Jeanette's Blog

Well it started off that Harp was going to have her first sleepover Saturday.

She came early. It was foggy out.

It ended up being just a great weekend as we had Ron and Suz to show up ,they wasn't for sure they could make it or not. I am so glad they made it down. Thank goodnes they didn't call Suz in Saturday to work. I think they wait til 10 to see and then headed down.

I am glad as I didn't have to do all the playing with Ryan and Harp.

Ron made spegetti sauce and brought down for Saturday ,I got the garlic bread and let Brenda cook it. I did the salad tho right out of the bag. (Washed it first tho).

Truman Lee smoked tenderloin for Sunday, I bought stuff for red bean's and rice and Brenda fixed it.

Suz said it wasn't his spegetti sauce ,something was missing. But it tasted pretty darn good to the rest of us.

All my kid's were here Saturday and Sunday to eat,Just a few grandkid's were missing. But we had a ball.

 Inside are some picture's.

I have alot of video but it will be awhile or never before I get them done.

Enjoy the weekend we had and hope it was as fulfilling to you as it was to me.

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Finished?

Ok this is the first year for me to plant Moonflower's.

The leave's are huge. I have been anticipating for the bloom's to appear as they have grown up and over thing's I have planted them around.

Well I noticed a closed bloom yesterday morning. I looked around and I told Truman  "Man,when it get's in full bloom they are going to be loaded."

He said " Yeap".

I didn't look at them lastnight as I passed at 10:30, (Will have to look and see if they are opened tonight also,as they are suppoe to be night bloomer's.)but this morning they are great.

BUT!!!! Not what I expected.

I expected white flower's, like a big morning glory.

Well they are like a morning glory but not white.

By next weekend they will be really full with bloom's everywhere I have them planted.

Look inside at what they looked like this morning .

Ok been busy as most people have.

Don't have much time to blog or to read them.

Just wanted to say

I just checked out the main page of the blog's and not much new stuff on there  plus old picture's.

Webteam must be busy .

I did put some new picture's in my folder's yesterday.

I miss the blog's  and talking to people.

I do check the blog's  I get email's on and see some new name's tonight   but not to many old name's. ( I only go to new's and entertainment ya know, first page only )

I am sure it will pick up this winter when the weather is bad.

I hope it does anyway.

I don't want this site to get boring like the other Fox city's.

Just want to let ya all know I miss ya.

Take care , C'ya  around.

 He will not like me doing this.

But I still can whip if I have too.

He is 38 today but he is still our baby boy. LOL.

Happy birthday kiddo.

Nope didn't bake him a cake.

He is suppose to be in for a few hour's tonight. I will throw him some money without even a card.

OMG !!!!!   What kind of mom and dad are we???

But I love flower's bed's. 

I went for a walk yesterday through the yard to see how everything is doing.

Thing's are reblooming. Bee's and butterfly's,Hummingbird are very busy. I hate the thought of cold weather and not seeing color in the yard.

This is the first year my hibicus has bloomed . Wgere we had them they didn't like it. So Truman dug it up few month's back and split it in half and replanted in flower bed. He did not realize that this plant get's big so we will probably have to move them next year or they will be out in the drive way. I really didn't think they would bloom this year transplanting them so late.

The veggie's aren't doing well, but the flower's are.

Inside are some more.

If you have any picture's of the flower's in your yard.

Go ahead and post them here.

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Last weekend we had planned a surprise party for Harp's 50th Birthday,

I know Ron has done a blog on it. But I have some different thing's to add and just now have the time to do this.

As you know it started Friday with Ron and Suz coming down. Saturday Marley showed up .

It was hot but that is ok we dealt with it. We stiil enjoyed playing outside and inside with Ryan.

Suz got suckered into playing with him this time.

Whew I got a rest here and there.

I love the way he say's suz. It is just to darn special.

Quite a few showed up Sunday for Harp's party. Wish more could of made it.

I sent out invitation's early and even sent reminder's a few week's before.   But a few forgot about it.

I sent email's to people who I had email's on. I could not blog it as it was a surprise.

Oh well maybe we can all get together again soon with Harp..

Thing's get planned and thing's get  forgotten. Some where on vacation. But no harm done.

It was a great time. You all just missed it that  get to make it, But sure you enjoyed whatever you were doing Sunday.

Inside are some picture's and video's and you all know me I have to tell a story along with them.

