Happy Thanksgiving

Just a short note to anyone who is reading this. I want to wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving. We have so much to be thankful for. Life itself, our health, happiness and spending time with the ones we love.
I hope you all are warm, safe, happy, and get to spend your day with your loved ones.
We are going to spend the day with my mom, my kids, my brother,my neice and nephew my sister and her kids and of my grandson, Tucker.
It is going to be a great day.
So to all of you I wish you a very "Happy Thanksgiving"
drive safe
~cheryl~

This is Dedicated to the one i Love "My Dad"

I love my dad, he is a super dad who was the one that always borrowed me the car, i swear to God, when i got my drivers license my dad never drove his car again, (it was a station wagon). When i was a senior in high school my dad drove a "Corvette Yellow" Station Wagon, yes it was almost as bright as the sun. It was a supper hard car to hide when you were skipping school, that's for sure. It was an automatic. Well i use to put it in neutral while going down hills to TRY to save gas as a juvenile, i was just a girl so i didn't know that it would RUIN the transmission if you did that with an automatic, and low and behold my dad had to replace his transmission because of my stupidity. Well a few years later i told him what i did and how dumb i had been. he didn't get too upset. he didn't get too upset about too much. He loved children and he loved my two kids as if they were his own. my parents watched my 2 children while my husband and i worked to make ends meet back in the early 80"s and I'll have to say rarely did they have a babysitter,other than family till they were probably the age past 8.
My dad was the best!! he loved to go up to the local Restaurant and hang out at the retirement table, he would leave his house and say,"Well I think I'll go see what's Happening in the World" It was a favorite place for him to spend his mornings. He loved to communicate with people, he could talk to anybody, i think i get that from him, he could have lengthy conversations on the telephone. I mean hours!
We spent almost every weekend growing up over to his parents (my grandparents) it was a 5 hour drive but i tell you what we made the trip at least twice a month i swear.He loved his family and enjoyed all the time we ever spent there as we did.
He was a collector, as i am, i always use to love going up to see my parents and rummaging thru the garage, that is where all "Dad"s Treasures" were, and i'd usually talk him out of giving me some kind of "Goodie" before going home. I'm just like him in that way, we are going to move soon and i am looking at all of my "Goodies" thinking of my Dad.Thinking "Why am i such a collector?" (thanks Dad!)
Well it has been 2 years today since I lost my "Dad", he passed away on a cool afternoon November 16, 2007 of a heart attack, brought on from loss of oxygen from the disease called "Pulmonary Fibrosis" which is Hardening of the Lung Tissue.
My dad was a great man, he worked hard for a living, he loved his family and his grandchildren to no end. We all miss the man we called, "Dad",and "PaPa Owen".
I just wish he could have lived longer to share his love for life, his wisdom and his love for his family. He was just a number one guy!
I love you Dad, I miss you Dad, I think of you every single day, I wish you could have seen or land and our new house we are going to call our home.
I planted a White Pine up at the land, (one we had dug up on that awful morning before I had gotten the phone call that you had died). I planted it on November 17th (the day after) in memory of you at our land, i can see it from a window in the house, i will watch it grow everyday, it is going to be a beautiful tree (as i know you loved white pines)and i will think of you every single time i lay eyes upon it. i will think of you Dad, and i will still Miss you every day of my life. I miss you, I miss you, I miss you, I miss you so verrrry, verrrry much. I can't forget to mention how special my Dad's little Great Grandson Tucker was to him, my dads eyes lit up with every visit with this special little guy. I just wish Tucker could have had more time with him, I'm glad they had the time that they did.My Dad got to love the little guy i call my "Grandson" if only for a short time.
Thanks Dad, for giving me the gift of life, and for being a part of me. There is a part of you that is with me every day and I will never forget the man that i loved with all my heart. XXOO love you!

pretty much all work and NO play,,,,,,,for now

well it's been awhile. my hubby and i have been busy getting the new house winterized. it is not ready to move into, and with winter coming we had to get our heating system working. that took us about 3 weeks. we now are able to turn on the heat, and by gosh it works!!! it took some tweeking, but we are satisfied with our outcome. we are getting the finishing touches ready for out insulators to come and do the final insulating. then that will be done!!! then it will be time for the finishers. we still have some sheet rocking to do before he comes in to do his magic, he is tentatively set for the second week in december. i am soooo anxious for him to be done. when i have a paint brush in my hand, i will be one HAPPY CAMPER!!!! it has been such a long haul. my body aches with pain every day, we get up between 5:30 am and 6:30 am and get ready to go to work, yes, work on the house. we put in anywhere from 7 to 10 hours usually each day. it has been a tough go, i just hope i am able to move when we get done with this place! i haven't cracked up yet, so i think i will make it. i'm just plain tired!!
i hope all is well with my readers, if i have any left. i hope to have more time to blog in the future!
take care everyone! have a really great weekend!!!!

