Good Mornig All!

Another rainy warm day here in the mitten. Gray skies, rain, tornado sirens and flooding. It must be Spring!!! Hey, at least the wet stuff isn't frozen and the temps are in the 60's I can live with that!

We had a wonderful Easter, spent the day with the girls and their families. Hid eggs many times for Xavier, played outside and grilled hamburgs and hot dogs. It does not get much better than that!


Today I am staying home from running the roads and having lunch with both of my daughters and Shannon's friend Sarah. We will be working out the planning and such for Shannon's baby shower that we will be having June 26th. Since we are all a bunch of control freaks and anal queens we will try to do this without bloodshed!!!!


I am going to have to get Randy to take a new photo of me with Dozer. My baby is getting so tall, he is now taller than Kylee. He has legs that just go and go and go! He will be 1yr old in June. The bright side, and there are many, to having a Great Dane is that at my advanced age, I don't have to bend down to pet him, and I don't have to even think about picking him up. The down side is that there are a lot of times he thinks he is a lap dog and wants to crawl up into the chair with me! Plus you must wear shoes, because the PSI of his paw can turn your foot into mince meat!!! He is very slowly learning to control his tongue with me. The "No Tongue" request is chanted when he gets in my face and he is learning to respect that with me. God help anybody else you will get a bath. But I will continue to teach him manners. If we could get past the licking thing he is the absolute BEST BOY!

OK.....one of the downsides of staying home is that I get to clean the house and catch up with some stuff around the house. But I will attack it slowly and read a few chapters of my current read in between cleaning rooms!! LOL Hey that's how I did it back in the olden days with soap operas. I would jump when the advertisements came on and clean like crazy. It worked every time!

Have a great time and pass some huggies around. A special huggie goes out to my friend Ellen!!! Safe trip my friend and my prayers and white light will be with you during the next few days!!! Love ya Chica!!!

Dilly

Mr Sun is showing his shinning face this morning!

It's still just above freezing, but the sun is shining so I will take that as a start to a good day. It's always good for me when it's the last of our 3 days on the road. I will be dragging but with a smile on my face!!

So I am trying to figure out what to plant in the garden this year. It was such a wash last year and I tend to plant way to many different things in my small space and end up with not enough of anything! So, this year I am sticking to only a few. I think I will go with Green Peppers, tomatoes, and one more thing. Anything else we use I can't buy at the farmers market so cheap it's not worth the effort. We will see how my strawberries and rhubarb do and see if I need to add to them. Hubby will be putting tomatoes in the aquaponic set up outside. I guess I will be canning this year!! LOL

Even though I am talking about planting stuff, it is way to cold to do anything about that. We had snow earlier in the week and it's just at freezing this morning! It' looks like my herb garden made it through but I need to add more and take out some of the parsley that is growing like a weed! I can only use so much parsley and this has run amuck!!! I am not seeing any greening of the chammomile I planted so that might have to be redone and move my lavender from the front yard. Lots of putzing around and taking care of business!



Here are a few photos of Xavier working on coloring his Easter Eggs! We had a great time Monday night doing this. He couldn't get enough eggs, and as his Mom would bring a new batch out he would grab a few and make sure he got all he wanted. It was too cute!! I also added in a photo taken with Papa down in his workarea. Xavier is still working on his apprenticeship as a packager. Trying to fill Uncle Todd's shoes. Notice the jacket he has on, he calls it Papa's Coat and I am sure Papa's shoes can't be far behind. He likes his Tevas like Papa. Does this little guy adore his Papa....OH Yah and what is even better is the feeling is very mutual!!!



So my second cup of coffee is done, time to fix the mop on top of my head, get dressed and hit the road! I am looking forward to our days off this weekend. One of them will be a picnic on Sunday for Easter if the weather God's are in a good mood! Have a beautiful holiday everyone!

Dilly

Mother Nature can be soooooo cruel!!!!!

It is April 18th and the joke is on me!!! I woke up to this, taken before sunrise or just gray ucky clouds. You choose.



That was 6:30 am. and we have gotten another inch since then and it continues to fall at almost 10:00 a.m. That would have been bad enough, but it was compounded by Dozer pushing me out of bed. Followed by the coffee maker not set up right to have my morning cup ready when I came down. Add the furnace not working and the temps below 60 downstairs, so I had to go to the basement and rap my fist on the furnace until the burner kicked on. It went downhill after that!! LOL

So the coffee got made, the furnace is working, I have taken my shower and fixed my hair and I am still standing upright. So with a little luck the temps will rise, the snow will melt and my day will get better.

OOOOOHHHH!! It just did get better, my front doorbell just went off signalling the arrival of our Grandson. Let Mother Nature do her darndest, my world is much better because Xavier is here to fill me with love and laughter!!!!

