What a wonderful surprise for your Mom!  Enjoy every day with her - she sounds like an extraordinary woman.  Your slideshow is beautiful!  My mom always loved bird of paradise. 

Beautful Sally, love the video and your blog settup is great. We are lucky we live Hawaii.

Thanks Carol!  I sure try to....our busy lives don't always allow our time to coincide.....remember...she's out and about all the time too! Thanks for watching!

Thanks Patrick!

What a neat video, and you're mom is going to be so pleased when she gets home.  Those bouganvillias are too gorgeous to trim back!  It's so beautiful there.......... thanks for sharing with us.  I loved the "bird of paradise." 

Sally,

Mom will be pleasantly surprised, especially by the 'curb appeal' that the yardman will supply!!!

BTW, Do those avocados bear fruit? My wife makes an awesome guacamole!!! Thanks,   Fran

you're so sweet what a nice daughter

Sally- I wrote what a nice daughter you are.....and lost it :(   Anyway, I think she will be happy, but I wouldn't mess with the yard....something neet about overgrown yards with lots of flowers and trees :)

Sounds like a wonderful surprise for your Mom, Sally.....I think it's awesome that all of you worked at this for her and I'm sure she'll love being in a freshly done, spacious master bedroom.

Beautiful gardens!!  You're an amazing photographer....

(((-:

Jo 

Jan: Oh....her yard is so overgrown in the valley...we have to cut some stuff back. I'm sure she'll be pleasantly surprised :)

Fran: Look closely.....there's hundreds and hundreds of fruit just starting!  Thanks!

Jeffrey: When you get my age....it starts to become a thing to do....to help mom out :)

Sally sounds like her trip was perfectly timed, painting is not one of my favorite tasks :)

Beautiful video, everything is starting to bloom and turn green around here to. 

Sally,  That is so cool and so sweet of you all getting that done for mom!

Kathy: Believe me...this is like jungle...don't like jungles with mosquitoes and centipedes :)

Jo: She'll love it...personally, I think she goes on these trips because she knows we'll do stuff while she's not there ....she's too much of a supervisor lol!

George: Me either...but it had to be done...the room she was in was in between my daughters and son's rooms. They didn't like her right next to them...haha.

Marc: Thanks Marc. She deserves it!

Don't let me trim that bougainvilla (?). I am dangerous with shears. Stunning photos. Your Mom has some really cool people in her life. Wonder at 80 years old if whatever happens in Vegas....

Andrew: Well, one time I went in her yard with an electric hedge trimmer and cut the cord oooops!  Thanks! I love taking nice photos. Yeah....we're okay. As far as VEGAS...she already said she's meeting "her friend" and my cousin for golf...hmmmm.

Sally, Such a nice surprise for your mom.  Great job on the video, too.  Very nice.

Sally, what neat pictures of your mother's overgrown yard. What a big job that had/has to be. Love your photo real estate show rendition. Great photos as always. ;-)

How nice! I'm sure Mom will love it! :)

Sally Bless your mom, she is going to be thrilled with her new space!  She sounds like an amazing person for ANY age but especially for someone who's 80.  And she's very fortunate to have a wonderful family to come home to.

Sally,

A little exercise won't kill you. We used to have a white bird of paradise in my old yard...a lot of maintenance if you let them get out of control.

Gary: Thanks Gary...I know she'll love it!

Thanks Teri! It will be a huge job for the yard guy on Sunday...big trees, bushes, shrubs. It's really hard to keep up....one day I might hire a bulldozer lol!

Thanks Kelly! I'm sure she will too!

Carole: She has her own little set up now... and have more privacy on the other side of the house :)

Neal: Leave it to you to act like all that work is nothing.

My goodness. Your mom's more active than I am. And I love your Bird of Paradise. Ours are getting HUGE!

Sally, neat ThemThem to Mom, how cool that she is so active. I'm sure she is thrilled with the remodel all of you have worked on for her.

Sally,

What a great idea, what a nice surprise for her. And still working at 80, golfing week-ends, how do you keep up with her?

Lisa: Believe me...she's more active than both of us put together. I am exhausted...all my muscles, joints etc. ache.   

Duane: She will be on Saturday when she comes home :)  Mom has lives well.

Lynda: I don't ....she's way to active for me :)  Actually, she would be lost without being busy

I think mom will love it.... what a good daughter - I should call my mom

She will love it.I love the flowers. They are beautiful.

Morning Sally,

You are a good daughter with a very loving, caring family. Your Mom will be delightfully surprised.

Loved the video, wish I could get our Bird of Paradise to bloom. I planted two of them nine years ago and still no blooms. Ask your Mom her secret for me, will ya!

Have a great weekend!

Hal

Ok Sally...it's a lot of work...now you can say I agreed. Boy you can't take a joke these days:)

Sally - What a wonderful gift for your mom and completed just before Mothers day. Enjoy every minute you can with her.

Thesa:  Call mom!

Thanks Carol!

Hal: My mom has a green thumb...we've said that for years. When my plants get "sick" we take them to her 'hospital'. Everything I have given to my mom to bring back to live is flourishing in their pots at her house so I just leave them there :)

Neal: That's right...agree with me :)

Kathy: Great reminder....what to do for mother's day :)

Sally, So funny to catch up on some posts and came across this one about your mom.  I was just talking to an agent in my office about my mom and how spunky and on the go she is.  I am picking my mom and her girlfriend up from airport tonight,  They have been in Cancun for 2 weeks!  Lucky them.  Love the Bird of Paradise, haven't had one since a kid in California.  Too cold here!!  I am sure Mom will be thrilled.

Make sure and post some photo's when everything is done...Would love to see the great works of art including the bedroom! :)  I love all of the plant life in your mom's yard...  We have lots of Bouganvilla's all over Volusia County. 

Hi, I missed have this one. I must have seen it though, just didn't read it ,,cause I remember the picture of the Bird of Paradise.

I sure do hope MOM is surprised and it is wonderful that you ,Gary and Kids are doing all this for her. Over the years things keep growing and some how we figure they stayed the same. Then we look and the jungle took over. And a master bedroom makeover to boot.

Well, I am glad I know the full story for the photo inspiration and it makes perfect sense. No wonder you didn't want to put words all over this picture.

I am slow, but not dead, thankfully and eventually I get it. LOL.

Now, I if could just figure out how to get a web page designed so it would fit on my textbook blog for market data. Then I could do better local posts that consumers might care about,:-) Don't bother looking , it is only 55 characters wide and nothing fits even in miniature ( which no one, even me could read, much less write,lol)

William!  That's right!  This header will constantly remind me of this time ....a time for mom.

BTW:  She loved it!!!!  Yard guy coming again on Saturday...can't wait to show you all pics!