Saying Good-bye

Our sweet Meg has moved to Georgia as of yesterday....Love has called her and I wish her nothing but the best, but I will miss her. Last Sat. night while my cousins Libby and Alan were here, we had a little party at my house. She and Emma climbed to the top of my "cat tree" - enough to give Nana a bit of anxiety! Even my cats seldom go to the top!! My brother stood at the bottom guarding his girls....

getting there....

No photos today - just got my computer up and running a few hours ago. After 2 days working via phone with techs in India, they gave up and ordered me a new video drive. The Dell tech installed it today.... As yet I haven't gotten my new camera uploaded....maybe tomorrow.....
Hope all is well in blogland. I don't know who the losers were that commented on my last blog, but they have been deleted. Some people need to get a life!

Problems, problems and fun

For some reason my computer crashed this week-end and I'm now operating in "safe" mode....The garage sale went fine - got rid of lot's of goodies. Unfortunately, as it turns out, the first things I sold were my patio chairs. Seemed like a good thing, until cousin Alan fell over while sitting in my new chair when the metal leg simply bent and broke! So much for that chair! Next to go was the handle on my front door....went out to water my hanging plant and couldn't push the button to get back in.....fortunately cousin Libby was inside and let me back in!

In the meantime we had lot's of fun and laughs!! After a visit on Sat to 95 yr old Aunt Norma, with my mom along - we spent the evening on my deck being entertained by Emma. I have some fun photos, but of course can't get them off my camera.... this one is from a couple weeks ago. And so it goes.......

garage sale....

Well now isn't this just a pretty picture! My garage is filling up as I collect items from around the house, shed and wherever else objects amass and gather dust.... I finally got committed enough to place the ad a few minutes ago, so looks like next thurs evening and fri. I'll be a decluttering my life and hopefully sending my things home with someone else!

Sadly as I'm sitting here I'm hearing the news on the tv, that Tim Russert has died. Of course I didn't know him personally, but he was certainly a person whose opinion I respected and valued.

God Bless his family - I can't imagine the pain they are going through Certainly puts life in perspective in a hurry.....

Reconnected

After a bit of research at Consumer Reports I set out to buy my new camera. Well of course the store I was in didn't have any of the camera's I had decided upon, but not wanting to leave empty handed I picked out the cutest one..... That process of decision making works well for shoes, not so much for cameras.... Returned the first camera and trekked on to a store with more options where I actually found the camera I wanted. Yeah!!!

These peonies are from my friend Sarah's garden. Her peony bush was huge and laden with flowers - gave me "peony envy" (sorry I couldn't help myself....) Now that I have a camera I'm going back to her home to take some shots of her garden - she has a bleeding heart plant that thinks it's a bush. I have never seen one so big, especially in Michigan!
Okay garden gurus - I don't recall planting these sweet little daisy looking flowers. Do you think they are actually a flower or a cute weed I'm growing
My other purchase's for the week were a couple pillow for outdoors and a huge umbrella for over my deck. My friend Cindi told me that TJ Max had 4 outdoor umbrella's for only $79 - of which she'd already purchased one. I dashed out, discovered one the same color hue as my house and came home with it. The night before I'd been catalog browsing and found 1 that went with my outdoor decor - it was $400! So, all that is to explain why, even after opening it 2 days later (had to get an umbrella stand first...) and discovering one of the wooden poles was broken causing it to sag on one side (see photo), I've decided to keep the sucker! I'm sure with the help of my hardware store owner brother we can fix the broken pole....eventually.....

Hope all of you are enjoying this balmly summer!

Time out....

My camera is on the fritz, so until I purchase a new one or try to recyle and get mine fixed, I'll be in blogless land for a bit.... These iris came from my grandparents farm, via my parents back-yard and date back to the 1950's at least! Not sure how the yellow one ended up exactly in the middle - just dumb luck!