Something To Crow About

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I recently won a give-a-way from Brenda AtThe  Rusty Thimble I just love my

crow!

sooo cute and a great way to start my birthday.

On Friday my husband picked flowers from my garden and delivered them to work.

which I thought was sooo sweet. That night we had Chinese which we never get because husband

doesn't like it that much but for my birthday he was happy to eat it.

On Sat my actual birthday I went to a sale and got

a couple of great things that have some age. Then I went to stay at my daughters to spend the night with my grand daughter and the grand dog. It was very hot so Miss B and I spent the day in her kiddy pool.

when she took a nap so did I! Every one kept saying are you sure you want to babysit on your birthday? I can't think of a better way to spend my day then with my favorite girl.

My daughter made me a cake and gave me a big stack of ones with instructions in the card of

all the things I couldn't spend it on. In other words just for me! I also had a gift card from mother's day so today when I got home husband and I went shopping.

Some good smelling soap and powder among other things. We are having very high humidity and in

Northern NH there are not many people who have whole house air. (So this will come in handy. I was looking for powder with the powder puff but no luck.)

usually we have one or two days of it and it's over but there has been a lot of it this year.

I really don't want to complain because I have seen on the news the horror the rest of the country

has had from this summer's weather.We have

had plenty of rain and everything is lush and great just

sticky yeck.

We hit a antiques mall and I found a piece of my pottery it is large and lovely and cheap.

I told husband with my money that was left I would treat him to an ice cream.

we went to a little place on the lake. They were having customer appreciation.

So we got a free hot dog and drink sat on the deck and watched the storm come in over the lake

the boats were going for all they could to get out of the storm.

We got our ice cream and ran for the truck.

Just as I was telling husband what a great birthday I had, in drives one of my

great friends who I haven't seen since new years day. She jumps out of the car and said I

heard it was your birthday and passes me some vintage Christmas ornaments!

Be still my heart. She lives in Maine and our paths just don't pass as much as it use to

when she lived in my town. Such a great ending to a great weekend.

you know we had to go to the dump during our trips this weekend.

I pulled this out of the metal pile. Hand painted and just great.

I also got miss B some sides to go on a bed so when she gets to a big girl bed she

will not fall out.

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Life is good!

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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

                                    Rita Mae Brown

Whew What A Weekend.....

This was David this morning if you look on the lower left that is Sadie snoozing also.

What a fun and busy weekend we had..

I have a cork board in the kitchen, it catches all the things I would like to do among other things.

I had this from last year. Well that was my mystery trip it was white home market weekend.

They open once a month and have different vendors come in. It ranged from vintage to repurposed to new items it was busy and people were buying like crazy. I saw a lot of good ideas and some really cool things but I settled on this

I am not a big jewelery buyer. But this just spoke to me some how.It is sterling silver it has hallmarks. Fits me perfectly but I have no idea what the stone is. Sometimes it looks black, this is with a flash. and the price was very right less than 30.00 So my guess is it is a synthetic stone.

Next stop this little shopping village that had a pretty big antique store.

Where I found some pieces to go with my pottery I am collecting. The best part they were having a sale. I got all of these for 32.00 such a good deal. I looked on ebay and with out the salt and pepper it was  137.00

The most fun thing I found was a old hand made hook. It had rust on it and was 1.00.

The girl checking me out asked me twice if I wanted it. UMM yeah they just don't understand hooker gold.

We went to the big city of Manchester to see all the St Paddy excitement and oooh boy was there a lot.

There is a bar there called Murphy's they opened up at 5:30 am and had a line down the street. by 6:15am they had already gone through their first barrel of guiness. We were in town by 3pm and there was still a line down the street. The whole city was a sea of green with the craziest hats I have ever seen very fun. We went to our local watering hole after we got home, I had cabbage and cornbeef and to top it off some baileys very good.

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Today it was 80 that is not a typo. 80's in central NH in March is unheard of, bring it on!

I spend the day cleaning the porch. Right now I have my feet up blogging on the porch and it is pure heaven.

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We have come so far since last spring I would say to hell and back. My blessing are many.

 Thank you for your payers and kindness along the way it gave us both strength through the trip.

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There was no need to do any housework at all.

After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

                                                                      Quentin Crisp(1908-2000)

                               

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