he is now #5 as one of the best you-tube puppet channels!!
(these are all the puppets he has made from paper mache and has and still uses in videos as animatronics like
eyes and tails glow in the dark, mouths move, heads spin, scary videos for youth, and he has used his
ventriloquist skills to enact conversation with them.)
that's our boy!
We are very proud of his creativity and surprising but yet not surprising ideas that
keep coming forth on this you tube channel he started in 2015.
I always needed a stool mind you, to get up onto his back, and hope
when I am out riding that we don't stop and have to get off
and then get back on; out where there is no stool. I have looked for many
boulders and bumps when this happens so I can leg up and get back on
(LOL)
Motherwell Homestead in-between Yorkton
and Regina.
This was an experience and scary to see these men
get this thresher running. How dangerous it was for
those farmers to operate this. They did get it running too!
My cowboy boots (Ariats) I bought in Bozeman, MT
in 2007 got an overhaul and I bronzed them with bronze spray paint
and painted
a bit of the design. I will keep these forever, and hopefully someone will
throw them in my coffin (morbid but thats what I want)
this Christmas season I realized that
Tom is a genius with puzzles he did this 1000
piece puzzle in 5 days - it is glued together now and we will
frame it! this was such a gift I had no idea it would
be put together that fast and it is a beautiful picture.
Thanks son!
We live 5 miles from a world renowned Strawberry
farm called Prairie Dome Strawberry Farm (look it up it is worth a trip) and they take you for a ride on the big
open ended wagons to your area of picking. Was enjoyable!
My dad gave me this letter that he found in one
of his photo albums as I wrote this to my
Grandma when I was 10 years old while at a summer camp.
(I think I was homesick a bit. I was only away for 7 days)
My husband (Brian) made a new bed frame for our
master bedroom bed. It was a new challenge and he
worked at it diligently. I am staining it here in this picture.
I was impressed!
One of my most dearest moments; Tom and I and Brian went for
a ride through the back hills at our Swift Current acreage during the holidays season in (guessing maybe 2009)
Tom can ride but his interest is not really that developed but he has gone
on a few rides with us. He rode Rocky and I must of been on Ben and Brian on
the colt at the time maybe Leroy.
Good Spirit Lake in April 2016
beautiful white sands and a lovely
clean lake for swimming and it has barely
changed since we used to go as a family
with my mom and dad. We always treasure
this spot and attend it several times in the summer!
Oh my this was so thrilling to see a sea turtle while
we were walking around the rocks at the Big Island in Hawaii
Special moment for me. They are so big!
Riding with the Top Line Trail Riding Club
at Sask. Landing and we were on the very highest ridge
I'm the second in line and Brian is the 2nd last rider.
One of our riders walked quite a ways up the other coulee
hill to get this photo.! (I was a bit nervous but I had Rocky and he
is the best trail riding horse, he is steady and sure)
Parkland Therapeutic Riding Club in Yorkton year end
party; the clients/kids got to paint this white horse
I have never seen that done before and this horse was amazing!
He was tied on each side of his bridle in the middle of the
horse barn so the kids could paint away.
This was exciting ! Tom was getting his puppets spruced up
and perfected for his first Art Gallery Exhibit at the South West Open
He had 5 life size paper mâché video game characters on display at the local art gallery in the
exhibition grounds..... this was
July 2016. His puppets are in this exhibit every year now.
My folks came up to see his exhibit
and that was pretty special for me and Tom having my parents come see his success in the
art genre.!
This was a blast and having our acreage to have a fireworks
celebration was so exciting. We bought the fireworks at Canadian
Tire and set them up down our lane. What a Hoot!
Myan Riveiria in Mexico!
This was the most wonderful
ocean I have ever swam in.
Loved this swim, this ocean....I truly
felt I was in heaven for about 30 minutes.....
will never forget! The universe was aligning up with
me at that time, I know it. I said an amazing prayer to God. It was January
last year and it can be a hard month.... (sigh)
Okay this was so cute, I helped Brian do the chores for our
neighbour back in November and she (our neighbour) had at this time 30 goats or so. We watered and
gave them some feed and I took this video. They are crazy busy and cute and
a bit noisy when excited. Our neighbour loves goats and makes homemade soap bars using
goat milk. This was a unique experience.
Horse back riding in Hawaii on the Big Island!
So loved this it was so beautiful and serene and different
landscape.
StorySLAM night and...... wait for it---wait for it--
I won the competition!
Here is my StorySLAM
story (you only get 5 minutes and then you are gonged!)
What The Health? StorySLAM Oct 2018
NUMBER 41 PLEASE!! i look at my ticket number it's number 65! sigh
Im in admissions at a hospital. The anticipation of how fast my number will be called is undeterminable.
- Health. My health relies on numbers sometimes.
