This is where I have been....

Besides working fulltime in the Dr's office, which is about 40 hours more a week than what I want to do. I have been trying to get a few things accomplished around the house.

Such as a makeover for my kitchen!

I finally convinced Danny to let me paint the cabinets white!

He even hung my new light that I have had for a long time.

I had an oak board that stretched out between the upper cabinets over the window, a valance I think they are called. I wanted that board removed for almost 10 years now, so it would no longer block the light. It took him about 12 seconds to get it down!

Now you can even see the new light and it really opens up the space!

I still have several more to paint but we are getting there.

We have also been sick, Danny with the flu, I with a stomach bug and then a sinus infection that has been going on for over 2 weeks.

I think we have done pretty good for ourselves.

What you think?

Better before or after?



We have also been getting in lots of coon hound puppy loving!
See they are already treeing!




Little Willie will not be going to Wisconsin afterall
BoooooooHoooooooo!!
Actually Terri asked us to find him another home because her son is not enjoying the training of a coon dog pup. You have to be 100% into that or there is no need in trying.....from what I've heard anyway. Danny and Colton are 150% into coon hunting!
Of course we had a waiting list a mile long for these pups, so there was no trouble finding him a home. Danny says he thinks he is the smartest of the litter, definately the most unusual coloring for a red tick! Most folks think he's a lemon beagle!






So with the gas prices over $3 a gallon now it would have been a very costly trip to deliver Willie to Trent, a 1200 mile trip one way in the gas guzzling truck, but it would have been worth it to get to see Terri, her family and her farm! Maybe some other time.
Danny has promised me a beach trip instead!

hahahaha this one is so funny!!

So that's what I've doing!

Whew!!

He won.....

.......after all these years of being married to a hunter/gun lover, he has finally won me over!

(I look just like this lady when I am shooting too)

teehee

You can still be feminine and shoot guns can't you?

I mean all the gun companies are making pink guns now!
Actually I have always loved to shoot but Danny didn't want me to "Waste" all his ammo target practicing. I had no desire to hunt and kill any animals.....well
maybe a possum in the chicken coop or a crow in my corn.
My dad has always had guns around and he used to throw up beer cans for me to shoot as a small child and I hit them every time!
I am still a pretty good shot, not bragging but I shot a penny with his 22 rifle the other day and one certain grandaughter with good eyes kept missing it and gave up! She should be the marksman with all her practice over the years!

Anyway, I just purchased my very first bonified shotgun today!!!
hehehehe
I got a Remington 870 20 Gauge pump !!!!
I mean I purchased it myself, passed the rigorous registration and all!!
We are going to start shooting clays with some friends and of course we will have a few grandkids doing that with us too!!

Danny is happy with my new enthusiasm, we seem to have more to talk about now since I am just like one of the guys! However, Leslie made the comment that her daddy will give up hunting now that I have horned in on his hobby!!
That's OK he can have that coonhunting!
That's not for me!
Maybe a climate controlled shooting range will be more my cup of tea!!!

I have already put in my order for a Henry Golden Boy 22 rifle of my very own too!!!
Pretty good Valentines Day gift, huh??

No words can describe......

(Wisconsin Willie 22 days old)

(Virginia Ann)

{{{{{SMILE}}}}}

I knew I could teach her......

how to color my hair!

Leslie, that is, as many hours as she has spent in my hair studio for the past 22 years she should know how!

She was one of my guinea pigs for many years before I started cosmetology school and during.

I also have to say that she was one of my guinea pigs for new tricks and techniques that I have tried since I became licensed too!

I worked as an educater for Paul Mitchell Systems for

a while and had to try out new tricks all the time!

Leslie also worked as my shampoo girl for many summers as a teenager.

Of course she always liked getting her hair cuts and color done for free and I always had the really cool nail polishes and equipment to keep hers looking perfect ALL THE TIME!!

Leslie, when is the last time you polished your nails? I know you caught a great husband with those beautiful nails!! I bet he would like to see them now too! LOL

Yep, both of my poor girls felt the brunt of my calling many times,

however, they will only trust me to do their hair now!

Robin has only had another person in her hair once and that was her mother-in-law who put her a perm in just as something to do on a whim while I was busy.

Danny took Leslie to his bosses wife once for both of them to have haircuts when his father passed away and I was way to busy to get to them.

Robin travels from Atlanta for haircuts!

She's my most dedicated/loyal client!

She cried when she thought someone else was going to have to cut her hair one time!

Teehee....yep they are spoiled!

They both would cut my hair for me if they knew how and both have put on all over color for me.

Robin and Danny have over the years pulled my hair thru a cap.......OMG PAINFUL TOO!!!
Ever had your hair pulled thru a frosting cap?

That's why some great hairdresser invented the foiling technique!

Easy peasy on the client!

However when you have a natural very dark brown brunette as I am, that is before mother nature took over and tried her hand at

natural highlights and that DID NOT work,
it is very hard to lift that color above anything but red.

