Here are the new puppy pictures. I carried them all plus Mommie to the shop for picture taking day. These are just Hildie's babies, Sofia's need to wait another week until they are a little older. The three above are the girls, Violet, Princiss and Penny. The two boys below are Harley and Jasper. Don't you just want to kiss them all over?! Check out my Yorkie puppy link to the right for more photos. Click the pictures for enlarged views to really appreciate their cuteness.

Just thought I would update my colors. This looks kinda springy doesn't it ? Not a lot of chatter going on here so I guess I'll go to bed. Might have something more to say later.

Oh, speaking of dreams..... I was going to tell you the one I had last night.

It was about Sis, she had her hair put up into 4 pony tails and it seems that I found one of her ponytails on the floor. I picked it up and went to ask her about it and sure enough, she had taken the scissors and just choppen one of them off. She was laughing about it but I wasn't! I was a little furious and was trying to figure out what we could do with her hair now that it was messed up royally. What made me the most mad was her just laughing about it and I told her that this is not laughing matter! Glad that was just a dream!

Well, I guess that was more then you wanted to know but, oh well, just looking for something to write about.

This cute little puppy looks just like my dog Ginger! What do ya think?

I found this neat stuff on another BLOG and just had to share it:

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Neat stuff.

I've been tagged, here goes,

6 weird things

1) I have a hard time recognizing a face until I've met you about 3-4 times.

2) I don't wear make-up, it's just too much trouble to put it on. If you don't like me the way God made me then.........

3) I don't like to read a book or watch a movie more then once. It's no fun when you know what is going to happen.

4)I love storms! The bigger, the better.

5)I cannot roll my R's. It is physically impossible, my tongue is too short.

6)Terry said it is weird that I dream every night and can repeat them to him in the morning, I can even have a dream while I am just sitting in the chair resting my eyes.

Oh the joys of being the mother of a pre-teen daughter! I pray daily for the Lord to give me the right words to say when she asks some of the hard questions. It is time for me to start talking about some difficult or embarrassing subjects. I don't usually have any original thoughts of my own, I usually have to repeat something I have heard or read but last night we were talking about boys and the things they like to try to do, if the girls allow it. My thought was about shopping. When you go shopping at a high end store (not that I ever have, but I have heard about it) they keep the "good stuff" behind glass and don't let just anybody touch it. The cheap stuff is set on the counters and anybody can come along and pick it up and handle it or try it on. I ask her what she would rather be, the cheap stuff on the counter that get touched and handled by any one that comes along or to be the "good stuff" that is kept protected and cherished behind glass until just the right person comes along. I was browsing blogs the other day and came across this 12 year old girls blog that I found interesting. I had to share
this with Sis. It talks about comebacks for the boys that get too frisky. My favorite was, "This aint Pizza Hut, so keep AWAY from the good stuff!" or "This is NOT Burger King and you CANNOT have it your way!" I so wish we had places to go where she could connect with other kids her age that live the dedicated Christian life that we want for her. I know she would like some teenage Christian role models to hang out with but I guess it is a trade off. We could live in a more populated area and have the advantage of bigger, bolder churches or live in the peaceful country side and take the near isolation that goes with it.

I hope everybody had a happy Easter.

We had a restfull day, abut all I did was fold clothes but it was quit a pile of clothes. Sis had a friend over so I didn't see much of her. That is until Terry got home from the shop. She has been really bugging her dad to take her mushroom hunting for a week now but it has been really too dry for them to come up yet. It did rain a little this morning so she was raring to go. They finally headed out on the 4-wheeler this evening and were gone about an hour and came back with 2 little ones. We have a storm coming tonight so that should make them come up good.

Read post below before playing this audio post

Good Things

• A beautiful spring day
• All the doors and windows open to let in the spring day
• Your favorite music playing LOUD
• Cleaning house (at least I have a house to clean, some are not so fortunate)
• Daughter's room is finally clean!
• Many breaks from housecleaning, swinging in the hammock with Sis
• 11 puppies!
• Easter candy (jelly beans and sweet tarts)
• New clothes (Goodwill, yesterday with Lois, summer shirts $1.00 ea.)
• Doing laundry (I finally ordered water so I can do laundry)
• Taco salad for lunch
• Lilacs are blooming and Sis picked a bouquet for the table
• Beautiful tulips and daffodils outside my kitchen window and in the bouquet on the table
• Did I say Sis's room is clean?

Bad things:

Well, who cares about the bad things with all the above going on? Who cares if the bills are not paid or the bank sent you one of them letters last week? Who cares if gas is $3.00 a gallon? Not me, at least not at this moment. There is time later to worry about such things. Just not while the music is playing and the breeze is blowing and the sun is shining.

Life is good!

I can't hardly type for dancing to the music! Did you ever try to type to the beat of the music? Try it, its fun!

I'll send you the music that I cannot sit still too! Gotta dance!

