AOL Pictures - Welcome

AOL Pictures - Welcome

Vacations Rock

Hey, Just got back from California,Utah, Oregon,and Idaho. Saw the Redwoods. So beautiful!! I loved California. The people were so nice and the ocean too. I got a hooded sweatshirt at the REDWOOD HARLEY DAVIDSON place in Eureka, CA. I love it...Then since I have a tattoo from New York, I thought it would be cool to get a new one from Redding,California. So I did. Yes, this makes 11 tattoos. I collect them. I have them from WI,IL,CO,NY,CA. I know some people just think they are stupid or gross. But hey, everyone of my tattoos, means something. Mom, Dad, Lin, Bob, my love for flowers, now for Brock. This new one is for my grandson. My next one will be for Molly......:) SSShhhh don't tell her. I don't care what anyone thinks of me having tattoos, I love em.
It is nice having Bob home. Right now he is in the yard on a riding lawn mower. He loves it. All his stuff is all over the living room floor. I am biting my tongue. I am doing load after load of laundry. We only have a stacked washer and dryer. It takes forever to dry anything. So I should be done some time next month. ha ha.
Bob and I bought an oil painting in OR. We were walking all over Klameth Falls,OR. We went inside this art place and saw a bright colorful oil painting of three Chili Peppers. Well, the coolest part of this is the artist, Linda Scott, who painted it was there. We love it. We hung it right in our living room. I collect chili pepper things. We love this picture!
We went to a California cheese factory. Very cool, got to sample so many wonderful cheeses. We got to watch them make curds. Curds are my favorite snack cheese. They gave us a sample of them as they were making them. They squeek when you eat them. Oh so good. Oh have to tell you, Klameth Falls, have no falls..We were bummed. But we did go to Crater Lake, and Multnomah Falls. So awesome. Well, that is a lot of info for one blog. I'll end here. We had lots of fun. I love to travel.....Peace

I'm in Redding, California

Hi from California, We are having so much fun. I love CA. We have seen beautiful mountains, the Redwoods, Wow. And waterfalls. It is so beautiful, our country. We are having lots of fun being together after 7 weeks apart. I missed Bob.
Ok, we are off to OR. to Crater Lake. Peace out Yo.....Gail

ON MY MIND............................

June 15th. Here I sit at the computer. So much on my mind. It is warm outside. 76 degrees. I have fans on.
I leave this coming Monday and now I have a dilemma. Bob and I wanted a fence out back so the dogs could run around without running away. I wanted the fence like link fencing. Small so no dogs could come in, and our dogs couldn't get out. Bob put up this huge hog fence outside in the back yard, about 2 Mn's ago. I wanted smaller holes in the fence, but Bob wanted hog fencing . Well, he put an electric wire around it and that worked about 2 weeks total. On and off. Now Izzy has figured out she can walk through the holes in the hog fence. I found her outside of the fence today. Great! My friend is staying here to watch the dogs, while I am gone. I don't want to have her go out looking for the dogs. AAAGGGHHHH. Its always something. Last time it was our since past dog Fay, She ran away the day before we left for IL. Then we get a call from CO. in WI, saying someone found her. DOGS!!!!

On a better light.....
Today was Bob's brother Randy's Birthday. He is single so I called him . He came over and I cooked him a Pork Chop Birthday dinner, with chicken Alfredo, Asiago bread and Mountain Dew. He ate, opened the Tee shirt I got him, then had to leave (phone call) to help his other brother with tools. I am just glad I had the chance to celebrate his Birthday. He is an well digger and works so hard. And gets so dirty. He is a very sweet guy. I love him.

Last night I cooked dinner for Bob's other brother (there are 5) and his wife Melissa. Rex helps a lot hooking up our computer and helping me try to fix the stupid electric fence. But, I love cooking for people. It was fun.

I just have lot on my mind. I am a worry wart. With Bob being gone so long at a time, I am not loving that. Like I've said before, I don't know HOW military families do it. Its not good to be apart so long when you are married. It sucks.

I did spoil myself today. Raspberries and Blueberries were on sale so I got three little containers of raspberries and one container of blueberries. Yum. they are so good. What a good price. $1.00 for the ras. $2.50 for the bl.bs. Yippie for good fruit.

Well, the carpet still looks real nice. I love cleanness. Is that a word? Monday I fly out to meet Bob. Lucky me...........

Happy Father's Day to all you Dad's and Grand Dads. Love, Gail

CLEAN CARPET.....YIPPIE I O

I'm so happy. I have been complaining for months about the look of our living room carpet. It's off white and it was so gross. Spots, coffee, dogs, pop. Well I finally called the carpet cleaning company and they were here the same day. I am so excited. Our carpet now looks brand new. I don't want to walk on it. The guy who did the work had his cute son with him . He was 8. As the dad used the machine, the son sat in it and went for a ride while dad cleaned. So funny. I showed him my collection of Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars. He liked them. Then he saw the frame I have of pictures of Brock, Molly and Mike, and it is covered in buttons that are glued on. I told him "I collect buttons too." He says, "You collect Hot Wheels annnnnnnnnd Buttons? Wow." We also talked about spiders, snakes and the talking Catfish (from Bass Pro) we have outside. He kept walking by it to hear it talk or sing. Kids are so cool. I am just so happy that this carpet got this clean. I so recommend Chem-Dri. Well that's it for now. You can sure tell I don't have an exciting life when I write about carpet cleaning........Sigh

Yippie...................

Jimmy crack corn and I don't care... I'm up and back on our new home computer...Yippie... My brother-in-law came over and hooked everything up for me. I am so excited. Thank you Rex!!!

This morning I went to town and went to a very cool auction. It was all western stuff. Cowboy sculptures, horse blankets, saddles, bronze statues, roping ropes like cowboys use, antlers of all kinds, western pictures, stuffed elk, deer, Bambi, porcupine, bear hides. It was the best. I bid on a lot of neat stuff, but only spent $12.00 on some old horse bits for my father in law. He makes toilet paper holders with them. They are really cool. I had so much fun. I got a sunburn on my face. It has been a fun day.

BUT....we had a huge and long hail storm here today. We have a tin roof and it sounded like a train was going by. I took lots of pictures after. It was gumball size hail. I was just waiting for it to break a window. Very scary. It lasted for a bout 20 minutes. The dogs played in the hail after and loved it. I made hail balls and threw them for Pilgrim and Izzy. It is always an adventure with Colorado weather.

Ok, thats all for now. 16 days til I see Bob.......:)