Our Silver Wedding Is Here

Time goes by so fast doesn't it? I am really having a reminder of the speed of time because we have just hit the 25 year milestone in marriage. WOwZas!

I think about the weddings and dresses that are in vogue today and I think it is just NUTS!

Our entire wedding cost $300. My dress and shoes were one hundred dollars a fortune in those days. I actually bought my dress before Jimmy asked me. I loved it and I loved him. I was absolutely crazy in love. I reasoned that since it was peach I could just wear it, but I just knew we would marry.
People that in love have to marry! We also did NOT have an intimate physical relationship before we married. You may think that is bizarre but because I had given my heart to Jesus Christ I couldn't do that. Jimmy believed the same way so there was some serious kissing going on. Steaming up car windows at our age imagine....well don't.

But you know what? God made me a REAL bride that day.

 What do you think of that leg huh? And look at all the hair Jimmy had! I just thought he was bald.

The Survey Says...

Isn't there some kind of game show that says, "and the survey says!" ? I'm sorry but that is the best I can phrase that question. It's a lack of hormones issue. My brain scan was normal. I can't claim dementia for an excuse and that makes me a perfect idiot!!! So my survey says estrogen loss and heat don't mix. Estrogen loss and intelligence don't mix either, that is kind of like water and oil.

The survey also says that these factors do not a good writer make. Structuring a cohesive thought requires that the thoughts are not rabbit trails. Wabbit wabbit.

For the past three months I have been struggling with my feet. A ruptured capsule in the Achilles tendon on the left leg and plantar fascitis on the right foot. I think both are the results of obeastity.
No typo there, my play on words. I have been working on weight loss. I stopped the Leanness Lifestyle University program. It is too regimented for my abilities. I don't like getting automatically generated letters that remind me to be successful I need to do x y and z. Not because I don't want to do x y and z. I cannot do x y and z. Not to much flex in the program.  I did however learn a lot. If you have no physical limitations and you like to eat a lot of meat, go for it. I should be able to let an automatically generated letter not bother me right? Too type A, I guess. The survey is out on that one.
I have had a lot of trouble trying to get a partial refund. The coach just won't answer my emails. Guess I may have to just write off that hundred bucks. I could use the 6 months but I didn't want to get those letters and eat more chicken..... I don't like chicken that much. The survey is out on that one too.

OK that's enough beef. If I had to pay $10 a pound then boy howdy alright!!

 I have been having a great time lately!
The survey is in on company and it's great!

 My grand baby came for 10 days.

 she had her birthday...

 the pups luvved her...

 the survey says she is prettier every year....

 and our hearts grow fonder. Pa has the same birthday. 23 years ago she was a little 4 1/2 pound present.

 Hummm look at the previous pic and then scroll down quickly, see anything different?
I swear that dog likes his picture taken.

 Feelin the LOVE!!!

 Sammy is smitten she called him Sambodian.

 Why is it that once I begin to lose weight I look so overwhelmingly FAT?!?!?!?!?!!!!!
We are out celebrating birthdays and also our 25th wedding anniversary is coming up.

 

 My brother and his sweet wife came for a weekend visit to celebrate birthdays too.
My hunny is 75. A very handsome and hunky 75, the survey says.
There is that dawg again....check the survey on poodles and cameras.

 We also had little people come to visit. These two kept us in stitches they were so funny all we did was laugh.

 Family love.

This beautiful lady is one of the biggest blessings in my brothers entire life. The poodle and the survey says, just sayin.

Projects Presents and Portrait Madness

 Remember these roadside finds? They look pretty in this picture but this white color was actually a mold and they were a big mess. But hey they were free and in this case someones trash really is my treasure.

 Washed down and stained. AND my mama said to neva say neva because as soon as you do you'll be eatin them words. I used polyurethane. I used a lot of it!!!! Whahhhhaaaa it looks great.

 Like I said they turned out so pretty we decided to bring them inside.  I need to recover the cushions they are plastic coated.

 Looks nice huh?

 My hubbins bought birthday flowers. He is also sending me away to give him a break and get me out of his bald head  see my girlfriend. I also got a sweet card and it had spending money in it for my trip.

 Another project we had been tackling was to make the weed patch look like a flower garden again and it does.

 These are the other two chairs I picked up off of the curb. Can you believe how great they fit in?

 Here is some of my recent "art." I painted this table top with two colors of turquoise and then some stain to make this effect.

