Wishing all a Merry Christmas

 Merry Christmas to everyone, 

Hope all stay safe and enjoy your warm home. We are snug in our new home in W.V. and enjoying. We still have a huge amount to unpack which will take I expect all winter. But we shall make it in time. 

For now, this is it, 💗

Margo

blog open for now-new website coming soon

 Hello to all members, 

Since I have lost my sister, Dec. 2, 2019, a lot of my inspiration has also left me and I am trying to get that back. She did encourage me and did hand draw many of the designs that I have digitized. For some time I could not even look at my blog site and not lose it. I am planning to have lower prices on the designs that Nita and I did together as a living memorial for my sister, Nita Twardzak.  All copyrights are transferred to her husband Larry Twardzak and myself on all artwork, she did for my site. 

They have changed the blog so much I am having trouble moving around in it. 😋  I am looking to be done with the blogger for a site and have my own website once again. Just a little longer on getting our move from OH to WV done, then only all the boxes to yet unpack and put someplace. So we are moving at a much slower pace for now. 

So for now if you come to view the blog you can. I am thinking that when I post a new page you are sent the page in the email address you signed up with. So might want to be sure your email is current. 

My main group is now on MEWE. 

https://mewe.com/join/craftyroseangels

So stayed tuned. 

Happy Halloween

 BOO 👀

Hope all will be able to safely get out and enjoy the fall of the year and have some fun. I have done some deco just to have a little fun. I am going to upload them here when I have time. 

Have some of the pretty trees around here also. We have moved now to West Virginia lock stock and barrel. So now it is the unpacking that will take all winter. UGH!! 

Larry is so happy that we are here also. We got to see Larry for 30 min's on last Sat. It was so great to be able to see him. Of course, had to keep our distance and wear masks and we also wore gloves. He looked so great and sounded great also. 

We have a lot of things to get done this fall and some things will have to wait until next year. There is enough to keep us busy for the rest of our lives. lol 

More later, 

Margo

Just mowed the yard for last time

 Hello to all, 

We have landed once again in Ohio for about one week and then we head on to W.V. for good. We have to collect the last things or "stuff" from the house and get it all packed to go. 

The drive back up was nice, leaves are so many colors, and hoping it will be the same on the way back down to W.V. Rained about half of the trip, no rain in Oh., but it looked like it has rained not too long ago.  

I hope to spend the winter unpacking and packing up stuff at my sis's home that we do not need out on display. This is hard but has to be done, the whole downstairs is full of boxes we have a trail to walk through, bedrooms full, and garage and sheds also. So plenty of stuff to do once we get landed and settled in. 

Then I hope to have a website once again and get back into digitizing and scrolling in wood and quilting and beading. Now that does not sound like there is too much stuff to do, right? 

Cool here in OH- in the 40's

 So here we are again working on packing stuff. This is the last trip I am making, Vince may have to make one more trip using a trailer to get the end stuff. I can't wait for this move to be over with. Never knew we could collect so much stuff, well at least after this move, there will be a whole lot less stuff to deal with and we may get rid of some more as we unpack boxes on the other end. lol 

So just an update about Larry, he is doing great even though he has COVID-19. Could it be the blood treatments he gets 3 times a week to be the secret? We are sure hoping so.  He is doing great on that end of things. However, he did lose the middle toe on his right foot last week while at the hospital. So the foot is healing ok, and it is no bother to Larry. 

Just checking in so that is it for now. I know it is not this cool down in W.V!

Still moving

 Hello to all,

We are back in W.V. again for a bit still moving and cleaning. Mowed the grass and trimmed. This time I am also starting to trim back all the bushes and stuff. Has really overgrown a lot. Cleaned the vine off the back porch and the morning sun now comes through, love it being more open also shortened the bushed on the outside of the trellis on the end of the porch, lets more air circulation go around the end of the porch now. Also trimmed the bushes around the garden area, we will take down the fence around the garden as I will do something different for a garden there. 

We had a possum tear things up this time on the porch downstairs. We had hung a bird feeder under the eve of the house so the little fairy dillies we call them could not get to it and the possum knocked things "heavy" things over and made a mess also cleaned out the bird feeder so now we will find a new way to feed the birds. I watched the possum one morning early go under the gazebo for the day, he will have to leave and stay gone. 

So we are still cleaning around the home and getting rid of things. Also will have a huge garage sale later on. Have dug up from our home in Ohio many bulbs and plants and brought them here and we still will sometime this fall or in the spring get them planted. 

PRAYERS for Larry if you are reading this post. Larry is still holding his own at Rose Wood Manor although now the Covid-19 is now in the manor and there are 33 active cases. Larry is showing symptoms now according to his nurse. We are praying that he will come through this and be fine. This manor has been in the news the last two nights, there are 8 working people there who also tested positive. 

