My Yellow Farmhouse

Need I Say More

Yes folks it's snow on the front porch furniture.  In fact we were hammered with 15 inches of that white stuff and 30-40 mile an hour winds - not a great combination.  Not the nice light fluffy stuff, but the heavy heavy heavy stuff.  The kind you don't want to shovel if you don't have to.  This picture was taken on Sunday after much had already started melting.  I'll share more photos at the end of this post.  Did I say "I told you so" to hubs - no I bit my tongue - and that was hard to do, LOL.

Our Friday night dinner was obviously postponed until Saturday night.  So Saturday morning the guy who comes with his big truck and plows our driveways for us showed up to do his job.  He called us from the top of the driveway and said he couldn't do the job with his truck.  There were drifts in our driveway that were 4 and 5ft tall and his truck couldn't get through it and there was no where to plow the snow.  He said he could come back on Sunday with another kind of snowplow that would blow the snow over the retaining wall and get us out.  It was really still storming out and we were fine with that, there were no plans to leave the house.  Besides the storm hubs came home on Friday night from work with the flu (part of why I bit my tongue).  This guy never gets sick, but he sure was sick this weekend.  Someone never left his side.  What's better than a snuggly pup when your not feeling up to snuff.

The crab dinner has now been rescheduled for the 9th.

So I spent the weekend sewing and finished up the pillow for Kari.  I'm pleased with how it turned out and I believe the fabric is 3 Sisters - but now I'm not 100% sure of that.  Kari came over yesterday and picked up the pillow and the rest of the fabric so I can't take a peek and see if I'm right

Yesterday I made a yummy and easy hot dish out of the Gooseberry Cookbook Church Suppers called Julie's Chicken Pie

• 4 cups cooked and cubed chicken
• 1 10 3/4 oz can cream of chicken soup
• 1 10 1/2 oz can chicken broth
• 1/2 tsp poultry seasoning
• 10 oz can sliced carrots drained - I used fresh and cooked them a bit before putting them in the dish
• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
• 1/2 cups melted butter

place chicken in a lightly greased 13x9 baking pan.  Combine soup, broth and poultry seasoning in a mixing bowl, pour over chicken.  Arrange carrots on top.  In another bowl, mix together flour and baking powder, add buttermilk and melted butter.  Spoon over chicken mixture and spread to cover.  Bake uncovered at 350 degrees for one hour until crust is golden.  Serves 6

I cut this recipe sort of in 1/2 because I didn't have enough chicken and made it in the next size down from the 13x9 glass pan, whatever that size is.  I would also add a little salt to the crust mixture next time and maybe even a little bit of shredded cheddar cheese, otherwise it was really yummy and perfect for a hubby who was under the weather.

My posts always end up getting so long, so I will sign off for now and leave you with a few pics of that wonderful spring snow storm we had.

Until Next Time





this is our neighbor who had to plow a path to get out of his garage - you can see how what deep drifts he had in front - I took this pic from my kitchen window

Hello Darlin

Look who has finally come home to momma.  Can I hear a YAHOO.  I have so missed my laptop.  But she is all squeaky clean and runs like the wind now.  I have to say that not having her around has kept me off the computer.   I usually cruise blogs and answer emails at night when I've got my butt in my beloved recliner and hubs is watching sports in his.  Sitting at the desk in the office just isn't as appealing and I have to say I avoided it.  So I know I have lots of emails and blogs to catch up on.  Hope you haven't given up on me :).  Like Arnold said "I'm back".

You know I'm not one to say "I told you so" well maybe a little bit, LOL, but I just have to show you this

yes folks that is snow on the patio furniture.  If you recall a couple of posts back, hubs wanted the furniture put out during a very beautiful weekend of wonderful temps and I said "well you know it will snow again" and he said "no it won't" and I said "how long have you lived in Minnesota".  So my sweet bloggets what you see is the beginning of a blizzard that we are currently under with 6-12 inches of snow predicated with some high winds - not a good combination.  It's so bad out there that we postponed a dinner that we were to have here tonight with our friends to finalize our destination for our trip next winter.  So the crab legs stay in the freezer and the pork tenderloin will be pulled out of the marinade early in the morning so it won't be to strong.  Ahhhhhh yes - spring in Minnesota :)  Yes I will also try to really bite my tongue when hubs walks through the door after driving on those treacherous roads and not say "I told you so" :)

Good afternoon to head to the sewing cave and finish up that pillow.

