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is late and am tired wanted to share a couple of pictures with you i have to get up in a few hours for the doctor so am headed to bed and get some sleep but wanted you all to enjoy these couple pictures will be back tomorrow night same time same place holy batman lol

this is how i felt today i could have used something cool to drink after sitting and waiting for over a hour for the bank officer to finish out dealing with dads accounts and transfering to our account well because they didn't have all the info the morons didn't finish it and now we have to do t on saturday am no happy at all. grrrrrrrrrrrr so on saturday it should be done i hope grrrrrrr


met a new friend tonight through my friend nancy who is a different person than my sister nancy although i call this friend sister too we are sisters in yarn and actually is a friends mom and we just hit it off right away is nice for that to be

anyways we got our permission to take our vacation when dh wanted it and that twerp jeff didn't get his way am off to bed for now have a great day love ya all

good news yeaaaaaaaaa

well today the phone rang and was the idiot from work who threw his temper tantrum about the vacations the boss reviewed them and said that MY dh has first choice it didn;t matter what he wanted dh has first chance so we will have the time off we requested

• that was the good news now for the bad, ds had a interview yesterday for a 6th grade position they called today and he didn't get the job breaks my heart to see him half to go through this every dang year he seems to have a good attitude thought much better than mine lol not much going on so going to sign off but will be selling some more stuff in my etsy store lots of yarns and book patterns also come look and see should have it all up by the weekend so will catch ya all then hugs vicki

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my kitties and a stellar jay we had 4 of them in the yard today fighting over the peanuts silly birds. the little kittens are babies from one of the adult cats dh has at work. the orange one has some eye problems that its mama needs to take care of and will im sure aren't they adorable? there are 6 more am off to find other pics of the 2 other ones i saw there is 4 more i saw but did not get pics of yet. hugs and happy fathers day to all those of you who are fathers day to all those who are dads or mom and dads both and thank you to all our dads out there serving in the military away from their family on fathers day god bless and keep all of you hugs and love vicki

these are some more pictures of my roses hoping to get a few more blooms out of some of them but it is hitting toward the end of june. today is the summer soltice 16 hours of daylight wooot hehe







i also took some pictures of our wild kitty we named him iggabod and he finally looks good, all winter he was sickley but i started feeding him more food and it works for him as he now is not sick no running nose his legs are not as bad as they were sometimes he would hop on 3 legs sometimes often actually he limped alot and he now is feeling much better so without farther ado here is our ickabod

hi everyone i hope this finds you all doing well, i have been having one of those weeks that are just dragging on and on and on. sigh

we still have not heard back on dh vacation time, i don;t know if i posted this before or not but will again and if you read it once please forgive this tired ladies posting but this just ticks me off something fierce. see here is the situation the forman who is my husband and the one with almost 40 years under his belt has first choice of the time he wants off for vacation, then here comes this jerk who has 5 years at best but is a special needs person demanding he get that time cause he always has had it that way. and the boss is saying we are both going to have to give which is BS should be dh and if they don;t then will go ahead of his boss and file a grievance with the union if nothing is done then we are suing for that please keep good thoughts for him we sooo do not need this stress on top of everything else and especially this year with dad passing away we need the 6 weeks off in a row to just relax


been crocheting on a new doily not going to show it as the person whos it is for reads my blog and i don;t want her to see it ahead of time , i know she probably already knows its a doily as i asked her what she wanted and thats what she said but its going to be soooo pretty


these are pictures of my roses i have growing aren;t they beautiful oh the smell is heavenly too i adore my roses and hope you have enjoyed them also





this one to my left of the words i started from a single flower my sister gave me and now ia full grown rose bush




i also have a bunch of other pictures still on my camera and will post it asap

i hope you all have a wonderful weekend and for all those dads out there happy fathers day i miss both of my dads this is a hard year for us dads only been gone 2 months and it seems we are forever thinking about him




thanks to my dear friends and sisters who helped me through my day when we heard news about someone we all care about, you know who you are dear hearts i love you all my friends be at peace special friend i love you

hey ya all how are ya tonight? i am so darn tired i can hardly stand up. got the attic all cleared out and went threw most of it all alot is going to be sold or given away to charity we have sooooooo much stuff i am amazed how much stuff there is will maybe have a yard sale or go to the swap meet

with my new stash of all the bright colors from yesteryear(lord u never knew there was so many pretty colors i seldom had more yarn that what i was doing the stash was non existent and i was busy raising my kids anyways. now im finding these wonderful greens and purples hot pink for year could not find hot pink anyways am going to make myself a afghan with these bright colors and black for the borders will be beautiful i might use the chappel i think is called hat for it i have it in a afghan book or might do a flower one either way will be very pretty OR i might just make sq of my own design and lots of colors switching around who knows

i was so happy to help enid with her sq for her sil patty they turned out really nice so am double happy to help her. she is such a sweetie we need to go to lunch or something when we both have time.

