Showers and Showers??

Showers .... and more showers!

Sunday our youngest daughter, Heather, was honored with a baby shower!  She is expecting our newest granddaughter in August and her mom-in-law and sis-in-law hosted her a baby shower for the upcoming bundle of joy.

It's been almost 7 years since Jameson was born, and they had long ago given up on having another child. She had given away all of her baby things, not thinking they could ever have another. But voila, new little baby girl Wade is on the way.....  and she needed to gear up for the wee one.  The proposed name is Whitney Wade, which is the WW Wonder Woman symbol.  Awwwwww

Jameson is so looking forward to his new baby sister... 

The weather wasn't quite cooporating for the planned outdoor shower in the yard, but we did fine decorating up the garage and setting out all the cutesy girly girl stuff!

Games and prizes

Good food and cake

Silly stuff and stories

and we made the best of a rainy day....

We even set up a table with all the grandtots to join up together

and they got into the fun games ... we even had prizes geared towards them too.

One of Heather's good friends from school is also preggers,

about a week apart.  

So they HAD to do a Baby Belly Bump!

Interesting item... about 6 or 7 of the gals who all graduated together back in 2003

are now all 30 and pregnant and due in about the same time! 

Well---- on to more showers:

Tonight and tomorrow we are under "flood warnings" in our part of Wisconsin.  It's been raining steadily since noon, and pretty much not going to let up until sometime tomorrow.  I guess we are due for about 2-3 inches in our area.  Our home is located on high ground, far from the river in town. But I do feel worry and concern for those closer along the river banks.

While it was raining, I took a drive over to Manitowoc this morning and picked up more scalloped edging for the side yard.  We have it across the front flower beds and around the cherry tree....  and now I bought enough on sale to finish down the side along the sidewalk to the back corner.

Once I get the scalloped edging down, we will finally be able to spread the black (food colored dyed) mulch.  It looks so nice against the green plants, coleus, and burgundy barberry bushes.   It will be nice to get this area cleaned up and looking spiffy!  Now that most of the those danged helicopters are done falling and making such a mess.

Yesterday, I had an unpleasant surprise with my pretty flowers up in the front yard under the weeping cherry tree.  Seems a certain someone got too vigorous with the airborne particles of the Weed N Feed in the sprayer???  

Ahem.... he did sheepishly admit that perhaps it did happen to get on the blossoms.  I would prefer that he doesn't spray ANY weedkiller on the lawn at all. As it is, I have to keep the dogs off it for 2 days afterwards.  I think that the drop spreader pelleted kind would suffice, but oh well. Since when does a guy listen to his wife about the lawn? 

We went back to the green house and got more red and white impatiens plants.  He dug out the old dirt (and dead plants) and I sprinkled some lime down on the base.  We filled the ring up with new fresh dirt and put in the new plants.  Let's hope with all this rain they will get a good start..... and not get drowned! 

On my way back from Manitowoc, I stopped at a rummage sale. Just to see, ya know. Lo and behold, there was a cute little rattan ottoman.  Three bucks! 

I picked it up to match the rattan couch that I painted and put on the front porch!  Steve was just saying last night that putting his feet up on the bench is too high and it's too hard on his heels. His knees are almost bent backwards by raising the feet so high. A little ottoman would fit the bill. 

I sprayed the frame white, and while it was drying, I sewed a cover for the cushion with matching fabric from doing the couch and pillows.  There... now it's more of a comfortable height for resting feet on.  I moved the white bench to the side as a table and place to rest our coffee cups. 

 Now who is going to come and sip coffee or lemonade on my porch?

The other day, I also covered the cushion on the old white rocking chair.  It used to belong to the people who owned our house before.  Their daughter gave it back to me to keep in the house as she didn't have a space for it at her home.  I gladly took it and put it right on the porch where it "belonged"

You are probably sick of seeing all the steps 

bit by bit putting this porch together. 

Now it's done! 

Wonder what we are going to work on next

at Our Old House???

