Hello Everyone!

So sorry for being away so long but I’m having a hard time with pictures loading and then not finding them, it is just not like Windows 7 and I

do get discouraged, plus I have to wait for Chris to stop by like he did this morning and I know he just cringes

when I ask him to try and fix it!

It’s football season here again, I’m not talking about the Steelers but highschool football, my son coaches, so every Friday we and the

whole family it seems sit in the bleachers and cheer him on, so far he has won every game! The picture below is of

Alex, coaches daughter, Samantha holding Nicholas, I’m using my iphone to take pictures because my camera is not working right!

After the game, talking to the reporter for the newspaper!

This summer I noticed my hair, after the operation, looking bad (all those meds) so I had Renee, my

hairdresser, do me in my natural color with a little bit of blonde feathering on the bottom.

Here I am with my oldest granddaughter Sydney,school shopping in August, I can’t believe

she is going to be 14 this year.

I’ve also been watching Nicholas on Thursday’s, he goes to Pre-School

but is off on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s! He has fake glasses on here

and he held the puzzle up so you could see how he put it together.

This is my grandog she is so adorable and I sure love her so much… her paws

crack me up, they look like mittens to me!

I’ll be back tomorrow and show you some of my fall and yes, I did put out a little, tiny bit of Halloween decorations,

I figure I may as well do it all so that I don’t have to get it from the basement twice!

Have a wonderful week ahead!

Rondell♥

Fall Love!

Fall is right around the corner friends, days are shorter and you can just smell it in the air! Tomorrow is the last day for

our 90 degree weather and then they are calling for much cooler temps, one night is supposed to go down to 50!!!

I’m totally ready to put away the sea shells and sea glass aren’t you?  I’ve been pinning a lot lately, just can’t resist

those great fall ideas that everyone is putting out there!

Here are some of my favorites:

This neat mantle is from Just Destiny Mag.com love the chalkboard fire and the “Welcome Autumn” sign is a free

printable plus she used some half pumpkins that I’ve seen at Michale’s!

This one is from HGTV, look at all the printables, they look great all grouped together!

Love the gobble gobble one!

 

How about Pottery Barn? They always have great holiday items!

Be still my heart…a grain sack pumpkin from the old white house. Love it!

I have two velvet pumpkins which I usually place on my coffee table but this is a

cute idea with the basket and…looks like raffia. For some reason the lettered cottage

blog can’t be hyperlinked so be sure to stop by her blog!

Thanks so very much for stopping by, I always appreciate it!

Stop by my Fall pinterest board to see other fall ideas!

Wow Us Wednesday

Rondell

What I’ve been Up To and My New Ride!

Hi friends! I hope you are all doing well and are enjoying the rest of this summer,

I can’t believe it’s August already and reading blogs have found that some kids

are going back to school already.

I’m trying to enjoy these last weeks too but to say this hasn’t been the best 

summer of my life is so very true!

As you know I was discharged from the hospital the beginning of May having

a perforated gallbladder, well last week I rammed head on into a car in front

of me

that had stopped to turn left, I took my eyes off the road for two seconds and

that’s all it took to total my white car! I was taken by ambulance to the same

hospital, I was laying there thinking “I can’t believe I’m here again” oh, and did

I say that I had my granddaughter, Samantha in the car with me? She was fine,

thank God the air bag didn’t go off on the passenger side because she doesn’t weigh

a lot. Yes, every Grammy’s nightmare, we are both bruised from the seat belts and

my right arm was cut and bruised from the air bag, but we are both alive and okay.

We had a rental car… then yesterday we bought this car a Ford Escape which we both

really like, I haven’t driven it yet though…still nervous I guess! Anyway, that’s why I

haven’t been back to blogging and also computer issues, learning how to do everything

on this new laptop with Windows 8 and soon Window 10!

So I think I’ll just randomly share some pictures that I’ve taken over this period of

not being able to blog regularly.

 

Sorry about the iphone picture of my Hydrangea but I’m so happy with it,

to have it bloom so fast is just amazing to me:)

Shopping at Kohl’s… I did buy the blue ceramic basket!

