I Have Windows!

I went up to the house and the windows were being put in, the electrician was there, and the heating and air guys. The house was full so we stayed about 5 minutes and got out of there, way to many people. I was so excited and happy to see the swirl of crazy going on, I decided once there gone for the day I would go back up and take pics. A dust storm hit like a crazy mule so I ran in got one picture inside with eyes full of mud then grabbed all the window screens and threw them in my trunk and took off. Sure wish I had garage doors so I could shut it all up and start vacuuming, need a front door too. But hey it's all coming together! and it's all good. I felt bad for the guys that worked. Were suppose to have wind all week, so I should go buy them all goggles. So tomorrow I will venture out again and see the progress.

Fishing Story?

One of the Neighbors decided to come over to our house and knock on the door, he asked my husband if we would like to come over this evening for a Bible study. One can only imagine what Bible these people read? They are one of the worst neighbors that are harassing us (see the rest of the story below) and they see me digging in my drawer on the front porch all the time. I keep a flash light in there (to light up the dark when there prowling) I have a tape recorder (so when they start yelling at me I can tape there lies to let the cops listen) and a note pad (to write down license plate numbers) they see me leave the drawer open all the time. So they are curious as to what Pearl has in there? My husband was gone this wkend visiting relatives on the coast so they know better then to come up to my door when it is just me (;! So they came over after my husband got home. What kind of religion says it's o.k. to harass your neighbors to death?! And what does the spirit say about gossiping?? I saw this wonderful Bible verse so I put it on some tags and will deliver them to "Mr. Curious" tomorrow. I'm going to hand them to him and say "I made these up for your next Bible study, I made several copies for anyone you may want to deliver to in our immediate area" Then as I leave I will tell him that he has no reason to ever come on my property again. "We are done" .

I know I'm suppose to be bigger than this....but sometimes I feel real small.

It's kinda fun to be the "David" for a change.

"Lottie" Your Words Gave Me Great Comfort

So I'm swinging in my pretend swing in my yard. Thank you dear sweet lady.

How about some good news for a change?

Our local farmer grew something green for a cover crop for Winter. This is across the road from us. It's so nice to see green up there, I love the Autumn too "All My Yesterdays"

Here's a nice shot all the way in the corner of the living room looking toward Kitchen and Entry.

A closer look at the lower counter, the island will be in the middle (i hope!) (:

From Kitchen into living space where big window is with a little bench seat.

Look What They Did To My Flowers :(

Apparantly the neighbors didn't like my sign (below post) so they called the cops on us and said I was yelling at there kids. Which never happened! I have yelled at them once in 14 years that I have been here because they would play ball in the street and side yard and stomp my flowers. The officer was very kind and saw my sign and asked my husband what was going on? Hubby told them that its been going on for a long time so we put a sign up. And no we were not yelling at the kids. But we will because were tired of it.
Well that "lie" got them no where so...this is what greeted me when I got home. The neighbor mowed his side of the yard and blew all the grass clippings into my flowers and bark. Something he's never done before. He has always bagged his clippings, but not this time. I think there very angry little people that have nothing better to do. (have ya ever tried to pick out grass clippings on bark? aargh!)

So I decided it was time for a new sign to add to the old one. What do you folks think??

I wonder what they will turn me in for now? "Officer come quick this women uses Chalk!!!!" and she is putting the truth right out in front where everyone can see!!"

