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Shaun, congrats to DH on his
Shaun, congrats to DH on his new job!!!
Andrea, how cool your husband is finally going to enter the 21st century, whether he wants to or not! LOL!
Selling the house: We bought this place super cheap. It was a foreclosure auction on the courthouse steps. Only us and one other guy were bidding on it, our banker approved us to go higher than him. The lowest price we could get it then was to pay off the owners bank notes, and it barely did that. This time it will be sold by the going price of land these days. And lately it's been higher than we expected. We are hoping to take advantage of that.
I got that bathroom done! Today I'm going to tackle the boys room. Weather says 101 today, guess we will be in. I may let the kids have some fun in the sprinkler. And I'll probably play around online looking for my perfect house plan. LOL!
Our only plans for Father's Day is the inlaws are coming over for some burgers. We got DH that new Larry the Cable Guy movie w/ Jenny McCarthy (he would leave me for her, I know it. LOL!).
If anyone is the praying type, please pray we get some rain soon. We have a few chances next week, and we REALLY need a couple inches on the farm so we can plant this year's crops. Really appreciate it!
Jenny
http://heresyourtrouble.blogspot.com/
Oops on the Tahoe! After I
Oops on the Tahoe! After I read that I checked to make sure it was down on my Expedition. LOL! Well, we haven't had any rain nor a sprinkler, but wind has been blowing like crazy for a few days, it could be full of sand!
Jen, good luck on getting the old farmhouse!
Yesterday we did town and that was about it. I did do some extra cleaning in the kitchen last night and it looked pretty when I walked in this morning. That always feels good, walking into a clean kitchen. DH didn't get in til 1 (grass fires from lightning that didn't give us any rain), but I'm glad he managed not to mess it up.
today's poda includes laundry and finding the floor of the boys' room. Lord help me, I don't know where to begin in there! LOL! But I've been letting DS5 sleep in a cowboy bed in my room just because he can't reach his bed. And I had that room clean just last week!
Weather channel says 102 and WINDY today. I'm not going outside if I can help it. 9am and it's already 83. I think I see the horses in the pen, going to feed them before the cattle come up, check mouse traps in camper, then lock myself up in the AC. LOL!
Jenny
www.jandjessary.com
I promise I will get something done today!
Jenny, we have a Dutchman 26BH, no slides, bells or whistles. Wanted something "I" could pull with my Tahoe, but pull with truck instead. All our friends have them and we all go on big trips every year. Them more than me since I go solo. If DH meets us, he stays in hotel. Defeats the purpose. I love to camp, but must have bathroom attached. Husband is claustrophobic and has serious back issues, so long car rides kill him. If he is going somewhere it is on an airplane and hotel. We went to Hawaii in May and the 10 hour plane ride was awful for him. But it was free, so he sucked it up.
There was drama at church yesterday, hubby called and said not to go. Seems a little hanky panky went on and there was a resignation. Most of our baseball team didn't go, but everyone heard about it, so big discussion at the ball field. Very sad for the wife and their daughter. Left at 11:30 for baseball and didn't get home until 9:00. Cheer and baseball are my life. DD couldn't throw her tuck without a spot. They are placing teams this week. She said if she doesn't make level 3 she will quit. I think she will make it. I may need to schedule another private this week. Everyone threw them but her and one other girl. She can do it, it is just a confidence thing, I think.
Todays list:
meet pool people for bid (yea! do happy dance!!)
empty cat box
put away last loads of laundry
clean out refrigerator
clean closet floor
That is all probably, I want to go to the pool this afternoon and veg.
Let me know how Juno is.Was
Let me know how Juno is. Flowerbed. That's funny. There is tons of old junk by our silage pit (it's huge, like 150 feet long, 20 or 30 feet across, and about 25 or so feet deep). There is 60 years of junk accumulated along the sides of it. It's where I found the washer tub and bath tub. There are some other things I found, too. Wonder if DH would get upset if I used some of his old boots (you know, the ones I can't throw away because he "could use the leather for something...")
Was an interesting adreneline pumping day. I checked on the mouse traps I set in the camper and found one caught. Emptied and reset that. Then I noticed a coyote that's been hanging around the past two days. But I didn't have any bullets for my .22. That ticks me off. Especially because a little while later I really needed it. I mowed the grass and as soon as I got done and was going in the back door I noticed a rattlesnake. 4 feet from the back door. In my cinderblock yard. Dang it. I had no bullets! By the time I got a hoe, it had slithered under some shrubs. Took me 15 minutes, but I finally found it and killed the SOB. What's freaky though is that it didn't rattle. I saw the rattles, but it never used them. That is strange. But, dead now.
I'm tired. I think I'll go have a beer or something and just veg. Girls are at the inlaws spending the night, so I'm stuck here with a bunch of boys. LOL!
Ick Linda - that is
Ick Linda - that is disgusting! I've got a couple hotspots like that in my house - drive me crazy!
Jenn, your system sounds great. I am using Google calendar now, which I print out periodically. I am looking for something more long term - something that would say every July you need to schedule your kids' physicals. I was looking at Organized Home for some printables - not finding just what I am looking for.
Ok, back to work -
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hehehe, laughing at your DH
hehehe, laughing at your DH having to watch the little TV. Your yard sounds real nice. I'd love to have a pool, too (dh says not going to happen, too many sandstorms around here). In fact, I can honestly say that for a 15 mile radius, there is ONE outdoor pool, and the other 4 people I know within that circle all have indoor (they are all rich dairymen).
Well, I got up and did my workout this morning (GASP, as my DD11 would say). 20 minutes treadmill and 16 minute tape. Funny, I don't feel any thinner. LOL! Sippin' my slimfast now. I'd be doing fine if I would just stick to the slimfast at lunch too.
DH is working (without pay) at the fire station in town today. He mentioned possibly spending the night. NO, he's not mad, they invited him to. That fire department is just a big party, complete with a sleepover! But I'm going to take the opportunity of him being gone to get all that stuff planted today (strawberries, blackberries, and two trees). Wonder if I can get that stock tank loaded and put into the garden without DH. I like doing big things without him because I like to prove I can get by without him and also that way he gets no nagging.
Unfortunately, he didn't get my weedeater fixed.
I'm also going to work on the house, starting with his spot by his recliner.
Good Afternoon! TADA morning
Good Afternoon!
TADA
morning routine
read paper
paid bills
painted DD's dollhouse with her
put away laundry
bank deposit
returned DVDs
TADA
sort mail
put away another load of clothes
1 more coat of paint on the dollhouse
dinner
Kids are washing my van right now in their swimsuits. It is in the low 90s here and a scorcher. Hopefully, DH will set up our pool this weekend. First official day of summer break today and so far no sibling fights. Thank God for small favors!!
Heidi
check in
Windy and 104! Wow, that is hard to imagine. We had a great day today but it was only 76 or so - sunny no wind. Unfortunately I was too busy to sit out in it at all!
So on to my TADA:
worked
tanned (yes I know I shouldn't count this)
dealt with DD's case of head lice which surfaced on Saturday (this has taken about 6 or so hours so far) - mayo treatment
WM run
made a great dinner - tilapia, PW's crashed potatoes (they are good Jenny) and guacamole/salad
laundry done and put away
Crashing right now - trying to find some quiet time though I should be in bed!
See ya!
Hopefully it's only a 24
Hopefully it's only a 24 hour bug, Jen.
I ended up going to the Mary Kay party (good thing, I was the only one besides the hostess there). But it was at a good friends house and we spent the rest of the day letting the kids play in the "pool" (just an old stock tank) and she and I traded between child watching and riding horses. Can't complain there! I love to ride! We decided we are going to have to do the same next time at my house. I'm excited to get her up on my horse, he's alot different than hers (hers a a barrel racing quarter horse and mine a Tennessee walker that never quite made it to the show ring).
So, today I need to fold some laundry and deep clean that bathroom and do the boys room. Then need to make a brocolli casserole for a pot luck thing tonight.
One thing I did do was apply to the university in town. No big deal, I should be accepted no problem. I have 7 semesters to complete and time to get busy on that. I hate that's its 7, some of those are part time. But with prereqs, that's the best I can do.
I really need to deep clean this whole house really soon. Not only does it need to be done, we are contemplating selling the ranch and building a new house on the farm. I'm sad to sell the place, but I know financially it would be an excellent move for us. We can get at least twice as much as we paid for the place.
Jenny
www.jandjessary.com
Happy Monday!!!
Happy Monday!!! LOL!
Andrea, didn't realize you were going to have foot surgery! Ouch! Hope it all goes well. The lice sux. Ugh!
Linda, we all love camping, but hate tents, too. I need the bathroom nearby, and the hot water, fridge, and generator when needed is nice, too. LOL! Where we go camping has no electricity or water (other than a creek). Hope your DD makes the squad she wants. Sounds like an interesting day at church, even if you weren't there? What instrument does your husband play?
Yesterday was fun. After DH got done with his EMT training thing (noon30), we headed down to Lubbock. SIL still had lots of BBQ, potato salad, cake and homemade ice cream left. Kids played in the sprinkler and slip and slide, but seemed to have more fun with buckets of water and trying to dump them on each other. Ended up not even getting the guitars out. But we did make a good batch of strawberry daquiries. We got home about 1am, it was too much fun visiting.
Well, DH is off to go plow for the day (after 3 solid days of fire department training). and I have lots to do around the house:
*Laundry (of course! It's monday!)
*My column for the newspaper
*mow the yard
*clean some windows on the outside. I had a sprinkler going and when the latest dust storm hit it made a MESS of them!!
*check campers mouse traps
*make some baby blankets and embroider burp cloths.
