A day of sadness

Janet Van Houten

  7 February 1942 -  29 August 2013

After a 3 year battle with ovarian cancer, my oldest sister went to heaven where she joined our parents and brother. Sis is survived by her husband, 3 children, 3 grandchildren,  2 great grandsons, 2 sisters, and 1 brother.

I will be forever thankful that she was my sister and most importantly a fantastic friend.

One of the best memory of her is when we would argue about watching American Bandstand or Mickey Mouse Club.  When Sis would win, she would make me dance with her.  Now anyone who knows me, knows that I can't dance and I don't think I could back then or else Sis was a bad dance instructor!

I will mourn losing you.

Busy week for me

At the start of the week, Bill and I decided to redo the living room.  We have started by painting the built in entertainment center.  It was originally stained in red mahogany, way to dark for the living room.  So after living here for 9 years we have decided to lighten it up.  I took us 2 days to complete the painting and another day to put it all the stuff back.  I have to get some knobs for the doors yet. Our next step will be to take up the carpet and put in hardwood floors.  Here's the end result of all our hard work:

 
Today I treated myself to something that I have never done in my whole life......  I got a manicure.  I am very happy with the results.  I also believe that I will have it done every couple of weeks, that's how much I like it!  Sorry that I can't post a picture, the battery in my camera went right after I took the above picture.

Tomorrow my girl friends are coming over.  It's been awhile since we have been together.  If we all would stay home instead of roaming the country side, we could get together more often.

That's it from a very hot Texas.  The temp was over 100 today and the same for the next couple of days.  No rain and we really need it.  My green lawn is turning brown!

Yee-haw

It felt like round-up time last evening.  I was taking a break on the back porch and I see 2 horses running so fast their tails were straight out.  Through the neighbor's yard up on the road and then across the field in back of my house.  I knew something was wrong because the whole subdivision is fenced in except the road going out to the main road.  Sure enough a Sheriff came, then two, then three, and finally an Animal Enforcement Officer with a pickup and big horse trailer.  They all put on a great show because the horses did not want to go home.  They blocked the entrance with an SUV to keep the horses in but the horses still did not want to be caught.  The owner and his family came to round these critters up.  Still no deal.  The food they offered wasn't good enough for them, I guess!  The Animal officer used the truck and trailer to try to round them up.  Still no good.  After about 2 hours and just before dark, they caught the horses and loaded them into the trailer.

 I'm sorry that I didn't take any pictures of the police, the truck & trailer, and the owner riding around the field trying to get them cornered.

Here's my story of another interesting thing.  Bill and I decided that we should upgrade our DirecTV.  We hadn't done so in 15 or so years.  We get a new HD dish (I'm in the 21st Century now), new receivers, and connection to the internet so I can watch TV on my iPad.  They had finished installing everything by noon on Thursday.  Around 4 the TV went to a blue screen and said no signal.  Bummer.  Called and talked to a tech and we couldn't get it to work.  So I was set up with an appointment for Saturday.  I argued with them and said no, I want it done Friday.  Needless to say, they are suppose to be here between 12 and 4 today.  I'm not a tv person but try not to want to watch tv when you don't have one!

I've been making bucket hats for the little kids.  Here are a couple of pictures.

I did not pick out these fabrics but look at the results:

Here are two of the four hats that I'm making for the kids for July 4th.  All the hats will have the same lining but different outside fabric.  The hats are reversible.

That's it from a glorious sunny day in Texas.  No rain, yet!