Sniff...Sniff

Shucks, I missed.

Have a great day!

In Florida we saw a few shrimp boats.

I love the names of some of them.

When we were getting gas I jumped out of the boat and took some pictures.

This one was going to sea.

I just love these birds and had to throw a picture in for good measure.

I'm still not done with pictures there are more to come.

This is what drew people originally to the Wisconsin Dells.  Now it's nothing but shows, water parks, amusement parks, people and tons of cars.

Jim and I left Saturday afternoon and headed to the Dells.  We enjoyed our ride through Wisconsin and our time together.

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.

--Reinhold Niebuhr

When we were in Florida we met up with one of Jim's clients...Jack and Dee.  They winter for about 6 months in Florida.  Their daughters run the business now that Jack and Dee are retired.  One day they picked us up on their boat.  We went for lunch and a boat ride.

Here they come.

We got on Jack's DeeTour IV.

Captain Jack.

First Mate Dee.

The view of the Sanibel Lighthouse from the boat.

Jack and Dee took us to find the dolphins,

and boy did they come and put on a show.  Here is just a few of the many photos I took.

Then we say goodbye.

A wonderful day it was.

We came upon some fisherman's crab traps.

Jim starts lifting up the trap and I'm like "What are you doing?".  Well, there was a nice shell underneath the trap and he wanted it :)  At first I thought he wanted a crab.

This next photo maybe a bit out of focus, so sorry about that.  I rushed the shot because this was a live shell and it was moving and I didn't want to miss him being out of his shell.  You can see where the sand has been dug away trying to move.  I threw this guy back in the water.  Hopefully he didn't get washed up again.

I haven't posted about my weaving class and how that's been going.  Before we left for Florida, this is what we did in class.

This top picture is not my work.  I didn't take my camera out until the class was almost over.  This is the start of sleying the reed.

Here I've started to thread the heddles on the loom.

A side view of the loom and how the beater is tied up to make it easier to thread the warp threads through the heddles.

Just another view.

At the end of the class each loom gets folded up to be put in the closet for next week.

Last night was my weaving class and on the way there I realized that I forgot my camera.  Last nights class would have been great to show you, because I did what was called beaming the warp.  I did start to weave and I have to say I'm very happy with the colors and pattern I picked out.

It's been busy as usual around here.  We had to put one of our hens down who was really aggressive towards the other hens to the point of drawing blood.  She was feather pecking them.  We separated the injured hen and she is now on the mend.  Soon we'll reintroduce her back to the flock.

I hope all is going well with you and I'm trying to catch up on all your blogs.

Have a wonderful St Patrick's day.

Who's having corned beef and cabbage?

I made some scones last week that I found here on this blog.  I found the link from Dot's.  These are so yummy!

Went to Minnesota this past weekend for our daughter's 30th birthday.  She was totally surprised.
I didn't take many pictures...But, here's GeeGee blowing kisses.  We shopped, ate and visited.

Baby Heidi is doing wonderfully.  She's off the respirator and vent and only has a feeding tube right now.  I didn't take this photo...I was going to go and see her on Friday but I woke up with a cold coming on.  I didn't want to infect her or any other baby in the unit.  I'm glad I didn't go because by Saturday I did have a cold.

I've been posting more pictures of our Florida trip over at my photo blog.

I hope you all have a wonderful day.

It's theraputic.

It's serene.

It's never ending.

The shells just never seemed to stop.

Shelling.

Have you ever been?