Morning all,
I am sitting here waiting from my brother to pick me up and take me to breakfast. We do this as a family about once a month or so. There are some good breakfast restaurants around here and today we are trying out a new one. No doubt the same sort of things will be on the menu as all the others, but this one is in a garden centre so we can look at plants while we wait for the food.

Not much to report here. I am about halfway through cutting down the hedge and I have tree bits all over the place. I am trying to get them into garden sacks for the man to pick up but it is hard work to chop them up into lengths that fit the garden sacks so it all takes time. My lettuces are growing big and I am giving them away so they don't go to seed before I get to eat them. One lettuce will give me 3 big meals. Tonight I might do a Caesar Salad with the one currently sitting in the fridge.

Susie - have a wonderful holiday. Hope you get your list of things to do, done (hope that makes sense). Don't forget to take photos and show us where you have been. Congratulations on that wonderful weight loss. You must be feeling so good about of it. I'm proud of the way you've stuck to it - it takes real guts and determination to lose that much weight. And no I haven't started on the bathroom yet. Lots of design planning, finance budgeting and demo to go before that is done yet. Got to find some one to do it as well. The DS2 is far to busy for a full scale upgrade on my bathroom

Laura - Those glasses sure take some getting used to. I believe my new pair are like that. I'm really not sure I want them but we will see. Nice that B/f got his braces off. I've never had them but I have heard they are somewhat painful at times.

Happy - good that you are going for a drive in the ATV. Hope no idiot comes around and wipes you out with mud and dust. So many idiots, so few brain cells between them. February March April are good times to be here. The temps are not so bad particularly March/ April. Around 25C or 26C. In April/ May it can get down to 23C which is still probably quite warm for you. Nights are cool but that makes it easier to sleep.

Annie - Great weight loss for you too. You and Susie must be the weight loss :queen: for the year.

Ceejay - Sounds like you are doing well with all your family around. Nice to have them close enough to be able to interact but not so close they live on your doorstep.

Okay so breakfast is done with the family. I had a stuffed omelette and boy was it filling. And I had orange juice and coffee. Nice. Hardly any of us could finish it all. I didn't eat the toast since I don't like white bread and it didn't have butter on it only margarine.
Now I will get out and cut down some more trees and fill some more bags with leaves, twigs and stumps. It seems never ending, but I will get there eventually.

Good morning ladies,

A too short night with not enough sleep. Got a call on Friday something is going on with the admin at the senior center. Could I come in and help this week? So I am going in today. ALL DAY. :( It's also Farmer's Market Day so I will sneak out and take a full hour for lunch today and the people who sell the fresh shrimp from down in the Gulf are also making a trip up here so I will leave 15 minutes early to rush to the end of town to get in line for that. When you are working for free, you can make your own schedule ;) ;) :D

The pine pollen is finally getting to me. Throat is sore and voice is craggy today. And I did something with my foot days ago that I don't remember what I did but my ankle is swollen and my foot is sore. I've been icing it. The concert on Friday was good but not great. Very loud - they provided ear plugs :lol: Saturday we went around and picked up a few plants - flowers and some veggies - sugar snap peas and spinach. DH went and cleaned out the garden for me. The strawberries have taken over one of my raised beds completely and I have about 100 strawberry blossoms so if DH can get a cover made for the bed, we will be enjoying some strawberries in a few weeks. I got a ton of laundry done and some cleaning. Made pasta salad yesterday and fresh fruit, corn on the cob and some brats I found in the freezer. We ate on the deck. Our air conditioner bit the dust and is not working. It was close to 90 degrees here Saturday and Sunday which for us is like living on the sun. TOO HOT. No Florida living for us. Especially without air conditioning. One of my childhood friends called me yesterday and we yakked on the phone for 3 hours about nothing. That's a friend :lol: The bear came by twice - once on Saturday and pulled the trash bags out of the bin and took them down the road and once mid day yesterday after DH went to the home improvement store. Bear broke the other bird feeder pole. That's 2 one hundred dollar each sturdy iron poles this season. :mad: DH was putting out suet for the woodpecker who we suspect from his actions is feeding his new young chicks.

Shad - hope you had a nice breakfast with the family. That's alot of lettuce!!! I have never been successful with growing lettuces - no matter what kind they are always bitter. The spinach and rocket are fine but I have a hard time finding the rocket/arugula plants. Thank you for thinking of places for us to visit. Friday we went for an ATV ride to a local coffee place. As we were eating we noticed a giant map of the world on the wall. We were sitting at eye's length to Australia and New Zealand so it gave us a good basis for discussion. DH apparently has some camera friends who are also giving us tips for Australian sights. Makes me feel like we maybe will get there after all. :^: Get ready - make your plans to be gone when we show up :lol3:

Susie - have a great vacation!!!

