My Life... My Story

Yawn + Infusion of food = a good day

Blood Trumpet

Iris - this one comes up year around

However this one only blooms between March and April. It's early!
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OK.

I mopped the kitchen, cleaned out the pantry, put together 3 shelving units, put up a blind in the bathroom and even got in a short visit to grandma's on top of it all. I thought I would knock right out, but noooooo. I did not go to sleep until 11:00 and woke up "wide awake" at 2:00. The I was up at 6:00 to get ready. I decided to not wash my hair since I did not style it the day before, besides it was so windy today and I was going to be in and out of the office. One co-worker asked if I was OK at lunch, I guess I had "sleepy" on my face. I worked late doing paperwork and came home to flowers blooming in our garden and my husband playing his keys. Music flowed out of our house as I walked up the walkway to our front door with our little cat few steps behind. For dinner we whipped up chicken, rice, cut up avocado, cilantro, red onions and queso fresco and wrapped them in spring roll wraps. If you would of substituted corn tortillas they would of been chicken soft tacos. Now it's 9:20 pm. I'm ready to get ready for bed. I need some sleep.

rambles

I love my husband

I have cooked dinner every night this week.

Tacos, Enchiladas, Fried Chicken, Carne Asada

I need to get my game face back on at work

I will win, I will be the best, I will bring the project/program to greatness.

I will focus

I miss our cat.

I want a new kitten

I need a coffee pot in my office

I would like to paint the kitchen

I'm staring at one of my bottle cap crosses... and the faces/calaveras are looking back at me at me

Bring It ON!!!!

*insert eye of the tiger music here*

Home... home on the rancho

First we have out cute little babies.

Next, my husband and I went out to do a little shopping and I piked these little things up. I love my husband. I was not sure if I should and he was the one that actually pushed for them. Probably because I was out in the rain playing with the dogs yesterday. When I was little I would run around in the rain and check on my pony, my bunnies, my dogs, my ducks ( I know, they like water) come in and then go out in the rain again. Well I did that yesterday and my shoes were soaked.

In the back-back yard

We have a front yard that filled with a minimal amount of grass and 8 different varieties of pink roses, lavenders, lemon grass, lemon verbena, hibiscus, verbena, an apple tree, lions tails, and dozens of different flowers/plants/bushes all with a hot pink Crepe Myrtle as the center piece.

The back yard has a seedless orange tree, an herb garden, grass of course, a huge blood trumpet, and a treeless tree house. The dogs are in this portion of the yard. Our tool shed which is huge houses our bikes, lawnmower, tool bench, bunny cage (when it rains), dog beds, and still plenty of space to play with the dogs inside.

The middle -back yard contains a start of another rose garden, a pom tree, the goat pen, a huge silk tree, and pampas grass.

The back-back yard contains miniature cheery trees, nopals, three huge pine trees that used to be potted Christmas trees from when I was a little girl and my some old cars that belong to my dad and his cousin. So needless to say, I have a lot of yard to cover and these will make it easier in the rain.

The babies again

Infusion

bottle caps + images + resin + glitter glue = my latest arts and craft endeavour

I created little pieces with images from other artists that inspire me. Some people have inspiration walls, inspiration notebooks/scrapbooks or they collect images and place them in files on the computer. I adhere my inspiration images to crosses and birdhouses.

This blue one is under my husbands broken darbuka (dumbek).

We hung it on the wall. Our cats broke it when they were still kitten (7 years ago) and we hung it as a reminder to watch were we place things in the house.

~under the dumbek~

~ under the dumbek~

~Over our bedroom door~

~Over the bathroom door~

~After I coat it with an acrylic varnish~

~ I will hang it on our porch outside, but not directly in the elements~

Some snaps from yesterday

As I was getting the yard ready for the storm I decided to take a few snaps of some flowers we have in bloom right now.

I made sure the bunny had fresh bedding, the dogs had all their beds in their dog houses or the in the tool shed ( they tend to pull them out). I rolled Bongo's cage into the tool shed, made sure bungees were tight around the bales of hay, filled in holes made by our Terrier mix trying to catch gophers and other small things.