Denver Visit to Our Kiddos...

Mornin', y'all!  How y'all doin'?  I'm fine as frog's hair split four ways!   If I's any better, I'd be twins!

OK, I'll try to control myself and use good English and grammar.  Don't hate me if I fall back into my hick self...  :)   I write like I talk...  what can I say.

We've been out of town the last few days - went to Denver to see our Kiwi Kids (guess I'll always think of them that way...actually, I should call them gypsies or vagabonds cuz no telling where they're going to land after their stint in Denver...)   Josh and Lindsey picked us up from the airport and we had such fun with them on Saturday!

 We drove around Denver (first time we'd actually been IN Denver proper) and we drove through the mountains and went to Georgetown, which is a cute little Victorian-type mountain village.  It was so cute, and we did some window-shopping and TONS of visiting.  Later that evening, we went to Landry's Seafood.  Mass quantities of crab-artichoke-spinach dip, crawfish etouffee, shrimp fettuccine, steak, fried shrimp/fish were consumed.  We fairly WADDLED out the door.

 

Here, Josh is working one of those horseshoe puzzles and Lindsey is waiting to see if he really can do it!  And HE DOES!  (He used to have one... I wonder if he told her?)

It was SO good to hug and kiss those kids. They probably got tired of all the affection - especially from their mom, but I really don't care.  Actually, they were glad to see somebody from home, too.  They moved up there in November and nobody's been up there yet to see them.  What with the holidays and snow...

 

 

This guy is trying to shovel his car out of the snow...

 

Speaking of snow.  Colorado got it's first and biggest snowstorm of the year while we were there. Yep, that's right!  Came a blizzard on Sunday, and we were trapped in the hotel all day long!!!   12-24 inches all over the Denver area.  I'm telling you, THIS MOMMA was UPSET thinking I wasn't going to see my kids again before we left on Monday!!!  There were many tears shed and much nashing of teeth and stomping of feet and whining going on in room 219.

Never fear - My brave son put on his snow armor and came to his momma's rescue!!!  He waited til after the snow plows had made their rounds many times over late in the afternoon and he came to see us at the hotel!  We did not want them to get out and drive but he did anyway.  He just called and said, "I'll be there in two minutes!"

Boy howdy - was this Momma HAPPY!!!!!   Jumpin up and down happy!!!  I was all smiles after we got that call!!!   More hugs and kisses and some visiting and then we urged him to go home before the roads were covered up again.  Those snow plows ran all night long.  The kids had to go to work just like everybody else Monday morning.  They are getting used to being Colorado residents and dealing with snow and driving...

 

It IS quite beautiful Monday morning here and you can see the mountains in the distance. See how much Denver got?

Excuse me, I love Colorado and it's SO beautiful - been there several times - but I COULD NOT LIVE WHERE IT SNOWS ALL THE TIME.  You cain't take the "Texas" outta this girl.  Give me the heat and humidity any day!  (Ask me again if I still think that in August...)

We went on to the airport on Monday - slow taxi ride which cost us $90 (had to pick myself up off the floor of the car) but we knew that'd probably happen.  I was watching that meter. tick-tick-tick...  The driver was a nice lady but she talked the entire time.  "Hey Lady - could you just step on it a little bit???"  She was being careful and I appreciated that, but there WERE cars going faster than us.  Then we spent the entire day in Denver International Airport with all the Sunday customers that didn't get to fly because of the bad weather. Lots of cancelled flights and delays.  Our flight to DFW was delayed over an hour.  Guess I should count myself lucky.  We were SO GLAD to see that beautiful Dallas skyline after we got our car and headed home to East Texas!

Now I've saved the best photo for last...  It's either a Colossal  "FAIL"  or...

I HAVE A HALO!  (and Tony doesn't)

 

YOU  BE  THE  JUDGE !!!!

We Interrupt This Program...

Sorry for the hiatus in my New England trip, but ....

WHAT'S UP WITH THIS???

