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Christmas Traditions

Yesterday we did our annual hayride/cutting down the Christmas tree expidition to the tree farm followed by cookies and hot chocolate.  It's nice to make traditions that the grandkids will remember when they grow up

 

 

 
 
 
 
 

Fall is here. A cool off is welcome, but typically, some days it feels like fall and some days still feel like summer. When it's cool it puts me in the mood to cook soup, stew, clhlli, roast (I'm always in the mood for a good roast). and when it's not it feels like I have more time to get some shots of the changing foliage or work in my flower beds. I do love this time of the year

Flowers

Here are a few new pics of flowers that I love.   I've also added some favorite shot to the previous flowers photo album

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I was about to give up on the garden. the 100+ temps for so long was burning everything up. Finally a cooldown and I think the tomato plants have survived. All that's reallly left out there right now is the tomato plants, peppers(bell, jalopenos, banana, and tabasco), and ocra

the grandkids came over today to get some fresh tomatoes from the garden. My grandson decided that was his pic to plant this year in our garden. They have done really well and he is thrilled to "shop for tomatoes" at Nana's house. They also left with a couple of kinds of peppers, some onions and garlic. His sister said "Mom, now we don't have to go to the store

Life is good, all of it, that's not to say it's always pleasant. As hard as the painful is to take, life goes on whether we are ready or not. Life is stages. All this to say these days lately are challenging. Two close family members are dealing with life threatening illnesses. My step father is hanging on to life after being in ICU for 10 days from pneumonia, a heart attack and kidney problems. My husbands's aunt has been diagnosed with lung cancer and is looking at chemotherapy and perhaps a shortened life span. It is hard to see any good. We hope for the best. Sometimes the best is what is best for the patient, not for the family, but we don't have the power to change what happens. None of us can set our time.

Michigan vacation

We just got back from a trip up route 66 and up,up, up to all of Michigan, including the upper Peninsula.  We were gone 18 days and traveled over 4000 miles.  Whew.  I already posted some of my pictures on facebook, but decided to share some of them with you from my blog.  In the UP we went to Mackinaw island which included a great butterfly exhibit and on up the UP to Whitefish point and Eagle Harbor and Copper Harbor and Tequamenon Falls.  It was breathtaking, partly because it was beautiful and partly because we were freezing (in June).  Wow.  Get ready for some wonderful pictures.

 

Mackinaw bridge from upper Michigan to the upper peninsula of Michigan

Blue Bonnets

This one is for my Mama.  She grew up in Texas and loves blue bonnets.  She was told by nursery personnel that you can't grow them in this part of the country, but she proved them wrong and had them in her flower bed.  These were growing near the Dam at Lake Texoma.