old shed behind our house is now history. It has been replaced by the new addition. Now is the clean-up, but at least the biggest eyesore is gone!

Happy Fourth
Of July!

Everyone have a wonderful, safe,
weekend!

Happy Birthday!

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. - Charles Schultz

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them. - Anna Magnani

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. - Ingrid Bergman

Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one. - Frederick Leboyer

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is the work of art. - Garson Kanin

Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come. - Lucy Larcom

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend. - John Lyle

There are days of oldness, and then one gets young again. - Katherine Butler Hathaway

At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage. - John Andrew Holmes

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it. - Golda Meir

It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen. - Brigitte Bardot

If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people. - Jim Eason

Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. - Unknown

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, ‘cause men like women who got some sense. - Maya Angelou

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these. - Susan B. Anthony

To me, old age is always ten years older than I am. - John Burroughs

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. - Plato

Lead me not into temptation; I can find it myself. - Unknown

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. - Mark Twain

We grow too soon old and too late smart. - Pennsylvania Dutch proverb

Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. - Chinese proverb

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. - Unknown

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. - Groucho Marx

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Happy Birthday, Maxine!
Also, Happy (belated) to:
Ellen - Amanda - Melanie - Stacie - and all you other wonderful birthday people out there!

Clock Works!

(here's the revised version)

We have recently become the new owners of an old, old, clock. It is dated 1907! Imagine the stories it could tell. The glass in it has a wavy look--hopefully and most likely the original. The picture on the top right is what it looks like so far.
There are a few more details to be added yet--a minute hand for one--but I will add those at a later date. "Time is ticking!"