DEVASTATING TORNADOES & PASSA GRILLE

Well our Girls' Annual Weekend Getaway if now but a memory, but what a great time we had during those 2 1/2 days. We stayed at a cottage in Passa Grille and walked about 1/2 block to the beach (Gulf of Mexico). The weather was great and of course, our trips always are mostly shopping and eating and eating and eating. Due to financial conditions this year we didn't do much extra things. Most of our money went for eating, so much more expensive this year! We stayed at the southern tip of the island which is mostly residential with rentals and some small hotels. It was SOOOO quiet, just what we needed as the gals still working have very stressful jobs. We are discussing a 3 day cruise out of Florida for next year. A cruise for me is the only way to go, but I personally prefer a 7 day cruise. You board put your clothes, etc. away and you are ready to go. No packing up every day and moving on to the next place. You can go on side trips if you want and everything is taken care of for you. No driving and all that goes with it. I love cruises.

Moving on we are awaiting word from my girlfriend's brother and wife who live in Cassville, Missouri just south of where the tornado hit Joplin, Missouri and has wiped out much of the town. Hopefully she will hear from them today, but at this very moment a new storm is heading towards Joplin once again. It is suppose to be severe. I have always wanted to be a Red Cross responder and I checked into it once I retired and found that you have to have your own money for food, etc. when you respond to a disaster and sometimes your team has to provide theis own transportation to the scene. Well anyway that sort of took that dream away from me. I know many of you are wonderig whey someone would want to go into a disaster area to help. Well my whole life has pretty much been as a caretaker for someone and I guess part of that is a situation where I was the only one that could do the caretaking and taking care of people is something within me, or I am justy crazy. LOL Hope everyone is well and happy and have a wonderful week and a safe Memorial Day Weekend for those of you in that good ole USA.

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WOYWW - #97

Hello fellow crafters and bloggers. My gosh it is Wednesday once again. Is time moving faster or is it me? For those that wonder what WOYWW is all about should go to Julia's blog, http://www.stampinground.blogspot.com/ You get a chance to check out what all the crafters have been working on since last Wednesday. We post pictures of our work on our blog and then we follow Julia's list and try and check out as many desks as we can get done. You don't have to do them all. Just take your time and enjoy and gather ideas. I am still working on my quilt as shown last week. Tomorrow Jennifer and I are suppose to drive to Passa Grille and make reservation for our sorority chapter's Annual Weekend Getaway, but we may have waited too long. They have a LOT of weekend weddings all along the beach and motels fill up with wedding guests. So wish us luck in finding a vacancy for May that we like. Those we already checked by phone or internet are already booked. Very sad. We get to looking around at everyone's blogs. See if I can find something to put on here for this week. Ok, I don't have any cards that haven't been on here at one time or another. Am coloring images and no cards yet. But here is a wall hanging to be done. Sorry about the small glare, but it isn't covering anything important. Had a better one I wanted to put on here, but of course I can't find it at this time. I did, however, find the materia for it. LOL No matter where I put my cursor, the picture always goes to the top. very annoying! Have to take the time one of these days and see if I can figure it out.

I was up at 2:30 a.m. to post this and this morning at 11:00 a.m., I find it did not post. Whaaat? So hopefully here it is now. Sorry folks.

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WOYWW - #96

Good morning everyone! I have been busy taking care of other projects so have not been participating on Wednesdays for awhile, BUT I have snooped around a little. I am sorry I did not leave comments for you though. Since the Festival (previous post) I have not done any cards, shame on me. Yesterday I pulled out a project that has been being worked on for about 20 years, yes 20. I really have to be in the mood, lol. Anyway I swear I am going to finish it in this lifetime. I am into the handquilting part and I am not great at it and am very slow. My girlfriend is doing cross stitch and wanted me to find something similar so we can spend a couple of hours a week just chatting about different things in our lives. So this is all put together as far as it can be until the quilting is done.

As soon as I laid it out on the table, my pretty Sassy claimed it. She thinks it is her new sleeping pad and has spent most of her time sleeping on it. I am having to redo the quilting pattern on it since it is worn off in spots. I can't believe any of it is still there after all these years and the many moves I have had. It is going to be a wall hanging when finished. Well I will be checking as many of you out over the next few days. Thanks for visiting me.

BACK AWHILE

Well not much going on these days. Lost my mojo and it is lurking here somewhere. Saturday my sorority chapter had a tent at the Parrish Heritage Days, so my time was spent on getting that all together. It was really small! I sold 7 cards. Also, made bracelets and sold 15. We had hoped for teenagers, but it was too lame an event for teenagers. So now we know. We had hoped to make enough to fill our coffers a little for our weekend getaway in May (to help pay otle rooms), and for our annual charity donation. Well the main thing was that all of us spent the day together having a good time and that is what sorority is all about. I have been stopping by most of your blogs, but have not really left any comments. Sorry!! It is pouring rain right now and we really needed it badly. If you stop by - thanks. Maybe I will try and remember to do WOYWW this week. There are so many participating it is hard to get to everyone and make comments and it takes me three days, how about you. Have a great week.

The above pic is my silly little girl Sassy. She is a Bobtail. Thinks she has found a new place for her naps. She was so surprised when she moved around a little too much and ended up on the floor at one point. The look on her cute little face was priceless. She just couldn't figure out how she was on the chair and then on the floor.

WOYWW-90

Oh heck! It is 10:10 a.m. and I forgot about my post for WOYWW again. So here I am trying to get it together, some what. I am still working on cards to sell at the end of March for the Parrish Heritage Day Festival. This is a very, very old small town in Florida and it is just 3 miles from my home. When I see some of your sites and the boxes of cards you have made it makes my pathetic attempt a big joke. Oh well, work with what you have and what you can do I guess. I am currently working on two birthday cards, they are not finished, still thinking about how I want to finish them off. I have two sorority sisters with birthdays, one on Feb. 27 and the other is Mar. 2. The cat is a Penny Black and the girls I believe are Stampin' Up stamps. I still have not mastered getting my pics to come up on my blog where I want them.

My grandson, who has returned from his latest deployment has e-mailed me that Lifetime TV came on board ship as they were returning and interviewed some of the crew and filmed the homecoming to their loved ones. They had just returned from a deployment and within about a month to 6 weeks were sent out again. Anyway the ship is the USS Harry S. Truman CVM75, an aircraft carrier and it is to be aired on March 6 at 10:00 p.m., Eastern time in the United States. So I am looking forward to watching it. My sorority chapter is in the final planning stages of our "Weekend Getaway" for May 20. We have decided to stay close to home because of the gas prices and only having three days. We do not want to spend all of our time on traveling, so we are just going about a 45 minute drive up the coast to Passa Grille (Enfys you should be familiar with this area, I think). We are staying at a small motel facing the Gulf and there are little shops and restaurants within walking distance. Then my girlfriend and I are hoping to book a cruise for 2012 and begin making payments on the booking so it is all paid by the time we board the ship. Who knows what will be happening by August 2012, but that is our plan. Well that is probably more than you wanted to know and so I will get off here and on to my day. Have a great week.