Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

This & That

I have been covering the church office part of last week and a couple of days this week...so I have not had a chance to really blog. Now that I've gotten back into the swing of it, I can hardly stand to go a day without journaling my life. So...here is a little of this & a little of that from the past week and a half...
Last Wednesday:

Ronnie cuddling the bunny! So cute!! (I'm not really supposed to post this pic...hee hee)
We were SOOO worn out! I don't remember exactly what we did that day but we were hot and sweaty from working outside.
we finally burned up all that wood that's been sitting in the fire pit.
Jacob needed some lovins :)
 
 


 I've decided to paint my cabinet faces. I want them red! I want the kitchen to be brown/black & red. (The counter tops are brown and black)


 Ronnie thought I was completely crazy and he got the paint counter guy and the cabinet lady at Lowe's to try and talk me out of it. But I had a vision...and I knew what I wanted to do would look great. (I had wrapped the cabinet doors in red fabric to see if I liked it prior to buying the supplies)

I had to lightly sand off the finish, clean the wood with a degreaser, then paint!
Pretty simple, actually!

this is the color paint I chose.

TA DA! 2 done and a BUNCH more to go. :) Whatdya think?
Last Friday:

 Friday I went and had lunch with my Mom & John! It's been a while since we have gotten together, so this was a real treat!
I went to take a picture and they both turned and looked at each other-at the same time! LOL
much better! :)
And of course, I HAD to get a pic of Mattie. I love her so much :) She is so spoiled there!!
Mom is all excited because she got new appliances and now has an ice and water dispenser on her fridge door! :)
 

 Notice how Mattie had to be in both pics :)

Sunday, once we were all home from our various activities, we decided to chill in the yard.
Patches hanging out with me on the chair. She is so funny in her harness!
Ronnie lost a piece to the pond filtration system in the pond...so he decided to drain it to try and find it.
she just laid there content as can be...
Jimmy came and hung out for a bit.

I'm not sure why but I just thought this was so cute! Both of them holding onto the hose.
adorable! (btw, that litter box is not used as a litter box, but as a mini play area for the ducks).
 Out front is lookin' good!


except for this one.. :(( butterfly and bee attractant-bit the dust


Stephen came over and did some work for me! He tore out ALL of that wood, dirt, mulch and debris from around this tree!
Doesn't this look great!? It looks SO much better than that border thing it had around and built up it!

Inside the house:
This is my sewing room closet. Quilt tops to the left and right of clothes that I just HAD to get for my various nieces and nephews. There are clothes in there for Emily, Madi, Cody, Hayleigh, Aria & Alliyah! I know, I am addicted!

I surprised Ky by hanging Star Wars curtains in his room! He was SO excited!



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This is what Ronnie and Kyle found when they were putting the canoe away Sunday afternoon!
yellow rat snake
 He was so docile. They "played" with him for a bit before releasing back into the yard.

Thanks for reading about my life! Stay tuned for a post on the Canoe Adventure!

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Around the House

We have been doing little things here and there around the house. I love our home and LOVE doing things to it!
One project lately is that Ronnie has been fixing some cracks in our canoe.
We went up to Ocala two weeks ago and picked it up.
My Uncle has been storing it for us there since 2009! Ronnie redid the fiberglass and whatever else had to be done and is now ready to paint it! He is using an aircraft polyurethane paint that will glide like a dream in the water! Bright red too! :o)) I can't wait to see it painted!
He and Kyle are going on a kayaking/canoeing trip this weekend with my Dad! They are cruising the Econlockhatchee River and will camp, riverside, wherever they stop for the night!

I cleaned and re-arranged my front porch! Yes...front! Lisa and I sat out there and had coffee the morning after I completed it! Don't get me wrong..I MUCH prefer my back patio but this particular morning the back porch was a wreck and we didn't want to be out there. (That was prior to Mother's Day when my boys helped me clean and re-arrange the back porch).


The same weekend that we went to pick up our canoe, we also got a bunny! "Snowball" (as Kyle so creatively named her) was staying in our Xlarge dog crate until we ordered her a new home! I found this fabulous "bunny condo" on Ebay for a great price. Ronnie put it together for me...and voila! It is beautiful!






My flowers are blooming beautifully out front!





Kyle bagged up all the mulch I had raked out of the bed...we are wanting to redo the mulch in that bed and give it some shape / delineation. I am so thankful that Ky did this for me! (He did gripe and I did pay him, but...still, lol)

So...that's some of what we've been up to!