Laura - did your head clear up? Love the warmer weather, hate the seasonal allergies. :( When is the new garage door coming?

Good morning Annie - are you looking all pretty and hot in your new smaller summer clothes today??? *whistle, whistle*

Ceejay - did you have company this weekend or did you get some quiet time?

Time to run - I am already teetering on being late... Have a good day everyone.

Happy
Yes I did have some quiet time this week end. My nephew's work friend has a big party twice a year and Saturday night was the night. My other nephew and he were the entertainment. And doesn't play the guitar with a pic but his fingers and they were awful looking Sunday morning. They had a good time. Found out that they make a non alcoholic beer. hmm no I'm not going to try it.

Shad
Hope your breakfast was enjoyable.

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I made a reservation last night in Paragould to stay for three days. I'm going down on the 23rd for a class reunion on the 24th. Looking forward to it.
Saw on FB my that my old neighborhood in Paragould is under 6 to 10 inches of water. It hasn't flooded like that in years.
I'm still stuffed up this morning so I called the doctor's office to see about an appointment. I have one this afternoon at 2.15. I'm seeing his nurse practitioner. This has been going on for a week now.

No time for air this morning or this afternoon. Only left my desk to potty. Down to 168.4!! 6 oz less than my 169 goal. KETO STRONG! I will post tomorrow as I have one more yucky to get done. Love you girls. Hugs

Afternoon all.

Annie – Yay for meeting your goal (1st goal). :carrot: :carrot: :carrot:

Ceejay – How exciting you’ll be headed back “home” for the reunion. Is that this month? == Feel better soon.

Happy – I hope your day at the senior center went well. Did you make it to the farmers market and the shrimp truck? == I bet you’ll enjoy those home grown strawberries! == Bummer about the AC not working when you really needed it!!! :mad: I did some errands in our older car on Saturday and the AC wasn’t working and I couldn’t quite remember what the deal was with that…turns out the refrigerant or whatever had been recharged a couple years ago. == Yikes, the bear!! :yikes: Be careful!!!

Shad – So did you just look at plants while you waited for breakfast the other day, or did you buy some too, LOL.== Ugh, what a job removing those hedges!! We had them all along our north and south lot lines and we got someone to do the removal for us – worth every penny. :yes: And putting them in bags to boot – what a hassle. When we have brush like that, it gets bundled with twine. == Are you feeling like a rabbit yet, eating all that salad?? :bunny:

Susie – I hope you’re off to a good start on your vacation. – Congrats on another loss at TOPS. The NSV’s sure are great, aren’t they?? :yes: Enjoy the fruits of your labor!!

Hellos to Ellen and Dee!

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My weekend was pretty good. Saturday I got out early and did a bit of weeding in one of the front garden beds. But I’m out of Preen, dang it, and I don’t know why I thought our big Walmart would have the refill bags. They didn’t. I’ll have to get to Home Depot to get some.

After that was a hair appointment, then the thrift shop. Found a nice Tommy Bahama shirt for bf for only $4.

I went to the relay event and at the time I was there – late afternoon - it wasn’t very busy at all. It was indoors, and we didn’t even get any rain that day! Susie, you asked if they’d move it back outdoors, but they don’t do that if there’s still a chance of storms, and apparently it’s a big deal to move it once a decision’s been made. I didn’t stay all that long, but long enough to have a chat with my sister, buy some of the sweet treats she always sells at this event, buy a boatload of raffle tickets and eat a sandwich from the concession guy whose proceeds go to our team.

I picked up a couple things to snack on for the night and went home and watched the movie “Arrival”. I liked that movie. Bf was at a friend’s cookout that afternoon/evening. BF got home right when my movie was ending. I made bf take the car with no AC, and he told me he stopped on the way to his friend's to have it recharged, LOL. Of course. It was really hot the entire weekend.

Sunday I relaxed in the morning and did some grocery shopping for my mom in the afternoon. I dropped the groceries off and we chatted a bit. On my drive home, I went up and down some side streets trying to see a similar type of garage door of the type we want to buy, but saw maybe one that was sort of close to the color of the door we want (the look of dark stained wood) and also the color of the brick we have. What I learned is that most doors are white, sandstone, or dark brown. But I’ve seen a couple photos on the garage door site that’ll be close to what we’re choosing, so I think I’m comfortable that the end result will be nice looking. And it’ll be kind of nice to have something that’s different from the rest of the houses!

