I just sort of disappeared from here a couple of weeks ago. I didn’t disappear on purpose!

3 weeks ago, this past Saturday, I started getting what I thought was a cold. Then everyday after that, someone else in the house got sick. That’s 5 adults.

Life with Linda – The Sick Edition

My son, who doesn’t live here full time, got sick too, and his work required him to go get tested. Well, he tested positive for covid.

Ugh! He got his results on a Sunday, so on Monday, the rest of us loaded in the car and got tested. Yep, all 5 of us tested positive. Ugh!

The first week honestly felt just like a little cold. It didn’t stop anyone from working, or anything else. But when that second week started, it was brutal. I was shocked at the nausea and vomiting, that you don’t hear that much about. Thankfully, the rest of the family didn’t get those as bad as I did.

It’s now been about 3 weeks that every has been sick. After missing 2 weeks of work, my husband started back today for a half day. He was required to go get tested again, and be negative. Thankfully, he is.

Everyone is still weak, and very tired. Some still have a cough. but we are all recovery. I am extremely grateful, and thankful, that my 85 year old mother virtually sailed through this virus. She had no complications, and didn’t get as sick as the rest of us. So thankful!

My heart breaks for those that I know that have lost a loved one, I myself have lost relatives to this virus, and those that I know that are in the hospital now.

Look for a post later this week with what I did ahead of time that made these 3 weeks of sickness easier to get through.

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I decorated for fall early this year. It was still summer. lol I don’t usually decorate that early. But I was just in the mood to decorate for fall this year. Maybe because I was so glad for summer, and it’s hot weather, to be over!

Whatever got to me, lol, when I was shopping at Dollar Tree, I found some great fall flowers and decor. So I bought a lot. lol

Let me show you what I did!

I bought everything in the picture below at Dollar Tree. My favorite is the pumpkins with the sunflower and a little gourd on top. So cute!

The flowers are just gorgeous!

See the pumpkins? Are they not the cutest?!

I put one of the pumpkins together with some smaller ones that I already had on a tray for my coffee table/ ottoman/ toybox.

Here it is in the living room. I made the sunflower pillow, so easy! You can see some of the other flowers that I bought in the back in a basket with a few other flowers I already had.

I used two of the leaf garlands on a wreath for my front door. My husband made this wreath from our own grapevines. It’s not perfectly round, but it’s ok. It gives it character! Wreaths are not just round anymore! The leaf garlands, and a piece of burlap ribbon I already had, and I love it!

I fell in love with these flowers that have burlap petals inside. I made the vase by covering a coffee drink glass bottle with rope. So cute! And you’d never know that it was from a drinking bottle!

I have this tiered tray on my dining room table. I used the last two pumpkins that I got. One, along with one of the leaf garlands is on the bottom tier with a few other little things I already had. One is on the top tier with another sunflower, a burlap flower, and a seed looking thing I already had. I also have a string of battery operated lights on it. You can see the string. They are little peaches, lol, I didn’t have any pumpkin lights. If you don’t look too close, they could pass as little pumpkins. lol I put a piece of burlap that I already had under the tray. I love it!

Thanks for checking out my fall decorating!

Have you started decorating for fall yet??

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Ok, so this happened a few months ago. I’m just now getting around to sharing. I blame the trauma of having a snake in my dining room!

 

My mother and I were the only ones having dinner this particular night. We were sitting at the dining room table, eating and chatting.

When I looked up, screamed “It’s a snake!!!” and ran out the front door.

This is what this section of my dining room looks like.

 

 

And this is what I saw. Except it was a real snake! Not my sub standard drawing of a snake!!

 

 

Back to the story. My mother heard me scream, but she didn’t understand what I said. She just knew I screamed and ran. So she’s still sitting at the table asking what’s going on? What are you doing?

So I had to yell back in the door about the snake. She’s hard of hearing, so I really did have to yell. lol She finally saw it and came outside.