Mean People Suck

I will give you the short story on the neighbors (since you asked) As soon as we moved in all the neighbors came over to greet us. "welcome to the neighborhood" I noticed they were a pretty tight nit group, the bad mouthed the poorest neighbor a little bit. I thought what ever, the typical gossips. The invited us to birthdays and a few other functions threw the first years. I got real tired of them real quick because the were always bad mouthing each other when one was not there. "Homey don't play that" (remember Saturday night live?) So we got fed up because are close neighbors kept borrowing stuff and we ended up fixing things for them all the time. But...they never returned the favor. So I just started telling them we were busy and just stuck to our selves. They had a new puppy and he would come into our garage and defecate and urinate. So we kept telling them about it and finally after we pulled everything out of the garage to mop the floor!, they decided it was time to have the now older dog nurtured. But for some reason he came over to our back deck right in front of our sliding door and left us a howdy doo every morning, (on wood people!) So off we went and both I and my husband told them what was going on. Now mind you I had two dogs no fence and they were trained to never leave the yard. They had 1 dog with a fence? So we told them and they never did anything about it. I kept complaining so one night I'm in my Master bedroom on the computer and I have a door with a full window in it. All of a sudden a flashlight appears on my deck and someone stomping on my deck. Scared me to death! It was the wife next door and she was drunk and came over after letting her dog out to pee, to see if he crapped on the deck! I said "What's up? do you think we would lie about it?" I just wanted to see for myself she says, and no poop this time. I said "He comes in the morning when were having coffee on the deck would you like to come over at 7:00 a.m. and have a cup of coffee?" She just smiled and said "oh no I believe you". Cute eh? Anyway she never did and it continued. They decided to get another new puppy so they could have two. I shoveled so much poop with my two and there two it was ridiculous. So i got a 5 gal. bucket and started putting in all there pooh and when it was half full I put it on the property line with a big shovel in it! It did absolutely no good? We gave hints for years, and then decided to put a fence up. Before we did one of there dogs ran through are yard like every day and ran into busy traffic and got snuffed. I felt bad and they have a small property so I told them to bury him on ours. So sad, kids crying. And there daughter came into my back yard with all her friends (she must have been 7 years old) and said very loudly as I was telling them to get away from the busy road from the deck, "You need to put up a fence!!!!!" I said "No you need to use yours" The mentality of these people was something else. Ya know she heard this from the parents. Anyway after a couple of more years we put up a vinyl fence. (over ten thousand) 1/2 acre lot. Sick! I know but I was done with wooden fences. It didn't work cause they let there dog go in our side yard that we could not fence. A very small area with some city stuff in it, and it was in grass. Still my property. It continued so I finally called animal control, and all hell broke loose!! There friends in the neighborhood ganged up on us and we have had garbage thrown in our yard, extra dog poo (like we didn't have enough) so after putting up with this I then called the cops. The cops would say well there's really nothing we can do Mame. And we found out later there best friends down the street had a brother cop and he and his buddies would go hang out at her place all the time in city cop cars. So that cop was pretty much rude to me and I knew instantly it was one of her buddies. Then because I called the cops the neighbor came outside after the cop left, and called me out of my garage. You bitch you called the cops on me! etc, etc. The whole neighborhood came out watching. I called the cops again and they said they would send somebody out. After 4 hours of waiting I get a phone call back from the cop that was out before. Whats the problem he says, so I tell him and he says, you know I talked to your neighbors and they said your a trouble maker. I said "is that right? I never saw you talk to my neighbors and I have been sitting here for 4 hours for you to show up? so when did you talk to them? He says "it takes two sides to have a fight, stay away from your neighbor!" I do stay away, I was the one who got called out of my garage?" He repeats "stay away from your neighbor" very mean and ugly. So after that I started taking pictures of all the dogs crapping in my yard, and had cops do slow drivebys by my house, giving me very ugly looks. The sister who's brother is a cop was infuriated by me taking pictures.....more garbage in side my yard. So I put cameras up on there side of the house so they went into the orchard next to me and like slithering little snakes started throwing garbage that way. They watched us all the time for 4 years now!! Anytime I come outside they send there older kids out in the cul-de-sac in front of our house to raise as much noise as they can. 4years people! They started killing my flowers out front all of a sudden I had flowers dying like crazy. Anyway it has sent me into a severe depression and I've tried talking to them to no avail. So we decided we had to move from our retirement home, our dream home. It's a very long complicated story as to why we have not sued them. We are just moving period! So I decided to put a sign out and it says "Please don't kill our flowers anymore" And they are just livid! End of story.

You ladies Rock! I love you all. Thanks for the comments it really helped me alot, so here is a gift for all of you!! Oh wait.....I can't sew? O.K. so if I could I would sent you all a bag from Katie but I'm poor right now ): sooo I'll just say THANK YOU BUNCHES!

