Fallin' right into Winter

The pictures say it all. Happy Halloween!

Have a heart

Last weekend I went to my second wire wrapping class. This is my pendant. I learned a lot about wrapping odd shapes and am really happy with the way this one turned out. It was a different teacher and she eased my mind about wrecking the silver wire by putting accidental kinks in it and just showed us all how to correct any tiny mistakes. My next piece will be a silver choker length twisted chain woven with seed pearls. I'm excited and will post pictures after I get it done.

The name of the stone is Larvikite.

The Secret

I found this on www.thesecret.tv today. It made me stop and think about the the way I have been looking at life in general lately. This is just one of 3 parts, but the most universal. Namaste...

You are a magnet attracting to you all things, via the signal you are emitting through your thoughts and feelings.

To open yourself up and become a powerful magnet to wellness and health from wherever you are now:

Love yourself! Deeply, profoundly! Make lists of all the wonderful things about you. Add to it every day.

Free yourself of any past resentments or disappointments you may be holding about you.

Let go of any and all resentments from the past you may be holding of everyone and everything.

See yourself as completely well in your mind and visualize yourself doing things in a complete state of perfect health.

Love and appreciate everything and everyone, and especially yourself.
Know you have the power within you to heal yourself.

Never criticize or blame yourself or anyone else for anything.
Be grateful for the wellbeing that is coming to you.
See yourself as only well, happy, grateful and living in abundance.

Be happy, knowing that in your state of happiness your body is healing itself.
As you appreciate, as you love, as you are happy, as you are grateful, you are summoning wellbeing and it is pouring through your body and disease is vanishing in the moment.

Business Travel

It's been 18 months since I've traveled on business and I've forgotten a little about the "not-so-glamorous" part of traveling. For instance, sleeping on this crazy contraption....

Sleep number beds SUCK! It didn't matter if I was at 10 or 90, it was uncomfortable and my body feels like it was hit by a truck. I have one more night on the slab and then it's back to my own bed, with my snoring husband and my neurotic cat.

Changing your rituals

Ever since I've been retired (that's such a funny word) I have noticed that I don't get done near the volume of work that I used too. It has bothered me a lot, because I feel sometimes like I move in slow motion. On one hand it has been a huge blessing to have a slower pace and I am not complaining...here comes the but...I think I would feel happier if I was achieving more in each day. So I picked up a book I had laying around entitled "Happier" and started to read.


One of the first steps is to take a look at your rituals, the things you do routinely all the time, keep the good productive ones and change the others, of course that was only in the first couple of pages but it got me thinking about the things I do every day...

I stay in bed until the sun comes up whether I am awake or asleep, robbing myslef of probably an hour or more of time. I have rationalized that I deserve it. So COMMITMENT #1 Get Up when I Wake Up!

Next, I lollygag most of the time on my walks with the dogs rationalizing that I need to go slow so they will keep up. COMMITMENT #2 Pick up the Pace, they will keep up.

Then it usually takes me at least 2 hours to eat, shower, get dressed and get going, mainly because I fart around on the computer, watch TV, and just putz around, thinking about doing laundry or just mainly procrastinating the stuff I know needs to get done. COMMITMENT #3 Shower, eat and get fully dressed BEFORE turning on the PC. Make a goal to do this in 1 hour. Make a short list of "Annie Do's" each night and tape them to the PC (along with a big note to remind me not to turn it on). For the second hour, laundry, clean up, house chores, etc.

And for the last commitment, I dink around on the computer for way too long, putting off really getting the scheduled work done. COMMITMENT #4
Work and "Must Do" comes first. I will schedule time in the evening to look at blogs and read email. This has to come after the priorities are done.

I'll keep you posted on how this works for me. But I think in my case, adding the structure so I know what I'm working towards will help. And one last note to self... It's time to kick up the exercising a couple of notches, so in the afternoon or early evening, build a schedule and stick to it, i.e. Monday=arms, Tuesday=lunges, Wednesday=arms, Thursday=squats, Friday=Free form and everyday=sit ups and some kind of cardio.

The Orchids are in bloom

It never ceases to amaze me when this orchid blooms. It is a Catalaya, the largest and one of the hardest to grow. The blooms are about 6-8 inches across and they smell heavenly. This time I got 3 blooms, usually I'm lucky to get 2. What a rare treat and incredible blessing!

It's a Man's World

Any guy in the world knows where "Man's World" is in Denver. This place is so unbelievable, inside and out. You could spend a month or maybe more in there checking everything out. There are more mounted species of wildlife in this place (and displayed much better) than the Colorado Wildlife Experience. My brother Dan has to stop at this place anytime he is in town or passing through. Bruce started to shake when we pulled in the parking lot. It's like testosterone heaven! We used to fly up to Sydney, NE just to go to Cabella's, but this place blows that place out of the water, well except you get to fly to Sydney. And just for the laugh, there is a sign over the front door that reads... "hunters, fisherman and other liars welcome here"

Oh Deer!

We have 4 deer that hang around our area. Last night they took on my Aspen trees and I think you can tell who lost. Dang Deer anyway!

Sunrise

Ok, I know these pictures are dark, trust me the moon is there. It all gets shrunken down when you post it. I'll work on getting something brighter!


This morning was beautiful with the crescent moon and the pinks and oranges. Very much worth getting up for.

Frosty Mornings

A way to save

I don't know if all of you are aware of this or not, but if you have kids or grandkids that will be going to college some day, you really should get signed up at UPromise. Every place you probably buy from online is signed up with them which gives you discounts plus points for the college bound kids. We need to stick together and pass on the "deals" where we find them with the economy being so crappy. Tricia helped me sign up at www.pinchingyourpennies.com which is a great site for coupons, etc. especially if you are in Utah!

B R R R R R R!

It has only gotten up to 28 degrees here today, what the heck happened to Fall?

The Wedding Week

I didn't get any actual pictures of the wedding couple, not sure what I was thinking, but I got a couple of great shots during different parts of the day. Congrats Ross and Kate!

The Harvest

I've been in Hurricane for the past few days and while I was gone, we got another slap of winter. Bruce kept everything covered, but Mother Nature would win in the end anyway. I came home late last night to a freezing drizzle. This morning everything was coated with ice and frost. The raspberries will produce for a little longer, but the tomatoes are mush. Here is my harvest of pumpkins. I'm really proud of them!