On that note, I will cut this off for this time. 

Hope all are doing ok and staying safe.

Robins in my Lemon Tree

Morning to all, Well, we are enjoying the spring going into summer. Down at Nita's home, I watched a robin raise her little ones and watched them fledge from the back porch on a rainy day, the dove at the end of the porch still sitting on eggs when we left. Downstairs outside on the front of the house there is another robin sitting on her eggs on the latticework next to the walkway toward the porch. Just before we left we noticed that one of the eggs had hatched, so there goes another batch of robins, which will fledge before we get back down there, the doves also.

Here is a pic of the robin on top of the electric box and the dove is on the trellis just to the side of where the robin built.

 

When we got to OH. this time around we found our plants blown over and to my surprise was a robin nest and 4 broken eggs next to it on our driveway. So I picked up the plants ( one large lemon tree, and tree-shaped oleander) and picked up the nest and we wired it to the lemon tree. It just looked so cute there is the only reason I did it. Then a few days later Vince was going by on the riding mower and saw a bird fly away from the tree, so he went to take a look, and what to his and my surprise was a single robin egg in the nest. So we have now anchored the pot with heavy rocks on top of the pot and braced the sides so the wind can't blow it down again. So here we are with more robins coming along. This pot is perhaps 10 feet from the garage and we are out there off and on each day and so are the dogs, the robin does not seem too bothered by all this... So today it is raining and I know the robin is good and wet as the lemon tree does not have a lot of leaves to cover her very well, almost want to tie an umbrella over her-----I know I know that is going to far. WOW! Just went out to snap a pic and there was another egg. So she has 2 done and 2 more to go, lol Here is a pic of the lemon tree and the nest.

P.S. yes she left the nest and it is raining and you can see it; raindrops on the eggs. Now for the amazing part, Nita grew this lemon tree from a seed in W. V. She gave it to me when it was about 12 inches in height. I brought it home and planted it in a larger pot and over the years it has grown to this size. I pruned it way back last fall, was just getting too large to bring into the house.

Turkey Buzzard, Oh what a STINK !!!

Turkey Buzzard feather

We are welcomed back home with a robin's nest blown down from a tree on the driveway with the remains of 4 broken eggs, at least they were not developed as of yet. I was so sad to see that. After leaving Nita's home in W.V. where I had been watching 3 baby Robins grow up and fledge the nest before we left. They had built their nest on the back porch of the home and on the side of the porch in the vine on the trellis at the end of the porch, there are DOVES and 2 eggs in the nest when we left. IF that was not great, there is also downstairs on the front porch another robin with 4 eggs in the nest of which 2 had hatched before we left. I just got to love God's country.

Our grass was so high we mowed and trimmed it before we did anything else. During the mowing, I ran into what I have been smelling while mowing the side of the yard, in the neighbor's yard where the remains of a raccoon, oh my did that smell, rode right up almost beside it. Nothing much left but fur and dried skin and maggots, but the next day I got to see up close a "turkey buzzard" in the yard next door picking on the remains, also collected a huge wing feather in my yard next to some bushes.
We do not know what killed the raccoon, this is the second raccoon killed around us. The neighbor did clean up the mess the next day.

Turkey Buzzard eating a Raccoon 

So then the next day went out and started digging up some more Iris because I am moving them into containers along with some other items around the home.

I made a huge homemade beef stew for supper the next day and decided that digging is not for me. Got my broken shoulder to hurting and now my one foot is real hurtful, something to do with eating too much red meat and uric acid. So now I am hopping around waiting for all that to settle down again.

I got my first ever doctor visit scheduled for next month by PHONE. All this because of the new flew bug running around. Everyone is wearing masks and gloves and using hand sanitizer and staying 6 or more feet away from each other.  It is the new world we live in, for now, don't much care for it, but got to stay safe.  I got to make some more masks for us also today.

In the meantime back in W.V. Larry got his last toe on his left foot removed, he is recovering just fine and feels great. All in the Rose Wood manor where Larry is are all negative for the virus and they are doing their best to keep it that way, it is shut down to everyone, no visiting anyone in there.

That is about it for this time around for now anyway.

Lovely spring in spite of the "bug"

Morning to all,

🐤 HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE 🐥

Back from W.V. and all the bulbs blooming and flowering trees and bushes. We get to Ohio and more bulbs and bushes flowering. My redbud and Mayday trees are not yet in flower. Woke up yesterday to sleet hitting the window and today they say sprinkles of snow perhaps. Have not seen it as of yet.

Larry (Nita's husband) is in the Rose Wood Manor in W.V. and locked down, no sick people in the rest home yet and they are keeping it that way. Larry is doing as good as expected with all he has to put up with. We are keeping in touch using a program called "Duo" on our phones and tablets. We can see and chat with each other during this "time of the bug".