Just a little catch up........

mom had her surgery and is recuperating nicely. she will be off work for a bit longer but is taking time to relax. she is going to be 75 and is still a maid at the local motel. WOW. don't know how she does it. she has been there over 30 years!!! i just love that woman!
i'm back working again, and not on the house. this work involves a paycheck which in turn will go right back into the house.
we are 95% done with the Sheetrock and have to tie up the loose ends to get heat in the place. we hope to have it taped and sprayed real soon. maybe before Christmas. i sure hope so. we have really worked hard this summer. i kept track of our hours daily since the last week of may and we have put in about 700 hours. double that for him and me and it puts us at 1400 man hours. i'm tired.
we are still in the other place unable to get it ready to sell, we just haven't had the time. i was hoping to be in the new place for Christmas. i don't think that will be happening. :(
my kids have been busy with projects of their own this summer but i have managed to get a little visiting time in with them, which has been nice. although i would still enjoy MORE time with them. one of these days it will happen!!!
well i hope all is well with all out there. i just wanted to drop in and let all my friends and family know i still have a blog...
have a great week everyone.
drive safe and enjoy the upcoming fall colors. it is by far the most beautiful time of the year!

my mom

hi, i just want to take a minute to ask you to keep my mom in your thoughts. she goes in this thursday to have a triple hernia operation. she is the best mom and grandma and great grandma in the world. please keep her in your prayers. i love her with all my heart.
thank you to all.
~cheryl~

I'ts been awhile, i'm tired

hey to all my friends and family,
I'm taking a break today and spending the day with my grandson. i call these days my vacation days.
the house is coming along. we have all the risbo in the floor. that's our heating system. we have about 90 percent of the plumbing done, about 90 percent of the electrical done, we have the insulation 90 percent done, we have the ceilings in the basement to do yet. we went with the isonene (blown) insulation. we have some of the upstairs ceilings sheet rocked and have started on some of the walls, we are about 5 percent done with the sheet rocking. it's been a long hard summer. we are averaging about 60 hours a week. husband worked about 2 months straight without a day off, i think it was actually longer than that. we have now decided that without the help of others we are going to have to slow down. we have to get help with the sheet rocking to do the vaulted ceilings. him and i just can't do them alone. so we will plug away day by day until we get help here and there. i was wishing that the extreme makeover people would come up to our home after they finish the house in south range Wisconsin and put up all the sheet rock. it's just a wish i have. i know the end results of our home will be awesome, so i think of that everyday while in pain and agony. someday i won't have to lift sheet rock and won't have to climb up and down scaffold etc. etc., and won't have to not look forward to each new day. i will be able to get up, sit on my covered porch and sip my morning coffee while looking out at the beauty of lake superior from a distance. i will be able to sew, craft, bake, make bird houses, refinish furniture, and most of all i will have the time to spend with my family. taking the grandchildren will be a favorite pastime for sure. i enjoy teaching and sharing things with them, most of all i enjoy giving my time to them. someday hopefully soon i can start doing that. this is a feel sorry for me post, did i get you to feel sorry for me?? i hope you are all enjoying your summer, somebody has to it may as well be all of you. we go back to work in about a month, that will suck big time, coz then we won't get anything done. i wish we could be at the point where we could have a taper come in and do the house while we were working, if we could be at that point i would be one happy camper..... well have a great weekend everyone, take care and drive safe!

just a note of thanks

i want to take a minute to thank my son for his help today putting up sheetrock. you were so generous to offer your help at a time when you have so much going on yourself at your own home. we so appreciated your help today. we are geting things done bit by bit. we have a great start and hopefully before too long we will be done with the sheetrocking. but anyway, Dust, Thank You so much for your help, you did a great job and have a nice little side job talent that is not only helpful to yourself, but was sure helpful to us. thanks dust. i love you honey! i hope you aren't too sore tomorrow. Good Luck in the Fishing Contest!!!