The time has come..............

For the weeds in the garden to go!

Hubby weeding close to the fence.Stalled the thing out the weeds were so thick!

Hubby and his beloved weed wacker,lol. This was taken after the job was done.

Attacking the garden.

See how high those weeds were?

Hubby surveying the situation first.



Yesterday I had asked hubby if he had been in the garden lately. He said no. I told him to have at it in the garden, since it's almost September, and the weeds have taken over EVERYTHING! First thing this morning, hubby went on the attack, lol!

See how much nicer it looks now. All of that was weeds. He uncovered 2 okra plants growing amongst the weeds. He's weeding around the zucchini plants. Think he should have done that earlier????

My poor achin back

No church today. Woke up with a back ache. No way I can sit comfortably and quiet in a pew if I can't sit in a chair in my house comfortably. I do think it's time to turn the mattress since hubby has been waking with a back ache to.


Got all my tomatoes taken care of yesterday. Went to lay down and it went all down hill from there. Just started feeling bad. I know I only got about 5 hours of sleep the night before, but I felt fine when I got up. My stomach was upset and I was tired and ache all over. I went to bed around 9 pm. I thought maybe a warm shower would help and some food. Had soup and grilled cheese. Didn't help, so went to bed. Got up around 9:30 this morning. I feel better, just my back hurts so. I much prefer a back ache to a upset stomach. Think I'm just going to laze around today and have hubby put the oil on my back when he gets up.


It' been really nice temp wise here lately. Cool nights and comfortable days. The youngest has been working his way through the house rearranging the rooms. He started in his bedroom, then him and his brother did the sun room. I asked him to do that since the roof is now fixed. Then he rearranged my stuff on the counter tops in the kitchen and Friday he worked on the living room. Today he wants to attack the small bedroom with the computer and my sewing machine. Have at it child, lol! He knows I'll never get around to it.

I'm being kicked out. See if I can find someplace to sit where my back doesn't hurt so.

Off to a good start

Today has gotten off to a good start. I'm right on track, for a change, lol!

Yesterday for work, I put on a pair of jeans that really were big on me. They kept sliding down to my hips. Checked the size and they are the bigger size I have. The bigger size I was slowly creeping into. It's really a shame because I love the brand these jeans are, but.................. Anyway, last night I was digging through the back of my closet and I pulled out a dark pair of jeans I haven't seen in a while and put them out to wear today. They are the size I'm wearing now, but you know how the same size can be cut bigger or smaller? These were in the smaller cut size. Well, put them on and they fit! I do know why they are in the back of the closet though, to short in the leg. They are the jeans I will wear if wearing boots in the winter. So back they went. But the fact that they fit made me dig deeper, through all those smaller cut jeans. Granted a few still don't fit, but quite a few do. Some were the next size down, but cut bigger. Some of those fit to. So, I'm a happy camper that the weight is slowly coming off. No, I didn't hop on the scale because I know that evil thing will only bust my bubble by saying I probably only lost one ounce. Why put myself through that? The scale is buried under all those jeans, where it will stay. For now.

My eating has changed. My mentality about eating has changed. I used to think you had to have meat, starch and a veggie for dinner. And being a single mom for years, pasta is cheap if you buy it at the dollar store. Now that I've been yo-yoing for a while now, I finally realize that there are no set rules to eat by. They boys are older now to and sometimes I'm the only one here for dinner. I can cook what I feel like eating. That and the loss of appetite some days along with the fact that I think I want something, I make it and it just has no taste or doesn't really taste as good as I remember it. I've added more fruit and veggies. But not a lot of salads because I can't always chew properly and honestly, I'm tired of the rabbit food. There are days when I find myself craving something I can actually chew and taste, but I have only been eating until that gnawing, empty feeling goes away in my stomach. Being so busy after work has made dinner later, bad thing, I know, but I don't eat much after. The occasional binge, but not like before. I usually pack something light for lunch at work, not a sandwich. Not a real big sandwich fan anyway. Sometimes a half isn't enough, but a whole one is to much. Go figure. I'm just going to keep doing this because it's working, without actually feeling deprived. And I'm going to avoid the scale!!

Last night had such a time sleeping. Wasn't sleepy. Went to bed around 1:30 am. Unusual for me, tried staying up for hubby, but the closer it came to 2 am, the more I wanted to just lay down. Up and out the door by 9 am this morning. UGH!! Since I was out I picked up the few things I need. And avoided the usual supermarket crowd for today by getting there early. All my running is done for today. Tomorrow is church and then home again. I'm feeling settled at home. Have some things I want to make. It's a rainy, and really cool day, only in the lower 50's so it's a good stay at home day.

Longggggggg day

This has been such a long day, I'm glad it's almost over. My lady didn't want to much done today because she's just wiped out. I did try to get some things accomplished for her to carry her over for the weekend. Her daughter left on Monday so this weekend will be the first weekend she's been totally alone since her husband passed. I'm wondering how she's going to make out.


I decided, after work to do the shopping that needed to be done. I did go home to drop my stuff off and get a child, pay the bills and get them in the mail, then off into town again. We walked in the door about 7:30 tonight, after leaving around 4 pm. But, got the food shopping done, errands done, dropped my time sheet off, and went looking for pillows and a small table for the living room. No luck with the table or pillows. Saw a lot of wicker furniture. I've always wanted wicker furniture for the sun room. Now I see it and don't have room for it, lol. Did get 2 new purses while I was out. Like I need another purse! One was really cute and small for church. It's woven and has a blue with white polka dot bow in the front. The other one is leather. It's small to and has a rose design on it. Good for work and good for year round use.


