Happy Monday everyone!

I was struggling about a phone call I knew I needed to make today. It is the one year anniversary of our dear friend Mary's death, and I needed to call George (her husband) and check on him and see how he is. He puts on a good front most days, but I knew today would be tough for him. Greg talks to him often, but I don't see him much. I was dreading the call. Mary was so good to me and treated me like a daughter. And Papa George is family to us. So instead of stressing I just made the call. And I am so glad I did. We had a long conversation and he is doing better than I expected today. He spoke alot about Greg as they have known each other for a long time. Over 20 years. And Papa George is thrilled that we are getting married. He has promised he will come for dinner and visit our kitties (they adore him), and I look forward to that.

Greg just arrived home. Strange for him to come at lunch time. He has shut down for today, and sent his help home. The cedar mill is closed because of the heat, so Greg will not be taking a load to the mill tomorrow as planned. It is 100 degrees now at 12:10 pm and heat index is 108. Way too hot to be working outside and wrestling with trees and logs. He is exhausted and over-heated, and I'm so thrilled he has come home early and not pushed himself as he is known to do.

He brought home a yummy surprise for me. 12 bottles of DaVinci Syrups. If you love coffee, you know DaVinci. Coffee shops put these syrups in the coffee to flavor them. Now, I have seen the small bottle for sale at close to 9.00 each. These are the 25 oz bottles. And he bought them for 3.54 each. We have a salvage grocery store here in town and we love it. They get stuff that is a little outdated, or maybe a few cans in the case were dented so the whole case gets marked down really low. Many things are imported stuff from Europe, and I love that. But you have to stock up when they have it as they rarely get the same thing in twice. Anyway, a couple weeks ago they had Irish Cream and English Toffee and I picked up those. Then they had blackberry, mango, orange, strawberry, and cinnamon. I tried some of the blackberry in my iced tea and wow it was yummy. So, Greg bought all they had. Then I tried some mango and it was yummy in my tea as well. So, Greg bought 9 bottles (all that they had left) of the mango one cinnamon, one strawberry syrup and one orange to try. I was thinking combining the strawberry and the mango together would be yummy in iced tea. But strawberry added to hot chocolate or even cinnamon added to hot chocolate would be awesome. Adding the strawberry may remind me of chocolate covered strawberries. Mmmmmmmmm.
Would like to try them in baking or in my candy making as well. I will let you know how my experiments turn out. ;0)

My sweetie spoils me, doesn't he? So, I have lots of yummy syrups for coffee or tea for my friends and family when they visit. :)  The tea is brewed and chilling, and the coffee pot is on, so c'mon over!

I have been busy working on Christmas projects that will go up on Etsy and Artfire soon. I have gravitated back to floral/natural designing which is my first love. I am still designing craft printables, but I have lost interest at the moment. I HATE loading the files to my website as it is quite the project to get my mind around when fibrofog is telling me yeah right! You want to do what???? I like the designing part. I HATE
the website stuff. I have a website for the floral stuff as well, but what a pain in the ass that is too. I'm thinking I need to look into a different program aside from Zencart. But until then, I will be using other ways to sell (hopefully) my wares. I'll be posting photos soon. Let me know what you think please! Now I have got to get my but in my craft room and get some stuff done. Have a happy day!  Love and xoxoxoxo   M