POKEY PEAS REFUGEES CHALLENGE for MAY 2017

Good Monday evening, Ladies!

Love your cookies, scrapincin ! And that little caravan is gorgeous, maribeth !

justjac , I am amazed at how comfortable you are with digi, and that you could keep up with LOAD even when on a road trip. Sounds like you got some cool photos to scrap, too. Sounds like you had an exciting weekend, too, kellyr21 , and that you have lots of photos to scrap. Looking forward to all those pages, you two.  I didn't get many photos this weekend, but dd took her ds around the farm and snapped some great shots that I will be able to use for sure.

nylene , I hope you are feeling better. You seem to put a lot of energy into looking after everyone else. I hope you spend some of that on yourself.

That's a bummer about your retreat, msliz . Even though I have lots of my stuff in vary portable containers, it does disrupt my scrap room when I am getting ready for a retreat. Would hate to have one cancelled at the last minute.

No scrapping for me this weekend. We managed to get the potatoes, onions, and most of the other veggies into the ground yesterday and today. Usually we do a little each day for about 2 weeks. This time we did it all in 2 days. I am stiff and sore. Tomorrow I need to plant my "salad row", which requires me to crawl along the row, putting little sections of several types of seeds into the row. Then I will be done with the garden for a couple of weeks.

Also baked a cake today for my grand niece's 13th bd. She wanted "dance slippers", so I baked a 9 x 13 cake and then cut it into two slipper shapes. I have each wrapped tightly in the freezer tonight, and then tomorrow I will glaze each with melted chocolate then decorate the tops. Will post a pic if I get a chance. We are going to their house for a family bd supper, so I will bring the cake to her then.

Well, I am off to crawl into bed. Hoping to sleep in. Have been up early with dgs all weekend--he says "the birds" wake him up, but he is the only little bird that wakes ME up so early!

msliz, sorry that your crop was canceled. Ticks have been really plentiful here in Michigan. It sounds like you had an extra day over the weekend with your mom taking a better offer. I hope you enjoyed the day. Sorry your dd is struggling too. Good luck with your new neurologist.

scrapincin, those cookies are adorable. Glad everyone had fun fishing. And 2 is better than none!

maribeth, saw your creation the other day on flickr and left love there. So very cool.

justjac, sounds like a fun weekend. I have a couple of layouts that I still need to leave love on in the gallery of yours. I'm so enjoying these.

kellyr21, sounds like a really full and fun weekend. I would need a down time day to make up for all of the social interaction.

grammadee, super cute slipper cake. So clever of you to display it with music sheet paper under it.

nylene, glad to "see" you. I do hope you are taking time to rest and recuperate! (that's me wagging my finger at you while giving you stink eye to get you take care of yourself. my kids are use to that. ha) Chickens are so big already. The coop won't be finished for another couple of weeks though.

Since it sprinkled on Sunday and looked like rain, we left late. DD & Don went to the pool that afternoon. Then we just vegged in the hotel room until bed. We got a kitchenette since it's really hard to eat out with dd. After her appt on Monday and just general running around, we went to a minor league baseball game in the evening which was a lot of fun. Tuesday morning dd & I went swimming, lunch, haircuts, and then got ready to leave. We hit hobby lobby on the way out as well as a grocery store for a few items that I knew I couldn't get locally.

DD appt was with the NP. She has concurred with our belief that the stomach aches are not related to the headaches. Therefore the abdominal migraine diagnosis would be incorrect. They did put a note in the chart that they think a trip to the mayo clinic would be helpful. So I schedule the follow-up with the PCP which I know she's already been working on/toward this for us. So keep your fingers crossed.

Today is just a catch up on laundry and phone calls type of day, but I did succeed in finishing off a layout that's been setting on my craft desk. I'll try to take a picture of it tomorrow.

All this food on the thread is making me hungry what with scrapincin and her cookies and grammadee with her cake.

Waving hello to everyone.

I am hoping to scraft all memorial weekend long (except for enough time to wash my car). So looking forward to it. Hopefully I will have lots of projects to post.

Have a wonderful Friday.

nylene - terrific page - love the patriotic colors, and your embellishment clusters are spot on.

Good evening Pokeys! Well here we are starting another weekend! I got my glasses back tonight. I was having to wear my previous glasses while mine were gone. For some reason both lenses started cracking close to the edges. They said the poly carbonate does that sometimes. I actually think I can see better out of these glasses then I did before. You're right Nylene I have been busy going to see the kids stuff. Maggie had a musical program. Bobby had a recognition program. Also the Cavs are in the finals of the basketball championships so I have watched some of those, and some baseball as my brother can't get them so I give him the run downs. I had a mess in my scrap room so I have got that cleaned up-mainly my desk so maybe I can scrap tomorrow! Or Sunday as we are getting rain all day. Going to try to go to the gallery and leave some love for the great layouts you have posted.

nylene it is so good to see you able to scrap again. I was really concerned about you!

kellyr21 have you seen any of the games? Le Bron passed records by Michael Jordan. He is something again! Looking forward to them beating the Warriors!

