NO books today! hehe

Good morning! The winds here were kicking up YET again last night! today there is still a wind advisory and it's a bit on the cool side, temperature wise! it is not expected to reach 60 today! then tomorrow, it will be close to 70 and then by Sunday it will be in the 80's! lol
weird, huh!!!
i thought i would pop in & not just share our weather! :) Here's a photo of my DS, who played the Walmart bunny this year, for the past two Saturdays! :)

isn't he ADORABLE!?! The one thing he didn't care for, is holding the babies. He is not sure of holding babies in that get up since he can't feel them! He says he fears if they move around, that he will drop them! i reminded him of when Tigger (at one of the Disney places) was being sued for groping a little girl! Well, he got off of the charges after they realized how MUCH Tigger could NOT feel in that costume! and for Tigger, well, his TAIL alone could get HIM in trouble! lol
i do have more photos of Adam that i wanted to make into an animation but as i went to do that last night, i had what i call a brain fart!! i just could NOT remember how to make them! lol
oh it's so much FUN getting older! lol i WILL conquer it and when i do i will share, as i think it may be a bit on the entertaining side! lol Kids, i would NEVER want to live without them! :)
and now i am off to find a cement bunny or something that i can hold onto so i don't blow away!
Thank you so much for visiting and i hope you have a WONDERFUL Wednesday!! HUGS!! :)

For the LOVE of books! Yes MORE books!

Good afternoon! i would have been here sooner but google wasn't playing nice! it wouldn't open ANYTHING! i could visit a few of you who have typepad but not anyone on blogger!! but it's back and so am I! :)
i sure hope you all had a BLESSED Easter holiday and WONDERFUL dinner to help celebrate too!

And i hope the Easter bunny brought all your children some YUMMY goodies, as well!! :)

And your area is finally Springing blooms all around!

we had a BEAUTIFUL weekend and today the winds started kicking up something terrible but even they seem to have calmed for the moment! :)
Onto the bargains!!! hehe
i found this book so interesting, never knowing about this craft before! any can will do!!
they say, "a dollar" and i say "SOLD"! hehe

a buck each for these LOVELIES!

Two dollars was the price for the next two items!
a nice sitting Santa

Anyone for Chinese tonite? :)

oh and check out this spoon with beaded handle for just FIFTY CENTS!

and if we ever want croissants now, i am ready!! only a quarter!!

Five true crime books for a buck! (like i don't have enough books, i hear ya! lol)

Well, brace yourselves, cause our book man either LOVES us or HATES us, depending on how you look at it! but he gave us another AWESOME deal of FREE books!!! so we sat around going through the back of this like bread truck van and had a ball for a little more than an hour and got all these!!

oh and these too! lol

This weekend was a bit sparse being a holiday weekend but there are ALWAYS bargains there!
one announcement bothered me though...the swapmeet owner came on the public announce system & said that someone stole the pony sculpture! if anyone knows about it, keep an eye out for it & such but who could believe someone would do that!?!

the owner of the swapmeet has cool different things like this all around the lot and i sure pray it finds it way back home somehow!
well, enough about me, i am anxious to do my rounds and visit YOU! hehe Thank you so much for visiting!! Have an AWESOME Monday! HUGS! :)

Wishing you a

i will be back Monday to post the few but GREAT bargains, in the meantime, please have a safe & WONDERFUL holiday!! HUGS! :)

Lots of WIND and Martha!!