Yesterday I had to run to the post office in the town I work in. Now, I'm not very familiar with this town, or rather city. I usually avoid places with one way streets. I knew at some point the post office would be on my list of places to go, so I looked up the directions online. Sounds silly, but my lady is clueless when it comes to directions. All that stuff her husband handled. I'm thinking since it's a post office it would have off street parking. Wrong! And, it's on a one way street. Fortunately, a friend of mine told me the names of the three main streets in that city that all connect to the road I actually live on. Miles away, though. So, if I lose one I can always pick up another to connect back to where I need to be. It really wasn't that hard since I was paying attention to street signs, and those main roads aren't one ways. It's those little streets off the main streets that are such buggers! On the way back I had to stop for the train. I was actually wondering if the tracks were still used. At the end of my lady's street are train tracks that you actually have to drive on to go around the block. I didn't think the tracks were used because they look really close to the sidewalk, but I took a good look and they go right through the center of the city. Really cool to watch a train go right through the city.


Tomorrow I plan on using the tomatoes we got out of the garden. Making stewed tomatoes and salsa. Hubby's and ours. Then the rest of the weekend I have to work on class. Finished the study guide yesterday. Boy, was this chapter one of the longest and hardest yet! Glad I'm almost done with it!

The temps have cooled down quite a bit. In the 50's at night and 70's during the day. My kind of weather! I can only hope it stays this way. Our county fair starts on Wednesday and ends on Labor day. I've been thinking about going on labor day, since I took the day off. That's the only day they are having the rodeo. I'd love to see one again and the boys, I hope, would enjoy it. Gonna ask hubby if he can take some time off to go with us to. If for some reason it decides to get nasty hot and humid again, we won't be going.

The kids start school the day after labor day this year. Can't wait! This month just seems like it's never going to end!

Unsettled morning

This morning is one of those mornings where nothing suits me. Clothes, hair, etc. I've changed I don't know how many times, hate the do this morning, and breakfast is boring, lol. Hope work gets exciting, but probably not.


Left early yesterday to do the TBI training. TBI stands for traumatic brain injury. You can get anyone from severe to mild. Whats been happening in this state is the places that were devoted to specifically TBI are closing down. That leaves these people with few options. The healthcare agencies are picking up these people because we do handle these types of cases, just not on a regular basis. My very first case with the agency was a TBI case, but the patient was severe. This training is for the patients who basically have to relearn basic living skills all over again and can function pretty much on their own in time.

I found the training really interesting. Sounds like the kind of change of pace I'm needing right now. I really don't know what's going to happen with the lady I'm taking care of now. She's talking about different options for herself. I kind of figured this would happen so we'll see just how long this lasts for me. I don't fit any of the options she's been thinking about.


I left my lady to go do this training early. Get to the office and the woman who was doing the training had called and said she would be a hour late. Ok. Really am stuck in town because by the time I got home I would have to turn around and come back anyway. Why waste the gas. So I walk around in some stores and come back an hour later. She's still not there. Sit around in the office for 30 minutes before she finally comes in. Training was scheduled for 1-3. How are you going to do all this in 30 minutes?? By the time we got done is was almost 4pm. She did really breeze through it and skipped a lot of things. I left feeling like we really didn't get the proper training because she was late. But, its done and I was really anxious to get out of there. After 3 pm it seemed like every ones cells started going off, including the trainers, lol.


Well, need to figure out what I might want for lunch and then I'm off. Oh joy!

Feeling out of it

Today's one of those cloudy days that just makes you want to drag your feet all day. The only thing I wanted to do today was go to church, which we did. The ceiling fans were on which made it quite comfortable, I thought. It's in the upper 70's but the humidity is in the 60's so it really doesn't feel as nice as it could outside. I've kept the air on so the humidity doesn't get into my house and make us and everything feel stickie.

Tomorrow I have to be at work an hour earlier, but I get to leave 2 hours earlier than normal because of having TBI training at the office. I had seen an ad in the paper for it way back at the end of June and said something about it. They were just taking applications at that time and told me they would let me know when they had enough people to make a class. Don't know how big the class will be, probably not to large because they don't have a lot of room at the office for that kind of thing. I really didn't think anyone would let me know about it because they just kind of blew me off . I told them I was interested, but nobody wrote anything down so............. Well, Friday, before work I get a call about the class being Monday afternoon. Ok, so you remembered. Now, if they think I'm leaving my current case, they're thinking wrong. Not happening, at least not yet.


Church was really good this morning, still in the book of Daniel. Today he talked about one of Daniel's dreams. Lots of info and lots of passages to look up later. It's one of those passages where I have to go back and really reread everything. Hubby went with us this morning. I felt bad for him because I know he was tired. He was the one fidgeting instead of me, lol. He came home and took about an hour and a half nap before he left for work. I'm hoping he will close a little earlier tonight since it's usually slow anyway.


