February 14 and 16th what's a family day

My hubby gave me a special Valentine's Day gift, I love sloths. But this is not just a Valentine, but also a Family Day gift. What is a family day you ask. Well, it is a day that I celebrated with my Mom, Dad, and sister for years, it was the day I was adopted when I was 16 months old on February 16th, 1968. And ever since I told Jonathan about it he has also made it a special day. If I wasn't adopted I could be anywhere in this world and not have met this wonderful man, so I am very grateful. 

I am also very grateful for my very large extended family, both on my Mom's and Dad's side, my sister, and nieces and nephew. I miss my Mom and Dad very much. We had some hard times, but I also treasure so many wonderful memories like Christmas,  vacations, Cheshire fairs, amusement parks, visiting Aunt Sis and stopping at Benson's animal park on the way, birthdays, BBQs with family and friends,  little league games with my uncle and cousins, Dad always listening to the Red Sox on the radio or giving us horsey rides on his back, mom cooking homemade tomato sauce and holiday treats, and oh her homemade baked beans out of real bean pots from Grammy I can still smell Mom's cooking. 

I remember, as it is winter now how Mom bundle us up in snowsuits wearing Dad's or Grandpa's huge socks over our own, with Mom's knitted scarfs around our necks with matching mittens she also made us. We would go to Mémère's house sledding or just playing in our yard building snowmen.  So many memories. 

Anyway, on my Family Day I would get one gift and a heart shaped cake because it was so close to Valentine's Day. And we would usually go to Lindy's diner for supper. Or I would get any dish I wanted at home. My Family Day does still matter because I have so many wonderful cousins, aunts, and uncles that have been wonderful over the years, and my sister and her family. 

Thank you all including my family, Jonathan's family, and our friends for being a part of my past and present life. A Happy Family Day for me indeed!

Temu review

Just a review, a year of Temu -

Great Just a review, a year of Temu -

Great prices compared to 

Amazon, Walmart, Target, and so on. I have compared exact items from Amazon with Temu, same quality pillow covers, exactly same neodymium magnets, exactly same diamond painting kit, and Christmas decor the same or better from Temu, with many more examples.

Clothes, we wear plus size so very expensive and they are 4 to 5 times cheaper on Temu. Some items are not always the greatest quality but that can be true on Amazon. Many are good, some are thinner and wrinkle easy and I can deal with that and air dry  for such a awesome price.

I cannot say enough to check sizes, they certainly can get you that way, just like Amazon.

Delivery is longer and in bags not boxes. But some boxes in bags that products come in I bought a set of glasses to decorate a shelf in our kitchen with and there wasn't one broken glass and was in a box with Styrofoam.

Craft items are perfect just again check sizes as some the pics can make them look bigger than they are. 

We had a couple times holes in bag and missing items, but they sent a replacement with no issue at all or we could use a coupon for it's price instead.

As far as app issues you are asked to accept permissions request no if you like, so many do not read the terms your fault if do not, not them. Also, all apps can see what you are doing if you accept permissions request and if Apple has no way to shut stuff off that is Apple's fault.

Apple also has parts made in China by the way. Amazon has half its inventory made in China, so just saying.

What I have bought that was awesome quality, a Brady football shirt, a Mahomes football shirt, both just like official. We have two of Brady, the only difference is just that Temu's is not official but again very high quality and big sizes. The official was close to $100 and the Temu was $20 or $25.

Purses, wallets, bags, hats, all perfect and well made.

Diamond painting and wood shapes I make ornaments from. 

Pillow covers identical to Amazon with bear silhouettes and super strong magnets.and tension rods good 

Not so good quality, some double sided strong tape that was not as strong as the good 3M stuff. Same with some sticky hooks, A dog blanket was tiny, but that's on me as I didn't look at the size. And probably a couple of other things that were smaller than expected because we didn't check sizes, but that's on us.

In all, I don't see much difference in this app and others. In terms of privacy it's up to you to take care with permissions, and let's be honest there is not much privacy in America, all the Tech companies gather all kinds of information. The point is that  unless you are independently wealthy this is to Amazon, what Amazon was to brick and mortar, Temu with better prices  saving you money. 

Love this season

It is that awesome time of year again everyone thanksgiving Christmas New Year's oh my. my favorite time of year as so many already know. So I thought this year I would make a big post of all kinds of fun stuff like recipes,  links, holiday coloring pages, sticker downloads, and more.   