HI! i thought i would blog about our weather lately. It's been crazy with winds!!
Friday we had high winds with gusts up to 90 mph!! Saturday and Sunday were not too bad, nice & sunny, light breezes. But Monday, Tuesday and today have been crazy winds again!!
Nothing like Friday, thank goodness but still we could use a break! Last night,
the power kept threatening to go out yet again, ALL night long! it would flick the lights but they, lucky for us, stayed on!!
Hopefully they will settle down for a FEW days! i don't think Chicago (the WINDY city) was THIS bad! :) Seriously, this desert living can truly be harsh!
That's really the worse we put up with besides the heat, earthquakes, mudslides, wildfires, & Marines bombings out back, i mean! LOL
Sunday, we should have been in town a bit more and we might have run into Martha Stewart !!!
YEP, she stopped in to shop one of our antique stores! The store owner told her (not realizing who she was) that she doesn't open til 10. Martha was quiet for awhile and then simply said "I'm Martha" ! lol The woman said though she doesn't have a tv, that she enjoyed Martha's magazines and opened up 40 minutes EARLY!! LOL
She bought a pottery chicken waterer for her chickens, i am sure among other things since they shopped for about an hour! The local newspaper also reported that this may air in the fall since she had a camera crew with her. Cool, huh? :)
Martha had been staying in Palm Springs and went to a Palm Sunday sunrise thing at the Joshua Tree National Park that morning. She was reported as saying that this particular shop was her "favorite antique store"!! :)
i understand quite a few stars come in and visit this area. i have heard that Robert Plant (from original Led Zepplin band) sings locally quite often! and DH's boss owns a coffee cafe type place downtown and has stars come entertain there all the time! DH and i always say we should go, it really sounds like a good time but sometimes just the trip down the mountain is enough GOING, i think we dread the thought of coming home tired and driving that mountain. :) must be getting old!! i heard someone say, out there! hehe :)
When we first moved here, DH was downtown getting groceries, after work and ran into Dick Dale and his son! He was so excited when he got home, his face was all lit up! :)
Heck, stars can be ANYWHERE near you too! when we lived near Chicago, both my sons were living with us, cause my older boy had just gotten out of the service. long story short, they walked to a local hamburger stand and came home all giddy about the girl they thought was Britney Spears! :) it can be FUN spotting them but so far, we haven't gone out of our way to do so!
How about you? have you ever met a celebrity? who was it!? i would LOVE to hear your stories!
:) Thank you so very much for visiting, HUGS!! Have an AWESOME evening! :)

LOVELY Spring morning and more BARGAINS!!

Good morning! i hope you are having a WONDERFUL morning! it will be sunny and warm here today! a GREAT day for yardwork! :)
Here we go with yard sale goodies from this weekend! Ready? :)
paid one dollar for this gift wrap roll storage box & carrier! AND it came with THREE rolls of gift wrap too! :)

i paid a quarter for this AWESOME bottle!

Fifty cents was the price for this wine bottle basket!


fifty cents was the price for this metal and glass basket that matches the candle stands and mirror i bought from the swapmeet!

one dollar for these brass dolphins that stand about 5 or 6 inches tall!

one dollar for this stone/glass dolphin windchime! oh and it sounds soo PRETTY!
the top part is almost definitely stone but i tend to think the dolphins are glass!
not sure though.

one dollar for this little lot of jewelry clips and a skeleton leaf for actual scrapbooking!

the BEST bargain of the weekend is a toss up between the rowing machine DH got for $5.00 OR this for THREE dollars!

close up

Again, i gained some weight but it still fit pretty good and oh how i LOVE it! :)
i sooooooooooo look forward to my weekends, even if the swapmeet is the only place i go! we really don't do the yard sales too often out here because too many leave the signs up and it's hard to tell which are current. And ALOT of these smaller roads aren't dirt roads, but sandy roads and can get treacherous to drive as we try to find the places. But it was so much FUN going with our friends though!
To end, this morning, i share some of the flowers that are blooming in the sunroom.
Bouganvilla

and Jasmine

They BOTH really need to be planted outside but since we started looking at houses, i chose to keep them indoors all winter. They get such WONDERFUL morning sun in the sunroom, most plants do well there!
i have NO idea what this plant is, we saw it at the swapmeet and thought it was a STUNNER!! Such a PRETTY color!

