Just some flowers

Just wanted to pop in and share some Valentine flowers. i know i should have posted these earlier. hehe Better late than never! :)




i LOVE flowers! When we lived ANYWHERE else, other than the desert, i grew BEAUTIFUL flowers. These are grown locally but not by me, DH bought them on Saturday from the local farmer's market!
yesterday, we had some company, sorta! don't know if you can see them there but TWO kitties found there way to my place and hung around for a couple of hours.
my kitties saw them and Bella just couldn't believe her eyes and Boo just cried out to them! Poor thing! :)

not the best photo but they didn't exactly pose for me! lol
i would LOVE to know who they belong to though! i sure don't let my cats outside, not here!! if a stray dog or coyote don't eat them, then a mountain lion or bobcat will!!
To end, i share more sky photos, i took over the years, here! Hope you enjoy them!



Thank you so much for visiting and i hope you have an AWESOME day! HUGS! :)

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Well, i hope you entered the giveaways and WON AND met ALOT of WONDERFUL new people! i sure did!
i, also, hope your weather is nice for you today AND for this weekend holiday!

i have found a couple of blog trains i wanted to share! They are ALWAYS fun!
Valentine Blog Hop
and
SAS-y Blog Hop
Have FUN downloading all those goodies!! LOTS of GREAT designers there!
i also wanted to share with you, a new (to me) blog that is soooo BEAUTIFUL!
The House in the Roses
just BEAUTIFUL! :)
i have a kit to share, it would have been here sooner but i had internet issues... yet again!
But it's ready now and i hope you like it!

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A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO THE FOLLOWING:
Scrapping Cop
Kim Broedelet(Kimb's designs)
Delicious Scraps
HeartPrints/Kristin Castellano
Today from the swapmeet (which was 36 degrees!) we mostly got books. i think it was WAY too cold to sell, sure was WAY cold to buy too! hehe Plus it is a holiday!
Thank you so very much for your visits, they really keep me blogging! :D
HUGS! Have an AWESOME evening!!

Desert sky photos and a Valentine Blog Train too!

Hi! i hope you are having a GRAND week! Things here are still in the weird weather area! i have
been watching the news closely to see if 3 or 4 more (and worse) storms heading our way.
in light of this i thought i would share some WONDERFUL, some scary sky photos. Hope you enjoy
them!





and some photos from last Spring!



i am sure looking forward to Spring! How about you? :)
i also have a LARGE Valentine Blog Train to share! Lots of goodies! WOOHOO!
Oh and one last thing, if you entered any giveaway from One World, One Heart
please don't forget that WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON FEB 12th or 13th, depending on the blog owner! it was so much FUN for me, i have really been thinking about a giveaway from my blog sometime maybe! :)
Well, since i am posting this at night again, i see my son looming around to get back online after his shower! hehe Thank you so very much for your visits and LOVING comments, i really look forward to them! :D
i guess i am off and will see YOU in the morning! Have a BEAUTIFUL
evening! :) HUGS!

It never rains in California, but MAN it pours!!

And snows and sleets and sheesh!! hehe
It is still rainy here, which is not usual, even for OUR winters! :D This should bring LOTS of BEAUTIFUL Spring flowers soon!
here are a few photos of the storms moving through in bands, then it's clear, then another wave.

see how that cloud is just looming over town?!

most bizarre weather!

And from the high winds going so constantly, this is a sample of MANY of the trees out here!

Do you have leaning trees where you live? hehe It's from the winds blowing so much!
Then Sunday morning, we tried the swapmeet again. Got a good deal at one stand and pretty much
left as it was blowing FREEZING winds!
All these items were 50 cents each, can hardly beat that! hehe
This is a clay boot that stands about 9 inches.

Here's another boot, but it's only about 3 inches.

a small turtle

a pair of chickens

And last, this cool hen basket

Which can be used for um, for, well, er, um, small stuff! hehe

And then today we had some wierd rain/snow but not enough to lay, as the sun came out between storm periods!



