Sorry!

I’ve not been doing anything on my blog lately! Life seems to be getting in the way these days. One crisis after another any more. It’s been really tough going around here lately and some people just don’t make it any easier, that’s for sure!
I hope to catch up on a few cards I’ve made recently, I’m really behind. Hopefully I can add some pics in the next few days.
Holidays are creeping upon us and it will get busier for me.
Winter weather is trying to come in and cold weather takes it’s toll on me. Hoping for a calm winter this year.
Hope you all are having a good day!

Veterans Day

Being the wife of a Veteran that served in the Viet Nam War, I want to thank Rudy and all Veterans for what they have done /are doing for our country.

Rudy served our country for 5 years, Basic at Fort Ord, California, AIT at Fort Knox, Kentucky, a year in Viet Nam (he was only 18 when he went over there), Fort Carson, Colorado, California National Guard, then finally Fort Lewis Washington.

Alot of people don’t know what the Veterans have sacrificed doing their duty for our country.

I just hope the Veterans coming home these days do not have to suffer like the Viet Nam Vets have. They came home to no welcome, no jobs, no help from the VA, struggling to get their lives put back together. Some are still struggling today!

Thank you to all of the Veterans!

It’s a rainy day!

It’s dark and rainy today, very gloomy!

Not alot going on around here lately. Need to post more often and do more crafting.

Holidays are creeping upon us and there’s always alot  to do!  I really need to design my Christmas cards and get busy!

I see ideas all of the time, but don’t have the tools to do them. Who’s got money these days, not I!

Life Quote

There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox~

Many times we hurt the people we love and never look back!

Life!

Life can be a little overwhelming at times, but still goes on!

Ever feel like life is just passing you by and leaving you behind? That’s the way I feel these days.

I always have all of these things I want to get done, but there is never enough time or energy to do them. What happened to my life, I used to do so much!

Weather here in the Northwest has been ever changing, hot to cool and back to hot next week. We got a little rain yesterday, hadn’t had rain in awhile here.

My garden is doing ok. Lots of bell peppers, I’ve made stuffed bell peppers twice now. tomatoes are doing ok, the first of the crop had some problems, but looks like they are doing fine now. Cucumbers and squash have slowed down a bit, guess because of  the cooler weather. That’s all I grow these days, I don’t have my huge garden any more.

I really need to be planning my Christmas cards, still not done that yet this summer and it was on my summer to do list! Waste of time to make lists anyway, never get them done!

It’s been quite awhile since I did any of my crafting, it used to consume my life!

“Life Goes On . . . One Day at a Time!” That’s the motto I live by these last few years.

Rudy – last night!

On Sunday, the lamp went out on Rudy’s big screen tv. He was not a “Happy Camper” either!

So to watch tv on Sunday evening, he had to sit in the dining room and watch my kitchen tv until bedtime!

Well Monday evening, he said that wasn’t happening again!  He moved his recliner from the living room and it’s now in my dining room.

The tv is sitting on the other end of this counter.

He ordered the new lamp through Samsung, should be here by Friday, I’ll believe that when I see it!

Jakob loves to pretend he’s Papa when he’s here and watches tv in Papa’s recliner too!  He even asked me one day if he could take Papa’s chair home with him.

July 19,1975 (sad day for our family!)

Was a day that totally changed our lives!

Rudy had just gotten out of the Army on 7-8-75, we were still unpacking from our move from Ft. Lewis, WA back home to Cottonwood, CA.

Mona was 3 years old, Gina and Nee’ were 8 months old and I was  about between 28 – 32 weeks along in another pregnancy. (The doctors and Madigan Med Ctr, Tacoma, WA kept changing my due date , back and forth from Oct. to Sept.)

On the night of 7-18-1970, I woke up about 2 am and was hemorrhaging. Rudy rushed me to the hospital, after dropping the girls off at my parent’s house. The next morning when they did emergency caesarean, Rachelle Dawn Morris arrived, weighing 1 lb 5 1/2 ozs. They never measured her length. She was flown from Redding, CA to San Francisco, CA. She only lived 9 hours 29 minutes. I never got to see her, only Rudy and my Mom saw her before they flew her to Mt Zion Hospital.

The girls grew up knowing their baby sister had passed away right after she was born.

We have no pics of Rachelle, only a very primitive ultrasound and cannot see much of anything in it. Ultrasounds sure have improved over the years!

Rachelle, we miss you so much!