We Never know what life has in store for us.

Since i posted about moving to Florida, and shared photos of my new home, I have since moved back to arkansas..  I take care of my brother with downs syndrom.. He and i were living in florida.. Away from all of our family.. While living in fl.. i had a heart attack on june 11.. I was very lucky it was mild, and i had some wonderful landlords .. With no family to help me out, i had no idea who would take care of my brother while i was in the hospital.. My precious friends/landlords did.. I was so thankfull, they stayed with him until my family could drive in from Arkansas.. I was in the hospital for 6 days..  So whith that happening, and then a few days after getting home from the hostpitial, and my family leaving and going back home, i had another scare and back to the hospital for a few more days.. I made the decision to move back to arkansas to be close to family again.. No one knows if you will have another attack, and how bad it may be.. that is all that i have for now.

A Few Photos Of My New Home

I have recently moved to the sunshine state.. I have a beautiful home and just wanted to share some photos...

Made a big move..

HI all, i know it has been forever since i posted.. I just moved from Arkansas to Florida.. Getting back online now and hope i have not lost all of my blogger friends.. I will post some photos soon of my new home.. Wow how time flys.. Happy Holidays to each of you...

WOW HOW long has it been

I am not even looking back at the last date i posted.. Don't matter.. LIfe happens.. My Father passed away in Dec, I am gaurdian now of my 56 yr. old Brother with downs syndrome... He is Sweet, and so easy to love. I can guarantee you he is happier then most of us... He has (HIS STUFF)and his TV to watch his Star Trek, and His game shows.. WOW if life was that simple for all of us. LOL.....

Along the same lines as above, I moved on to my Fathers property to take care of my brother.. My sister and her husband moved into one of the houses as well.. Moving all of my plants from one place to the other was a weeks worth of work..

My nursery has trippled in size .. I am still not inspected or licensed yet, because i want to have even more plants for my first sale.. OH if you like doo wop music and oldies. come join me for my Radio shows at http://www.oldiesyourway.com at the top of the bottom of the page are players for you to listen on.. Get your music going there before coming into the chat room , if you so chose to join in on the chaos... Love to have you listen... My programs are on.... Monday morning at 9 to 11 Eastern time... Tuesday evening from 8 to 11 ET.... Thursday evening 8 to 11 ET.... Sunday evening 8 to 11 ET

I hope to see many of you again soon .. I have come here often to read your post, as i always enjoy reading what your involved in, your lovely photos and all that is going on in your lifes...

I may not have time to post every day, but i will try to keep it to at least once a week...

See you in blogland... Sheila

Back in April I posted about starting a nursery..

Here is what i have accomplished in just a few months. In June when we moved back to our other home, i really got busy with my nursery. I am not licensed or inspected yet, but will be, before next spring. I have always loved plants, and have always had a few.. But now i have this. None are blooming now so no pretty flowers to look at.

This bed has at least a thousand plants.

Area where i have some plants waiting for pots

Up close photo of above photo

photo of my Japanese Maples

Hakuro Nashiakis  Or Dapple Willows

Cuttings of Four of the Old Roses I will Have

My lilly bed, one of them.

Ten large pots of Blueberries.

Bed with my Grasses, and Daisies

This bed is my pink mums,Variegated Weigelas,  and Spirea

This bed has Rose of Sharon,Painted daisy,several varity of Holly hocks,Pitisporum, mums and more

LIlacs, GArdinas, and others

Velvet & Lace Dianthus

Bed of Anemeones, Hybrid poplars,Gardenias, and more

The other end of bed above

My September charm Anemeone blooming

Close up of Bed with Grasses and Daisy's

Unusal post, but part of my life.

Just want to share this with my blogger friends.  I am a Internet DJ... I play doowop, oldies and country music on the internet. Here    If you like to listen to some great music while you look at all your pretties on the blog just tune in. Or if you want to listen in when your not blogging.. Come on over for my show.  I play on Monday's and Tuesday's.. Monday is from 12 to 3 eastern time Tuesday is 7 to 10 eastern time.  There is a chat room where you can visit with me and make request. Or you can email me for request. Just go to the site and do what it says to get in . It is simple and secure.

Old Windows Greenhouse

You have seen this greenhouse on an older post , from where we lived on our ten acres.. When i moved it back here I painted it and have added some gates to the side and porch post cut down from when the storm blew our front porch down..  I added the white candle holders to the tops of the post. I will be doing much more as time goes on, and i get one of those AHHHHHHHHHHH  Moments that hit me .. I will say , oh this or that would look great..

Beauty in all things...

I was out at our other property checking on things.. I was leaving out of our long driveway.. There is Thistle growing all along the ditch bank in our drive way.. I saw this....

