Roughin' It!!!

Those who know me intimately know what I mean by "roughin' it." Now, I've seen some of the chicks on some blogs with 1957 travel trailers made up to look like shabby chic cottages and to tell ya the truth, pardners, that idea appeals to me. Yep, sho 'nuff does. Some even come up here to Idaho and spend time in their "cowgirl" trailers. I admire them immensely. (You are hearing a "but" here, aren't ya, sweet chicks??)

Yep, for me roughing it is sleeping in someone else's bed, using their bathrooms, eating their food and being in their houses. Motels included!!

Well, that pretty much describes my last 12 days. Sigh.............. Being without my Oil of Olay body wash, not being able to brush my teeth with my electric toothbrush (not room for anything besides a regular brush), not using my water pik, not being able to shower every day because we're so busy running in the car taking someone somewhere or shopping, not being able to turn the a/c to 68 degrees (the perfect temp. in my opinon!), sweating(!!!!!), using truck stops to go to the bathroom. (Here I absolutely must post an aside: To those of you whose hubbies are truckers you should kiss their toes to have to put up with the places they have to go into to get food and use the toilets. They must love you a lot to do that to earn money. My hat is off to those men. We were at one today because Love Bunny simply had to GO and that was the only place on I80 through Nevada at that particular moment, which was becoming crucial! We decided to get food while using the "bathroom" and they had a Subway and Taco Bell. The woman at the Subway said it'd be a while because she had to make 10 subs. We decided on Taco Bell and they had run out of beans, chicken and steak!!! Can you believe it? And so we just ordered soft tacos and they looked highly suspicious, I tell ya!!)

Anyway, on with the roughing it. We drove into the garage, emptied the car, unwrapped all the things we packed ever so carefully and then I jumped in the shower and scrubbed myself thoroughly TWICE to get clean. I slathered my body with shea butter and here I am!!!!!!! I always say "never again" but if I want to see my kids and grandkids I gotta do it at least once a year. Below is a little sample of what I didn't show you while we were down in Calif. Cute little pots and pix. I just loved those cottage pictures! Aren't they cute?

Ooooh, did I say that I've missed y'all?!?! Well, I did. More tomorrow before I go get my massage!!!

"Pink Saturday"!

Do you have any idea how hard it is to participate in Pink Saturday when you're 800+ miles away from home?!?!?! Ain't easy, I tell ya!! Soooooo what I thought I'd do is show you pink items from my son's and daughter-in-law's house. Now, aren't you just thrilled. :-)

Her tastes and mine are a bit different but she does love pink. She tends to favor a more formal elegance and yes, the photo of the pink side chair has a peek at the white sofas in her living room. She's had those for several years and they are surprisingly white and clean considering 3+ BOYS/MEN are in this house at any given time! But they've gone through "trashed" sofas in the family room. Maaaaan, that woman is a saint!


One thing before we start the pink saturday though. This is a picture of Etienne's mother, Leslie, and Leslie's mom, Myrna, who is my daughter-in-law's sister. (Take notes; I shall be testing you later!) :-)

A fancy lamp my DIL has on a wrap-a-round mantle over one of their fireplaces.

She must like easter because she has an easter egg tree also!

A little globe with pink roses on it and a spiral tree to the left of that with pink roses.

This little chair should be holding a pot of greenery or roses but it's been brutally hot in S. Calif and roses are dying too fast to cut them I guess. My DIL's mom takes care of the roses and that is HER domain. No one touches them. Alice, DIL, once cut them and her mom was heartbroken because she "pruned" them so much. I tell ya Alice was in fear of her mom coming home from Asia that time!! ;-)

A simple pink glass that is MINE when I visit. They all know anything pink I'll grab and use!

One of her pink side chairs. I'm not kidding when I tell you that she can tell if the boys move those chairs ONE INCH!! The boys pretty much stay out of the LR and off the furniture.

A huge white vase with pink roses on it.

A little bench in the foyer.

A bouquet of roses on a pedestal in the foyer next to the bench.

Roses curtains and on a swag in her breakfast room and kitchen.

A tiny of faux roses on another mantle in their breakfast room.

A pink embroidered clock above a mantle.