Until Next Time

Hey Out There - Long Post Ahead

Hope everyone had a great weekend and that the weather in your neck of the woods was wonderful.  We had a really nice weekend of great weather, getting lots done around the house and dinner out with friends.  How perfect is that.  Hubs wanted to drag out all of the porch and deck furniture and put it in it's proper place.  I was not excited because I know it will snow at least one more time, he says not.  I'm like "how long have you lived in Minnesota" - it's snowed during Memorial Weekends in the past.  Well the furniture is out, but not the water hoses and all that furniture needs a good cleaning on a really warm day.

I'm still without my laptop and missing it a lot.  But I will say that not having it so convenient has made me get a lot more done around the house.  The desk top computer is in hub's office and I guess it's out of the way, LOL.  Anyway  I should have it back by Wednesday - so I can get back to checking in with everyone on my favorites.

Took a quick trip to Fargo on Friday and spent the day with son#2, having lunch and filling his cupboards.  Also stopped by the antique mall to show her some samples of my work and she is taking me on as a consignor and seemed very happy with what I showed her.  So that's a good thing.  So I'm going to start on making some fall things which she starts putting out in August.  I have a few summer things that I could bring her now - so I might start earlier.

Last week was a get together of the woollies and we tried our hand at needle punching with wool yarn a hands on project


of course there was show and tell - Jean's Country Threads project that she bought from there when visiting last year and that red section is teeny tiny bow ties

Penny's quilt is one that she put together with blocks made and donated by lots of other people and it will be raffled off with the money going towards a cancer Relay for Life team for this years walk - she did a great job - it's not always easy to put something like this together because as well all know everyone sews differently - excellent job Penny

Denise made this quilt for her granddaughter who informed her that she didn't want a garden quilt when she saw it - it's ADORABLE

she made this one for her grandson - I told her she looked like Kilroy peeking from behind the quilt

these are blocks put together by Denise and Faye for a bible group that is learning how to quilt and each block has a biblical lesson for each session.  Faye is making the big blocks and Denise is challenging herself to make them in miniature - hope you can see them - they are all so CA-UTE

this was my show and tell - a little bag that I made using a This and That pattern - I of course missed seeing the 2 greens together until it was to late - grrrrrr.  The pattern uses a charm pack with extra yardage for the inside and the binding around the top and bottom.  Really easy and fast to put together

We laughed how we all have show and tell and none of it has to do with wool, LOL.

I took a few pictures to share with you from Ms Faye's house -
I love her valance in her dining room

a wonderful shower curtain in her adorable bathroom

really cute quilt gathering

woollies deep in conversation

just a few quilts she has sitting around

I'm doing this with a window I have and putting the flowers from my pillow pattern in it - isn't that cute

her dining room

she served us cute little dirt cake cups, with daisy sugar cookies and peanut butter shortbread -it was all YUMMY.  The dirt cake was in honor of the fact that it was the first day her farmer hubby could work the fields.  That dessert is my son#2's favorite and I made several triple batches of that stuff for his high school graduation open house - I gotta say I love it also.  How can you go wrong with Oreo crumbs, pudding, cream cheese and other yummy stuff, LOL.

this is what we say coming and going from Ms Faye's

I think I was driving her nuts with taking so many pics - thanks for hanging in there Faye :)

So I'm off to the sewing cave.  The fabric is in for the pillow sample and I need to get that done by Wednesday.  Perfect day for it - looks like rain heading our way.    I love how this pillow turned out.  Once Kari has the pattern finished I will be doing a give away with the pattern and a kit to make it.  So keep an eye out for that.

So until next time

A Sure Sign of Spring

This past weekend was full of wonderful weather and so we headed outside to take Ms Cami for a walk around a lake in town

here's a few photo's of what we saw

look at all of the birds nest in the tree





This house has been totally redone inside and out.  I was able to tour it about 18 years ago just after I had moved to town (sorry that dang underline is back again - happens when I delete a picture and I can't get rid of it) and they were about halfway through the reno process.  I was able to tour it again about 3 years ago and it was done.  They did a beautiful job of restoring it's beauty with a lot of sweat, hard work and I bet a few tears, LOL. 