Recipes We Love 

Easy peanut butter cookies that are sooooo good 

Sugar-free pumpkin chocolate cookie

banana bread great for breakest at the holidays 

Moms Christmas recipes  meat stuffing or meat pie  and fudge recipes   

Mom's leftover turkey and ham recipes 

TURKEY RECIPES

HAM

Have you made a snowflake this year online to share with friends and family  I made one here for you just watch the falling snowflakes for yourself from Lisa or just click Create your own. click here

Adult and kids coloring for winter and Christmas

gnome Christmas 

Christmas Coloring

color it Christmas freebies 

PINTEREST

all kinds of crafts and fun

Art Ink & Me: Pet and family memorial Ornaments: Years ago I made these in memory of our pets that had passed for our tree. These do very well each year for sales, and I am so happy and tha...

my art and photos compare and save on Redbuble for sale click here

my art and photos  compare and save on zazzle  click here

more to come have a very merry Christmas hugs all

Christmas gifts by
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Winter and Christmas
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autumn photos end October

 Halloween has gone and the holiday season is sneaking up on me. we have been taking photos, Jonathan playing with his drone and taking pics as well. so many pretty fall pics of New Hampshire. check them out below and in the shop as well.

  So Halloween night we changed I light bulb at the end of the driveway, and I saw something on the lawn and went to take care of it. well, I tripped on a starter rose bush and I swear I traveled 20 feet trying to get my balance and not fall, well I lost the battle and hit face-first. The eye corners on both eyes near my nose are so dark today. I thought I broke my nose at first but now just my head still hurts but looking better. seems I have gotten one big fall every year for the last 6 years. Usually, my knees suffer.

What a wonderful week this foliage week was,( a couple weeks earlier.) I walked more than I had in years. One day I wanted to see the other half of a covered bridge that they placed down a path over another part of the river. So I walked and walked and walked some more, it was over 3/4 mile up the path. I took some pics so grateful I got there and did it. I didn’t know if I could with my health, it wasn't like it was before my cancer, but I was so proud of myself. And then another 3/4 mile back. So I walked over a mile and a half.

Then another day walking around parks and beaches with Cozy as Jonathan took drone photos. I was only 100 steps shy of the day I did the trail 2 days earlier. So proud I did it again. So great to make the steps I am supposed to for my age and health issues, so awesome. Here are some pics of the trail, and the first and second half of the bridge.

video of some of our NH pics

New Hampshire Gifts
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Autumn is here it has been a busy Year

We sold our house in Rhode Island a couple weeks ago to a flipper he liked that we had it gutted out to the studs, it should be up for sale again within a month we think, I can't wait to see what they do with it. 

With the house money, we'll be doing some fixes to this house in NH, not many just the unfinished bonus room we want to do ourselves, and a metal roof. All in all, we are very happy with the home, and savings are in place, and a bit extra. We are going to be going out and getting some foliage pics soon, also setting up an Esty shop for my crafts and downloads and such, hoping it will be up very soon for Christmas at least. That is why so busy. We are pretty settled in NH and loving it, still odds and ends to finish up before winter. Dan, our neighbor, has been a huge help with some of the big yard clean up and Jill and Kathy are great neighbors. Most around here are so kind, we love it. Jonathan got a new drone for his birthday, I will be learning on his old one. We are hoping to get lots of fall pics this week and videos, but we will see.

I have added items to both my Redbubble shop and Zazzle.

Redbubble new Items here, just click "Nature Collection", and the other is "Cute Winter", or browse my other collections.

What's new at Zazzle here

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what is up?

 what am I doing thinking WHAT?

we have made friends fast up here in NH and just so many friendly people, at 2 different bridges people have stopped and told us the history of the bridges I love how kind and proud everyone is. 

I have been enjoying gardening a bit, taking photos going to the lakes and more I went for my yearly appointment and tests all is well I am on the arm gadget to measure my sugar I love it makes things easier with reminders graphs, and more. I am doing well just some leftover breathing issues from cancer treatments I was doing so much better before treatment and R part of R-chop (chemo) but am grateful they have it because it saves lives like mine what it does in simple terms is allow treatment chemicals of chemo attach directly to cancer blood cells to help kill them better it doesn't always work but most often does putting folks like me in remission it can also raise havoc on longs and heart in some cases I have to keep working on lung capacity but I am great and feeling great and grateful for being almost 4 years in remission. please help find a cure for blood and all cancers give when you can hugs and love to all who have supported me in the past with well wishes and prayers I believe it helped put me in remission as well you all made me strong.

