Good Morning!

 It's been a while I must say! My apologize to all. It has been a month of crazy shit around here! Birthday included. It was nice. 59, not a big deal. My son, daughter in law and Granddaughter came to visit with flowers, and my granddaughter stayed the night. It had been a while since I'd seen any of them, so it was special.  

I Had the other younger grandchildren the weekend before. That little grandson turns 7 today! He's the youngest of them all! and he's growing up so fast. Another Busy day today - I need to get the shopping done and I have presents to drop off tonight.

The passing of my brother is still under investigation, so there is also a dark cloud looming overhead. We do try to keep it in the distance and not the forefront - But it's there. The funeral costs have come to about $4,000.00, so we are gathering funds from all sources. I'd love to send my oldest brother the whole amount, but that would depend on the help we get with a few donations.... 

For anyone interested in helping out the funds can be sent to my Paypal ~ https://www.paypal.me/horseaddict, just list 'funeral' as the subject. There is only me and 2 older brothers to pay for this. One is 69 and the other is 70. Both live on limited pensions... So there is a lot on me to come up with the money for this one.

 Retirement and opening a new business for Papa Tim has been a lot of work for me. Between ordering equipment and product supplies to the lineup of production, not to mention learning new machines. A few errors and flops along the way. It's a learning curve. Most of the supplies have a bit of a profit margin, so there is a little room for rejects without having to jack up any prices to ridiculous. 

The events have been interesting to say the least. I'm glad we are indoors for the winter season. It rained last Saturday while we were in the mall, and I was ever so grateful to not be out there in the wind and weather. We have decided that outdoor events will be carefully scheduled during only good weather months. If we can actually find indoor events for the summer, they will have preference over the outdoor ones. Between too cold and wet to the too hot and windy. . . Then the fact I'm a little older and not so easy to pop up tents.

More back walls and a black back drop behind them.... I know. The canvas 's don't have the 'wow' impact they should, because you can see everything from the other side and it's too busy. I now have all folding tables and they are much easier to load, unload, and set up. Table clothes for all occasions now from Spring until Christmas.! We weren't allowed to set up our Tshirts at this event, there is another Tshirt booth and they had exclusive rights - so we have an over stock of Tshirts in Med- Large- and Ext Large They sell for $15 each and we have several of our best photographs on them! 

I'll be doing a bit of product photography and adding pictures and prices here. You'll be able to see the prints we have. This is a great opportunity to get a little holiday shopping done, and you don't even have to leave the warm comfort of your home. ! Delivery fees vary depending on locations shipped to. I recommend if you like it, buy it, some items are one of a kind at the moment and there are no duplicates. 

Meanwhile, Today is another busy day as I said..

I am about to go to the denture place for the first fitting with my new teeth! This has been a very long summer without them. I'm a bit excited.

 So, for now, I hope you have a wonderful day and enjoy what's left of September!

Blessed by God

Life's good @ the Bright side of the Barn 

Thanks for stopping by

Until next time, Stay Safe and Happy Trails.

Wiped OUT!

 

It's been a rough couple weeks! I don't know what that 'sick' was, but it was a butt kicker! I'm still not 100% and it's been almost 2 weeks since the start of this.  The migraine headache kept me from the laptop as the lighting hurt my eyes. It was a couple days of down horizontal and dizzy when I'm up. That kept me home too.

A lot has been going on with life as well.. While I was preparing for my birthday, I was notified that my brother had passed. Then just a couple days later I'm told it's being investigated as a homicide. That made the birthday a bit rougher than usual. I managed to feel better at least, so I could somewhat enjoy the day. Tried not to think about things.

I got the approval letter for my dentures and I made it in yesterday for the casting.. I should have teeth in just a couple weeks.! It was a bit scary when I got the first letter that my insurance refused the claim. Just about 2 days later I got another letter where they approved it! I don't understand the insurance and why they did it that way, but I'm grateful I will have teeth in just a couple more weeks.!

Papa went in for one of his procedures today, the bladder scope. He's in a bit of pain and trying to rest now. Tomorrow we see the colon specialist again ~ he'll need a couple more days to rest from that. Still no conclusive answers as to what's going on inside of him.

Hopefully we can get our strength back and be ready for this weekend....

This Saturday only @ the Outlet Collection mall. Head towards the food court & Burlington coat factory. There are about 30+ vendors that will be there as well. This is a great opportunity to pick up some fall decorations, start prepping for Halloween and celebrating fall season.