Saturday was the first meeting of the Little Jo's group that met in a town about an hour from my home.  This is the project for this month and it's the teachers sample

see that little star block sitting on top - that's part of the project for next month, lordy the size of that block started to make me sweat.  It's teeny tiny.  Love the green that she used for her setting blocks.

We always eat lunch at this place when we visit this town and I thought I would share a couple of pics of it - this is the lower level of the sandwich shop and it's housed in an old building with a rock foundation - how cool is that.  I couldn't take any pictures upstairs - there were to many people eating, but it's really cute upstairs as well.  Just about everything in the store is for sale and she has some great antiques.  Plus her decorating style is great - she uses everyday things in unique ways - and the food is awesome





OK I finally finished the pillow - YAHOO - I did make a couple of changes from the original plan, and I'm pleased with the finished results.  Now Kari can write up the instructions and as soon as her fabric gets here I will make her sample up.


Tomorrow is the monthly meeting of the woollies and 2 of the woollies have come up with a project for us to do.  We are at Ms Faye's house and I'm hoping she will let me share a few snippets of her wonderful decorating.  I also have a little tote to show you that I finished up.  Oh my laptop has been at the computer doctor for a few days and it has all of my favorite blogs bookmarked  - so I have been unable to visit all of you.  So I'm hoping to get it back today or tomorrow along with a new printer, YAHOO.  I will be catching up with you all in the next few days.

Sooooo for now Ms Cami and I say

Until Next Time

Ok this is the best I can do to get you to my webshots albums.  For whatever reason I cannot get a link to connect you directly.  Maybe it's my computer or as you all well know it's probably me, LOL.  So try this - go to Google search and type in  webshots yellowfarmhouse, on the bottom of the search page will be listed yellowfarmhouse profile on webshots, click on that and it will take you to my profile, then in the upper left hand corner is a tab labeled albums, click on that and it will take you hopefully to my 4 albums that I have listed.  Please someone let me know if you can get this one to work. 
AAAAACK computers give me hives, LOL.

Until Next Time

Snow Again?

Yes folks we have another storm.  Not as bad snow wise as last Sunday - but rain before hand made for some pretty treacherous roads last night and this morning.  They even canceled school again - I don't think those kids are complaining tho - unless the day gets added on at the end of the year - then I think you'll hear some ruckus.  Tomorrow it's supposed to be sunny and in the 40's temp wise - that should really help clear things up.

Sweet Ms Anna sent a wonderful package to me the other day as a thank you for some quilty eggs I sent her way-which I sent as a thank you for some techy help that she gave me.  So now should I send her another thank you for her thank you - where does it stop, LOL.  Had it not been very late when I finally was able to open the box I would have screamed with excitement causing hubs to run downstairs and see what the heck had happened - so I did the happy dance instead when I saw this darling sweet little treasure waiting for me to set it free from it's clear bag that it had traveled to me in

isn't she precious - I've named her thimbles in Anna's honor.  She also knew that I was on the prowl for  a 1/16 hole punch to make those dang cute crochet cards that she whipped up and even sent me one for Valentines Day. Some of the peeps and I NEEDED to try our hand at it and  - here's the one an only that I tried using a 1/8 hole punch - as you can see the holes are way to big and don't look to close - it's not the prettiest crochet I've ever done - but hey it's a start right?

Thank you dear Anna for being so thoughtful.  Thimbles will have a place of honor in the cave where she can watch over me and point out the very few mistakes, LOL that I make when sewing.  Now I need to print off a picture and have another go at another card.

I made the banana cupcakes the other day - YUM YUM YUM they are really good and really easy - what a great combo.  So here's another recipe to share with you.  Anna told me I need to do a sidebar and start listing my recipes on there for easy reference.  I know she's right - but as you all know techy is not my middle name and I guess I just hate wasting the time to learn how to do it, isn't the terrible.  Learning is always a good thing I know.  So I will try at some point, can't promise when but I'll try

Grandma's Banana Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
       From- Gooseberry Cookbook - Comfort Foods

• 1/2 cup butter softened
• 1 3/4 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 cup sour milk*
• 2 bananas mashed
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans - optional

Blend butter for 5 minutes, using an electric mixer on medium speed.  Slowly add sugar, beat in eggs.  Add dry ingredients alternately with milk.  Stir in bananas, vanilla and nuts (I used my mixer at a low speed and just for a few quick whirls instead of stirring by hand).  Fill the paper-lined muffin cups 1/2 full.  Bake at 350 degrees for 18-25 minutes, until toothpick inserted comes out clean.  Allow to cool - then frost with cream cheese frosting.  Keep refrigerated after frosting.  Makes 2 dozen
*to make sour milk - just stir in 1 teaspoon of white vinegar into a cup of fresh milk - let stand for a few minutes.