Here is the one and only Easter basket I ever received. It was from my dear husband while we were dating. I had probably known him no more then a month. He made it all himself by hand. He made the little cart from red cedar and varnished it. He carved the egg from a bushel basket gourd that he had gotten from our garden, painted it and filled it with grass, candy and a ceramic rabbit to add to my rabbit collection I had at the time. Now you would have to come up with a good one to top that! I do believe, when he walked in with that gift is the moment that I knew that I was in love! You can't really see how big it is here but it is in all about 2 foot by 2 foot. I still have it, it has been packed away but I think the gourd egg has had it rough and has been cracked.

This picture was taken that Easter Sunday morning. Do I look like I am in love? We were married about 2 months later and it is and has been the greatest 15 years I could ever have wanted.

I found these laying like this, I didn't pose them. These are Hildie's five and the little bugger on the left is one of Sofia's. I thought Sofia was looking a bit bewildered and wondering what to do with 6 babies so I took one of hers and gave it to Hildie for a while. Hildie had been trying to sneak in on Sofia today and acted like she wanted to steal Sofia's babies. She was happy to have this one and accepted it gladly. I think Hildie has more milk anyway. I expect in a couple of weeks they will be completely mixed up about who belongs to who any way.

You cannot sit down in peace and eat if this bird is out of his cage! He wants to sample everything on the plate. Here he is eating Ranch dip and pasta. I hope he is smart enough to know what to eat and what not to eat.

The face only his mother could love?

Got Tide?

This is the country life for you. Got hills to climb, country lanes to follow, ponds to explore and frogs to catch!

And I thought it was spring time! What a change from yesterday. I am so ready for warm weather.

Rachel pulled in to Mom's right behind me this morning. Mom was up, dressed and in her wheel chair. Dad was gone to chruch. Rachel put the coffee on and I made Mom an egg sandwich for breakfast. She sounded a bit depressed but I talked to her later in the day, after I went to the shop and she sounded more cheerful. I guess we cheered her up a bit by being there. Sis and Rachel stayed to help and keep her company. Lois is taking her shift at Bea's for the week end but Mom decided she would go along to show Lois what to do. Timmy is here for a couple of days while Lois is working.

The puppies are all doing fine, all 11 of them. It is so nice to look in the box and see that they are all healthy with little fat tummys and growing like a weed. I do not like it when some one is sickly or I have to worry about some of them. We discovered last night that one does have a deformed tail. It is bent at an odd angle about 1/4 inch from the tip. That one will have to be docked. I ask Terry last night if he would do it but he dont want to so I guess I'll have to take that one to the vet sometime in the next few days and get it cut off. Yorkie's tails are usually docked anyway.

Now this is a shot the you will probably never see again! Terry is not an animal person. He never pets a dog on purpose but tonight when the big storm was going through all the dogs were terrified. I was busy working and didn't have time to sit and cuddle them during the storm. Terry's lap was the only available lap and they made good use of it! They are all watching the TV weatherman telling us to go to the cellar while the wind was blowing about 60 mph and we were getting pea size and marble size hail outside. Look at Terry's face, I think he was ready to hit the cellar. It finally blew over and everybody survived but it took the poor dogs a while to quit shaking.

Sis was complaining tonight about having to do her chores so I said, "Hey, I don't want to cook supper either so you cook supper and I will do your chores." I didn't think she would but she agreed. I already had soup beans on cooking and she peeled and fried the taters and made the cornbread. I still think I got off with the better end of the deal, I just had to empty the dishwasher, wipe the bathroom sink and mirror and empty the cat box. We'll have to do that again sometime.

Sis spent the day with Grandma today to help her and be her "gopher". Mom said she was a big help and Sis enjoyed it too. She wants to go back tomorrow. Mom was up and dressed today but she said nothing they did helped the pain any. She is still hurting. She is just waiting for it to go away I guess.

Count 'em, 1-2-3-4-5-6 puppies!

Wow! I knew Sofia was a big girl. I bet she was glad to stop carrying them around. I was with Mom at the hospital when she decided to pop them out.
Terry was here and tried to get her to stay in the pen but she was fighting with Hildie and he sorta lost control of the situation or probably just gave up and she ended up having them on my bed! I've had the wash machine running all evening and my bedding has recovered but the bed will take a little more time. Sarah Beth said I can sleep with her tonight but Terry will be fine on his side of the bed.

Now, for the scoop on Mom. Her knee has been hurting her really bad yesterday and today so about 2 today she had had enough. I took her to the clinic in English and they examined her and thought it could be a blood clot in the vein at her knee. The reccomended she go to the emergency room at Jasper. The doctor there examined her briefly and he thought it was thrombophlebitis or phleabitis for short. The way he explained it, it is an inflamation of the lining of the blood vessels. They did an ultrasound on her leg to look at the veins to make sure there was not a blood clot and that came back clean. They gave her a Cortisone shot in the hip and a RX for antibiotic which she wont take. The symptoms should last 3-4 days then get better.

Here is one for Timmy, He will like this. Have him click HERE and see what happens when you get the puzzle put together. My friend Sandy sent this to me in email and I thought he would enjoy it.