 Also painted a second table. I wanted them to be the same colors but look unique. I wasn't trying to make them match.

 A bit of rearranging pictures after the paint touch up. And I also painted the frame of this print.

 This is the top of the dresser that needed the veneer removed. I love how it looks. It's several types of wood and it's distressed because it was actually made out of scraps.

 Matched the stain and it blends well, didn't have to refinish the whole piece just the top. The hunny took off the veneer and then sanded it down with a belt sander and an orbit sander. I used steel wool between coats of stain and oil varnish. Hey that's my new camera in my hands in the reflection and Romans butt in the air, he's always gotta be in the action.

 My daughter bought me this lamp for my new room and a new willow figurine. They were birthday presents and she couldn't wait to give them to me on my birthday she gave them to me early.

 Then she went and bought me ANOTHER present! This one was ON my birthday.

 She told me she loved me.

 She had it gift wrapped and it was bee youuuu ti fullll.

 Boo is taking their pictures. From here things began to get vera verra silly.

 I never have on make up when the camera gets pointed my way.

 Opening this beautiful package is really fun, I can't lie. It might be more blessed to give than receive but I can tell you from experience this receiving deal is fun! Yep, I like it!!!

 And I love her. She is my beautiful beautiful girl.

 You made me laugh yes you did!!

 I can make a bigger chicken neck than you can..... no we di'int.....yes way we did.
That is some serious DNA there. Our wrinkles match.

 My brain just did a tilt.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot to show you what was in the box! A beautiful maxi dress. Perfect for summer.  It's purty.

Tommorrow I am going to sleep in. I hope I sleep until noon. I have nothing on my agenda, nothing ya hear me!!!! If I get an idea I'm going to call someone to come over and put me in my room and lock the door. No more ideas for awhile ok?
So ah what's cookin at your place?

We Visited Big REX

Now that Nannie has wheels I can actually take my grands out to have a wee bit of fun! We decided to visit our local natural science museum. It isn't the Monterey Bay Aquarium which is one of the coolest places in the world to visit; but it was really fun.

 The day we went the weather decided to have a severe fit of thunder and lightening. While we downstairs looking at MS sea life and SNAKES... the power went out and we were in the DARK.

 My brave grands soldiered on. Actually the power outage was brief. It's a good thing because a few people were pretty freaked out. I would have rather the power went out when I was in front of something dead not a live venomous cotton mouth snake!! YUK! SCCCCCCRRRRREEEEAMMMM.

 My grandson stood by this stuffed wild boar so you can see how big it is and how big he is. Ain't he cute? I love to tease and tickle him. I just can't help myself.

 Who would think that so many different critters inhabit our state? Really it's amazing. I prefer the nasty bugs and snakes to be dead and in the museum. I will never be anything but politically INCORRECT when it comes to snakes. If it is poisonous and aggressive it needs to be dead. I did show the kids how to tell the difference. Garden snakes are alright. We saw some of those. I forgot to get a picture of our live two headed snake. It happens just like conjoined twins. Our two headed snake is not poisonous so I wish it a long life behind it's very safe glass gage or whatever that stuff is.

 We decided that these robots might have been used in movies. We loved the scenes with the little ones hatching. They had sound effects and everything. This mother robotasuar looks smitten with her hatchlings doesn't she?

 Look pa baby reptilians, the litter is arriving.

 This is a dark picture but it is a flying teradactyl. Which prompted me to teach my grandchildren a poem. I do believe in educating our families ourselves. So I recited this poem for all to hear.

"Birdie birdie in the sky,

why you do that in my eye?

I'm so glad

that cows don't fly."

 

The poet would include teradactyls too. We decided that having animals of that size flying overhead would warrant always carrying an umbrella.

More reptilian babies....

We even saw robot blood.

A humongous skeleton. it was up in the air, we hoped that it was not something that was ever airborne.  Nurses are sort of obsessed with how, what, and where, things plop.

He would leave a considerable amount of compost too.

This is some kind of sloth! Check out the claws on this dude! Good thing sloths move SLOWLY.

We had a volunteer to pose with Rex and show off his dental health.

A blurry panorama view.

And to da...the robot inards. Very cool. The eyes move and can seriously give you the creeps. The eyes on these robots looked very real. The way they move it looks like they can see you, with mouths obviously big enough to eat you....

but they do not and so we lived to tell the tail.