Me on Monday

This post isn't exactly about me, but indirectly. 

My granddaughter, Elizabeth is a hair stylist in Atlanta. She knows all of my woes regarding my own quest to find a good stylist. I have super fine, limp hair. I use every thickening product known to man. They do help--but not much. 

Anyway, a couple weeks ago, she sent me this text: 

She got this 5 star review from someone who shares my plight!!! Wow! Congrats to her. Not many people take the time to give good reviews--mostly when they are unhappy! Elizabeth must have really impressed her! Now I just need to find out what she did!! 

I love this girl and her enthusiasm! I wished she lived a little closer. Hmm, maybe I should just plan on going down there to see her every six weeks. But here's the dilemma. If it doesn't quite work out for me, how do you "fire" your granddaughter??

See, this post is about me after all!

Something for Sunday

Well, I'm heading back to St. Louis to visit with family and to do some more work putting Janet's scrapbooks together with my sister, Jeanne. I'm looking forward to some good Italian food too!

In the meantime, here's some good advice:

Scrapbook Saturday

These pages are a little difficult to see since I photographed them with the page protectors on. Not th best quality. These are from 2015 when our AYM theme was about "lists"!

Friday Funnies AND Friday Frustrations!

You're only getting one "funny" today because this one is personal!!

For years, I have complained that Butch leaves doors open. He leaves the door open when he feeds the fish in our little pond. He leaves the door open to the garage. He has left the front door open when he gets the mail. He doesn't leave these doors open all the time, but often enough to drive me crazy! And the pantry! OMGosh, now that's a door he leaves open way more than he closes it. 

When I call him out about leaving doors open, he'll swear he doesn't! From now on, I'm going to take pictures. This is really the only proof I have:

While on our Route 66 trip, he left the door open while he went back in the fast food place to get some napkins. This one is really serious. He leaves the car door open occasionally--when he pumps gas, but often when he's geo-caching! 

The reasons I don't like it:

1. Either the heat or air gets out making it either hot or cold inside.

2. Bugs get in!

3. Smells get in. 

Yeah, it's a frustration for sure! Sort of funny--but not very.

Ten Things Thursday

How about some house renovations?

1. I don't particularly like dark houses. But I do like how this turned out. I like the blue door and the landscaping.

2. I love this one and the porch. I am partial to white. There could definitely be more landscaping and pots overflowing with colorful flowers on the porch.

3. This one seems kind of odd. Why was the front door offset to begin with. The after is definitely nice. Love the flower boxes.

4. The added gables really make a difference in this one. 

5. Again, love the white!

6. Nice porch.

7. The before photo looks almost exactly like my grandmother's house. The after looks amazing. The additions definitely make it look more inviting.

8. Omgosh--love the railing. It's a pretty shade of green, but a bit too dark for my taste.

9. This mansion almost looks like the White House.

10. This looks like the easiest renovation of all. Nice porch.

I think I choose #7 is my favorite. It looks like a cute little cozy bungalow.

Travel Tuesday

For anybody coming to Nashville, here are a few things you need to know.

Me on Monday

Happy June 1st! I can't believe we're in June and haven't even had a single pool day yet! We had planned one for Saturday, but it rained.

Well, we're home from our Route 66 road trip. Why is it that it takes a couple days to get things done to get out of town? Then, when you get home, it takes a couple days to "catch up" on all the stuff you weren't doing while you were gone.

To top off the chore list, our credit card was hacked the day before our trip. There was no way that we could get a replacement card that quick. Butch has AMEX, but he can't always use that. Then, he remembered that our Sam's card is also a credit card. We've had that forever. So, when we used it for the first time on our trip, we got a message. It looked suspicious since we've never used it before for anything outside of Sam's. Luckily, we got it resolved quickly--especially since we were going to be using it in 7 different states!! 

When we got home, I had to try to remember all of the places where I had my credit card linked for auto charges like: Spotify, Netflix, Amazon, PayPal, SWA, my travel agent/friend, Mary and several others. Now I just have to wait and see what notices come in that my card is not working. What a hassle! I just hope my "fingerprint recognition" has updated my info. I've been spoiled by that!!

It rained just about the entire week we were gone. For the most part, that has been good for all our flowers. So much has bloomed while we were away. Here's the new view from my bedroom window:

The Annabelle hydrangeas are in full bloom!

On the other hand, my "sucker" plant--the fuscia--is not doing so well.

I'm hoping that it's just water-logged and will recover. 

This is how it looked when we left 10 days ago.

Basically, I got about a week with it. We'll see what happens.

This was a surprise--none of this was in bloom when we left.

The water hyacinth has its first bloom. This seems pretty early.

Everything on the patio is looking good.

I have some pruning and dead-heading to do, but I'm looking forward to enjoying the patio! We'll sit out here every evening all summer long.

Okay, that's enough about me on Monday. Just a lot of work. But, I am seeing a movie today--The Breadwinner with Nate Bargatze (pronounced: bear-get-ze). Looking forward to it.