*go to storage and find a couple of my old baby things for a girl to borrow
*pick up girls from MILs house
*deliver said baby things and gifts
*friends for dinner tonight since it is school board meeting night, and some of the baby gifts are for her too.
Jenny
www.jandjessary.com
I'm going to start a new
I'm going to start a new thread, this one is getting pretty long.
Jenny
http://heresyourtrouble.blogspot.com/
Hi Everyone - Lost a couple
Hi Everyone -
Lost a couple posts recently for some reason -
Welcome Linda and Jen!
Off work in a minute - busy day today - so just maintain - make a nice dinner after DS's game -
How do people organize medical appointments - anyone have a printable or online system they use?
http://blackcatchronicles1.blogspot.com/
Shaun, I'm not sure. Except
Shaun, I'm not sure. Except that "My FIL told me to". Maybe because it's easier to just bury the head than the rest of the body? Harder for the dog to find both pieces of the body? I really don't know. LOL! I just do as I'm told.
I got the boys room clean today! whoohoo!! I found pieces of things that were lost and put them back where they belong. I boxed up a box of toys in hopes that they will seem like new again (and it worked. They kept playing with the items that hadn't been played with that were in the box. LOL!). Packed up all the old cloth diapers, etc.
Fixed chili for dinner, all kids are bathed. DH is fixin' to walk on the treadmill, and then we are going to watch "Chuck and Larry" along with some drinks and popcorn (drinks for me, popcorn for the kids). DS2 didn't have a nap today, so hoping he will crash sometime before 11 tonight. LOL!
Inlaws coming over for dinner tomorrow. I'm going to fix DH botulism for breakfast (eggs, cheese, potatoes and onions). And briscut for dinner. Or burgers.
Jenny
http://heresyourtrouble.blogspot.com/
Jenn, I really love Texas,
Jenn, I really love Texas, too. I live just 30 miles from the state line and have to do any real major shopping there (real mall, Sam's, etc). The atmosphere is so different and just...cool. But, DH's roots are here and it's hard to just pick up and move a farm. LOL!
Linda, the reason why that house was so clean and declutter is because it was on the market! I bet if it wasn't for sale that it would have been messy. LOL!
I did town today. But didn't get much accomplished as I had hoped.
First I stopped by MILs. Someone DUMPED some puppies at her doorstep Sunday (literally. Someone dumped them in the middle of the night. Town people just think country people can have all the dogs we want because we are country. Inlaws don't WANT a dog, much less two). I've been calling around and was going to take them to the pound. But then I just couldn't. They are so cute (chocolate lab mix). I found a taker but she won't have her back yard fixed til end of summer. So, in the mean time I'm going to try to keep them for her. She works at the country radio station and said she would ask on the air for takers as well (she cohosts the morning show).
Soooo, since I had these puppies with me, I didn't want to leave them alone in the truck. I'm afraid they may jump out if I left them in the bed, so I didn't do grocery store. That's ok, because DH had business in town too and said he would pick up the few items I really needed (milk, bread, diapers, cokes). I did go to the feed store and bought more dog food, then saw boots were on sale and got both boys a pair, then decided I needed a new pair of jeans since my skinnier jeans are now too tight jeans. Then decided since DS2 got new boots he needed new jeans, too. LOL!
Then, McDs have Happy Meals for $1.69, picked up 4 of them and a quarter pounder meal for me (hmmm, why can't I fit into those jeans?). Now home and hoping Tex is ok with the new pups for a while.
I desperatly need to fly and DH might have done something today to get my butt in gear. I won't elaborate right now, though.
Jenny
http://heresyourtrouble.blogspot.com/
Nothing like a bug to inspire you!
Woke up this morning to the sound of cat #1 making a twittering noise. There was a big roach dead on the floor. YIKES!! I hate bugs. That is it!! I got out my new camera and took pictures of 10 hot spots. That is just downstairs!! I am tackling them today! When you see it in pictures, it really looks bad. I didn't think my house was that cluttered. I am going to print out each hot spot and then tackle it. I put the exterminator on my list to call. I wish I could donate one full day to cleaning without having to stop to run errands. DS has dentist cleaning today. I think I should work on making all appointments on a single day instead of spreading them out all week.
Making progress
I am cleaning out my office to help it return to its other function as a guest room. So far I have gotten rid of two giant bags and two boxes of recyclable paper, and I've sorted tons of the girls clothes into "keep for another kid or season" and "yard sale." My little one just got a huge influx of "new to her" clothes!
We toured an awesome old farmhouse that would have been a total nightmare to make livable. Shag carpeting on the *walls* of the bathroom! An attic full of mouse poop. An ancient kitchen. The old couple who lived there had died and a young son was living in there just trashing the place. A real shame -- we could have gotten it for a good price, but I didn't have the energy to oversee the necessary renovations. I still think of what could have been . . .
Better get back to work! Been out running errands and working, now I'm relaxing after driving the kids around.
Shaun
www.redseahomeschool.wordpress.com
Hope everyone had a good
Hope everyone had a good holiday weekend and are now back to the old grind and SCHOOL. Oh, wait. My kids are OUT of school! LOL!
Sorry, didn't mean to rub it in!
After DH got done baling 60 acres of hay and cutting another 60, we decided to go to the movies last night with the kids. Saw the new Indiana Jones movie, very cool. I think Harrison Ford looks more handsome as he gets older. And he still looks EXACTLY like my father.
My only TADA was doing laundry. I worked on a filing project for DH much of the day (alphabatizing a notebook of his and putting a database of it in the computer). But today I'll have to get busy on stuff.
What a day...
Sorry for the really long post! I am jealous of how focused you all are. I wish I could get more done. I need structure and discipline. I am seriously lacking in both. I also have a touch of ADD, procrastination, and denial all wrapped into one
PODA
Tumbling class, private and then posting of the teams. I am MAD. Poor DD (and 13 other girls) were hoping to be on a level 3 team, well, turns out they decided that they want a really strong level 2 team, so no level 3 for any of the girls. Unless you cheer, you might not understand, but what you will understand is that I have been paying for DD to have private lessons to perfect a skill to be on this level 3 team. 3 private lessons a week @ $30/lesson since March. All for nothing. And on top of that... Today, she lands her tuck. So, we just got a raise here, because now, we are dropping all private lessons and just doing 1 tumbling class. I tend to be the squeaky wheel, but I think I will keep my mouth shut at the parent meeting next week. I am sure there are plenty other parents who will gripe. We have 33 girls on a level 2 team. There are quite a few girls on this team who are barely level 2. I am sure there were 13 girls crying today when they found out all their hard work was for nothing.
DD channeled her sadness and cleaned her closet and her room. She is the most organized person I know. Her room looks like it is out of BH&G. She even went through all her drawers and filled up a bag to give to our neighbor.
DD had baseball game. 97 degrees. I stayed for 3 innings and then bailed out. Came home and took nap. This heat absolutely drains me.
Went to eat dinner at my favorite restaurant....Luby's. They are changing it up and I don't like it as much. However, it was kids eat free! DH hates Luby's, so I consider it a really big move that he even suggested it.
Finally got the office/guest room cleaned out. That is where I dumped all my piles. Am feeling pretty good about it. All my school papers are in one nice container to be filed. If I never get to it, I will be ok. Found second birth certificate that I needed for DS. Saved a trip into the city for that one! Went to vacuum and the stupid thing broke again. Yep, kicking it to the curb on Tuesday!
Tomorrow will probably be shot. Church at 11:00, DD bbgame at 1:00. Will be hot again, so I will surely come home drained and take a nap. Maybe in my to do list I should start including naptime. Somewhere in there I need to make a trip to the Grocery/Walmart. Got a Paula Deen cookbook at the library and there are a few recipes I am going to try. Venturing outside the box. DH already warned me "if you can't cook it on the grill, you can't eat it". How did I end up with him? (Mr. Recliner watching a 13 inch tv.. Ha!)
Ya'll have a great evening!!
Mellow day
Funny, I was just thinking what a relaxing day this is when I remembered that I have writing work to do. Oh well.
We hit the farmers market this morning -- we draw a really nice group of growers and ranchers. Came home with brats, eggs, berries, tiny red new potatoes, dill, honey, and some mixed greens that were set up to look like a beautiful bouquet. I meant to buy some basil plants but I forgot. I'll get the pots ready and maybe we'll go next Sunday.
Been tearing apart my room this morning -- big stack of give aways, and a basket of stuff for winter storage. I think we might have our visiting friends stay in our bedroom so I can have my office whenever I want it, so I thought I'd clear them a drawer, even if it's only for a few days. My ultimate goal is to get rid of the second dresser in our bedroom completely, but I'm not sure that's possible.
Oh, BTW, we did first see all the Star Wars the right way -- we went to the theater for 1, 2, 3, and of course went to the 20th anniversary screenings of 4, 5, 6 before that.
No idea what's for dinner -- I think salmon/pea pasta if we have enough peas.
Shaun
www.redseahomeschool.wordpress.com
Good Evening! Hi Becky!!
Good Evening!
Hi Becky!! Glad you stopped by.
TADA
morning routine
read paper
DD to camp
volunteered with DS at food pantry
sorted mail
couple calls
picked up DD
dinner
reading
Heidi
Shuan, that is the WRONG way
Shuan, that is the WRONG way to watch Star Wars!!! You watched 3 first?! That's just...wrong!!! Can't be like a normal person and watch 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3. I loved watching in that order, so cool to see how it ended, then how it started, and wonder how on EARTH are they going to tie it all together.
Once again there was rain last night and again this morning, and every bit of it MISSED us. I have seen it go east of us, west of us, plumb go AROUND us completely! This is totally frustrating.
