Update Grant

I also have been contacted by the son, Grant, I gave up at birth. We have had a couple little conversations through email and texting, and will probably talk soon on the telephone.

This is a picture of him now. He is 38 now, and has an 18 year old daughter,an 8 year old son, and one on the way. He still lives in Ohio.

We chatted on the phone a couple of days ago, it went well, we will continue to talk with each other.

Changing

I have had a couple of hard weeks, I am finally starting to feel back to some kind of normal.

My deposition was awful, I was grilled for hours from the attorney for the old man's estate. The daughter was there to ask anything she wanted to through this attorney. She has been waiting for this for years. Because of the way her father was she never knew anything that was going on in the business, and that always made her extremely mad at me. For me it was a job, but for her different. I understand that, and hopefully they will not call me to testify in court in February. I am hoping and praying that this is done with.

I had some kind of 'attack' on Saturday night before I left mom's to come home. It lasted a week with my heartbeat out of its normal beat. I have been so frightened. I have never had high blood pressure, but am pretty sure that is what happened with an anxiety attack. Never experienced anything like that. Hopefully I will never experience that again.

Going South

Tomorrow, Tuesday, I am going south for the deposition I was subpoenaed for. I am so nervous  I cannot sleep or eat very well. I will be glad when this is over after next Friday.

I am going a little early so I can visit with mom and dad, I have not been down south since last March. Boy time flies fast.

Faith is my montra. Hopefully I can continue to remember to breathe!

I will post next probably when I get back on Saturday. I will take some pictures while I am down there and post when I get back.

Wish me luck!

Wood Duty

I was about 1/2 way done here. We had two cords of Almond and Blue Oak delivered on Tuesday. So yesterday I stacked wood along side the house, trying to get done before the rain and snow today.
It took me 5 and 1/2 hours to stack this really dense wood, sometimes I could only lift one piece at a time.
Boy, am I paying for it today, my back feels like jello! Ouch.
Matt works too much, so I knew I had to deal.

This is when I was 1/2 way stacked. Of course it was like 80 degrees outside the entire time. And this morning it is 40 degrees and the wind is howling, I believe the rain is on the way soon.
I have a couple errands to run, so I am doing that early this am.
And the wood duty begins, stacking, burning, cleaning, etc.

Babysitting Grady

I watched Grady on Sunday while James, Crystal, and Connor went to a wedding in Santa Cruz.

Connor took the first three pictures...I took this one before they left. Connor is doing pretty good taking pictures.

Babysitting Grady, one year old, made me feel really old...He is teething, and he was tired, and missed mommy. All the time I get to spend with each of the grandbabies is quality time, even if it is also meltdown time. I love them so much!

Dancing

We went out Saturday night to a local saloon to see our friends, the deadbeats, play.

We danced all night from 9:00 to 1:00 am. It has been a long time since we have danced that much for that long. Every song was dance music, those are the best shows.

Certainly was able to get my ya ya's out!

A great time!

Halloween At The Swice's

How precious is this?

Sweet!

The only thing I can really say is OMG! They are such a cute family:

The fisherman, the mermaid, the shark, and nemo!

 

Trees

The trees are changing colors super fast now, as it is cooling at night. I thought I would show you what I saw running my errands yesterday.

Pretty colorful!

Yesterday

The sky yesterday morning was definately a Halloween sky. Check it out the moon was still out and the sun was coming up through the clouds.

It was kind of spooky lookin.

The turkeys took over the yard yesterday afternoon. They were playing in the 'mushroom compost' Matt just unloaded for the garden.

Pretty stinky, they were loving it, gobbling and all for about an hour.

You've got to love nature!

Happy Halloween

I hope everyone has a nice Halloween, we are expecting rain tonight, right around trick-r-treat time. I think Crystal and the boys are going to get wet tonight.

Because I raised the girls in Graeagle, every other year there was snow on Halloween, so we drove to each house to trick-r-treat, and the girls absolutely hated wearing a jacket over their costumes.

Those were such fun days, the older I get the more I miss the days when my girls were young!

 

 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!

Changes

I decided to change the deck around again, time to move certain things away from the part of the deck that is not covered.

I know I do this alot, I have always changed rooms around, often.

The trees and shrubs are starting to change color quite clearly now. Although it has been in the high 70s for about 5 days, super nice.

But we are expecting rain tomorrow night.

 

I like changes, it is the surprises I hate. I really cannot remember many times in my life that a surprise turned out to be a good thing.

So, I was served a subpoena for a deposition regarding that crazy mf I worked for back in 2008, apparently he died and the bank is going after the daughters. It is in mid November.