i miss talking to my friends online as i have been sooo busy but now i have internet i can chat at night too. is hard going back and forth between the 2 houses but well is what i have to do so i do it

the weather has been just gorgeous, im glad jean that you finally got the rain i sent it to you so you would have it and save your crops sweetie am glad mother nature listened to me doing my rain dance
hehehehe

not up to much else just working between the 2 houses is hard for now but will get better im sure

well am off to surf the web and see what kind of trouble i can get into lol take care ya all love ya

its june what can i say SUMMERTIME WOOOHOOOO

hey ya all thought i would pop in and say hello, i finally have internet access in the house we are living in now is sooo wierd having 2 homes and is killing me paying bills on 2 places not sure what we are going to do i know it can't go on indefinetly, am hoping one of the kids move in here although i really dont mind during the summer as i am very much enjoying the air conditioning in this house


i have been busy crocheting things i recently made a baby blanket and a pair of booties for a friend of my sons actually a fellow teacher who has had a hard time carrying a pregnancy to term, she had 4 miscarriages and this one is cooking in the over good lol which means its a good thing as the baby us fine and healthy and hopefully in a couple months she will deliver a healthy baby girl here is a pic of the blanket.i know it looks like a giant granny sq but it isn't it has bobbles in the pattern all across the 4 sides she loved it and i hope you enjoy it also

the weather has been so nice here, no rain for almost 3 weeks so got to get out there and water more want a green lawn not brown sigh

speaking of yarn i scored so good at goodwill today i could not resist, got almost 50 skeins of yarn for 12.00 how cool was that. this lady looks at me and says did you take ALL the yarn i said yes i did. for those prices how can i turn it down going to resell in my etsy shop or share with some of my friends

its almost all worsted weight there was a couple skeins of 100 % wool but i sent those to keesha as she can use it also now i take turns between kathy and keesha speaking of both your packages are on the way girls wooohooo can;t wait for ya both to get them

tomorrow we will be working in the attic trying to get everything out of there so we can go through the stuff and decide what to keep what to sell and what to get rid of by giving away. THEN once we get the house done we will be going to the storage unit mom rented over 20 years ago when i think of the money they spent on this place it kills me 120.00 a month times 12 months times 20 years thats 1440.00 X 20 the mind boggles me thats $28,800.00 enough to build a triple car garage and for what all stuff that will most likely be sold ot given away sigh






last weekend we planted lilies and dahlias along the fence line the next door neighbor wanted to know what we were planting i said lilies and dahlias you should have seen his face i said no worries the lilies are only 2 feet high he frecently planted some blue berry bushes and huckleberry bushes and was worried about the sun being blocked. he don;t have to worry about anything lol i want to get busy on my quilts soon too need to find time to make them i am making one for a special friend who has undergone a huge amount of problems and she needs a pick me up i have been so blessed having so many good people i can call friends while i can;t say i know everything about them i do know the ones i care about would do anything for me as i would for them life is good you know it when you have someone telling you how much they love and care about you like i said am very blessed love you all take care and be blessed by your own wonderful friends. it takes a friend to know a friend and you all are mine and i am so thankful for you love ya catch ya later hugs and love vicki

hey ya all, stopping by to say hello, and to brag about my score today hehehehe, sooooo first i went to goodwill at one place nada nothing good at all, so then hit the freeway and went to another one, no yarn but they did have 7 cool afghan leafets, oh before i get ahead of myself i also went to joes which is a sporting goods/auto store here going out of business and scored for my dh a awesome pair of 3 ton jackstands these go for almost 60.00 i paid 6.00 SCORE!!!!!!!