I'm making a pound cake and brocolli casserole for tonight right now. It's a busy day. Town is having Heritage Days this weekend, and about 10pm last night found out we (our villages volunteer fire department) may put our new fire truck in the parade this morning! So, I've collected some children together to ride on the top of the truck. Need to be at the starting point at 9:30. I'm going to jump in the shower while cake finishes, get the boys up and going and try to run to Walmart before the parade to get some candy to throw to the crowd. While we are in town might as well check out the Heritage days stuff.
Then later we plan on taking the kids swimming in our new stock tanks, and SIL and I are fixing a meal of tri-tip steak, my caserole, grilled corn on the cob, homemade ice cream to go along with my cake and strawberries. Will end with Margaritas and beer and pickin'.
Ya'll have a great weekend!
Jenny
http://heresyourtrouble.blogspot.com/
Gosh, yes lots of empty
Gosh, yes lots of empty churches! I do feel bad - haven't been in 3 weeks but life has gotten in the way - maybe a bullet post in best for me...
*DD9 has lice - for a week now - still finding some eggs - lovely - this has consumed an hour or more every day
*doing tons of laundry, mopping, vacuuming - my house has never been cleaner!
*enjoying warm weather and ac too - gardening some
*Jenny,yes my DH is a Luddite (or was) - I think he just didn't want to be accessible to me all of the time!
*dealing with DS's baseball issues - he is in a hitting slump and it is bugging him
*thinking of what projects I want to tackle after I have foot surgery on 6/23 - scrapping, cleaning hotspots - I will be on crutches and have one of those really lovely boots on one foot - i am looking at it as an opportunity to get some projects done that don't require a lot of moving around
*Shaun - I'm glad you are back! Yay! Love to hear your wisdom.
*I want to buy a camper like Jenny's but DH doesn't
Ok, need to get to bed -
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Hi from me, too!
Oh, Shaun, I hear ya about doctors! All I can say is, be a squeaky wheel.
We are in Silver Spring, MD at the moment. DH has been attending a series of appointments at the Deployment Health Clinical Center at Walter Reed - a mere 28 months after he came home early from Iraq in order to find out why he has been so sick. Better late than never, eh? Some fresh ideas and new approaches have been considered here, so I'm keeping a positive attitude.
I don't know if I've mentioned this here, but I went back to work about a year ago. I work nights/weekends in a rehab unit. I'm tired, and the house has suffered. Time to stop whining and start flying again!
Rose
Good Evening! TADA morning
Good Evening!
TADA
morning routine
read paper
kids off to school
bank
library
bought cat food
donated some old shoes and stuff
sorted mail
2 loads laundry
walked with DD
PODA
dinner
DD shower
reading
movie night-"Juno"
Jenny- I saw someone use the frame from an old bed and plant flowers inside of it. A true "flower bed" LOL And then there's flowers planted in old boots,hats,wagons,etc,you get the idea....
Heidi
Good Afternoon! Jen-well
Good Afternoon!
Jen-well wishes sent your way
Jenny-would you build first and then move into it or are you thinking of selling first? Wow,after you got your kitchen all nice and all.
TADA
morning routine
read paper
bought DH bday gift
market for odds and ends and carrot cake ingredients I needed
baked cake
sorted mail
PODA
tidy up
vacuum lower level
dinner out(steakhouse)
Heidi
Morning gals! Spent
Morning gals!
Spent yesterday in town. It was about a wasted trip to c-town, Lowe's didn't have ANYTHING I needed. All I ended up getting while in that town was the capo for my guitar. Got groceries in small town. Walmart also had nothing of the garden stuff I wanted. True value had one, but I couldn't fit it in my SUV, and the one nursery place is closed on Monday's.
BUT, I don't get to stay home today. DH needs some tires replaced for a plow and a trailer, needs parts picked up in C-town that came in yesterday afternoon, and so I will be BACK up there today with the pickup. Also need to run to bank for him to get some money for his trip tomorrow (flying to Colorado and bringing back a big fire truck!), and I'll hit the nursery that was closed yesterday.
At least I'm going in the pickup. I LUV driving my pickup. Sometimes I'm tempted to get rid of my SUV and just drive that. But I need the expedition, too, so I don't. I'm just spoiled. LOL!
Hi Everyone - I've typed
Hi Everyone -
I've typed about 4 posts, but they keep getting flagged for some reason!
So I'll keep this one short just in case. Just got back from taking my folks to the airport. They will be back on October 1st. It was great having them. We did a TON of stuff. I am looking forward to slowing down some though - I am beat!
Laundry is folded, not put away, did a WM run - that's about it!
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I'm boiling!
It is sooo hot here that I'm not getting much done. DS is still in daycare because I'm starting a new job soon, so I was going to try and get the house better-organized, but it's only happened halfway so far.
Take our rain
As you may know, since we live near Iowa, we have all the rain we need.
Good to see you Becky!
I have being doing some deep cleaning under the beds -- ugh! My bedroom and then my office day bed. I still need to swiffer and roomba again, but I got the big chunks.
DD5 and I got the 1st floor ready for roomba but then I never ran it -- whoops. Maybe after dinner.
Forgot to mention that we went to Disney in the fall and had an awesome time. We stayed at the Contemporary on the monorail -- so nice. Nothing like putting 2 hot tired girls on a train that goes directly inside your hotel, no more walking required. We stayed at Wilderness Lodge on our honeymoon, and it was also really nice.
Gotta go make dinner -- asparagus risotto, I think. Gotta use up the asparagus. Probably will start watching Ep.2 of Star Wars tonight -- we have been watching them all out of order since DH started his interview process for the new job, for mindless stress relief. We did 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, so now we just need to watch the one about the clones.
Have a good weekend!
Shaun
www.redseahomeschool.wordpress.com
Hey Everyone! Sounds like
Hey Everyone!
Sounds like everyone is rockin' and rollin' except for me!
Happy Birthday Ch'ree! Did she share the cake Jenny? Send a piece my way please.
Flying?
Well, I flew to 4, yes 4 baseball games last weekend. Ouch. Two tomorrow night. One Saturday. And one other that we don't know the date of b/c it is playoffs. All good though. DS's team is struggling. If everyone is on, we may have a chance of winning the playoffs, but it would be practically a miracle. The funny thing is, all of these boys who are playing against each other are going to the same baseball camp the following week and they will have forgotten all about playoffs! Well, maybe.
We have maintained, thanks to DH. Floors are vacuumed, sheets are cleaned, laundlry is done, dishes are done. Bathrooms are cleaned. I did a big WM run yesterday, practicaly bought the store out. I am really trying to cook at home through all of these games, but it is hard. We often don't get home until 8:00 or 8:30 and it is practically bedtime. Noone wants to eat at 5:00. We have done our share of take out pizzas and Wendy's.
Just a few days left of work for me and then I can tackle those glaring hotspots in my house!
Andrea
http://blackcatchronicles1.blogspot.com/
Andrea, I just use a
Andrea, I just use a calender. Actually three of them. LOL! I have a really cool Bonnie Boynton one that is divided into 5 columns, one for each family member, and you write down what that person has on that day. Works pretty good, except that their are six of us, not 5. And that things like "grandma's birthday" doesn't fit well on it. So, I have my regular free calender that the insurance agent gave us, and that has meetings, appts, and can include extended family birthdays. I also have my Paula Deen Weekly Planner that has tons of recipes that do my waistline no good at all.
Linda, I hear you on doing them on a single day. My dr. won't see more than 2 kids at one time, but I really haven't had a problem with that, my kids never have anything more than a cold, only the girls have had one ear infection each. I'm lucky. Though I do need to schedule a dental cleaning/checkup one of these days.
I should take pictures of all my hotspots. Good idea!
I've recooped from my running around yesterday. I should workout this morning, but dang if I just don't feel like it. I will go out and do yardwork before it gets too hot. And I need to do laundry since it hasnt' been done this week. Maybe DD11 and I can do a baking project from her 4-H book. Those are very hard for me. I have the tendency to take it over because I want it done right, quickly, and with the least amount of mess. LOL!
well...
Called Eureka and they said yes, we have a problem. Took it to a shop they recommended and voila, fixed! The brushroll was actually broken, and under warranty. The belt does come off but you have to work it at a weird angle. Have I vacumed? No. I have spent my afternoon shredding a box full of old bills and doinking around with the pool bids. I'm off for my 15 minutes in closet and then to cheerleading.
The Dyson sounds great, but I can't justify it. The guy at the vacuum place said that Consumer Reports doesn't like them, but every single person I know that has one loves them, but I guarantee you if I go buy one, mine will be the one they wrote about. Sheesh, another day almost gone without much accomplished.
Linda, your vacuum sounds
Linda, your vacuum sounds like it sux (as opposed to sucks. Get it!? LOL!!). I am a Dyson person, I spent $380 on the cheapest model Lowe's had (it was on sale at Sears and when I told Lowe's that, they met the price and knocked another 10% off). I've had it for 3 years and (knock on wood) not a problem yet. I cannot believe how much better it worked than my Hoover that I loved. I wanted to replace the Hoover with the same, but Sears was out of stock for at least a week or two. Everything else was really cheap or really expensive. Totally worth the money on the cheapest Dyson.
I did 3 loads of laundry yesterday. I stuck to my slimfast for BOTH breakfast and lunch. Found part of the floor in the boys' room. DH cut 60 acres and called it a day, spent the rest of the afternoon napping/hanging with us. This morning I got up and did 30 minutes on the treadmill, 1.745 miles. Then did a 16 minutes WO tape. Took shower. Only going to be 97 today. LOL! But nice outside right now. Friend is having a Mary Kay party, I'm debating going or not. And I think I'll deep clean kids bathroom today.
Jenny
www.jandjessary.com
Just sayin hi
Peeking into the flybabies too. I'm too tired to get into what's been going on here -- maybe later, when I get riled up about Dr.s again!
