Cleaning

The Packers won another in the last minutes of the game. I believe Brett loves the excitement.
I was thinking of putting a small Christmas tree up in my computer room but first I had to do some major cleaning. Who likes to clean I wonder? Well the cleaning is mostly finished and maybe tomorrow my husband will get the tree down from above the garage and I will put it up and decorate it early. It will be nice to come in here with the lights on the tree etc. Cleaning got someone some nice things I believe because I took out 10 bags of Clothes etc. Things I have not used in awhile and I think someone else can get some use out of. I don't know how it happens but I have more than I can use in 2 lifetimes. Its actually fun to send it off to someone else. Some darn nice things too but How can I use so much. Its a lot neater in here now and I am going to benefit from that. Now if I only remember not to bring so much stuff in. Ive had it both ways ... too little and too much. Too little is easier to clean, lol
My diet went well too because while I was cleaning I didn't think of eating. So I lost the pound I gained after starting my diet and 1.5 more. Not bad. I should have enough incentive now to stick with it. would be nice to spend the summer gardening without huffing and puffing.
Hope your day is going well, Sandra

Good Morning,

Its a cloudy day here in Green Bay and looks like we will be getting rain... not snow. We are all ready for the snow though if it should happen to come.Everything is put away and cut back or pulled out etc etc etc. Leo even put lights on the evergreens in the front already. We won't turn them on though until after Thanksgiving sometime. Its just that its so much easier to put them on before it snows.
The above picture is one I put in my calendar. I thought the clover and the spots on the deer was pretty and it kinda matches doesn't it.
Yesterday I started a diet and gained a pound.... what do you think of that? It's just not fair is it. My husband knows I retain water and it has been very humid so he says its a water gain... I will go along with that but cut back some more I guess. I thought I would have lost a half because I did cut back and worked outside yesterday plus went shopping ~ I guess I have to try harder or just not weigh myself everyday. Anyone else picking this time of the year to start a diet? But if I don't I will really be chubby by the first of the year. Seems I am always dieting but I will hang in there. Wish me luck. I need all the "luck" I can get.
Hope your having a nice day today!  sandra

The Making of a Calendar

I spent all day yesterday on the computer and looking for pictures I have taken during the last year to make a calendar. You have no idea how many pictures I had to go through to do this and then take them off the disk and put them into the site. It looks like it will be a good one though. All the pictures are of Animals and if this turns out I have one with flowers waiting to be sent out. I hope it turns out nice so I can have a new hobby. Wish I would have thought of it sooner as it would have made nice Christmas presents at a fair price too. darn. Deborah you did remind us of this awhile back and I put it in the back of my mind. Christmas is coming so fast now that I want to do things like this for everyone.... darn darn darn. Maybe I can do early for next year ... well as soon as they will do the 2006 calendars.
  Hope everyone is having a nice day today!  Sandra
This picture is one I want to put on the cover of my next calendar.

Just a cloudy Monday

I just had to add another picture of the ducks and then its the last I guess. I love ducks! :>) This picture turned out so good I just can't believe it. I printed one out and it looks like a professional picture postcard. Not that Im bragging its just the camera doing its job and the ducks were all looking at me because I had some corn to feed them.
  After church yesterday we went for breakfast and then shopping at Kohls. They had a nice sale and I got a coupon in the mail for another 30% off so I had to go... got 2 christmas presentsand a few other things. Came home to watch the race( got pretty exciting) and the Packer game after the race. It was an early race and a late game. The Packer game got exciting too. We were winning and then the Vikings tied it up and we got the ball at the end and made a field goal to win ... wow. High scoring game too. One to talk about for awhile for the guys I guess.Thats all they seem to talk about in Green Bay, now that the election is over that is. Aren't you glad its over? I just hated getting all those phone calls and junk mail. Didn't like how it turned out but sure am glad its all over.
Now I have to go and get some work done. Have a good day and hope the health issues are getting better for my friends in Georgia and Tenn. God Bless.  Sandra

Beautiful sunny day

I wanted to take a picture of my Christmas Cactus this morning and Charlie had to come and see what I was doing... Aren't cats great. I couldn't have gotten him to pose like that if I tried. I had the cactus outside all summer and when I brought it in I put it in this big pot ( couldn't find the right size) and a week or so later it started to get buds. I thought I was going to have to throw this plant away but its getting pretty now. I guess all it wanted was some fresh air and a bigger pot, :>)
  I still don't think I want to do Thanksgiving this year... I have done it and done it and I think its time for a nice long break. I have done it every year since we were married except for the 2 first years when we go invited somewhere else. It was fun in the beginning but after the kids started getting married and having kids, well it was still fun but every year it seems to have gotten harder and harder and I got pooped out to put it bluntly. You see I always do everything and with feeding 24 its just too much. Thats why noone else does it because its too much. I still haven't told the kids though so we shall see.
Today I got caught up on all my mending. Leo surprised me with 5 pair of jeans he said he wanted shortened and I did 3 pairs of pants for me and made 2 little pillows. Now I have to go to the store and get Gary a tape he wants for his birthday today and see what I can come up with for cake and ice cream for him. Leo went fishing of coarse.... Its cold out but nice and sunny and he said fishing is coming to an end and he wants to see his friends and catch another fish or two...
So that is our day so far. Hope the sun is shinning for you too, Sandra

Getting Cooler

I thought I would add a few more pictures of the Wild Life Sanctuary.
Its easier putting them all in this way and I can add more
pictures. Teri is back in Orlando now and we miss her already.
Now our weather is cooling off. It held out until after she left.
The same thing happened when Mike was here in September we got such beautiful weather then too.
My kids want me to have Thanksgiving here again this year but its so much work. I didn't have it last year and I guess they missed it. 24 people in my house is a lot all at once and I don't know if I can keep my composure for a whole day of that... I'm trying to talk myself into it. My daughter says she would help but she doesn't even cook at home... her husband does all the cooking. Iam torn ...... We shall see I guess.

Wild Life Sanctuary

I went to the Wild Life Santuary yesterday with my daughter Shari and Daughter in law from Florida, Teri. We had a lot of fun and took a lot of pictures. My camera dial moved from Auto to Program though so all the pictures didn't turn out. I'm going to have to check that more often I guess. About 50 pictures did turn out though so I got lucky. We had corn to feed the ducks and as soon as they saw that they were all over us... look at the late comer flying in for a treat. One of them was so anxious he even took a piece out of  my hand... It kinda surprised me. Anyway it was a beautiful sunny day. I think the last time I was there was with Teri about 6 years ago. I miss doing all this fun stuff with her. Wish she and Mike would come home to live again... At least now they both know they are wanted. They do like the warm weather in Florida though so time will tell.
Did anyone see the Northern Lights the last 2 nights? I didn't see the most spectacular part but I did see the lights. They were very colorful this time. Most times I see them I only see the white lights... Hope you saw them too. 
Sandra