Also did some laundry and some reading and watched another episode of Better Call Saul. We are finally getting close to finishing the season.

Of all those raffle tickets I bought for our relay team’s raffles, I ended up winning tickets to games for three different sport teams – not the major ones, but soccer, minor league hockey and a baseball league that I’m not sure is minor league. But I think it’ll be fun, and two of the venues are in our general area. Of the raffle tickets I bought for another team at the relay, I won a gift card to Longhorn steak house. I’ll have to make arrangements to pick up my winnings.

We received the second insurance check for the garage door claim today, so that’s all done. Now to just get our doors ordered & installed.

That’s about it for me. Have a good evening everyone.

Good Morning Everyone...

Today is my Thursday. On real Thursday and Friday of this week I am going to Amish Acres with a couple of GFs. We will drive up early morning, spend the day meandering then we have a suite at the Amish Inn. The price is 99 per person. Includes dinner, room, breakfast, a buggy ride and a few other things. Well worth our trip. I plan on only bringing back CHEESE. haha. KETO. Maybe some jelly for C.

Samantha has picked up a little girl for babysitting over the summer. She has had her the last two summers. Good for her and extra bucks. Sam put together the mini-trampolene yesterday and they all had fun with that. It has a net all the way around it, top to bottom. This is the one DS bought for Royce for his BD in March. Between that and the little pool, much fun was had by all.

Dinner was cheese boogies, mixed veggies, and sauted onions/mushrooms. YUM. Tonight will be mexican. Cheese roll ups for the boys. Burritos for C and taco salad for Sam and I with no shell or chips. My mouth is drooling.

The weekend from Friday to Sunday was outside working in the yard by all of us. Laid 50 bags of rocks, trimmed trees, moved decorated blocks, weeded, seeded and feeded. lol. Refilled the hummingbird feeders, planted a couple of plants. All kinds of things. Two busy days. Also in there was a baseball game. Breakfast with my SIL. Laundry out the ying yang. Scoured the bathrooms. Meals and dishes. Whew I am worn out all over again.

LAURA...you certainly had a busy weekend. Nice catch on the raffle. I can't remember what the movie Arrival is about, will have to google. Choosing a garage door is tough. Not much to choose from as far as colors. Good luck! Glad BF got his braces off. Too bad it didn't make him the Casanova he wanted to be. :)

HAPPY...are you working all week, all day long at the center? That would suck. I know volunteering is good for the soul but the soul can only take so much. lol. Samantha and C seem to be getting hit harder with allergies than I am. Probably because I take all kinds of supplements and zinc, eating Keto which is supposed to help with that and all kinds of other ailments. I don't know may be all in my mind. My mind is pretty creative. Talking out my a$$ cause my head would know better mostly. We have only had two hummingbirds at our feeders. They didn't come until I changed out the juice. Hopefully more will come around. I think it is almost too active in the backyard with the boys going in and out. Guess you are going to have to put up a stone pillar so Mr. Bear won't take it down. Dang bear thinks he is dainty, I guess. I wonder if he climbs it then it topples down with him on it? lol. Serve him right.

SHADDIE...mmmmm lettuce. I love love love fresh lettuces and salads. Taste yum with bacon, egg, and cheese wraps too! Good gosh girl, taking down the hedges. I have not done something like that since 2007 when I first moved into my house. Don't think I could do it now. Too old. Altho I did carry bags of rocks over the weekend. They must of weighed 1000000 lbs each. :)

SUSIE....enjoy your vacation. Great job at Tops.

CEEG...have fun in Paragould.

