Nancy's Notes

Monday, May 5, 2014

Dark Thirty~

Good Morning!

Well, it's Dark Thirty and I'm up having my coffee. I'm really thinking I'll head outside in a bit and catch a sunrise shot. Hope I don't miss it, I'll plan on it and before I know it, it's up and no pictures. Think I'll just set my alarm. What would I do without my iphone alarm? Do you all use it often? I'm always setting alarms and making lists!

I'll show you a couple of collages I just worked on. When I get up early, it's play time. Nothing else. Coffee and camera and reading blogs.

This little guy is trying to hide from me! He's like, hey will you just leave me alone!

My favorite is the red hibiscus.
Yours?

Here's my daddy. He left for heaven 5 years ago on April 30th.

I was his only daughter. He was my knight in shining armor. My three brothers and I were blessed. He was a grand man, he loved us and we knew it. He practiced law until he was in his mid 80's.

He was a rancher all of his life.

I miss him so much.

I know he's watching down from his window in heaven - smiling that special smile.

Had a great weekend, it was pretty low key, well, a few moments were not so much!

NO offers. We did get a little shock around 10:30 Saturday morning. I had one of those dark thirty morning wake ups and I was taking a teeny tiny nap in Mr. Notes easy chair when I heard the jingle of the front door lock, oh my gosh! I was up and running to the front door as a, get this, a Realtor walks in with a buyer! Gasp!! That's a sweet way of putting it. Thank goodness, I was planning on someone seeing the house, I just was. Of course someone has a plan on seeing our house! Well, the kind and embarrassed Realtor was mortified that I didn't get the text alerting me of the showing. Ha, she was mortified? I was too! I did show some restraint, I was totally cool and calm. I told them to head out to the pool area while I literally shouted at and at the top of my lungs to Mr. Notes that we had someone here to see the house. He's not one bit quick acting...sigh. *&%$# So I ran into our bedroom where he was sitting and was watching TV. Not even a bolt of lighting will get this man moving fast enough! By the time he was finally in the kitchen walking towards our garage door, the buyer and Realtor were in the kitchen looking around. Lo and behold, a chance for Mr. Notes to start selling! OH dear Lord help me. He's telling the man all about the new Wolf appliances, the upgrades, the new sink, he was going on and on...I was like, lets go dear. Then I find myself lightly slapping the buyer's shoulder, telling him, mind you, "you'll love the house!" Now, oh my, good grief, why did I do that?? Crazed moment!

We had quite a number of cars drive by and stop. Why is it that I'm lurking out the windows always checking to see what color, make and model number their car is and how old they are? I then follow the car around while going from window to window. Crazed again. This selling of a home is driving me silly. If I have to tell my dear sweetheart of a husband to put his toothbrush and mouthwash away again, I'm going to whack him upside the haid! I mean really, that is the only thing he has to do.

Sunday afternoon our daughter and grands came over. You know that an 8,6 and 4 year old love baking cookies, right? Well, they were key lime pie flavored and have to say, mighty tasty. Have you played the game Sorry with and 8, 6, and 4 year old? New meaning to sibling rivalry. I asked them to stay for dinner and son in law joined us after his golf game. We had Macaroni Grill's yummy Chicken Alfredo along with a Caesar Salad. Yep, I made it easy, ordered in. It was delicious.

Oh my gosh, did I tell you all that I started Jenny Craig? Shh, I've read we don't talk dieting in blogland. Well, I've only been on it a couple of weeks, trying to lose some of the weight I've gained since the November treatments started. You know this prednisone gig makes me have an appetite that would only be had by one that had just plowed the north forty! OMG. I'm famished all the time. So, I'll take care of that, just get some planned meals, right? Well, it's working, but not fast enough for me. My cheeks are mighty full looking. ~~Don't ask!~~

Well, goodness, it's still just 6:13. Think I'll have another cup of coffee. I just love my Keurig! I love the choices of coffee I have. It's the little things, right?

Well, I hope you all have a delightful Monday and week~ xo

Linking with these friends...

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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Our Home Tour~

Morning friends!

Oh my, can I say we are busy!! We are selling our home and moving to Houston, actually to The Woodlands. Will be near all of our kids and grandkids, to say we are thrilled is an understatement!

So here's a little virtual tour of our home~

2500 Ponderosa - 2500 Ponderosa Dr, Mission, Texas

See the cuties between us? These are our little munchkins that we will be able to see often!

This was taken out at the ranch in December, they crack me up!

Have a wonderful week!

Joining...

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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Nippon~ And a bit~

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Well, I've been wanting to tell you about my trip to Round Top and the Margurger Farm Antique Show!

First off, if ever in Texas, in the spring or fall, it's a must!

I'd been there one time and that was years ago when we were living in Austin Texas. Took a day trip with a bunch of girl friends and just had a blast.