Spent almost all day yesterday out doing the shopping. So, so tired when I got home last night! The oldest birthday is tomorrow. I just can't believe the kid will be 19 tomorrow! What do you get a 19 year old anyway???? Had the youngest do some questioning and the oldest wanted to do an upgrade on my old computer. Why, it's my backup. They I find out he wanted to upgrade it so it would be faster to play games on! gggrrrrrrr The other things he wanted was a stereo that plays cd's and an ipod. I did look at them, but the only one that was compatible with the ipod touch, wasn't in stock. That was at walmart. We looked at Radio Shack, but none of theirs were compatible with the ipod touch, including the one that advertised it was! I know because I had my ipod in my purse and tried it. Didn't fit. There were others there, but way out of my price range, so since the kid hasn't done anything with his last check, I'm going to cash it for him and let him go buy the kind of stereo he wants. I figure this way when he moves out he can take that with him too. He'll have a bed, weight bench and a stereo, lol.


While I was out yesterday I figured I would get everything done, that way I could spend today home. Glad I did because I'm so not in the mood to go anywhere today. The youngest got paid yesterday, so I told him I would take him shopping for shoes and clothes for school. He always wants to go to Peebles for shoes. Mainly the vans. Well, it's ok if they are having a sale and you get the second pair, but rather expensive if not. Since hubby's been in there so much, I've actually taken a good look at the place and I've noticed, if you catch a sale and are careful about what you buy, you can do really well. I told the youngest to shop the clearance racks to get as much for his money as possible. Or, since he's picky about the kind of jeans he will wear, to make sure the sale is 40 to 50% off. I got a pair of denim capris and jeans, both Levis, for $15.00 yesterday. One pair was clearances at $12.00 and the other 15.00, and add in the other discounts, I think I did really well!


Been waiting for my Avon order and now I find out I have to wait even longer because something was damaged when it came in. She won't give me part of the order if she can have the replacement during the week. So I have to wait until probably Wednesday for it. Since I'm working more I can afford more from Avon, so I was really looking forward to this order. Oh well, have to wait just a little longer! I did give her the order for the next book. Ordered some "fun" stuff from that book to, lol.

Well, dryers done and I want to finish my study guide for this next chapter that I started yesterday. I finally got the reading done on Friday and started the guide. This one is 7 pages long. Normally the study guides are only 2 sometimes 3 pages long. But, get that finished today and I can work on listening to the class during the week. I have a feeling this class is about 2 1/2 to 3 hours long. I know I don't have the time to do that in one sitting!

Looking forward to the weekend

Every time I think my weekend is going to be relaxing and peaceful, it isn't! So I'm going to try and get that thought out of my head!


Still warm and humid here, supposed to get some relief by the weekend. Probably so with "Bill" coming up the coast. Have to say, we do need the rain. July was a very wet month, but not so much for August so far. The oldest birthday is on Monday. Haven't gotten anything for him and really don't know what to get the kid. All he wants is games and more games. All the kid does when he's not working is play games, all day and into the wee hours of the morning. Then he can't get up. I'm just not going to encourage that. He has classes in the afternoon this year, which means he can sleep late in the morning. Or so he thinks! I've already told him he's getting a list of chores to do before he goes to class.


I'm stranded at home tonight, so no knitting. Again! I have been working on my top a lot lately though. I'm almost through this long, long chapter for class. Decided to break it down into smaller pieces and work slowly through this chapter since the final exam is made up of this chapter and the last chapter. Have to pay attention!! Hubby switched vehicles with me tonight. I have the pick up. The pick up with the problems, lol. About 2 weeks ago the headlight blew so he wasn't driving it at night. They had the bulb replaced, but the mechanic was supposed to drain all the water that is sitting in the lens out and didn't. Hubby says it makes it hard to see if the light is on and he seems to think that is what made the bulb go in the first place. And, the check engine light is on and the truck runs funny after you hit 50. Feels like the engine is shaking. Ugh. Since hubby only drives the truck occasionally, and it really is more the fools, hubby wants to wait until the fool comes back, maybe this weekend, to have the truck fixed. He wants to pretend he knows nothing about the truck acting funny and the light being on because he doesn't want to fix it, lol. I say good for hubby because hubby is always paying for things for the fool. Maybe he's starting to realize just how much he's being used by his family. Anyway, hubby wasn't driving it home at night and just staying at the station. I much prefer he stay put instead of risking breaking down on the way home with the truck. Problem is, neither one of us sleeps well at night. I haven't been able to relax at night with him not there and he hasn't gotten much sleep either. I think I was in the station like 3 times last night. Each time I was there I teased the crap out of the man, and then walked out, lol. He looked so tired, I told him he had to come home just to get some decent sleep. Well, he made it home last night. That man snored seemed like nonstop, all night. He was snoring when my alarm went off this morning! I was seriously rethinking wanting him home, lol. He kept me awake a little, but I managed to get some decent sleep. There's something wrong with me when I need a snoring husband next to me to sleep well, lol!

Not much

The youngest decided to brave the heat this afternoon and visit the garden. Two strainers full of cherry tomato's later........................... I have to deal with them for now. I used most of the ripe tomato's for the tomato salad and hubby's salsa. It must have been good because the man sucked that stuff down in no time, lol! The weekend is supposed to be cooler, in the 70's so I'll probably work on doing something with the tomato's then.


This is the third day in a row the temps have hit 90 or above. It's official, summer has arrived, lol. Better late than not at all I guess. It's miserable hot here. This heat is kicking my butt, just drains me, even the little bit I'm out in it. So glad my lady has ac!!

