out with the old, in with the new...

winter...

and Jergens go hand in hand...

having a terrible time with my hands being so dry and sore this winter...

the sun was out all day today...

melting thing...

going to the vet on Monday!

melting with no place to go...

so if refreezes at night...

hoping it warms up just enough to unthaw the ground so this can go down...

because me and ice are not friends...

new old pot...

it is very tiny...

cleaning house...

literally...

and here in the blog...

removed 18 blogs from my bloglist...

who no longer post or visit...

added some new ones...

said a prayer for each one as I let their blog go...

some hadn't post in 3 years...

so how long have I been doing this?

not sure...

longer than 3 years, I guess...

have good weekends!

happy hump day!

mid week and done with my antibiotics...

yippee!

grateful for so many things here...

we have the brightest day going on...

and I have things to do, but wanted to post the rest of the photos from our Sunday drive before I get started on something else...

still praying for my surgeon!

I want him surrounded by angels with wings of protection while he is in Afghanistan...

and may God lead his hands as he operates on our warriors there...

praying for those who are sick with this stinkin' flu bug...

its the nastiest little critter and so many have it...

praying for those who are not staying warm in this cold...

and who might not have enough to eat...

so much we have to be thankful for...

my little buddy...

getting warm by the heater cuz his mama rides around with the window down taking photos all the time...

Craig got some great deals last night at Walmart on their 90% isles...

Christmas ornaments were 29 cents a box...

and those gift boxes for girls were 1.99 and .99...

he bought $250 worth of stuff for his girl friend and Doug's for Valentine's Day for me...

just took the items out of the gift boxes and will bag them up!

so who is buying Valentine's stuff already?

are you even thinking about it?

what would you say that I am decorating the trees in chocolate, red and pink by the weekend???

have a fun day!

more from the Sunday drive...

we sure dodge an ice storm here...

we got about an inch of rain...

which would have made a big mess...

Doug showed up and spent the night...

he left after supper tonight...

Craig has been given full time hours now...

it should be on the next schedule...

see how dirty the snow is?

that's from the excessive high winds we had...

it doesn't happen too often like this...

I need prayers for my cousin who has just been diagnosed with a tumor on her liver...

the babies are doing great...

lose and playing right now...

I am hoping to get the 2 vetted the end of this week...

and then post them for adoption...

I only have one more day of antibiotics and I will be done with them!

then to get my tummy back to normal...

need to find something to do around here that I can do myself...

probably in my playroom the rest of the week...

;0)

just 2 months until spring!

winter prairie roads & dirty snow...

happy weekend!

I had DH take be for a drive this morning...

I haven't been out of the house all week...

and it finally made it to 30 this morning...

so off we went...

before the rain started...

and things get real interesting on the back roads...

supposed to change to freezing rain...

then sleet...

and then snow...

took Charlie with us...

he is still nervous about car rides...

but getting better all the time...

see...

in the mirror...

got his hoodie on...

when we hit the back roads...

I roll the window down...

crank up the heat and cover my legs with a throw and off we go...

Charlie is liking the air blowing in his face...

might make a dog out of him yet...

(he thinks he's a cat)

sometimes we just creep along the fields...

and I holler "whoa" if I see a shot...

DH is so good at it now...

and he likes the pics we get...

we make a good team...

hope you week ahead is a good one...

should be much warmer by next weekend...

we might even get out of town...

;0)

and be sure to come back this week...

there are a lot more photos of the day!

a blast from the past...

that's our son, Doug, cooking hot dogs for the other kids...

back in the early 90s...

"Christmas On The Square" used to be an awesome event for our little town...

and that's the A's...

our little league team...

Doug is the first on in the very back row, right next to his dad- the coach...

and Craig is the second one from the left on the bottom row...

and here they are in the last year...

they finished up number 1!

Craig is the first one on the left in the back row...

DH and I coached the A's for 8 years...

before I went on to be president of the little league and pony league...

back when I could move and do things...

LOL

Tom and Abby used to run our local paper...

and too soon, they were taken from us...

Tom first, in an auto accident...

Abby carried on alone for many years until cancer took her...

there is a new editor who found all these old photos...

and a couple of "kids" stepped up to download them all and put them on a new facebook page so we could all have the images...

that Tom and Abby took through the years...

for the paper...

for us...

they attended every event in town and caught it all on film...

and now its on the net...

I wonder if they knew?

that these photos would be so loved over and over again?

have a great weekend...

stay in and stay warm...

;0)