Power ball is outrageous! I was so sure I would win by now! I had already planned things with all that money. Oh, well, it will just be more when I win.
I dutifully entered the HGTV dream home. So, it will be okay if I don't win the power ball. I will have a huge house with a vehicle and a boat on the Florida coastline. Oh no, now all of you will enter and my chances won't be as good! What am I thinking putting this out there?
Who am I kidding? I will be happy to win the five grand on Wheel of Fortune!
Monday, January 11, 2016
Saturday, January 9, 2016
Snowed In
The first snowfall of 2016. Snowed all night and still snowing. I love the fresh blanket that covers all the ugliness of winter. I think winter should be a good cover of snow on the ground and when it melts, Spring should be here with nice green grass and daffodils every where.
Doesn't work that way. But, for now I will enjoy the white grounds (from inside my warm house). Think this calls for a big pot of soup and some crusty bread. Maybe a pie? Guess I will get up off my ample keester and head to the kitchen.
I feel good today. Hope it lasts long enough to get the cooking and some cleaning done. Think I will even put make-up on and pretend I feel great!!
Doesn't work that way. But, for now I will enjoy the white grounds (from inside my warm house). Think this calls for a big pot of soup and some crusty bread. Maybe a pie? Guess I will get up off my ample keester and head to the kitchen.
I feel good today. Hope it lasts long enough to get the cooking and some cleaning done. Think I will even put make-up on and pretend I feel great!!
Friday, January 8, 2016
Giant Thumbnail
You know that brown square of plastic you get when you buy a Pampered Chef baking item? I love that thing!!
You can clean so many things with it. All the corners have different angles to fit into different creases to scrape away baked on food. It is also great for scraping the stove top and removing paint from windows! Bet you didn't know that.
So many things this little piece of plastic is good for. I have used mine in the sewing room as well to de-crease my fabric. It is also useful for scratch-off tickets, Hillbilly Mom!!
So, next time you get a piece of baking wear and that little piece of brown plastic falls out of the box ......... do NOT listen to your husband and toss it in the trash! That thing is like a giant thumbnail, you will use it on every thing!
You can clean so many things with it. All the corners have different angles to fit into different creases to scrape away baked on food. It is also great for scraping the stove top and removing paint from windows! Bet you didn't know that.
So many things this little piece of plastic is good for. I have used mine in the sewing room as well to de-crease my fabric. It is also useful for scratch-off tickets, Hillbilly Mom!!
So, next time you get a piece of baking wear and that little piece of brown plastic falls out of the box ......... do NOT listen to your husband and toss it in the trash! That thing is like a giant thumbnail, you will use it on every thing!
Thursday, January 7, 2016
Sheep Herding Part 2
When we left yesterday there were three sheep grazing in the dog park. I came inside to download my pictures and send them to my kids to make them think we had acquired sheep. I like to do that. Shock my children and make them think we have finally gone over the edge. Just text the picture and say "Got us some sheep." Then answer their "why's" with "Mutton chops and sweaters."
Fun, they are so lucky to have me as a mom .... I am fun!! So what if they call me a dork? But, that is not my reason for revisiting this subject.
When the lady with the minivan drove over in the wrecked minivan with the other two sheep to wait for her husband I decided to just stay inside, still trying to catch my breath. I happened to be in the office when they left. I saw the minivan with the smashed in back, back window missing and sheep butts visible leave followed by a small sedan. I figured they had put the three sheep in there and her husband was following her to make sure everyone made it back home safely.
I was wrong. The three grazing sheep were in the back seat of the sedan!!! I kid you not. He Who will always lend a hand helped them get the sheep loaded. He Who is not afraid to ask questions and learned that these were local people who owned a truck and a cattle hauler. Yet, they chose to shove three sheep into the back of a sedan. Ponder that one for awhile.
Fun, they are so lucky to have me as a mom .... I am fun!! So what if they call me a dork? But, that is not my reason for revisiting this subject.
When the lady with the minivan drove over in the wrecked minivan with the other two sheep to wait for her husband I decided to just stay inside, still trying to catch my breath. I happened to be in the office when they left. I saw the minivan with the smashed in back, back window missing and sheep butts visible leave followed by a small sedan. I figured they had put the three sheep in there and her husband was following her to make sure everyone made it back home safely.
I was wrong. The three grazing sheep were in the back seat of the sedan!!! I kid you not. He Who will always lend a hand helped them get the sheep loaded. He Who is not afraid to ask questions and learned that these were local people who owned a truck and a cattle hauler. Yet, they chose to shove three sheep into the back of a sedan. Ponder that one for awhile.
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
He Who Herds Sheep!
Our park has a close proximity to the Interstate. Makes it easy for travelers to pull in for an overnight stay. One of the features that made us want to buy the park.