anyways then went out to the other goodwill and they had the afghan leaflets got them for a buck nice huh and inside of it was one for the american and national league football teams crocheted pattern for afghans SCORE!!!!!!!!

so then stopped at michaels as i wanted to see if they had their new yarn nope but they DID have some awesome clearance sales. so i got 6 skeins of patons 100% merino wool yarnfor 1.99(those are already spoken for)

11 skeins of sugar and cream self stiping cotton yarn in the shades of pink for 79 cents a skein SCORE!!!!

also got 2 skeins of red heart softie yarn and a skein of red heart sport yarn 99 cents SCORE!!!!!!

also i got 3 skeins of red heart the big skeins of worsted weight acrylic yarn i need for a project 99 cents each grand total 30.oo SCORE the merino wool alone goes for 6.00 to 7.00 a skein and its the prettiest yarn but as i said already spoken for.

not up to much tonight getting ready to head back over to dads house for the night am tired and hungry and want to get something to eat soon.

am working on some sq for a dear friends sil she has been diagnosed with a nasty disease and she is making her a comfortghan so i am helping.

hope you all are doing well and i miss all of you who use to come and make comments is there a reason why you don't? if so please let me know , you all have my email or can post it here i won't post it if you don't want. i am sorry if i upset anyone and hope this is not the case and just that you all are busy with life as i am

we are doing as good as can be expected. still waiting for the attorney to contact us about the probate tomorrow will be one week so hope to hear soon.

hope you all have a wonderful week and will post again before the weekend(i promise to try) am doing some raok on ravelry found some friends who need a few things and they live outside the us so am doing my best to send them things they can enjoy and i can afford, also for my dear friend jacqui darl i am packing your package up and will send it asap still adding to it hehehe take care all and hope you enjoy this weather if its nice where you are , if not i am sending you some happy sunshine memories from me hehe hugs and love for all vicki

its the weekend wooooot

hi everyone its the weekend woohooo, things are moving along but is a slow process, saw and hired a attorney yesterday to deal with probate. just not getting any help from anyone who could and should but just would not give us the names of the forms we needed to do it ourselves so now we are out 2000.00 sucks but thats life i guess sigh

it looks like its going to be a beautiful weekend, i can;t wait to get outside and play in the dirt although can't do much of it with my back but will be fun hehe.

watching the news tonight is heart breaking, general motors is shutting down over 2000 dealerships i just don't understand how they think this is going to help them, if the higher up employees like the ceo actually did give a rats behind about their employees and the american people THEY would not take their bonuses or salary increase. its just frustrating how bad this economy is, i am very dissapointed in the new administration and the promises they made. like we are suppose have seen a increase in our paycheck? we lost 600.00 and why? who the heck knows, i can guarentee that is not because we are rich by any way shape or form we get a discount on our property taxes because of my disability and our income yet they took 600 more out. thanks president obama now i have more debts than money that reallllly helps me out alot. now i must find a way to stretch the money even farther sigh


oh and another rant i am soooo pissed off i sent my friend a over night package as she was having surgery today which by the way anyone who knows who i am talking about she came through with flying colors anyways back to the rant

i overnighted her a package as i wanted her to have it before she went in today the idiots who were suppose to deliver it didn;t even knock on the door and they were home just left the note on the door OMGOSH was so angry luckily her dh was able to track her down(the mail carrier) he filed a complaint there and im going to file one here too. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr


son just called and is buying some more plants wooohooo so excited.

i feel so bad for him he is going to lose his job in june because the school district where he works does not want to pay out of their reserves . he has a very very slim chance of getting something but odds are very slim please keep him in your thoughts and prayers.

i can't believe the weather now is just beautiful can't wait for summer to come. well hubby wants to go so got to run take care my friends and talk to ya soon hugs and love vicki

may is ehlersdanlos awarness month

this is a subject very dear to me as one of my best friends has this disease and it has recked havoc on her body she is a young woman still and while i am not going to name her she knows who i am talking about.