Vince and I are staying well and free from the bug also. We are not taking chances with this bug as we are "over the hump" and need to be careful with our health.

Today we are planning to do the dogs. My sister's two poodles and my one poodle. I wash and Vince drys and combs them out and the next day I will attempt to clip and groom them. My arm and its torn rotary cup in two places leave me with a handicap that does not help one little bit. There is just so much I can do. Needless to say, the poodles will never look the way they use to look when I had two good arms. But they will be at least clean.

Then on to making some masks for us to wear and some for the family if they want them. Got the design online for free so will give it a try and if I don't like it will just make my own. Might even embroidery a  🐞 on the front of it.

Well got to get up and get to work, wishing a wonderful day for all.
Margo

Bad Bug Flu - this Covid-19

Hello to every one,

I hope all are staying safe and not getting sick, any kind of being sick is NO fun at all. We are staying away from people as much as possible and using hand wipes sprays and wiping all we come in contact with, just trying to stay safe. Take care of yourself in order to keep those you love safe. 


When we got back to Oh from WV there were 3 cases here in Oh, now a week later, we are over 50 and growing. Want to head to WV as there were no cases there when we left.


Have yourself a lovely SPRING which is just around the corner.

HAPPY SPRING DAY TO ALL.

Lovely Colors

Morning to all,

Just a note to say my pretty Crocus are up and flowering. I want to stay out and enjoy looking at them, but the weather is just too cool for me yet. It does not stop me from opening the door to have a look-see now and then though.

Not seeing much showing life outside yet but, it is early.
Down at Nita's I will be seeing more "spring" in the way of plants sooner than here in Ohio. Just four hours down the road but, what a difference in temps at times.

Hope all are having a wonderful spring.

HAPPY ST PAT'S DAY to everyone.

The Lord works in mysterious ways

Hello to every one,

Just a note to say I am here, been so busy between here (Ohio) and W.V. that have not had time to do anything else. Hope all are still hanging in there. Still missing my sister and always will. I have been going through all her artwork and still am amazed at how many angels she drew and I digitized. I am wanting to resew them out and frame them and hang them all over the house. We have made quilts together using them and had a lot of fun giving them away to family and friends.

I noticed the other day that we have spring bulbs coming up at both homes and they are getting ready to flower and some are flowering now. All the shrubs are budded up and ready for that perfect day.

I can't believe that today it is to be in the '60s here and that makes me want to get outside and dig, well at least "rake" up all the dead from last year. 😏

Did I say that last year in Oct. while at Nita's home I fell down their front yard, fell right off the boardwalk they have that runs all over the front yard? You see their front yard is such a huge "hill", they added boardwalks to get all over the yard, well I fell off one of them and as falling flipped in the air somehow and landed down below about 3 foot and landed on another boardwalk face first hitting my cheekbone and side of my mouth. I also landed hitting my left wrist which left me a huge swollen area before I could even get up off the ground. Must have broken a blood vessel there. But, the biggest item that hit was my right arm, used it as a jack sorta, hit on the lower arm, right at the elbow or just below, which used the upper arm as a "ram" which sent it into my shoulder, which (months later when seen by the VA) now has a torn rotator cup in 2 places so it shows after the MRI that was done months later. This explains why I can not use my arm any more like normal. Can we fix it??????
The doctor told me this, at my tender age of (blank) he wants to keep me away from all doctors with sharp knives. It is better to just let it be, so now I can be considered a cripple for the rest of my life. I spent 3 months sitting in an easy chair because I could NOT lay down to go to be, only sitting and part reclining in a chair. I cannot use my arm worth a hoot. In pain 27-7 all the time. I live on the pain patch and spray, both with the 4% lidocaine. Always have them on and spray all around the patch. Got to say the best one to stay stuck on the best is Aspercreme. No, I do not get paid to say that. 😜 No, it does not get rid of all the pain, but it makes it liveable.

So here we are in March. I must say though by now the pain is getting easier to live with, still can not use my arm like normal and if I forget and try to do so, it will sit you down on your backside with a reminder that will last for a few days. I can now at least lay on my one side with much less pain and if I want to take a pain pill (over the counter) it will let me sleep for at least 5 hours. The most sleep I have gotten was about 3 hours at a time, and that is from exhaustion.

I still thank the Lord that I fell the way I did because if I had fallen over sideways, I would have had a metal rod stuck through my chest, which could have killed me. You see there was a rose bush there and my sister had a metal rod stuck in the middle of it for support. So to this day, I feel the good Lord just gave me a push back and downhill which caused me to miss the rose bush and therefore landed on the wooden boardwalk below with a face plant.

So that has been my fun since Oct. so what have you all been up to?
Margo

Today is my sister's birthday and I know she is with our Lord and taking care of all our pets who have gone to Heaven before us.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY NITA