Enjoying the Summer !

I'm learning how to work all of this then I can write on my blog.  This is so.  cool

Making Lavender Oil

You know somethings we have planned just don't come about.  I did not pick this picture but this and 4 others came up so there must be a reason,  I'm going with it.  I love this lady with her arms loaded with grocery bags and the look on her face   content, quiet happiness, just happy the things are.  Wish we all could be like her.  My shelf is different now but you know what I like this a lot.  I just might change it back.

So much is happening at this time of the year.  Mainly School is out. I am not real crazy about the hot weather.  I try to get everything done in the morning, including exercise.  You know I have been having a hard time doing exercises.  I really don't know why but was telling my daughter about that and she said, " I've always thought that was great that you exercised".  Well, that is all I needed to get back into it.  Sometimes you just need a little push to get you going.  I do feel better.

Wanted to talk a little about my lavender plants.  This is where they were, now I have separated them as well as moved them.  They were in the shade just not getting enough sun.  Where I moved them I still don't know if they are getting enough sun.  I love the smell of them.  I have even found a recipe to make lavender oil.  I took the blooms and blossoms smashed them gentle in a bowl with the back of a spoon, put them in a mason jar, filled it to cover them with Vodka, put wax paper on top of jar, then screwed on the lid.  Put it on my closet shelf for 10 days, poured everything through a strainer and coffee filter, put that in a jar with just a coffee filter and rubber band holding it.  I have to wait another 10 days for the Vodka to evaporate and what is left is Lavender Oil.  Pretty cool uh?  Will take a picture when it's done.  So that is why I want my plants to do good and I need to find the prefect spot for them.  Tootles

Outdoors / yards / and Playing

North and South side of yard.  The side with the BBQ is the north and it stays cool there until late afternoon as we have so much shade.  The south side is where we spend the mornings right now.  It still is a little cool in the mornings yet and we like the sun on us still.  We do still have a shade cloth but the sun feels nice.  Tasha is relaxing on the seat cushion.  You can see the Angel in the middle of the picture.  She lights up.  We have been adding a lot to our yard so will have to take more pics.  We really enjoy being in the yard and try to stay out most of the day.  That is until the temperature gets over 90.  It is just too hot unless we are in the shade and we have a breeze going.

Our daughter has given us a lot of beautiful flowers and plants so we have been busy, busy get everything planted.  I don't want anything to die because we didn't get it in the ground.  It really is fun deciding where it's going to go.  It's funny as we have changed our yard, even moved plants around because they just didn't suit where they were. We have a problem right now.  You see there is a big bush that has beautiful white flowers on it and red berries But it also has long thorns.  It is in the wrong place, you see it is in the North side of the yard where the swing set is.  We have small Grandchildren now and one Grandbaby that will soon be toddling out there.  I do not want them to go near this bush.  so have already put in a request to Jim he must move it.  On the south side of the yard we do have volunteer raspberries and this year they are coming on strong and full.  Hopefully I will be able to get out there and get me a bowl full before the birdies get them all.  I don't care that the birds get the berries, I would just like some also.  Anyway, I think we could move the thorny bush next to the berries maybe close to the fence.  You know, keep all the thorns and stickers together.  Sounds like a plan.  Tootles

Hello Spring !

What a great time of the year.  Nice weather, summer coming, BBQ's, fresh fruit and vegetables.  Wow, ain't life Grand!

I'm enjoying life and what ever it sends me.  Trying to stay open minded and wanting to learn.  About what you say... Hey that is the beauty, Everything.  I don't want to pin point, that sometimes closes doors.  I want to hopefully see what is out there and jump.  I mean I do want to do a lot of things especially in my yard.  I think I want to try  my hand at making sculptures out of cement for my yard.  Now I am not going for a bust of someone famous, or even a person.  No facial features.  Nothing in detail, an artist I am not.  Anyway not the kind you would call an artist.  Hey, I think I am on to something.  How about a statue of a person but no detail.  No facial features, just attempting to make them.  Too wired?  I'm going to think about that.  You know at first I was just thinking about shaping something out of cement.  Like a pillar or lamp post.  Something that I could design that didn't require a lot of talent.  You know, the kind I do not have.  I think it would be fun and a big plus is my husband thinks so also.  So any heavy lifting I'm covered.  Besides he comes up with some really great ideas.  Ok I'm going to get all this going and be back to show you what I have done.  Tootles 