Glad to see you guys are still flapping along!
Shaun
www.redseahomeschool.wordpress.com
Friday?
Yesterday TADA:
*canned 11 jars of homemade strawberry jam (yummy!)
*4 loads of laundry washed, folded AND put away!
*cast iron bathtub moved, flipped over and in place (took alot of help from the 4wheeler and a 50# chain. I bet the tub weighed 300 pounds! at least!
*filled tub with three wheelbarrel loads of dirt, plus filled an old washing machine tub with another load (these are my containers in the garden this year)
Not alot of flying, but those were projects that needed to get done. I think I'm going to plant strawberries in the bathtub, or an herb garden. I need to plan a trip to C-town one of these days and raid the Lowe's garden center. I want some blackberrys, too.
Today, DH may need me to move tractors around, and need to do one load of laundry (DH has to have the shirt he wore yesterday clean for tomorrow), not sure what else we will do yet.
Good Afternoon! TADA morning
Good Afternoon!
TADA
morning routine
read paper
DD to camp
volunteered at food pantry with DS
donated some of DD clothes that consignor didn't want
library
sorted mail
picked up Dd
PODA
mow front yard
dinner
DD shower
reading
If you were closer, I would take a chocolate lab. Our dog that was put down in February was part lab too(black lab). We are getting closer to adopting another dog,maybe in a month or so.
Heidi
TADA morning routine read
TADA
morning routine
read paper
DD to camp
watched FAME with DS (he'll be doing the play at camp)
vacuumed main floor
put away 2 loads laundry
sorted mail
couple calls
picked up DD
PODA
dinner
reading
Heidi
PS-happy bday to your DD jenny!
Good Afternoon! TADA morning
Good Afternoon!
TADA
morning routine
read paper
kids off to school
many business type phone calls
vacuumed main and top floors
1 load laundry
PODA
sort mail
read and relax
dinner
homework?? probably not.
Tomorrow is the last full day of school,then a half day Thursday then......SUMMER!
Heidi
flapping along
Andrea I hope that goes well and maybe it will even cool off a little for you. If not at least you have a valid excuse to languish in the AC. Jennye girl your list always putting me to shame! Well Josh and myself and the kids are meeting the realtor today to go look at a 2story 1901 farmhouse with barn and outbuilding and 5 original fireplaces! I have looked at pictures online and it looks beautiful but it will need some work. As long as that some doesnt get too big we are going to go for it.
I picked up the oldest 3 from granmas on saturday and summer hit me like a ton of bricks. We went to the lake swimming sunday and it was a nice time. Over the weekend I managed to tear my shoulder though and I am "supposed to be keeping my arm in a sling" well i cant do anything without both my arms so....monday i just got nothing done but not today.
tada's
lunch from leftovers
laundry
cleaned countertops
put away bedding
PODA
go to the market
more laundry
unload dishwasher
make my bed
tidy my bathroom
vacume
well maybe i can get some of it done and sneak back into the sling before my arm falls off!
jumping back in
seems i always come back to TNH when there is a big transition in my life. Being an on again off again flybaby has been a blessing and I want my life to be blessed once again. Lots has happened here I see and in my life as well. I can't wait to catch up with you ladies once again. My secret sisterhood here at TNH has always been a source of comfort,strength, and knowledge. With that being said I need to stretch my wings...
TADA's
Made the bed
Breakfast
Made DS3's bed with him
Tidied stray stuff in bathroom
Swished the toilet
put last nights dishes away
ran wrinkle release on things in the dryer
started on dishes for today
PODA's
Finish dishes
make lunch
Start the braising beef for tonights meal
vacume
finish laundry
mop
boys bath
dinner
where was my to do list?
Got off to a great start.
Made homemade french toast from the old Betty Crocker cookbook
Made orthodontist appt
Confirmed specialist appt
Folded two loads of laundry
Started a third load
Took DD to dr. she has bronchitis.
Stopped at the home depot to get flowers, planted one row and got attacked by some sort of biting insect. Welps on the back. Stopped and took a break.
Took nap with DD
checked emails
Looked at pile of bills sitting in the corner... everything is paid online, I wish they would quit sending me paper copies. A few manage to sneak into the pile and not get paid until right at due date.
Hoping to get motivated. Think I will make sweet tea and clean up the kitchen.
Looks pretty good when you write it out. I don't look like that much of a slacker.
morning frustration
ok, I admit it, I am a morning person. I like to get up early drink my coffee and enjoy the relaxing time alone before the kids get up. Well, my vacuum cleaner broke last week. Started having that "belt is broke" smell. I just shut it down, grabbed my cheapo "great on hardwoods but sucks on carpet" and used it. This morning I decided to change the belt on the Eureka. I am not challenged when it comes to fixing things. I consider myself pretty handy. I have several degrees, I can read a manual. I spent over 90 minutes trying to fix the stupid thing, and it is still not fixed. The belt is not broke, but all this black soot came out, all over my carpet, that I can't vacuum up because the thing is BROKE. So I decide to replace the belt anyway. Well, there is no way to take it off. It has this metal piece that butts up against the motor so you can't slip the belt off. The manual doesn't even show this. Usually, you just remove the brushroll, slip it off the motor and replace it. Once you get the belt off the brushroll, there is no way to remove it from the motor part. If I could draw a picture, I would. Sheesh!!! As soon as Target opens, I am loading it up and taking it back. I don't care if I have had it for a year. I know you Dyson people out there, but I am not spending $500 on a vacuum cleaner. I have hardwoods with 2 area rugs downstairs and freize upstairs, 2 cats and a lab, all who live inside. I am an unhappy camper.
Todays hopefuls
return p.o.s. vacuum cleaner
finish closet
load up donations
swim
cheer private
baseball practice
dessert and coffee with friend.
Have seen just abit
I saw just a little bit of New Mexico Jennye. I was living in Kerrville its a bit south of San Antonio. Its in the hill country so its still a bit green. Its along the Guadalupe river too so that helps the greenness. I did get out quite a bit though I wandered all over TX whenever I had a weekend off. We would go see someplace new there. Im convinced Texas is like devine somehow. I loved that place and cried so hard leaving. I am happy to be home around my family but TX will always be my favorite place I have lived. Josh is in love with North Carolina but I dont see why. He was born and raised until about age 11 in England. New Mexico was beautiful I thought but maybe Im half lizard or something because I love dry heat and my home is very opposite its so humid!
Well Josh and I are taking the kids and heading back to the town of our high school days to help out each our parents. He is gonna visit his dad while his Mums away on a trip and help him fix some things around the house and I am gonna go over to my parents to help them clean out some storage and rearrange things. We will be staying nights at my parents but we wont be seeing alot of each other during the days. So today I really have to get the ball going and I overslept.
Hope you have fun at Disney land! LindaM
Becky its great to see you and Hedic and Shaun. I was wondering where everyone got to it was looking like just Jennye and Linda when I came back!
Tadas(yesterday)
Got the shopping done I hadnt beccause of not knowing where things are
picked up my glasses
paid some bills
got new cell phone service in NC (finally)
dishes
laundry
put winter things in the attic
got lipstick stains out of the carpet
made pancakes and froze about 5 breakfast worth of them for the toaster.
cooked big chicken dinner
Podas
laundry
clean kitchen and master BR
DEEP clean our bathroom
get everyone packed for the thur-sat trip
spagetti dinner (too easy)
clean out my durango for the trip
now heres hoping next week goes well because we are planning a camping trip.
Good Afternoon! I am off
Good Afternoon!
I am off today,yeah!
TADA
morning routine
kids off to school
DD class to give end of year teacher gifts
library return
bought stamps,mailed bills
planted tomato plants
sprayed weed killer along driveway
sorted mail
PODA
put away laundry
vacuum
read paper
dinner
reading
DD shower
Heidi
It's 4 and I finally made it
It's 4 and I finally made it home! I feel like I have been to the ends of the earth and back. I have put about 142 miles on the truck today doing errands for DH, getting parts, having tires mounted for the plow, bringing those to the field, back to town to go to the bank again for him, through our village to vote, finally home.
But the garden store was OPEN today, and they had lots of blackberries, strawberries, and apple and peach trees! Whoohoo!! I'll try to get it all planted tomorrow. It's 102 outside right now and I just want to lay down and rest for a second.
More organizing
Wow, since I have started posting again I have started flying almost without trying! Well, everything is still a mess, but I have done a lot of decluttering.
Today it was the bathroom and the linen cupboard -- I have a huge bag of toiletries for the "free store" (serves homeless and very poor families) plus I pitched a ton of expired medicines, ancient nail polish, etc. That linen cupboard is like a giant junk drawer (not as giant as DHs offices -- the walk-in junk drawer!).
I can smell the grill up in my office -- we didn't get to grill last night so we are putting on some chicken legs that've been sitting in lemon and garlic, and I will make some corn on the cob too. Yum!
Shaun
www.redseahomeschool.wordpress.com
Yuck!
Jenn, so sorry about the illness. I did some more filing and sorting of stuff in the girls room today, and cleaned off the top my dresser, which is like a giant garbage pile! Everything from pockets in the last several months is up there.
I have such exciting news to share -- DH got a new job today! Just got the offer. It is *such* a better job for him, and he'll be working from home, which will be an adventure for all of us. (Finally a push to get that 2nd bathroom going.)
Gotta go get ready for our celebration dinner out!
Shaun
www.redseahomeschool.wordpress.com
Hi All - Wow, everyone has
Hi All -
Wow, everyone has lots of news! How exciting!
It is fun to dream Jenny! I can't believe that you could sell your house for twice what you paid. Wow! Not here - maybe 1 1/2 if we were lucky.
