My boring life........

Wont be much going on here for the next 3 weeks except work work work..until after Fathers day......so I decided just to take pics of some of my fav things around here, I WOULD take pics of the glorious flowers, but its so gray outside:( Seems my life is always revolving around the phrase, "after...........something or other"...after the holidays, after the sale, after this after that........and frankly Im getting sick of it.........I want my life to start NOW.........even when I was dollmaking, the phrase was "after the show", always "after the show"...........so this is my year, my word is balance, I need to start working towards balance. I have been reading the book Real Age..fascinating, Im learning alot about what to do to stay young and feel good. Iam on the right track with dieting, even tho it seems Im stuck at 15 pounds I will NOT give in. I can see results in my arms from the weights, it has become a habit. They say if you stick to something for 30 days it becomes a habit, and I beleive it works, taking my vitamins has become a habit too. Its hard to beleive this year is 1/2 over, Im still so far from my goal, but I have to look at it like Im 1/3 of the way to the weight loss goal, not so far away........Im not a patient person, thats always been my biggest problem, get impatient, give up...........nope not this time, wont give in!

I want to be one of those gals I saw on Good Morning America this morning, who made over thier bodies in 3 months!!!!!!! Whooops, theres my impatience showing again........

It's all happening at the zoo...........

I decided I did not want to go to work today..........I wanted to go to the zoo...........so off we went.......spent most of my time watching the Meerkats, since Meerkat Manor on Discovery channel is one of my favs.

Happy Saturday!!!!!

Its all about the free stuff........

Is the free gift really "free".............I LOVE the new pink lemonade Philosophy stuff, my new fav..........but did I really HAVE to spend a gazillion bucks to get the "free" gift????????

My other question of the day.........will ALL these vitamins help us live longer???? Joe says yes.......I say its a royal pain to take so many vitamins, I take 6........the rest belong to him. I must say tho, it the 25 years Ive known him, hes never been sick..............

Finished........

It just did't look "balanced"...which is my word for the year, so I added another pot (if it's square is it still a pot?)......found the chickens out back too.......

Off to work..........whaa whaa whaa....

A mornings fun.........

I have to say Im really getting into this container gardening, its fun and easy, and you dont have to weed them.....this morning I decided to plant these 2 big white pots that have been gathering rust in the back yard....I have more of them too, I will do more over the (glorious) weekend.........the May gray is gone, and the sun is shining thru!

The beautiful pink callalily finally is opening up, its part of "Glennis" garden.........

If it could stay this time of year forever, I would be one happy camper!!

Have a great memorial weekend everyone....I will!

Must I say goodbye.............

The one thing I hate is putting away my fav holiday treasures.......but into the tote they must go........or must they? Is there a rule..a time frame.......Im not done looking at them yet..........can't they stay...........can't they???

Look close...............

and you will see this red finch has her baby out, one of them you can see, the others were out of range.........she is feeding them and its so sweet to watch, she has her nest in one of my houses.......there are baby birds everywhere! One of the nests still has real little babies, but when mom is feeding them I see them stick thier little heads almost out of the hole to get the food, trying to get a pic but they disappear as soon as she flys of on another mission for food..ok, back to more bird watching........

Pookie says hi..............

And wants you to see his new "down" that he is growing........hes proud and so am I.........

The Bachelor last night, I think he made the right choice, Bevan was wayyyyyyyy too much womannnnnn for him. Dancing with the Stars, my vote goes to Joey for his amazing preformance last night!

This morning I potted my plants I got at Rogers.........now I need MORE..........

My VW got a recall notice for a bad brakelight, gee, ya think, after I spent $200.00 last month trying to get it to work..............its going in today.

Still gloomy and overcast here, but the weekend promises to be nice..... Aunt Linda is having a belated Mothers Day BBQ Monday........wish you were here!!!!!!

Off to clean out the fridge............my must do for the day!!!!!!

Good Sunday.........

Please forgive the fact that my pictures are totally out of order........we went to a wedding on a yacht Sunday, Patti, a friend of ours, married Dennis, a race car driver and one of the founders of Home Depot, only took them 10 years and one pre nup to get to the alter..............all I cared about was that I won the beautiful orchid that was a centerpiece, lol, the DJ said the first one touching the orchid can take it home, even Joe was amazed at my speed, lolololo, its all about the free stuff!!!! The wedding ended (in Newport) at 4....we were at Rogers Gardens by 4:15 lol, I told Joe there was NO way I was going to be that close and not stop in...........the pics of the great pots are what I got, Im working on filling my new front patio with great pots and plants, it looks so plain right now. Now I just wish it wasnt so gray and yucky outside so I could garden.........maybe later the sun will break thru..........in other news, Grandmama and Ben have returned from the Ozarks where they had a wonderful time, they are coming to pick up Freckles later today........Im really hoping Pokey doesnt miss him, he hasnt plucked feathers for a few days now, after I bought (on ebay) a product called "Pluck no more"...it seems to be working.........an herbal thing, supposed to calm them down, but judging by his screaming this morning..............hes not calm. Happy Monday!!!!

The yard is alive..............

Artichokes, Apples, figs, peaches.............and the lemon tree even has sprouts........not to mention the berries that Joe has been babying forwever, looks like a good year for fruit.......not that we will get any of it, the birds alway manage to rape the trees before we know it.......Trace.....I will NOT eat the chokes, I will let them bloom!!!!! Im so in a garding mood, so do not wanna go to work today..Beauty Trend show today, soooooooooo off I go....enjoy your weekends, Trace, LOVE your herbs!!!!!!