It is a lot easier for an ametuer hairdresser to control the color if it is

seperated from the rest of the hair by a plastic cap.

Hence the reason I endured many hours of pain last evening after talking Leslie into pulling it thru a cap for me.

I am on a mission to look younger and when you get older you are supposed to lighten your hair, as mother nature does your hair and brows and lashes.

Lifts many years off your age to go lighter as your lashes and brows fade.

You all know those older ladies that go jet black because they think that has restored their youthful appearance. Most of these women were not that dark as a child!

It only makes them look a whole lot older especially when they have to pencil in their brows with a black sharpie!!

Do you know someone like that?

Well as you can see all these pictures were turned to black and white because I

was in

"Blonde Shock"
last night when I took them and this seemed to lessen the blow!

Danny says that I am crazy and he loves me as a blonde this time.

It's been about 5 years since I had it this color and he never really cared for it before.

However he has watched a couple movies lately with Catherine Heigle sp? and he loves her!!

Hmmm???? Let me think about this one?

I see Phyllis Diller when I look in the mirror, not Catherine!

I hope you enjoyed your little session from Hair Color 101!!

and then there were four....

Little Ginny Ann with her head all smooshed by her brother!

Wisconsin Willie on the left!

They are so dag gone cute!!

My kinda day....

It's my day off today, only because my Dr is out of town, and then again on Friday I will be off too! I have nothing else to do but sit and take in all the sights around this farm that I miss all those other work days.

Such as this really nice breathe of Spring that my Amaryllis has given me.
It's snowing outside, of course, and this is such a welcome sight inside!
Makes me feel all tropical!!
teehee



I get to sit and watch all my HUNDREDS of birds at my feeders.

I get to watch them drink warm water from their new heated dish.

This is a heated dog waterer but I thought it would be perfect for the birds too.

I think I will need to get out there and place a big rock in the middle of it incase one was to fall in maybe they could scurry to the top of the rock to escape.

Click to enlarge these pictures and you will see only a fraction of the birds that are out there at any given time. Funny how they know when I have the camera on them and they fly.

I have so many American Goldfinches that I fear for my life when I walk outside!

I have a friend who is pertrified of birds and she says "They will peck your eyes out!"

With this many out there I am thinking of her often!

I guess I had better be careful what I ask into my yard!

I finished all the laundry and did a lot of cleaning last night so I could have this "ME" day today!

Pretty smart huh?

This morning while doing my birdwatching with a nice hot cup of Hazelnut coffee in my hand...

I spotted this little girls mate!

The picture above, albeit a horrible picture, is of my female Red Bellied Woodpecker that came here last week.

Then this morning I spotted her mate. A beautiful male!

He likes Danny's newest platform feeder too!

I watched him for a long time with my binoculars so I do know that he is a he!

I am researching a new zoom lens for my camera so I can get some good close-ups of my birds.

I have only had this camera for one year, don't you think it's time I learned how to use it?

I have a book coming today....Nikon D3000 for Dummies.....and yes I am a dummy so I hope it will help me out!

See this is my kinda day!

Birdwatching in my PJ's,

Nice cups of coffee in my clean house,

Learning how to use my camera

and

anything else that I want to do!!!

It's all about me today!

I think I might make a cake today!

Blessings,

Becky

I miss blogging so bad......

and I am going thru withdrawals again.

Could be my new self diagnosis of SAD

along with my ADD, either way it is sad to have me in this frame of mind.

I really think there is something to that SAD,

seasonal affective disorder stuff.

I am not handling this nasty snowy winter very well at all.

I can't remember when we had just one single cold but not bitterly cold

and dry day where there was no snow on the ground.

We have not had a winter like last year where we kept 30+ inches of snow on the ground for ever but it has been just enough to drive ya crazy!

So I thought if I sat down and posted some pictures from my very boring life I would feel better!

The puppies are here!!

Horrible blurry picture but they are here and cute as can be!
Virginia Ann in front
Wisconsin Willie at the back!!

Wisconsin Willie has such a sweet nose!

They will be so fun when they get their eyes open!

They are 7 days old today so it won't be long now!

Here are some pictures that I took for some friends.

Danny built this pond this fall and I LOVE this farm and had to get some pictures of it.

That was a lot of playing around with Picasa!

It was a cloudy dreary day so I had to spice them up a bit.

Here is our pond between snows.

If you enlarge it you can see what looks like a mans footprints all the way across the pond.

I think it must have been Bigfoot!

More playing around with Picnic this time.

Danny built me this platform feeder so that I could lure the woodpeckers, blue jays and cardinals in.

Ahh ha it worked!

I have had a woodpecker around everyday since he built this about 8 days ago.

I really miss my bird watching each day because of that stupid old job!!

If only I had been born rich instead of beautiful!

hahahaha!!!


Updated~ I forgot to metion that there is one thing that I like about winter and snow.....

you can see it here in my friends blog post.

The true beauty of a snowflake!

God's handiwork at it's best!

Enjoy!!