WOYWW #386

Hello fellow deskers~!  Sure hope you have had some great weather in your area. Here it has been an outstanding fall. I think it is the longest period we have had to enjoy the colors.  Normally our wind/rain ruins the beauty.  This was in my sisters yard in town.

My desk has had a few new items laying there waiting for me try out. Our neighbor girl had a Stampin' Up party and I attended.  I got the punch and the stamps. The pie plate is holding cleaned stamps yet to be put away. And Gear dies of Tim Holtz...they were on a sale table.  Loving the Thank You card our host Julia sent to me...Gives me lots of inspiration.. And you can visit her site at the Stamping Ground if you want to play along.  Does anyone know why her link is not a different color anymore?

Short and Sweet today, DH and I are going to the city...it started raining and likes to take advantage of being gone.  He is chopping corn stocks to finish up his fall work.  So a great break for him. Thinking of good places for lunch..

Thanks for visiting and all the kind comments you left last week.

WOYWW #385

Welcome fellow deskers!~  I am so happy to be here playing with WOYWW, our hostess Julia at the Stamping Ground  has all the info you if want to play along, or just visit other deskers.

I really think I have my life somewhat back to having free time.  In my previous post I even got to make my grand children Halloween cards, and post about them if you are interested.

Today my desk is pretty cleared of things. The big owl was a purchase at the hospital gift shop. They have the neatest things. I mostly bought it for the pattern. This one is wood, but I was thinking of fabric for pot holders or paper for fall displays or greeting cards.

I just took some pumpkin muffins out of the oven and they smell delicious.  While at Walgreen Drug I picked up  a Starbucks can of flavored Green Coffee Lemonade by mistake, I wanted some Coconut Water to make a pumpkin latte. But hey this stuff is great a revitalizing energy drink.  Good thing Walgreen"s is 40 miles away.  I'll stock up next trip.

Also someone (BJ)  of you asked me what a Rubber Maid was.  Here in the states it is a rubber/plastic tote to store things in.  And most people think I have stock in them.  I moved 35 of them from our basement storage to our garage, when the water crisis was going on.  I now have some extra room for a better way to store my crafty items.  Will share photos when I am done with that project.

  It has been a beautiful fall here.  Cold nights, lovely temps during the day and our tress have had such an array of color for a long time.  Certainly my favorite time of the year.  Have a wonderful week.  Thanks for stopping by.

WOW...an Unexpected Post

 I actually have had some time to create. AND my computer allowed me to transfer photos that I can share with you.  I consider this my lucky day !!!   Thanks for stopping by.  We are having a beautiful fall day here in Iowa.  The leaves this year have wonderful color and have lasted through some nasty winds.  My DH is in the field, combining corn, beans are finished except for the ponds that still need to dry out.

With Halloween just around the corner, I needed to make my grand-kids a card and get off in the mail. I sure wish they lived closer, so they could stop in for treats, fun updates and kisses good-bye.

                             Assembled and ready for the envelopes to mail.

                                 Backsides of the little tag. Each tag will hold some money for their spending

Well it was a fun little day, still have a little organizing to do in this area of our family room but little by little I'll be caught up.  Hope you are enjoying a lovely day.  Thanks for the visit.

WOYWW #393

Welcome, sorry I've been MIA.  We were hit by lots of rain, I am thankful we did not have any in our basement. We were surrounded by it, especially in our pasture to the west. It left 2 days ago. 19 Inches in 2 wks.  3 or our neighbors had water in their basements and worked so hard to move out things.  Our little town  was hit hard, most  had between 3 to 8 inches in their basements.

The path to my desk is totally blocked, but all this mess. 

Last week I spent Fri/Sat moving 40 some rubbermaids out of the storage area where the drain is and got other things to higher grounds.  All the photos down there were brought upstairs. So I've had a mess everywhere.  This week I moved the rubbermaids to our garage.  It was a wake up call to clear out, sort and donate. Hoping to use the cleared up area for part of my crafty space, which will give me a more tidy place to work.

Needless to say my DH was frantic, crops were damaged, sitting in water so long. But this past week he was able to harvest beans on the higher grounds and work around the ponds. Corn will be next if we don't get much of the foretasted rain for tomorrow.  I've had lots of photos on Facebook but not really been around my computer to do any blogging.

I spent Tuesday with my mom's care plan review and cleaning her apartment. Today I will take her from the nursing home back to her assisted living apartment. She is much better and anxious to return. It was not a real good experience. EVERY BUSINESS around is SHORT of help. I do have to find no tie shoes for her so trying to order online as her size is a Wide and most don't carry that in stock.  I visited 4x a week as to follow up on making sure they were doing the therapy and keeping her involved rather than sedated.  I am not a believer in medication.

Besides all of this we had at least 6 funerals in our area So it also made me realize my problems were not so bad, just time consuming.  Stop over at Julia's  Stamping Ground  for our weekly adventures of visiting desks. Have missed my weekly visits and hoping I can visit this week.

Have a lovely week and Happy to report we are having a lovely fall since it quit raining.