So be patient ok.

Truman is one of these guy's that is alway's building something out of car/truck's. Whatever. He just love's getting an idea and going with it. In the end if it work's he is trilled. If it don't he try's something else.

He has built his own dump truck's big and small, Oh !  in the 42 year's I have been married to him he has come up with some doozie's.

But it help's keep his mind going and his hand's

2 year's ago he bought a ditch witch backhoe arm. Why who know's. He didn't want to fix it for the tractor as he would have to take it off and on to much.

So it layed down along the shed. Wait for some action.

1 year ago he bought an old pick up truck. Lightbulb went off. I am going to put that back hoe arm on that pickupp. So off and on for a year he has been cutting the frame down on that pickup and getting it ready for this backhoe.

Well today he got his lastpiece ready and it is time for him to get this arm over to were he can work with it ,to see what he has to do to get it to work.

It took him awhile but he finally got it chained ti the back of the pick up and over where he can have something to help lift it and stablize it so he don't get hurt.

So inside are some picture's of it today and when he get's it done and working I will post another blog. So you can see what it does.

Now mind ya it may take another year or two.

He only work's on it when he feel's like it or has the time.

To hot out there for me today but he has been working on this all day. But he might not get to touch it for another monrh or more.

He really is in his element when he can do stuff like this. But he scare's me silly. Getting to old for this.

Picture's inside

I know ya all get tired of hearing about this greatgrandson of our's (Ryan).

But he is just a blessing from heaven above.

All my family is no matter how honery they are.

Our greatgrand daughter  we don't see any at all. She will be 2 in August and we have seen her once. Her mommy and daddy just don't know what she is missing out on not being around us. But they are young and busy and have another one on the way. I believe a little boy this time. So they have their plate's full and we never know where they are living to go see them. I am sure she is as much fun as Ryan.

Today was a good day as Truman was home to play with Ryan also. Brenda is feeling better and walked down with him twice to get out of the house. As she had him while  his mommy and daddy went to that great ball game they had today.

So enjoy as we did. As this is one rotten kid and yes we did it.

As you all know our daughter has been sick and ended up having gallbladder surgery. Well she watches Ryan which is her grandson.

So that mean's me as greatgrandma got to step in to help out. Wednesday  I had him from about 9 A.M. until Thursday around 2:00 P.m.

I have only had him over night once when he was a baby and was not sure how this would work out for a sleep over.

Well it worked out great because Truman was here to help play with him.

I also had him today. Now today was a whole different story. OMG I am wore out .I was the only one here to play with him .Well I did operate the camera alot too.

I am posting some picture's and video's of the 3 day's.

Lot's of video of today and you will see why I am wore out.

You may want to watch them here and there or take a nap after watching.

OMG what fun today.

We picked Harp up at 9 and headed for the Villa.

On the way we stopped at a yard sale in Hillsboro. I had picked alot of stuff up for the auction were we having to raise money for wilky and his family and KKmom and her family.

Well Harp see this little kid's dish set and ask the lady how much it was. The lady said you can have it because it had  a broke piece. Harp said we can sell this at the benefit.

Well this wonderful lady said is this stuff for a benefit. I said yes it is. She said well you can have it all and even went in her home and brought more stuff out.

OMG! I thought for awhile we were going to have to make Harp walk .I didn't think we could get  it all in our car as it was pretty full from our stuff.

But we made it.

So, Thank You to the lady on Marywill Dr. in Hillsboro for that wonder thing she did to help us out.

I feel so bad as I did not get her name.

Inside are alot of picture's of the day.

We didn't sing alot or dance alot as this year we were on a mission to have fun and raise money to help 2 family's  out with whatever we could raise.

I myself think there was a pretty darn group of people there today.

Again, I thank for 2 for this blogging thing that brought  us all together .

Well I think we did great for no more that  was there.

Jana called me and said we raised $720.00 . So that $360.00 each for the family's we were there to help out.

We had several raffle's and a live auction. About time we started the live auction a storm came in and we had to move to the inside. I do believe Marley won the most stuff on her ticket's she bought.

Thank's everyone for your participation.

I was a fun and good day.

Ok let's get to the picture's and I have alot of them.

Everyone who has picture's can add them here or do you own blog. Don't matter.

I feel great just knowing we all pulled together and helped two family's and had so much fun doing it.

