Friday SkyWatch

We had rain, rain, and rain and then this beautiful blue.

Good Honest Scrap

My friend Rachel at http://kyfarmlife.blogspot.com/ has given me an award called "Good Honest Scrap" and I'm to tell you ten things about myself that you may not know. This award is given for those how speak honestly from the heart on their blog!
If you receive this award, you are to credit the person who bestowed it, bestow it on 10 blogs (letting them know of the award) and tell your readers 10 things about yourself that they don't know.

1. I hate gossip. I have stopped being friends with people just because of this one thing. It's a long story but I have a good reason for being this way.

2. I get nervous around things that are animated such as those wire deer that move their heads. Everyone around here puts them on their lawns at Christmas time and they give me the willies.

3. I have fought an actual forest fire right along side firemen and held my own. Afterwards, I discovered that I liked breathing pure oxygen.

4. I am a very good shot. I like target practice and I would love to shoot all the animated deer I mentioned in number 2.

5. I have this thing about white cars. It's not normal. I can't explain without sounding like a total lunatic so just take my word on this. I don't like them.

6. I love to watch shows about the paranormal. I believe in ghosts. I have seen and heard them in the past. Here's where I'd like to thank my parents for having creepy homes for us to grow up in. My present home is less than 30 years old and there is a reason for that AND I did ask if anyone had died in it. Just had to make sure. It does have a bad history of divorce. Every couple that has lived here has divorced. Talk about bad energy.

7. If you read my blog then you know I am horrible about punctuation. I loved Math class when I was in school not English.

8. I love the United States but I want to live in the UK. It's a very simple dream and as much as I love my family, I would relocate and not feel bad at all.

9. I sleep with a hand carved rolling pin under my side of the bed. I have slept with something under my bed for years because when I was about 10 we had a "peeping tom" in our little town. I was afraid and started keeping something in the bedroom from then on.

10. I have saved a life. It was a little girl. I'd like to say a big "Thank You" to Girl Scouts for making me take the Red Cross CPR class. I thought it was stupid at the time. I was wrong for thinking that it was useless. I have used information from their first aid training classes more than I would like to admit.

That's it. I am supposed to pass this on to 10 people but I am opening it up to anyone who wants the award.

Sewing and Midsomer Murders

I have been lazy again as far as posting. I have spent hours sewing and watching Midsomer Murders. 

Today is the day our teenagers return! I've been missing them. I had two calls on Friday and that was it for the entire 7 days. My feelings were hurt but I need to come to grips with the fact they are growing up and don't need to talk to their mother every day. They were having a good time and staying out of trouble.

Banana Pie

The title is misleading. Banana Pie is Hannah's nickname and this about my number one girl. Yesterday, we had our long awaited (6 months) appointment with the dermatologist for Hannah. The doctor was amazing and Hannah loved her. Score one for our family doctor in finding this woman for us. Hannah has Alopecia Areata. She has been dealing with this for a year not knowing anything and now to have a real diagnosis is such a relief. We may be on the end the hair loss as some of the bald patches grew back but are very short and stopped at about an inch. Now, this is all right on the top of her head - bald spots. Hannah has super curly hair so having curls around the bald areas helped to disguise a lot of it and we are not going to be cutting her hair any time soon as that's her saving grace so to speak. She is going the aggressive route to treat it as she's 16 and appearances are big in high school. I'm proud of her going through this past year of school with bald spots and making it without a breakdown or insisting on homeschooling. If the treatment works, we have to wait and see, then it will still take months for her hair to come back. She is a wonder. She takes photos of her self all the time and doesn't let this hair thing stop her from being a normal girl. I know it's not easy. Can you hear all the pride in this post? It's overflowing.

New Class and Journal Cover

I'm taking a class from Kara over on http://oldladyinateenager.blogspot.com/. I'm a day behind already and it started yesterday. This is just the cover work. It has a gessoed spine, papered front and back, and an antique doily sewn on that unbuttons in the front for access inside. I love this idea but I really hate sewing thru paper. So far so good. I used a doily that was stained and knew I'd never actually use it out on anything. It's a piece of art now and I'm pretty proud of it.

Lizzie is a Sweetie Pie! I love her blog .http://mygenericmedium.blogspot.com/. She nominated me for this award! I had to take some real quality time to figure out transferring the picture and the text. Why? Because sometimes the simple things escape me. So here goes....And thank you Sweet Lizzie!

When accepting this award you have to deliver it to eight other people and include the following text with the award on your site -:
"These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends, and they're not interested in self aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers".

I have some lovely ladies to pass this on to....as follows:

1. Beth at http://pleasemomdontsing.blogspot.com/

2. Rachel at http://rachelcox.blogspot.com/

3. Susan at http://stonyriverfarm.blogspot.com/

4. Rae at http://kyfarmlife.blogspot.com/

5. Welsh Girl at http://notmarriedandnotbothered.blogspot.com/

6. Susannah at http://grannysu.blogspot.com/

7. Millie at http://milliesquilting.blogspot.com/

8. and last but not least the very funny Amy at http://insidethemcmind.blogspot.com/

Please check out their blogs. They are all special women.

The Farm and Family Time

will- clothes are optional at the Farm

relaxin

watchin the sweaty, sexy guys cut hay.... yes, I was phoned by this one to tell me she LOVED it there!

My girls have very few cousins. Five in all. When I was growing up, I had tons of family to spend summers and holidays with. I feel like they are missing out on so much but what can I do to change things? People used to be closer to their family's. My cousins are spread out all over the country so I never see anyone I grew up with unless there is a funeral or wedding. I hate how families have grown apart and I feel it's this society. I see younger couples in their 20's trying to change this lack of "family". I hope they do it. I hope they manage to pull families back together and we get away from this "self " centered world. My girls will always remember this time they spent with my niece and nephews in Lewisburg. They always remember our family times and rarely remember much of their numerous trips to Disney World. Don't get me wrong, they LOVE Disney but it can't hold a candle to time with Nanny, Poppaw, Maggie, Jimmy and Will.