Dream Corner

I will always be the first to say that I suck at being a gardener or landscaper. As much as I enjoy beautiful outdoor spaces, I just don't have the mental attention span to create it myself. I'm too much of a perfectionist. I hesitate doing anything if I can't do it perfectly. Unfortunately that keeps me from doing lots of things. I don't know about plants and flowers, and if I don't have time to research it to get it just right...then I won't do it.

Somehow though I gave in to an inner voice this weekend while at Home Depot. (Yes, we always seem to be at F-ing Home Depot!)

For a long time I've wanted a fountain. Keith abandoned me with a cart full of stuff as usual while he went to grab something, so I wandered into the garden area where I saw this adorable fountain! For $129.00, you get a resin urn and a resin round base with stained glass decoration! Cool! I thought by the way the box kept saying, "Design" - that the catch would be it was just painted on in a stained-glass design... but no, there are real glass pieces at the bottom! FANCY! ha ha ha

Well, we couldn't just leave it at that. If nobody knows this already, my favorite Disney character is Thumper. I try as hard as I can to get my hands on anything with Thumper on it. So around Mother's Day I found a little Thumper garden statue at Wegman's supermarket!!!! I just couldn't pass it up.

Okay...let me make this story shorter.... after some playing around...what started as a fountain turned into what you see below....



Yes, those are real flowers in there!



My little Dream Corner! I did it! (With a lot of help from Keith and his gas-powered tiller and his ability to get the border stones to lay just right!) It's a silly little accomplishment, but I'm proud of my little backyard improvement. It combines many elements of my personality... old world charm, a little glass, and Thumper! Oh, and thanks to Keith for also drilling a hole in Thumper's butt to put the copper tube through. It still needs a little something, but for now, I love it!

Damn, It's Hot!!

We spent the day outside for Memorial Day. Keith was tiring away in the sun putting up our privacy fence. It was 98 degrees, and the kids were too hot to play. We haven't put the little pool up yet, so there was one less option! The water hose was occupied by the cement mixer... so how to cool off???

SPRAY BOTTLE!

Stormy...

With the weather being warmer, all the windows in the house have been open... which lets us find Stormy in her favorite place... window sills! Except, she didn't belong in this one! It's the window over the kitchen sink. Bad kitty! But how can you be mad at such a cute and soft little thing. Her fur is like velvet, and she's terribly sweet!

A little updating...

Hi everyone!

Thanks for stopping by lately and leaving the nice comments about the new kitties and well wishes for my broken butt.

Stormy and Caesar are proving to be quite a funny pair. When they aren't chasing each other around the house at 50 mph, they are cuddled up at the end of our bed looking out the bedroom window and cleaning each other. Yesterday Caesar caught a fly...smacked it down in the window sill, played with it a while, and then ate it. Ewwwwwwww! At least he got rid of the fly for us though. Stormy's adventure for this morning started with me hearing David screaming, "No, Kitty! Stop! I don't want you to do that!" Then I heard, "Mommy! The kitty is outside!!!" Apparently she was able to push the screen out of the window, but luckily got scared and jumped back into the house. That was crazy!

They are both very wonderful though, and we are enjoying their presence in the house.

As for my broken butt... I know some people told me it would take six to eight weeks, and my thoughts were, "Oh, great!" (Rolling my eyes. I kind of hoped though that this measurement was a general one, and I'd be better in a week. Nope! It's been two weeks now and a few days... though I have made some improvement, the most important function for me is still incredibly painful. Sitting. Now, the actual sitting is not so bad, but try to get up again -- forget it! If I sit, my butt is okay for about 15 minutes, but then starts burning. When I got to get up, it feels like someone is trying to rip the bone out of me completely. It's very frustrating. Getting out of the car takes a few minutes. I can't sit long in my desk chair. The only place I can really get work done is lying in bed, which is sometimes challenging. I'm hoping Week 3 will bring more improvement because I need to get back to work. Right now I'm catching up on jobs that I took, but once I'm caught up, I'm going to need new jobs. Hopefully I will be ready for it soon.

Have a great weekend everyone!
Miss ya!

Our family is growing!!!

Ahem! May I have your attention, please?

You know that feeling you get when something is missing in your life? I've had it for a while now. Watching the kids grow up, you think about when they were just little babies. It's amazing how fast the time flies... and now they are getting so big. I realized I want to take a chance again...

I told myself our family was complete, and not to try this again. The pain of losing is just too hard to bear... so you tell yourself you don't need to go down this road again. You want so much to open your heart up some more and share your love with a little creature... but the responsibility that comes with it is so daunting.

Well, it's time to try again. It's time to give it another shot one more time.

Yes.....


It's true....


Our family has expanded!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


WE ADOPTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




Two great cats from the SPCA of York!!!

Please welcome to the Hilker Family.....


STORMY!


and CAESAR!!




And since they were cell mates, we knew they would get along together...

Here they are being lovey to each other!





It just hurt so much when I lost my last two cats...that I was scared to get any more... but I've been missing the pitter-patter of little paws for a long time. These two are just the sweetest cats too! So affectionate and mild mannered... except late at night when they go tearing through the house after each other!

Yep, that's right... look forward to nauseating cat pictures in the future!!

hahahahahaahahahahaha!

A symbol of warmth...

The rhodo-whozit is blooming again! That means summer fun is on it's way... if my butt ever heals!!!




HERE I COME, SUMMER!

Broken Butt -- For Real This Time!

It's been a while, but I thought I would blog a bit. I will put pictures up when I can of the new retaining wall in our yard and the kids with their new bikes...but I have a problem right now....

I BROKE MY BUTT!!!

No, not sciatica this time.... I FRACTURED MY TAILBONE!!!

Yep...I can't sit... can't drive... and it hurts to use the potty. I'm also now the BUTT of many jokes. Ouchie.

So what did I do to break it? I slipped on the grass and fell on my a*s. Right then and there, I realized something didn't feel right. So I'm broken for the moment. Please send "get well" vibes in my direction. I could really use them!

**hugs**