Cream Cheese Frosting

• 1/2 cup butter softened
• 8 oz cream cheese softened
• 16 oz pkg powdered sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/8 tsp salt

Blend all ingredients together until spreadable using an electric mixer on medium speed.  Frost - I then added a few chopped pecans to the top after I frosted. 

These were really good and I don't think I need to share how many I had before I sent them out the door :)  But besides chocolate - I LOVE cream cheese and unless it has coconut in it - I will eat anything with cream cheese and no I'm not proud of that fact, LOL

I also started a webshots file with my pictures from the house.  I decided to put them all in one place and for those of you who have emailed and asked - I did it. 

EDIT - I can't get the link to work - I will try and figure this out yet tonight?

now maybe I can work on that recipe thing, LOL

Off to the cave to finish up the pillow I hope.

Until Next Time

Little Bits

Today it's a little bit of this and that but they all relate to creativity.  Yesterday I was gone from the house for the majority of the day, with pit stops once in awhile back at the farmhouse.  Finally landing back home around 10:30 last night.  Today I need to run out and get some new garlands for the top of the kitchen cabinets.  They still have the greens and berries from the holiday decorating and they soooo need to be gone from up there.  When I took the summer greenery down last fall I threw it away.  Time for some fresh stuff.  Anyway I just don't want to leave the house today, when I'm gone like I was yesterday, I just want to nest at home.  Am I the only one?  But my friend who is sooo good at doing the tops of my cabinets is coming tomorrow so I really need to leave the nest for a few hours and get those greens.

Last night was our monthly card stamping group.  We decided at our last get together that for the next couple of months we would do a very simple card that could be mass produced and be very generic so that when we needed a card for whatever reason we could stamp it with the appropriate saying and call it good.  Ok does that make sense.  So Gail was the first one up to do this challenge and she rose to the occasion with a darling card.  Here's a couple of the ones that were done last night



so now when we need a quick birthday, or thank you, just stamp and go.  I'm up for the month of June - so I have a month to come up with something easy and cute.

Finally here are my goodies from Primitive Gatherings - the little crow quilt block is from there shop hop that is coming up.  I'm not sure if I was supposed to buy one or not, but I asked the store clerk about it and she said yes, so I got it.  I'm going to make the baby quilt for my sweet DIL's sister who is having a baby this summer.  They aren't sure whether it's a boy or girl, so until I find out I will wait to make it.  But I've been looking for this book and found it there - it's Winsome Baby by Art to Heart.  It reminds me of a contemporary style quilt  and that's the way the mom-to-be decorates.

this is the pattern I bought that the store sample was done so cute and it used up the last juice of my camera battery when I was in the store - this is a Crab apple hill pattern

this is the store sample - CA-UTE

the Need'l Love pillow I fell in love with right when I walked in the door - so I bought the pattern and the kit - the little crow penny runner in the back I want to just make the main piece and then frame it for my laundry room which has crows and stars in it, oh the pattern is by Primitive Gatherings.  The long quilt with the star hanger I just liked and have the star hanger also - it's a Joined at the Hip pattern and I like almost all of these ladies patterns.  They have several different patterns in this series and all the peeps have that star hanger so maybe we can buy a couple of different patterns between us all.   The pumpkin pattern I just liked and it's also by Primitive  Gatherings.

this little grouping has a darling Primitive Gatherings pattern for a wool flower table mat, I tried to resist that one, but went back and picked it up - then there is a sweet little quilt kit for a pattern they put together and the kits are from there scrap basket (which I bet is HUGE) - the kit was at the counter and it was another one I tried to resist - but as you all know I'm weak, LOL.  Yes it's an easy pattern, yes I could use my own scraps of fabrics, but let's face it, more and more I'm leaning towards buying kits.  After all most of us are attracted to a pattern because of a sample we see and it's just easier to pick something up already to go - well that's my story anyway and I'm sticking to it. Then I picked up 3 little patterns from Lori Smith, I just love her little patterns and they would be great done in civil war fabrics.

