Continuing the countdown….

Only 14 days to go on the countdown till Spring.  It is 23 degrees right now with snow showers.  My daughter came over yesterday and finished shoveling my car out.  THANKS!! 

I did run some errands yesterday morning and got started on the spring cleaning.  Nothing drastic but it is a start.  Today I am cleaning out the drawers in the kitchen and putting in new lining.  Not a favorite thing to do but needs to be done.

Sharing some photos from my flowers at my old home.

The hens and chickens were started from some we brought from Jim’s mom’s house many years ago.  I brought two containers of them when I moved here and they are flourishing.

Have a lovely peaceful day.  Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

 

 

Another cold Monday….

at 6 below zero.  We got about 6 inches of snow all totaled and the temperature plummeted.  It is bright and sunny this morning.  It is supposed to warm up a bit gradually this week.  I hope so as I have appointments with my oncologist and surgeon on Friday.  There are 16 more days till Spring.

I went out yesterday afternoon to clean the snow off my car.  When they clean the driveway they blow the snow high behind my car and when they snow blow the sidewalk they blow it up against my tires.  Yesterday about finished me off as it was so cold and the snow was the heavy kind.  I am really hoping this was our last major snowfall of the year as my poor old body can’t take much more. 

From the shrub behind the garage at my old home taken 18 April 2006.  I don’t have anything beautiful like that in my yard here.  Just a magnificent old oak tree in the front yard and lots of squirrels.  I haven’t seen a bird all winter.  Since I am renting I can’t put up a bird feeder.

I am busy doing laundry this morning.  Then I need to do some dusting and cleaning.

I hope you all have a good week.  Stay safe and be happy!

Beth

More snow…

and bitter cold but what else is new.  I am so expecting it.  My car is a giant snowball again and I will have to try and get it cleaned off when the snow is all finished.  The countdown till Spring is hanging in there at 17 days.  Next Sunday Daylight Savings Time begins.  I am not looking forward to that at all.  I will take my daylight in the morning instead of evening.

I am reading a new Lisa Jackson book that I ordered from Amazon titled Memories.  Actually it is two of her books from the late 1990s.  Have you noticed that the really popular authors are releasing a lot of their earlier works at the price of their new books?  I don’t remember reading this one before so I am enjoying it.

A HUSBAND TO REMEMBER

“Nikki Carrothers wakes in an island hospital with no memory of her past, how she got there or of Trent McKenzie—the man claiming to be her husband. Though she's undeniably attracted to him, Nikki's not sure he can be trusted. Even as her memory returns, he's the one piece of the puzzle that remains a mystery.”

 

NEW YEAR'S DADDY

“Veronica Walsh is haunted by the memory of her late husband, having lost him years ago in a ski accident. Now she focuses solely on her daughter, Amy, certain that no man could ever fill the void in her broken heart—until Travis Keegan comes along.”

All material is from www.amazon.com.

Have a peaceful Sunday.  stay safe and be happy!

Beth

I never realized….

how naïve I was until I started dealing with  iPad, iTunes and Amazon MP3 downloads.  You see, to begin with my blogging Twin sent me an iTunes gift card at Christmas,  I had to ask my Twin how to use it.  I did and I downloaded The Essential Ray Price album (41 songs) to my iPad with no problem.  I have an $8.30 credit with iTunes and each time I try to use it I go through such a rigmarole and I am never able to complete it.  

Anyway, I love Johnny Cash.  When I was young  I had all of his albums which are long gone by the way.  On the album ‘Hello I’m Johnny Cash’ is a song called ‘Sing a Travelin’ Song.’  I love that song and I have been trying to find it on a CD for a long time.  Amazon has the CD but it is a remastered foreign version that had bad reviews from ones who had purchased it.  I finally found the original version at Amazon on the MP3 downloads.  It took me hours to get that all figured out.  I have it now on iTunes and my Windows Media Player.  Whew!!

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johnny cash

I will never forget the first time I saw Johnny Cash in person.  It was at Arthur Illinois at the Moultrie/Douglas county fair grounds. 

“ 1969 – Perhaps the biggest Fair before or since in terms of attendance, the Mo-Do County Fair started off opening night with George Jones and Tammy Wynette one of country music’s biggest acts. Only a few were bigger and Johnny Cash with his entire show including his wife June Carter, the Carter family and the Statler Brothers were one of them. They played to a crowd of between 15-20 thousand people. Only the recent Fireworks during Arthur’s Freedom Celebration have ever witnessed such a crowd in one day.”  http://www.moultriedouglascountyfair.com/history/history%20main.html

I remember that there were people on the rooftops of the buildings and in the trees, people everywhere.  It was one of the best times ever.  Somewhere I have some pictures I took that unforgettable night.  You can see that I am a classic country music fan.

I about forgot the countdown till Spring is 18 days!

Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth