A Time For Everything

Sadly, about a week ago we got the sad news that Mr. Adams' brother, Luke, passed away unexpectantly. I don't normally write about personal things, current events or sad things...but it was a major event in our lives and I wanted to stop a moment and pay Luke Adams tribute.

Mr. Adams had 4 brothers....they were a rough and ready bunch of boys...a real handful! The funeral was in Bend, Oregon last week and it was nice to touch base with the brothers and their families again. My sister-in-law, Sue Adams took some beautiful photos during our visit that I'd like to share.....

 Brother Stan along with one of Luke's sons, John Luke

 Mr. Adams with brother's Lee and Tim

 Great nephew Jake

 Jake with his sister, Brooklyn

Mr. Adams with his Uncle Darrell and brother Stan 

 Brothers Lee and Tim

Mr. Adams' father, Lyle

All in all it was a sad but good time. Now that we are home I'm working in the sunroom planting seeds and while I'm working I keep thinking about the scripture verses from Ecclesiastes 3:

A Time for Everything

3 There is a time for everything,
    and a season for every activity under the heavens:

²     a time to be born and a time to die,
    a time to plant and a time to uproot,
³     a time to kill and a time to heal,
    a time to tear down and a time to build,
⁴     a time to weep and a time to laugh,
    a time to mourn and a time to dance,
⁵     a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
    a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
⁶     a time to search and a time to give up,
    a time to keep and a time to throw away,
⁷     a time to tear and a time to mend,
    a time to be silent and a time to speak,
⁸     a time to love and a time to hate,
    a time for war and a time for peace.

Rest in Peace, Luke.

I Have No Idea What Is Going On

A couple of weeks ago Jeeves died. I didn't mention it earlier because it was just so disturbing....I'm not even sure what happened.

He just showed up with all the feathers and down missing from his back and under his wings. I'm talking- bare skin! The strange thing is that there were no feathers on the ground anywhere....NONE. He was not walking well either, and did not make it through the night. Some people think that the other ducks pecked him to death, but I don't think so...I mean...where are the feathers? He was the lead drake, and when drakes do fight they just push each other around with their chests and pull out chest feathers. It's all so odd.

Then, today I found all the ducks huddled in the back of the hutch...someplace they never go unless they're extremely scared.....

They were all holding still, acting humble, and trying to look as small and inconspicuous as possible...

Everyone had plenty of feathers, but.... there were tons of feathers in the pool!

LOOK AT THAT!!!!

What in the heck happened!?!?!

I'm telling you, when you have ducks you can never relax!  Poor ducks!

Selling Books

It was a busy day down at the "Get Planting" Garden Expo today....

I talked to lots of people and sold lots of books...

So "LET'S GET PLANTING PEOPLE!!"

They Call Me "GAL"

I just got back from spending a few days in Oregon with my family. My niece had just had a new baby girl, sweet Callie Ann........

I miss out on most of the family get togethers, so it was really fun to hold her...

Around these parts I'm known as Great Aunt Lori, aka, "GAL".

And here is her big sister, Addy Mae...

She's as smart as a whip and knows how to use an iphone...

It's always beautiful in Oregon this time of year..... daffodils where blooming everywhere...

My Dad picked me a bouquet to take home with me on the plane.

As I headed north the sky got grayer and the temperature got colder, and it seemed like the daffodils just got brighter and brighter.

Life has been sending our family some bumps and bruises lately, and it's surprising how much those flowerers cheered me up on the way home.

Oh, My Aching Back!

The weather has been absolutely beautiful that past few days, but I haven't been able to be outdoors to enjoy it....I've been trapped indoors collating and binding the gardening book!

I spread everything out at the church and then my crew arrived to help me...

Around, around, around we go...

Where we stop, nobody knows!!

It took 2 long days to collate all the pages and bind about 50 books. Mr. Adams, Pam Benion and Connie Hyde all helped me...I couldn't have done it without them. Thanks you guys!

Here's the Zutter Bind-It-All I am using to bind the books. My sister-in-law, Kelley Roth recommended it to me and it really works great!

 Now I'm going to take a little trip to Oregon to see my Mom and Dad. But I'll be back in time for the garden expo on Sunday, March 10, from 12:00-3:00 at the ANB Hall, so be sure to stop by and pick up a copy of the book!

Supplies

Well, we are home now and storing away all the supplies we bought while we were in Juneau. Here's a couple of photos of all our carts...

We got it all in, and there was room to spare!

We had fun in the big city of Juneau, but it's good to be home again.

A Little Get-Away

Mr. Adams and I decided to take a little trip to Juneau to do some shopping and stock up on supplies. We did it last year at this time too.  You see, Sitka is a fairly small town, and one large store (like Fred Meyer) has more inventory that our entire town combined! Juneau has a bunch of the large stores, like Walmart, Home Depot, Fred Meyer, Costco, Office Max.....and a couple of malls too.

But going shopping in Juneau is never a cheap or easy thing. If you fly you need to stay in a hotel and rent a car and it costs quite a bit to get your purchases home. If you take your own boat it costs a lot for fuel, you have to pay moorage, and you need to rent a car, but you can take tons of stuff home. If you take your own vehicle on the ferry you need to pay for the ferry and have to get a hotel and you can bring a moderate amount of stuff home.  We chose option #3....

Here we are getting on the ferry...

Unfortunately we arrived in Juneau at about 2:00 am. which is too late to get a hotel (they charge the same price no matter how many hours of the day you actually sleep in their room), so we did the obvious thing...

That's right people, we slept in the back of the truck. Finding a place to park was a problem...Juneau is crazy...they have signs everywhere saying you can't do this and you can't do that, so we just finally parked and went to bed.  It was FREEZING and we didn't take adequate gear, but we survived.

Today we spend the day price shopping and will start flinging money around tomorrow....wish us luck!