then I found a cute picture that I picked up for in the living room - hard to get a picture of it without a bounce back from the flash- cute little saltbox houses with a tree of pears

My friend Kari has a quilt design business called New Leaf Stitches.  I've gone to the quilt market to help her a few times and where I'm also able to do a little shopping.  I'm going with her in a few weeks to Portland for the spring market and I'm designing another pillow pattern for her.  The fabric I'm going to do hers in is on order from Moda, but I wanted to do one for me in some yummy civil war fabrics and work out the kinks before I make hers.  So although I'm not done yet here's a sneak peek at it - I still have to stitch down one of the flowers, add binding around the flower panels - these will be stitched down onto the backing and then there will be buttons involved as well

I'm really liking how it's turning out and it will go on my little black Windsor bench.

Today I have a friend coming over to help me with some applique this afternoon and I'm making Banana Cupcakes with cream cheese frosting - I hope there as yummy as they sound.

Until Next Time

One Year Ago

I started this little blog.  Happy blog anniversary to me.  It's been a great journey so far and I've met some amazing, wonderful, warm and friendly people through this adventure that would have never come into my life otherwise. Thank you for welcoming me into this wonderful world of blogging.

So anyway my first post was entitled "Is it Spring" and the date was April 3rd.  This is the first picture (I think) from that first post

Yesterday, April 6th - when I came home from church at noon the yard looked like this

a couple of hours later we were in the midst of a good old fashioned winter storm

I spent the rest of the afternoon in the sewing cave working on my pillow project and this was my view out the window - you can barely make out the tree outside -it was nasty out there

Here's hubs hard at work cleaning the sidewalk for Ms Cami, also known as Pickles - so when he shovels he says he's clearing a Pickle Path for her.

This morning I took a picture outside on our deck and it will give you an idea of how much snow we got, somewhere around 10 inches I think because I haven't heard the grand total, although about 2 hours from here they got 2 feet of snow - YIKES. (I can't get this underline under the words to go away - sorry about that - it started when I deleted a picture)

Should start melting today - it's going to be around 40 degrees for most of the week.

So on Friday we got together with our group of friends to plan a trip that we will be taking next winter to somewhere warm and tropical.  It's hard to get 7 couples to agree on everything, but I think we made great strides in narrowing down our options.  Ms Jill did a tremendous amount of homework on different places to go.  We are trying hard to get a house that all 7 or possible 8 couples can stay in.  Because we are leaning towards going to Jamiaca the dinner was to have a Jamaican theme.  I brought a dessert we had at my brother's the other weekend.  It was Banana's Foster with a rum sauce - YUMMO.  I forgot my camera when we left that night to take a pic of the finished dessert, but I took a couple of pics while I was preparing it.

First off you make some french toast out of french bread using whatever you like for the way you prepare your french toast, mine is just eggs, milk, cinnamon and vanilla - I never measure, just dump and mix

then you make the rum sauce

• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cups unsalted butter
• 1/2 cups whipping cream
• 2 tbsp spiced rum or dark rum (I used dark)
• 3/4 tsp cinnamon

stir brown sugar and butter in heavy saucepan over medium heat until melted and smooth.  Add cream, rum and cinnamon and bring to simmer.  Simmer until sauce thickens and is reduced to 1 1/2 cups, about 5 minutes.  I found it took longer but I had doubled the recipe. 
Then add some sliced bananas to heat through slightly and coat the banana's.

To serve - take 1 or 2 pieces of the french toast, add a scoop of vanilla ice cream and spoon the warm sauce over the top of the ice cream.  BTW - I reheated my french toast in the oven for a few minutes on low at Jill's house before I assembled the dessert.  Lordy it was a real hip slapper and worth the calories.

