Two New Projects

This has been a busy week for us "oldsters".  During his last trip to New York with our oldest son Eric, my husband mentioned that it would be "cool" (yes we really are "oldsters" and a product of the 70's!) if we started collecting and framing posters of all of our favorite musicals.  The only stipulation being that we had to have actually seen the musical live before it could go up on the wall.  And yes ...between the two of us we have seen a LOT of musicals, not only in various cities around the U.S. but on Broadway as well!   

Our son helped us get started by presenting us with our first two posters as Christmas gifts; the Lion King and Les Miserable which are two of our all time favorites.  Since then my husband has purchased 5 additional posters and he spent the day on Saturday framing them himself.  I have to admit they turned out pretty amazing.  The colors are eye popping and they will definitely brighten up our upstairs family room where we plan to hang them. 

He enlisted our daughter Whitney to over see the project since she is a humanities major and has worked for the Springville Art Museum in Utah.  We figured with her on board we can't go too far wrong in putting together our personal art gallery.  The pictures aren't the greatest because I used my phone camera ...but you
 get the idea.

                                     
                                     
                                  
While my husband was working on his project I decided it was time get going on one of my own.  I wanted to weed and till my vegetable garden and get it ready for planting before the Spring rains start .  It was a big job with all of the weeds that had sprouted up over the Winter and took from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm with only a quick lunch break.  I'm happy to say I'm just about finished but boy do my muscles ache!  I've discovered muscles I didn't know I had and spent most of the day on Sunday hobbling around.  I guess the good news is that I actually still have muscles that can ache.  They better get ready because round two is just about to begin! 

 
                            

Only in Texas!

I was standing outside the store at Froeburg's Fruit and Vegetable Farm in Alvin, Texas when I happened to notice a sign in their window that said "Free ...".  As I got closer and was able to read the fine print I busted out laughing and had to take a picture.

Let this be a warning to all the strawberry and zuchini thieves out there!  Sadly they were all out of myers lemons which was the reason I had driven all the way out there in the first place.

Bringing families together

I just saw this on facebook and it made me smile!

Reconnect with your family ...on facebook!

The Great Flood of 2012

I woke up this morning around 7 am to the sound of thunder and the flash of lightning. We have had a severe drought the past couple of years so imagine my surprise when I looked out of the front door and saw this:

It didn't take long before the water got deeper ....

and deeper ...

and deeper!

This was at the height of the storm when the flooding was at it's worse. The storm drains just couldn't keep up with it. I got in the car and drove to the front of the house to see if anything was blocking the drain but I couldn't even see where it was supposed to be! I opened the car door and quickly closed it after seeing the water level was almost even with the bottom edge of the car door. It was about that time that I realized that this wasn't such a good idea after all! I carefully backed up and went back into the drive way and into the garage.

At one point during the storm I did think about launching our inflatable boat just because I thought it would be cool to try it out but ended up deciding ...Nahhh, too much trouble!

It wasn't long after the rain stopped that the water quickly receeded.

There were reports of a couple of tornadoes that went over Rosenburg and Pecan Grove ...about 4.5 miles from us. A friend in the Mission Bend area of our stake had a tornado go through her neighborhood. She lost her fence and her roof is leaking. She also had water coming in her front door so all in all I think we were fortunate just to have a little flooding. It could have been much, much worse.

During the storm Copper was cowering in the laundry room. When all was well I opened the door and tried to get him to go back outside. He would get to the back door then run back to the
laundry room. After chasing him around the island about 5 times I finally gave up and let him stay in for awhile longer. What a scardy cat!!!