Early Saturday morning, like around 4 am or so, the phone rings. I didn't bother to get up and answer it because it's either work for hubby or one of his family members in India. Well, it was work. Around 3:30 am a lady went through the intersection, into the station parking area, took down the supports that hold the one side of the stairs for the apt up, clipped the side of the building where the basement is, went down both sets of stairs leading into the town park, took out two sections of the fence around the parking area, and ended up out on the little side road. Hubby had closed the station down at 2:30 am and was home. The kid upstairs was woken up, thinking there was an earthquake. I don't have any other details since nobody saw
it and I haven't seen a write up in the paper for it yet. This is it could have been so much worse. She managed to not hit anything major, building, pumps, etc.

Spent most of last week dealing with the kid and his computer. He bought a new hp notebook early in July. By the second week of August, it stopped working. We didn't get any kind of warranty on it because we were under the impression it had a 60 day warranty. Store we bought it from says no. But, there were 4 of us that day when the kid bought it and we all remember the same thing. Hhmm. Anyway, we went yesterday to a computer repair shop to see exactly what's wrong with it and the motherboard is fried. They guy told the kid to either send it back to hp asking for a replacement or to take it back to the store and complain until they give him a new one. So the kid asks me what he should do. I told him he is probably better of dealing with hp instead of the store. Personally, I've about had it with the ignorant attitudes of the people in that store. I've been in twice and both times people were ignorant and sometimes downright nasty with me. So I gave it right back to them. Usually I don't but when I ask a question and get a nasty answer, well, you've got it coming. Sorry for making you actually do your job! One of my first jobs was working retail and the thing they kept drumming into your head was how the customer was always right, no matter how wrong they were. If you were rude, nasty, ignorant, or refused to help a customer, your job was on the line. Not anymore, the company's don't care if you shop their store or not. With this economy the way it is, they should start caring again.

Ok enough of that, to hot to get to worked up!

Not a day for me to be outside

The heat and humidity have arrived! Along with poor air quality today. Went outside intending on going into Htown, but decided against it since the short time I was out breathing was starting to get hard. Hubby changed his mind and decided he wanted to do to Staples in Htown tomorrow so why go to Htown today and tomorrow to? Today is our towns community day. Always, always seems to fall on the hottest, most humid day in the month. He expects the station to be busy because of it. If he changes his mind tomorrow about going to Htown, then I can always take a ride tomorrow night and drop my time sheet at the office. Went instead to the IGA we have right here in town to get the few things I need. I could have gone to Htown and gotten them cheaper, but didn't feel like it. I got everything, but the one main thing I need for the salsa. Lime juice. Oh well, guess we're making salsa without it. This is what happens when you make a list and never take it out of your purse in the store. The pollen count must be high to because I'm sneezing like crazy since I've been outside. Time to start taking more of the honey/lemon mixture.

Came home to find the cat on my counter top. Spoke mean to her and she's gone and hidden. Probably for the day, lol. She was in my bed this morning so I'm forgiven some, but not completely. I can't stand to see a cat walk all over counter tops and stuff. I just gave the kitchen a good cleaning last night to! I allow the cat to lay on the coffee tables and the furniture, since we don't eat off those surfaces and she doesn't use her claws on them. The only room that is off limits is the kitchen, why does she have to push it?

Well, I'm off to start my salsa and then enjoy the rest of my day relaxing in the cool air.

I think I've finally lost it

I have just spent the past few hours looking for my salsa recipes. I went through all my lose papers, all the folders, etc. You've probably guessed I'm super unorganized. I'm more of the kind of shove it in one place and I'll do it later kind of person. Only later hasn't come yet. Anyway, I finally gave up and decided I had to go back to the computer and reprint what I had. Well, guess what's sitting on top of the printer. My salsa recipes I had put aside the last time I went through the stacks of recipes looking for something else! All that wasted time :(


Did all my running after work thinking I could stay home tomorrow. Wrong! Hubby wants to go into town to do something before work. The only good thing is he doesn't want to leave until about noon. Works for me, I could use a slow start morning.


Me and the oldest were out in the garden tonight. Got quite a few tomato's and some more zucchini. One zucchini has got to be about eighteen inches long. It kept getting missed, so that one I'll use tomorrow to make stuffed zucchini for dinner. I have lots of cherry tomato's and a whole window sill full of tomato's that are ripe. Those I'll use for the salsa. Our garden this year looks so sad. The tomato's are sickly looking. They're not full looking and a lot of the leaves have turned brown. Even the leaves for the potato's are turning brown. Everything looked so full and lush and now, it looks so sad. Our garden has never looked this bad. I'm wondering if it's just been to wet this year. We found two cucumber plants, they were hidden under all the weeds. They each have one cucumber on them, but they are bent in half. Hopefully now that the sun can get to them we might get a few cucumbers. Only saw a few very small hot peppers so they have to wait a while. The tops of the carrots are coming along nicely, now that the oldest weeded them to. I've lost my chives amongst the weeds, but the onions are starting to shoot up, lol. The green beans are done for, thanks to the groundhog. So is my dill. In the Fall, I have to get on the boys to fix the fence in the garden. Someone told me to dig down about three feet all the way around and put chicken wire in the ground, then attach the original fencing to the chicken wire to keep the groundhogs out. At the end of the season we usually weedwack the plants that are done so they can do the fence to. That way, next year we won't have to do it. The way I forget things I might forget to do it!