please educate yourself about this disease. it can be herditary and passed on to your future children

until i met my friend i had no idea this horrible disease excisted. am glad its being made aware , so am doing my part to tell ya all any questions email me or post on the blog will try and explain it to you hang in all who suffers from it hugs to my special friend you know i love you girlie hugs and love vicki


http://www.ehlersdanlosnetwork.org/EDS_May_Awareness_Month.html

hey ya

hi guys just wanted to update a bit things are still really crazy here still working on getting things done from when dad died and i can tell you its not fun this stupid government wants nothing but money money money and they have it set up so no lay person can do it only a attorney. we tried to file probate ourselves NO ONE wouold even tell us if it was the right form so this week we are meeting with a attorney and going to cost us almost 2,000.00 for it sucks in my opinion anyways thats the heres and theres for been doing a small amount of crocheting but am so darn tired i don;t even feel up to that tried to knit socks OMG was that hilarious NOt will try it again when i have more energy hugs to you all vicki

thank you everyone

i want to take a moment to thank all who have been so kind to our family during our time in need, as most of you know my father in law passed away april 15th 2009 we miss him so very much and are very thankful for the time we had with him. i want to thank everyone for their words of kindness and caring that you all who have been here for me, i thank you from the bottom of my heart. i will be back asap and updating my blog as soon as possible. its so very diffucult for me as many of you know i have become very close with my fil during our many doctor visits ect we spent together. i realllly miss him alot and i can honestly tell you that i am very blessed having known him and loved him and had that returned. i hope you all take the time to spend with your family as time goes by very fast life is so very short. godbless all of you love ya my friends vicki

today was very stressful dad could not even walk and i had to help lift him up into the wheel chair then wheel him across the bumpy grass and into my car was so very hard for me to do hubby is taking off time tomorrow to take him to doc he was pissed i didn;t call him so he could have helped but i worry about his job too its not a good situation there at all so is the lesser of 2 evils ya know. i learned my lesson today there is no way on this green earth i can do what i did today am in so much pain i can hardlt stand it it sucks low on meds too so thats not helping have a great day today love ya all

hey ya all

well i guess its about time i logged in and posted a few things not doing much busy with dad i feel so bad for him i wish i could do more please pray for him or send him good thoughts he can use any and all of them so from our family to all of you thank you for keeping him in your thoughts and prayers.

today was a beautiful day omgosh was almost 70 degrees out where yesterday was in low 60;s and froze last night come ON winter go away for heavens sake.
been crocheting scrubbie dishcloths and will be listin some in my etsy shop soon i am going to list a few right now just for you to see and then if there is a particular color combination you want let me know i am sure i can do something for you i love mine they are so nice to use with the dishes. also am thinking of making a package deal with the scrubbies and dish clothes, anyone interested in that let me know i don;t charge much 2.50 a scrubbie or we can make a package and save a little more maybe depending on what you want, ok now on to other things



life is pretty stressful here for us dh when he don;t understand or can't do what he needs to do lashes out at me which while is not fair nor am i taking it i makes me understand but what i DON'T understand is why everyone picks on me with my meds. io mean good lord if you all hurt like i do you sure as hell would not be giving me advice to do other things people just don;t understand and no teapot not talking about you we already hashed this out. i just need to get this off of my chest. because this is such a important part of my life i feel the need to talk so please no one take offense nor think i am mad at any of you bnecause its not true what is true is i need to educate people. when one lives in such horrible pain that it hurts to breath then would you deny them some relief? say oh meditate or bio feedback or some other stupid thing that will not help, it hurts me more than anything to know people i care about and love don;t understand. i know those meds as any meds (including booze or tobaco can cause alot of problems (i don;t do either) there is such a stigma about narcotic pain medication, let me ask ya a question , if your mother was diagnosed with heart disease would you not want the docs to give as much comfort as possible or diabeties or any other illness would you not want your loved one to have decent care and relief? then why is there such a stigma about taking pain medication, and for those who think what about a pain clinic all i can say is been there done that 5 long times that only cost me hundreds of dollars for them to sit there and say nope your fine nothing wrong with you when all the while i am one whisper away from being paralized and confined to a wheelchair for the rest of my life but would that be better than me taking strong meds? why do people assume that if you take these medications you become a drug addict? nothing can be farther from the truth, i do not have cravings i do not ephoric highs and lows. all i get is a bit of relief. and as for the bastards who give me a hard time in the handicap spots get a frigging LIFE go play in the freeway as my mom always told the neighbors kids who were constantly at our house. course there was no freeway close so was not going to happen. is just a saying, regardless back off stupid before I create a major scene, and have no worries i will if you accoust me again kk stepping off my soap box vicki