So, late in March, I got the schedule and found out the date of the spring show was on my birthday weekend. I'm one of those my dear husband says celebrates all month long, well, good grief, why not! So, headed to Houston on a Thursday and early on Friday morning my co- birthday daughter in law, who shares the same birthday, how cool is that, headed out on this day of celebration! Well, we made the trip and up front, will tell you all, Blast #2!

There's nothing like this antique show. I mean really. Besides riding in the passenger seat and not having to drive, the road to Round Top was truly delightful. The bluebonnets were in full bloom and seeing the rolling hills and white fences along the highway, the beautiful gates we would see along the road to someones awesome ranch, all of this combined, just breathtaking. The lakes, the flowers, chatting with Holly, the anticipation of this day, was just getting to me. I was giddy! Oh my heavens, all of a sudden you come upon the area, an antique mecca! Dealers and the country's leading designers convene in these tents,these barns, and these dusty saloons to create flea-market nirvana- {{{{}}}}

Be still my heart, if only I could have seen better! ( I did get some nice pieces, so eyesight was okay enough!) I had to wear my blasted glasses and not my contacts. Eyesight is failing and my prescription keeps changing. My Opthamologist says my eyes are weird. Well, thank you buddy! No comments, I just want to see!

Well, first stop, oh dear, my heart was racing with the thrill of hunt, this was really about to begin. (okay, will share a bit more...this is just a little thing, gulp. Okay, I two years ago, I was 59, I had a pace maker implant. YEP, that too. No pity party here, I'm just thankful it works! So, be still my heart comment, ha! It'll be ticking right along no matter what! My positive thing...hey, I'm bionic now!

I'm one of those, takes me a quite a bit of time to make a purchase. I've got to ponder it for hours, unless it's shoes or a purse.

Anyhow, we hit place after place, shop after shop, tent after tent, yes, did not purchase anything until the end of the day because I was wanting to make sure I was getting what I really loved! So the end of our day is about to come to a halt, we must hit the road and miss the traffic back into Houston. Well, when I finally purchased my treasures, they were from the first stop! I knew I loved them, then! Just felt like I needed to have my heart skip a beat a bit more before the big purchases.

I've taken a photograph of my two of favorite treasures! More to come at another time~

Hand Painted Nippon Pitchers~

I just love the lilac flowers and the golden frilly gilded edges!

Aren't they just gorgeous?

I'm not sure where they'll end up, for now, the show place is here.

What are your plans for this glorious day?
I'm off to read some of your awesome blogs and hopefully get off my "cement b**t and go to my yoga class this morning!

My power thoughts for today from Louise Hay.

Enjoy your week!

Joining these friends this week for linky parties!

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Thursday, April 24, 2014

A Day Of Sharing~

Hello sweet blogger friends!

Okay, I've not shared this with you and decided since it's been my new life, I'd just share and have a little writing therapy at the same time.

Nancy's Note today...

I was diagnosed with Wegners Granulomatosis in November. I'm taking chemo therapy treatments weekly and will for two years. A bit daunting, but doable. I take 5 little chemo pills every Monday night and they are doing their magic! I'm so thankful and I'm blessed that I don't have to go to a medical facility and that this new pill form is working for me. How cool is that! The plan is for it to be in remission at that time and not come back. It's not curable, but it is manageable. It's going to be okay, I know that everything comes into your life with a purpose and I'm facing this head on, I will just deal with this with a positive frame of mind and I will not let anything slow me down and I'll always want to keep humor around, it's necessary, right? Wegners Granulomatosis, stepped in what???

So, no worries, I'm good!!

I love my blogging friends. I love blogging. It's such a wonderful thing in my life! I started blogging because I was home all the time caring for my husband who had a two strokes at the age of 56! He's back to being himself now and doing almost everything except being able to play golf or run his businesses. So those were sold and we are and have been together 24/7 since 2006! Ahem... oh joy!! I'm just kidding! Really, we have learned that our own space is good!!

So blogging is important and it's best therapy ever, I love it. I so enjoy reading your blogs. It's amazing how many friends I've made that are just beautiful, funny, incredible and truly amazing women, inside and out.

Just want to share a couple of books that are my "go to" books for comfort and joy. And really, just to remind myself that things are going to be okay.
Simple Abundance and Life Can Be Hard Sometimes are wonderful books.

On a totally different note, all of these new ways to find everyone is just sort of making my head spin!

Are you all finding that these additional ways to find a blog are a bit overwhelming too?

I'm now trying Bloglovin. I will see how it works since my blog roll was yanked away from my blog! Grrr...

Oh, a few words from Sarah's book regarding restoring serenity to our daily endeavors.

"The time has come for us to stop associating serenity with the things that cannot be changed. For we can dramatically change the quality of our lives when we consciously seek to restore serenity to our daily endeavors."

How?

"When we stop behaving as if they were whirling dervishes.
" As I sit here typing this like a maniac!!!

Have a great day, sweet friends!