Hello to all! Hugs

Good morning fine ladies,

Wooo-eeee! I was BEAT when I got home yesterday. This working 8 hours is for the birds :faint: I did take a break to stop at the farmers market - got some chicken thighs and a half chicken for soup, a couple of pork chops and 2 dozen eggs. Got a loaf of the multigrain bread I like from the Mennonite ladies as well as some rhubarb bars for DH that he probably won't like because they are not overly sweet. After work I stopped at the seafood truck and picked up 5 pounds of Gulf shrimp - smells just like the Gulf :lol: and 2 pounds of lump crab for crab cakes / salads. Don't even want to tell you the price for the fish. :faint: :faint: :faint: but it's my splurge for the month. After that I stopped in the grocery store and picked up a bunch of fresh produce - cole slaw mix, lemons for the shrimp, potatoes, gorgeous strawberries, kiwi fruit and some salad fixings as well as vegetables for soup. I was delighted to find that this store leaves a lot of the celery leaves on the stalk - I like to use them when making soup as they add nice flavor. I found an online article that lists 100 recipes for shrimp so I'll have to pick out a few recipes and plan dinners. Last night I was so tired when I got home I didn't even have the energy to eat. DH had a sandwich and I cooked up some ravioli I found in the freezer and also took the opportunity to cook up a couple of the morel mushrooms that DH found in the yard. I am still alive today and experienced no nausea or tingling so I'm thinking those were the real deal. :lol: I had found a recipe online and cooked them with some shallots, garlic, garlic flavored olive oil, a bit of butter and some salt and pepper. It recommended cooking them in the cast iron pan that could get super hot so I did. They were good but to me tasted about the same as the button mushrooms in the store, so I don't get what's the big deal about morels.

Things went ok at the office - the new admin they hired was there. She is a nice lady and her job duties are different than the lady I was covering. There were some things that came up that I didn't know anything about - not sure how they are going to figure that out, but that's their issue. Yes, they would like to have me come in as many days as possible this week but no thank you. I might come in Thursday morning again if G walked out for good. I hope that she just had a moment and needs some time to ease her head and will come back because they do need her. And I don't know if there is anyone besides me who will help them out in the office. DH is standing next to me looking out the front door eating a bowl of cereal. He SLURPS his food. Every time he takes a spoonful he literally inhales the food off his spoon instead of normal eating to put the spoon in his mouth and put the food in. Ugh. That sound drives me insane. And of course he took a big bowl so it's going to take a long time to eat. :dizzy:

I have the thrift shop today. The other volunteer came back from her winter hideaway so I am switching to mornings now. My partner is getting frustrated with the shop - she is on the defensive about the way they treated her in some regards - and rightly so. I think she is trying to back out of volunteering. She is taking the next 2 weeks off and I will work with my friend that I went to high school with. I'm the one who could use some time off to be honest. We have another fundraiser in 2 weeks and one of the volunteers who is super enthusiastic about getting things done is back for the summer and is constantly emailing me about things she wants to get done. All I want to do is hide. :lol: DH got the garden tilled and planted - all I need to do is pick up a few tomato plants, a couple of cucumbers and some arugula and I'm good to go. Not planting a whole lot this year. He also finished one of the hand built benches for the deck as well as a tower / tall flower planter that looks very nice. I told him to make the planters only about 6 inches taller than the bench as they were intended to go on either side of the bench but I guess he was listening to what the deer told him instead of what I was saying and he built the planter twice as tall as we talked about. :dizzy: What can I say... :shrug:

Since we purchase propane from the co-op they came out the same day to check the air conditioner. Turns out DH flipped the outside circuit breaker last year when they had to move the unit to install the new siding. He said he misunderstood the markings and thought he turned it back on when he didn't. I don't quite understand this myself - when you went to put it back wouldn't you do the opposite of what you did in the first place??? :?: Anyway it was a minimal trip charge and an easy fix so that's good.

Annie - how nice that you have a weekend trip planned with the girls. Sounds like you will have alot of fun. Good thing the Amish are not known for their pastries so you can say on plan with cheese :lol: I am in awe of you toting all those bags of rocks in the yard. You must have been exhausted. Between all the work and the fresh air you probably got a good night's sleep too. Way to go - I'll be the yard looks great! You know, the idea of a stone pillar for the feeders is not that bad of an idea - except they will climb the stone very easily and you can't move a concrete pillar if you want to. Still something to think about. Hope you get all your work done so you can enjoy your long weekend. Congratulations for hitting your weight loss goal :dance: :yay: :hug:

Laura - isn't the movie Arrival with Amy Adams where they are trying to communicate with some pillar like alien thing? If that's the one I was interested in it but DH was not so we didn't see it. Wow - score on winning all those tickets in the raffle. You seem to be one of those people who have alot of luck when it comes to those things. I hope you will enjoy the variety of prizes. I agree with you about it being nice to have a garage door that is not the same as everyone else. Are you leaning to one with windows in it to let more light into the garage?

Ceejay-ugh near bear :p I am not a beer drinker but I heard that stuff is awful. Are you going to continue playing the organ for the church? Did you find something to practice on? How nice that you are going back to Paragould again. Will be interesting to hear what you find different about it being away for several months now.