Bird Nut.....yes I,am

Spent most of Wedsday at Home Tours, Kathy and I had our field trip down to Orange, or in her case, up to Orange, and we toured a great home where I found all these "bird goodies"...the picture I LOVE, the background is a shade of that robins egg blue-teal that I love, and the other bird pieces are votive holders...dont have a clue where to put them but I liked them!

This little lizard is a lucky guy....little cheech had him trapped on the patio but I came to his rescue...can you see him smiling at me???

I had the most wonderful walk this morning, walked for an hour, me and little cheech....have decided I NEED to do it everyday, no matter what, I felt alive........what a great time of the year!

OH........dumb move of the week...month, maybe even year...........I (accidentally) threw my new awesome state of the art, lots of bells and whistles, cell phone IN THE TRASH.........and by the time I had retraced my steps and realized thats what MUST have happened, the trash men where pulling away.............bad timing, bad luck with phones, second lost phone in 6 months...........so Im right back to the s*&^%y phone I had before I got my last 2 "cool" phones, and with my luck, no more new phones for a while!

Fun plans for the weekend, a wedding aboard a yacht in Newport Harbor.........casual attire, must shop for a Tommy Bahama Shirt for Dad..........to go with the new Topsiders I got him for our sailing classes..........Glenni, can I wear that cute outfit I got at Glen Ivy???????

Fun stuff!

What a fun Mothers Day surprise from Tracey........she called my store and said to go upstairs and get my Mothers day surprise...........what fun, a big silver box filled with fun jammies..2 awesome bottoms and 2 awesome tops!...and a GREAT hoodie top that I LOVE.............thanks my sweet darling daughter, you are great! It was a bittersweet Mothers Day, the first with out my firstborn.......but knowing you are happy and loving where you are makes it better................(and the jammies made it great, lol).....Mothers day was fun, AFTER I got off work, lol...........I got more fun stuff, a couple of bird books and a gift certificate (dont be sad Glenni) to Glen Ivy from hubby, and a Brighton bracelet from Chelsey...........and I just laid outside the rest of the day and relaxed.

Today was fun, I met Kathy down in Orange for the Philharmonic showcase home tour, we go every year.....it was a great home and I got lots of ideas..........tonight is the Pasadena showcase home tour, we host a table for Joes clients, its in Descanso Gardens...always a fun tour.......a packed day indeed!

Today I got a fun box of goodies I won on a blog.......a truley fun day...tomorrow when I have time I will post a pic of all the fun stuff I bought at the home tour this morning, lots of bird stuff and a cool oil painting.............check it out tomorrow!

I finally got that pesky pound off that brought me down to the, well, I wont say here, but a step down from where I was, lol..........I wish it was from the 150s to the 140s but use your imagination, lol.........

Tracey...........thanks again for the awesome surprise...........I FLEW so fast up to ESA to get my surprise, that everyone wondered what was going on, then of course I had to share..........I wonder if people get tired of me bragging about you??????

OH, and Glenni, there are baby gnatcatchers in the ducktaped birdhouse.......and the leaves hide it thank you very much, lol! Joes a proud (serragate poppa).......and Im glad I left it, they are fun to watch.

Enjoy Spring!

Chokes and things.......

We have artichokes coming out of our ears, this year we got a good crop, so I decided some would look good dried up, besides, they really are quite small, not quite like the ones we get from the farmers market, but they will look cool in a wooden bowl:) I found these cool towels at one of my fav stores, Target! They are so shabby chic, I LOVE them......

We are stressed here about the Griffith Park fire, they are evacuating all around that area..(Glenni, remember when we were on Bundee, thats the area up north of there, by the Hollywood sign)....Im worried about all the animals at the zoo, it is right there next to Griffith Park...........its so dry around here, and breezy, no rain for a long time, so its fire season. How would you begin to evacuate a ZOO?????

Its hotter than hot here, 100 degrees, Im almost glad Im going to work!

Flip flops, flowerpots and Freckles, oh my!

Its summer here in SoCal, maybe it will hit 100, but right now, its perfection!!!
Check out my new flowerpot, wallyworld, I got 2, one for each side of my front door..........they are awesome, and they look so cute planted!
I am babysitting Freckles for Grandmama this week, they are heading for the Ozarks, they will see Uncle Bill and meet one of Grandmama's sisters, and they traded one of thier timeshares for one in Branson, yeeeeehaaa! Freckles has be singing anchors aweigh constantly, occasionally breaking into Happy Birthday! Joe says if Freckles amuses Pokey into stopping picking his feathers out, we will be in the market for a new bird..........ackkkkkkkk.....so I bought him this HUGE bag of blocks and this wire spiral thingy that you thread the blocks on, hoping to amuse him. Pray it works!!!! He stared at it for a few days, but now he is finally chewing it up...thank God, that bag of blocks cost me as much as a new pair of shoes!!!!! Trace, have you run your race yet????? On a sadder note, Iam still stuck at 10 pounds down, I did cheat on saturday and had lemon cake........and gained 2 pounds!!!!!! NO more cake for me!!!! Crap, the entire cake didnt even weigh 2 pounds, how is that possible??????? Off to lay in the sun.....Joe signed us up for sailing lessons this summer, I want to get a tan!!!!!