Visit to Creston

After the rain one day we got a beautiful view of a rainbow outside of Renelle's house over the ridge, it was a huge one and even a double rainbow but I did not get a picture of the double. The other picture is of the three generations who went to the Sunday afternoon tea, it was very enjoyable, the food was delicious and so was the tea. I now know what "clotted cream" is that I read about in all of my historical romances and have now tasted Lapsang Souchong tea, it is a very smokey flavor but very good. "Clotted cream" is basically sour cream that has no sugar added to it so it does not taste like what we would call either whipped cream or sour cream but has a flavor all its own. We had a ball and I will post all of my pictures on the Webshots space so look for an email regarding that. It feels good to be home again although I had a wonderful time. All good times must unfortunately come to an end. Bailey seems to be happy to be home too even though she and Mozart had so much fun together. She traveled very well and her main naughty thing was to bark at Shawn all the time, she has a thing about men. Guess that is about all.

My Great Grand Sons

I finally got a picture of the boys to post on here on Labor Day which was also Cheryl's birthday. Ethan is 3 1/2 months old and Brendon is 4 years old. Seems weird to have them calling me Great Grandma and Scott Grandpa but this is reality now. More of our happy little family. Brendon looks like his Daddy, Marc, and Ethan looks more like his Mommy, Stacey.

Helen

For those of you who always hear me talk about my "other" mother, Helen, here is a picture of her so you can at least have a picture in your head of who I am talking about. Since Dan's death she has really come to rely on me even more than ever as her "next of kin" but I guess that is part of taking care of people that you care about.

My Latest Toy-A New Digital Camera!!!!!

I have finally gone digital! I finally found a camera that I thought was what I wanted in the price range I wanted so now I can take pictures and post them to my blog easier and have them on the computer almost immediately after I take them instead of waiting until I get the film developed and get a picture cd. Pictured above are my three darling spoiled pets, Twinx(dark tortie with blue eyes), Garfield(tabby), and of course, Bailey. I haven't posted in a while because there was nothing new to post. But there will be by the beginning of October when Mom and I get back from what is to be our yearly trek to British Columbia. I will then post more pictures to the blog and also set them up on Webshots again like I have done in the past so that everyone can see them better. Love to all of you!!

This is Bailey(in the back) and Snicker in my comfy old recliner back in January when Bailey was a bit smaller than she is now. Snicker tolerated her antics very well for an old dog. Now Bailey will get used to being the alpha dog and will terrorize the cats even worse than normal.

Sadness for the family

We are all saddened that today we had to put our beloved old dog, Snicker, down. She would have been 14 years old in June, which is very old for a big dog. She was getting senile, had catarracts, was extremely arthritic, was probably diabetic and losing lots of weight, and was just not doing too well anymore. So now I am down to one dog, Bailey, and the two cats, Garfield and Twinx. It will be easier when I go out of town now because most of the time Bailey will go with me and the cats do not need daily care. If Bailey does not go with me, she can spend the day over at Scott and Cheryl's with her littermates, Kassie and Kahlua, they get really crazy when they are all three together. Guess that is all for today. So on top of the joy we are feeling over the new baby in the family, we are saddened by the loss of an old friend, life balances out in all things.

Update on link for baby pix

When you go to the link for the baby pix click on St. Alexius Hospital and then on Birthplace Babies to see pix of Ethan. I am going to see him in the flesh as soon as I get off work tonite.