Tonight's been one of those unsettled nights. So many things I want to do but don't feel like doing. I should have rented a movie, but I was so hot and tired and just didn't feel like going in yet another unair conditioned store. So I went to see hubby. When I pulled in there was one car at the pumps. Minutes after I got there cars after cars. It always gets busy when I go to see him. When I got ready to leave I told him there would be no customers and he would get a chance to sit and relax. Can't win.

Did the cats flea stuff tonight. She knew when I went to get her what I was going to do and she's still so mad at me she won't come near me, lol! Oh well, we go through this every month. I'll be forgiven...................in about a week, lol!

One down one to go

Made it though today, really wasn't such a bad day. There was enough to do at work to keep be busy, but not exhausted. The high point of the day was coming home to no kids, lol. Just me and the cat, who just would not leave me alone. She was almost as annoying as a kid! Forty-five minutes after I got home I got a call that the youngest was done and wanting a ride home. That was some short lived peace. As I got home with the youngest, the oldest comes out the door carrying the trash. He was home early. What's it take to get a few hours of peace and quiet around here!!

Debated on going to knit and decided against it. I haven't picked up the needles in weeks, but I'm really tired and my back is screaming, so I opted to stay home. If I keep doing this it will be October before I get back to knitting, but it's so warm and humid, I'm just not in the mood. Have to get back into the mood, I have a cotton sleeveless top I've started and would be nice to have it done by Fall. Then I can work on the front of hubby's vest and he might actually be able to wear it this winter, lol! The man's already talking about maybe going to India in March. I was under the impression he wasn't going this coming year, but waiting until the next. Being left alone for 2 months is starting to get really old. I don't ever get a 2 month vacation!

Well I'm off to fold the jeans and hop in the shower to see if I can give my back some relief.

Over the hump

Does this mean the rest of the work week will just fly by?? Work was chaotic today, but it did go pretty fast once things started rolling.
This whole day was a really busy one. I dropped both kids off at work, made a deposit for the station, put dinner in the crock pot, and shopped for my lunch, since I forgot the stuff yesterday, all before I even started work today. I was tired before I even went to work! Glad today was the cleaning lady's day. Things were rather calm and my lady took her sweet old time getting out of bed this morning. But then, her cleaning lady was in there talking to her for almost an hour too. This lady is 100% alert and nothing, nothing is done without her say so. So I got to watch the news for an hour this morning, after I did the few things she always wants done first thing. She gets hot cereal, usually, in the mornings. This morning was the second morning in a row that it cooked over in the microwave. Yesterday I thought maybe I put it on for longer than normal, but today I know I didn't. I've been making this stuff every day for her for the past 2 weeks now, and all of a sudden it cooks over. Don't understand why. I used to put a paper towel over the bowl, but one day the towel fell in the bowl so now I use the microwave covers. With the covers it cooks over. Can't seem to win. Tomorrow I'm going to use a different tactic and see what happens. That was the high point of the day, lol. She's finally getting around to sending out thank you cards to the people who made contributions in her husbands name, so I spent most of the day writing them out for her. Yesterday I started them until it was time for me to go. Today's people are people she knows very well, so she wanted to write something special in those cards. I'm assuming now that she's started she will want to keep going until it's done. It will probably take the rest of the week to do. She got so many sympathy cards, stacks and stacks. I may not be able to write by the time Friday gets here, lol.


It seems like some of the humidity has lifted a little. But, by the weekend, the heat and humidity that seems to be covering most of the country will be heading our way :( It is the middle of August and it won't last forever. I've been seeing the leaves on the trees starting to change color. Always a good sign!!

How odd

Sunday night I had to go out to get milk so the station had milk for morning coffee. It was warm outside so I had the windows down in the car. Pulled in next to a car with a guy sitting in it talking on the phone. Not really paying much attention to him. What I noticed was the cover for the tail light missing as I pulled out.

Next day I'm driving back from the station and I see this car sitting on the side of the road with a guy talking on the phone. Noticed the back of it and as I passed I realized this was the same guy from the night before. Ok, must be local.

Today I'm driving home from work and going through a speed trap and knew there was a trooper in front of me. I like to get as much space between myself and them, always. So, I take my time and it seems the trooper is to. After we get out of the trap, the car behind me decided to pass me. Fine with me. Well, it's the same car from the past 2 days. As he's driving past, I notice he has as child in the back seat. He's talking on the phone with one hand and the other hand is hanging out the drivers window. The thing that crosses my mind is, how is this guy driving his car if both hands are occupied? Made me glad he was in front of me then.


How weird is that to see this same guy three days in a row?

Heat and humidity

I have to say, I'm so glad my new lady has a/c, and uses it! Today was one of the more unbearable days, humidity wise. Yesterday was comfortable enough that I had a t-shirt and jeans with socks on, and all the windows open. During the night we got storms coming through so I got up to close the windows because all it has to do outside is drizzle and it rains in my windows. I had a fan in my bedroom window and wasn't really interested in the fan bringing the rain in if it got harder. While I was closing all the windows I decided to put the air on because I knew today would be bad. Of course, hubby comes home while I'm up closing windows and tells me it's only raining a little and the leave the windows open and the fans on. It's almost 3 am, just who is going to be up to make sure the rain doesn't come in?? So, I did what I wanted to do and crawled back into bed, ignoring his telling me it's only a little rain. I don't remember much after that but the puddles are full again and it was quite wet when I got up this morning. I was told it poured off and on all night. I'm glad I ignored hubby, lol.

