few words wednesday

holy shit -- it's snowing !!!

only in Paradise

january 10, 2012 at 2:00pm  yep a Harley at the neighbors

no snow so the cross country skiers have wheels on them ...

and those dark stripes ... pre-treating the streets for the "storm on the way" ...

yes all pictures taken on my stroll to the drug store for a prescription refill.....

it's 53' and flipping fabulous !!!

field cruise

yeppers -- the field road was surrounded by sweet corn in late july -- lovely looking green wasn't it ... I'm liking the lack of snow but not the "brown" look

manure man making delivery after labor day 

last year (2010) it was surrounded by soybeans -- this was in September of 2010 during the flooding down in the Valley --

and in 2010 looking west into the setting sun and my favorite cell tower ....

and today --- it was driveable -- yep ... took the field road home from the scrap shack ... eastbound and downhill  -- over a couple of frozen  puddles, some snow on the back hill ... and a deer (what else) ...

when grandpa was alive we always had contests ... who would be the last to use it in fall and the first to cross in spring ... and that was 30 years ago -- and we did it without four wheel drive trucks and atv's ... This is the first year in my memory when I did it in January ... with light snow years it's pretty passable year around -- ice makes the back hill a bit challenging  -- it's a 1.25 mile trek -- or 4 1/2 miles by regular road ... and it's been there since the late 1930's ... although it's been tweeked a couple of times.

and on the 7th day the

  the idiots of the world go to work.  yep back at it today.  first up a little internet -- seek and find -- fabric of course.  I really should be camera shopping but camera's need to be handled and played with before the final purchase.  the cheep one is in my tote bag for now.

  the stamping diva's and I are having a weekend event -- gotta work so I can play later.  need to decide on a project or two or three and pack up the stuff for the trek to the scrap shack. 

  so the bed is made, the laundry is done, the web surfing should be complete  -- hi ho it's off to work it go! 

55' tomorrow !!!  can't wait ... needs to start raining or snowing -- need the moisture soon ...

ta ta ...

M

where's winter ????

   what the hell -- the January thaw came before the winter freeze.  not sure if I can handle to two 55' days in a row in January .... weather records are crashing everywhere.  needless to say all of my ice is gone.  last year it took until May.

   just another day in paradise -- if St. George, MN  is the Holy Land -- St. Peter, MN  must be paradise .... 

   Happy Weekend.

   Marie

a brown paradise

blessings

   I have a lot of peeps in my life.  Client peeps, family peeps, friend peeps.  Clients come and go -- today I got to meet the daugher of a client.  Her mom, B--- lost her battle with breast cancer a little more than a year ago.  Her children live with foster parents.  Daugher has matured into a nice young lady.

  I'm sure B--- is looking down - smiling.  B and family struggled thru the years -- relocating to St. Peter for a better life, job loss, cancer, growing up pains.  But thru it all her children were raised with a lot of love and it shows.  She did a great job. 

  Just another reminder to count the blessings.


Marie

back to the real world ...

  yeppers, I overdosed on the sewing Saturday Night.  I did however vacuum the floors and empty the trash down there yesterday .... and in the midst of the vacuuming job that side of the room went dark ... and the furnace quit and the space heater quit ..... evidently the vacuum was drawing too much juice .... tripped the circuit breaker.  sounds like a great reason to quit cleaning eh! 

  Mom and I had a dash to Mankato -- yep, the last hurrah ... the deal of the day -- frozen dinners 5 for $10 at HyVee -- it is good to eat well and cheep! 

  The wind is howling, it's slippery and the rose parade is one TV today .  It still irks me.  It should always be on New Years Day.

  birrrrr

M