Shad - hope you recovered from all of that heavy yard work. I hope you are getting some mechanical help removing the hedges and not having to do it all by hand. :faint:

Hello to the other chicks :wave:

Time for me to hurry up and get ready so I can get out of the house in 30 minutes. Have a good day all.

Oh and CEEG...Near Beer has alcohol in it. It is .05%. You would need to drink 9 to equal one beer. If you are off of alcohol and AA, these are a HUGE NO-NO.

Morning all.

Annie – How nice you’ve got a weekend getaway this weekend. I’ve got to get to Amish country someday and see what it’s all about. I have a friend from grade school and HS who lives in MN and is crazy about visiting Amish communities. == Your taco salad sounds tasty. Bf and I love “American tacos” – that’s what we call the ones with the crispy taco shells. But I tell you, lately it’s rare we get a box that doesn’t have broken shells, or ones that are too skinny to put much of any filling inside. I might just try using lettuce leaves instead of taco shells the next time! == You’re adding rock to your property and I’m always trying to get rid of it, too funny. The previous owner of our house used rock/gravel as a weed barrier on several of the garden bed. We got rid of a lot of it when we first moved in, but there’s still a lot that still rises to the surface in the soil (along with bits of the plastic they used beneath it). I sometimes spend time trying to rake out more stones and I move them to the strip of land running along the south side of our house, which is the only place we still have rock. And it doesn’t stop the weeds from coming anyway, LOL. :tantrum: Have to hit that area with some weed killer before it turns into a jungle. So what did you do with all that rock you hauled (tired out just thinking of it, lol)? You’ve been doing a lot of work on your yard – we need to see some photos! == Arrival was the movie with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner about the aliens visiting earth.

Happy – Yummmm, shrimp and crab! I like the idea that you didn’t deal with a middle man. So do you buy those raw, with the shell still on and needing to be peeled & cleaned, or what? == Oh, so there might be some drama at the senior center too, with the admin walking out…just what you needed, more drama. == LOL re dh slurping the cereal. :D == I’m so glad to hear that the AC wasn’t kaput!! == The bench and planters sound nice – photos please! == Re the raffle – I bought a lot of tickets (hand cramped from filling out my name and phone on all of them, hahaha), so I would have been disappointed if I hadn’t won anything…. == Yes the garage will have nice windows along the top of the door. Hopefully it’ll let some nice light in and be high enough to keep the ne’er do wells out. And our new entry door will have a window at the top that’s at least twice the size of the little square we have in our current door.

Hellos to the rest of you!

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Nothing much to report. Enjoying the “in house vacation” - as Susie called it - with the bossman gone Mon – Thursday. Nice.

Bf’s gotten two quotes to remove the row of arborvitae trees from the back of our yard. The sooner those trees growing into the electric lines are gone, the better I’ll feel. The two companies also quoted us to trim our giant pin oak, but I guess they don’t do that anytime after April (until fall/winter).

I’m keeping up with my plank challenge so far. But I need more exercise, so I’m thinking of taking some aqua fitness classes at the recplex. They now offer these classes on a punchcard basis, so that’s flexible. And they’ll be easy on my bad foot. The times that work for me are the classes on Tues/Thurs at either 6:45 or 7:45 pm. The later one is a bit too late for me – I’d be much too comfy on the sofa by then to want to go exercise! :lol: So I guess the 6:45 classes will actually be almost perfect. I have a credit balance to use from the Pilates class I had to drop at the beginning of the year.

Tonight I’m meeting bf a couple train stops from home to have dinner at a restaurant/bar that’s having a fundraising event for our relay team - 10% of the sales go to our team. Should be nice, we've been there before but it's been a while.

Okay, that’s it for me, so I’ll get this posted. Have a great day everyone!

Happy, like the new avatar! :lol:

:o Sorry ... my mistake, didn't realize this. Gads, can you imagine how bloated you'd be after 9 beers? :rofl:

And thanks for noticing the avatar Laura :lol:

Morning all,

Haven't done a lot so not a lot to report. Compared to you busy people I am being a sloth. Must get over that.
As to the hedge, I am cutting it down with a reciprocating saw - heavy duty thing that DS2 bought for me because he worried about me and a chain saw. I've done a fair amount of the trees and am close to the last one on the long side. So it is progressing. What isn't progressing is the disposal of the trees. I've filled 2 green bags and will be onto the 3rd today. The yard is still full of felled trees. Some will go in the rubbish bin on Friday and then I may ring the green sack people and ask for a special pick up. I can't justify putting all that stuff into the Audi and taking it to the dump. Other than that I have been keeping up with the housework and hopefully today will get on with some putting some primer paint on the 3rd bedroom walls. Still have a bit of sanding to do in there as well.