I have been arranging my shop on Zazzle and added a couple more collections of garden flags, New Hampshire, and downloadable prints large and small. I also have been working on crafts to do Etsy shop candles and 3d modeling by me and Jonathan downloads and much more. hope all is set up in the fall.

I enjoy coloring for my mental health and or relaxation I also like drawing and creating coloring pages for you all to color if you like I give away a lot of them for download and have some for sale to color for posters and your own greeting cards or what you like for sale and downloadable at Zazzle.

I just thought I would share some fav stuff online and more.

what else is up we watch decorah eagles for a couple mo then after the baby's fledge we watch the bears catch salmon at brook falls love the adorable new cubs and the big old dudes like Otis and 747. on live cams, you can find both at explore web site or youtube channels. 

we also are trying to stay out of politics in hopes to spread happy feelings I guess you would call it just ignoring any hate from all sides. live and let live we say we find quite a mix here. but as long as politics isn't brought up hey awesome friendly conversation on both sides. I love it. and just loving nature lately. we even have Dan across the street who when on his riding mower comes over and mows our lawn out of kindness. 

I created a page for only updates for blog and stores like a quick page to get to stuff  you can find and save it here

so photography nature, working on the house, setting up an Etsy shop, drawing and crafts all keeping me busy for now hugs all more soon.

Garden flags
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Downloadable collection
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New Hampshire Gifts
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Entering summer updates and pics

    Well hello, and welcome to the summer that is sneaking in we have a lot of spring with so much rain this year but also the hot and humid summer. I haven't been able to pull fully from the winter gloom and depression I get. I will get in the groove of summer soon.

HEALTH

so lots to report seeing as a lot of this blog has been health-related as well as family and opinions recipes and just stuff I will start with health just saw doc and had a mammogram and last year had that smile box test that comes in the mail and both big tests came back no cancer yay very happy, waiting on my blood work to come back should hear by end of the week. I am hoping to have the arm diabetic monitored after tests and find out about my blood cancers my family doc now in charge of it because been almost 5 years cancer free. hope diabetes and cancer and liver and pancreas all come back ok so many meds and such went through my body these last several years I worry. and since the cancer, I have been weaker and have had a hard time building muscle back and am working still on breathing exercises to expand my lungs back to where they were before chemo. I use a blowing ball and also hold my breath for short times. but I will keep going because I want to keep going ya know? I feel lucky to have what I have wich is a lot to me.

Yup hey, I am also blessed to be here and well now, and have so many who care.  so still on health topics my knees and hips are pretty bad these days so I rest more between tasks and use a cane at times. but I do push I have mowed the lawn twice weed whacked done some fix-it projects and more so I am again grateful I can still do stuff and am alive. Jonathan is also waiting for test results and he still has a lot of arthritis and joint pain. Jonathan also had a nice visit with uncle ned beginning of spring which was nice.

Cozy had her first vet visit in nh and did well all good since her escape after smells and running all the way to a busy fast road to the chickens and deer and a storage business I had to pretend I was hurt and crying to get her back was so worried and angry all at once she also had 2 tics I had to remove, well now she has a new gate system and GPS tags wow I still take a deep breath now thinking of her travels that day.

Cozy sporting her new haircut

FUN 

Speaking of our Cozy pup she is a hand full and a lot of fun she loves to play ball bark at every critter jump into our arms give us many cuddles she loves summer ice cubes to play with. s he has a new summer haircut and loves spending time in the sun on the deck or sun spots

oh the deck I have been putting out seed for birds excited to see how different they might be up here in NH and I love getting photos or allowing our nature cam to catch things as well    

so some pics caught on our nature cam like so many birds.

 bear climbs a tree and knocks my feeder down

red squirrel  

mom

                          one of the moms 3 babies 

bear knocked feeder down security -nature cam catch

we also flew Jonathans drown one weekend so far this year

and another weekend visited the handful of lakes surrounding us.

 Drone Photos

New Hampshires Lakes Photos

WORK

Well, Jonathan still doing great at the bank he has a group he leads. We both are working on the house working on our lawn work gardening getting that extra room with dirt floor created into a sun room with floor lol which will take some time. let's see we only have 2 rooms of walls to do the rest are done painted I mean the others we will be doing something different. I am drawing a lot these days and starting photography again soon also setting up an Etsy store by the holidays we hope. depression of winter and rain and joint pain and other health stuff has slowed me a little but I will get going. I am glad I have been keeping up with gardening and lawn and such also a neighbor has helped with some big invasive and dead bush removals he is great.

Keep smiling everyone keep safe be kind 

I guess that's it for now more to come soon. hugs all