And, if that was not enough, I was asked by the son I gave away, to be a friend on facebook.

I wrote him back and gave him my email and said we could communicate that way, as I am not a fan of facebook and my personal life. The last time we chatted was 16 years ago.

So just when you think you can sit back and breathe...

YOU CANNOT!

I will let you know how things go, with both.

Moon Over My House

 This morning at 4:30 the moon was so full it lit our entire room. I grabbed my camera. This morning, I looked at the pictures and wondered what else is in the pictures.

The top one was taken from our living room deck, the bottom from our bedroom.

I wonder what the other two objects are, hmmm both taken in different places.
I have no idea there was nothing else in the sky that I could see, until I put the pictures on my computer. Craziness, again! That kind of sums up my life the last week!

Let me know if you can figure out what it is, email me!?

 

The Swicegoods

Again, I say, Crystal takes her pictures to a whole new level. It does my heart good to see what a great family she is raising, and James of course.  Love you guys.

Heather and Ally

Heather and her friend Ally went over to our friend Mario's on Friday. Mario works on the Golden Gate Bridge and had a couple extra tickets to take Heather and Ally up the elevator and to the top of the Golden Gate.

They are really brave, he takes our friends up when he gets extra tickets. I am so afraid of heights, I could have never done it. It was on Heather's list of 'to do'. I am proud of her for making it up that high.

It is an unbelievable sight, for sure!

What a Week

This week a couple of things from my past have come to be right in front of me again...OMG, really, I looked up at Cindy and said "are you serious?", I know this is really vague and when I can gather some composure I will explain. Sorry for being out of touch for a couple days. I need to wrap my brain around what is going on in my personal life right now. After I chew it over for awhile, I will be able to put it all into words. I think!

On another note, that tornado touchdown was an EF1. Crazy right, in the Sierra Foothills? We are seriously going through crazy times right now. Pray, pray, and pray!

Faith

A friend of mine posted this on facebook, wow, right?

Tornado Touch Down

Last night we had the craziest event ever! We were watching the news, checking out the ticker at the bottom playing the headlines of the day. I read this: "the best place to hide in a tornado is in the basement", HELLO - we are in California! I keep on reading "it is approaching Nevada County, Alta Sierra area." Matt and I look at each other, it was 4 miles away at that time...A few minutes later, all hell broke loose. The hail was so big and fast it was bouncing off the roof, it was so white in our yard it looked like snow. Lightning in our yard, thunder so loud, Heather would have died, and of course, power out. Out all night, well not exactly all night, at 2:00 am the tvs went on, all the lights in the entire house. It was definately an eventful evening. Or non eventful, since we had nothing to do but go to bed. We definately were not prepared yesterday, today we are. Gas for the generator, battery inverter for dvd players, etc.

This morning on the news they verified that there were 3 touch downs of tornado in Nevada County, grass valley to be exact and Yuba City 2 times. Wow, and up the hill at 5000 feet elevation, they got 1 inches of snow! Crazy weather!

So Gorgeous

No words are even necessary with these two pictures. These are courtesy of Ally, Heather's good friend. So beautiful aren't they?

Grady

Hmmm?! I am sure Crystal is really excited about this! OMG he is already a daredevil...I do not remember Rad being quite so adventurous as this. Oh boy Crystal, get ready for this one as a teen! It seems all moms get one daredevil to deal with. Needless to say Crystal was not my daredevil. Yes, it was Heather. She took right after all my daredevilish dealings as a child. I rode mini bikes, rode carboard down the Summit, rode my bike down huge hills, waterskiied, rode horses, surfed, body surfed, swung on swings hung over huge gullies. When I got older I tried bigger motor cycles.

Did I get hurt, usually. Was it worth it, oh yeah! Most of the time any way.

Hold on Crystal, get ready for the ride.

Love you!

Judy

I love it when I can get pictures of people I do not see often, off of facebook. Judy went to a Halloween party and posted these pix of her.

She looks pretty good, so do the doggies!

Napa

This is at the Frank Family Vineyards, we wine tasted here, fantastic wines, we tried 9 different types here.

Cool picture behind wine tasting bar!

Beth and I at Frank Family Vineyard

Then we went to Mumm Vineyard, very pretty, we tasted incredible Champagne here.

This is in the Frank Family Vineyard, beautiful statues.

Mumm

Mark and Beth inside Mumm tasting room.

Mumm vineyards.

Mumm

It was so great to see Mark and Beth, we had a really fun few hours together overnight on Thursday.



 

It was not very far to Napa, and it was super fun seeing Mark and Beth. No matter how much time goes by, it always feels like years ago. Nothing has changed with our friendship! Love you guys, thanks for a great time..,