…and I know we’d be best friends!

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For your Friday morning…I thought I’d share one of my favorite blogs/shows/best-friend-but-she-doesn’t-know-it !   I introduced my sister to Ree Drummond with this email this morning, it pretty much sums up why I love her blog and her show…

“Hey guys!
I’m emailing you this link for several reasons…
1.  Love Ree…if I lived in northeastern Oklahoma, I know we’d be best pals 😉
2.  The food she makes is totally delicious, and doesn’t use super crazy ingredients that most people don’t have
3.  I love “the lodge” where she shoots her shows, when you guys were talking about building a house, this is what came to my mind.
4.  There are horses
5.  Just saw that you can watch full episodes online (!) so you don’t need tv food network on your cable!
I know you guys will love her as much as I do!
Love
Big
Sis “
From me to all of you!  If you haven’t visited Ree, go over and say Hello!

…for the days i’m not feeling up to snuff…

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This is what I do…

clean screen

Quiet work, “busy” work, organizational work, cleaning out and up work, paper work, family work.  Where I can keep my tea at my side and not have to move very much (much to the dog’s dismay).    A little under the weather today, achey, stuffy which is migrating to tired and woozy.  yuck, spring is trying to spring and it’s all i can do to get out of my bathrobe.

desk

As Scarlett said….”but tomorrow is another day!”

Hope you are well my friends!  Let’s hear it for quiet busy work, what is your favorite kind?

good-bye our sweet Ginger girl

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Last week, we had to say good-bye to our wonderful lapsitting girl after almost 17 years.  Ginger (and her brother Fred, who is still with us) came home with us a month after we bought our first house and spent the next 17 years sitting on laps, receiving belly rubs, and living a very good and well loved life.  I put together this remembrance of our sweet Ginger girl.

Sweet GingerGirl

Good-bye sweet Ginger, we will miss you very much.

around here

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Just when you think they are going to pull each other's hair out...

Bedtime Hangman…Just when you think they are going to pull each other’s hair out…

Baking…Cookies and cupcakes for school Valentines Day party tomorrow

Memory Keeping…a layout a day for the month of February (at least)  loving this challenge and so happy to get the stories and photos onto paper where everyone can enjoy them.

Cleaning up…after the big snow storm last weekend

Planning...big house projects, little house projects and everything in between

Cleaning out…the organizing of my studio continues…the girls rooms are next this weekend….sssshhh..want it to be a surprise!

Knitting…What I’m hoping will be a warm soft cowl out of some beautiful hand spun and dyed wool I’ve been hoarding.

Sewing…clearing out old projects and mending to make way for home projects and spring clothes!

Thrilled…that the days are now measurably lighter later, no more darkness at 4:30!

Reading…The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan, really good…it would be awesome if I read it other than when I’m completely exhausted at the end of the day and falling asleep after a few pages!