Well Hello Ther!

My oh my I have not had the time to write on my blog for what seems like ever.... Here I am at 4:24 AM, Unable to sleep and finding myself checking the "puter" for what's new in my world via the facebook thing and the news and that sort of stuff. Yesterday went so very very well. The Grand Opening and Showcase of Events at the Dutch Village Inn was attended by over 650 People. I don't think all of them came to see me and what I decorated and designed but, I think they left the inn thinking wow " that's some place" and it is. I am so happy to be able to share my craft in such a beautiful facility. What an honor and what a blessing. Thank you to my Ken and to my Holly for helping me accomplish this ~
as I write this it is 4:30 AM I am unable to sleep. Snick had a big seizure causing his water bowl to cash down the steps. So I got up to help him out and now Im up. We have a ridiculous sleep schedule in this house. Today is Kenny's 50th Birthday. :) Makes me smile because he's an old fart now. AARP sent him a packet this week. Just funny to me to say he's 50! Well we took many pictures yesterday so I am looking forward to getting them posted here so you can see them...

Hi There...

Well Geeze oh man, it has been a busy few months seeming like I can never get to this point to say hello.... Hello.
Kenny has been so sick with a terrible cough, it has continued for a while now and he has procrastinated Dr' ing however, I put my foot down and had him call the office anyway yesterday. Seems she might call a script in to the pharmacy today. I hope so . he's a mess . subsequently i'm a mess. I refuse to get it so I'm taking vitamin C like it's candy. Vixing up and Vixing my feet . I have a lovely fragrance these days. "o'de to menthol" Things are going so well at the Dutch Tulip. I have had several deliveries. It's going gangbusters. and I'm thrilled. I'm so blessed to work in such a marvelous facility. The Christmas decor is so lovely. Coming together I have quite a way to go and we haven't started putting anything actually up yet. But please know if you are looking for that perfect gift of a beautiful proportion please come and check out the arrangements I have made at the INN. I think you'll certainly be able to find something you love...
one more thing about the shop: The Grand Opening and Showcase of Shops November 14, 2009 10:00 Am - 4:00 PM . Please come and see what's happening !


Well on another note , my girl is the best. She's doing so well in college . Tomorrow she is teaching her first ever lesson at school.... I'm proud of her and I know she will make a terrific teacher...

Fall is upon us!

Well the leaves are in full array of color and the winter chill is upon us. I think I'm not ready to be cold. We have been blessed with a fire now almost 2 whole weeks. Kenny is already working to keep us warm, but it is only mid October. :( I'm so not ready for bone chilling cold weather.
Things are so great at the Dutch Tulip. I am well on my way to designing much of the articles for the Christmas Decor in the Inn. I have it all planned as well as some of it started. It is going to be so beautiful! I have sooooo much to do . Right this minute I am challenged with the process of blogging as there is a little cold pawed furry black smidge thinking my typing is utterly fascinating! He is a cute little bugger. Finally have my black cat I have needed for a year now. We lost Thunder one year ago. I miss him so. Maybe now Floyd will fill that empty hole , However right now he is kinda just a little pesty and a little needy. Attention , play , feed, more attention , clean up on aisle 5 then - play , sleep hard purr in your face and need fed again. He eats tiny little bits a million times a day. Tsunami thinks she can play with him a bit, Ezzie isn't to amused, she'd like to but can't really be to bothered.
Everything on the farm is good. Made a big pot of spaghetti sauce today, and some peanut butter cookies, mmmm. should have cleaned my house but found the kitchen more of a welcoming place than the vacuum and mop. Well just wanted to pop in to say Hi out there... Love to you this week. ~J