Shaun, congrats to DH. I had surmised that that is what was going on from your blog. He had worked for the U of M,right? How will it be having him home? I s'pose you don't know yet.
Yuk Jen! Hope they are better soon, ick ick ick.
I am beat - very busy time of year. I have not been home enough to get some things done. Keeping up though, cleaned a bathroom tonight. Purchased DH's gift - a new cell phone - his first. We are going to wrap it and then call it! Should be fun! Getting together with two friends and their kids tomorrow for a couple hours, then three hours of games, then ???????
We are going to a Red Wings game on Sunday with our Little League - should be fun - it is a Fathers' Day tradition for us.
I'm off guys -
http://blackcatchronicles1.blogspot.com/
I cleaned like crazy this
I cleaned like crazy this morning. DH visited an appraisor/realtor yesterday. They said they would be out today at 1 for the appraisal. So I had to get busy!
TADA:
*lawn mowed
*kitchen all cleaned, wiped down and floor mopped
*mopped office and laundry room
*cleaned both bathrooms
*vacuumed whole house
*cleaned desk off
*dusted
*ordered kids to pick up their rooms. They did a pretty good job
*had girls clean the patio while I was mowing
The appraisor is here now. Of course DH knew them from his teen/college years, someone he used to consume mass quantities of beer with. LOL! They finished the house, now are all out in the pickup looking at fences, wells, soils and grasses and lord only knows what else.
I'm a bit pooped. But I need to make cake for tomorrow. DH's aunt called and her grandds are spending the night, wanted to know if my girls wanted to come, too. So I'll run them to town for that, and possibly swing by the store and pick up stuff for big dinner tomorrow (inlaws 40th anniversary. SIL and I are fixing a nice meal for us all). I know I need stuff for homemade ice cream, maybe some strawberries to go with the pound cake I'm fixin' to make.
Jenny
http://heresyourtrouble.blogspot.com/
ps, more prayers for rain, please. We finally got .21 yesterday. But need at least an inch and a half for us to plant.
I'm baaa-aaack
Hi, I'm sorry it's been so long!
I am at school. And I am very, very tired. But it's great to see you all again.
I'll try and keep up better now. DS and DH are fine.
still doing laundry
TADA
laundry 2 loads put away
Cleaned kitchen
washed and put away dishes
vacuumed floor with old vacuum
took DD to dr. appt.
made all beds
went to grocery store
Then depression set in...
Went and looked at house for sale with pool in next subdivision. Got depressed and came home. Didn't really like the house. Pool was beautiful and the house had no clutter. That is what was depressing. I am ready for them to start digging our pool and for my house to be clean.
Morning gals! Happy Monday!
Morning gals! Happy Monday! Is it Monday? Really? I wasn't sure, not having SCHOOL to keep my days straight. LOL!
I woke up at 6, again. Why do I not sleep in on mornings I don't have to get up?! Anyway, got up and did my 20 minutes on the treadmill, then a short workout tape.
We kinda did our home blessing together on Saturday. But I was toying around with the idea of planning a trip to town. I'm out of cheese (GASP! The kids won't like that!), and of course it never hurts to pick up milk and bread at any time.
Then again, it's supposed to be WINDY and 104 today (in other words, it will feel like a hairdryer if you step outside). My desk really needs to be cleared off. The hot spot by DH's chair does, too. Not that those are the only two around. LOL! We will just see what the day holds. Oh, it's laundry day, I can do that.
Good Evening! TADA morning
Good Evening!
TADA
morning routine
read paper
orthodontist appt
Subway for lunch
cleaned out MOm's garage
kids out for ice cream shakes
sorted mail
dinner
camp meeting with DD
Tomorrow is DH bday so I will be making him a carrot cake and DD and I will make bday cards and hang streamers and such in the dining room. PLanning on eating out if he gets home early enough,he has been working late on this remodel job.
Have a good night
Heidi
Good influence
I've been getting more done -- I credit you guys.
Lots more dealing with paper clutter today -- filing the stuff that I couldn't toss. Also deep cleaning in my office. Of course, if you saw my office, you might say "You did what exactly?" But trust me it is lots better.
I am a Roomba person, but we also have a HEPA that I think is a Eureka model. We got it after DD9 got diagnosed with allergies and asthma.
Shaun
www.redseahomeschool.wordpress.com
Shaun, ok, I feel better
Shaun, ok, I feel better now. LOL! It's not right to see Star Wars any other way. Sounds like some fun at the Farmer's Market.
I need to clean my kitchen from yesterday morning's cake and brocolli caserole. We didn't get in til nearly midnight last night from the inlaws. I think they may come over today so the kids can go swimming (in the stock tank on that other section) and jump on the trampoline. I think I may ditch church (what else is new), but still have to go to town for admin board meeting (why haven't I dropped this obligation yet?). Maybe I'll pick up some cubed steak and rolls to make PWs MM favorite sandwich for everyone for dinner tonight.
In the mean time, except for a load of laundry and the kitchen, the house looks great. Helps not being here to keep it clean! LOL!
Jenny
http://heresyourtrouble.blogspot.com/
hot day
It registered 103 today. Too hot. Went to church, then baseball. Jenny, I don't think I ever answered you that DH plays bass guitar. When I met him he played country bars for fun. He organized a band at work and they play mostly classic rock at their business functions. He plays contemporary christian at church every Sunday. Anyway, DS won the first baseball game, but DD and I bailed after that. They lost the second one. Stopped at FIL on the way home. Said hello and grabbed the tree trimmer from him. Proceeded to cut a few limbs out of the front yard before getting it stuck. Dang. DH isn't home yet and will get a laugh out of that one. I burned chicken legs on the grill and made baked beans, green beans and biscuits for supper. Also made some guacamole for me. I will sit later and eat chips and guac and watch TV in my messy house. Decided I can't do anything on the weekends. Too much going on and I should just accept it!
Paula Deen kitchen classics my newest adventure. Her recipes are alot like my BHG cookbook. My famous meatloaf is very similar to hers. The secret is the brown sugar and ketchup glaze. However, I make about two cups of it and bake it on the top. YUM. I am going to try her Chicken and Rice casserole. DH won't eat anything resembles a cassarole, but the kids will. I had her banana pudding at a friends and it was to die for. I went to Savannah, Georgia once and loved the cooking there. But, since I live in Texas, I am pretty much a southern cook also. I perfected the Fried Chicken recipe fresh out of college. The secret is to cook it in Crisco. She cooks it that way in her book too. I am a meat and potatoes with a vegetable and roll person. I like lots of butter and honey. My mom made supper that way all my life. It is a shame that we are so blow and go, that we can't do that. The only time we all sit down and have a meal together is when we are in a restaurant. I am going to try to get to be early tonight. I am going to work on my to do list for tomorrow. We have no appointments and I want to go to the pool. Maybe that will be my reward if I get some things done.
The movie RV is on for the 100th time. I am going to go watch it and laugh. I can so relate to that movie.
More mice
We still have mice problems here. Some of you might remember when last summer we had to toss out our sofa (a very very old sofa) because mice had moved in! The mice in our house just leave droppings next to the traps, like a big "screw you!" At least now the weather is warm and they're moving out. We have an old house and it is nearly impossible to seal up the whole thing.
Another church skipper here -- DH is going out of town for a job interview (!!!!!!) so we watched escapist movies and had drinks and stuff to help with the stress. So when DD5 came to tell me to wake up at 8:15, I figured 9:15 church would just be too much work.
We have soccer tonight -- but it will probably get rained out.
I heard from a friend today that she and her family are coming and staying in our tiny house over the 4th of July. We are so happy -- they moved to India last summer, and we were so sad -- but there is a *lot* to do to get ready. Maybe it's time for me to get back to posting PODAs.
Have a nice Sunday all!
Shaun
www.redseahomeschool.wordpress.com
Good Morning! TADA morning
Good Morning!
TADA
morning routine
read paper
PODA
put another coat of paint on dollhouse with DD
make salad for picnic this afternoon
paint nails
call Mom
water garden
picnic from 2-4ish
home to callapse in the AC
dinner
showers
reading
Supposed to hit 92 here so we will see how long we last at this picnic my friend is hosting. At least they reserved a pavilion.
Heidi
All these poor churches with
All these poor churches with all us flybabies ditching them! LOL!
Andrea, your husband doesn't have a CELL PHONE!! OMG! My DH has had one since 1992! We started out in the big ol' bag phone era. One reason I started dating my hubby, he had a cell phone, he must have some money! LOL! Little did I know!
Linda: what kind of camper do you have? We have an '05 Cougar 5th wheel. Love it! Got it last year (we had an '84 for years. Loved it, too, but with 4 kids it was getting crowded). This one has a slide out and a set of bunk beds, so we all fit in there very comfortably. I hope we get to take it to FLA someday. We took it to GA for Christmas, and last year to Corpus Christi. But with fuel prices, this year we are only taking it to our family's land in the mountains a couple times and hopefully Elephant Butte to visit DH's uncle.
Shaun (I'm so glad your back!!): we finally got rid of our mice in the house by putting industrial strength gopher poison under the house and sealing up the crawlspace opening.
Heidi, enjoy the heat and the BBQ!
DH is off for his EMT thing at the fire station. I'm going to clean up the house a bit. I didn't clean the kitchen after I made pizza last night, then the boys spilt popcorn on the floor and I didn't get that cleaned up either. I need to be ready to head out to Lubbock by noon when DH should be done. Need to load guitars, kids, movies, stop by Walmart on the way and get a present for my niece. Going to run down to the barn and check the camper's mouse traps before this gang wakes up, too.
update: no mice this morning in the camper, horses are fed, kids are slowing waking up. Told them we can't go to Lubbock until the house is picked up. insert evil laugh here. They are picking up now. LOL!