So i sure hope your weather is better (except for Paraguay, as i know they need the rain!)!!
We are expected to have a week of this near freezing stuff! ugh!! :)
i am posting this on Monday night, so you early birds have something to read, hehe, but
i am going to head off to bed and will see YOU in the morning!! As always, thank you so very much
for visiting and for your WONDERFUL comments! They really keep me going with this blog thing!
Hugs!! :D Have a BEAUTIFUL day where you are! :D

When it rains!

Good evening my bloggie friends! i hope you are having a WONDERFUL weekend!
Ours started out rainy! actually its been raining in the area for several days now but finally
hit this area... on a SATURDAY MORNING of all things!! No swapmeet this morning but we did
have an adventure of sorts.
First let me share with you a new unidentified rock DH got me at the Rock Club, during the swap.

and the rough side

It's a BEAUTY! i am anxious to find out what it is!
The Rock Club was Wednesday night!
Now this morning, we awoke to a dreary morn!!



Not so pretty! so we take DS to work and have a nice breakfast (if DS got up earlier, we would all have breakfast together but that'd be too early according to him)
On the way home from there, we suddenly hear something go wrong with the suv.... a flat! GREAT!
We pull over to the first SAFE spot (avoiding the WET soft shoulder) and i was so uneasy about where we stopped!

After DH put everything from the back of the vehicle to the back seat (notice pile of stuff)
he pulls out all he needs to get the spare on.
This is what the tire looked like that he took off!

i NEVER saw a tire do that!
Well we got home about a half hour later but safe & sound! And dry, oddly enough the rain let up just long enough for DH to change that tire and just as he finished up it slowly started again. Thank you Lord! Luckily he had a blanket in the car so he didn't have to lay on the wet ground too! ;D
And finally when we got home, i worried that we might not have much as far as Tv, radio or internet since we have satelite and it was THICK with clouds!! but we were lucky there too!!
Well that was my Saturday! i hope yours was MUCH better! hehe
Thanks so much for your visit and i LOVE the comments too! :D Hope to see you in the morning!
Have a WARM & COZY evening! HUGS! :D

Sharing a link to a journey

Stopping in to say hi and give a little update! If you haven't yet checked out
Karen Harvey Cox , please do! You will come away with a peaceful feeling of being on a serene and BEAUTIFUL journey, and you never left your room! hehe
Thank YOU so very much for your WONDERFUL visits and comments!! They ALWAYS keep me smiling!! :D i hope you have a FANTASTIC weekend! HUGS! :D

Super Bowl & Blog Trains!

Good morning to you! i hope you had a WONDERFUL weekend and your Super Bowl team won! :D
here is OUR little spread for the game!

Don't you just LOVE that sports fabric!?! you KNOW i got it cheap at the swapmeet! :D
Oh my goodness, yesterday morning when we went downtown, we pulled up to a light and there was
this small 'convoy' for lack of a better word. i got a picture of my husband and the guy next
to us just ending their waves to each other. lol

But just LOOK at that machinery!!! SHEESH!
Then we do our errands in town and get ready for home and we see an even BIGGER 'convoy' gathering
in one spot before heading on the move.


and this close up:

i am not sure what all those things do but they sure look like they could go ANYWHERE!
Now we do have the world's largest Marine base in a nearby town, WHICH is so large that it
extends to JUST NOT FAR from behind our home. YES! Where they do bombings and i understand that
it is the ONLY school in the world for these kind of bomb forensics, so they can piece
together crime scenes, like the suicide bombers they have to deal with mostly overseas. So,
naturally, we expected to hear ALOT of bombings during the game but it was quiet & i have NO clue where
they went, but it wasn't in my little town! hehe Oh they can start bombings at 9 or 10pm and go
for hours!! or how about 7am and go ALL DAY LONG? hehe yea it sure takes getting use to, so i am told!
We've been here 5 years and are not QUITE use to it! But we sure understand it! :D
Anyways, back to blog land, i found TWO more blog trains and you can check them out:
Amethyst Blog Train
and
Blog Train
Well, that's it for me, i hope you have a BEAUTIFUL day and thank you so very much for visiting!!
HUGS! :D