My Sister Visit

I really enjoyed my older sister visiting me. My dh and I met her and her daughter after my dh eye doctor visit. Her daughter brough her to meet us. My older sister is a dear. She is 87 years old but doesnt look a day over 77. She gets around better than I do. She lives alone and has a beautiful apartment. Her son and daughter looks after her off and on. She was in a car wreck a year ago and total her car. It wasnt her fault. Woman pulled out of a side street and hit her head on. Thank goodness it didnt kill her. It did bruise her up very badly but no broken bones. Her eye sight isnt all that great as the Dr. told her not to drive anymore. She is lost without a car and has to depend on her children to take her places. I know she gets so lonesome just sitting in her apartment. I told her once a month that she was coming to visit me for a few days. She was always on the go until she had her wreck. She stayed from Tuesday until Friday. We went shopping Wednesday to Peebles and Walmart and had lunch. We both gave out after 2 hours of shopping. I am not able to shop for over 2 hours as my legs and back gives me a fit. She had open heart surgery one year and the next year she had knee replacement in both legs a year apart. She has been like a mom to me since we lost our mom. I love her so much and I want to spend as much time with her as I can as I know she is getting up in years.

My other sister wanted to come with her but she had doctors appointment so she came on without her. I really enjoyed her visit. We played Rummy Cube every night until around midnight.

My granddaughter came from Alabama to visit with us this past Friday. We took my sister home and had lunch out. Beth done the driving out to my sisters house. After we left my sisters house we shopped at Book Million and then Hobby Lobby and naturally I spent too much money in Hobby Lobby. Bought some art supplies and magazines. My granddaughter left this morning to go back home. I have 10 grandchildren but she is the only one that comes to see me. She is my first grandchild and she is so sweet. She calls me a lots to see how I am doing and comes to visit me about every other month. I really appreciate the love that she has for me and I love her so much. She is 30 years old and no children and has a full time job so I know it is hard for her to get away to see me. She is a dear sweet granddaughter.

We had a storm this morning and it rained until noon. We really did need the rain as it has been so hot and dry here in Dickson, Tenn. We got over 2 inches of rain. My poor flowere really had a field day drinking all of that good rain. Their heads are standing up and they look so pretty. I have so many flowers with Beths help. Beth comes up every spring and plant flowers in my beds and helps me hang all of my hanging baskets on my deck. I am going to make some pictures of all of my flowers before long if I can stay out of my art room long enough to do so LOL. I have been working on some cards today. I love my arts and it is good theraphy for me.

I hope to go to church tomorrow if I am up to it. My legs and back has bother me so much with this rain and I am tired from all of my shopping LOL. I have good days and bad days with my Parkinson disease and my legs and back. I have try to rest some today. So hope it isnt raining tomorrow so maybe I will go to church.

My dh will have eye surgery Aug. 1st on one eye. He is a bad diabetic and I am hoping his surgery will not get his blood sugar out of wack. He takes 4 shots a day and it is so hard to control his blood sugar. I just pray that he will stand the surgery ok. A dear friend of mine that I met on the internet 9 years ago passed away this past Tuesday. I will miss her so much. I have never met her in person just chat on the internet. She sent me some of the most beautiful pictures and poems, quotes and also comical pictures and nice jokes and stories. I will miss her so much. I have so many friends that I have met on the internet over the years that I have never met in person. I did meet one of my friends. Barb in Wisconsin came to see me and I went to see her. Now I have a friend in one of my art group that is coming to see Beth and I in November. I am looking forward to her visit she is such a sweet friend. I have more friends on the internet than I have any where else. Every one of my friends are really a special friend. Some people are scare to meet their friends from the internet face to face but you know if they are up and up kind of person after so long of a time. Every one of my friends are very dear to me.