13 Years....

13 Years of beautiful wedded bliss-well no always , but for the most part yes. a happy life a happy existence a happy farm a happy family and a happy me.
Kenny and I enjoyed our 13 wedding anniversary yesterday- this is how we spent the day : we took our two new "kids" the twin baby Pygmy goats to my friends' preschool. That was fun, it really was . Catching them in the morning was a bit of a challenge but it was so fun to hear what a 4 year old has to say about a goat.
" does she poop in the house?" does she sleep in the house ? what does he eat? does she like macaroni and cheese ? how 'bout pizza ? whats her name? me and my brother are almost twins - we're brothers! does she bite ? how old is she? does she still need her mom?
It was so funny to hear their comments. City children they are not; but they are not from a rural community. I think they enjoyed us as much as we enjoyed them. hat a way to spend our day. In order to catch both the morning and afternoon children e had a beak of an hour in the middle - we took them to see Bob and Anneleise. They really got a kick out of them. Fun for me to see Bob so smiley. Anneliese calls them "monshotz" I think that means something like precious . Their family dog's name was shotzie I think. Fun to see them so happy. Older people and children love to see animals. I wish I knew the word in German for horns. Anneliese noticed their horns and said that word. Also a delight to my soul.....
So back to school we went after a lunch break in the wendy's parking lot! with 2 gaots in the back of the van. I'll have you know they're were no accidents in the van ! ( or at school !) Welome again home again jiggety jig. We went to aerobics and then to Don and Kathy's to visit with dear old friends Bob and Nelly, Bren Dona and Kathy. That was fun. I laughed hard at a few o our stories. Poked my eyes out with a fork at a few of the others.... All in all a beautiful 13 th wedding anniversary with my boyfriend.

Thank you Kenny for loving me and tolerating my farm animals. I love them and they bring me joy. Thanks for being such a great dad to Holly. For a long time I never thought we'd see her shining here as an adult and on her own.... But here she is , and here e are on the other side of that and enjoying our lives. God truly blessed me with you. I'
m so sorry it has been so hard. but I 'm glad we have traveled his road together. You are healthier now than yo have been in a log time. Let's keep it this way for as long as awe can ! Thank you my love. Happy Anniversary

a pretty slow morning for me here

Mel and I went to the Bebo Norman , Natalie Grant and Jeremy Camp concert last night at the Scottish Rite Cathedral in New Castle. It was great fun however; we are now the moldie oldies. Upon reaching our seats in the first balcony we were comfortable on the end of the row, at the aisle could see the stage quite well. Bebo came out with 1 other man, played acoustic guitar and keyboard and it was just lovely . I enjoy his music so much. Then Natalie- she was great a well - pretty loud and pretty bright. I was pleased at her testimony and the way she really spoke the gospel to the young people ( and old people ) in the audience. By this part of the concert the fog machines had been blowing the fog for now almost an hour or more. the light show was quite amazing however we were both feeling quite parched- pretty much deaf and glad it was just the 2 of us instead of our "guys" as they would have maybe not been so patient. hahaha

Intermission- 20 minutes to prepare for the big show~ I stayed to save our seats while Mel went on a quest for a bottle of water for the two of us. She came back after finding the one and only water fountain in the entire place bubbling over and overflowing to the floor and down the steps... She tried to lap at the water like a dog - but unable to share any with her best friend. She returned empty handed so sorry I could not have had a drink... hahahha Im still laughing so hard.. as I type this. We are old women I tell you.
So the show is about to begin again.... the fog is blowing filling the auditorium with this thick cloud- our tongs were thsucht tho the ruuuufff of our mouthhhs cauthe we neededth a drink tho bad, causing us to laugh hysterically to the point i started to cry ~ begged her to catch my tears so they wouldn't be waisted ... it was moisture..... haha . . . .
The show began. OH MY GOSH IT WAS SO LOUD IT WAS AS IF I WERE IN FRONT OF THE SPEAKERS IT WAS SO BRIGHT I WAS AFRAID I WAS GOING TO HAVE A SEIZURE RIGHT THEN AND THERE!
Don't' get me wrong we loved it , but we are so old. I couldn't understand what he was saying the first song or two, thought it was the lack of moisture in my brain caused my inability to decipher intellectual speech. Maybe it was the bright and flashing light show cooking my retinas ahahahahaha
Oh I kill myself if you could only be right here ith me you 'd be laughing too.
I couldn't read the words on the screen in the back I tried to squint to read them . I tried to focus. Just couldn't read them - I 'm not the blind one Kenny is. Jeremy started to dance- you know how young people do up and down and up and down bouncing like a tigger on his tail? UMMMMM I'm pretty sure the entire balcony was bouncing like that- except of course the two of us and the couple in front of us who literally crawled over the people next to them cling the steps as they ascended to to the stair case to get out of there before they plummeted to their death and their moment of glory . the look of terror on the poor womans face made me giggle even harder as we screamed to one another that we needed to have blue and mauve hair and be in babushkas! hahah
oh I went to the main floor to find liquid anything -0 pretty sure if I were to have taken her a can of beer she wouldve chugged it. haah ha oooohhhhh
( mind you my mel doesn't drink pop too often ) Came back with a diet coke and a sprite. Then what happens I get the burps and it's burger king all over again... hahahahaaaaa Now were are blinded by the flashing lights, deafened by the bboooommminnnnggg sub wolfers and afraid the balcony is going to plumet to the floor below and kill a few thousand people in the process. I'm all about Glory one day - didn't really imagine I'de go there during a christian concert - so I put my phone in my pocket for body identification and my purse over my arm. sat back and waited for the beams to give out. drinking my yukky diet coke and burping burger king to the tune of Savior he can move a mountain my god is mighty to save he is mighty to save ! Hahahah whatever we do - turns out to be an unusual but so fun memory.... Hahaha, wow it was really great. my ears are still ringing and my fingers are tingly , but my heart is overflowing with joy and yes my worship cup is over flowing too.... Have a happy day and know Im old.

