• $50 Your Way Giveaway October 2023!!

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    Hello, Little Peanuts!! Happy October!!  I am ONLY excited about October because of Halloween. I am NOT ready for snow. I was barely ready for the cold October wind and rain that North Idaho has gotten for the last few days. It’s cold enough to start our very first fire in the new wood-burning stove. Seriously, WHO builds a house on top of a mountain IN IDAHO (almost to the Canadian border) and doesn’t put in a fireplace or a wood-burning stove?!?!  We finally rectified that over the summer. This stove is AMAZING!! THEN!! Because y’all know me and my twisted sense of humor I bought the set of SKULLS!!! The kind that goes into the stove?!!? These made me do the wicked happy laugh!! I LOVE HALLOWEEN!!! I mentioned that Halloween is my Happiest Time Of Year I decorate even though I have NEVER had a single trick-or-treater. We seldom get company ESPECIALLY during the season of the mud. (Meaning our 3-mile dirt road driveaway is a mud pit of epic proportions!) Taking all the time to decorate is INSANE!! (Hello, have we met?? I fit that description!) But decorating makes me oh so happy. Now for the REAL…

  • $50 Your Way Giveaway September 2023!

    First and foremost, HOW IS IT SEPTEMBER already!?!?! MAN, this year is flying by!! Did you know it’s only 116 days away from Christmas?? I know, that was mean. Would it make you feel better to know that it’s only 61 days till Halloween!?? NOW I KNOW that means that I can start decorating today. For those of you that are new here. The first of the month, (every. single. month) I post my $50 Your Way Giveaway. I usually update what has been happening up on the mountain (in beautiful Sandpoint Idaho). Some months I have more news than others. August went really fast. Between all the doctor appointments for The Husband and me. GESH!! Getting older is NOT for sissies. So, I finally have a diagnosis. Cushings Disease and PMR which is Polymyalgia Rheumatica. GESH!! The Husband had cataract surgery in both eyes. He is giddy with the results. (Can men be giddy?? Maybe I should say SERIOUSLY HAPPY with the results) I sent this picture to the kids and Zachary immediately shot back, WHAT did they do? TAPE his EYE in??  I shot back well the glue gun didn’t work and he cried when I got out…

  • $50 Your Way August 2023 GIVEAWAY!!

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    Hello, Little Peanuts! I hope you had a most excellent July. I had the best July. An amazing family reunion for The Husbands 70th birthday. Look at this post if you would like to see the pictures and the full rundown of the week-long festivities. It was AN AMAZING vacation!!  I miss them all so much! After the kids all left, Amazon had their Prime Days. Hummmm I may have (I SO did!) drowned my sorrows in ‘add to cart’ therapy. Oh MYGOOOOOOSH! All those $3.99, $8.99, and $56.99 added up to Wooooooo-Uh-Oh. So, I am going to TRY…. (Ohhhh if you could only hear the laugh track in my head!) not to buy anything on Amazon for the entire month of August. (I can’t even believe I could type that with a straight face!!) Y’all should be taking side bets for how long I last. I am THE WORST impulse buyer E-V-E-R!!  Gesh, I hope I last at least through the first week. Okay, now for the REAL reason you are here!! GIVEAWAY TIME!! This June Giveaway has the same exact spiel as last month and the month before and the month before that! The year before and well, you…

  • $50 Your Way Giveaway July 2023

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    Happy July $50 Your Way Giveaway. My monthly updates are really cool actually.  Our Stiltz Elevator is in and very, VERY helpful on laundry day and moving furniture! Yes! It is large enough for furniture or two people.  Even our fur-baby BEAR would rather ride the elevator than walk up all these stairs. Yes, the real reason is that The Husband (he has MS) has great difficulty walking up the stairs. (You remember the stairs that are different sizes on all floors. GESH!!) Then we FINALLY (been on the list of must haves for 7 years) so we finally ordered our wood-burning stove. Okay, seriously WHO builds a house on a mountain IN IDAHO without a fireplace or wood-burning stove?? We ordered the stove and 2 days later it was installed.  DANNNGGGG!! That’s AMAZING right!?? With the Husband’s Birthday today July 1st, the kids are driving up from Southern California to surprise him. I can’t wait!! Non-Camp 2023 starts in one week! SOOOOO excited! And just a tad bit on the ummmmm panic side because I have been having a MAJOR dingbat week. I kept thinking that Sunday was the 1st. So NOW I’m in a 100% panic mode because…