Close proximity to the Interstate has it's advantages ..... and disadvantages. We are usually the first to know about a wreck. Sometimes we hear it. Most of the time we know about it when the traffic is at a crawl and drivers exit and think the can drive down the frontage road to the next entrance onto the Interstate. They don't see the "Dead End" sign until they have committed to the drive down the road. The easiest place to turn around is our driveway.
Cars will pull in and then back out onto the road, rather than drive down into the parking lot and come out the exit drive. We have had people try to drive through the grassy area between the drives during wet weather and get stuck. The big tractor trailers appreciate the big area to turn ...... well, most of them manage to navigate fine, while other will plow through my gardens. That is another story, though.
Today, a cattle truck must have been in a calamity, because we now have sheep wandering up. He Who loves a challenge is currently trying to herd them into the dog park. That dog park has come in handy! We have had horses and a stray dog or two spend the night in there. This is great because He Who loves animals is always bringing home dogs he sees in danger of heading onto the Interstate. They can spend the night in the dog park while they wait for the shelter to open. Before the dog park they stayed in my office ...... and my dogs went a little berserk.
I decided to venture out to see the herding. The sheep are strolling down the road AWAY from the dog park.
He Who had called reinforcements to help and learned that the sheep were being transported with two others in a minivan!!!
See the dog park? The men got in their vehicles to herd. These sheep can run fast! I just walked along behind them and headed to the park.
Wasn't all that hard, they just moved along, stopping to eat some grass.
The men came along with their trucks and horns and I just sort of shooed them in.
They seem quite content. Their owner drove the bashed in minivan over while she waits for her husband to come get them.
I didn't go back out to see the van, but was told by He Who is as nosy as he is kind hearted said she was back-ended and it was smashed up pretty good ........ and the odor was appalling. Seems that sheep like to poop a lot.
My big adventure has me winded, I am left just sitting here wondering why you would stuff five sheep into your minivan.
Close proximity to the Interstate has it's advantages ..... and disadvantages. We are usually the first to know about a wreck. Sometimes we hear it. Most of the time we know about it when the traffic is at a crawl and drivers exit and think the can drive down the frontage road to the next entrance onto the Interstate. They don't see the "Dead End" sign until they have committed to the drive down the road. The easiest place to turn around is our driveway.
Cars will pull in and then back out onto the road, rather than drive down into the parking lot and come out the exit drive. We have had people try to drive through the grassy area between the drives during wet weather and get stuck. The big tractor trailers appreciate the big area to turn ...... well, most of them manage to navigate fine, while other will plow through my gardens. That is another story, though.
Today, a cattle truck must have been in a calamity, because we now have sheep wandering up. He Who loves a challenge is currently trying to herd them into the dog park. That dog park has come in handy! We have had horses and a stray dog or two spend the night in there. This is great because He Who loves animals is always bringing home dogs he sees in danger of heading onto the Interstate. They can spend the night in the dog park while they wait for the shelter to open. Before the dog park they stayed in my office ...... and my dogs went a little berserk.
I didn't go back out to see the van, but was told by He Who is as nosy as he is kind hearted said she was back-ended and it was smashed up pretty good ........ and the odor was appalling. Seems that sheep like to poop a lot.
My big adventure has me winded, I am left just sitting here wondering why you would stuff five sheep into your minivan.
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Planned or Unplanned?
He who is in charge of the Wi-Fi network decided to make a change this year. Actually it was done last month. We were using Sprint. It was a sweetheart of a deal with unlimited usage for a set fee that was scandalously low. All was great for several years, until someone at Sprint "accidentally" turned off the Wi-Fi. When they were called to bring that error to their attention, they quickly turned it back on. The first bill after that was 10 times higher than it should have been.
Another call to Sprint. Uh-oh, that plan no longer exists! They could not just go to the contract we signed and re-instate it, because it is no longer in their "plans". A supervisor was contacted. This involved a very long wait on hold. He Who cannot be described as patient, held on in spite of the fact that precious minutes were ticking by that he could have been doing other things. He could have been mowing, or weed-eating and at one point he actually said he could have been cleaning out the barn. He did not appreciate me, the voice of reason, when I laughed and said that cleaning out the barn would take months and that he could always put his ear buds in while he was on hold and do any number of things.
The supervisor suggested that we go ahead and pay the highly inflated bill and that she would issue a credit. Really. She was told to issue the credit and that we would then pay the actual bill. Those are not the words he used. I think there was some talk of someone's head being up their butt. This went on month after month.
Then one day in December, as I was out tending my garden (it was insanely warm here and I was still harvesting tomatoes and green beans), He Who plumbs was about to leave to pick up some hydrant or something, when he place a big "X" on the lawn with yellow spray paint.
"Why are you painting my grass?" I asked. He replied, "This is where the dish is going for the Internet; the guy will be here soon, so just show him this "X". He can dig the hole here." This led me to assume the negotiations with Sprint were not going well. No, I did not ask. I was too annoyed at the location of the new dish in my yard. It creates a mowing hazard for me.