I guess I better get back to my card making and visit some with my dh.
Hope all of my friends have a good weekend.
Granny Lottie

Back Home

We are back home from our trip to see my son in Dallas Georgia. Boy it was really hot there also. We did get some relief from the heat by jumping in his beautiful pool. We had a real nice time and really enjoyed seeing my son and his wife. My son took us into a town that had a Michael and of course I had to buy some art supplies. I found some lovely cotton material for a fabric book that I am partcipating in. We send a fabric page at the end of the month and receive a fabric page back from some one else. We will end up with 8 fabric pages for our book that we will bind how ever we wish to do the binding. The pages are to be quilted. I have never done any quilting before so this is a new thing for me. I will try to post a picture of my first page in the book that I done. I am staying pretty busy since I got back from my trip. I have 3 books to work on. Also I am going through all of my old art magazines and tearing out techniques and greeting cards. I am making a technique notebook and a greeting cards notebook. I cant always remember what I see in those magazines so I decided to clean out my old magazines and make a note book for what I want to keep. I am not tearing out any of the magazines for the year 2006. I think it will help me so much when I am ready to make something like a greeting card and a technique if I can go and thumb through my notebooks. I have also started making postcards also. I enjoy making those. I would love to get in a swap for postcards. I really need to get my art studio straighten up. Guess I will try to do that today. I really dont know where to start LOL.

Beth and I took some pictures of my son's horse farm and of the deer coming to get food that my daughter inlaw put out for them. As soon as Beth sends me the pictures I will post them.

I couldn't sleep this morning and I finally got up at 5 . I had so much on my mind and my old bones were aching so got up started the coffee and here I am. Guess I will go and get another cup of coffee. Hope every one has a good day and keep cool.
Lottie

Same old same old

Today hasn't been any different than any other day. Just the same old same old. I have just about got caught up on my swaps. Went to the beauty shop today. Got my nails done and hair cut. It is so hot here that I dont dare get out. I did water the flowers on the deck today. My flowers are so pretty. I got up at five this morning. I just cant sleep like I use to. It only takes about 5 hrs. of sleep for me. My old left foot was so swollen and red when I got up. I just dont know what is wrong with my foot. The Drs. havent never xray it. They tell me it is edemin but I dont think it is that. I am going to call tomorrow and see the Dr. and tell him I want a scan done on it. If it isnt one thing it is another that is wrong with me. I know Virgial gets tired of hearing me complain and I am trying not to complain as much as I use to. I sometime just feel so badly that I can hardly go. Beth tells me I dont get enough exercise but when you feel bad and can hardly walk who wants to try to exercise and fall. I just sit in my art studio and do arts. I do cook meals and try to clean the house but have to sit down about every 25 minutes to rest when I try to clean the house I just give out so fast. I am thankful that I can get up every morning as some people are bed ridden. I dont let it get me down I just keep on going. It does depress me that I cant do like I use to. When I complain about that my dear hubby says well I cant do like I use to.I get so tired and bored just staying in the house and I get so lonesome. No one ever comes to see us except Beth bless her heart. It just gets old as I am use to going and doing all sort of activities. I guess what I am trying to say is that I just cant accept the shape I am in and getting old. I think a lots about how I use to go and have so much fun. As I stated I am thankful for being able to get around and I thank God every day for being able to just get around. It is a great life if you dont weaken to it. I do try not to think about it. My arts is really good theraphy for me as it keeps my mind off of what kind of life I have. It does get boring and I do get out of the mood to do arts. I sometime get on my PC and play games. All Virgial does is flip that darn TV remote control and plays it so loud that sometimes I turn the radio on in my art studio to drown out the loud TV. About all we do together is play Rummy 500 after each meal and I usually skunk him. I get tired of playing it but that is about all we do together. I sometime think he is as depressed as I am. He was always up working and building things in his woodwork shop. He isnt able to do that now. His health is really getting worse. I am bored tonight and thought I would get on here and just write about my feelings which isnt very interesting.

I am looking forward to going to visit my oldest son this weekend in Georgia. Beth is driving us there. I dont think she much wants to go but she doesn't want us to go by ourselves. We will stay until Tuesday. I haven't seen him in 2 years. He does call me every week. He has a farm and horses and it is hard for him to get away.

Going to have lunch with Annie tomorrow. She is the only friend that I have here to do anything with. She isnt well either. She had cancer of breast and also has MS. She takes so much medicine I dont know how she even gets around. I just dont take all of that much medication. I only take heart pill, blood pressure,parkinson medication. Total of 4 pills a day. She takes 22 pills a day!!! I really enjoy being with her and we try to shop some but we give out fast. We use to go to water arobicas together but we had to go all the way into Nashville 3 times a week and that was hard to do. When they open up the Y in Bellvue we are going to start back. It help me so much in strenghtening my muscles and may me feel so much better. I think it will be ready around November. I can hardly wait for it to open.