Happy - you had a big shop today. I usually have fish a couple of times a week, but haven't done so for a while. You can sure pick your volunteering stints.

Laura - You're busy taking out trees and shrubs as well. I hope you don't have to repair the fences behind them as I do. Still it isn't that much fortunately for me. I see the garage door saga is still on. There is so much out in the market to chose from.

Annie - enjoy your time with the Amish. I wish I was going with you. Might be something for the bucket list when I come over. If I ever get a full head of hair back and if I am allowed into your country. So many hoops to jump through now.

Ceejay - Thank you our breakfast was great. Couldn't eat it all.

Hello :wave: to Susie and Dee and Ellen. I have a long list of things to do today, so better get on with it. It's cool out there but I am sure I will warm up while wrestling with the trees from the hedge.

See you all later.

Greetings everyone from Asheville NC! We got here about 6:30 p.m. and took a nap, then went for dinner and drove around the area of our hotel to get the lay of the land,

We are 4 exits from downtown and about 15 min from the Biltmore. We will be visiting that tomorrow and some of downtown. I'll take some pictures for you all to see.

We didn't get here until late as we didn't pick up the rental car until 9 a.m. and had to go back to the house to get the suitcases and such, so we were on the road around 9:45 p.m.

It was a very easy drive for us even if it was long.

I won't do many personals right now but I did want to tell Happy that I was sympathizing with you about the air conditioning not working. Ours decided to freeze up on Sunday. I did get someone to come out on Monday and get us back and working. Our unit is 15 years old and has developed a slow leak. We had it recharged in Aug of 14 and had to do it again. It seemed to be working ok after that.

I did get a few quotes for replacing the compressor and the coil, then one for replacing the entire air conditioning unit and then one for replacing the air conditioning unit and the furnace.

None of it is cheap...oh the joys of home ownership.

Annie: You trip to Amish country with friends sounds lovely. Enjoy it.

I will come back tomorrow and post more. I'm so tired I can barely keep my eyes open.

TTYL

Yahoooo. My Friday. THen off to Amish Acres. Amishacres.com


Tacos were yummy last night. Was excited to get my new bathing suit in the mail yesterday from Swimsuits for all. It is a two piece. Labeled a bikini, but really it is not. The bottoms come up to within an 1.5" of my underb**b. Then the top is a halter type top. Samantha and C both went on and on about how good it looks on me. I still don't believe them. It is hard when most of your life you have been overweight not to still see yourself as overweight and ALL THE FLAWS. In my eyes they just stick right out. Anyway it is all black so the part that the suit covers looks smaller. hahahahahahahah.

We are going to lil Ainsley's (the kiddo that Sam's babysits for) baseball game. She is the only girl on a boys baseball team and is rocking it. I am excited to watch as I have not been to a boy's bb game in a very long time. Unless you count Jacob's coach pitch cluster mess. bah.

SUSIE...sounds like your vacation is off to a great start and the plans are in the works. Good on you. I challenge you to lose 1 lb while on vacation. :) Only because that is all I lost on vacation. Enjoy your time off with the hubs.

LAURA...I have been to other Amish areas and really loved it. If you wanna plan a trip I would go again. Hmmm, the plank challenge. I am not sure I have the strength in my arms to do it. Guess I won't know until I try. <---JK. Maybe I will. Aqua fitness is fun. Believe it, I did that ONE time. I just didn't like getting out after, taking a shower and going home. Bleh. It is all about the hair. How was dinner? The rocks are not decorative. We placed them around the backyard fence where BRUNO had run a muddy path chasing the geese back and forth. The geese are in the grassy area behind the fence (huge area), then the pond is just beyond that.

SHADDIE....will gladly put the Amish visit on the list when you come about. True about being able to travel here. Who knows what restrictions will be on us by then. I put the small tree limbs we cut off last weekend in my dumpster for the weekly pick up. The rest are behind the shed for our next pit fire.

HAPPY...off volunteering I suppose? Girl! MMMMM shrimp and crab!

Sorry, posting this. I made it to 8 am on this day that Michael passed last year. Tears. Emotional. Now getting on with the day. I suck.

Hugs

Happy Birthday Susie!