From nothing to this in about 2 1/2 hours...

The snow is here. I said ole man Winter blew through last week but it must have been Ms. Winter cause he is here today and tomorrow. Hubby is slowly making his way home. I tried to get him to leave earlier when it started sticking here, but Jack, he has a little bit of a stubborn streak...Mom and Lucy understand...ha.

I am enjoying staying here, warm and toasty, watching it snow. Shirl if I get me some new dancing shoes like the ones you bought, just imagine what we could accomplish. We could give all 50 states some snow...well maybe not Hawaii, but who knows...ha.

Take care everyone and if you are in the areas getting snow or ice or other storms, please be careful and stay safe and warm,
Sheila

Ole man Winter blew through here...

I am happy, we finally got some snow. Here are a few pictures, I shared some on Facebook.

 

When the snow first started sticking, you can see a little of the snow falling in the door and under it.

 

The next morning in front of house...

Looking down the road, I think that is my neighbors footprints from walking his dog earlier.

Back deck through the screened-in porch door.

Jarin's car...icicles give ole man Winter the finger, the middle one is sticking out from the car...

 

Mysterious footprints in the snow that night... 

 

  turned into paw prints on the porch...someones dog came for a visit.

Charlie (left) and Rylie after their grooming...

My hometown newspaper (where my parents live) posted pictures on Facebook of people sliding down the hill on Main St. in front of the fire station. Looked like fun...ha. They closed all the roads there due to the ice. I shared them on Facebook but might get in trouble sharing them here. Hope if you live in the dangerous areas you are safe and warm. Hollie, glad your son and brother made it home safely! My brother and his family live in Atlanta, but thankfully she was off that day and their daughter's school was closed and my brother was home sick...so they didn't get caught in that mess. 

Hope all is well in your neck of the woods,

Take care,

Sheila

Happy New Year 2014!!!

Yes, I know I am a few days late. I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and that you have a wonderful New Year! I have spent the last few days catching up with reading all my blogs. So finally I am caught up and current...ha. Thought I'd share a few pictures I had intended to share way before Christmas.

My snowmen on a tricycle.

Our personalized ornaments I had made at Hallmark many years ago...

Jarin's

Cori's

The wreath on top and peanut reindeer on left Jarin made in grade school. The one with the snowman Cori made in school. The tree and presents were my attempt at drawing...ha.

and finally a short video of our tree with steady and twinkling lights.

The girls and I are still at my parents. We had a good Christmas with lots of family and all the siblings in and out at some point. We missed our brother Ronnie and we lost our Uncle Duck (Donald) before Christmas from a car accident. Hopefully this new year will be a better one.

Best wishes for 2014,

Sheila

Happy day after day after Halloween...

I started this the day after Halloween but didn't get finished. I did end up going back Wednesday and getting my hair trimmed just a little more. I had one spot that wasn't cooperating.

 I put some vegetable beef soup in the crock-pot on Thursday. Then I ran out to the store to pick up some candy. Jarin met me there and we took her car by the car wash. We ran by the grocery store while they cleaned it. I wanted to get a couple of pumpkins (real ones I could leave out for fall) but they were out of orange ones. I did get a plug in one and a battery operated one. Came home and got our clown set up outside in the rocking chair. Put some candy in my Halloween bowl and put the scary sounds CD into the CD player. I sat outside in a rocking chair to give out candy and Jarin came out and sat with her scream mask on. We enjoyed it and got a lot of nice comments for our efforts...ha. Startled a few with the spider.

Here's a picture of one side with the skeleton hanging up.

 

The spider was on the other side. I think I will get some of the fake spider web to put under it next year. It came with some to cover the mechanism but needs more under it.

 

 

This is the spider in action.

 

This is the clown in action.

Hope everyone has a great weekend,

Sheila

Fall fun...

I finally got a hair cut last Friday. I started to go back by and let him take a tiny bit more off but can't decide whether to or not. My hair just isn't as easy to style as it used to be.

I went to Cr@cker B@rrel over the weekend and while I was there I picked up this little lady.

She is sitting on this table in the entry way with my fall cornucopia and small pumpkins

and assorted fall leaves.

I have a little chair that we got in Eureka Springs, AR that looks like the old timey desks with the chair in front and desk behind. Right now my Halloween fiber optic cat and my light up pumpkin is on it, but I will put the girl scarecrow on it when Halloween is over.

