BEST BLOG AWARD

 

I was happily surprised this afternoon with an award from my friend Niki at Nocturnal Queen…  I have never won any awards much less a blog award so it was very heartwarming that Niki thought of me!  Thanks, Niki!

I have been blogging for about a year or so..nothing fancy but I enjoy blogging and reading my faves…I would love to take a blogging class or seminar, in addition to a class to learn how to use my Canon SLR camera that I have had for a year and a half!  Everything takes time, in my world, it takes a LOT of time!

Anyway, I am passing the Best Blog Award along to my fave blogs, including the few family members who have a blog…now listen up, anyone in my family or friends who have a blog and have not passed it along to me, giddyup!

The Best Blog Award rules are as follows:

1. To accept the award, post it in your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award and his/her blog link.

2. Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you have recently discovered and think are great! Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

Here are my faves, family and friends first:

CarneyFarm

CDBoyacktidbits

Foster Vision

McDevitt Clan

Brian and Kellie Anderson

The Boyack Family

Now..for the rest of my favorites, I hope you check all of them out!

Classy and Sophisticated

Kevin & Amanda

Mary's Meanderings

Retro Renovation

Southern Hospitality

Thrifty Decor Chick

Whimsical Creations

The Inspired Room

Painting A Dog A Day

Rare and Beautiful Treasures

Make a Smilebox slideshow

A Halloween Giveaway

Melanie, creator of Whimsical Creations, is having a giveway of an adorable little Halloween door sign...check out her blog!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Correction to pink Saturdays

Here is the link to Beverly's blog
http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog/

Pink Saturday

It's Pink Saturday...I love the idea of posting pink things on Saturdays....check the link to Beverly's Pink Saturday, I was too late this week to get in on posting on her blog, but wanted to post some of my pink things today. I don't own a lot of pink, I really had to work at finding some. Not sure why, I love pink and I look good in pink. Oh well...enjoy...and feel free to post your own pink things!

Backyard Capers

Well, we now have a patio, and some trees..we are getting there…

Gracie

  Mom

Carl and Donna

Halo

Dad

Mom, Dan and Dad

 

 

India and Halo

Adventures in Landscaping!

Well, I guess you could say we are settling in..we just had over 500 sq feet of cement slab poured in the back yard for our patio...took the crew a couple days...Looks awesome...we have inked a deal for an alumawood patio cover, they will be here starting Sept. 21st, after our cruise, and should take 3-4 days....which means by the end of the month we will have a covered patio. When it cools off a little more, in October, we will start figuring out sod, we are going to do bermuda grass since that is what seems to do best here in the desert...and then a garden wall along the back fence, which Carl and I can do....some citrus trees, a couple of crepe myrtles, some perennials, and the queen palms, and we will be styling. Pool to come possibly next year..

FALL is in the air...

Whatever that means!

I feel fall is in the air..I know its out there, in this desert heat, it is THERE. It's getting dark earlier now...

We are having the first step in our backyard landscape started tomorrow with 560 square feet of cement being formed and poured for back patios off the master bedroom and continuing over to the family room...will be HUGE and wonderful to not have all D.I.R.T. The cement crew is coming tomorrow and by the weekend we should be able to put our nice little table out back on our new cement slab. We are in the process of getting estimates for an alumawood patio cover which will help so much next summer with the morning sun..keeping the house cooler and some shade for the doglets...

I have been feeling better...my new dr. here has started me on a new estrogen patch for those blasted hot flashes...started the patch on Monday, also taking some new thyroid meds so hoping the combo will help me feel better. I have bad days, but now I have a few good thrown in there...we got the mobile home sold in WA and that has taken a huge load off our shoulders and now we feel we can actually settle in and make a nice home here for us and family and friends to visit.

Over and out for now...