Yeah, it's more and more lovely weather!!

       With my photo taking, you might not be able to see it, but that's a mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain in the above photo. It's falling and pinging up against the window right now. Ugh! As if the piles and piles....AND piles...of snow wasn't enough!!

     Oh Well...at least it's pretty to 'look' at! I mean, it could be bags of plastic wrapped garbage falling from the sky, right! ^_^ So....thankfully it's not that!! LOL But oh, y'all! There's soooooo much snow on the ground everywhere!!! O_O
 

      It's the kind of snow you have to dig trenches through, in order to be able to go anywhere. O_O In fact, it's so much snow that there was a news report yesterday about how people with dire health problems couldn't even call an ambulance to come and transport them to the hospital in an emergency if something came up!!
        The ambulances and fire trucks can't drive down the streets in some places...Some side streets have more than 20 inches of snow sitting on them!...and now, this morning, freezing rain will be sitting on top of that!! O_O

     And to add insult to injury, one of my woodpeckers was huddled up, sitting on a low branch, with his head tucked in. :-( I know it's a smart move, considering the ice strips coming down at him from the sky, but still! I wanna see my little birdies chirping and eating. Not hiding...like me!...from the weather! LOL
     By the way, yesterday hubby and I saw two of the birds sitting on the suet feeder, feeding each other...beak to beak! :-) It was so cute!

       Okay...before I move on to studying, wrapping and shipping, and more crocheting, I wanna show you my latest lapel pins I made for my Wuglyees shop!...This one is blue and charcoal gray...

     And this one is black, white and gray!...
 

       Neither one of these two are listed yet, but they will be very soon. :-] Then I've got to get the others photographed and listed too...Actually, I wish I could hire someone to do the photographing and other stuff, and then I could do one of the things I love to do, just crochet!...and these days that's pretty much all I wanna do!! LOL
      Sooooo...off I go! ^_^ Have a good day, Everybody! :-)

Things I Love To Do

I love to lay on the bed in my room,
listening to the whirl of the fan;
And I love to cook in my kitchen,
listening to the sizzle in the pan.

I love to play`oldies`music;
Listening to the beat makes me dance.
And I love to watch sports on t.v.,
and scream when my team has no chance.

I love to walk through my house when its clean;
and light candles that smell nice and glow.
And I love to take naps in the middle of the day,
while I listen to the spanish station turned down low.

I love to crochet things and give them away;
and write personal letters to my friends.
And I love to write poetry to make myself smile-
like this one I did-The End.    

Backyard Frozen Food...And This And That!

       The backyard looks all calm, and just like it does every day, doesn't it?!...until you look at it close! We're in the midst of a kind of storm, of sorts, that's dropping freezing rain all over the place...

      I feel bad for the little birdies! They're gonna have to chip their little beaks to death this morning, piercing through the frozen food (suet)...

       I have to say though, it sure looks pretty close up! :-] ...

     Hubby got such good shots of the little frozen droplets on the tree branch, didn't he?! :-)

      Speaking of frozen...I'm thinking about the parents, teachers and first responders in Newtown Connecticut this morning. I'm sure their lives are feeling a little frozen in time today, with the first burials of the little Sandy Hook Elementary School students happening...Six year olds! :-(

       Do you remember being six?!!...

(Photo/Sticker Calendars from ComfyCozyKeepsakes)

      I was recently reading a child development tracker on the PBS Parents website about what you can generally expect when your kids are six...It's hard to think that twenty children's creative and wide-eyed development was just snuffed out in an instant of a crazy morning...My thoughts go out to all of the relatives, friends, acquaintances, and all of those affected...especially the teachers...

(Adult T-Shirt from PersonalTouchShirts)

      In completely other news...something to smile about :-) ...my husband spent the weekend cooking! ^_^ He made homemade chilli with beans...spaghetti with hamburger...a chicken sautee' with celery and butter...lemon squares....and a cheesecake!! :-)

      Most of it you don't wanna see...trust me on that one! LOL There's nothing photogenic about beans and chilli or sauteed chicken and celery!! ^_^ And lemon squares aren't that much better!....but I tried with them!...

       See what I mean?! O_O

       But when they came out of the pan, and were actually cut up into squares...even though hubby had forgotten to get powdered sugar to dust over the top of them, they looked pretty good! :-)

      We puckered our way through a couple of them ^_^ but I think we're done! *smack! smack!*...They were sooooo lemon-y that even hubby wasn't impressed with his own cooking! LOL...Not of the lemon squares anyway!

     He was highly impressed with everything else!...including the half pineapple/half cherry cheesecake he made! :-) ...

    ...although photographing it didn't go so well! LOL...Uhhhh....I think he needs to stick to frozen droplets on tree branches! :-)

      I did have some other stuff to share with you, but I'll wait until tomorrow. My stomach is growling at me! ^_^ Have a good day, everybody. Take a moment today to remember being little...and six.

When Jeff Was A Boy

He had an orange bicycle
that he rode all over town;
A banana-seated 'Stingray',
and its handle grips were brown.

At 12, to make some cash,
he had a great big paper route.
He'd either walk or ride his bike.
Come rain or shine, he would go out.

He had a fast-red wagon
he pretended was a car.
He hauled everything in sight,
from sister's dolls to dirt-filled jars.

He played little league football,
basketball, kick soccer too.
Despite his having asthma
(which his coaches never knew).

He had lots of toys to play with-
matchbox cars and small 'Hot Wheels',
'Pick-up Sticks' and building blocks,
and model planes, which gave him thrills.

All his responsibility
was to take 'Skippy' out to run.
That's all his dog and him would do.
This made his childhood lots of fun!

Now he's older, likes to stroll,
and grow his garden in the yard;
Doesn't hanker for his boyhood.
Doesn't wanna play that hard!