Sunny Days

                                                 

We’ve had a break from the rain and our weather has been lovely. Temperatures are fairly moderate with mostly 80’s but it seems to be creeping up. We were in the 90’s one day last week. And the humidity has been decent! I expect that now that we’re almost at the end of July things will start to heat up!

We haven’t done anything exciting, unless you count going to the mall to get some walking done.  I need to go more. I find when I just sit my joints protest!  Mostly we sit and read, play games or watch something or other on tv or our tablets. We’re enjoying the streaming channels we get. I think once our contract is up with dish we’ll cancel. Of course I find time to make cards!  Jim is slowly assembling gun parts to build his own, but I’m not sure what.  

With all the rain we’ve had stuff grows so every now and then Jim cuts the weeds (or pulls them up).  Looks better and with our patio mat out we have our space more defined. I’ve started a compost pile, sort of. Thought it would slowly cook and provide a scratching place for the chickens. They break it down and I rake it up. Veggies scraps break down quickly unless the chickens eat them first!

                                                  Handmade Cards Because:

No one displays an email on the mantle or

Shows off a tweet on the fridge or

Saves a Facebook post in a box of treasures

Total for the year, 327 cards made 

Hand Penned from Stampin Up! Such a pretty set of papers!

This set of six cards includes this fancy insert.

I saw another demonstrator who made cards with this design, I just changed up my paper. I do love me some green

Found some festive, winter paper and decided to make some mini slimline cards

Sweet as a Peach stamps and designer paper from Stampin Up! This suite is so pretty!

A few more Christmas cards using Tidings of Christmas paper from Stampin Up!

All is right in our world

Elsa Was a No Show

 A lot of prep work went into greeting Elsa.  She couldn't make up her mind tropical storm, Hurricane, tropical storm...etc.  Elsewhere in the state I'm sure she wreaked havoc but here in Tallahassee, at least our neck of the woods, all we got was rain.  And even it was just normal.  No hours on end of rain or winds.  

We (by we I mean Jim) prepped by filling the fresh water tank for, you know, bathing, cooking and flushing.  Also bought generators in case we lost power.  I heartily approved this!  The contents of the freezer and fridge could have been lost not to mention Air Conditioning had the power gone out.  The folks across the street at A-Bay towing let us park our truck in their field, free from falling trees or limbs.  Then we waited.  There was some rain Tuesday night but that was from a system from the west.  Overnight nothing!  We slept well and when we got up this morning we waited.  Rains came and during a lull we brought in the bedroom slide.  One of the windows tends to leak when there is heavy, blowing rain.  Thankfully it never came.  

                                All is right in our world