Today was just an off feeling day. I didn't feel well last night and my stomach is still bothering me today. What little bit of breakfast I had this morning just hit my stomach like a brick, so I concentrated on getting the tea down. It did make my stomach feel a little better. Hubby had brought me home a sandwich for work, which I really didn't want, but for lack of an other option, I brought it and some yogurt for my lunch. I was really in the mood for a salad, but no salad fixins. Time to grocery shop again. As usual, by the time I got to work, I was actually hungry but I waited it out. I managed a little more than half the sandwich and that was it. I just wasn't enjoying it. Brought the yogurt back home.


Ran my errands in town and hubby wanted me to go back into town, where I just came from, and buy milk for the station. Someone didn't do the milk order and the milk guy doesn't come until Thursday. I told hubby I wasn't going back to where I just came from. I was planning on doing a little food shopping tomorrow, but it's supposed to be another high humidity day. Hopefully, the weatherman is wrong and the humidity moves out during the day. Don't want to be out in that again. That's why I didn't go today.

Hitting the bed early tonight because I didn't sleep real well last night either.

Ho hum day

Can you find the "real" animal in this picture? More and more I'm finding her in the oddest places! NO the dogs aren't real. They are hubbys dog collection. They are made with real goat and rabbit furs.



Really not much of anything going on this weekend. That's a good thing because I need some rest, lol. Got my hair cut on Saturday. Not sure how I feel about it just yet. Some days I love it and other days I don't. Not impressed with the Don King do in the mornings though. Since it's much shorter than I've had it in quite a while I wasn't sure how hubby was going to feel. He always says when I go not to cut it to short. Well, I did this time! When I came home hubby was sitting out back on the steps and as I rounded the corner this man's face broke out into huge grin. I was wondering what he was grinning at! I asked him how he liked my hair and all he did was grin. Must be a good thing because when he looks at me he's still grinning. The woman who does my hair just loved it. Guess she should, it's her work. I think sometimes when someone comes in and gets something done different with their hair it must break the monotony for her. She was showing me all the different ways I can style it, so maybe as time goes on I'll get more used to it.








Was up bright and early to take the fool to a friends house to catch a ride to the airport. He's going to India for 10 days to bring his kids back. I had the opportunity to ask him all the questions I've been asking hubby and hubby said he didn't have the answers to, lol. He was talking about family and how his life being alone is not a good life. I was surprised at his comment. Personally, I thought he liked being alone. Maybe that's why ever since I've met him he's always been miserable. I don't know. I was asking him if he had room for his kids and his wife since he lives in the apt on top of the station and well....................you can tell only men have lived there. He's looking at renting an apt until his wife comes and then buying a house. He was whining a little bit about all the expenses he has coming. Well, he's had it very easy for a long time now. He was saying how it's cheaper to afford a family in India compared to here. Since his wife can't come here yet, he will have to go back again in a few months for her. He was saying probably before the new year. For now, hubby has transportation back and forth to work. That's a good thing. Of course, with my work schedule, we will only see each other on weekends. What else is new. I keep telling him he needs to complain, loudly, and tell them he wants to work days and let the kid that works there, work nights. The kid has no family, just himself. Why not work nights and let the guys who have a family work days. He says the other partner says the kid can't handle nights. What's to handle. It's not busy every night, just Friday and Saturday nights. The schedule the kid works now he has to handle the breakfast and lunch rush, alone. I would think that would be harder. Me thinks someone just doesn't want to.





Since the fool is gone hubby was supposed to work early to make chicken for lunch. They sell chicken tenders, chicken pieces and cold sandwiches for lunch. For breakfast they make hot sandwiches. Well, hubby decided, with a little help from the wife, to let the oldest teach the youngest how to make the chicken and sandwiches. This way hubby actually gets to work his normal hours, not crazy 15 and 16 hour days. Hubby agreed to let the boys take over instead of him. I know hubby is starting to slow down, I see it. I just wish he would start thinking about doing something else.








Hubby went to church with me this morning. It's cloudy and the temp is cool, but you can start to feel the humidity starting to creep back in. Not to the uncomfortable point yet. It still feels rather cool right now. Anyway, since I'm well aware of how hot the church is I wore a sleeveless top and sandals. I was actually cool in church. Glad hubby was there for some warmth, lol. The doors were open and the ceiling fans were on low! I thought for sure they would have everything shut up tight and maybe even the heat on. They were running the heat as late as early July, so it's not unusual. But then, it's been a rather cool summer. Fine with me! I've been noticing that the leaves are starting to change on a few trees. I'm hoping for an early Fall. I commented to hubby as we were walking into church how it was feeling like a fall day with the cool temps and the cool breeze blowing.








After I got the boys from the station, we all came home and tackled this messy house. It actually took no time at all to get everything done. The boys did the cleaning and dishes and I'm working on the laundry. When am I not? But, I haven't done laundry for 2 days and with the youngest working in the mornings, there goes my wash hanger-outer. At least I can get a load in the washer and dryer before I leave in bad weather. Good weather days it will only be one wash hung outside. Better than nothing!