Jenny
www.jandjessary.com
Icky mice Jenny. I hate
Icky mice Jenny. I hate them. My parents were here for two months! It flew by. They will stay for hopefully 3 to 4 months in the fall.
I am ditching church today to work on my PODA!
dw
laundry
clean stairs
gardening!!! (this is big)
p/u cell phone for DH's F Day gift - he is finally joining the 21st century believe it or not!
trip to grocery store maybe
See ya!
http://blackcatchronicles1.blogspot.com/
yikes on the mice
I agree, I hate mice. We had a family of them living in the garage, I left the door open and they got in the house. My old cat would come and tell me where they were, but wouldn't catch them (city cat). I finally got them all in those humane traps. I would go let them out in the field. Another thing we have in common, Jenny. We also have a camper. But it is for me and the kids. Husband won't go in it. He is claustrophobic. I pull it, back it up, set it up and enjoy it with the kids while the husband stays and works. Went to Florida last 2 years to Topsail. If you have never been, you must go. It is the Cadillac of RV resorts. I always hear of mice getting in them, but we have been lucky so far.
DD had tumbling and 2 private lessons yesterday and DS had game 2 of baseball tournament. I was wiped after all that, but DD insisted I take her to see KungFu Panda. The critics were right, it was actually good!
TADA
laundry done, folded (ok, so it is sitting everywhere, but that is a start!)
Income taxes sorted (yes, our extension time is about up)
Carried 10 piles to guest room. Decided I am tired of looking at them!
I am going to try to ditch church today, too. Husband plays in the band for all 3 services and is po'd if we don't go, but DS has game 3 of tournament @ 1:00 and possibly more if they win and DS has cheer from 5-7. I have parent meeting at 7:00 for cheer.
It's no wonder I get nothing done around here!
I got some gardening done
I got some gardening done yesterday, but no planting. Had to fix a trailer and haul off some stuff before I could do some mowing. DH got back with the new firetruck late last night and we had to go pick him up at the station. I did get most of the laundry done (but not all).
DH is staying home today, giving himself a day off after many days straight of plowing, breakdowns, cuttin, baling, and clinicals at the station in town. I think we are just going to piddle around, fixing DS5's 4-wheeler, my weedeater. Maybe I can get him to move the camper within water/electricity so I can clean it.
Good Morning! TADA morning
Good Morning!
TADA
morning routine
read paper
library( I am a library junkie)
picked up Subway for DS
PODA
surprise DS with lunch (last day of school)
sort mail
1 load laundry
general tidying up
write down and post summer rules with kids(they will LOVE this )!!!
dinner
Jenny-the only food plants I have in are tomatoes. My large veg garden is overtaken with weeds that tower close to my chin. So I am planting in pots this year. Just don't feel like messing with it.
Heidi
Heidi, we would have to sell
Heidi, we would have to sell first, then build. In the meantime, we would probably put a single wide trailer right by where we will build til the new house would be completed, then get rid of the trailer.
Of course, all this is totally in the early stages. Really too early for me to have said anything. DH has emailed a ranch realtor, but that's as far as we have gotten.
As for my kitchen, it's remodeled enough to be a nice kitchen, but far from my dream kitchen. It's still a galley, and there are several things I would have change about it if more funds had been available (double ovens, gas cooktop to name a couple. We were contemplating knocking out a wall to make it much bigger). I would love to have a spacious, well lit kitchen with an island or a snack bar that isn't in the way of anything else. I'd like a seperate dining room with room to have the leaf in the table all the time. I want a master bedroom with a decent closet, and a bathroom attached to the bedroom, with a tub. I would also like a garage that would at least fit 1 of the trucks and my Expedition, and possibly 4 bedrooms (or three larger ones). And a nice covered front porch with room for a swing and a couple of rocking chairs. I've been having fun looking at house plans, but having found the PERFECT one yet (well, not one we can afford anyway. LOL!)
TADA:
really cleaned the kids bathroom. Bath toys are taking a bleach bath right now, and I got a bunch of water/rust stains out of the toilet and tub (ZAP! restorer works wonders!!). I want to organize the linen cabinet in there, and might as well pack up all the cloth diapers. DS2 refuses to wear them at all.
Jenny
www.jandjessary.com
One down, so much more to go
I am so excited!! I finished the taxes and took them down to the post office to mail to the accountant. Cheaper to mail it than to drive it there. BTW, I need to write "stupid" across my forehead. I went to the store last night and unloaded my Tahoe. Apparently, after my last load, I never put the back hatch down. Well.... the sprinkler system came on this morning and shot water all in the back of my car. Fortunately, the blanket that I made my daughter was sitting back there and absorbed most of it. Left the windows down and I think the 104 degrees dried it. Nice thunderstorm just came through, so it cooled things down around here. Went to the library in hopes that the kids would want to get a book. I came away with 5 to their 0.
Andrea: ouch on the bunionectomy.
Jennmommy5: bummer on the shoulder
Anything that puts us out of commission is tough. There is always so much to do. I am totally unmotivated to do anything more today. I might have to set my timer and get busy.
I can't believe it, I
I can't believe it, I accomplished all on my PODA yesterday! I did just one load of laundry, but got the windows done (most of them anyway. The really bad ones. Still need to do the ones on the east side of the house, but need to wait til this afternoon for those), lawn mowed, horses fed, traps checked (no mice in 2 days), made baby blankets and embroidered burb cloths (ok, the blankets were some I had made last year and never sold), found the baby items I was looking for and delivered to girl, then to friends house for the evening where we started many conversations and hardly finished a one for the 7 children, including her 9 week old who loves for me to hold him, much to my DS2s dismay. I also took care of budget and bills for the month (still need to print the checks, though).
Today, DH is going to need a ride to move tractors around, then I'm going to go to town and get groceries and bank.
Jenny
www.jandjessary.com
HI Guys - Mucho heat here -
HI Guys -
Mucho heat here - I am at work and my office is maybe 85 degrees! Fortunately a few areas are air conditioned, so I can escape there. Thank goodness we have it at home.
I am having a bunionectomy - where they shave part of the bone down. Icky. I hope the recovery is quick! The hard part will be not driving.
I"ve been working on the gardens a lot, they are looking pretty good. Also continuing to do bedding, etc. at home to hopefully prevent the lice from coming back!
Andrea
http://blackcatchronicles1.blogspot.com/
Juno was okay. a liitle
Juno was okay. a liitle weird. Did you bbq up that snake?
TADA
morning routine
read paper
talked to Mom
took Ds to bank to transfer account
took kids out for ice cream
put away laundry
sorted mail
watched a major hail storm out our front window
played frisbee
ordered pizza for dinner
read with DD
Time to settle in for the night...I think I am gonna give myself a pedicure...woohoo!!!
Heidi
Disney sounds like so much
Disney sounds like so much fun! I hope I can get my kids there someday. My grandparents lived about 90 minutes from there while I was growing up, so I got to go alot. Miss that.
Only supposed to be in the mid-90's today. But I'm not sure what the day will hold. I'm down to my last coke, should I make a grocery run? Should I do all that I didn't do yesterday with weekly blessing and laundry? Hmmmm, cannot decide!
Jenny
http://heresyourtrouble.blogspot.com/
Heidi, you soooo put me to
Heidi, you soooo put me to shame!! I managed to vacuum yesterday and that was about it for anything other than routines.
Today I had to run to town for groceries and have a tire fixed. I was getting tired of airing it up with the air compressor out of DH's pickup everytime I needed to go somewhere. LOL! Then I managed to buy 2 carts of groceries. Hopefully I won't be back to town for at least a week.
I'm off to make some dinner now (Marlboro Man's Favorite Sandwich, for you PW readers!)
Snake question
OK, why do you bury the snake's head separate from its body? I spent too much time online today trying to find the answer. I did learn that snake's heads will bite up to an hour after being completely severed from the body. There's some kind of instinct that triggers the bite. I read some crazy stories, but apparently it is true!
We had a relaxed day today -- a little work, went to a matinee at the cheap theater, and worked on getting DD9 ready for camp.
Sounds like fun father's day plans, guys. We have *nothing* planned except that we picked up some chicken legs to grill. (Not very vegetarian, I know.) We spent a big pile of money last weekend on new clothes and shoes for DH's job interview (he has to fly out to HQ for an orientation, so at least those clothes will get one more airing!) and all of our time and thought has been on the job and on camp. Whoops! Well, is there a better FD present than a much much better job?! DH and my dads will have to wait til next week.
Shaun
www.redseahomeschool.wordpress.com
Night owl
Cat #2 woke me up and now I can't get back to sleep. Came down to enjoy to quiet, drink a sprite and read the computer. ADHD lose 1 week of work a year per MSNBC. Hmm. I can see that as being true. I have been home now for 4 days. Called the maids in today to at least get a handle on things. In college, when I had to study for a test, I could always manage to do everything but study. My goal of organizing the inside of this house lead me to the front yard. I yanked all the ugly stuff out of the flowerbeds. I have to admit, it looks gorgeous now. I trimmed the scraggly bushes in the back, left the azaleas in the front of those and then the boxwoods. I planted 2 flats of white vinca, red verbena (?) and 3 large agapanthus. Took out all the stuff from around both trees and filled them up with 5 bags of mulch. Repositioned the flagstone around the trees.
Looked at houses again today in my futile attempt to move. I decided that I actually like my house, except that it is cluttered and would like a pool and a den we can all sit in to watch tv. My husband and I fight over room design. As long as his recliner is in alignment with the big screen (which is now broken), he is happy. Unfortunately, that leaves all of us scrunched on the couch turned sideways to see the tv. Having him watch the kids little tv is poetic justice.