Give me your opinion please

I have parts off of an old old piano . I took the cover that folds down over the keys and made a plate rack out if it. I took the whole front of the piano , where you sit your music while your playing,and lift it up to tun the keys.. I made an over the fireplace mantle decoration. But what i would like an opinion on, is if you like the candle sconces under the mirror part.. Or in the middle under the embossed paper i painted and put in the insets. I have my mind made up pretty much, but want to see if I am going in the right direction.. Oh, and of course all suggestions would be greatly appreciated for any other things that may be a better use for it.. But not in the trash ladies.. tee hee

A few Photos of my dining room.

I am trying to get to my decorating since moving back. I have tons of things going on, like most of you... I have such a high ceiling and a walk way going not quite down the center of the room, so, it makes for a kinda split up room. I have a dark wood dining room set that belonged to my grandmother and i crawled on it when i was a baby.. many before me did too. I have an old dark wood dresser i am using for an extra buffet table and storage.. Then i have odd and end pieces which i love and wanted to use. Any way I have so much more to do, and find some great things to hang on the walls.. I do have one thing i am going to do... I have a , well over an hundred year old piano thing, you know when you raise it up to expose the keys to play... lol.. Well one of those, i am going to make a plate rack out of it... NOw it is dark wood.. So do i paint it the wall color, or leave it dark like the buffet and table and add some decals of roses to it? Any way here are a few of the things i have done so far.

OUr Move has been made...

We are now living back in our house that we have been working on for some time now. It is such a wonderful house, and we are happy to be back. Sad to leave the 10 acres but happy to be here. We still have tons of boxes to unpack, so for now, no photos.. We did get our HIGH SPEED INTERNET back again.. whooooooooooooo hoooooooooooooo doing the Happy Dance.... As soon as everything is unpacked, we are settled in and life gets back to chaos, like it always is.. lol. I will get some photos of the house.. I want to thank each of you that helped me decide on the wall color for my kitchen.. I am soooooooooo loving it. Until later .. Have a great day.. Sheila

Remember When

I was looking for nursery pots.... Well i found a few.. Do you ever Craigslist? I look at Craigs list often. Here is what i found. A landscape business had these and was tired of storeing them. I scored big time. Such fun.. Sheila

As luck would have it.....

One more thing to add to large pile of NOW WHAT!!!

Number one.. Our house did not sell.
Number two.. busted pipes, holes in ceiling from leak detectors having to find the leaks.
Number three...toilets, sinks and shower starts backing up in the house... hire a plumber to fix it. come to find out none of the drains are hooked up to the new sewer system they put in our town several years ago. It has been going into the old tank, which is tiny and full. So going under the house to fix pipes turned into another NOW WHAT.... To get under the house , plumber could only go so far up, to close to the ground... so he had to re-route all the pipe out to our front yard.. OH but that is not the worst of it... NO... Since he can not get up under the house, where the lower bathroom is, he has to go inside and cut a big hole in the bathroom floor to hook up to the drain from there. So holes in the living room ceiling, hole in the upper bathroom floor, now hole in the lower bathroom floor.

Oh yeah forgot one thing... THE PRICE!!!! Went up... and up again.. oh yeah did i mention it went UP AGAIN!!!!


WHAT NOW!!!!!!!

Photos of updated kitchen and fireplace

AFTER

BEFORE

As you know i am moving in june.. I showed my kitchen photo and ask about the yellow kitchen as to weather i should paint it or not. I did.. I painted it an off white light taupe color. I also did the fireplace as well.. What happened with the house ,was this, we let some people move in that were suppose to be buying it, well they did not get the money so they had to move out. But they took it upon themselves to paint the living room before having the ownership .. They painted the walls dark brown (which did not look too bad, just to dark of a color for me) and they painted our red brick fireplace... I always wanted to paint it, but was not allowed.. lol    It was a dingy dirty color ... I went in and painted the walls the same color as i did my kitchen and dining room, and then painted the fireplace white, well i did not like the fireplace white with the red tiles.. So i either had to repaint the fireplace, or replace the tile.. I bought some tile to replace the red ones with.. But just as i was about to take a hammer to the red tiles, i saw my curtains..  they have a taupe background with red roses in them.. how well they blended.. I said oh.. I just need to paint the fireplace the same color as the walls and leave the red tiles.. That is what i did.. It does blend in real well now..

I painted the fireplace white at first so when i repainted it, i left the white in the grout lines and painted the top of the brick with the taupe.. For now i am happy with it, as i just have way to much to do .. I know i will have things sitting on the fireplace tiles any way and you won't even be able to see them..  So here are before and after photos of kitchen and dining room.The dining room was a kinda peachy color and it is now the same as the kitchen, and living room, just did not take a photo of it. So the one you see here is the before..

I did not take photos of the living room before i repainted it.. but believe me it was dark and cave like  .I will show more photos after we get moved in.