Lately it seems every time I walk into a hospital and they have a ticket number counter that you have to pull a piece of paper or the ticket and it has a number. It is supposed to easily tear off. I pull too quick and it gives me 5 ticket numbers (embarassed)
The next time I go it happens to me again. It's like i need to be trained somehow at pulling a ticket out of these counter machines. Sheesh
yes what the heck? what the Health? i am back in school. I take tests and I fail alot. What is up with that I ask? 4 times a year I go to a hospital lab and I take a number and wait for my specific number to be called. Then they make sure I have my wrist tag on and it is actually me. Okay Kindergarten memories
Go pee in a bottle? sounds fun, how many times have I done this? the fun in that is I get to carry my bottle of pee and put it in the fridge with other pee bottles.
I sit down and wait and then my name is called and they look at my wrist name tag, oh I mean
wrist bracelet - yes Ill call it that. Sounds better. You are Donna yes and your birthdate is yes...
Kindergarten. The time for taking blood is up on me and then they ask me an intelligent question
like …which arm? I say right arm only. (i’m experienced i’ve done this before)
Oh and I have an instruction sheet that the doctor prints off for me every year and I have to hang onto that sheet and pass it the hospital every 3 months to the lab ‘techs’. Its like here is my page of squares and check marks. I hope I pass this time!
I feel like I have done something wrong?
Am I bad if I have high blood pressure and then oops I also have high blood sugar? No not really, but I feel that way quite often.
Lets get back to this health life Im practicing to improve. I have quality of life now.
I want to pass all my lab numbers.! I sit in the doctor's office and wait for him to pop up my lab results on his computer screen and tell me if I passed or failed for my blood pressure then cholesterol and then blood sugar He gives me the numbers (again more numbers) I need to study harder! eat better, exercise and make sure my body can move and perform all that is required in exercise and daily life.
Now what about exercise. Is sitting in a yogi seated position an exercise or maybe standing in the kitchen preparing food for meals? No not enough. Say what? Speed up my metabolism? A big word and they say it means I am slowing down and too sedentary. “Hello! metabolism what is happening?” I never have been told you were a problem before”. “Now come on lets get this metabolism sped up!”
Do lots of walking but not sauntering (hmmm)… oh I have to walk at moderate speed for 30 minutes fast enough that it is somewhat harder to talk to someone beside you - (being a little bit out of breath) got it ...panting but oh! only for a mere 30 minutes and oh! it says 5 days a week so that is 150 minutes a week.
I was told coffee speeds up metabolism. Something to think about. laughing. well i know for a fact that socializing is very healthy and it is way easier to talk to someone and drink coffee beside me without panting. Am I wrong?
i have to get my 30 minutes of exercise in so wait for me at coffee time. Or better yet don't start socializing and having fun until I get there.
Now I am exercising several times a week and Im hungrier than ever. What no bread/ Quinoa yes, Kale yes, yogurt, (in moderation) and ice cream no!, Can I still drink coffee? Yes coffee is good! Water is good! Watch the carbs as all those breads and potatoes convert to sugar once in my digestive system. Sugary foods is sugar in my system but hello carbs! What the Health are you doing to me.!
Here are some photos that show just a tiny bit of our weekend with women and fashion and dancing and healing our guilt and for me it was about talking about gray hair styling.
I could use a bit more product in my hair to edge my style!
see these 2 women - edgy hair styles
my sis is keeping her blonde for now - she is stylin' it as usual!
shopping in the Dressing Your Truth store that was brought in just
for us
healthy food for lunches was provided
Carol Tuttle (I just love her jacket!)
A type 4 woman (on the left) and a type 2 woman (on the right)
Type 4's are bold and stunning as they can wear black and
the true primary colors
The woman on the right is a soft subtle type 2 energy
and her clothes are soft and muted colors and soft texture
I will tell my hairdresser about how to style and cut my hair
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can you tell I like my new hat as it is a very type 3 style which I am a type 3
I can wear the richer, deeper colors that tend towards a dirty grainier version
of the primary colors
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LOL! my kind of accessories for Type 3
after our break-out sessions for type 3 energy profiling women
(displaying all the colors we can really look awesome in and rock it!)
my sister is a upward and light very fun and cute type 1 energy profiled woman
It was so fun and easy to travel with her!
we enjoyed our stay at the The Hilton Hotel and used the pool and outside
decks and we also walked around the downtown area and got to see
all the Comic Convention costumes that were walking down the street all the time
we were there. I should of taken a pic of the Mad Hatter family walking down the street - very awesome costumes.
There will not be one next year to attend so hopefully in a couple of years she (Carol Tuttle) will put on another weekend retreat.
There is much to create, make this acreage yard into something home-y and
the septic tank is an eyesore and the location is right by our deck.
Planter was created by none other than my-man-about-the-house!
I will plant some colorful flowers and green spiky annuals in it this weekend.
If rain is minimal this year then I better take pictures of our pond
with birds using it. I don't know how long it will stay full!
Acreages are a tremendous amount of work and this property is new and
hubby and I are getting more senior in years. Rome was not built in one season that's
for sure!