Not to worry, I will deal with it. This particular yard is inaccessible by anything other than the push mower, so lawn maintenance is mine. Forget the fact that a push mower makes lots of noise, it does not attract He Who loves gas powered equipment like the zero turn does. Why walk when you can ride?
The only bad thing about the new Internet retrieving system? He Who paints (somewhat sloppily) has not networked it yet. This means, you have to manually hook your lap top to it. Where is this hook-up located? Right next to the chair that He Who sits in. Across the room from mine. He did offer to drag a long cord to my chair, which would put it directly into the walking path that takes one from the kitchen area to the bedroom area and create a tripping hazard .....
Sprint beware, He Who is looking into another provider that will allow us to keep our phone numbers that we have had for over 15 years. I am thinking they planned this event to raise the Internet rates ........
Monday, January 4, 2016
A New Year of Deductibles
One day turns into the next as I sit and watch. Another visit to the clinic to hear the results of the marathon testing done in 2015. I still feel like crap, even without the blood pressure lowering I was subjecting myself to with a pill I once needed.
I did not have a heart attack, as proved by all the testing ..... but I do have coronary artery disease. My blood leans toward clotting and I have some calcium deposits in my arteries. Must have been all those Tums I gobbled up over the years!! I have an appointment with a cardiologist this month. Looks like I will be hitting my deductible again this year. Yay!
In the meantime, I still feel just plain bad! Fatigue and light headed. He Who loves me won't let me do much. He is painting the new siding. I had already painted the trim around the windows and such. Needs to be touched up now. He can't seem to keep the paint on the part he is painting. Drives me crazy. I ventured out to take a peek and decided it would be better if I just stayed inside until I feel well enough to tackle the touch-ups myself. I picture an endless cycle of touching up after the touch up. Black on gray, then gray on black. You see what I mean, don't you?
I feel pretty good in the early part of the day and tend to go ahead and do all the prep for dinner in case I am not feeling too good by then. He Who can cook when he puts his mind to it, but he makes such a mess. He will clean it up, but not to my liking ........ Same with laundry. He tries, but he is not much into sorting and the folding leaves a lot to be desired. On the other hand he does love to vacuum.
I think it has something to do with noise and motors. If it has a motor, it must be doing a better job! He will mop, but only spot mopping. And so, I choose not to look too closely. I did mange to change the sheets on my bed without mishap, but the folding of the clean sheets late in the afternoon left me breathless. I folded the top sheet, then waited an hour to fold the bottom sheet. I like to layer them before the last fold and tuck the pillow cases in with them. It is like a little package of bed changing necessities. I take great pride in my neat fold, as it takes up less space and space is a precious commodity in my house.
Lately, I don't care so much. I think it might be time for a little chair nap. I will kick back in my recliner with one little dog in my arm, laying on his back with his sweet little head on my shoulder. Cujo, of course. Wall-E will lay in my lap, while Toni Louise and Oscar snooze on their doggy bed right beside me.
I did not have a heart attack, as proved by all the testing ..... but I do have coronary artery disease. My blood leans toward clotting and I have some calcium deposits in my arteries. Must have been all those Tums I gobbled up over the years!! I have an appointment with a cardiologist this month. Looks like I will be hitting my deductible again this year. Yay!
In the meantime, I still feel just plain bad! Fatigue and light headed. He Who loves me won't let me do much. He is painting the new siding. I had already painted the trim around the windows and such. Needs to be touched up now. He can't seem to keep the paint on the part he is painting. Drives me crazy. I ventured out to take a peek and decided it would be better if I just stayed inside until I feel well enough to tackle the touch-ups myself. I picture an endless cycle of touching up after the touch up. Black on gray, then gray on black. You see what I mean, don't you?
I feel pretty good in the early part of the day and tend to go ahead and do all the prep for dinner in case I am not feeling too good by then. He Who can cook when he puts his mind to it, but he makes such a mess. He will clean it up, but not to my liking ........ Same with laundry. He tries, but he is not much into sorting and the folding leaves a lot to be desired. On the other hand he does love to vacuum.
I think it has something to do with noise and motors. If it has a motor, it must be doing a better job! He will mop, but only spot mopping. And so, I choose not to look too closely. I did mange to change the sheets on my bed without mishap, but the folding of the clean sheets late in the afternoon left me breathless. I folded the top sheet, then waited an hour to fold the bottom sheet. I like to layer them before the last fold and tuck the pillow cases in with them. It is like a little package of bed changing necessities. I take great pride in my neat fold, as it takes up less space and space is a precious commodity in my house.
Lately, I don't care so much. I think it might be time for a little chair nap. I will kick back in my recliner with one little dog in my arm, laying on his back with his sweet little head on my shoulder. Cujo, of course. Wall-E will lay in my lap, while Toni Louise and Oscar snooze on their doggy bed right beside me.
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