It Happened!

My Jamie Lee is married!!

I really was a beautiful wedding, Jamie looked like a princess coming down the aisle!

The "program" was well planned, well put together and all together! We all has some reservations on having a wedding at a high school, but it was dramatic, and perfect! The auditorium seemed like the perfect place for such an event.

I am glad it's over, and it's given us all some very very special memories!

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Bill Wollman!

My Boo Bear To Take A Husband

My sweet Jamie is taking a husband next weekend. November 20, 2010 will be the day of their choice.

His name is Billy Wollman. They went to High School together, and have known each other for a long time but only this last summer when Jamie's mom encouraged Billy to ask her out, did Jamie find him interesting!

I don't know much about Billy, but will as time goes by I would bet. Jamie seems very happy, and says she loves him deeply and he her. She is 25 now, and has matured a lot in the past few months.

Jamie has worked for Head Start for over 5 years, and Billy has been a meat butcher for Penrose Market since 1996. I am very proud of my oldest grandchild and want nothing but the whole world for her!

Busy Months

Seems life has been pretty non-stop of late.

I won't post pictures of the trees, I have many Umbrella Willows growing, but for some reason, I lost all of the others. I suspect I gave them too much water - well, didn't keep them "under wraps" well enough. There is an acid you did the twigs in, which promotes the formation of roots. Then you put them in the damp peat and keep them in a humid environment until they root. I think, because I had them drying out more than I felt they should, I over-watered, which washed the acid off the twigs. Or maybe not!!!

I have spent the past few days downloading old photos from ZIP disks. Many years ago, at the beginning of the digital age, I scanned a lot of pictures. Understand, I have boxes and boxes of photos. And I wanted a better way of storing them - in case - something happened to the hard copies.

Many years ago, I never saved negatives of pictures. Never even thought of doing so. I now have note books full of negatives and of course, now, and for the past 5-6 years, I have gone totally digital and no longer use film of any kind!

Anyway, getting back to the ZIPs, I don't know if anyone even uses these any longer, I no longer even had a ZIP drive. I spent some time just finding an external ZIP drive to view these pictures! So as I view, I have been uploading to our Family Web so all can see them.

So until next time...

Week 3 of Trees

Week Three, Oct 20! I think I am going to have trees (maybe in a few years, but I think I am making trees!)

Tree Update!

Okay, a week into this process, and I have some buds on the twigs. Now IF I have roots coming, I don't want to disturb that end yet to see, but if buds are on the twigs I have hope!

Autumn Harvest

Colorado Autumn

Pumpkins are ripe, Pikes Peak in the distance, nights are crisp and cool, time for Mother Nature to start putting her children to sleep for the winter.

Trees and Life!

Why is life SO busy, we are retired... Seems I seldom have time for anything anymore... Thank goodness for the internet (I think!).

I have wanted to plant trees up here in this desert climate, but (1)-trees are SO expensive and (2)-we are retired! So I found some websites (trust worthy) that tell how to propagate trees. This starts with small saplings, I am rooting them myself, but excited about the results!

Some of these trees, and I am assuming this will work, will take longer to "grow up" than I have life left, but thats okay! Again assuming it works, I will have many trees! I started with some "not so drought resistant" trees, but will go on to more evergreens and such. Besides, just how

many trees ARE drought resistant???!

So this is what my first attempt looks like:

These are all Globe Willows, or Umbrella Willows. If this works, several of us will have new trees, Baby Trees!! One note - One of the twigs I rooted upside down, wonder if it will grow?? And if all of them die, I will try again.

I don't know what the above trees are, I cut them off my daughters trees in Denver, she said she would find out what they were.

So watch for future news on my little treelets!