Got a couple of girls that are moulting and everybody is off with the shorter days.  This is egg is about an inch long and perfectly formed. 

Guess I have a slacker in the group...

Now, back to our regularly scheduled program.

Stuff

Hey guess what???

IT'S RAINING RIGHT NOW!

We awoke to thunder this morning and a nice steady rain has been falling off and on from the sky for the last couple of hours.  I love it - unfortunately I'm at work, but it's dark outside and cozy inside, and I sure could use a nap.  I knew it was going to rain - sinus headaches the last couple of days. Higher humidity...  Think I'll lay my head down on my desk for awhile...

Just kiddin...  Thank ya, Lord, for the rain.  We've needed it so bad, and it'll take alot to get back caught up again, but I'm thankful for every single drop.  'Course, it's been so long since we've had any rain, couldn't find an umbrella anywhere at all this morning.  But I really didn't care!

NOTE:  Sand + rain = gopher trapping! Stay tuned for that!

Josh, my middle son, went up to Nashville to visit his big brother, Adam, awhile back and they sent me some photos.  They went trekking through a wood - some big state park or something.  They found a baby squirrel that wouldn't leave them alone.  They took some pictures and then placed it back in the tree where they found it.  I think it wanted to go with them.  Don't know where the mama squirrel was.  I hope she knew where her youngster was.

Is that not the cutest thing you've ever seen?  I had a pet squirrel when I was a kid.  Dad found it one day while hunting.  It had fallen out of its nest and I believe he told me it was way up in the tree and part of its tail had broken off or been eaten off.  He brought it home to us and we named him Shorty.  He stayed til he was grown - Dad made him a huge cage.  We fed him milk with a doll bottle and veggies and nuts and whatever else we thought he might like.  We left the cage door open more and more and he would climb all over the outside.  Daddy said he'd leave someday, and sure enough he did.  I guess nowadays you'd call us "wildlife rehabbers".  I've probably told that story before...In fact, I know I have!

NEW TOPIC...

Can you believe that Thanksgiving and Christmas will be here before we know it???  I'm really looking forward to the family being together AND of course all the wonderful things that we'll be eating!  Something about family, friends and holidays calls for lots of yummy delicious traditional and non-traditional FOOD! 

How are we going to keep our girlish figures?   Now, when thinking about watching our weight during the holidays this year - let's do what genteel ladies in the past used to do.....

I mean, they're easy to swallow and you suffer no ill effects!  How much easier could it be???  AND they're sanitized!  Why hasn't anybody thought of this recently? 

And keep yore dress down...

Edited to Add--- and other stuff - MY LITTLE CORNER

All through my last post I talked about "blue salvia".  There is a blue salvia, but what I meant to say was that the blue flowers in my beds are "blue sage" - very similar but very different, too.  So, I stand corrected (by myself).

I ran into this lady from California at the Blue Moon Gardens in Edom, Texas, yesterday and she was carrying around a leaf of this little plant she called "silver dichondra". I googled a picture of the 'silver' to show you but she was wantin' the dark green color - She wanted to cover her yard with it...

 

source - http://wzus1.ask.com/r?t=a&d=us&s=a&c=p&ti=1&ai=30752&l=dir&o=0&sv=0a5c4242&ip=4ac07927&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnature.jardin.free.fr%2Fimage%2Fdichondra_repens.jpg

I told this lady that this was just plain ole kidneyweed (some call it dollarweed, but dollarweed is completely circular) and that if she wanted some all she had to do was come over to my house and dig all she wanted out of my yard under the shade trees.  She said in California, people put this stuff in their yards and it makes a nice lawn - never have to mow it.  Well, I guess here in Texas we have centipede, saint augustine and bermuda and we like to see a nice "stand" on our grass. 'Course we have lots of hot summer sun here in Texas, so we don't usually have alot of cool, shady, damp spots in our yards.  She ain't from around here, for shore!  Hope she's not plannin' on having a kidneyweed yard here in Texas!

