February Photo A Day #4

Concerning the coffee table from yesterday's post. Rich made it for his mama almost 35 years ago. 

When she moved out of her house into her daughters' house he took it back. Good thing he signed the bottom of it, or we would not remember when he built it! 

See you tomorrow!

February Photo A Day #3

 This is my first attempt at a table runner. 

Don't look too close because it's pretty bad! I definitely used the wrong material and it was really hard to work with! 

I will keep trying though! 

See you tomorrow! 

February Photo A Day #2

On Sunday January 18th we had to take our little Coco into the vet and help her cross the rainbow bridge. 

She was 19 and such a good kitty. We will miss her! Max the cat misses her and for the first time in his life he is an only cat. 

See you tomorrow. 

February Photo A Day #1

Well, it's time for my 6th annual February Photo a Day posts! I can hardly believe this is my 6th year doing this! 

Normally I just do random photos that I find interesting or of something that I did or someone that I know. 

This year I am going to put a lot of throwback pictures in there, too! 

So, what better way to start this than with a picture of me!

Taken in 1958 when I was a year old. My mom dressed me in a lot of frilly dresses.

See you tomorrow! 

Money for Maxwell

 OK I lied. I have to do one more post before I start my February Photo a Day posts so I can tell you about what I did for Maxwells birthday. 

Since his birthday is so close to Christmas (ugh! I sympathize with everyone with a January birthday!) and he got a bunch of gifts already I figured he didn't need any more stuff! 

And when I asked him what he wanted for his birthday he couldn't think of a thing. Well, what 9-year-old boy doesn't want money? So that's what we decided to give him. 

But I couldn't just stick some money in a card! That's no fun!

I went to the dollar store and bought a box of tissue and to the bank and withdrew $50 in one-dollar bills. 

Then I taped the bills together end to end.

I rolled them all on a toilet paper roll. 

I opened the side of the tissue box, took out the tissue and put the rolled-up dollar bills in there. I taped the first bill to the top of the box where you open it. Of course I forgot to take a picture of the inside of the box before I glued it shut but you get it, right? The idea was when he opens the top of the tissue box, he can just keep pulling a long line of bills out! 

Then I wrapped it up and prayed it would work like I wanted it to! 

It worked perfectly! He just kept pulling and pulling dollar bills out and everyone loved it! 

This is a snap from a video I took. 

I would say it was a success and now he can buy whatever he wants! I also was instructed by Levi to do the same thing for him for his birthday in September! 

So Happy Birthday to our sweet 9-year-old! 

I'll be back February 1st!

Happy New Year

 Happy New Year to you all! I was soundly sleeping at midnight! 

I have been working a lot lately, covering for a coworker who's elderly mom is having issues. The paychecks are nice but I need my time off too! 

There is not a lot going on right now. January is a birthday month for us. 

Today is Maxwell's 9th birthday! We will be celebrating him on Saturday. 

Rich turned 70 on the 4th. Shauna, Brad and the boys took us out to lunch. They gave him this card which I thought was cute!

My birthday is on the 12th and I'll be 69. I can hardly believe it! 

In other news, one of the residents where I work gets a lot of little packages delivered to him from Amazon and Temu. We always wondered what he was getting all the time and yesterday when I was delivering another package to him, I found out. 

His refrigerator is covered in magnets! He laughed when I exclaimed over it and gave me permission to take this picture! 

And I thought I had a lot of refrigerator magnets! They make him happy so that's a good thing!

Anyway, this is going to be a short post because I am getting ready to do my February Photo a Day posts! I can hardly believe it's time for that again! This year I actually have a theme!

See you on February 1st!

Take care and thanks for stopping by! 

Christmas Recap

Christmas was nice but very low key. I worked on Christmas Eve and then went to my brothers for our family party. I made 36 of these little hat ornaments in red and green and passed them out to everyone. 

A little Lindorf chocolate fit perfectly inside and they loved them! 

I also made 8 petal pouches with candies inside and gave them out to my friends and co-workers. 

Everybody loved them! I got my crafty on this Christmas and it was fun to do something like that for a change!

All the yarn and all the material for the pouches was thrifted so the most expensive thing was the Lindorf candies that went inside. 

On the 23rd we went to a service at a new to us church that is literally 1/2 mile from our house! It's one of those mega churches. The music and the production was spectacular and it was uplifting, joyful and very spiritual! 

We loved it and will probably keep going there. 

We celebrated Christmas with Shauna, Brad and the boys yesterday. We got the boys an air hockey table. 

So Christmas was fun but I'm glad it's over. I plan to spend this weekend taking everything down which is early for me. I usually wait until after the first of the year. 

We also did a 1000-piece Christmas puzzle and I liked it so much we taped it together. 

We enjoyed doing this one because the back was lettered so it was easy to sort out the puzzle and put it together in order of the letters. 

In other news this is what Max does when I sit on the couch.  

He puts his paw and head on my hand. He'll stay that way as long as I keep my hand there. 

One of the residents at work gave me this bag with some goodies. 

This particular resident gets tons of packages from Amazon and is always giving little gift bags to different people! 

She also has a "garage sale" a couple times a year for all the residents to come and buy anything they want! 

And she's 94 years old! 

That's it for me for now. I want to wish you all a very Happy New Year and a blessed and prosperous 2026!

Until the next time take care and thanks for stopping by!