Oh my!!!!!

Have you every washed and attempted to dry a cell phone?? Well, I did! Boy, is the youngest going to be upset! Oh well, his fault for not emptying his pockets before he put his pants in the laundry :( I am not in the habit of checking the guys pants pockets. I figure they are all old enough to empty their pockets for themselves. Occasionally I've washed something that I have left in my pants pockets as well. Anyway, I put the wash in the dryer and I kept hearing this thumping noise, like I washed sneakers or something. Which I didn't. So I stopped the dryer and took all the clothes out and sure enough, there was the cell phone. Oops!

The good thing about today is, one more day until the weekend, and I'm home all alone. A rare thing during the summer months. The weather is beautiful right now. Mid to upper 70's and very little humidity. I plan on enjoying it because after Sunday, warmer air and lots of humidity moves in. I guess I can tolerate it because I know my veggies will like it. Our garden just doesn't seem to be doing as well as in previous years. I'm thinking the cooler than normal temps and the lack of humidity. People have also been saying we just might have an early Fall. Hope they are right!

Work is getting better, not as exhausted as I was before. And, the case has become permanently mine. The nurse did a visit today and my temp lady requested to keep me. I don't have anything else lined up and I'm really ok with it. No hateful teenager to deal with, and I don't have to sit in the sweltering heat and humidity with only one fan. Works for me. On the other hand, I have reservations about taking it because I've gone on vacation before and have always come back to the case I left. But, no body requested I not come back either. My temp lady did feel bad to, but she just wanted someone she felt more comfortable with. I guess when it comes right down to it, it's all about the clients and what makes them happy. So, it is what it is. And with this one, I get to do errands which puts me out of the house a lot to. Running errands always makes the day go faster. I believe, after the youngest goes back to school, the hours will change a little. I'll start later and end an hour later, but then I will have all morning to do what needs to be done in my house first. And, it's high time the other people in this house start carrying their weight. I'm tired of being there and doing for everyone else all the time. No body does for me like I do for them. Maybe I'm just tired of being a mom. They are all going to find themselves left on their own. I'm going to work my school work around my work hours. And, I'm not giving up my outside activities either. If it doesn't get done over the weekend, then it just isn't going to get done. By me anyway. The marathon weekends are over to. Everyone else gets down time, it's my turn now. Hum, think maybe I'll be having some miserable males on my hands?

Feeling overwhelmed

One day down and 4 more to go, lol. This morning was a very early morning, and now I'm so tired. I had to get the stuff that hubby needed to work on the sun room roof this morning. Before dropping the oldest at work by 8:30 because he knew what we needed. I was up at 7:30, the oldest wasn't. By 7:55 I went and work the kid up and out the door we went. He had me irritated because his alarm was just ringing away! Well, it turns out we didn't get enough stuff so tomorrow morning I have to go back and do the same thing all over again! Plus, since the pick up didn't make it to the shop today hubby took my car and I have to drop the pick up at the station for the fool by 9:30 am. I just hate those hit the ground running days.


I had some errands to run for my temp lady today, but since we ran late I did it after work. I also had to pick up the exercise equipment and go food shopping. The fool had the pickup so he went with me to get the exercise equipment and I went and did my temp lady's errands and then food shopped. Boy, was the food store packed!! Hopefully tomorrow the truck will get into the shop.


Got home to find hubby and the youngest on the roof. Hubby worked early and then when the fool got back, hubby came home and did the roof. I think that man is probably just about as tired as I am lately. Then on Wednesday, since I'll be in town, hubby decided he wanted another pair of shoes to send over for a relative. Since the sale is buy one get one, I told him to make sure he didn't need yet another pair. Don't want to run back again on Thursday. So he's going to call his sister tonight. I have a crock pot meal planned for Wednesday nights dinner, glad I do. I'm thinking I'm going to be way to tired to cook when I get home. So glad we had leftovers for dinner tonight. Hubby even took some.


My temp lady was talking to me this morning about my staying on with her. Permanently. I myself really don't have a problem with this, but the woman who is on vacation might. I told her if she wanted me to stay on she had to talk to the office. I'm staying out of this and it will be the office's decision, not mine. I've worked with this woman who is on vacation and well...............she's not the nicest person when it comes to work. She feels she has to work 5 to 6 days a week, at least 16 hours a day. If the office has something else for her to fill in this time, then she might give it up. Otherwise, probably not. So we'll see what happens. As tired as I am all the time, I must be crazy to actually consider taking this!


Well, I need to get some work done here before I go into my veggative state for the night.

So much for my plans...............

Yesterday was such a busy day! I should have known it would be that way if I'm takin hubby with me. We went to visit his cousins wife, then went to the home improvement store for some stuff for the sun room roof. They only had one of the things we need. After that hubby was already to go home. Um..............not so fast there, what about what I need to do. Can you imagine, the man forgot I had errands to do, lol? But, the night before I explained to him where I needed to go and for what. That was the whole reason for taking him with me!

