Not so pink.....

I posted a picture of my dogwood here....when the blossoms had only been open two or three days. Can you believe this is the same dogwood? It is, but I have no way of proving it to you. I really thought this year it was going to stay pink, but as you can see all that is left is just a hint of color.

I had ran to the library today, got home and after a bit checked my email...found that Vicki from The Middle Sister blog had left this Beautiful Blogger award for Miss Lorelei. She may not realize it but she made my day. As Lorelei often does.

Our family is going through transitions...Lorelei will probably be moving in the near future. Not too far away, but not so easy to just drop by. We celebrated her mom's birthday yesterday by having a cookout. It was sort of bittersweet, knowing it

And our other daughter is taking a new job...she will go to training for four months starting next month, then be moving to the Los Angeles area. Kind of hard to describe what that feels like; I am happy because it is what she wants to do. Yet I dread her being so far away.

Anyway, this award just sort of brightened the day for me...made me think about Lorelei and the joy she is. I am really hating that her auntie will be moving so far away from her, but maybe in two or three years she can transfer back closer to home, cause Lorelei sure loves her.

I was supposed to help Lorelei decide who is going to be the recipient of the Beautiful Blogger award and was having a hard time deciding. Then I thought, now if I were Lorelei, who would I give the award to? And then it was sort of easy...I am giving it to Scout, the Bernese Mountain Dog. As much as she loves dogs and cats, it such an obvious choice...and just looking in his eyes, I bet he would love her.

Progress has begun

We first ran across this house last year--I posted about it the first time here...and I did a second post that included a photo of it here. Well, as you can see in the above photo...work has started on it. I bet it is sort of slow going. I hope I get to see the finished product someday. At least we know how to find it to check on it every now and then.
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Lindy over at Mike and D's Life in the Hoosier State and Beyond tagged me to participate in this photo tag thing...she tagged me at my Time Stand Still blog, but I am doing it here. I try to keep my posts short and let the photo speak for itself.

Anyway, the rules are this:

1. Open your first photo folder and select the 10th photo.
2. Publish it and tell the details or story of the photo.
3. Link back to the person who tagged you.
4. Tag 5 friends and inform them.

With the times I have had to wipe out my computer, and reinstall my photos, then got a new computer and put my photos on there, they are so messed up in what order they are...I decided to go with the tenth photo taken with my first digital camera, my Canon Rebel. And the above photo is the result.

This is a coffee table my husband made our older daughter when she first moved out...she bought the slate tile and decided on how she wanted it laid out. My husband's friend gave him the oak wood....and this is the result. He also made her a simple little end table.

I am supposed to tag people to play along, but I know a lot of my blog buddies have done this, so am just going to invite anyone that wants to join the fun.

Too tired to do anything that requires thinking....

I am too tired to make a decision about a photograph to publish, so will do Lorelei videos. While we are at it, lets do a couple. Be sure and have your sound on...in the second one, she does not know what to shake first.

Now to the reason I am tired...our older daughter came up today and we went mushroom hunting. We were in the woods at least a couple or three hours, and in that entire time only two were found. And our daughter found them.

After we came home, she went home and I rested a little bit. And then the fun began! We had the furnace put in yesterday, and I must say we are both so relieved to have that done. The guys worked hard all day long to get it done. They did take a break for lunch, but that was it. They were here by 9:00 and was at least 4:30 when they left.

I had had to move some of my sewing stuff in order for them to be able to work...only another quilter could comprehend just what I mean by sewing stuff. Last night I did go down there but just could not face getting things back in order, but I knew I had to get busy this evening. I have been busy off and on all evening and night...and had Roger down there part of the time cause I needed muscle power.

A bit back I let Sarah have one of my sewing machines....but of course she didn't want the big old desk I had for it. At least I don't think she did. So, I wanted to rearrange things...and I did. We are both dragging now. My desks are the big heavy, full sized office desks and it is all both Roger and I together can do to move them.

Anyway, I am so glad to have it done...I still have some 'stuff' to rearrange, but that is not like lifting and tugging and pulling. Oh, and hunting...did I mention hunting? I can lose more stuff than any person I know...and I spent a good half hour looking for this piece of thin plywood that my sewing machine has to set on to be the right height. Roger finally went out to the garage to cut another one...about the time he got done I found it. So now I have two. But that is okay. If I had the nerve I would go back down and finish putting stuff away, but too tired.

That's all for tonight....going to go post a photo on my other blog and maybe watch a little TV....