Very GREAT Day!

What a great day!

Guess what?!? I finished using up ALL of the apricots on my tree! I'm done with apricots! Hahahahahah! I have canned about 48 pints of apricot jam! Very cool indeed!


AND! Eternal Sunshine has given me my very first blog award!





How awesome is that?!? Thanks very much, Eternal Sunshine! I love your blog too!

In the rules, I can give the award to up to seven other blogs. That is the hard part, because I love them all!



But here are the ones I have chosen:

Making Ends Meet

Farm Dreams

it's the little things

The Righteous Buzz

artsy-crafty-babe

soule mama

Keeper of the Skies Wife
Can I add one more? Sure I can! After all, it is MY blog! =)


Eternal Sunshine of an Empty Mind!

And these are the official blog award rules:

1. The winner can put the logo on his/her blog.
2. Link the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate up to 7 other blogs.
4. Put links of those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs of the people you’ve nominated.

Thanks for the great posts, ladies! You have become an important part of my day. {hugs}

Introducing the Cast

Would you like to see what I spent my time on today?




















This is my daughter Amber's hot pink cast. She broke her ankle last night while playing basketball with her brother. She went up for a shot. . . and twisted her ankle when she landed in a hole dug by our dog. Both she and Josh heard a snap, like a twig breaking.

I called the after hours clinic who recommended that since it was so late that we wait until morning. It was my entire day project. Her doctor, after seeing the x-ray, consulted with another doctor and they decided to just cast it. The other option was to put a pin in it, and they would have if the fracture would have been just an inch or two higher. She is thankful she is just in a cast, but her arms are very tired and sore tonight after being on crutches all day.

We saw one of her friends who exclaimed, "What happened to you??" "I broke my ankle playing basketball." His look was incredulous so I had to add, "If you think she looks bad, you should see the other guy!" He laughed, but wasn't so sure I was kidding.

I was supposed to be canning more apricots last night; 10 pounds await me. I hope that they don't go bad while waiting for me.

I hope that whatever hot pink item you experienced today had nothing to do with broken bones!

100th Post Blog-iversary

This is my 100th Post! I have had such fun with this blog! It is a kind of a journal - tracking my projects and moods throughout the past 9 months. I hope that it has been as enjoyable to read as it has been to write.

I'm looking forward to the next 100!

Have a great day!