Frozen grapes how i love thee! I remember as a little girl my family would go to my grandmother Linda's house every sunday for dinner.  In the summer times when my sister and i would get to spend the day with her and go to the pool she had at the trailer court she lived in . Those days are very distinct memories to me. We would have lunch, usually a sandwich, and chips with dip. It wasn't just some ordinary chips and dip, the chips were those kind that came in a box and they had the biggest ridges in them and the dip ,there was something that she would do  to that dip that to  this day i cant duplicate. I have looked high and low for those wide rigged chips and i do not think they make them any more. She would always have root beer in her fridge that she would have bought especially for my sister and i. I guess she thought kids should drink root beer. We weren't aloud to have pop in our house so it was a true treat. I always thought we must be so special because she would by special groceries just for us.  The day usually went like this, we would eat our lunch of yummy chips and dip drink our root beer than we would have to wait a half hour, she always said that we would drown if we swam on full stomach. so we would sit around in our swim suits and coverups and wait until the timer went off. than we would stroll down to the indoor pool, my sister and i had to wear swim caps for some reason i think i remember grandma saying it was so our hair wouldn't clog up the drain  of the pool.  Than after hours of swimming and being completely exhausted from swimming we would walk back to her house, change out of our swimming suits and sit on her closed in porch and gorge ourselves on frozen grapes.  Yesterday i had forgot that i  had bought some grapes and its been so hot here i made my first batch of frozen grapes for the summer. As i was making them i thought about grandma and all the little things she would have us do for her. I always wanted to water the plants with the cute little orange watering can and than i would go out to her vege garden and help weed and water. now that i think about  those times im sure she was preparing me for my long days of gardening that i put in later in my life. My grandmother linda was a quiet petit woman with the most beautiful silver hair. She didn't ever share much about herself but she gave me many little sweet memories to hold close. one of the sweetest of all is the frozen grapes in my freezer.

How to make grandma Linda's frozen grapes:

take all the grapes off the stalk put them in a bowl, rinse with cold water, drain water, sprinkle with sugar, put in fridge until frozen, enjoy on a hot summer day. 

                                                                       Heres Rosie!

Im still figuring all this out. enjoy!

Well here it goes im jumping in well  maybe just sticking my toe in for right now. i have been wanting to join the world of blogging for some time but my husband the web designer has been wanting me to let him design a site for me well what its come down to is the cobblers children have no shoes. my husband is way to busy helping paying clients to build the blog he wants for me so until that happens here i am blogging with the rest of you all. so this blog is basically a place for me to put my thoughts and ideas down. show the world all the things i see and do on a daly or not so daly basis. I spend some days walking around portland with my little camera taking pictures of everything i see. as i was looking for a photo for this blog i found that it was no surprise that i have  hundreds of pictures of cats, my cats, strangers cats, friends cats so im sure you will see some photos of cats from time to time.  I love to eat out so im sure you will see some resturaunt revewes from me. I have high standards having been in customer service for over 20 years you can imagine. I also want to put it out there that yes i am horrible at grammar and spelling i will try to always use spell check but please be kind to me when it comes to punctuating and grammar. 

I guess ill start off by talking and showing the latest thing that is going on im my life. my husband Andy and i have rescued a 8 month old Australian shepherd. her name is rosie she is a doll weve only had her a week and its like she has been our dog forever. Today she is at the vet getting her little ovaries taken out, poor girl ,but we do not need any more dogs in this world. that was made very clear when we went to the oregon humane society{ohs} last saturday. so many great dogs. its truly the hardest place for me to go. i have to work myself up to just go in the doors of the the amazing facility and than when im there i will hit a limit of the strength i have than i must leave before i start to ball. Rosie didn't come from the OHS we found her on craigs list. The minute Andy said we could have a dog i started to obsess thats what i do i research look and look until the perfect one comes along. we tried to get a great older dog name wallace but he was taken than another aussie from craigslist she was taken that the OHS tried on a couple dogs that just didn't fit than back on to craigslist and bingo there she was. we went and met her and it was love at first site.  We are in for lots of training and fun times. Andy said the other day " we have gone from a clean cat house to a dirty dog house overnight" we have lots to learn. Here is a photo of our new girl with a Poppy that just opened im my garden which im sure youll all hear about some day along the way. enjoy cheers jenni