A New Addition, Hopefully!

Today my Honey and I visited the animal shelter, let me tell you .... we saw the cutest puppy. She's a boxer, it's obvious she's full blooded but her ears haven't been cropped and her tail hasn't been docked, that doesn't matter though, we just fell in love with her. We estimate her age to be around 4 to 5 months.
We talked about getting her but just weren't sure. We left the shelter, well it didn't take us long to go back to the shelter for another visit with this cute puppy. Ohhhhh if you could have seen her face, the way she looked at us when we went back, the way she wagged her tail. That was all it took, I filled out the adoption papers and if nobody claims her by the 7th she'll have a new home with us! It was so hard leaving today without her because as we were leaving the building she was in she was watching us the whole way as if she was saying "heyyyy wait for me, don't leave without me".
We are debating what to name her, Steve and I like the name "Dixie". Molly likes the name "Daisy".
Of course I didn't have my camera with me today, (my honey fussed at me, he told me that I knew better than leaving home without my camera because I have people out there who want to see pictures). I borrowed this picture off the internet to show you what she looks like for those who aren't familiar with Boxers.
We won't be able to bring her home until Monday afternoon because she'll have to get spayed Monday morning, I am sure I'll be back at the shelter to visit her before Monday so I'll be sure to take my camera to get pictures to share with you all.

Sprouting Seeds

Normally when we plant our garden in the Spring we just plant the seeds directly in the garden, well all except tomato plants of course, we always buy those plants. Well this year I decided to start some seeds myself. Last Wednesday evening Molly and I planted squash and tomato seeds in a tray, can you believe it hasn't even been a week yet and the seeds have done this well, amazing isn't it! Yesterday there was only one little tomato sprout up, tonight almost all are up. Its almost as if you can see them growing right before your eyes. You can barely see the tomato sprouts in these photos below, they're the ones in the back, they're there I promise just alot smaller than the squash.

Hopefully in the summer I'll be able to post pictures of some squash and tomatoes that came off these little plants.

This photo was taken yesterday, March 1, 2009 6:18pm

This photo was taken today, March 2, 2009 at 10:35am

This photo was taken today, March 2, 2009 at 8:07pm

Snow In Alabama

We had our little snow. Now Dear Mother Nature, please bring on Spring.

Last year the only snow we got was on March 8th, odd how it seems to be always basically the beginning of Spring before we get any snow.

Here are a few photos of the snow here at our home this morning.

There May Be No Sleep Tonight

The reason I say there may be no sleep tonight is - we're getting snow right now (Yes, Molly is very excited). It isn't snowing hard but hey here in our part of Alabama any snow is exciting.
We had storms all day yesterday and today we have flooding in our area, a couple of roads near our home are closed tonight.
Crazy weather I tell ya, 70 degrees one day and snowing the next!
Maybe tomorrow we'll get to post a picture of a big ole snowman, probably not but we can dream can't we. :-)

Air Evac

Tonight we purchased something for our family that feels really good to know we own, but something I do hope we never have to use. We bought a membership for the Air Evac Lifeteam.

The Company operates the world's largest fleet of more than 100 medically-equipped Bell 206 Long Ranger helicopters and has flown more than 180,000 people who were in critical need of care since its founding. The current service area includes operations in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia, with the company being the largest air ambulance provider in 8 of its 14 states. In 2008 Air Evac Lifeteam was accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems, and is the largest medical transport program under one name to achieve this accreditation.

Living in a rural area as we do if someone at my home had a life threatening injury or illness the Air Evac helicopter could get here much sooner than an ambulance.

When you purchase a policy you are given decals to put in the back window of each vehicle you own, plus a bright orange sticker to put near the main entrance of your home to alert paramedics that you are a member of Air Evac so they can call them for you if the situation is serious enough.

My mother and father in law have had their policy with Air Evac for a few months now, if you remember a few weeks ago my father in law had a major heart attack, he got to use the services of Air Evac, he was flown from Columbus, MS to Birmingham, AL in only 32 minutes, if not for that flight he most likely wouldn't be here with us today.

If you have no insurance and have to be flown you can count on having at least a $18,000 bill, even with most insurance you would be left owing $8,000 to $10,000 for their services. You can buy a policy for Air Evac Lifeteam for a family of 3 or more for only $60 per year, with this policy if you or any family member listed on the policy has to be flown you pay 0 dollars! The representative that spoke to us tonight was very nice and very informative, if any of you would like more information or have any questions just holler at me, I can even give you the contact information for Trish if you're interested in buying a policy for your family. I really believe this is money well spent.

Bye Bye Birdie

Birdie was my old car, kind of a long story but to make it short and sweet I called her birdie which was short for burden because for a long time that is what the payment was to us, a real burden. Times have changed though and as you know back in November I got another vehicle so it was time for Birdie to move on to a new home anddddd also getting her off the insurance will be nice, we were paying insurance for 5 vehicles with only 3 drivers in the house.

Selling Birdie helped brighten my day a little .... we got our taxes done today, lets just say first time ever we have to pay - UGH!

Birthday Apron

Yesterday was my mother in law's birthday, I spent all day working on this cute apron for her. Let me tell you though, it was just one of those "not so sewing good" days for me ... seemed I made one mistake after another. I did manage to finally finish though and got it delivered to her last night.