I shared this Pyrex casserole dish on instagram and a very nice lady who collects Pyrex said

it is called snow garland. It is my son in laws late mothers! After I poked around

more I found a glass lid for it and a smaller version of this one with lid, I

think it is such a pretty blue. I

I have been playing around a bit with my livingroom and actually took all the colored

pillows out and had the room very neutral

But…it just isn’t me, I need color although I do adore the whites/neutrals and you

ladies that have it do it so well. I even moved my little, wood ladder by the sofa for

an end table. I still have it here and seeing if I still like… so far so good!

Well, friends this post has taken me so long to do, learning this tech stuff is so tiring…

my brain is fried with it. I’ll keep on trying though because I’m missing all of you so

much.

Make it Pretty Monday

The Scoop

Inspire Me Monday

Tuesdays at Our Home

Inspire Me Tuesday

Happy Monday!

How is everyone today? Our rain here has finally stopped and we are having 90 degree weather and

sun, so everyone is in a better mood it seems!

I wanted to show you how my flowers have progressed, the picture below shows when I just planted

the window box this spring,

here it is now! Whoa!

The butterflies love them!

Remember my hydrangea that I bought with my fingers crossed?

This is what it looked like after I had cleared all the dead leaves

off of it!

 

I about fainted one day when I noticed this bloom, boy, would my mom

and dad be proud, both had green thumbs!

I have know idea what this is, coleus I think, looks cute in my blue

rusty watering can!

 

 

Now on to some things I have found!

I finally found a pom pom throw that didn’t cost an arm and leg, I found

this at Target online. It’s so soft!

 

 

These croquet balls caught my eye at the antique fair this past May! I’d love

to find more!

 

 

 

 

I’m thinking on painting this wash stand a light gray or white, will see what happens!

 

I’m so glad to be back blogging again and so happy many of you supported me also!

Love you all!

I’ll be back soon!

 

Amaze Me Monday!

Inspire Me Tuesday

 

 

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My Laptop Died

That's why I haven't been posting, well that and  recovering from my operation. When I was recovering I really didn't feel like posting because there wasn't much to post about except for
how great my family was at the time and how well the nurses on my floor took care of me. Also
 just thankful for being alive, it was touch and go there for a while that night! I'd like to say also
that if I hadn't stopped smoking over two years ago I know in my heart that I wouldn't have made it!

My laptop was old with windows 7 and not being computer savvy I didn't want to go on to windows
8...scared to death but here I am now with windows 8 and soon it will be windows 10!!! On my old
laptop it would get so hot you couldn't touch it an then would shut down without any warning,
it did it once while I was writing a post and it was all gone so I decided to wait, my son had my new

laptop and had to return it. So I'm back now and ready to decorate!!!

Now I can't load my pictures from my iphone or camera, my son is coming for dinner tonight so maybe tomorrow I'll get back in the swing of things after he shows me how!

Here are two oldie but goodies, I don't like to post without pictures, for you!
This bench I found at a yardsale for $15.00, Michael was home this past weekend, he is putting his
cottage by the bay up for sale and I gave him this to put in his mudroom.

                                                                       

I have so much to show you!

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Rondell

Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th to you friends! I hope your having fun with your family and friends!

 

I pinky promise to be back soon♥

 

Rondell

Outside My Home

Hello everyone, I hope you are having a wonderful long weekend, we are and I’m

glad to be up and around and enjoying it. We drove to the mountains where our

friends camp and had Buster with us , he loved being around a lot of other dogs.

We also stopped at an antique fair where I found an aqua McCoy planter and

also three croquet balls, which I had been looking for. Maybe one day I’ll find the

rest of them!

I haven’t been doing to much, can’t lift anything heavy but I have been outside doing

what I can. Here are some pictures that I took this morning.

I love my clematis, it gets prettier every year, not done yet but wanted to show you.

The birdhouse I bought at Marshall’s aren’t the petunias pretty?

I did buy another clematis for my light at the end of the driveway, I hope it grows.

The birdfeeder I found at Tractor Supply, I hung it from my light at the end

of the driveway, hopefully Mr. Squirrel won’t be able to get at this one!

This was a complete surprise when I cleared the dead leaves away from it

because I really didn’t think it would grow. It’s a Hydrangea that I bought

last year and planted, as you can see it is growing but I know it can take

a couple years to show some blooms!

A little of my front porch, still not done with it, just have to take it slow for a while!

I appreciate all that stop by and always read your comments!

Amaze Me Monday