Mine is similar to this, but the hole on the legs

isn't that big and mine has a heart shape cut above it on the legs.

(got this picture off the internet)

I got a flu shot on Monday at the doctor's office. Went with Jarin yesterday to pick up one of her birthday gifts that didn't come out until yesterday...video game. Then we went by Wally world to pick up a few groceries...and though I thought I had missed them this year....there they were...in all their glory...muscadines, scuppernongs, scup'lins...whatever you prefer to call them. Me, I prefer scup'lins. I did get one off of my bushes this year...only one...but my bushes aren't very big yet.

It has turned a bit chilly here...wind blew like crazy yesterday. Hum, wonder when we will get our first snow? 

I'm not sure if you'll be able to see it but this is our scary/creepy clown Hubby bought for Halloween.

He is sitting in a chair near the front door for now, but we'll put him outside on Halloween.

(This was taken near the garage door, I was trying to scare Cori)

Mugs, medical and mischief...

 Okay, in my last entry, Sandie asked if I had a mug for all holidays...I have the Halloween mug (from St@rbucks) that was shown in my last entry...which I call a fall mug since the jack-a-lanterns are smiling on it...ha. After checking, this is what I found...

from left...I have a winter cup and saucer that my

 oldest got me at St@rbucks, it only holds 6 oz. so I've only used it for hot chocolate.

Then 'The View' winter mug I ordered a few years ago, 2009 to be exact. Two summer mugs (showing what's on each side) from Florida. So now I need a spring mug to complete all 4 seasons...ha.

A picture of the saucer and the other side of 'The View' mug. There is also a penguin on the other side of the snowman cup. All my regular blog readers know how much I love snow.

I also have a 4th of July mug. I have a couple of Christmas mugs that I used

 to decorate with but they are on the top shelf with a lot of other mugs (with assorted things on them) that we don't drink out of. I also have a couple of Valentine's mugs that I filled

with candy for Hubby in our first years of marriage. Of course I have regular ones

that are favorites too. 

The Hubs went out Saturday to run some errands and ended up at the Spirit Halloween store. So now we have a big motion/sound activated jumping spider and a large, creepy clown also motion/sound activated. I set up the spider to scare Jarin when she came down but Rylie (dog) run ahead and she got scared instead...ha, poor baby...but I did get a scare out of Cori... yeah I know, we act like we are 12...ha. I haven't put together the clown yet.

The Chiropractor did some different things on Hubby's back on Monday, so after a quick overnight business trip to Dallas on Tuesday, he thinks it is finally getting better...knock on wood...

Jack, I have an electrical shock thingy I got many years ago for Christmas. I think it was advertised to 'tone muscles', but I figured it worked similar to the one my chiropractor used at the time (mid '90s). I'm sure it is not as strong as the medical ones, but it has worked pretty good over the years. 

Roll Tide,

Sheila

Welcome to October...

All is well up this way. Hubby had to go on a business trip this past weekend. The Chiropractor gave him an electrical shock thingy to stick to his upper back/shoulder to help with the pain. The meds the doctor called in for him also helped. (While I was at my parents he did something to his sciatic nerve...while playing golf...so he had meds left from that he would take at night when he got home from work. But that was the only time he would take them.) He started taking the new prescription every 6 hours like it said and it helped him a lot more. He has pain that runs down the back of his arm to his elbow, I think that is what bothers him most. There was golf involved with this business trip so you know he was happy...ha. The top guy from the place where he worked in Alabama was also there.

About the peppers I put up, the peppers I grew were not hot at all...good, but not hot. But the ones that I bought, I know they will be hotter just from handling them.

Now that it is October 1st, I drank coffee out of my pumpkin mug. (seen below) You can't tell in the picture, but it is orange inside. Little scarecrow person is back on the mantle but I don't think I am going to share my mug this year...I also have my Autumn wood-wick candle burning...it crackles like a fire.

I think I am going to get me a couple of scarecrows to stick in my potted plants outside...the plants are long dead. One place I saw had some ghosts on a stick...may get a couple of them to put out for Halloween. The cooler weather has been nice, I think for a week we're supposed to be in the low 80's, then go back down into the 70's. But even in the 80's the breeze seems to be cooler.

I'll go for now,
Take care,
Sheila