Hi Eileen...just checking in to see how your night went last night. I hope you were able to get some good sleep along the way. I pray the intensity of that machine didn't keep waking you up!!

Love you...HUGS....connie d

Hello Cindy sweetheart.....I don't know what was happening with this site!! It was really bad!

I love to find all those little things when the kids leave. I save them...I have a bunch now!!

You make sure you are resting enough. REMEMBER..meds, drink, rest, repeat!!

I love you my sweet friend....HUGS and more HUGS...connie d

JUDY.....GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!

Knock that crap off!!!! You want MORE problems!!!

OMG...you are lucky I can't drive!!!!!

Love you anyway...naughty girl....connie d

Hi Vickie....we posted at the same time...sorry!!

I will go and change mine if I can.

Love you...connie d

Hi sistas!

Geez, where is everyone?  I guess this must be a busy Saturday.

I just popped on to read the posts, so I won't stay long.  I'm on a quest this afternoon to find a specific crape myrtle tree.  I want the one called Muskogee.  It's lilac (and y'all know how much I love purple!) and it's just the right size, height, color, etc., for my area in the back yard.  Plus it's rated very high for the weather here in South Texas.  I want it.  Having a hard time finding it, though.

This is what it looks like:

Yesterday I went to a nursery in a little town about 10 miles from here and I bought a Vitex tree and a fig tree.  Let me post a picture of a purple Vitex tree:

Isn't that a thing of beauty?  It's a summer bloomer and it thrives in full sun and heat.  Just my kind of tree!  

The landscaper is providing me with a Mountain Laurel tree.  It's also purple, but it blooms in the spring.  It smells like grapes!  

I am really indulging my love of purple, aren't I?  

The last tree I'm putting in is a Redbud tree:

It's really more fuschia than purple, but it's one of the first spring bloomers here, usually around the end of Feb, which is wonderful to see after dreary old winter!  But after it blooms, it's really not very pretty.  Still I want one for my back yard.

And then I will have my knock-out roses that will bloom almost year 'round here.  I think it will all be so pretty!

So, last night we had a horrible storm blow through.  High winds, hail, rain, etc.  They said on the six o'clock news that the storm would reach my area by 8 p.m.  I had to get out there and move all those knock-out roses into the garage!  OMG.  So many trips!  But they are safe and sound and blooming like crazy today (inside my garage! LOL!), so that's a good thing!

Sorry, I'm all about gardening today.  I'm so excited and it's been awhile since I've felt excited about much of anything.  

Well, last night I got my wish!  Carrie and the baby went over to Christie's house for a visit, and then that horrible storm blew through, so they just spent the night there.  Hooray!  I got to sleep all night in my own bed all by myself!  

And I was a little worried about how that appetite suppressant might affect my sleep, but it wasn't a problem at all.  I did just fine, except I had a headache.  Probably from not having a Coke--that caffeine withdrawal, you know?  Anyway, I slept all night and I got up feeling pretty darn good this morning.  I took a nice long walk (All By Myself!) and then a bubble bath and I was ready for the day.  I can certainly feel my metabolism revving up.  Don't know if it's from the LipoLean injection or the Bontril, but I'm definitely feeling much perkier.  And not very hungry at all.  

Well, I've stayed longer than I intended.  Got to go shop for my trees!  I'll check back in later tonight.  Love you all!