Then yesterday I made Ms Faye's Cherry Cobbler in the crock pot.  A perfect treat for a snowy day

Cherry Cobbler in the Crock Pot - From The Lovely Ms. Faye

• 1 can Cherry Pie Filling (or any fruit filling)
• 1 cup flour
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 butter melted
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp almond extract
• 1/4 tsp salt

Spray inside of 2 to 3 1/2 quart crock pot with cooking spray
Pour pie filling into cooker. 
Beat remaining ingredients with spoon until smooth.  Spread batter over filling. 
Cover and cook on high heat setting for 1 1/2 to 2 hours or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.  I found mine took a little longer than 2 hours.  I would also add another can of pie filling next go around.  2 cans might be to much, but for my cooker which could bigger than a 2 or 3/12 quart it didn't seem like enough fruit.   Here's a pic in the cooker - not the greatest shot

when I scooped a generous portion for hubs and I - of course I needed to add some cold vanilla ice cream

So today I'm heading up to the cave to work on my pillow.  Tomorrow I will share my goodies from Primitive Gathering and a sneak peek at my pillow project.

Until Next Time

Isn't it amazing how fast time really does go.  I can't believe that it's been a week since I last posted.  I did take off for a little mini trip to Wisconsin for several days.  My brother retired over the weekend and most of my family was able to head to his neck of the woods for the festivities and to attend his retirement party put on by his co-workers.  His birthday was on Friday so we were also able to celebrate that.  He's a young 55 and what a wonderful thing to be able to retire at that young age.

My bro is an awesome cook and one of the things we did Saturday night was to make our own pizza's that were cooked on the grill.  All of us helped in the prepping of the food, from making the dough, grilling the vegies and assembling our own pizza's - it was an hands on with everyone - you'll notice that we all had on aprons - MJ and bro have quite a collection of them

Hubs who was the grill master with his timer(which you can't see)

My sweet niece with her finished pizza - she said it was OK if I shared her pic

love this picture of my Mom in action - tossing her dough around like a real pizzeria

here's a shot of my bro,sis,mom and me - I didn't ask them if it was OK to share their pic - but I think it's probably OK (lordy that sweatshirt makes me look like a big marshmallow)

My cute nephew and his sweetie pie - really known by the name cupcake - how can you not love a sweetie with a name like that :)

my bro's wife who patiently kept us all on task


One of his many passions is bicycle riding long distances.  Here's his garage with the selection of bikes

I think he said that he has 7 different bikes.  He will be starting out on an adventure May 2nd.  Along with 5 other bikers he will be crossing the United States, coast to coast, camping 6 days out of 7 every week and ending this journey on August 1st.  This is something he's always wanted to do and I'm proud of him for taking on this challenge.  He's taken a few other long bike trips and keeps an online journal and will do that again with this go around.  When he starts I will share the address with you if you care to read about his journey.  He's a wonderful photographer as well and always has great pics to share.

So since hubs and I arrived a day earlier than the rest of the family he agreed to take me to a quilt shop I've been wanting to get to.  This shop is 90 miles from my brothers house and heck that's just a quick trip down the freeway, right?  So we headed to Primitive Gatherings in Menasha, WI

this sweet little doll was hanging on the front door before you walked inside

once I walked inside I knew I was in trouble.  Oh the yummy-ness that greeted me when I walked inside the door.  I found a kit and pattern before the door even closed behind me. The store was full of everything I love, wool,wool patterns, wool strips for rug hooking (which I'm going to learn how to do) darker colored fabric, punch needle, civil war fabrics and just great patterns.  I will share  my purchases with you later this week.  I got one more picture inside of a sample done differently than the pattern I bought (shocking isn't it - imagine not following the pattern, LOL) then my battery died on my camera.  But if you head to there website you will see the great store that it is.  It's a good thing it's not close by.  I would be broke.

Because we were out of town for several days we had the mail stopped.  I had to wait until it was delivered the other day to see what goodies I might find.  You know how I LOVE my mail.  Well there was a interesting package waiting for me to open

look what glorious treat was waiting inside for me

isn't this quilt wonderful - she asked that I not share her name so i will respect that.  Thank sweetie you know that I will treasure it.

Sorry that I haven't been around to visit you all and I'm sooo behind in answering emails.  It's been a busy few days since we got home.  One of our long time employees who was with our company almost from day one, passed away.  So there has been sadness in our home.  Give all of your families/friends big hugs.  Life is precious and although we all know it, sometimes we forget to treasure each and everyday.

BIG HUGS TO ALL OF MY BLOGGING FRIENDS

Until Next Time