• Family Vacation Idaho Style!! With The Help of Winning Moves Games!

    Ouija board

    Thank you Winning Moves Games for making this July the start of THE BEST vacation! Our kids drove up to Sandpoint, Idaho to surprise The Husband for his 70th birthday.  What a GREAT surprise that was! More surprising is I was able to keep my big mouth shut for an ENTIRE year!! Are you as surprised as I am?? Alice in the background didn’t look excited for a 3-day car trip. Dan wasn’t too sure either from the look on his face. HOWEVER, it was THE BEST week I’ve had in years. Activities From fishing, daughter Selena was the fishing champ with a total of 6 catches. (We did catch and release fishing). BTW, don’t you think we need a singing fish as a trophy for next years fishing champ?? Yup, it has to happen. Ebay here I come. Fishing Son Zachary was ecstatic about fishing in Idaho, he was up and gone by 5 am every morning. If you wanted to go with him, you were UP, dressed, ready to walk out the door at 5. Or you aren’t going. I did make it once. I stayed up way too late for that nonsense every day.  He was easily…

  • HEY! I Didn’t Break It This Time!!

    Did I break the site?

    Aren’tcha all impressed?? Remember last time I tried a new theme I broke it so bad that even GoDaddy Geeks had a heck of a time getting me up and running again. I think I may HAVE made 2 techs cry! ANYWAY, I was so happy with myself that I created a new header. Didn’t break the site. Didn’t lose any posts, pictures or comments. I was floatin’ pretty high, I must admit. That was until The Husband said that the header image is too confusing. So, Little Peanuts? What are your thoughts? Too confusing? Could you tell the basic message is “From my beautiful home in Sandpoint Idaho…….. Peanut Butter and Whine”. Another question should I add the word blog after whine? Do you like the photos? I thought they were a nice change. However, your opinions matter to me. So?? Any other tweaks or additions? Anything that you hate? Anything you’d like me to add? This is the other header that I was toying with. It didn’t really pop as far as I was concerned. Anyway, I’m off to move Winston to a new area for his daily picture to Zachary. I hope your day is amazing!! Let’s Ask…

  • NOVICA Treasures From Around The World! #NOVICA #GIVEAWAY

    NOVICA $50 Gift Card

    Y’all should sit down for this one! Especially Pam from NOVICA! I did NOT order a CONNIE Ring, as Pam referrers to them. A BIG, BOLD, silver, knuckle to knuckle ring. But NOT this time!! Not this time……….. wait, what?!?! WHO AM I!?!?!? Trust me, it took every ounce of willpower I had. Have you SEEN the selection of amazing rings on the NOVICA site?!??!?! (I also probably own a good amount of them)  All hand made, all them unique and actually made by artisans I would never have the chance to meet in real life. My choices arrived from Bali and The Andes Mountains. We all know this G’ma spends to much money on the Grands to be able to save up to fly to Bali. (I do have it on my vision board, so never say never!!) I know you have to be sitting on the edge of your seat to see what I did select. First up a stunning hand-carved deer. OMGEEEE wait until you see this amazing work of art!This is the Hand carved Benalu Wood Deer Statue Menjangan Bali’s Yudi Suardi’s hand carves a menjangan–meaning “deer” in Indonesian–from a piece of benalu, or parasite wood. The…

  • $50 Your Way Giveaway September 2020

    September Giveaway is HERE! I can’t tell if 2020 is screaming by or if it’s crawling by. (Okay, that makes absolutely NO sense!) If you are new here the monthly giveaway ways starts with an update on life on a mountain in Sandpoint, Idaho. So not knowing if 2020 is going slow or fast could be just lack of oxygen to my brain! Hopefully, you will become an official Peanut and come back often. Peanuts are a FUN group.Need some encouragement? Wanna whine? Or share a triumph? You have come to the right place! I’ll go first (every month!) I’m going to start with it’s COLD in Idaho. I believe I actually got a whole week of summer and we went straight to fall. SO NOT HAPPY! The cold is aggravating my RA something awful. Gesh old age ain’t for the weak!Ahhhh now the whining starts. (continues?)My hands have steadily gotten worse. A couple doctor visits and a nerve conduction study the diagnosis carpal tunnel. Hopefully surgery gets scheduled ASAP! I’m crying uncle.It’s hard to type (not cool for a blogger!)I can’t knit for more than a few minutes at a time (I can hear the ohhhhhh from knitters and crocheters out…