Stormy Weather

We are having stormy weather just like in this picture.  I know it's beautiful and we can really use the rain (so they say). I for one am ready for warm sunny weather.  I want to spend a lot of time outside. We have been planting flowers, moving things around and now I want to go out and enjoy it.  I do know it is still early yet after all it's only the last of March.  You know March winds, we have had plenty of winds and now next is suppose to be April Showers.  NOOOO!  Well, I hope we don't have but a few showers in April and not the downpour we have had in March.  More later.   Tootles

"Good Morning to You and Yours," says this Goddess..

 She is a gem and I love every little wrinkle on her face. Notice her wings and of course I love her earrings.  She always brings a smile to my face.  Her eyes follow you. What a Goddess !  She's in my screened in porch on a shelf.  Her friend, who looks a lot like her is there also.  Next time for her picture.  We don't want to go over board on Goddesses.
Speaking of Goddesses, one of my classes  I'm taking is about them and I have to dress up as one.  Most of my married life I was Goddess Hera but then after I went through menopause I was different.  I just need to narrow it down to what Goddess that I am in now.  After that the fun part begins.  I need to come up with an outfit that will fit both Goddesses or maybe even three.  I plan on making a talk about the why's and what for's.  I don't want to say speech because I don't want it to seem cold.  This is my life I am talking about and I want it to come from my heart.

 Now this beautiful Goddess I found in a thrift store.  Isn't she beautiful.  Oh, to be on the Ocean Edge.  Maybe she found a beautiful shell or Ocean rock.  Whatever it is she is giving it her full attention.  I imagine that will go in a pocket or purse and be kept with other treasures she has found along the path of life.  The frame around the Goddess is beautiful and quite heavy. I think I was in the right place at the right time because I really love it and hope to find more.  Not that I have any wall space, I don't but I manage to find a spot here and there.

Below is some of my screened in porch also.  This is just under and over the Goddess in the Frame.  My chair is another find and how do you like the beautiful silk hat.  It just matches, doesn't it?  The wire basket is dried flowers that I have saved from Jim bringing me flowers.  I love to do that

then I have lasting memories.

Well enjoy !  Happy Spring to all.  Tootles

Here is to "Sky Faeries and Goddesses in Every Women"

 No doubt about it.  These are beautiful Sky Faeries.  They were with me.  Overseeing, guarding, watching, protecting or just wanted to come along for the ride.  Hey, whatever I loved seeing them and took (as one of my Son's said) 4 hundred pictures almost all in a row.  I just did not want to miss any formation.  It seemed to me they were putting on quite a show and I for one did not want to miss a second.

This brings me to a class I am taking now.  It's called "Irish Myths and Legends".  Wow, what a class and what a teacher.  Victoria Hunt, you can tell she is passionate about her heritage.  She comes across as wanting to fill you in on the history and the now of Irish legends.  As you can tell  I love the class.

Now tomorrow I go to my Goddess Class.  Yes, that is right

 my Goddess Class.  Well the name of the class is "A Goddess in Every Women," the teacher is Sydney Wilde. What a remarkable and funny lady.  You know it seems forever I have wanted to know more about Goddesses.  I mean I would hear a little here and and little there but never really getting the whole story.  Well, this class tells it all.  There are two books that she says will help to follow along for class.  " A Goddess in Every Women," by Jean Bolin.  She also has "Goddess in the Older Women, which I haven't got fully into yet.  The books, in fact, all of here books are full of information for every women.  Hey, it explains a

lot about how we as women are.  Never apologize again about the mood you are in.  It's not a mood, (well, it is sorta) it's just one of the Goddesses showing up and maybe not always at the most opportune time.  Read the books !  It has helped me explain a lot about myself and others I know.  Hey, Here's to Faeries and Goddesses !  Tootles