Why Not!!

A friend of mine was rather impressed with the "Janie" stories and said when I get through with "Janie" and her mischief, that she would gladly illustrate the book if I would consider doing a book.
Now I ask you, is that the face of an angel, or is the halo just a bit tilted??
This is "Janie" age six.

I know it is still February, but my plants are really getting anxious and some are in bloom, others that shouldn't peek out yet, have..
Of coarse, I am anxious as well, every morning I go out and check to see how they are doing and give them a few words of encouragement.. Yes, I do talk to them!!
We've had some very wonderful rain, very much needed may I add.. I spend a good deal of the day outside, but today it is cold and blah, so I shall do some writing..

And so is Sylvia, Happy!!!!!!!

This has been a very happy day for Sylvia and also her Janie... An e-mail came from Helium and I will put in quotes what it said...

"Hi Sylvia,

I am the new subchannel steward for Memoirs. I just finished reading your memoir about remembering your grandpa

Janie... Wow she will remember this all her life even at age three.

Thanks for writing this wonderful story.

Yours, Cyn"

So Sylvia is so happy and pleased that she finally received recognition.. I think I forwarded to everyone I knew!!! In fact I know I did!!!

Janie is really happy

Well Janie had a really wonderful birthday, you may check it out on the Helium Blidget right here or you may go to

http://www.helium.com/tm/873357/special-janie-celebrated-third

I shall also insert a picture of Janie on that special day.
I hope you enjoy and don't forget to rate "Janie"...

Keeping up with Janie!

Janie is having so much fun on Helium. She is three years old.
http://www.helium.com/tm/849989/janie-three-years-family

In a day or two I hope to have another adventure with Janie at age three.
Been a little (actually a lot) under the weather. But Dr. said I would live.

Oh what fun!!

Earlier this week I was awakened about 2:00 A.M. feeling extremely cold. I finally slipped out from under my covers and raced to start the gas wall heater, it was really cold that night. I then went to adjust the thermostat and nothing happened, so I tried again. My furnace would not come on. I was so cold that I couldn't think straight. Finally I went to the kitchen and turned on all four burners hoping for more heat. Boy did I get it fast. There were two small and I do mean tiny spots of grease on one burner, and that is all it took. That little tiny itsy bitsy amount of smoke set off both smoke detectors immediately, if not sooner. No fire, just a little puff of smoke. I rushed to the first one waving my arms frantically telling it to shut up. Then to the other one doing the same thing. Now that one would stop-start-stop-start and in between I was turning on fans. I finally got the smoke detectors to stop, and believe me there is nothing to put you in fear faster than that sound at 2:30 in the morning.
Finally I was able to think sanely again and I knew the furnace had pulled that trick before. About three years ago I remembered that I had to flip the breaker switch off and then back on. That did it and so off went the stove burners, gas heater and after adjusting the thermostat I crawled back under the covers. A shame there wasn't a video, because I am sure that would have won first place with honors as well.

Finally Back to Writing

It feels so good to finally be back writing. I posted one last night and one this morning. Helium is where you will find me but you can check my blidget out right here as well. Here are the URL's for the last two.

http://www.helium.com/tm/845951/august-again-humid-family

http://www.helium.com/tm/847311/janie-through-emotional-period

Please keep watching because the next one I'm working on is under the creative writing
Humor: Giving Birth

If I pull that off I think I shall deserve a medal!!! I know what I want to say I just have to come up with 400 words.

Beautiful

Today it is 70 degrees and two days ago it was 30 degrees.
I think we need to talk to whoever is in charge of the weather.
I should be outside playing in the dirt, but am expecting company so I better restrain myself for a while. Now that I stop and think about it, maybe they are outside enjoying this weather.
I still have about 100 bulbs that need to go in the ground, and today would be perfect.
I've had a few comments from my Yuwie friends about my Blidgets. I think the best one was, "What is a Blidget?"
I believe the easiest way to describe it is -- a widget for displaying your blog.

Sylvia's Site

Sylvia's Site

Another Blidget

As you can see, I did the blidget for Helium now to figure out Yuwie!!
Hey, this is so much fun.

My Blidget for my blog.

As you can see I've been playing again. WELL!!! Do you like my Blidget?? I think it's rather neat.
I'm going to attempt to make one for My Helium and Yuwie.
Go ahead, grab it, I would like that..

Linky

Learned some thing new today, it is called linky and is used on your Yuwie comments or messages. It is down loaded on your Mozilla
Firefox browser.
http://ViralURL.com/JoinNow/Linky
There is a blog on it on Yuwie:
http://www.yuwie.com/blog/entry.asp?id=155246&eid=196295
It shows you how to speed up your messages and comments.
I did over half my friends with a message in a couple hours.
Half of them probably fainted since I've been a little negligent in my messaging for a couple months. But I did have a good reason.
I printed off the sheet after listening to the video and then went to work.

Don't forget you can still sign up under me at:
http://r.yuwie.com/calviaart

Our cold spell is easing up some so I just may get a few more bulbs planted.

Eons

Eons

Playing in the dirt

I received over 500 bulbs a few days ago and here it is December. It is now raining and is to be fairly nice after. Therefore I think I shall go play in the dirt. It will give me something to look forward to when once again Spring will arrive and all the beauty that lays dormant will arise.
Hopefully I will be able to share some wonderful photos with you.
I am also trying my Mom's trick of trying to get roses to root from some recent bouquets I received. I'm not sure if it will work, since these are hot house roses. I've never tried it but I will let you know if it works. There are six different varieties that I will be hoping will sprout roots.
In the mean time I wish all a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

There is still time.

If you haven't checked out my web-site lately, there is still time to get a nice wood etched box for that special someone, or a pretty original painting.
I do hope your Holidays are happy and prosperous.

http://www.yessy.com/calviaart

My beloved Calvin

One month ago we were told that Calvin had a very large brain tumor in the lower right lobe, it was so very near the spinal cord fluid that he had maybe 2 hours to live.
He went through brain surgery and like the wonderful loving person he has always been, came through with a smile on his face. He spent 3 weeks in ICU, went through a ton of tests, and finally they found the evil cancer hiding in his upper right lung. It was already attacking the liver as well.
He came home on Tuesday with the prognosis of 2 weeks to 2 months. He is very weak but oh so very happy that I kept my promise to bring him home. He is on hospice and being so cooperative.
I have found a new strength since he came home and find his love for me is stronger as mine is for him.
There has been many prayers for both from all around the world. We still need your prayers and do appreciate every one for this kindness.