Grateful

What are you grateful for? Today is my husband's birthday. We just finished dinner, having a family favorite birthday meal. Bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches and Pringles. We don't have this often, so it is a treat. I show you the lettuce because it is one of the healthiest things on the table.
In addition to enjoying dinner conversation we are listening to the stereo. Currently playing is The Grateful Dead, oh, and the TV is on, tuned to PBS which is airing Lawrence Welk's show highlights.
So, what am I grateful for? My family, good times, and tonight, I am grateful the stereo is louder than the TV.



Happy Birthday Sweetie!!


words and photos by Janet,The Queen of Seaford.

No Candles But Lots of Neon and A Milkshake

Today is my birthday and we went out for dinner. Since it was my choice I wanted to go somewhere to get a milkshake. One of the best milkshakes comes from a place called "Cheeburger Cheeburger".   Cute place, lots of neon lights, chrome and linoleum furniture and some great onion rings too!! Now I need to loosen my belt.

Where in the Heck Have You Been????

I know I have been MIA for a little while. I have good excuses! Really!

Saturday the 12th we celebrated my mom's birthday. It was a milestone birthday and so we were in surprise mode. My sister flew in from Kansas and my brother and his wife flew in from Illinois. Our daughters drove in and as did two nephews and a fiancée. Boy was my mom surprised!!

There was silliness-

and Skyler wanted to get into the action-












And of course some wonderful gifts.....my sister did a signature quilt for her--- a true treasure! here is a link to her blog's posting of the quilt.

So the week before everyone came I was cleaning and putting up Christmas decorations. Busy busy.















After we put my sister back on the plane on Monday we headed down to South Carolina. It was time to pick cabinets, countertops, flooring, faucets and other plumbing items. On our way down the highway we got an offer to stay at a lakehouse...instead of a hotel! Sweet deal. It was really foggy when we got to Greenwood, but we did find the house. The next morning the fog was still hanging around.

Not a bad view even with the fog! The only drawback was we were without internet... what a strange feeling! (Tuesday's Trees will be back this week.)

We drove out to the house. Lots of progress has been made since we were there. The rain has slowed them down a little, but it was great to see it shaping up! You can see the water is high on the dock and there is a tree that floated downstream. The tree was gone the next day.

Great view from the lake.

The siding was getting put on and the windows are starting to be installed.

This big picture window is our dining room window, facing west. With all these trees I don't think the sun will be an issue.

The roof is coming along as well.


Sunrise was pretty impressive when it wasn't foggy. It was worth getting up at 5:30- 6:00 AM.


Will be back around to everyone's blogs and try to catch up a little. Time to get into the Christmas mode now!

If It Were Your Birthday.... and an update on more cakes

Today is my oldest daughter's birthday....I did a cake for her like one I had done many years ago...twice. Guess how old my little girl is????

24

I have fun kids!

Do you want a cake like this??? I am adding more pictures, small in size, click on any to enlarge. These were scanned photos from birthdays past. We have fun with cakes--and spend very little $$ on them.