i am so sorry, i spelling was really off last week i have not been sleeping well and so i feel like the walking dead but i have recovered untill the rain hits then i will have to brace myself again , i posted some cards i am been working on this week, hope you like them!

sat we invited the gang over mike joined us for a little bit so we tired our hand at the 80s game ronnie and not pictured devon won i don't know how! we had a great time i love these people. sadie is getting in on the action she just loves to love on people i call her my attention whore she just cant get enough from any one. i am grateful that i found her and she was not microchip ed or tagged during that time there was a lot of foreclosed home i cant just say just then there still is alot of them but i think someone just left her and i went to the local store to get bacon which i was craving i told her if you are here when i get out i will take you home and she sat by the entrance of the store so i bought her home and this has been over 2 years ago so it was meant to be.

Sat got up we went to the local red robin and had lunch i like there apple , goat cheese salad but with the Chinese dressing. we cleaned the house because it really needs it it is only 2 of us and 2 dogs but this house gets so dusty how i don't know? the above picture is of my birthday gift part of it there are 7 framed prints i have many more but this is what we brought home on the train over Easter i love them i have been collecting old crate labels for years they are from local cities around our home town. it reminds me of all the fresh produce that was always in such abundance i miss that my mom and i would can tomatoes, pickled okra, make jams, and dry fruit , i did not understand the importance back then but i did pay attention and still have some knowledge, so this summer i am going to try canning some of our fruit and veggies and if i cant get enough i will head to the local produce stand. most of all i miss my moms tomatoes so juicy !

It must be 5:00 pm because i have a bloody mary and i am scrapping! ronnie makes me bloody mary's when i am off and they are the best i have ever had maybe we will bottle it? friday i met up with lisa and we had lunch at on the border yum! i love there spinach enchilada's and em pandas yummy! then we ran around i found some cool blue pots for the backyard everyday i try to do something back there so it will be pretty by summer and it will feel like we are on vacation. ronnie bbq steak and made his grandmas rice yummy! we watched our tivo'ed AI which i think the right people went home, love ADAM i think he has already won and if not he will get a record deal! and i will buying his cd he reminds me of the cure and edward cullen for those of you that is the main person in twilght. sooo cute, sorry ronnie. we also watched Hells kitchen we think danny may win it is OK not great we both like top chef better the chefs seem more exciting and really try different ideas which we like because we really do experiment in the kitchen.

This is a picture of my front yard garden it really has grown i think it does'nt look as bad as when i first started you could see the pots but now you cant so it just looks like a bunch of plants in a once barren spot.

here are some of the plants that i planted in the backyard there is a lot of green but no color so i am trying to plant color inbetween the green areas but planting around the pool is hard i was standing on rocks trying to balance my self so i would'nt fall in the water is still to cool to go swiming. some of the kids in the neighborhood have already started, to cool for my old bones.

this is my strawberry plants in the front yard, the first three birds got to them but now u have nets over them and so we ate our first red ones on tuesday. yummy i can't wait till i get more!

this picture was taken monday morning no one wanted to get out of bed, the weather is heating up monday i was off so i planted plants in the back yard for the first half of the morning then i stayed inside scrapbooking, i am trying to get the yard ready for summer i also have been working on my garden the fromt yard has been dping pretty well the back yard garden not so much it is the perfect spot up againist the house but it does'nt get enough sun so i may put them in pots and move them during the day.

sunday easter we left early got home and stoped at the store we got ham, boston cream pie and scalloped potatoes and we have aspargus left in the fridge from our neighber brian i stayed in bed and ronnie cooked dinner this is the first time he used our rotissie it came out soo good ! we had a great easter just the two of us.

we ate all the gumbo so ronnie made marnara sat yummy it looks like we are helping but mia and ana just jumped in , i love how we can get together, cook and have a good time!

we are here we made it and david had a huge pot of gumbo made yummmy! mia and tony came to pick us up at the train station and drove us to moms , all the while they hide my bday gifts once we settled in i got my gifts tony had framed some of my crate labels which i have been collecting for years he did such a great job what a wonderful gift! i will post pictures of them once ronnie hangs them, i also got a huge bag of gifts from ana and david thanks everyone i truley feel loved! saturday jen and daniel came to see us and and hang out i haven't seen her since last year and daniel is getting so big mia and i snuck over to the local goodwill because i have become obcessed with finding ronnie shirts, nothing for him but i found 2 shirts and a dress.

friday april 10th, we are taking a train home it should only take about 4 hours but it is a nice ride, we bring movies and snacks and sometimes a little bloody mary's and we are ready this picture is of the sacramento train station . i love this station it is one of the oldest in california so the inside of the building is beautiful there is also a huge mural but i will have to scrap that for you to see.

more of my reading material the dog on the front of this book is the pattern for my brown dog in a earlier post. i love it i can't wait till i have more time to sew or try to sew because what i do is just putting stuff together if you ask me to put a shirt together it would come out looking like a outfit for one of my monsters i have sew'ed

i went to my favorite used bookstore last week and here is my new reading material i am half way through a quarter of a orange great book ! the author is very descriptive everything sound yummy!! it has been raining off and on so much i need to do but i rather read.

i found this doggie template in a new book i got yesterday 'SOFTIES only a mother could love" such a cute book this is crusty as my hubby calls him i wanted brownie or coco he looks like he has rabbies so funny we kept laughing about him, i am going to try to make more i made him in 1 day maybe sell them? or adopt them out?

after yogurt we headed out to kmart they have planters on sale i got 3 i had to replant my squash it will need a bigger area to grow oh well this is a learing process, my strawberry plants are growing like crazy, as is my mint,and sage hope everything else grows while everyone else is heading to the store i can just pick it and i will know what is in it!

i met up with lisa and we tried a new frozen yogurt place yummy it is called there is i think 3 in this area, they have fresh fruit and cool flavors and you top it yourself i know i will be a regular during the summer!

april 6th, 2009 i got up early headed to green aces nursey, this place is awsome i guess everyone got the memo, it was so busy, i have noticed more and more people are trying to garden, i say trying because that is what i am doing, ronnie wanted hot peppers so i picked up 5 different kinds, i kind of got carried away i also picked up, watermelon, cantulope, more basil because i have already tired to grow it and it has already failed so for 1.50 i can't go wrong !

these pics were taken on my bday, i woke up in such a bad mood upset crying but then my friend called and invited me to a movie and lunch we had one of my favorite's lucilles bbq then we went and saw a haunting in contecut it was good scary she keep grabing my arm and i keep on laughing because that is what i do when i am scared i know werid, i got cards in the mail and presents from my friends and family thank you it ended up being a great day! ronnie made me dinner i wanted rib eyes, and some kind of potatoes not the usual comfort food for a girl but this is what i wanted it turned out great then we whatched our tivo'ed AI yea that country oil guy went home i never really liked him, but none of the other contestants really did that well, it was a let down april 2 2009