Baseball Practice

With the boys in Little League, it's all baseball here. This is the boys new hitting practice station that Sean rigged up for them. It's pretty cool. A tennis ball on a string to help with hitting.

Jonathan is up first. It didn't take long to connect with the ball.

After a few minutes the boys started taking turns. One would hit then run to a base. Then the next hit, and so on. It's pretty fun to watch. Gold star for Dad today.

Spring Clean, The Basement

So on this rainy day Sean, and I hit the basement. First we needed to clean up all the junk, dirt, and miles if cobwebs before we could do our unpacking.

Here is Sean's new work bench. Nice and organized.

This is for all my famers market supplies, and my jams a jellies. Also some of our bulk foods.

Next door is all my jars. Don't they look pretty? 

Rows of jars any size you may need, and of course all my antique jars have a home too.

This is just a small section of a large set of shelves. Here is our camping stuff. 

So there is still more to be done, but I need a break. Looks good thou, and it is so nice to have a basement that you can use.

Color Run, At Last!

For a few years now I have wanted to run the Color Run 5K, but it always seems like the one I can do is schedule on a Sunday. So when I heard that there was an unofficial Color Run here in Harrington, and on a Saturday I jumped for joy. 

This is after the run. You start out clean and then as you run they have stations were they throw powder color on you. It's what makes this run so much fun. For the runners and the people throwing the color.

As you can see the boys got in on the fun too. They meet me towards the finish line ready with there color to throw at me. That was fun for them, there ain't many times it's ok to throw stuff at your mom, and not get in trouble for it.

What a great morning! Not only was it super fun, I was a little proud of myself. I ran the whole 3.1 miles up and down hills and never stopped to walk. Not bad for this old lady. I praise the Lord for my health and the ability to still run around after my boys.

More Spring Cleaning

Today I got a big chunk of time to myself. With Sean and the boys off to take Bob to an appointment then to a baseball game. I got the whole afternoon. I confess I stole a little time to do abosolutely nothing, then to work on the sewing room. This is the last room in the house I needed to get to since we moved in. I had done some work awhile ago, but it still needed some help.

Here is my small collection of art. I love art, but I will admit I'm fussy about what I hang. I found my sewing room was a great place to hang some prints. Pretty ones, always a good source of inspiration.

You can see I am not done. Yes, those are boxes and a bucket I need to get to, but I'm tired, so not till another day.

 I love trunks as you can see, and I have a few great old suitcases. Fun places to hide fabric and unfinished projects. I have a lot as you can from all the space I need. All those spots are filled.

Just a few school book for me please. Over the years I have collected a lot of school material. This is it down to stuff I use. I have been selling off stuff ones I tried and didn't like.

Sew, that's it for now. More to come. And yes this room will get painted soon, not a big fan of baby blue.

Spring Cleaning

This is just a quick shot of hours of work, that is still not done. We have been blessed over the years to have been supplied by God with lots of hand me down clothes for the boys. I have only had too buy things here and there mostly under garments, shoes, and church clothes. I am also a big yard sale and thrift store girl. Kids grow out of clothes too fast and thet tend to get hole in the knees even faster. Today I have 90% of the boys clothes out to take inventory, orginize, and swap for summer clothes. It's hard to believe when we moved I had given away all the smaller sizes to people. Now I just need some large totes to store the stuff. I have alway used plastic bags but this time I want to gets some totes to store the clothes better. We'll have to see on that, for now I need to put all this away. Maybe tomorrow!