One house I looked at today smelled wonderful. Granted, it was decorated like a model and had a pool and a beautiful backyard. But the smell was mezmorizing. It was a candle by Circle E "tropical rain". Went and bought it. Can't wait to light it tomorrow.
I think I will try to go back to bed so I can accomplish something tomorrow.
Linda, I know you aren't
Linda, I know you aren't talking about me with structure and discipline! LOL! Do you know how many DAYS it took me to actually sit down and get the boys' room clean? Your poor DD! Maybe they will decide to do a level 3 team afterall? They should have stated that intention from the start.
What Paula Deen stuff are you going to try? I'm a HUGE fan of hers, I have every cookbook and subbed to her magazine for a while. She is a true southern cook, many of her recipies are exactly what my grandmother fixed. LUV her fried chicken. Keep lots of butter on hand.
No flying today. And I think I'm going to skip the briscuit and cook burgers and fries instead. Need to make a cherry cobbler for dessert.
Jenny
http://heresyourtrouble.blogspot.com/
Disaster and Contagion
well around about 4 am my first casualty came in to the bathroom throwing up DS9 and he was followed by a procession that included my darling Josh who is out of work today. All the poor benz drivers will be without NC's finest tech today! and of course all five babies are sick. so armed with a pot of coffee and a bottle of disinfectant I have been waging war on a nasty stomach flu witch im sure not to get until everyone is at full speed and wants to go to the park to run at 100mph. I have been staying almost even washing blankets and following my beloved germ carriers around with the spray bottle.
TADAs
cleaned vomit
administer fluids
disinfect
give baths
drink more coffee
PODAs
drink even more coffee
clean more vomit
administer more fluids
wash more blankets
dose with tlc
ponder why these things always start at odd hours instead of first thing in the morning
well wishes welcome
good luck flying all from the front lines of sickville
grats on the vaccume cleaner resolution!go warrenties!
Good Morning! Andrea-get
Good Morning!
Andrea-get well wishes sent your way. What type of foot surgery are you having?
We had a record heat wave here yesterday followed by a severe T storm and tons of rain....weird weather. DH set up the pool yesterday in the backyard. Hopefully, the kids will be able to go in it today.
TADA
morning routine
read paper
PODA
1 load laundry
couple calls
make and send Father's day card for my dad
return videos
gas in van(ouch!)
pool time
sort mail
dinner
reading
Have a good one
Heidi
Parents are gone back
Parents are gone back already? I thought that they just got there, Andrea?
I flew a little yesterday, only because someone came out to look at the AC (which decided to freeze up on me Thursday). Had to do a quick cleaning. I did get all my planting done yesterday, though. DH spent the night at the fire station (I call it a slumber party. LOL!). I made PWs chocolate sheet cake for him to take to the station for a training thing today.
Today I was lazy. I put the Expedition in the barn and gave it a good vacuuming, cleaning, armoralled the interior (you don't put that stuff on tires out here!). Did some other service to it that I could accomplish, like check tires, etc. Fixed pizza for dinner. Took the cake I made yesterday to the station. We are going to Lubbock tomorrow for my niece's birthday party. Mass quantities of beer shall be consumed, I will bring my guitar, and I just may break out in song. We will see. LOL!
Oh, I've caught 6 mice in the camper. This is gross. I cannot find where they are coming from. All I know is I have quite a mess to clean up in there. They are not living in the camper as far as I can tell, but I can't find where they come in from.
farmhouse or carnival house
we drove almost an hour out to see this farmhouse. We drove up and it had this beautiful old door frame and the newish vinyl siding...then we went inside....OH MY! It looked like some circus freaks moved in there. The kitchen was painted pink with red trim in peeling latex paint...and that was the least offensive of all the rooms. Blue and pinks and purples and oranges all clashing together making my head hurt. The paint of course is fixable but the modernization of this farmhouse was badly done....the house was build before bathrooms so someone just shoved toilets into closets with sinks and stuck a tub in a bathroom off the kitchen instead of upstairs. The only thing that looked cared for was the attic. It was a beauty of a house once but MAJOR issues. Josh and I agreed that beccause of the repairs needed it would more than double the cost and move it out of our price range.
sad to see such an old beauty like that fall by the wayside but we just don't have half a million to sink into returning her to her glory...we have to leave some money for the farm!
haha about the Tahoe thats cute! sounds like something I would do.
good luck with the mice! maybe rent a cat
TADAs
Packed Josh's lunch for work
went back to sleep!
Poda
dishes
laundry
beds
bathroom deep clean!
library
vacume
dinner
to bad about the farmhouse
Some retired friends of ours have an old farmhouse, over 100 years old. It is in shambles. They use the kitchen and the downstairs, but the upstairs is frightening. They added a bathroom to the back of the house. However, it is on 500 acres of beautiful land. They finally decided to put a double wide on it. There is a reason for everything, I have no doubt you will find what is 'perfect' for you.
TADA
1/2 way done with closet!
Kitchen clean
Added soil to garden
My next goal is to tackle some of these school papers that need to be filed. I will set my timer for 30 minutes and work on that.
PODA
to many to list....
Ok, it's Thursday. I got up
Ok, it's Thursday. I got up and worked out on the treadmill (20 minutes of alternating walking and jogging), took a shower, put dishes away while making my slimfast, now enjoying my computer time while Brad Paisley sings that he's still a guy (do ya'll listen to the words of his songs!? He is so funny!!! And cute!).
I have some outdoor work I need to get done. I'll have to wait for the kids to wake up, I'll need some help. Going to take the 4wheeler and some chains and try to drag an old bathtub up to the garden for a project. Then hook up a trailer and try to get the old stock tank up here, too (the kids swimming pool). DH is off working in town today (EMT stuff, he's playing at the fire station there all day). But hopefully I'll get some indoor work done, too. My house is in need of a BIG decluttering.
got lazy
well I just went nuts yesterday
making caseroles and homemade noodle soup with some leftover turkey dark meat. I did get everything done but its lunchtime and I have been lazy all day. Time to get to it
TADA
made breakfast (yougurt and granola)
Yea thats it hahaha
PODA
make beds
fold laundry in dryer
dishes
vacume
boys bath
wash the seat covers for joshs jeep
look at the house on the classifieds
start dinner
mop
clean bathroom
this is gonna be it for today and lucky me I dont have to cook tommorow because we are going to dinner at a couples house that josh works with at the mercades place so I get the night off all except trying to keep the toddlers clean. I hope this week I can find my way to that library to see what they offer the kids for summer.
does anyone have any experience with 4h summer programs? I need to look that up too.
Happy flying ladies!
Sounds like a nice relaxing
Sounds like a nice relaxing day, Heidi. No, not enough snake to BBQ, it was just two feet long. LOL!! (just kidding, I'm not a hillbilly!)
Last night I got the kids into gear and we mopped, vacuumed and cleaned bathrooms. It didn't take too long, either. DS5 did the vacuuming, and just did the LR (but he and DS2 had made the mess throwing animal crackers!). Girls did the bathrooms, one each, and I did the mopping. Love it when we work as a family! DH played at the fire station all day and didn't come in til 10. Left this morning at 6 to go plow all day.
Not sure what we will do, it's already in the 80's outside, supposed to be in the 100's the next few days. So much for spring.
TADA morning routine read
TADA
morning routine
read paper
did yard work at Mom's with DS
planted a few plants here
weeded a little
PODA
dinner
write a thank you note
read
showers all around
bed
Hope all you girls gave dh a
Hope all you girls gave dh a good father's day! Was fine here, hot. We tried to stay cool in the AC, it got 104 here. It still felt a bit too warm in the house. Our heat pump isn't quite big enough for the whole house, the previous owners put it in. But, we survived. We grilled the burgers, my cherry cobbler experiment turned out decent enough to eat (don't ask). DS5 got to go home with the inlaws to spend the night by himself (that is, without his sisters).
Linda, my husband taught himself bass guitar a few years ago. He gets together with a bunch of guys and gals once a month or so to pick. Will play the Sunday show at a big music thing the Lion's club does every year, too. I'm teaching myself regular guitar, and as soon as I do that, I'll work on teaching the kids. My FIL decided at age 60 he wanted to learn the fiddle, so he found one on ebay and drives my MIL crazy with it now. He drags her off to all these fiddling things over OK and Texas, and at home only plays in the only room with a TV. LOL! We only play Country stuff, really. DH isn't into classic rock (but I love classic rock, and a bit of heavy metal, too).
Well, it's Monday, ain't it. I need to print off checks and get those bills mailed. I hope to workout on the treadmill before the rugrats get up. Going to try to do a quick home blessing, pickup the boys room (should be easy), and would really like to deep clean DH's bathroom. Ugh, I hate that bathroom.
Ya'll aren't praying hard enough for rain for me down here. They took off ALL those chances we had this week (3 60%s, gone!!!). Maybe I should just wash my expedition....
Jenny
http://heresyourtrouble.blogspot.com/
Good Morning! TADA morning
Good Morning!
TADA
morning routine
read paper
DD off to camp
bought milk
picked up videos at library
couple calls
vacuumed basement and sunporch
bike ride with DS
PODA
sort mail
bookstore with DS
pick up DD from camp
pool time for kids
dinner
showers
reading
DD started camp today,will go for 3 weeks. Then DS starts and goes for 3 weeks. I staggered it so I get one on one time while the other is at camp and they are not home to gether to drive me and each other crazy!! LOL
Jenny- I hope you get rain,don't believe the weatherman!
Heidi
Monday Oh Monday!