Well if anyone reads this they will find it very boring. Guess I was bored and just got on here like I was talking to someone. I needed to talk to someone evern if just my computer LOL.
Goodnight

Art Studio

I will try to post pictures of art studio

Cant sleep 4 AM

Well it is 4 AM Monday morning and I can't sleep. So I just got up and turned the coffee on and came in here on my computer. I dont know why I awoke so early but I just couldn't lay in my bed any longer. I have problem sleeping as my legs and back gets to hurting and I get the tremors from Parkinson disease if I lay in my bed and not sleeping.

I haven't been doing anything special since the 4th of July. We did have a nice 4th of July with our friends. The fireworks were beautiful and a lots of good food to eat. It was nice to get together with our friends and had a real good time.

Beth came up this past Saturday and we tried some new techniques out in our arts. We made post cards and greeting cards. I do so enjoy when Beth comes up and we do our art together. You know two heads are better than one. She comes up with some marvelous ideas and I sometime come up with a few new ideas. Beth is such a good artist and she is always telling me that she gets her talants from me. I dont think so, as she is way ahead of me. When you get my age your mind just doesnt function as good as it use to. I make her so mad when I tell her that her art looks better than mine. So I guess I better quit telling her that but it does outshine my arts that I make. Her head is full of ideas in doing our arts. I plan on going down to her house one night this week and spend the night with her and we will work on our arts.

We are planning on going to see my son Gary in Dallas , Ga. this weekend. Beth is going with us and do the driving as she doesnt like for us to go off by ourselves. My hubby isnt too well and neither am I so they tell me but I feel fine. I just have trouble with my balancing in walking and just give out too quickly. I am able to drive the car but Beth doesnt like for us to take a trip as she worries that we may get sick or have a wreck. I havent seen my son in over two years and really looking forward to going to see him. I sent his wife an email asking her if it will be ok for us to come and if she had other plans. We were very dissapointed last year as we planned a trip there and it wasnt a good time for us to come. They are a busy couple. They have 25 acres and 3 horses and both are counselers. They use their horses in counseling children and family. My son took training to use the horses in working with children. He is like the Movie Horse Whisper.
Gary is my oldest child and Beth and him aren't all that close. Beth is closer to her other brother Rick than she is with Gary. Rick was crazy about Beth when she was a baby and still crazy about her now. I never had to have a baby sitter as Rick would always tend to Beth. He would come in from school and would always go to see about Beth and took care of her until bedtime. Rick and Beth are a lot alike in disposition and very tender hearted and very compassionate. Gary is more like his Dad in ways as being very distant. He is becoming to realize that family means a lots to him now that he is older. My Mom and Dad was very close to us girls. My two sisters and I are very close. All of our family has passed away and we are the only ones left. Us girls have children and grandchildren and great grandchildren. My sisters and I try to get together at least once a month. My two sisters lives about 50 miles from me. We play dominos and cards and usually end up arguring as sisters do LOL. But we are very close and have a good time when we get together. We are The Golden Girls that is what we are called. I am the youngest one of us. Adelaide is the oldest she is 86 and Doll is 84. Adelaide doesnt look 86 and gets around better than Doll and I do. They live alone as their husbands has passed away. I am planning on my two sisters coming up to visit me in a couple of weeks. We use to shop until we dropped but now we cant do that anymore we give out in about an hour or so.

Well it is five a.m. now and my dear hubby is sleeping away. I wish I could sleep like he does. Dont know what I will do today. Guess the same old same old. I have been going through my art magazines that has stacked up for the last two years. I am making a notebook of cards and techniques by tearing out pages from my art magazines for past year. I cant remember what I see in ideas for card making and techinues so I am making a notebook and making tabs for different catergoings. When I am ready to make a greeting card will just turn to my note book to get an idea as to how I want to make it. My magazines were staching up so and I needed space in my bookshelves to put other art supplies. I am about to run out of space in my art studio. I will try to upload some pics of my art studio.

