WEEKEND TREK 09'

Bald Eagle near the Mississippi River


Small young buck along the Berm Highway

Frozen waterfall down the bluff
along the river road

New Lighthouse in Grafton

Another eagle! One of mannnny pics!


Well we did our annual trip up the River Road the past 2 weekends to see the eagles and the deer! We tried out our new christmas presents to boot! I tried my new Nikon digital camera and Tom tried his new tripod and scope! We also used our new TomTom gps to find our way. We went up the River Road, across the Hardin bridge, to Winfield Dam. Then we stopped in Brussels to eat at the old Wittmond's Hotel ---yummmmmie! Their blackberry cobbler was terrific! Then we rode the Brussels Ferry back across the river, stopped in Grafton at the new Mourings Winery, listened to music, ran into friends Cindy & Todd, sat and talked awhile then went on our merry way last weekend. Then this weekend, we just went up the River Road again, to Grafton, got a soda and Paradise donut holes (not quite the same feast as the previous week), then back down the road, took many many pics, of course!, and back home again. We love doing this each January. The river freezes up north and the eagles always migrate down this way to the Alton river area. I hope you enjoy the pics!

!!!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!!! 2009 !!!

Of Course the 2 brats! Koty & Gizmo


Top Row - Shane, Tom, Clint & David
Bottom Row - Connie, Sharon, Bud, Ashley & Joi
(Ashley is Clint's girlfriend)

Shane's girlfriend- Holly and her daughter Bella

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year! From our family to yours "We wish you a healthy, happy and prosperous 2009!

12 Days of Christmas!

I heard this song on the radio the other day and liked it, but did not know who it was done by. Then the next day I heard the announcer say it was by a group called "Straight Up No Chaser". I searched you tube and viola! Here it is! Go see for yourself and let me know,. What do oyou think? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28GUU1YbP_E

MERRY CHRISTMAS

A NOTE TO SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL


FROM OURS TO YOURS,


BY THE GLOW OF THE TREE,

OUR HOME IS DECORATED FOR ALL TO SEE!

THE PUPPIES ALL SNUGGLED UP IN THEIR BOWS,

Well, a poet I'm not, but you get the pictures! This is a blog card to wish everyone a Very Merry Christmas! I hope everyone has their decorations up, presents bought, wrapped and under the tree! I still have to wrap, but I also still have 3 more days. I still have a list of things to do and I am slowly marking each item off of the list. So, please, everyone have a save, happy and very Merry Christmas! Love Tom, Connie, Koty & Gizmo!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Isn't this a great picture! It is a car magnet! I am going to order one, but I have to order 25 to get 1! I am going to see if anyone else wants one. They are $3.00 a piece. Is anyone interested in buying one of them. If so, please let me know. If I get enough orders, even if it is not in time for this year, I would order them and get them to everyone by next year. As you know, I feel very strongly about the message this magnet is spreading! Please ask other people you know, and some of you, you know who you are, please ask others (that do not have computers) if they would like one. Again, just let me know. Then when I get enough orders I would order them for everyone. The total order has an $83.00 total, which includes tax, therefore I cannot order alone, that would be a pretty costly magnet. I seen one yesterday while shopping and took the website address off of it. They are about 4 to 5 inches square I would think. Thanks!

MY NEW TOY...

Well, it is that time again! YEP indeedy....Christmastime is here, well at least for me it is. I know, I know, I am a little early, but who cares! I love Christmas! I usually wait until after Thanksgiving to put up my tree, but this year Thanksgiving comes late in the month, cutting my weeks short and my weeks become very busy from here on out. Therefore, Tom and I put up the tree this past weekend. As for my new toy...well...I bought it on sale after Christmas last year. I couldn't wait to try it out this year! Tom, of course, thought it was a stupid idea, that I wasted money, it wouldn't work, etc. etc. etc., but when we hooked it up, turned it on...VIOLA! He LIKES it! I do too. Well, enough already I will tell you what it is. It is a rotating Christmas tree stand!!! Excited? I am! Plus, it works, Tom even likes it, Mom and Dad liked it and I LOVE IT! This way I get to see all of my ornaments, not just the ones on front! Plus, when Tom was putting on the lights, he just turned it on and the tree rotated itself making the light job a little easier. Yes, I know, you all think I'm nuts, but oh well, I LOVE CHRISTMAS! I took this video to show you all what I am talking about. I hope some of you like it too!


MERRRY CHRISTMAS...EARLY!

I'M BACK! FINALLY!

The new rug on top and below is the old one

These are both the old look

I Picked the 2 on the Right!

New look brown and old is blue

New look-brown & old was blue

I know, I know. I have been gone for awhile. I have a good reason, sort of. Part of the time, I was just busy doing other things (like hooking up the new turntable to the computer and downloading the first 14 of approximately a couple of hundred albums for our Ipods), downloading approx. 30 C/D's for a friend to download onto her new Ipod, just to tired, or the last 2 weeks...I have been messing with my stupid computer! It seems that everytime I go into one of my main programs, it is missing the exe. file, will not work, locks up, etc. etc. So I have had to trouble shoot my Kodak, Norton, ITunes and Excel programs, erase and download a couple of them again, and do fixes on the other 2. Not my idea of fun!!!! and it was of course, hours and hours and hours, well you get the picture!!!

Finally, last night I got my Kodak program to work again, therefore the last post about My MOM!!!!! WHOPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now, I am back in the grove, hopefully. With Thanksgiving, then Christmas coming, things will still be hectic, but I am going to try to keep up with my blog again. That is if this thing called a computer cooperates!!!

Now for the answer to a question posed to me from my last blog...Yes, I picked out the shades for my bathroom lights! I did not happen to pick any of the shades that I had previously posted, because I found a new one at Home Depot that I liked. I took some before and after pics (which, as I said above, I was just now able to download as of yesterday), therefore I am posting the pics today. I still have a frame on each wall to fill with a pic of my own and I have a couple of ideas not yet completed, and I have already made some changes that are not reflected in these "old" pictures, but hopefully you will get an idea of what I have done so far. Let me know what you think.

Glad to be back! Hope you will continue to read. See you soon!