Art Is Serious Business~With a Five year old

"Gram" guess what this is? A butterfly sitting on a birdbath? Noooo! she says. A man with a hat on and big ears? With a beard! "Grammie, I'll give you a hint, you sit in it" A chair on a pedestal! Noooo, its just a chair!! "Sorry Lex let's just chalk it up to old age" Yeah she says....then "Your not old!!" Dam I love that girl! I told her maybe someday I could find a chair designer who could make this chair. She said "no you can't, you can't do that" I said "Bet me! I bet I can!" Oh Grammie. Any chair designers out there!

I sat on the porch because she wanted to make a sign like me, for her new art room at my new house. She told me I could not see it was going to be a surprise, and asked me to leave the room. "Well now" can I open the window? Oh yes Grammie!

Very into Grammie's water color paints! I told her how to use these cakes of paint and she just went for it. And clean up was a breeze with her! me on the other hand, well lets just say "Get the shovel" She didn't notice me at all at first and was very into her art.

When she did notice she let me take this picture and went right on painting.

What do you think Gram? I think it's gorgeous Lexi.

AND THE NEXT DAY GRAMMIE HAD A SURPRISE

A NEW SCHWINN BIKE!!!!!!!!!

Right next to her art work on the sidewalk from the day before. Grandpa had put it in the garage in the middle of the floor, and we pulled up to have another art day. I said "you know I have a surprise for you" "Really!" she says. So we walk into the garage and you should have seen her face, she just kept saying "Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!" laughing and saying is that for me? I said "yes, it's a earrrrly Christmas present so you can ride when you come to Grammie's house" Oh thank you Grammie, thank you Grandpa!

Little flower pedals with reflectors on them.

And of course we had to have a basket, so "Boo boo bear" could ride too.

She even has a Barbie bell.

Streamers! Oh I always wanted these!

Watch me Grammie! Notice the sign in my garden bed?

Determination is her middle name.

Just two of the rotten neighbors that have harassed us to death.

O. K. Grammie let's sing. What shall we sing she says, I say let's sing this, 1 2 buckle my shoe, 3 4 hit the door! Teach me she says, so I could not remember all of it so we sang it our way. And she really got into it, dancing while she sang like "Miley Cyrus"

Concentrating!

"oh Grammie I need a helmet and elbow pads" your right Alexis.

Sweetness

Meet Ms. Love

I just love these little guys er girls? Anyway I went to buy more dog food at the pet store and came across this little beautie, and I just floated away! (ahhh sorry) anyway my Granddaughter came by and asked me is it a boy or girl? I said "it's a girl for sure" she said "Can I name her?" I said "yes" O.k. let me think?, how about "love" I said "love it is!" I was calling her Irene, but I like Lexi's name better.


"She" is a "Delta Beta" I hadn't seen this one before so she now grace's my art room.
The last one I had was "Hank" and he lasted for 5 years. Sad story about old Hank....I was in a hurry to clean his tank so I left him inside the bowl and started draining some of the water, well I must have looked away and he ended up in the disposal. Long story short I sat his big bowl on the counter and turned on the disposal to get rid of the yucky water and smell.

"R. I. P."

Hank "pearl" Disposal
1910 ~ 1915

Shadows

Prayer Request For "Main Street Memories"

http://mainstreetmemories.blogspot.com/

Colleen is asking for our help!

A little Birdie told me so
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"Tinkered Treasures" told me about this young lady, and it touched me. Hope it will touch you too! Please pass this along.

I Think I Have A Miracle

Look at that sky! This was today 9/15/09


What? there's men on my roof

It's raining Men! Hallelujah! It's raining men! As far as I could see!!! It's raining men! See I did get a Miracle!!!!!! Thank you lord for blessing me and mine.

Every time I whine about the house and pray, God must say "oh man it's Pearl again, oh please give it a rest!" and poof it's done.

The roof will be done tomorrow and the windows came in today! I'm gonna have windows!!! (Sharon I'm sorry you have to do all those logs!!) Next house's we'll just make a concrete house, and that just pouring with a pumper truck.

See the hazy sky by evening? We have fires again in Oregon and Washington again and I'm right on the border. I have never seen this many fires in one year, ever! Wind is suppose to blow tomorrow. But I don't care!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You should see all the fine dirt that blew in after a day ago. There are six houses in our cul-de-sac going at the same time. So the dirt is horrible. We'll all have a house welcoming party and everyone will talk about the dirt of 2009 :)