Merry Christmas Everybody!

Just wanting to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year, and sending blessings to you all. Wishing my Jewish friends, Happy Channukah, and to those celebrating other holidays, I hope yours are also joyous and full of memory making!

This has been a busy year for me and mine. It seems like it has gone very quickly ... I guess it's true that the older you get, the quicker the years seem to pass by. I hope yours has been a good one, but my prayers are with those who lost a loved one this year, whether to death, divorce, or an ending of a relationship. The pain of loss is never an easy one to deal with, and especially at times when families come together, that pain is exacerbated.

Work-wise, I achieved President's Club with my AVON, and I am looking forward to working towards achieving it again in 2017. My WATKINS, I will soon have my own website for that too, and am hoping that will help me expand that business too.

My goals for hubby and I to downsize and make his life easier, with a lakeside retreat so that he could get off work, push his rowboat out into the middle of the lake, to unwind, have changed.

Hubby would like us to get into raising some livestock and koi, for our retirement income, so our homesite searches have changed.

We are slowly decluttering.

We were going to donate my Land Rover to Goodwill and take a tax break, but cannot find the title, so have put it up for sale as is, with lost title, for $1200 which can then go towards our new place.

I've started collecting my Thrive cans and am going to be getting 5 and 10 gallon buckets so that come Spring, I can plant in them and will be able to move them easily to our new place.

I am looking forward to our New Year and putting our plans into motion!

I hope you have lots of plans for yours, and I wish you well in getting them all to fruition. 

God bless you all 

December is here!

Well, this has been a busy week, and that's for sure!

Wednesday, we had a tornado hit our area, and missed us by maybe 1/4 mile. To say I was terrified, is an understatement. I had to hobble down the hallway and sit in the bathroom there since it had no outside walls, but the loo is normal height, not like the taller one we have in my bathroom. No way could I get in the bathtub to take shelter, but getting to sit on the toilet itself to wait out the storm ... well, suffice to say, that (in itself) was a major feat for me. And when we got the all clear 40 minutes later, I had the joy of then TRYING to get up off there. I can laugh at it now, but I was stiff as a board and my knees and hips did NOT want to work to help me get up!

Seeing the damage some people experienced, I am even more thankful that we were spared. Apparently it was an EF1, which is nothing compared to those that places like AR and OK experience, but for us, here, it's a big deal. People had roofs fly off, siding and fences down, plus we had trees and power lines down.

I am thankful that's not something that happens frequently here!

With my AVON, I am struggling this year to make President's Club and have until 7th December to accomplish it. I am short about $1000 in sales and am hoping some lovely people will want to take advantage of AVON's great offers, and will place an order through my website .

Working on my diet because of all the issues, I've managed to combine all the finer points of eating for my blood group, along with eating foods that are more alkaline (in order to neutralise the acid that is the aggressor of the hernia that raised it's head a couple of months ago) and seem to be doing something right as the hernia symptoms are lessening (hoping that means it's healing naturally) AND I'm losing inches. That's a big WOOHOO all the way around.

Hoping you all have a wonderful day