My wonderful husband has been working in his shop for a while making a new nutcracker.  He made one like it for the Nutcracker Convention this year which was sold and is now in the Nutcracker Museum in Leavenworth, WA.  I thought he was making this current one to sell too.  Well, he surprised me and said that he wants me to have it.     I just love it!  Isn’t it remarkable? He always does...

I was taking out our trash and something in my flowerbed caught my eye……. What the???????? Yep, my daylily had become this little frog’s hiding spot for the day!  I really wasn’t expecting that! Molly was not too impressed……. I’ll be back soon………

No excuses about huge the lapse in posting here.  I am just going to move forward and today seems like a good day to do it.   I am not going to go and ramble on about what we have done since January I am just going to start with some of what has gone on this past weekend with the wildlife around our home. We have had quite a few bright orioles show up at our humming bird feeder this spring.  They normally come for just a couple days and...

Happy New Year!  I hope you’ve had a wonderful holiday season.  We have had a really nice holiday season this year.  Brandon has been on vacation and we have just been hanging out at home and doing some visiting too. Everyone had a really nice Christmas.  Just look at what my sister and brother-in-law sent for me! I just love it!  It looks perfect by our castle. Now it is on to the new year.  I listed Brandon’s newest...

A couple of months ago while planning our trip to Disney, I found a post about the artists they have that create silhouettes.  You can read about them and view the video about them on  Disney Parks Blog. I decided that was definitely something I wanted to have done when we went.  They have a few locations around Magic Kingdom, one on Main Street and one  by the castle on the way to Liberty Square… We had our son’s silhouette...

Welcome to our Halloween Blog Party.  How nice of you to stop by…..Come right this way….. It has been a hectic time around here, so much to do so little time.  But I won’t bore you with all the strange events that have been happening in our abode…..I think first we should sit for a spell and have a couple refreshments and I will show you around…. Help yourself to a cookie….. Or try a cupcake….. I...