In other news, I went to the "SPRING FLING" at My Little Corner in Noonday, Texas, on Saturday. It was fun. I was actually pressed for time, cuz we were having my sweet dad's 75th Birthday get-together-charcoaled hamburgers -n- birthday cake - with the fam - minus one grandson, SO I didn't get to shop like I wanted.  I did get a few pictures for you, tho, and highlight of my trip over there was meeting a fellow blogger - Elaine from Soggy Bottom Flats!  also Margo from Margo's Junkin' Journal was manning the cash register - she has a booth over there doncha know.

Margo has become a sweet friend of mine that I don't get to see enough - she's going 90 MPH all the time with her hair on fire. Her booth is well-stocked at all times - if you've not been over there, YOU NEED TO GO! I don't know where Margo gets her energy!  We meet up at our local favorite Mexican Food restaurant from time to time to catch up! Here's a shot of Margo and Bill,one of the owners - he's real nice!

You really should see this place - might take you a couple of days. There are so many different vendors and lots of tastes and styles of antiques, vintage items, and junk - good junk, mind you - repurposed industrial junk decor is the "newest thing" in junk, so I hear.

This is a lovely lady from around Canton, Texas, way - meet Elaine, from Soggy Bottom Flats Quilting & Stitching.  You should go visit her blog - she quilts beautifully and she has a gob of blogging friends that do, too! 

Of course she was drawn to all the quilting stuff right off!  Here she is again checking out some squares amidst some of the ever-so-cool stuff for sale!!!  Happy hunting Elaine! It was SO nice to meet you!!!

See the tan slender lady behind the popcorn machine?  She's Sherri, Bill's wife. Together, they have a great thing going here at Our Little Corner!

You see that old vintage Coke cooler?  Well, I WAS TOO LATE. I wanted it bad, but it was done got. Dang.

Hey, go inside and tell somebody to come out here n move their big ole Mercury out from the front of the store so's I can take a decent picture!!!!!  If you wanna see more pictures of the sale, go check out Margo's blog, and also Our Little Corner's blog!!!

Well, there you have it folks.  My trip to Our Little Corner.  I did not spend any $$$ which was good, cuz my husband keeps tellin' me that I don't need any more junk. Can you believe that?  But I DID get to meet Elaine, a bloggy friend, and I got to see my friend Margo again.  Margo, I got a hankerin' for some enchiladas, girl!

Let's Hear It For The GIRLS!!!

My daughter put the whoop on her brother and PopPop last Saturday.  My little tomboy all grown up into a girly-girl kicked butt on their fishin' trip.  Princess has been wantin' to go fishin' but has been away at school, so when she got home Thursday afternoon, she called my daddy to take her.  Her big brother also went. Princess hasn't been in awhile, but you flat couldn't tell.  Daddy and bro were cryin' when it was all over.  See what I mean ---

Just gonna show you pics - Daddy took them to a private lake up here - it was so beautiful. I've gone with him to this lake, too.

Look at this lunker!!!  She got several fish that would go 5-6 lbs or better!

Ok, son, it's about time - you gonna let your little baby sister make you look bad???

OK, son, she's several up on you now!  Here's another big 'un!

WHat's the count now???

I'd be ashamed if I were you, son!  I wouldn't let anybody take my picture with that lil ole minnow!

Ok, that's much better - are you sure that's not your sister's fish? Ok, it's yours. Good.

Good job, Daddy - don't let your little granddaughter show you up!

Twins!  Cool!

Way to go, Pop!

Look at that smile!!!  She had a wonderful time with her PopPop and her brother. 'Specially when she knew that she was the fisherwoman extraordinaire!!  She wants to give them another fishin' lesson when she gets back home again!  I'll bet she will, too!

Take care peeps - been busy - I'm visiting and maybe will get to catch up some this weekend. All my guys will be gone to Arkansas to trout fish on the White River for a few days so I'll have some time to myself. I'm looking forward to it!