Shoot Me! 6 of 52 Challenge

When you see this weeks shoot me picture of baby Renee and I (it was taken at Christmas); I'll be on my way to Louisiana to visit them for a week.  I'll be flying from Fargo, ND to Lafayette Louisiana, arriving there at 8:30 pm.  This little airport is only 30 minutes away from the kids.  Previous trips I've flown into New Orleans, and that is about 2 hours away.  The planes I'll be on for this trip are all smaller ones, so we'll see how the trip goes.  I'm hoping for good weather!    I'll be there for a week - So will have new pictures for you  if I find time to post while I'm there!  More later. 

Shoot Me! 5 of 52 Challenge

 Here I am with Odda the other night.  This is the day before she had her surgery. 

Now after surgery she has to stay in the house - just goes out to go potty, and play a little.  She hates it!  Her cone collar lasted  one day before it cracked completely.  She bumps into everything!  Poor girl.  So we duck taped it back together.  Her eye looks pretty good, still swollen somewhat.  Steve will be taking her to get her stitches out on the 12th.  She is suppose to wear the collar until that time!

She is so clutsy with this collar on.  Bumps into everything, and she always wants to be so close to everyone.  She wants to be rubbed, and she'll come up to you, rub against your leg, and then turn so her back is where she wants rubbing.  Her head with this cone is then usually caught up with the corner of the table, the computer keyboard, or the edge of the chair.  Then the cone snaps, and so far, when she's inside, it hasn't cracked.  The cold outside here doesn't help - the plastic snaps and breaks real easy when she bumps something.  Oh for good duck tape!  It fixes almost everything!

Here she is stealing Hooch's food (after eating all of hers).   I let her eat some, so I could get a picture.  I took her for a good walk Tuesday, and will do it again today.  Yesterday I could hardly move, so I was not moving very good.  Not even enought to take her for her walk.  I slept pretty good last night, so we'll go for a walk today.  Think I pulled a muscle in my left side low and couldn't even get up and walk upright for 2 days now.  We'll see how today goes.

Shoot Me! 2 of 52 Challenge

Didn't get a new picture this week, but will use a picture that was taken at Christmas with grand children and Steve and I.   Won't have baby here to take weekly pictures, so this one is close enough!  Baby Renee lives too far away for weekly pictures; and Blake is working away during the week as an electrical lineman; Amanda is a Junior in high school.  Time goes by fast, kids grow up!

Grandpa still keeps busy with raising Duroc pigs, and sells alot to 4-H kids for showing and we sell alot to area friends to eat.  He also does some grain farming on the few areas we have.  I'm retired from my 8-5 job of 35 years and now enjoying sewing/quilting, crafting and working with Odda and Hooch.

Sixteen years between grand kids.  Blake is 20, Amanda is 16 and Renee was almost 6 months here.  Won't tell you my age!!!!!
It's fun checking out all the Shoot Me sites!

Shoot Me! 1 of 52 Challenge

I think it's a great idea to do this challenge - To post every Thursday a picture with myself in it for 52 weeks.  It may end up that I'll have to TAKE my own picture!   Hopefully not, but usually I'm the one taking pictures, so not in a lot of family gathering pictures.  Especially years ago.  Now our BIG girls all are camera bugs, so I'm in a few more.   Carin over at  Forever In Blue Jeans posted this challenge.  It'll be a challenge for me!  But here we go.

Hooch and I working on a photo project to make a book for baby Renee with pictures of her "Minnesota Family".  It was one thing I didn't get done before Christmas due to computer printer problems.  Now with that working better and a good serger, I should be able to get this done!  More pictures as progress goes.
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Have also started other projects now that the kids are all gone.  One was to finish up some baby blankets that had been left undone when my serger decided to take a vacation.   I don't know what happened to it (a few months ago); but the stitches came out so badly I couldn't use the serger.  Finally had taken it to a repair man in Fargo ND, and it now works wonderfully.  I finished 6 blankets in short order the other day.  Don't know if this will help me, but I took a picture of the setting of the dials, so if my stitches become messed up again, I'll hopefully be able to get the thread tensions back to these settings.    It'll be worth a try!  It's so nice to have it back in working order.  I really needed to have repaired it earlier.

The picture looks kind of dark, but when I zoom in, I can see the dials good. I have some new projects coming up that will need to change color of threads, so that should be interesting!  

Last evening we were invited to Far Side's for supper!  How nice it was.  Had home made pizza (yummy) and played cards.  A nice evening with good friends.  Hooch went with to play, or should I say, give Chance a hard time!  Hooch even found a lost ball for Chance.