Another Blog Award to Pass Around

I am messing up so badly with my post because I can't even remember what day of the week I'm in!! I posted my "Pink Saturday" on thursday thinking it was friday for saturday. Then when someone told me of my mistake I tried to correct it and messed it up even more! DUH!!!! Sorry. :-)

But I received another award from Pat and have to give it to "share the love"!! Thank you, Pat. I'm always stunned that someone would think me worthy of anything like this. My intention is to bring joy, humor and beauty to all. I hope I succeed in doing that.

So here are the "rules" and my 7 chicks to give it to. This is getting harder and harder since it goes around several times. Forgive me, my sweet chicks. I promise you it will be worth it in the near future though!! I have something special planned not too far down the line here that you'll be thrilled to be a part of..... PROMISE!!

Rules

1.Display logo and link to who gave it.

2.Nominate at least 7 blogs.

3.Add links to those 7 blogs

4.Leave the nominees a message that they received the award.

Chicks

Christine Annette
Cottage at Doe Hill
Garage Sale Gal
Just Imagine Originals
Pink Icing on the Cake
Ragged Roses
Sophie Rose Designs

What Disease Is This????

The strangest thing has happened! Has anyone else experienced this?

You have a problem using knives in someone else's kitchen because you can't even cut YOURSELF with them and you're definitely a "cutter"!

You can't find any dishes clean or for that matter, any dishes at all!

Since you have no experience with the tv because you don't watch it at all, you cannot get the one in the motel room to function and you're too embarrased to ask them as you had to have help getting in the room with the card the day AFTER you used it once. Apparently I'm viewing "unusable signal or you don't have a card to view this" as something I should be watching, hmmmmm????

You feel like you car is your 2nd home running to pick up hubby at the convention center so he doesn't get picked up as a "homeless" person or get mugged in the seedy part of Riverside. Why do they hold conventions in places like that???!!!

You yearn to sleep in a different bed - YOUR OWN.

You look at the fridge and wonder where you're going to put all the "stuff" to go in there. Plus there is stuff in there you're sure came over with the pilgrims or at least 5 generations back!

You go out for milk, come home and it's "not the right kind"!!! HUH????

You want your pillow badly and feel like you're sleeping vertical with the motel one.

You believe you'll pop anyone who is below the age of 10.

You've eaten food you have no idea what it's composed of.

The dogs bark and look at your leg as though it could be tonight's dinner.

Your hands are prune-y from washing dishes from about 15 different meals during the day.

You wonder what you were thinking when 47 years ago you wanted "children"!

You've watched commercials from the most intimate things and personal hygiene(!) to weiners needing psychoanalysis.

You can't find the remote because the kids have hidden it because you tell them you cannot abide one more episode of cartoon network, Wylie Coyote or Spongebob what's his name!

You have no desire for pizza because you've seen it on the tv so many times as you've passed the tv that you wanna wretch.

You would KILL for your HOME internet!!!

You make strawberries and shortcake for kids and look inside the fridge, find 2 cans of whipped cream (full!!!) and neither one shoots out a thing......much less whipped cream........sob......sob.......sob........

You have enough food in the fridge for the entire U.S. Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton (which is somewhere around 40,000 husky good looking marines- hooooah!) but no one sees anything in there they want to eat unless there are chocolate chips in it so your son runs to Del Taco for nachoooooos. Sigh..........

The relatives visiting from overseas have crammed in 3 shopping trips in one day. I've never even done that one!

Salad isn't in anyone's vocabulary. Say whaaaaa, Nana?!?!

Has anyone ever ever heard of using a glass a 2nd time?!?!?! Nuuuuuuuuuuu, apparently not!

You take them to a local pool and the kids behind us have the mouths of the hardened criminals at San Quentin and that's the ones 6-8; the teenage sister had barely enough to cover her mammary things on her boobs and earrings in her lips and you're truly glad your hubby isn't around to see her or hear the language!

Daughter in law has run away from home! Ooooh, please come back for me!!!!

Last Pictures of The Red Barn

I've finally edited all the pix of the photos from that antique shop. Enjoy. Just look because I have no descriptions for anything, but it was a neat place to visit. More regular posting tomorrow or maybe tonight.