We did manage to replace two toilets, fill the kiln with beads, update the books, and I worked on a small sewing project. So the weekend was a plus!!!

Here is my latest project, recycling recieving blankets into burp clothes using my rag quilting!!! Soft, soft, and absorbent!! I'll be making a pile for Baby Binkley and anyone else expecting a new little one!



Ok....I am off and running. Share some huggies with those you love!!

Dilly

Tummy Bug slowing me down!

This week has been a slow one. I have been dealing with a tummy bug. Heart burn, nausea, gas, bloating, etc. I suppose you don't want any more images in your mind, but I bet you get the picture. It got so bad one day I had hubby bring me home from a treasure trail trip. Now, that is a first, but while he was in a thrift store I was pleading to die in the car. Not fun!

So I haven't had much other than soups, dry toast and muffins and gingerale for the last few days. I started to feel better last night and challenge my tummy with some pizza and so far so good! I at least am going in to have a cup of coffee which has been replaced the last few days with Chammomile Tea! The least little discomfort and the bland stuff comes back out! LOL

Rain is being called for the new 4 or 5 days. Sounds like a good plan to paint, melt glass and work on some craft ideas I have bubbling in my head. Plus I am still working on the family tree project. I need to make a trip to Hobby Lobby for a foam core piece for that! Then I might work up a design for a T-shirt for the reunion and run past sis, cuz and my Uncle. We will see, I don't know if I am that ambitious! LOL

OK, I am off to tempt the Gods and have a cup of coffee, with rain being called for during most of today I see sunshine and blue skies right now, so the force is good!

Huggies all around for everyone!

Dilly

How's your Spring going?

Mine is doing fine. I have the garden area cleaned out and ready for things to sprout. The lawn furniture is out and screaming for a coat of paint! Time to pull the dead stuff off my arbor so I can give that a coat of paint before the Morning Glories take over! As you can see, Spring is welcomed, but comes bearing work around here!

I have been batteling tummy problems. I am feeling better today but I turned down my morning coffee. The thought of the acid dumping in was more than I could take. So some organic chammomile tea is on my list. Of course I will crash and burn without my caffeine, but my tummy will thank me!

We had a beautiful Sunday, and took advantage of it!


Hubby is back in the studio melting glass with me. It's been a while but he picked it right back up like a pro! We are still working out the glitches, but we are planning on more glass and less road trips to work out the price of gas! Here in Michigan it's at $4.00 a gallon. We will see how this works out!

So I am off to clean some beads, and list a few on the Bay to see if we can make some $$. Then working on the family tree some more. I keep typing names, and more names.....who would believe that there could be so many Dillinghams related to me!! LOL

Have a good one and pass some huggies around when you can!
Dilly

A quick stop by to say Hello!

I figured if I just jot down a few words, it's better than leaving my blog hanging!

I have been melting glass for the last 3 days, things are going well and it's is so nice to know that no matter how long I drag my butt, I can go back and still be inspired by the flame!

Picked up some more fabrice for the rag quilting, so I have more colors there to be inspired by. I will be cutting those out this afternoon when the rains and thunder come if the weather guy is correct. Right now it's almost 70 out with sunshine and headed toward 80 before all heck breaks loose and we crash back down into the 40's again! I have my sinus medicene close by so that I can be prepared for the head explosion that will accompany it!

OK, time to make some ice tea, the screens are in and the windows are open! Yes, welcome Spring you have been missed.

Just a quick request for prayers, and huggies for our DIL, Erin's Grandpa. He fell and broke his hip while getting ready to leave the hospital in CO. She remarked that he had surgery last night so we are keeping him and the family in our thoughts!

Huggies to all on this beautiful Sunday!

Dilly

A rainy Friday and I still have a smile on my face!!

Yes I do have a smile, because it's the start to my 4 days at home. Other than melting some glass when I get done posting this, painting, and sewing I don't have anything on my list of things to do!!! I should have been born a hermit, because I could crawl into my house and never go out other than to see my kids and grandkids and be perfectly happy. Of course the split side of my personality,(yah I know I must have one, I fight it all the time) says I would love to travel, but that cost $$$, so I am not worried about that happening anytime soon!

So, what are you going to plant this year? I am working on that in my head, I have lot's of splitting and transplanting to get accomplished. The weather is starting to cooperate, so that will have to be on my list soon! Other than tending to the garden and landscaping I have to put my flag pole and grape arbor at the top of my list of things. I bought a beautiful new Marine Corp Flag to fly under my U.S. Flag. I checked out the official how to fly them together, so hubby lets get that flag pole in the ground!!!

The sewing is really relaxing and now that I have the space it is something that calls me upstairs to enjoy the process. I think I will attack a larger purse with more structure and see how that works out. Then I think actual quilts will be on my list of things to make!

