Pokey Peas Challenge for June 2023

nylene - thank you. I also need to add up May points

grammadee - yay for getting the garden in. Looking forward to today's crop and hoping it'll help my mojo

I got a text yesterday that made me revise my plans and head to my aunt's bedside. She looked kinda the same...but my spidey sense was tingling. I spent the night beside her at hospice - my cousins and uncle happily left her in my care and left to sleep at home. She passed at about 6:30am - I woke up at 6:20 and checked on her; and when I woke again at 6:40 she was gone. Called my cousin to gently break the news to my uncle, and spent the rest of the morning crying and making further plans. Drove home, went out to a late lunch with DH, had an alcoholic bevvie (not my thing normally, but felt it might be a good time for it). Terribly sad, but I'm glad her she is at peace and whole again.

grammadee - glad you are planted up! Bought my veggies and will supervise DS while he plants this evening. He really wanted to do potatoes this year, but it's SO ground intensive that I said no.

Gotta pack my bags and we're off to BC tomorrow. I won't be on the boards much, but I'll try to pop around daily!

Linda - you need to train Dusty to be a blood sugar alert cat That is super scary really!

Thanks nylene and kellyr21 for thinking of me. DH said at lunch, "It would me nice to go a month without losing something we love" 

(((((HUGS))))) kitbop on the loss of your aunt. So special that you were able to be there for her and her family. I hope your trip to BC will include a little R&R as well as all the work of settling the property.

Hello Pokeys.

Dd & family are heading to their new home with a truck & trailer and an SUV stuffed with stuff. I will meet them with a few things they need from here. Dgs wanted to go to a local event--pancake breakfast and car show--so I will be ferrying him to that. Not sure where they plan to stay tonight. Guess it depends on how many beds they get put together...

Happy Saturday peas! Waving hi to you gals. Not much going on today. Last week, I was busy with virtual classes.  I found another drawing class and it was good. Also, I took a cooking class, food history and an art bus webinar. Whew! The art class will be ever Tuesday evenings. So it will be a nice replacement until my other class returns. 

kitbop -Take care of yourself  my friend! You are in my prayers. Waving hi to Poppy. 👋 

grammadee - So cool seeing our darling starlet justjac performing. You did a wonderful job capturing the play. Wish we all could of been there.  Congratulations justjac !

nylene- Thanks for our new thread! Hope you are enjoying your weekend. 

linda - How wonderful your dh got you more scrapbooking supplies to play with. So cool!

Those classes sound like alot of fun, kellyr21.

Glad you had time to play with paper, Linda. Dgs has tomorrow off school and I have promised him that we will be making cards. I had planned to give him my Cuttlebug at some time, and since the card design he chose has butterflies on it, I think I will do that tomorrow and he can use it with some of my butterfly dies. We'll see.

(((hugs))) kitbop, I'm so sorry for your loss. I agree with your DH, surely enough is enough. Don't forget to take care of yourself.

grammadee how exciting that the kids are here! I hope with them being close, it will take some of the stress off from all the travel between houses.

Linda how fun that DH brought you home so many new supplies! It would be so fun going through it all and getting it put away.

Things are pretty turbulent for me right now, both at work and personally. It's not leaving me with a lot of bandwidth for much. I'm not sure how much I'll be around for the next little while. I haven't been scrapping much and none at all really since the pea crop. But I didn't want to just disappear on ya all

Waving hi to everyone! I hope it's a good week!

(((Hugs))) and prayers kitbop

How was cardmaking? grammadee - I bet he had fun! Was he excited about the Cuttlebug?

joyfulnana -(((Hugs))) and prayers - I'm sorry life is so overwhelming. We'll be here when you're ready to be back

nylene - love the hearts and that's a great title with a lovely photo.

Dh is still not feeling well but does seem to be improving.

DS is overseas with work but his luggage stayed behind. It's made it to the same country now and hopefully he'll get it soon - they promised today but it's late evening there already

Thanks, Linda.  I managed one card yesterday.  He put together a couple— one of them based on the accordion album fold I had used on a grad card.

He went to town with my Father’s Day stickers on the pages.

You can see the butterflies on the birthday card.

nylene - I had wondered about Covid but he's tested negative.

No wonder you couldn't wait to scrap that photo - it is wonderful! The title is perfect!

grammadee - he looks so very proud of his creations - as he should - he did a fabulous job!

Happy Wednesday! Waving hi to you all! We went to our city's Greek Festival last Sunday and it was fun. The best part was the tour of the church. It was so breathtaking with all the architecture and paintings. Can't wait to share some of the pictures with you. The guide explained all the meanings and history of the art and this particular church. Although the church was built in the early 2000's it felt like we were in Greece in one of the ancient building. It was so peaceful in there. I could of staying in there all afternoon. Also, the had lots of food, music, vendor booths and a kids area. Ron said he saw a pig in the little petting zoo who was stretched out on the ground pooped probably from all the kids playing with him. LOL!

nylene- Your family is just so adorable!!!! Congrats again and I know you gotta be so elated with the new addition. Thanks for the cheers over at Scrapbook dot com. I have been happy to see my layouts in the trending section. Yes, I am working on another Paige layout from the first class I took back in March. I am using my first cut file she sent and excited to see how it turns out.

kitbop joyfulnana linda Sending a pray and a smile to you ladies.

grammadee- How fun to share your passion with your dgs. So cool!

Thinking of you, kitbop and joyfulnana and gramma . Hoping all is going as smoothly as possible for you this week.

nylene and Linda , I hope to get to the Gallery and the sharing thread to leave some love for your creations. Looking forward to seeing what you did with this last sketch class and the earlier Paige class, kellyr21 . I managed a couple of pages the other day and a few cards today. But have been pretty busy.

It is Seniors' Week in Alberta so there have been several small evants put on by various agencies. We have been to a pancake breakfast and a hot dog dinner, and then dh attended a second hot dog meal today and plans to attend a hamburger bbq tomorrow. This evening our Seniors' club is having its own wrap up event. They have ordered pizzas which we will be picking up, and some of us have made desserts. I have a no bake cherry cheesecake ready to go.

And then there is the garden. I finished the first major weeding today, and dh has it half watered, planning to finish this evening and early in the morning. We had about half an inch of rain on the weekend, but it has been pretty hot the last few days, so the moisture has mostly evaporated. Looks like we may have veggies at three different stages of development: some got going right after the seeds went into the ground. Some are just poking their heads out now after the rain and the heat, and the rest will probably jump start themselves after this watering.

Dh has some appointments in town tomorrow, so I hope I can put together one last fathers' day card and maybe put a page or two together. Gotta make the most of DOUBLE POINTS!

Happy Thursday! Waving hi to you gals and hope today has been good for you. My day is ok so far. I picked up Italian food for dinner and went to Ms. I have three new classes this afternoon. Cooking, watercolors and a coloring class I found on Eventbrite. I'll see if they make my weekly rotation.  

nylene- Your birthday lo is so sweet. I love the candles and the little white light you added. I am going to work on my cut file to see how to glue and cut . Looks a little tricky.

grammadee- Glad to hear it has warmed up in your area. I hope your garden thrives this season. Do you sell the veggies or just for your family?

linda- You would of loved the Greek festival especially since you have a history with the culture. We have a Greek community here and it is cool to experience it at this event. They used to have a music event hosted by the city and I got to hear lots of Greek music. I hope they have that even again this year.