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1st Prize Robin @ The Cranky Crow! She has to be the luckiest person around!  She keeps winning giveaways!  I was so surprised when her number came up!  Congrats Robin!  You pick first! 2nd Prize Jody @ Primgals Primitive Palette!  Jody is a wonderful painter, not sure why she would want anything of mine, she does absolutely perfect detailed paintings!  Jody, you need to make a first and second choice when you email me. New Followers Winner Linda from Parker's Paradise.  Imagine my surprise while reading her blog that she is the mother of Sara, whose journey of adopting and raising beautiful little Mya I have followed for the last few years.  Even the blog world is a small one!   Linda, you will need to make three choices when you email me!  Thanks everyone for entering.  I am still trying to visit each and every one of you.  My blog reading has fallen way behind the last few months.  I appreciate all the ...

Final sign-up this evening. These are the items for the giveaway. There will be a first, second and a new follower prize. Here is how it is going to work.... I had to really think about this. When I announce the first winner, that person will have first choice. The second place, will have to let me know their first and second choice,  in the event that their first choice is taken. and the new follower prize winner will have to give me a first, second and third choice of their prize. There is still time to sign up. Scroll on down to the 500th POST giveaway and sign up! It is going to take me awhile to get the entry list made and numbered. Of course, these are just the MAIN prizes. I will fill the boxes with other goodies also. And remember, this washboard is painted with snowmen on the back. So go on down and enter for your chance to win. Drawing at....let's say 9:00 tonight EST!

Still some green stuff around my yard. Diligent watering. And this is what some of my impatiens look like.... And this is what others look like! Need to work on those a little bit today. And my day is ready. A fun list, with a cup of coffee. Big thing on the list? Catch up on all my blog friends!  What a great day this is going to be! And one last snippet from the week. Yesterday was hot, the hottest I think I have ever experienced. The temp on the bank sign said 112 degrees. It might read a little high, but I have never seen it that high. Of course, I had a cattle trailer to letter. We do vinyl signs and vehicle graphics along with screenprinting and embroidery. This was an off-site job. We have no place to put a cattle trailer and it was too hot to do it in the driveway. Metal, Sun, I would have baked, So... I go to the place the cattle trailer is parked. A sort of garage/barn. I don't take a ladder. Surely they will have a ladder or even a five gallon bucket I c...

This has been an ongoing project.  The bench needed painted. I had this idea to paint this old cooler for on it. There is a similar one on my front porch. It still needs a tag on it.  Maybe tomorrow. It's been a long week. This is always one of our busiest weeks of the year. Local festival. Last minute shirts. A few additional last minute jobs. Resulting in lots of overtime. Self employment overtime. Not the kind that you get paid time and a half for. The kind that people say "Thanks for getting our stuff done so fast" "The check will be in the mail [sometime]" Anyway, Added to that have been a few traumas. As usual. One is a little indelicate. I'll wait until last for that one. It may be a little offensive. But I have to share. We'll start with kid traumas. If someone is going to get hurt, injured or sick, it is going to be Logan. That child has had more emergency trips in his short life than I can count. Gasping for air, croupy emergency trips. I h...

Those of you that follow along with me know that I walk in the mornings. Well, most mornings. Normal departure time... 5:20 AM Lots of bats, no people. My walking partner is on vacation this week. Sort of a staycation, so we are walking at 6:00AM. No bats. Today I came home and because of the later time, JWS was up and ready for work. JWS:  How did that go in this heat? Me: Fine, but I am not sure I like this later time. JWS: Why not? Me: TOO MANY PEOPLE! JWS: Really? ME:  I took the camera this morning, want to see my pictures? I download, I show him in a slide show. He comments how pretty they are. He looks at me and says. "Put those on your blog and say that there were too many people on your walk!" I re-examined the pictures. I guess he's right. There is this little section of population that we have to pass. And one or two more houses here. The railroad tracks. And then pretty much nature the rest of the way. This is beautiful every morning, but the mist ma...

Ok, I am going to start by thanking everyone that has signed up for the giveaway and your nice comments. If you haven't signed up yet, scroll on down to the next post and do so. There are only 10 NEW followers so if you sign up to follow the odds are in your favor! I will post the actual giveaway collections in a day or so... until then keep signing up! The first picture is of a chicken feeder given to me by a friend. Actually three of them, but who's counting, right? JWS, that's who. Although he liked this creation... now what to do with the other two. Hoard them, right? And these. Digging through...no wait, cleaning up junk at the fairgrounds, the other night, I ran into this stash of light bulbs. I just knew I could do something with them. Brought them home and washed them up. I think that I have heard similar stories on that Hoarders show. Right before JWS looks across the room and raises his eyebrows and says. "You are really just one bump on the head, just o...