I wanted to look for heavy curtains for the kitchen and small bedroom. I like curtains in the summer that block the sun. The rooster curtains in the kitchen just weren't doing if for me. The small bedroom doesn't have a blind in the window at all, yet. I tried the thrift store first since that one always has a huge selection of curtains. And all linens were half price! Can't beat that. I found a pair of red drapes for the kitchen. In my kitchen I have one big window and a smaller window over the sink. Very hard to find kitchen curtains that match with windows like that. But, I saw red cotton curtains, that were small so I grabbed them. I had never thought of putting red in my kitchen, but with all the rooster stuff, it looks nice. I put a small cream color semi-sheer curtain under the sink window curtains because I bought a sheer cream colored pair to go under the red drapes for the big window. They have a very delicate flower pattern on them. If I remember later, after my kitchen is cleaned, I'll try to take a pic. I found a heavy pair of drapes for the small bedroom. Perfect size, no hemming needed. So I spent today washing, hemming and hanging them.

While we were out hubby realized he needed to get a bulb for the headlight that is blown in the pick up. Ok. Then he wanted to go to Peebles for some stuff since the fool is leaving either Friday or Saturday for India. Hubby wanted to send some stuff for his nephew who just turned 5, I think. Hubby originally wanted a Nike cap from Peebles. Well..................we ended up with a lot more, lol. If you open a new account with them you got an extra 30% off if approved. Hubby wanted shoes for his nephew, but didn't want to pay the price, even with buy one get one half off. I looked at the sandals, but didn't see anything with out the toe strap that I could wear for work. Or a price I was willing to pay. I was looking at the purses, like I need another one, and found one I instantly fell in love with. Leave it to me to find the only purse rack with the most expensive purses and the smallest percentage off. Hubby found me while I was looking and asked me if I wanted the purse. Told him yea, but then showed him the price and told him no. When we checked out was when hubby decided to apply for the credit card. He got approved. Since the extra 30% off was good for all day, just that day, I told hubby to get the shoes for his nephew. So he did, and got himself a pair to. And I got my purse. The total amount we saved was the original price of the purse, so that didn't hurt that much. And hubby got all the shopping done for his nephew. At least he says he did. I haven't asked and I'm afraid to.

The last thing we did was a little food shopping. On the way home we checked two more stores for the other thing hubby needs for the roof. One place was closed and the other didn't have it. They told hubby to go to the place that's closed, lol. So, we go to the station and hubby says stay while the oldest changes the bulb for the headlight. Only take 5 minutes he says. Well.................30 minutes later, I'm still waiting for the bulb to be replaced. Hmmmmm, harder than you thought, maybe? Hubby and the oldest decide that it's the wrong bulb, he gives me all the info to exchange it for the right one. At this point, I'm exhausted. We left the house around 11:30 am and it's now close to 6 pm. My back's aching and my feet are just tired. But, since the auto parts store closes late, we dropped the food off and ran back into town to the auto parts store to exchange the bulb. Ended up returning it because none of the bulbs looked like the one we got out of the pick up. Since we were close to walmart I had the oldest go in there and see if they had one. They didn't. I took myself shopping to Fashion Bug because they had a sale on clearance. Buy one clearance item and get the second for $5. I walked out of there with 4 new tops. Called hubby and told him what was going on with the bulb and he said to forget it they will take it to the shop on Monday to get the bulb replaced. Fine.

Tomorrow is already looking busy because I have to go to the store in town and get the other thing hubby needs for the roof, after I take the oldest to work. While we were out, the oldest bought a weight bench and hubby got "us" a stationary bike. Since we had the car, we have to go back and pick up those things tomorrow. It really stinks because I work in town and it would be much easier to just go and get the stuff after work, but I need someone to lift all that stuff in the bed of the truck. I know I'm not doing it. Plus, I want to do a really good food shopping since we have nothing in the house anymore. I've just been getting things we need to get through.

I was so tired and my back ached so bad I couldn't sleep last night. I took an Advil and had started to drift off when hubby called for a ride home. I actually had hubby rub the oil on my back so I could sleep. My back feels pretty good today, except for the lower part. Nothing like yesterday. Never made it to church this morning. Hubby was going to go, but we were both so tired, we stayed in bed. I never got up until at 10 am and hubby noon. The plan was to work on the roof since the oldest is here to help him, but it was raining almost all day. The rain finally stopped around 3 or so. They did go up there and patch the roof for now, since they saw the problem and well...........kind of made it worse, thinking they had most of today to fix it. The forecast is calling for downpours later tonight again with the rain clearing out after midnight. I have buckets and a tarp down under the leaking part. Tomorrow I have to go get the other thing so hubby can fix the roof before he goes to work. Unfortunately, he has to do it alone since the oldest will be working to. But, we are supposed to get rain the rest of the week and now, it has to be fixed.

I've gotten quite a few things accomplished so I think I'm going to take about an hour and just sit and read. And relax, I'm still tired. Work has been calling me wanting me to work tonight. NOT!

A whole bunch of nothing

These are the flowers that were damaged during the torrential downpours we've had here in the past 48 hours. The gladiolas and the lilies were broken from the rain so the youngest took them in add added flowers from the flower beds to make a nice bouquet.

After all the rain we had all day the skies finally cleared, but no sun. I thought the skys were pretty last night.

Another pic of the night time sky.

If you look real close you can see the mist rising out of the mountains in the distance.

My lilies and gladiolas that weren't damaged from the rain.

Lilys are another one of my favorite flowers. The only problems is they semll so strong , not good for my allergies.

The flowers before we discovered the broken lily's.