Well, I had a heck of a day! A very busy one!
After I made breakfast for the grandkids who stayed overnight last night, I picked up all their stuff and packed it away in duffel bags, then cleaned up the dining room and did dishes. As I was finishing that, some of the boys came in, and one had his 2 sons with him and they were going to go ride their bikes around the lake. 5 1/2 miles. These boys are 9 and 6 years old, and they are more than full of energy. They live about 3 hours away from here and brought their bikes in the back of the truck with them.
So, I made toast and peanut butter and glasses of milk for them before they went on their bike ride.
Then a DIL came, and it just kept going and going. After about 4 hours, I was still in my PJ's, and I grabbed the paper and sat down to read for a few minutes. By that time my son and his 2 boys were back from their bike ride. So, altogether I had about 7 of the grandkids here.
All of a sudden, they all came upstairs, eyes like golf balls, and said that there was a toy car and a battery burning in the microwave downstairs.
My son ran downstairs and sure enough, there it was, burning away. By then we could begin to smell it upstairs.
He turned off the microwave and got the fire out inside of it.
He carried the microwave outside and opened windows to air things out. This is an old microwave that I put downstairs just to make bags of popcorn when someone is watching movies or something, and it isn't even plugged in unless I use it, then it gets unplugged again.
Then he got all the kids together in the living room, and of course, the first question was, " who put the toy car and the battery in that microwave?!?" All 7 of them, batting their eyes like toads in a hail storm, went right down the line, saying, "not me!!"
Then he said, " who plugged the microwave in and turned it on?"
In unison they all said, "Logan" and pointed at my 6 yr. old grandson. I felt sorry for him. He was just beginning to realize how serious it was. My son took them all downstairs and had a long talk with them, and Logan came upstairs and said, "I'm sorry Grandma. My Dad is going to sell my new bike so I can buy you a new microwave." OMG! I almost cried.
He was so sincere! I told him that wasn't necessary, because I know he didn't know that he could have died from that. I asked him if he knows now why he shouldn't have done it, and then I said I was just happy that they didn't get hurt. So, now the poor kid doesn't have to worry about losing his new bike! Poor little guy! He is so blasted cute too! Curly hair and big brown-hazel eyes.
I finally got my shower about noon.
People just kept coming in and eating all day until about 3 when everyone went to the party. I didn't go, and that's a long story. I will just say that the weather was too hot and sticky for me.
I needed to be by myself for a while too.
I never did get any exercise today.
And tomorrow I'm making a brunch for everybody, so I'll have a busy morning again. Weather is suppose to be nice tomorrow though.
I'm making scrambled eggs, sausages, cottage fries, toast, baked chicken with bar b que sauce, italian pasta salad, a huge fruit bowl and a spice cake.
We'll see how I do with food choices. Or, rather, with AMOUNTS.
So, 2cute, are you all set for your yard sale? That's a tedious job, marking everything, isn't it? If it was as hot today where you are as it was where I am, I don't envy you the job you had. It was so sticky here.
Angel, did you sing at the station today? That's cool.
I also have a big bowl of watermelon cut up, besides my fruit bowl. I love fruit. I layered my fruit bowl with half-slices of oranges, red grapes, cantaloupe, strawberries and green grapes.
I was just watching Wanda Sykes on COMEDY CENTRAL, and I think she is one of the funniest people I've ever seen. I always laugh so HARD when I watch her. She definitely gets me in a good mood. I think it's so healthy to laugh those deep belly laughs. Don't you just feel so much better afterwards?
I wonder if she writes her own material, or if she has writers. She sure pulls it off as though it is just coming into her mind for the first time as she speaks. Oh my gosh! My stomach hurts from laughing.
See everyone later!
Sheila, Sue and Puss, I hope you're having a great weekend. Take care!