Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Pink Glove Dance, I know again but am loving this one. Just recently a good friend of mine was diagnosed with breast cancer and am sad but am praying for Teresa. I love this song on this video. We just take one day at a time and give support to our friends are fighting this disease.

My bloggy friend, also a Teresa, has a blog about Breast Cancer this month of at Nanahood.com Stop by and check it out!

Evergreen Air Museum Visit

We had the opportunity to visit the Evergreen Air Museum in McMinnville a couple weeks ago when my father in law, Jim, came to visit from PA. I'd asked Phil where we were going to take him this time. He suggested the museum. Little did we know, til the visit, that Jim had seen a show about this very place a few months ago. He'd thought it would be nice to visit it some time. He got his visit! What a coincidence! We were glad to get in free with passes from Phil's job. Thanks! Here is a B-17, which we got to tour later, and a Mig, hanging on the wall.

Megan, avoid the missile at all cost!

A plane flown by someone here in our state, Denny Smith.
Go, Air Force!

Family and museum docent inside the B-17.

Family under the wing of the Spruce Goose, that was flown by Howard Hughes. The plane is made from birch not spruce. Why the name then? Someone said it was called quite a goose for being so big and somebody else said it was quite the spruce goose. The media picked up on it and the name stuck. Photo under that is what you can see from under the Spruce Goose wing!

This tank with 2 others was up on a hill. I decided it would be interesting to get a shot of it from below. The tracks are from the tank above. Not sure what name it is. These were out behind the air museum. We went to see these before we went home. We went into space museum as well. There's 2 other buildings. One is IMAX and the other is the waterpark. It's the only water park that has an air museum attached! We had a fun day. I will post more photos later.

Prep to Paint

I have had painting the dining room on my 52 Weeks of Organizing list for this year for a long time. So I finally got my act together in Sept and got it going. I took all the items off these 3 shelves above the buffet, that used to be at my grandma's house years ago. Then my mom had it and now it's mine! I'm glad Megan was here to help me with it. I took stuff down and handed it to her and she put it on the table.

Look at all the dust bunnies that attached themselves to all the mugs I collect. Alot of the mugs are from our time in England. Many of the places we went would have a mug so we'd buy one to remember that particular place. Then I collected some nimadja pottery in New Mexico where we lived for 10 years.


Then there's us in high school senior pictures. We were one on each coast and didn't even know each other til a few years later. Charming Tails rabbit on a ski lift on top of a beer mug from Scotland. Had to have a little fun with it! Stress reliever! The mugs got washed then put away in a storage container that is now in the garage for the time being.

Delft items that I could part with. Nice but I have so much. Any takers for $35 w/shipping?

Trees from my Christmas village boxed up for safety and put under the hutch. All the Lilliput Christmas Village are in the hutch with other Lilliput houses. It just fit! Population explosion over night!
We visited a good pen pal of mine years ago and Wanda gave me this set of figurines. We call them Wanda and John and are part of my family so I can't part with them. Wanda and I have been writing to each other just prior to my daughter being born, 32 years ago! Wow! Traded coupons and rebates at that time and wrote letters with our exchange. A connection we both cherish!

A favorite Mary Engelbreit plaque.

This is what the dining room looked like by the end of Sunday evening. It took awhile to get everything condensed. Would have happened a bit sooner Saturday but was at a coworker's house for her husband's memorial as he died suddenly earlier that week. Sigh!


I do confess to a bit of stress after getting all the stuff down and then washing the mugs and then realizing there was so much stuff! I just sat down on the chair and kinda spaced out a bit. That's what happens after watching 2 hours of Hoarders tv program! ARG!!! Megan looked at me and asked me if I was ok.....well, I guess I was in a stupor! Seriously! I am getting rid of a few things and there will be only 2 not 3 shelves of collectibles. I haven't dusted in awhile, but you could see that. Oh dear! I am glad I'm getting this organizing down pat. Stop keeping so much stuff and am enjoying the nearly painted room!