The sun is coming up and it is daylight and I am on my third cup of coffee. Husband still asleep. Guess I will get busy doing something. Just another day for me and thankful that I can get up and try to enjoy the day with Gods Help.
Granny

Monday, July 3

We are celebrating the fourth of July tonight with the Adams who are our neighbors. We have been doing this for the past seven years. There is usually around 40 people that gets together. We all bring food and we eat until we are stuff and then when it gets dark we have a firework display that lasts about 2hrs. We all chip in to buy all of the fireworks. Each year they get prettier and prettier. I am taking a coconut cream cake, casserole, and of course a bottle of wine to celebrate the 4th. We are not a drinking group but we do like wine!I have been marking ATCS today for a Purple Passion swap. Purple is my favorite color so I have enjoyed making these cards. I am behind in making greeting cards for some of my friends that are sick and also some birthday. I must get busy tomorrow and do these. I dont ever get caught up it seems. My are studio is in a mess and I need to clean and straighten it up. Oh well one of these days I will do that . Maybe by next year LOL. I guess I better get off of here and make my casserole and get ready for a night of fun which I am so looking forward to. I do not have a lot of fun at my house except when I have company. I do have fun doing my arts and my husband sits and looks at TV. I wish he had a hobby beside looking at TV. I have tried to get him interested in my arts but no can do. Oh well that is life! See you later.Granny

My Baby Sassy

I didn't know how to post a picture of my baby Sassy when I wrote the article in here. Now I think I will be able to post a picture of her. She is such a joy to us and she is treated like a child.She is very smart and well mannered except for her barking. She thinks no one is supposed to walk down our street and she will bark to high heaven until they are out of site. She barks at anyone that comes up on our deck or down our driveway which I am glad that she does as it warns us that a stranger is approaching our house. She has to kiss me goodmorning every morning and goodbye if she leaves with her daddy to go somewhere. I really dont know what I would do if something happened to her daddy as she grieves for him when he leaves without her. She sits in his reclinner until he gets back, want eat or drink and want even let me take her out to potty. I guess she would grieve herself to death if her daddy should died. She is crazy about me but not as much as she is about him. She sits in my lap and I talk to her and rub her tummy and back. Oh I just dont know what we would do without our Sassy!!! Hope her picture will upload.
Granny

I did it!!!

Well what do you know I was able to upload my picture of Quilted Book. I will try to upload the back of the page that I done for the book.
Granny

Learning

I dont think my picture of my Quilted Page to my book show up on here. I uploaded it and got all different kind of messages about it. I guess I am so dumb when it comes to uploading a picture. I will try again. Maybe with a little luck I will be able to upload it.
Granny Lottie

Trying again

Trying again to post in here. I haven't been very faithful to writing in here. I guess I feel that I am not use to blogging. My daughter told me it was easy at times but it was hard to do some things in here. My mind just doesn' function as well as when I was younger. My daughter is so good at posting in here and also some wonderful pictures in her blogg. Maybe one of these days I will get the hang of blogging.

Nothing new in my life just the same old same old. I guess when you get as old as me and retired and have health problems that is the way of life for the oldies. I do try to stay active and still young at heart even though my old bones are creaking and a wreck. I do a lot of art work and belong to several groups in the internet. I do atcs,books,scrapbooks,greeting cards, collaging. I am also a modrator in one of the groups that I belong to. I write a news letter every month for this group. I host a lot of swaps in books and ATCS cards. My husband and I use to do craft shows all over Tenn and Alabama until our health got to going down and we had to give it up. We also had a RV and traveled and camp. We enjoyed that so much but we had to sell our RV due to our health problems. I really miss doing our craft shows and camping. We made so many friends doing this. I didnt have anything to do but read and knit and look at TV. My stepson brought home to me a computer and told me to try it out. I didn't want to try it out as I had my fill of computering as I worked at a bank and on the computer five days a week. Also worked in the day time for collections in Drs. office. I did try the games on the computer and really enjoyed playing the games. When he left I told him he could leave the computer for me.

I am now addicted to the computer. I had to learn how to do everything by myself most of the time as usual my daughter helped me out on learning what to do. She suggested that I get on AOL and I did and learned how to do so much on the internet. So that was the beginning of my addiction to the computer. Now I am addicted to my arts. It is the best theraphy for me. I sometime stay in my art studio all day except to cook and eat LOL. I have a nice studio to do my work in. I decided to do away with my dinning room and made it a studio. I wasn't able to entertain like I use to. We only used the dinning room at Christmas when the children and family came. I have a big new table in breakfast room that will seat 12. That worked out fine as most of my grandchildren are grown now and doesnt come for Christmas they are so busy with their lives.

I have just finishe making a quilted page for a quilt book swap that I am participating in. It was hard to do as my sewing machine was not working and had to quilt it by hand. Not very good at quilting. In fact the first time that I have tried it. Will post a picture of it in here.

Well my dear hubby is ready to eat lunch so guess I will have to get off of here for now.
See you later.
Granny Lottie