I'm not sure but I think that there was some old superstition about the snakes head re-attaching to the body if you bury them together, kinda like a reptile regrowing a limb. Im pretty sure its just superstition though. I do know that the snakes muscles can still contract just like a humans post mortem
so that it could still inject venom. There is one superstition I found that said if you kill a snake and hang it over a tree limb it will cause it to rain so maybe that will help your rain problem Jenny!Ha Ha.
I do miss Luby's we dont have them here but in Texas I came to know and love it. I also miss jack in the box and what a burger and taco casa and dairy queen being a resturant and not just ice cream! The food was sooo much better. Next week I just HAVE to make french fries and gravy. I turned my nose up at it but once I tried it. mmmmmmmm!
So sorry to hear about your DD's cheer upset Linda but it sound like you have raised a very constructive young lady!
So my Josh has decided that we must wait at least till after tax time and thus wait a year to buy a house. Now he has changed his mind AGAIN and he wants to pay down some of his debt wich is now our debt. Well income tax refunds should remove alot of that. That means another year of renting and we have to find a bigger place to rent pronto because this townhouse is just too small and the kids are on air mattresses in the living room without thier own space. That is driving everyone nuts!
I still have a wedding to plan, even though its a small one, for December. I am begining to think its harder to plan a small wedding. Its more like planning what your leaving out than just including everything!
Well the sickness passed in around a day for the kids but two for me beccause only I was sick on saturday. Of course J had to go into work on saturday because work couldnt find anyone to fill in so I was sick with 5 fully healed kids! Even when he got off, he had roadside assistance duty this week and the pager went off a record number of times so he was gone till midnight! Figures murphys law! Well we survived but now I have mega housework to catch up so I better get to it.
Thanks for all the well wishes and hope you all had sucsessful fathers days.
TADAs
3/4 of the dishes
breakfast
PODA
dishes
counters
laundry
vacume
contact real estate agency
bathroom
mop
straighten hot spots
I hope I get this done in time to take the kids to the library today but I am not going to hold my breath. If they help and behave then we should all be fine.
Im gonna have to check out this paula dean I never have heard of her but I do love some southern cooking!
Hi Everyone - Happy
Hi Everyone - Happy Monday!
All this talk of food is making me mighty hungry. Stop!
Hope everyone had a good weekend - we enjoyed the baseball game. They won which was nice.
Today - 2 games tonight plus a meeting. I think it will be a pizza night. Just hoping to keep up with laundry and pick up. I am really looking forward to hitting my various hot spots once summer comes -
Andrea
http://blackcatchronicles1.blogspot.com/
Happy Monday, girls! It's my
Happy Monday, girls!
It's my DD9s birthday today. Inlaws will come over for dinner (spaghetti) and I need to make a cake for her (triple chocolate fudge).
As far as flying, I think just a quick pickup is all the house needs (well, kitchen needs a little more than that). Laundry today. Maybe while the weather is still cool I'll run outside and pull a few weeds. do my news for the paper. Not a whole lot going on. It's DDs day.
Jenny
http://heresyourtrouble.blogspot.com/
It was a good weekend
Happy birthday to DD9 Jennye! That cake sounds good!
Well our long weekend was pretty good! We got packed and I didnt forget anything. Josh forgot boxers but he said next time I am packing for him beccause I am more organized. Im not sure if its true but the flattery was great!We got to my moms thursday about five and my mom and i left the kids with dad while we went to the market for frozen pizzas for the kids and wine for the mommies.Josh went to tend his parents dogs and get his to do list. I got to chill with mom watch a chick flick and drink wine wich was great. Friday we all went to the lake with my niece cali too shes my ds2's age and it was a blast. It rained saturday and Joshs best friend from forever was in town to move his family to ft cambell ky and then he deploys to Afghanistan in Dec so we went to see them off. I went to high school with them too so we all know each other it was sad to see them go. Sunday we chilled then packed up and headed home we hit asian buffet and blockbuster. it was a relaxing evening. I havent gotten along with my mom so well in forever. I need to pick up a thank you note to send to her. The house was clean when we left thrusday so it was clean when we got home wich is the best feeling. I hate comming home to a disaster and it haunts me when Im gone. Still I have a ton of laundry....always.
It sure is monday. Ds9 has a toothache some molar breaking through the gum where he lost one last month and the gum healed before the new one came in so hes grumpy. DD6 has a swollen lip from a fall she took playing that removed a baby tooth and busted her lip good. Still hoping her top fronts dont abcess from it.
Tada's
started the laundry
defrosted ground beef for spaghetti
(impressive)
Poda's
more laundry
make the grocery list
check my bank account
unpack the cars
vaccume
have an extra key for the house made
put stuff from the weekend away
go to the market
dinner
we got some extra movies for two movie nights so tonight we are gonna watch two that we havent seen wonder emporium and I am legend. I cant wait I have wanted to see both of them and we always have fun when we do family stuff.
Happy Monday ladies.
That sounds yummy
That sounds yummy shaun!!!
Jenn, have you SEEN New Mexico? We don't have trees, just cacti! LOL! (just kidding. I do have a few trees that the previous owner had planted. You can always tell where a homestead is or was, it's the only place for miles around with a tree).
You haven't heard of Paula Deen! Girl, you HAVE to get out more! LOL! If you have Food Network, she has her own show on it. She cooks with fat and butter. LOL!
Chalk today up to a big NADA. I ended up working out by the new water tanks helping the guys with all the cement, running back and forth between the house for hoses and other supplies on the 4 wheeler with 3 kids, and running to parts store for well parts we didn't have. Then the evening has been spent watching for fires.
You girls did a good job praying. We had rain. But it managed to hit every field AROUND all of ours (although FIL's ranch seems to have gotten a good soaking according to the radar). And all the lightning from the storms have set off about a dozen grass fires all over the county DH has been out fighting them all evening, it's nearly 10 and he isn't back yet. Let's try it again tomorrow and maybe we will get lucky. LOL!
Jenny
http://heresyourtrouble.blogspot.com/
Joining the NADA
Did nothing yesterday. Went to the big waterpark in our neighborhood and sat in my float while DD and DS played. Met with the cheer coaches and then took DD to her lesson at the other gym. Took DS shopping for a new baseball bag and then to Hobby Lobby for some origami paper. Today and tomorrow are must do days! We are leaving for Disney on Thursday for a week! The kids and I are driving. DH will already be there on business. We are leaving in the AM and then driving, still cheaper than flying even with a hotel for overnight along the way. It will be really weird not pulling the RV behind me. I am concerned about bathroom stops along the way. When you gotta go, you gotta go. DD has dr. appt this afternoon, so I may head out early and stop by my old office for a visit.
This morning:
Clean out fridge
take out trash
Put away all laundry
Pay bills
Oil change/car wash
dr appt.
sounds easy enough?
Jenny, hoping for rain your way. We could use some too jusst to cool things down a bit.
happy birthday Ch'ree!
I keep thinking everyone here is like five years older than they are. It feels as though I'd been away forever.
Our a/c was broken and I wasn't getting anything done, but today did some errands and then the landlord had our a/c fixed. So tomorrow I will FLY!!!!
Rain?
Wow Heidi, you flew!!
Shaun, I wish I could fly without trying!
Jenny, I hope you got some of that rain yesterday. It skirted around us without a drop. Severe thunderstorm warnings, thunder and lightening, dark skies and nothing
Drinking the morning coffee and folding laundry. Sheesh. If I could get all this laundry done and put away, my house might be clean!!
Hope to get alot done today! Check back with you all later! Have a great day!
Good morning! Hi Becky!
Good morning!
Hi Becky! Good to see you again!
Linda, no, we didn't get any of that rain. Past two nights the big part of the storms just went around us. Like a magnate was pushing it away! But, the lightning did set off some more grass fires, which DH had to go put out, burned about 500 acres. And must have done something east of here, because we were out of power for 3 hours last night. We have 40% chance again tonight (chances that weren't on the 10-day yesterday). So I'm hopeful this is an El Nino pattern moving back into the area.
I got 4 loads of laundry done yesterday and fixed some of DH's jeans. But other than that didn't get much done. It's too hot to do anything (right? Even with AC? LOL!). I got another mouse caught in the camper, and the boys and I had to run down and check the new water tanks a couple times to see if they were full yet and if the floats were working properly. That's a good 3 miles there and back on the 4wheeler.
I still have one more load of laundry to fold. And I haven't deep cleaned that bathroom yet of DH's.
Jenny
http://heresyourtrouble.blogspot.com/
Just think Shaun, you could
Just think Shaun, you could have been on HGTV's Save My Bath or some show like that! LOL!
Jenny
www.jandjessary.com
We do 4-H, but for us we are
We do 4-H, but for us we are pretty much on our own. We are such a small 4-H club and the leader is really too busy with her own thing to do much. We meet once a month throughout the year. I fill out a form at the extension office (or give to our leader. Her mother is actually the one that I give the form to at the extension office. So I guess it's hard to complain about our leader to her mother. LOL!). Anyway, on this form the kids and I decide what projects want to do. This year we chose quilting, scrapbooking, vegetable gardening, sewing I and baking I. Of course they have tons of animal programs but I have been unsuccessful getting hubby to do animals. Alot of rules and stuff if you want to enter them in the fair, too. But I'm hoping we still will one of these days.
That is one of my big projects this summer is for us to work on our 4-H projects. the books they gave have the various projects in it, plus forms and sheets to fill out regarding judging what you have made (like in baking), expense and income sheets, stuff like that.
Contact your extension agent or go to the 4-H website.
Heidi, sounds like a good
Heidi, sounds like a good reason for a ROAD TRIP! You can visit Linda and myself, see some different country, grab a puppy or two...
LOL!!!
I put pictures on my blog of the darlings. Poor things...
Jenny
http://heresyourtrouble.blogspot.com/
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