Fence Day for Us

Well, it finally is coming about. We are having a fence built at the back of our property. We already have a chain link fence but wanted to block the view to our yard from the neighbors as their dogs don't really love us outside!!!! We left the chain link and moved our new stockade fence 6 1/2' tall, forward about 5 feet so we can get behind it to mow. The dogs BARK whenever we walk Buddy or just sit on the new screened porch or water the yard. To bad we have to build a solid wood fence just to keep them quiet. Oh, well, with the barn out there and now the fence, our view is good and theirs is blocked!

Also, we have a man here patching some drywall cracks in our kitchen ceiling and bedroom. With a old house (built in 1949) and ceiling fans that must have weighed a ton, sometimes this happens but this guy really has fixed them. WHAT A MESS!!!!! Not sure we will recover for several days. I now will have to dust and wash almost everything in the house!!!! Glad we didn't clean all the wood blinds!!!! They really need it now.

On to painting the ceiling in the bedroom, the walls and we are done! Well, I do want to repaint the living room but Lynn is saying, maybe not. I need to make four valances for the living room windows and we are getting a new rug for the bedroom but that is about it.

I need to get busy on making my earrings for the Pingree Swap! 10 pair---- http://www.pingree07.com/

Can't wait but Camp Woosley is next. Going to make some T-shirts for it.

Everyone have a wonderful day.

Heavy Heart Today

A Flower for Helen

I received some very sad news this morning.

My very good and old friend, Helen Clark, Greensboro, NC passed away in her sleep yesterday morning. Way, Way tooo young!

Helen was a wonderful person who loved life completely. Her talents were so many.
Cooking was a passion, needlework, quilting and best of all making a wonderful, beautiful, comfortable home for her family and friends. Always welcoming anyone who dropped by and always had an ear to listen. Her garden was beautiful, her herbs and flowers, again, making everything around her beautiful. She cared so much for her Bob and kids, Julie and Steve and her two sweet grandsons. Helen was a teacher, thru and thru! She loved kids but had a wonderful knack for teaching adults. Many have learned quilting and needlework skills from Helen. Her work was impeccable. If it was worth doing, she did it well.

So many things and moments in my life remind me of Helen. She had a style about her, Helen!!!! When I think of a word to describe, Helen, It was CARETAKER! Always there for everyone. She will be missed by many as her friend were many. When Helen came into your life, your life changed forever. She passed away the way she lived---very gently!

You were loved, Helen, you will be remembered always. Love Marty

July is moving like a freight train!

Well, as expected, July is half over and we have been so busy every minute. I want to do better with the blog, but----- as usual, things get in the way.

We had a wonderful surprise the last week of June when our great friends, Jim and Jennifer Hamilton stopped by for dinner and overnight on their way to the DC area. They had never been here since we moved to Mineola and we had such fun gettting caught up on all the news.
We will be attending their oldest son"s wedding over the Labor Day weekend in the Mountains outside of Denver. They just celebrated their 35th Wedding Anniversary! They are such good friends, it's so easy to catch up. It was also nice the Jennifer was coming this way to pick the kids up from camp and she and Sydney got to see the Hamiltons.