Our day today.

Good Morning!!
It is a gorgeous day here in the western Carolina mts. this morning!! We are experiencing what the locals call our *blackberry winter.* The wild blackberries are in full bloom so the temps go down + the air is dry + the sun is in abundance. When I woke up this a.m. it was in the low 40s, sun shining and just a gorgeous day!!

Last night my friends Jessica + Marci {and me!!} went to see Chonda Pierce. She is fantastic!!! Funny + yet on fire for the Lord!! She has a wonderful message amongst her comedy. We laughed so hard!

www.chonda.org

Go have a look at her website!

And here's here youtube channel. Great stuff!!www.youtube.com/chondapierce

Not the best picture, but it was 11:00 and we (incuding the lady that took the picture) were all tired!! Jessica's the tall one. Marci's the short one. I'm the one with Chonda Pierce on my chest + Chonda is the blonde one.  ;)  She is such a great speaker. (and singer!!) It's worth hearing her testimony.

Kevin and I went to the memorial for a very good, close friend this morning. It saddens me to say that Al Dilthey passed away on April 21st.

   

   

He had been a cancer survivor for a short time. Had stage 4 melanoma 4 years ago. A few months ago he was having some weakness in his right arm so they did an MRI and found tumors in his brain. They started the cancer regimine but after a few short weeks the tumors were way too aggressive. I'm having a very hard time thinking of him *gone.* He was so vibrant it's hard picturing him no longer here on earth. This picture of him and his loving wife, Suzanne was taken at Hannah + Jonathan's wedding only 7 short months ago. I know that I'm not to *second-guess* God by any means. And that He NEVER  makes mistakes...but it's thought provoking on why certain things happen.

We spent Easter weekend with Hannah + Jonathan up in Linville Falls. It was a gorgeous weekend. Weather-wise and spending time with family on such a Glorious occasion. Easter Sunday morning we went to church at a local church. Very nice. 

Here are some pictures of our weekend together. {I'm ashamed to say that I didn't take nearly as many as I usually do when we're up there.}

On Friday night Kevin, Hannah and Jonathan went to see a movie {maybe?? something?? can't remember!!} and I stayed at the lodge. I ate at Spear's. This was my meal:

Kevin doesn't normally *let* me eat alone at restaurants but since there's *family* here + I am able to come + go from the kitchen, he was *okay* with it!!  ;)

Hannah + Jonathan were having *words* on our way home from church so Kevin was cringing. He can be quite amusing at times!!

On Saturday evening Jonathan + I went out together while Kevin + Hannah went for a ride on Wendy's {she's the manager at the lodge} Harley. This is a house that we passed on our travels. Loved it!! Looked very *new-england-y!!*

And one of the MANY Christmas tree farms in that area..





That's the *goings-on* around here for now. I *plan* on keeping up better with this blog.

 

IT IS I!!

Yes, it is I!! I am still here, living + breathing here in western NC!!

Kevin and I are bunking out in the basement tonight. We've got some violent weather going through our area. But nothing like Alabama earlier today! Scary!!

Lots of things going on lately. Here are a few pictures that I'm going to share about what we've been up to...

Went to Linville Falls to see Hannah the end of March. Uncle John had flown into Atlanta to come get his parents to drive to Colorado. Anyway... here's some pics from our trip w/ John to see Hannah + family...

We had such a great time!!



I DID NOT FALL OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH!!! LOL!!!

HELLO!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?? I AM ALIVE!! IT HAS BEEN FOREVER SINCE I'VE WRITTEN ON MY BLOG. THIS MAY BE LONG...BUT I'LL TRY TO CATCH YOU ALL UP ON WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON!! AT LEAST SINCE THE YEAR'S BEGINNING!!

WE'VE HAD SOME SNOW:

Okay...so I'm not able to post anymore pictures. I don't know why not. But I can't seem to be able to upload anynmore. So this will be it for now!!

January 2010!!!

Hello!! And Happy February!!! Hope all is well!

I started a post shortly after Christmas but the more pictures I added the more bogged down I got. So I'm going to try to set this up a different way. Compose then add pictures as I go. Hopefully this will work!!!

These pictures below are of a 'SNOW' (if you can call it that!!) the beginning of January. I turned the car around just in case it got worse. Can you tell I'm an expert at that?? It was only a '20 point' turn!! LOL!!!

We had a lot of rain about 10 or so days ago and this was the 'flood.' Kevin and I were walking on the Greenway and this is what we saw. Quite an amazing sight.

On a quiet day...when I need some 'quiet alone time' I will go to our local Library and knit. It gives me some time to myself where I don't have to talk to anyone and no one talks to me. It's very nice. ;)

Kevin was able to work earlier this month. God is GOOD!! It took him a little longer to get this job done due to the rain but in God's timing it was finished!

My BFF, her sister and I needed a change up on our exercise program so we vollunteered at our local Humane Society and walked dogs. So much fun!! Kevin told me under no certain terms: "DO NOT BRING ANYONE HOME!!!' These were my two favorites. I would have brought them home in a minute...but no, I didn't.

We had a 'big snow' this past Friday afternoon, overnight + into Saturday. This was the scene at our grocery store on Friday afternoon. So crazy!! It was as if no one had ever seen snow before!! There were 15-20 people in each check-out lane. Things went really smoothly though, so that was good.

Here is the scene driving home from town on Friday afternoon. Very pretty.

This is NOT the best picture of Hannah but it's the best one that was taken in the snow this time. She is wearing the Cowl that I knitted her for Christmas. (the reason for the photo shoot!!) Not sure if she's going to like me posting this picture...but oh well!!!

I do not know why I have two of the same pictures...but that's how it downloaded and I can't figure out how to delete one. (sorry!)

This was the extent of our snow before it turned to ice. (it went from snowing to icing) We ended up with 6 inches or so...so this must have been before it stopped snowing. :)

I guess that's all I've got for now. I'll TRY to keep up on my blog better than I have lately.

Everyone have a great February!!

Hugs + Kisses.....

Nanette

Gone too long!! Sorry!!! :D

Hello!!! It has been way too long since I've posted on my blog. Sorry about this. Hope all is well with my 'readers.'

I was planning on posting before we went on vacation (9/15--10/16), even downloaded pictures to put on it but never got to it with all the getting ready to go and all...

I am going to share some Wisconsin vacation pictures in this post.

Please ENJOY!!!!

John looking like 'Walter." Me knitting at the beach. (don't

know how to turn the pic)

Hannah at the beach. Funny sign!!

Love this pic of H+me!! I love H + the beach!!

Cool trees!! Ore boat on the coast in Ashland.

This ship is HUGE!!

Us around the dinner table. Sunset on Siskiwit Lake.


Me on Lake Superior. :D The girls out for lunch.

Squirrel in John's feeder. Storm comin' in. Crashing in
sea caves.

High waves from storm. A little wind-blown. :)

H + K being blown away!! Wearing my hand-knit socks.

Knitted by my own two hands!!