One last thing before i forget! i found another Blog train . this one is HUGE!
Big HUGS to you! Thank you so much for visiting! i LOVE having you over! :) Have a GREAT day! :)

Broke car and still bargains!

Hi again! i sure hope you are having a GREAT weekend! it started out a bit rough for us but we made it through, thanks to friends!! Friday night DH's explorer blew the water pump. DS had to go to work Saturday morning, we had to find a way, sheesh, who is going to want to get up so early to get him there by 7am!?! Thankfully our friends are swapmeeters too and DO get up early on a Saturday morning!! so we call them and after a few tries, finally get ahold of them!
They have no problem getting here by 6:30 am so he can get to work on time! YAY!! so we drop him off and all of us go get some breakfast! after breakfast we head off to the swapmeet for a quick go through before our male friend, of the couple, helps DH with this pump. we wind up going to a few yard sales too, on the way to our house and what bargains we got! Then we finally get home and the guys work on the car while the gals stay inside & listen to music and chat!
it took quite a while to complete the job but LUCKILY the guy who helped, had done this before on his own explorer, when he had one. DH has worked on cars most of his life but not these newer ones so this guy's help was SOOOOOOOO APPRECIATED!! Then to top it off, they hung around,making sure DH's car worked to pick up DS!!! HUGS to them and i did, a FEW times!!!! :)
OH, i wanted to share a quick picture of the swapmeet, the tailgaters section, where they set up tables or blankets and sell. the other part of this place is basically permanent vendors who have small cabin type shops. it's really a GREAT place just for the people. Now onto some bargains! heheh

There was even a band there this Saturday, and here is a shot of one of those cabin type stores too! :)

This was two dollars.

These were a dollar total.

These candle stands hold a small tea light candle and stand about 16 inches tall and they came with a matching mirror that is about a foot square.

and the mirror. total for ALL was just five bucks!

another chicken for two dollars.

i LOVE these heart bowls for three bucks!!

and my cast iron pig bank for two dollars!

this little girl stands about 14 inches & was four dollars! isn't she cool!?! :)

a butterfly that stands about 6 inches was two dollars.

this dress was a buck!!!

it's a pretty skinny dress and i gained about 40 lbs, not sure if i will squeeze into it! lol
and what weekend would be complete without books for 50 cents each!?!

This will end our swapmeet bargains but i do have some yard sale goodies to share too!
but LATER! hehe i got to have SOMETHING to blog about tomorrow! lol
oh that place is AMAZING! it knocks me out how some people price things TO GO! lol
but just wait til you see the rest! lol who doesn't love a bargain!?!
well, i should cut this short since my DS wants to get on and DH is using the other computer for ebay (selling NOT buying lol)! i sure have enough to read though so i will say goodnight and thank you so very much for visiting! big HUGS!! Have a BEAUTIFUL evening! :)

Rocks and gardens, maybe a rock garden?

April first was another rock club meeting. we did the COOL swap and i got these AWESOME goodies!
tube of raw garnet

This cool stone that has three places of a brownish gem. We aren't sure what it is yet.



And this lighted BEAUTY!

It's got a hole drilled in it for placing a candle!!
Oh and we also ALL went outside at 8:12 pm to see the space station fly over!! that was pretty COOL too! :)
Our next trip is planned for Opal Mountain and i am soo excited! You know i will keep you posted!! :)
Want to see something COOL my DH did with our hanging planter pots?

See what he used? You know those stacked wire baskets that are so popular in kitchens? He took one apart and put a pot in it and made a hanging planter pot! lol He's so CLEVER!!
Here are some more of our newly planted (with seeds) gardens! the lavendar is coming back nicely.

All these pots were seeded. (crossing our fingers for LOVELY blooms!)

see the grapevine is making a comeback there in the background of the photo below!

And finally showing the garden where the lavendar grows.

Thank you so much for visiting and for leaving such SWEET comments too!! :) HUGS!! Have an AWESOME evening!! :)