Our busy weekend is over, whew!

We got a lot accomplished over the weekend.

First up on the order of jobs was to finish that lower level bathroom.  We had pulled up the old flooring, and got the new one laid out and trimmed to fit around the drain.  Once we were sure it was the right size and in the right position, we sealed it down with flooring adhesive and let it dry overnight. It sure came out nice, and we are pleased with the results.

Saturday morning dear daughter Erin came to pick me up.  Little Chelsea was thrilled to have Granmuddah ride in HER CAR to go to Green Bay.  She jibberjabbered all the way and we sure enjoyed the sunshine streaming in the windows.  It felt like SPRING!   We ran a few errands and managed a stop in the mall to do a little ride on the fun stuff for Chelsea while momma was in Office Max... heh heh

By noon, we headed over to the Baby Luncheon to welcome new Baby Pfundtner due soon to our daughterinlaw Heather and son Dan.  We had a nice time and showered the new mommy with some "Boy Things" as all their saved baby stuff from Allegra was "Girl Stuff"  So there was a lot of Oohhhs and Ahhhhhs over the adorable little things that Heather was showered with.  What fun!!!

Little Chelsea and Allegra hung out with cousin Lucas... who is ALSO expecting a new sibling in September!  Lucas belongs to Steve's niece, Jen and hubby Robert.   Just look at those curls!!!!

While all the ladies gabbed, Dan hid out in the family room to watch tv.  Hens cackling in the hen house for sure.   LOL   The girls were soooo busy practicing being Mommies.  They were giving Elmo rides back and forth in the little stroller, learning about how awful it is to dump your baby out on the road!  ACK!  

What a couple of cuties, huh?  

With all the boy cousins on the way, 

these two girls gotta stick together!

While I was at the Baby Luncheon, that Mr. Steveio Zoom Zoom Guy was at home putting all the bathroom fixtures back into place.  He got the toilet and sink reinstalled, and also hung the mirror and a new light fixture.  The trim threshold strip is the last thing to go on, as it was stained and is drying overnight. I think we are all done with any major home projects in preparation for selling!!!!!

Now the bathroom is all ready for our company coming this week... my friends Rosie and Linda will be here on Wednesday evening and staying for a week.  We are going to FIBERNATE!  And sort and pack up weaving supplies and yarns and fabric for trips back to Tennessee and Missouri.  "Stash Enhancement" for their studios!


On Sunday, we woke up to an amazingly warm day.  Wisconsin just isn't used to high 60 degree temps in March.  Almost all of the snow is gone and it was so warm that bugs were hatching and flying around!  Working in short sleeves and no jackets is just sooo foreign to us in March.  We had to wash the screens and put them up just to be able to open the doors and windows, letting in the fresh air.  Hopefully this is the last time we will ever have to wash and hang screens, right?


About 10 am on Sunday, Lisa and Troy came to pick up my biggest LeClerc Nilart loom.  It was sooooo sad to see it go, but I know it will be loved and cherished by Lisa in the years to come.   We went over the details and supplies, and some yarn and shuttles were purchased too.   The guys went to work on removing the patio doors so it could be taken out in one whole piece.  First we had to move the motorhome out of the parking spot in the driveway so there was room to get around the side of the garage with a vehicle.  That is the most the motorhome moved this month....  it is crying for more exercise!  Camping season is coming, never fear.

Steve hooked their trailer to the back of our little Tracker and backed down around the garage and to the lower level patio.  The guys loaded up the loom and carefully packed and tied and padded it for a safe journey south, about 60 miles.   The back beam folds up tight to cut the size of the footprint almost in half.  It fit in their trailer perfectly.

My goodness, look at all that space!!!   (and all the dust and lint that accumulates underneath a loom!) 

Luckily the ground is still pretty frozen, even if there isn't much snow left anywhere.  Like a little mountain goat, Steve drove the Tracker up and around the side of the garage, towing the little trailer and my loom away....

Goodbye Loom, have a good life.   

(sniff sniff) 

.