LisaDV I hope you get to go to the Mayo Clinic I use them as a reliable source if I am digging for information on something medical.

Just a quick stop by to spread the word that Nylene's layout Daddy Makes All Things Better made one of the featured Layouts over at Scrapbook.com! Congrats @ Nylene!

kellyr21, that's so sweet. We aren't anything special though. Just parents. What are you painting?

nylene, glad you're doing better, but you still need to rest to fully beat this bug! Congrats on being feautred at SB.com.

@scapincin, you have been busy with the grands.

nylene & scrapincin, thanks for the good wishes to get in.

justjac, love seeing your LOAD layouts on flickr or on instagram. Great stories are being told! Is school almost over?

grammadee, hugs to you this weekend. I hope you had good traveling weather and that your family has peace and comfort.

waving hi to msliz and maribeth.

This weekend has been garden central here. We have most of the garden planted. I got my bees yesterday!! I'm so excited! They seem to be taking to the hive well. Tomorrow we hope to finish the top of the chicken run with chicken wire. We still have 1/4 of the run. Maybe a 15x60 run was a bit much..... Since the fence guys put up deer fencing last year around the garden we have to go back and put up chicken wire around it to keep the bunnies out too. Crafting wise, I just cleaned up my desk a bit and compiled things that I'll be using for my banner swaps.

msliz, is it the tilt table test that has her worried? can you sell it like an amusement ride? just kidding. I know that doesn't work. My dd has a test that she couldn't complete (they were blowing air in her ears to check for inner ear trouble for her motion sickness. She has this phobia about things in her ears and couldn't get through it. So I get it.

I'm glad you are getting a quiet weekend. Enjoy!

Happy Tuesday! I hope you all had a nice weekend! It was my birthday yesterday. I turned the BIG 5-0! I can't believe I am 50 but at the same time so happy and grateful to reach this milestone. I had a great day celebrating with my in-laws, great party food and of course cake. My dh did a great job planning the party for me with a little help from me. LOL! Then, we hung out at our beautiful golf course to relax. I have some scrapping to do with the lovely pictures we took too.

LisaDV- You asked what I was painting. Well, I decided to get my art pad out and start playing around with it. I finished one that I will share and hope to do more this week.

grammadee- I hope you are having a nice trip!

scrapincin- Yes, the Cavs are on their way. I will be watching the finals this week. If Lebron and team win again, I think your city will be going so crazy happy.

nylene- Hope you are continuing to feel better. Have your dd and family come to visit yet? I know that will be great medicine for you too.

Here it is theend of another month! Time is flying! Kids are out of school and they are here 3 days a week. Had them today and it was so different/! They both have made friends here and they have things to do besides what I get them to do. Maggie rode her bike to one of her girl friends and Bobby tried but could not reach his one friend and did not have anthers number. And they did not hang on those computers all day! Hurray!

Belated Birthday Wishes kellyr21 ! I sure never would have thought you were 50! I thought you were in your 30's! It sounds like you had a great birthday with all the plans Ron made.

nylene-so glad you are on the mend! It cracks me up how Sammie is so organized and planning Cousin Camp. What a riot. Can you see howshe will be as an adult!

grammadee-I signed up for yur challenge in hopes taking al those photos will get me moving! It is so much easier for me if the photos are printed and ready to go. I need to do that. It's just all that editing!

msliz thank you for all f your tagging on mmy comments and posts. You are a really busy person too,

Going to stop for now. BBL

Happy last day of May! It just doesn't seem possible.

msliz, hugs and prayers for your dd. I totally get it. Did I read that right? You did a whole years worth of photo editing at once? My hat is off to you. Oh, heck, that deserve a bow. I usually only do a few months at a time and that's a struggle for me. But I bet it feels great to have a whole years worth ready to go.

kellyr21, Happy Birthday! I can not believe you are 50. You look so young. You have some good genetics! Can't wait to see what you've created! They are always so beautiful!

grammadee, safe travels. I know it will be so much fun.

nylene, I hope you took a picture of the fox cards to share with us. I hope you are all better before cousin camp begins!

scrapincin, that's good that the kids made friends close by. That they were off their computers - well, that's A-Mazing! I feel like I'm the Screen Nazi. They get 2 hours of non-school related screen time a day. If dd is feeling well, she barely takes any and is no problem. When she's ill, it's all she does but distracts from the nausea and pain, so we let her. DS on the other hand, would be on a screen or double screening all the live long day if I didn't have my rules and my stink eye.

Today we have a few errands to run. DS's glass keeps popping out of his glasses, and we've managed a bit of a mangle to the frames by popping them back in repeatedly. So the eye doctor will be first up to get them situated. Then, DD who has not been doing well the last few days, has her after the neurologist follow-up with her PCP. I have many more errands to run, but I will have to do that tomorrow morning by myself.

I'm trying to do WITL this week. I usually am fairly good about pictures the first couple of days and then fall off to nothing. I'm doing better this week, and maybe, just maybe, I'll make the whole week, especially with grammadee's, photo a day challenge. I'm just taking photos and keeping a few notes. Hope to put the album together next week.