I think summer is gone and fall is surely here

I haven't been blogging for what seems a long time. This morning I woke up to this critter chirping - he begins his morning song about 5:30 and he has a systematic chirping that happens much like an alarm clock! He lives somewhere in the front flower bed I think he is a small frog or maybe a displaced spring chirper that has his clock messed up. Nontheless he has woken me from my slumber now 3 days in a row. ! I need to get up and be busy about the house and farm here anyway. I have a hard time getting things accomplished here as I want to be at work more than I want to be here. So much going on at The Dutch Tulip. It is coming together.... I am excited we have Callie's desk in the hall now it looks so pretty. Next is Tracey's , But she does have it switched about. It is so fun to see this all mesh and fit.- Like a puzzle - I am just so excited I can't tell you. Another wedding booked for May 1 and I have one next saturday that is all paid.... Each one is pretty and different in it's own right. Every bride wants something different. Fun to see it come to pass. They most of them spend their entire lives dreaming about their wedding, in a few short hours it's a memory as you watch it then unfold a million times over on a photograph. I have tried to count the girls whom I have done wedding flowers. I can't. There are many many many. Years and years of floral history. Fun for me to enjoy the lives of the girls who have hung in their marriage and now I see them raising babies of their own. :) What a pleasure to enjoy a lifetime of relationships. There are even a few whom I had the opportunity to do their highschool dance flowers as well as wedding and baby shower. Thats really what the real joy of my job is. I pray for each bride , sometimes in private and sometimes I 'm close enough with them to pray with them before leading them to the aisle, :) Love my job.

Well as I look out the window the sun is starting to rise over the tree line. Seems as thought the colors are changing even in the sky. Summer has gone by so fast. My garden stands as an unkempt dinosaur lurking in the back yard. It is full of dying or dead produce hanging untouch ed by my hands to its sad end. The weeds are at least 7 ' tall as the plants are hidden under them puny and frail as they have not been nurtured and loved to provide us with a bounty of canned goods on the shelf. I have just not been home to do it. I feel guilty and sad that it has gone to waist. I have put a few things up but only a few. :( it will be sad in march to not have my spaghetti sauce. I do tho have a new job ! shut up jenny!
Be thankful! Quit complaining of being busy- at least i have hands and feet that move that can keep me busy!

Thats all that is really on my mind friends I have some laundry to do so I have work clothes to wear and then off to "work" i shall go! love to you this fine fall day. Enjoy the sunrise or maybe the sunset- maybe you'll be lucky and catch them both, Hurry go see!

Yep ! The Dutch Tulip is "where it's at !"

Can you believe I have just finished cleaning up from Alex and Seva's wedding.... Totally beautiful. A lovely event..... Thank you for hanging in there with me through this process. Well our Grand Opening is Saturday Novemeber 14th 2009 ! It's the seasaon of giving. Please mark your calander and watch for coming details.. Thanks ... love tio you Jenny