Have you ever done something really stupid? I mean so stupid you even immediately say to yourself..."that was really stupid?" I do once in a while and that once in a while happened on Friday. It kind of smacks of the same stupidity of nailing that piece of wood to my dining table while I was practicing using a hammer and nail. Now that was stupid and I say so everytime I look at the hole in my table. Anyhow on Friday we had no electricity as a storm whipped thru our area. As a resu...

There are just not enough hours in the day. So much to do, so little time to do it all. I would love to have a 48 hour day. Hmmmm I wonder about the logistics of that tho. But the days just seem to fly by. The older I get the faster they go. Today I got up early to help an elderly lady clean her home. Every Spring a bunch of us gals get together and plan a house cleaning for someone, usually an elderly lady, who has trouble getting around. Last year we did for Polly. While Polly...

Ok, I'm not making a big deal out of this, but I hung out clothes for the first time since last fall!!! I know, I know....little things. But I really enjoy hanging out clothes on the line vs drying them in the dryer. I already devoted a whole blog to this last Spring so if you want details, you can go back in time..........heh. Today was a beautiful sunny day. Cool, but nice. There's still snow on the ground but enough patches of grass (still soggy) for me to maneuver over to...

I'm looking to get out of here, even for just a few days. It's mud season in full swing and it's not pretty around these parts. The grass is peeping from under the snow in spots which is a great thing to see after a long winter. The mud I could do without. In our neck of the woods we have five seasons. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Mud Season. This past week we had a few friends come over including the guy who just put in my new laminate flooring. Each one without exception got ...

It's definitely tax time. We are now officially in zombie time. We're always looking for fun ways to get thru the time and today we had a bit of fun. I may have a new job. A bill collector. I guess the guys at work think I'm pretty good at it. Every once in a while we get no pays or those that take their return and then take forever in paying our bill. At our office we give the option of clients picking up their returns and sending their money in later. For some, that means when ...

We've hemmed and hawed for weeks finally deciding on which laminate we would choose for our living room and one bedroom. We placed our order and today was the day. Or so we thought. We were told at the placement of the order that we must be available on the delivery day. We were responsible for unloading the truck ourselves. If we were not home, the driver would not leave the materials but would just leave. We got a call yesterday that they would be here tomorrow which is today but...

Today was a good day. It was finally warm.....it must have been in the high 40's today at least. That's warm. My run, although muddy felt great. There are good running days and it's-so-bad-I-think-I'm-going-to-pick-up-another-sport-kinda-day. This was a....I-think-I'll-run-that-4th-of-July-race-this-year-kinda-day. My son made his Spring Break destination safely. With 5 College kids in one car traveling 14-15 hours I was a bit worried but all is well that ends well right? He e...

It's absolutely freezing here. Well it's actually well below freezing here. Currently it's five degrees. I just started getting myself back on track with the running and then this comes in. It makes it so much harder to get out. Sure, I've got the treadmill, but I hate running on it. It's a last resort for me. Blah! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Speaking of running. I f...

Evil. Even the word is ominous. What comes to mind when you think of that word evil? Jeffrey Dalmer? Eric Rudolph? Your mother in law? Hillary? (no last name needed) or how about that weird guy jumping over all the cars way back when? How about your boss or co-worker who just waits for you to screw up every day? Some describe evil as their kids out to get them. That thought usually passes after the teen years. How about the Muslim Terrorists? Do they qualify or are they ju...

This is sort of an update on a previous article. At Christmastime I posted an entry called Holiday Musings in which I wrote about what we did for the holidays. One of the things I mentioned was inviting a mother and daughter to our home for Christmas. They were living out of a motel and our church had been helping them since late fall. Just before Christmas they were given many nice gifts from the church family as well as many other helps and offers. They were regulars at our Wednesda...

A dilemma is a situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives and I have one right now. Here it is. For months before we went away on our latest vacation I had a friend of mine beg to take Quincy Dog the next time we needed a dog sitter. So I knew when the time came I could call on her. Well two weeks before we left she needed help with her animals. She had chickens, a cat, a bunny and a dog. We cared for her animals while she was away. I had to drive abo...

Christmas is finally over!! It's been, as usual, very busy here. It seems as tho as soon as we got home from vacation after the Thanksgiving holiday it's been go, go, and go right up until Christmas. Right off I threw a party for about 60 of us at the top of December. That was alot of fun with many surprises tucked in as well to make for an enjoyable evening. Then we had our Cantata a week later which kept me busy even tho I wasn't in it. It was a packed house two night affair. We ...

Something awful has happened here. At work my friend upstairs who usually comes down to my office for coffee had some bad news. He has an insurance business and just received a claim the night before that also hit the news. A 17 year old boy here was hit by a car just after dark. He was wearing all black and walking WITH traffic. The driver never saw him, because of his dark clothing, until too late. The driver was neither speeding nor drunk. The driver, from eyewitness account...

The presents are wrapped. The stockings are hung. The house is lit with candles in all the windows. The tree decorated to the hilt with my little angel on the top holding her light. The nativity is prominent as always and this year with lights over the stable. My Christmas village is now up with a few additions this year. My husband even hung out those pretty white icicle lights outside. I wanted to see if the boys even noticed. Probably not. I'm not too sure why I go all out li...

IT'S GOOD TO BE HOME AGAIN!! We left more than two weeks ago, our longest vacation ever. We had a blast for the most part although we did manage to wreck one transmission, get sick and maybe deal with one stress fracture. But all in all we had a good time. We started off heading straight to Hilton Head, SC. I woke up that morning with a cold to be. By the time we reached our destination I had a full blown head cold. Hilton Head.....our new favorite place. It was gorgeous the whole...