My Seeds Have Sprouted...

Yea, Yea, Yea...okay so I have been MIA again. I am working my way around blogger to get caught up with what you have all been doing lately.
 Sunday was Easter and THANK YOU all for the wonderful Easter wishes..I hope you and your families had a fabulous and blessed day.

Last Friday Senior had to head up to the Carolina estate to check on some stuff...when he got there he sent me this pic:

That would be my rows of sunflowers and onions that we planted are coming up. We go up again next weekend and I can't wait to see it.

The nieces wedding shower is Saturday....*sigh*  Yes I am ready for it to come and go and be in the history book. We are now T-Minus 23 days until the happy couple says "I DO"  ND and NW are ring bearers, and we have bribed them with money, to say "EWWW Disgusting" when the kiss is done...

My wedding gift is the shower of course. But, I also went to the beach Tuesday morning and did this pic, I had it blown up and framed. A friend of mine has one similar on her wall and I have always liked it :

Let me tell you what a pain in the rear end it was to time the wave action before it washed over the lettering. I did one with our name on it too....

Wednesday night was turmoil in our house, the boys and I were out bike riding and little ND had a huge spill--the first of many I presume. Now he has a nice scraped up knee, and left elbow. My poor baby...so mommy and daddy patched him up and sat him on the couch with a orange popsicle.
Funny, how the next day he was all proud of his new "Boo-Boos" at school- kind of like bragging about battle wounds....lol  

-JUGM

End of a Long Week

I will be happy for the weekend. Sunday morning we leave for the South Carolina Estate for Spring Break..This week has been long and rough for me and my family. Dad is still in the hospital. Yesterday was the needle aspiration - 1-2 gallons of fluid was extracted, then he was started on Lasix. Since Tuesday he has now dropped almost 40 pounds.  WOW!

While he is feeling much better, he is having a potassium issue and for that reason they want to keep him hospitalized at least for tomorrow, but possibly until Sunday. This water retention problem will come back, the cirrhosis has grown more intense. Ultimately he will need a liver transplant, but my father because of his age, has all ready told us he will decline it.

I called the Foundation for Alzheimer's and Dementia to get some information in reference to my mom. Lots of prayers will be needed for this, as we start the dreaded journey down the road to obtain an evaluation and help for her.

Again, THANK YOU ALL for the prayers, love and support- it means more to me and my family then you will ever know.. 

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Today was beautiful here, I desired some much needed therapy so I grabbed my camera and prior to getting the boys from school I drove around a bit and took some pics.
Have I told you  lately how much I love black and white? 




This farmhouse is on the way to school- I  have always liked it
 



I pass this train car every day- I think it has lots of character

I like the way this branch hangs over this small creek



A old house turned into an antique store-


 

Yesterday

The sun was warm and the breeze a bit cool, we opened the windows and let the air flow through.
Out in my little gardens the first of the radishes I planted were popping out of the soil.. The boys were excited, and perhaps a little too anxious as they began pulling them  up.
I got out my camera and decided to play with the color filter :

Earlier in the day, I got two tomato plants, one is a Goliath, and the other a cherry. So the boys each planted one:

Then saw the first little "knock out rose" is blooming:

-JUGM

Today..Part 2

I promised  Stephen and others of you more pictures from our day at the farm...  So here ya go :

 

 

 

 

Don't know why, But I really liked this old tree :

 



 

Pioneer Preppy, liked the bell, so here is a picture of it next to the little building:

 

 



Saturday...

Happy 2014 every one! 

The cough that NW gave me for Christmas turned into Bronchitis over New Years. We came home a day early from the estate so I could get in to my doctor.  Like I just told Pioneer Preppy...This stuff sucks.

Between coughing I am working my way around the blogs this morning..Up at the estate we do not have internet service, and trying to post and comment from a smart phone is not easy.
I played with my new camera up there this past week. Because of this crud words are short, so enjoy some of the pics I took :

This was a drive by pic on the way up. It turned out to be one of my favorites.

 

 

 

I have color filter on my camera and I was playing with it

This is a shot from our yard and across the neighbors pasture. Do you see the gate?  If you look at the tire swing pic you can see how big the pasture is. The gate is on the other side by that tree line.

Then I played with the zoom lens and had it out at the full 42x:



I took tons and there are more to come...  -JUGM