POKEY PEAS CHALLENGE FOR JuLY 2018

Glad you survived Cousin Camp, nylene ! You will need a week or so to rest up now, and then you will be all ready to join in with the August team challenges with all those photos your dgk's took.  Hopefully justjac, LisaDV, woodysbetty, and msliz can continue to play along.  And the rest of the pokeys can join us!

Thanks for sharing your reno progress, kellyr21 and @elaynef ! Can't wait for the AFTER photos. Dh has been doing some sprucing up around the yard, but so far no major changes in the house since some necessary plumbing upgrades earlier in the year.

How is your room cleaning/reorganizing going, msliz and LisaDV ? I have not been down in the basement for a few weeks. Will get back to that purge after the snow flies. Used to blame the mess on the kids, but now we know we are definitely part of the problem.

Dh is in town for wound dressing with home care today. He says the area is almost completely healed. Has been off antibiotics for a couple of days. He is antsy to get out on the swather to cut hay for his nephew, but was told by medical staff that he was not allowed to do that until the skin had completely healed. They are ordering him some specially made compression socks to help the circulation in his lower legs, but those have not come yet.

I have been busy in the garden, picking and preserving. The raspberries have another week left, probably. I have about 2 gallons of them in the fridge waiting for me to do something with them. The peas are just starting. Picked a small pail of them yesterday. I need to get out there this morning to check the other stuff. Dh has been watering at night and that and the warm weather are doing their magic.

I started cleaning up my scrap room today b/c I had decided I was done creating for the month, but then I found a few things lying around that went with some photos I had, so I put together two quick pages.

kindergrad 1 by Gramma Dee, on Flickrkinder grad by Gramma Dee, on Flickr

They are both on white cs, but the second page photographed really dark and with a kind of yellowy tinge. No idea why. I was going to retake the photo but then decided to post it just the way it is.

Wow, you are very busy grammadee.

I am home! We left Colorado Thursday, stayed in Gillette, drive to my sister’s in Regina Friday, and then drove home Saturday.

It was a good trip. I had a great time at the Scrap Happy retreat. Kristina Sorge was our instructor for classes. I have at least four layouts to finish and upload from her classes. The ladies were so nice. Next year may be in Calgary. I have my fingers crossed.

Then I met up with my mom, sister, and aunt in Denver and we drove to Cedaredge to visit my uncle and aunt. We had a good visit and managed to see three cousins as well. I had a minor meltdown after our first day of driving home. I just needed some quiet alone time.

I am trying to start living healthier again. I went for a walk this morning and I started journaling my food again. I am unsure if I want to sign up for the August challenge or not. I paid no attention to the challenges this month.

Waving hi to everyone.

Hi everyone!

I'm just doing a quick check-in and send a warm hello! I spent a lot of time composing replies and asking questions to everyone last Thursday afternoon and right as I was ready to post, I hit a wrong button and lost everything. I thought I'd make it back before now to re-do the whole thing, but I don't have the time or energy at the moment. I have been reading what everyone is up to though.

Happy Tuesday! Just a quick hello since our new thread starts tomorrow. I will be back then. Have a wonderful day y'all!