1924 House

We are remodeling and I found actual newspapers in my walls today from 1924! The first newspaper article is about the montesano crazy man that murdered a bunch of people .... special.

the first paper around I believe in the city was the Seattle Star before it became Seattle Post Intelligencer. In honor of grandma Stephens.. a bon marche ad ...... and apparently tonight I have a haunted blog because the pictures all appear sidways.... though they were not taken so. sorry..

here are some others and of course there will be more to come. I have some seriously crazy comics... click on this link for more fun http://picasaweb.google.com/liomins/MyOldHouse#

Christmas

And so it was.... still people moving snow, and Coty playing High School Musical III on the Wii with a present she bought herself with one of her Target gift cards, a singing Jonas Brothers blanket! Doesn't get any better than that?

Merry Christmas......

The night before Christmas Eve night...

http://picasaweb.google.com/liomins/Dec22232008#

For paddy... never assume because it snows all the "pretty" lights will be lit.... only the ghetto lights. Sorry ...

Got snow? These piles are just from shoveling sidewalk and behind my Honda.

This is a girl who has spent too much time sledding....

Oh and lets not forget... I saved the best for last. A man's idea of the "new" place to hang coats... aaah, grr?

Winter update

Gorgeous stuff today...









Bruce spent hours shoveling walks this morning but alas... for Nada!

Pretty pretty... and here's the rest - http://picasaweb.google.com/liomins/Dec212008#

It's the most wonderful time... of the year!

Snow snow everywhere. I can't get enough of the stuff. It has been what, a full week of constant snow and last night we got doused with the stuff and then around 9:30 it started with freezing rain.

Shall we have a fire?

This morning I went out to take pictures and it was so crunchy. You'd take a step and crunch, and then sink in to the snow. The news stations have been having a horrible time predicting what is going to happen with our weather since last week and I think we are not through with the fun... We went to Olympia yesterday out of necessity and it was a mess. Totally frozen and tons of people that had to do Christmas shopping. On a good note, we got to have a meal at the Olive Garden.. YUMMY. We did what we had to do and got the heck out of there. Yesterday the kids went sledding and then all hung out by the fire and played Mario cart and such. All in all I think we all had some fun. Here are all the pics I took... http://picasaweb.google.com/liomins/UntitledAlbum#

Dec 08... More pics

OK. It's freezing ass cold... beautiful... but COLD! Here are a few pics from last night
http://picasaweb.google.com/liomins/Dec08PartII#

Dec 08

More fun in the winter today...

http://picasaweb.google.com/liomins/Winter08#

Festival 08

So last night was the night of the festival of lights. Pre party at brother Dales house and even my daughter and Sara attended. Lots of good food and friends... and guess what... Jackson didn't scream when he saw me... he even cracked a smile once! The good news here is that Grandma LeAnne said he screams with her too so Bruce and i don't feel so bad now! No, but I had a new enemy this time. Little nephew Carter. Not so much a fan of mine. I never see him so I get it.. Funny. The parade was alright, I think I was the biggest hit of the whole thing. I came out of the park heading toward where everybody was at and I had my dog Jenna and everybody cheered. Quite hilarious. Bruce was behind me and didn't get as many hoorahs... he he. One of my all time favorite pics is Mindy and the hat! LOVE THAT!!! Didn't get Paddy the pics of the giant shopping cart. We thought the parade was ending because we couldn't see any more way down and left and then like 5 minutes later more stuff came but by then it was too late, we were headed home. In the link below are also some pics of my puppies in the snow this morning. It's still snowing and I hope it doesn't stop for a week!
http://picasaweb.google.com/liomins/Festival08#

December

It's Tuesday eve and I'm still working on my secret project. I think I will actually accomplish it and get it to the person who will love it by Christmas. I will never be stupid enough to think I can start this kind of thing in November and work full time, be a single mom during the week, handle the house, dogs, etc and make stuff.

OMG! I'm in the middle of my second serious cold. This should not be happening to me. When I went to Dr. Shin Mom stabbed me with a flew shot before I even knew what she was doing, and I've been catching colds and been basically sick and run down since.

Rumor is we may get a bit of winter warlock this weekend and possibly snow. I'd be THRILLED as usual. You know me, bring the white stuff down and lots of it please. Cancel school, cancel work, let it snow let it snow let it snow. Hey, the'res a 6" base at Stevens Pass and at Mt. Hood Meadows. Woo hoo... not so much.

a bit of the bah humbug

Only because in all my years this is the first... I got my tree decorated and 4 days later the lights on half of the tree quit working. We replaced fuses, the works and nothing worked... sob sob... so I had to remove all decorations and lights and replace them. It was definitely not a fun job. ugh. So that was my Monday evening fun. We'll find out in a little bit if Bruce will be on strike. If so he'll be home tonight and while that is fabulous, earning absolutely no money is not.