We had a BBQ and 80th birthday party we went to Friday at a nabor's. It was nice to see some of Sam's kid's ,grandkid's and greatgrandkid's. The food was wonderful.We had a good relaxing time trying to catch up on thing's with them. Later that evening the kid's had a campfire and a few firework's we went down and enjoyed watching. To many people in surrounding area's to go watch them. Plus they scare me too. But what the kid's had were not fancy and just big enough. We could hear the firework's from all around us. Wow some of them rumble the ground before you could hear the popping. Some from the nabor's we could see over the tree's. It was unbelievable how cool it was the fourth.

Then Saturday I get a IM from Ron and Suz. Suz is off could they come down. Well yea!!!! They may not get to go to BBQ they needed their Harp fix. Oh sure we IM with her everyday but not the same as in person.

So they arrived and our kid's were doing hot dog's and hamburger. So they got here in time for supper.

I Phoned Willie Harp's mom and ask if she could meet us down at Dairy Queen in Farmington about 7:30. Told her Ron and Suz was with us but don't tell Harp.

We ate and visited for awhile. Ron and Suz took Ryan in the boat for awhile. Then to  Farmington we headed.When Willie pulled in Harp was rockin' to the radio and didn't even see us. I said 3 time's Harp what ya dancin" too and the third time she looked up and was very surprised.

Ron and Suz had sat on the curb behind our vehicle. There was a dead muskrat or baby groundhog dead in front of where we parked. So I got Harp over there to look at it and finally she noticed Ron and Suz. She was really surprised as Willie didn't even tell her we were going to be there.

Then Sunday Harp got to spend the day out here ,She brought some hot dog's and deviled egg's her mom made ,Harp, Ron and Suz went to Walmart to pick of a few thing's and Harp got goodie's also. She also taught me how to burn the game CD"s. Yeah!!! Suz and I got about 8 more game's to play.

Inside are some picture's and video's of Saturday and Sunday.

Harp bought Ryan a frog cap. I just seen him Monday to give it to him. We were cutting down some bushes and he heard harold and Brenda had to bring him out as he love's riding that think. We had a few of this group to show up to pick the brush up.

Inside are some picture's of Ryan with his new cap and lending a helping hand.

We aren't going anywhere. Probably work around this negelected yard of our's.

He has Sunday's and Monday's off. So lastnight when he got home he FINALLY said I will have the time to cut this dam out. So he worked 2 hour's lastnight on it to get it started,Then today he has been working on it 12 hour's.He got it cut out OMG! I have been waitng 3 year's for him to do this. He even bought a new Kabota to do this job with . But he don't have time or it is full of water from the rain or it is to dry to work with.

Well believe it or not it was dry all the way down to the 12 foot deep end. But he got started and couldn't really stop on it as the drain pipe we had in it  broke off, He didn't want it to fill witth water from the creek.

He is going to someday get all the dirt moved and tailored out so we will have more to move and the creek running again.(It run's all the time anyway. Just not very pretty with all the grass and deep hole it was in. Was still alot of crawdad's in the dirt also. I believe that is what messed the pond up anyway. But it got to hard to take care of also. We still have the big pond trying to get it to stop leaking.It is keeping a good level now,think he has it about fixed.

Well anyway he wanted to get this done so he could work on his truck he is fixing with a backhoe on it while he is on vacation.

Well I don't think he will be able to move tomorrow from all the shift and jerking and stuff he did today but we will see.

I didn't just sit and watch him either. I got all the tree's in the driveway rounded up the way I like and a few flower pot's weeded. To dry to pull weed out of the flower bed's so two new hose's tonight so I can get the worked up.  All my hose's are out back to water the new grass seed we put in and I hate dragging hose's,so I will just buy two more.

Look inside at the progress he had in 14 hour's. I am so proud of him.

I think it will be one of them vacation's were he will be glad to get back to work to rest.

Here is my blog of the day at the Zoo with some of the fox family.

This poor woman had 4 or 5 camera's taking our picture when we came out of the penquin place. Dan Gray and Michelle4wellness wasn't  there until the very last camera. So Cricky has the only one with all of us. Plus the shot the Zoo employee took which I think Jana got not sure. I have around 300 picture's but probably won't post them all. But we will see now won't we. It will take a while so have patience.

So Let me tell my story of the day Fromm 8 A.M. til 5:30 when we got Harp back home.