Then I discovered that I had left my cell phone on the table!! Well, I wasn’t about to go back in there and get it! So my mother did. lol Which I couldn’t believe! lol

Shortly after that, my husband came home from work. He went in, caught it with no problem. Bare handed. And triumphantly carried it outside. lol

 

 

“It’s a black snake. It’s the good one! They eat poisonous snakes!”

 

Ok fine but not in my house! lol So he took it to the field out back and set it free.

 

Where hopefully, he (or she!) really is eating all the poisonous snakes!

 

 

My niece’s What Will It Bee? Gender Reveal Party was so cute!

They decorated with black and yellow.

 

The flower vases had bees on them. So did the tablecloth.

 

 

The cake was adorable! Don’t you think?

 

 

One of the games was to guess how many honey combs were in the jar. Honey comb cereal that is! I didn’t win. lol

 

 

They even used the theme for some of the food. This bee cheese “ball” was almost too cute to cut!

 

 

My niece and her husband had tshirts made that said “mommy to bee” and “daddy to bee”

 

 

Another game they had was What Will the Baby Bee according to these old wive’s tales. I didn’t had never heard of some of these old wive’s tales, so I didn’t even come close to winning, but it was fun anyway. lol

 

 

If you or someone you know will be having a baby, the What Will it Bee? Gender Reveal Party is so cute!

 

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Just over 2 weeks ago I became a grandmother for the first time! My youngest daughter, out of three, and child #5, out of 6, got married last September. They promptly had a baby. lol About 3 weeks before their 1st wedding anniversary!

 

Meet Moriya Ann! Isn’t she beautiful? She weighed 6 pounds 9 ounces, and was 20 inches long.

One hour old:

 

4 days old

 

5 days old with my husband and I. A rare picture of us. lol  We just had a 37th wedding anniversary earlier this week!

 

 

11 days old:

 

 

 

I found the crown in the gift shop of my local hospital. The package says:

The day you were born,

we placed this on your lil’ head

Cherish and protect it for your bouquet

the day you wed…

 

I just love it! And it makes for some gorgeous newborn pictures, too! I debated for a couple of months before she was born, whether I should get one or not, as it was expensive. I finally decided to go ahead and get it. While I was buying it, the woman that runs the gift shop told me that she loved them. “You never know if we will be around to see our grandkids get married. This way, she will have you there with her.” Oh my! Now I want to go buy a bunch for future granddaughters! lol

 

I saw this on Facebook the other day. Love it, too!

 

 

Thanks for indulging me, and letting me share some pictures of my beautiful little grandsugar!

 

I headed out my front door, across the front yard, and up my new to me stairs for my walk. My husband recently put these stairs in using recycled railroad ties. He needs to redo the railing, it’s too low. It was the right height for the stairs that were there before, but too low for these. The wild violets quickly spread out into the dirt between the stairs. I hope they continue to grow into all the spaces.

 

 

Turning left on the road at the top of the stairs, this is my view. That’s my mailbox on the left, and my dog in the road clearing the way for me. lol

 

 

The neighbor’s barn.

 

 

I’m told that this barn used to be a feed store back in the day. There is still a feed sign hanging up. All this land was then part of a dairy farm. Before we got here.

 

 

This is the view after turning around at the barn and heading back. You can see a few cows on the hill. The cows are the neighbors, but the hill is mine. lol We let the neighbor run the cows on our property to keep it from getting overgrown.

 

 

I think the vines growing on the trees look cool. That’s my driveway on the other side of the trees.

 

 

This butterfly house is in my front yard. We have never seen a butterfly coming or going from it. I did read that the butterflies go in, lay their eggs, and go right back out again. So that’s probably why. This year, the honeysuckle vine is trying to overtake it.

 

 

There are wild roses everywhere around here, and they are just starting to bloom. They smell amazing!

 

 

The wild Daisies are also just starting to bloom.

 

 

Spring is my favorite season! So many things growing and blooming!