But first down to the glass studio and start melting glass regularly again. I have taken a break since I came back from CA in February. The dust has settled and I need to clean up my space and get back to work. I have to many wants on my list for the house and to do that I need to make the extra $$ that my beads bring into the house! This year I want a wood patio out back for relaxing on! Then start collecting the materials to build a greenhouse either this fall or next spring. I have an inspiration for it that I found over a year ago. This one is in Ontario and made out of completey salvaged materials other than a new automatic roof vent. It is also fitting for our climate and I just love it!


So off to work I go, expect to see a FB page for my Glass Goodies soon! Hubby is even going to give some time to melting glass again. He misses it and Ebay has been so stressful lately. To many idiots out there to deal with! LOL

Have a great day everyone and pass some Huggies around when you can!

Dilly

A new week and more on my calendar!!!

Yup it's Monday and I am trying to make an effort as I promised. Our last day at home before hitting the Treasure Trails! Just so you all understand what hitting the Treasure Trails means. We have established several routes throughout Michigan over the past 12 years. They include thrift stores, Habitat for Humanity locations, Christian Resale stores, some second hand stores, hospice resale stores, etc. Hubby's business that I help with is finding things and reselling them on Ebay. He has been successful with this for close to 14 years. He was doing this before it was cool and a reality show on TV. Plus his percentage of profit beats the heck out of some of those stupid shows we have caught! You ask what does he sell, let's see at a local thrift store for $4.00 he found what I term a Quack Medical Device. You know one of those things that you really can't tell if it helps, it emits light and heat, etc. This one is FDA approved and it sold originally for $1,400.00 On Ebay it will sell for around $500. Right now I am using it on my shoulder and Yes, it is helping. He might have to wait for his profit portion on this one!! LOL So that is how we make a living for the most part, I help him search for the items, from a wave machine from the 70's, a cast iron green peeper shaped casserole, etc. We use our cell phones for research using Ebay to see if the items are selling, and what they have sold for. It works and we do enjoy it! OK now you get a better picture of what we do.

Last night we had a house guest, our grandson Xavier stayed the night. I thought he was well on his way to falling asleep in the middle of Disneys "The Rescuers", but someone must have shot him some adrenaline because out of now were he was rocking and rolling again. Well until after 11:00 pm. still playing with his flashlight in the dark! Up again at around 7:00 a.m. OMG I am really getting old. We did have a great time and can't wait until his new cousin can do an overnight with him!! Of course we do have to wait or that little new cousin to be born and grow up a little before we can do that!!!!LOL


Speaking of the new little cousin, last weekend I traveled up to Shannon and Shawns house and the crew painted the nursery. Papa helped by keeping Xavier entertained when he was trying to help paint. But we left with two coats of paint and the room ready for trim by Papa Binkley! Won't be long and they kids can start setting up all the goodies that they have been collecting for the room. They don't need much more to be ready for the new little sweetie to move in with them!

So the kitchen is clean, Xavier has gone home, hubby is done packaging, and I need to get a few more things done around here! Like watch the DVD of Todd's Marine Corp Graduation that arrived in the mail! LOL Oh, and work on the family tree for the reunion next month. Oh, don't forget the painting upstairs, etc. It just never stops around here! Pass those huggies all around!

Dilly

I think Spring might be sneeking in!

Morning I thought I would check in before we are off and running today! Yah, it is starting to look like spring around here. Lot's of sunshine lately but chilly temps. Today is more like it, wet and rainy and grey skies....now that is Michigan Baby!!!! But that is how everything turns green around here. I just want warmer temps so I feel like going out and cleaning out the winter crap from the gardens and landscaping! Freezing my butkis off is not on my list of things to do!

Today I am headed up to Shannons to help paint the nursery. Last Wednesday we stripped the ucky kitty border down and taped the trim for painting. The for the last few days we have had discussion about paint colors! LOL Anywhere between mint chocolate chip, and orange sherbert! Since Shannon has almost all the necessary things to make the nursery stunning most of her work is almost done! It is a very nice memory to add to my mental book of things I love doing with my kids!


Speaking of kids I caught a great photo of my fur baby kids yesterday. Randy was setting on the settee in the sun room and now that Dozer is a big boy (same size as Kylee) they can both plop their butts on the furniture with their front paws on the floor. So the three of them are setting there staring out the window at the wildlife and what ever is going on at the neighbors behind us. Since Dozer is only 9 months old, only God knows how big he will get. Large breeds are full grown at about 18 months! LOL Hey he didn't get called Dozer because he was going to be small! LOL

Well I hope any who read this have a wonderful weekend. Pass the huggies around when you can!

Dilly