TRUDY'S WINTER PARADISE

I have been telling Glen for years I want a  glass greenhouse, made from recycled windows and odd bits and pieces of wood.   I have collected many pictures and drawn plans over the years, but he never got the gist of what I envisioned
                                                              (or needed, wanted)

                                                                   until.....

my sister Trudy built her glass house complete with a wood burning stove to keep everything (plants and people) warm and toasty in the minus zero weather.  Late at night after her kids are all tucked in,  she and her husband go out to the glass house and build a fire to heat it through the night.  The heat absorbed from the sun during the day keeps it warm well after dark until the fire is built.

Over the holidays, one evening we were invited for tea.  She gathered flowers and herbs growing in the glass house, she  cold steeped them overnight and added cinnamon sticks and ginger.  We sat in the glass house cozy and warm.  Soft, flickering, candle light and  dancing flames from the fire dimly lit the leaves and our faces.  We talked til midnight, breathing the warm moist air, smelling  the earthy fragrance, and sipping flower tea.  It was Paradise!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think I reeeeeaaaallllllllyyyyyy

 

 

NEED

 

a beautiful glass house tucked away in a hidden corner

 out of sight

filled with

plants

and

bubbly fountains

with

goldfish swimming

and

tiny castles

hidden amoung the flower pots

 for the

dancing faeries.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BEAUTIFUL SNOW

 

I think winter is beautiful

fluffy

snow

heavy laden

on

bended boughs

 

 

 

standing silent

and

steadfast

waiting for

spring

 

 

 

 

Today

I am at the farm

I haven't any water,

the water pipes

are frozen

in the pump house.

I dig out

the bottles of water

I have stored away.

 

I build a warm

fire

and crawl into bed.

I awake

during the night

it is -15 degrees below zero.

I throw another log

on the fire,

snuggle deeper under the covers

and

 DREAM OF SPRING

 

 

 

Farm Animals

 

 

                                  by Stockton

                                       age 6

During the winter months I spend many hours sitting on a hard bleacher bench watching my kid's
basketball games.


Recently, during a three day tournament I asked Stockton and Porter (their big brother is on the team) if they would draw me some farm animals. Every game they bring their markers, colored pencils and paper to draw. I think they are amazing little artists! The pictures were so good I asked their mom if I could post them.

by Porter

age 8

DID YA HEAR?

"HEY, did you hear the latest?"

"What else should we expect, someone who know's how,  like that's

goin to happen.  NOT around here!"

"I heard she doesn't have a clue."

 " And to think she had us all fooled."

Here I am, lost out in cyber space

without a clue

I can't get NEW

pictures to load

so until I figure

things out.........which

is highly unlikely to happen

in the near future

you'll just have

to put up with

old

pictures

and

new words

of

little value

after all a picture is worth a thousand words...........

 

A HAPPY NEW YEAR

Have you made your New Year's Resolutions? Or are you like the 65 % of the country who don't?  I have thought a lot about this during the past week.  Some years I make them, but most of the time I feel that if I can accomplish everything I NEED to do I am better off than adding a list of things I know I will never get done.

      Listed below are the top three resolutions made by the majority of people every year

                                                       1.  LOSE WEIGHT
                                                        2. GET ORGANIZED
                                                        3. SAVE MONEY

Well, let me tell you what I think about the top 3..............I feel like number one and number two cancel themselves out.  If you are UNorganized and are spending your days (excuse the expression) " running around like a chicken with it's head cut off,  looking high and low,  turning over every stone,  searching far and wide",  surely that has got to burn excessive calories.  Not to mention the fact that stones are extremely heavy.  So.......if you are organized you  will NOT be burning all those  extra calories.
Number three--save money--  hummmmm.  Well, first off you need to have money floating around to save.  I have found the best way for me to save money is to hide it away and then I can't remember where I put it.  Works every time.
                                                                HOPE YOU ALL HAVE
                     A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!