Bella

The blanket is coming along. Love ❤️ to crochet. 

Taking a break.  Although I am still crocheting   Tootles 

Roosters among the Wildflowers

This is a big window outside my kitchen. I do enjoy the chicks 🐥 but not so much the Roosters. 

I am looking up more about my family. From what I have read they came from Switzerland in 1737. Finding out what foods came from there. Till next time.    Tootles 

Apple 🍎 Trees

Look at our Apple's.  We are so excited.  I believe this is the 3rd year for them.  We have 3 apple trees. Right now cannot remember the names.

My Jim is into juicing so I know some will go in our juice which I  enjoy very much. He makes all kinds, vegetable and fruit and mixes them all together.  It does give me more energy and an all over feel good.  So glad we started this.  You don't need pills or some fancy diet.  Eat good healthy real food and you have it made.













Now in this picture you have two apples.  I believe my Jim said we have 10 apples.  Sounds good.

You can see a little of our yard.  How we managed to fit a pool in it is beyond me.  Lot's of trees.

Here is one of our cats, Thumper.  I know you can't see her as she is hiding.  Haha
She is one of 8 cats we have.  We have the Mama, Angelina and she had two liters.  Four in the first one and 5 in the second.  We gave two of the kitties to our Granddaughters.  Everyone of them were fixed as we do not want any more.

I do feel I am doing better.  Not that anyone could tell, just me.  I use the walker around the house and if I can touch a wall or a chair or a table, I can get around pretty good.  Well, I walked into the living room, had my hand on the back of a chair and took another step.  I had let go of the chair and realized I didn't have my walker and the next chair was at least 2 steps away BUT I still came this far without thinking about it.  That is how it starts.  It's when you  just get up and do something without thinking about it.  That's when you know your on the road to recovery  because you are getting better a little at a time.  So this has been a good, good day.   Tootles

Love this pattern

Good Morning.  I have been working on chakras.  That is reading more about them and paying attention to my bodies reaction.  I seem to be having a time typing smoothly.  You know I did have a couple cups of coffee maybe that is why.  I think I will cut back to one cup in morning then stop having any.  I made me a cup of earl gray and have been sipping that.

I think I will call it a day.  One  thing I am going to do is go go to this site I just found yesterday.
It is called  "Minimalist Baker".  Talk about great information.  Go there and check it out if you have not done so already.  I t even has a recipe to make your own Nutella AND this one is healthy for you.
Go have fun, search and find.  Tootles

Thinking about making one of these or maybe more than one

Stacking Books

As you can see, I am going through my Books. I have a place on Amazon where I sell them.

When I first started thinking about doing this, selling that is, I was totally against it.  I mean, I am a book lover and over the years, almost 50. I gathered a lot but what I realized was I had books that didn't really have a place in my heart and soul.  Those books I had a ton of.  So that is what I did.  I started several years ago.  Well actually I gave a bunch away.

For reasons I will not get into now (another day) I gave about 500 books to Salvation Army.  And yes, there were some of the books I wish I had not given away.  But I keep telling myself it is for the good.  I emptied a lot of shelves. In fact most of them were stacked around the house because I didn't have room  on a shelf.  What I regret is I gave away Cook Books. But again I'm just hoping someone out there is cooking up a storm from my old book.  Now, that would make me happy.   To be honest, I do not regret any of the other books.  I swear I had every kind of diet book known to man.  No regrets there.

Then I found out from exploring Amazon I could have sold them.  It's not that I want to get rich, like that is going to happen.  I just want to share  my books and get some shelf space.  But there are some books I will never part with.  You know the books that when you look up at your shelves and you see a spine with Title and Author and WOW,  it brings back a load of memories.  I love that.  I will do that and immediately I am in a different place, people around me feel so real and the smells, it is just WOW.  That's all I can say.

So to get back to the stacks of books, that is what I am going to do.  I always have fun doing that and when I sell a book it's always exciting to know someone will be happy to get their mail.  Tootles

Coming along

I do love to crochet and can hardly wait to finish this blanket for Jackson and the other blanket I have started. This blanket is my favorite.  I am so glad I started this as it is keeping me busy and my mind away from me. 

Also I am so happy to say I have been doing exercise when I take a break from crocheting. I am feeling really good right now. I know I am on the road to recovery. I can just feel it. Let me put this out there.    It will be a slow process and that is okay just as long as it keeps coming.  

So crochet on and keep a good attitude. Keep a smile on and just plain believe.   Tootles 

Crochet

I have two blankets going and the patterns are a little different. The little head and ear is Bella, my sweet puppy. I'm going to work on one each day or I might go ahead and finish one. I can not tell you how much I love crocheting. It is so soothing. 

I feel much better after spilling my guts yesterday. Maybe needed to do that. Sometimes we focus too much on ourselves and not on just living. 

So here is to living life to the fullest with a smile and Happy thoughts.  Tootles