can i have some cheese with that whine???.......

because.....

 this was yesterday.....

 just a little bit of accumulation that melted pretty quickly....but the wind blew gustily (is that a word?) all day long.  in fact... 

 our grill is up against the house because the wind blew it across the yard yesterday.....our brand new grill, all dented up now....

 these pictures are from this morning....not so lucky in the melting department today....

 we are expecting an inch or more and snow until noon....

  i just need to remember this.......

photo source

no matter how hard that is!!!!!

busy, busy week

i can't believe that a week has already flown by... this has been a very busy week around here.  

the weather has actually warmed up a bit....in fact, it was in the mid 80's this past sunday..just two days after i whined like a baby about how cold its been lately.

however...

the following day it was back into the 50's and has stayed there since.  

and it was windy which makes it feel like the 40's...

i digress..

sunday's temps allowed us to finally spend some time outdoors.  

here is how our family spend the day...

don could not wait to get out into his garden

pruning the gardens and the rose bushes

did i tell you that our dog eats rose bushes???

it's true...when he was a puppy and before we had any control over him at all....he would yank the rose bushes out of the ground, roots and all, and drag them through the yard....

at least he doesn't eat his own poop....

austen spent most of the day golfing in the yard...

or as we like to call it

 fishing for balls in the pond..

doesn't the pond have a lovely green hue???  he could have teed off on the scum in there!!!

we went to home depot for some replacement parts to fix our 7 year old ( falling apart, burn everything you put on it, birds nest of a grill)

and came home with 

this

heaven, i tell ya!!!!  4 burners and a spit (that we still have to buy)

and the flames don't flare up and engulf our food and burn it to crispy ashes..ahhhh!!!

i scored an end table in someone's garbage pile...yup, totally slammed on the brakes,

pulled to the side of the road and hauled this baby into the back seat. because our cars were small and had no trunk space to be able to accommodate furniture....

so yesterday, we came home with this

an uplander with lots and lots of room

and seating for 7....people or pieces of furniture....

oops, how did that get in there???

i also worked on another piece of furniture for my friend lisa...

and when i uploaded this picture to send to her for a progress report yesterday, i noticed that there were some funky vertical lines on the picture....i googled it and learned that this is a major camera malfunction.  i was hoping that google was goggled in the head and bee-lined it to my beloved camera store where i bought my canon 7D.  they hadn't seen anything like that before and thought that it was an electronic problem and packed it off to the manufacturer......  :(

and i had a photo shoot to do this morning.....

so i got out my old canon xti and couldn't remember how to use it.  so i had to google that too.  but it worked and i was able to do the little mini easter shoot of these two lovelies.....

 so clear it almost looks like they are coming right out of the picture, doesn't it???

hey, how did that get in there???

it was actually warm enough to be outside in summer clothes....
i asked don to take a picture of me in my painting apron.  because it is a cute apron.

notice that he didn't get the apron....

hey, my eyes are up here.....(because i am so hugely endowed)

there we go.....

so i had to set it up so he could get the whole apron in the picture (i do wear it when i paint)

a bicycle, a couple of ladders, wading boots for the pond, the snow blower that hasn't been put away yet (i told don to get that dang thing into the shed before it jinks us again...crap..too late, they are calling for snow on saturday night, for reals!!!) a wooden sofa on its side, and numerous oil and paint stains on the garage floor. lovely isn't it?  hmmmmm...maybe the garage could use a little feminine touch, some pretty paint on the walls, and some curtains in the windows?????

nah, just a good power washing.....

i know your butt is cute, but can you keep it out of my post please???

i leave you today with an oxymoron of sorts

ruffles and skulls!!!

they are the same shoes as the raspberry ones in the photo above, only in mushroom.  

ok, i'm hungry now...

have a great weekend, friends!!!

seriously now!!!!

dear mother nature.....

perhaps you have not gotten the memo that it is now SPRING and it has been for the past 4 days.

it has been a very long, cold, snowy, long, tiring and long winter. 

this

 is just not right...

it's march, late march...april starts next week...

while the ice is pretty, i've had my fill for the year, thank you very much!!!!

 it isn't melting like it's supposed to.

so mother nature, get off of your lazy butt and warm it up around here.
have i mentioned that it's been a long winter?

sincerely, cindy

if at first you don't succeed, a chokehold always works...

champ never really learned how to play fetch.  it's always more like keep away.  from us.

but tessa wasn't having any of that! 

she is not afraid to stick her hand right into his mouth. you can't see it, but she has him by the collar...he's not going anywhere

until she gets that tennis ball back.

and since the collar grasp doesn't work,

the chokehold does...

giving in to a resounding defeat. because he really is afraid of her....

ahhhh, the sweet smell of victory!!!

happy new year.......

it's 2011!!!!!!!

austen's friend nick...the comedian.

all i wanted was a simple smile from everyone......heh!!!

there's one in every crowd.......(but i love her toes)!!!
and the little blond one is nick's little brother.... 

i hope everyone has a great two-thousand-eleven. 

dr. seuss-ish....

and i thought her lashes were long.....

i never thought that eyebrows could curl..

then tessa came along and taught me differently....

i love bath time!!!

early christmas presents.....

don's parents came over this past weekend to bring christmas presents for us.  

we are hosting christmas eve this year and they are doing the same

at their house.  so they came over on saturday to give austen (and us) christmas presents...

austen is in pig heaven.   new chuck taylor converse and call of duty black ops.....seriously, i thought he was going to hyperventilate when he opened that game....

(i really need to learn how to use the video feature on my camera.....)

anyway,

he was excited about his shoes too. his grandma got him the same shoes last year

but he outgrew them....

little does he know that we wear the same size now.

we wear the same size.......

which means...

 mama's got a new pair of shoes!!!

 sorry bubba....

thanks grandma!!!!