I saw my first monarch butterfly caterpillar on my swamp milkweed today! I used to have these plants for years and watched lots of monarchs emerge from their chrysalis through the years. It is a beautiful experience. Anyway, the plants died out and I didn't replant them until this year! Milkweed is the only food these caterpillars live on, it makes me happy I can help them out.
Had lunch with my Red Hat sisters today. It was a good time as always. One of our sisters, Anetta Brazel is very ill. Sending prayers to you, Anetta.. We missed the ladies who could not be with us today! Berle and I tried to take a selfie but we had this photo bomber and we started laughing, so this is the best we could do!
I've been busy this past week making decorative bottles and Halloween potion bottles, my favorite thing to make. I actually sell them all year. However I only have 3 left in my booth, so I am not done yet.
It's TBT, friends! Bill's 38th Birthday, 1996, camping somewhere near Red Cliff, Colorado. Some nice ladies who were out taking a walk took this picture for us. My how time flies!
I want to thank my brother-in-law, Steve Halterman and sister-in-law, Glenna Halterman for taking us out to lunch yesterday for Bill and brother, Brad's birthdays. It was a nice time, glad we took some time to have a nice visit. Love yous.
If you see this guy out and about today, please wish him a Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday, honey. Love you so much for and hope you have the best Birthday ever!
A short but very strong storm came through about 5:00p.m., last evening, it broke some power poles down the road from us. Half of the town was without power. There was also lots of wind damage in our little town. So, here we sat at 10:00 at night on the hottest day of the year. We went to my mother in laws porch because everything in our yard was just drenched and still wet from the storm...we lit a couple of lanterns and just waited. At least there was a beautiful bright almost full moon! The power came back on at 4:00 a.m. We did get some sleep, the house stayed around 75 degrees. So, it was 10 hours without power. All is well now.
Thank you Blair's Processing ( Hope Horath)for the wonderful annual customer appreciation evening. There were probably at least 100+ people there. The food was delicious, catered by "Lickin' my chicken and pullin' my pork", we always look for them when we are at local events.. Live music and just a great group of people enjoying a summer Saturday night in the country. There were also fireworks! Thankfully the weather was perfect! Thanks again, we had a great time.
Thank you all for the many anniversary good wishes. We appreciate them so much. It has been a good day. I was gone all afternoon and when I came home these lovely gifts and cards were waiting for me from my dear husband. He's just the best! Then we cooked some hotdogs over the firepit and spent the rest of the evening outside.
Happy 32nd Anniversary to my wonderful, amazing, kind, goofball of a husband! I don't need to write a bunch of mushy stuff online, you know how I feel. I love you
