Siwa..glad your outing to the city went well They refunded my 15 too..boy you just gotta check those receipts!

Baked a new cookie recipe.. lemon cookies...way too good and 2pts a cookie, they are in the freezer but I ate way too many the first day!

Mowed today and did some floor exercise, laundry in now and got the bathroom cleaned. Got a bad hip again so been trying to stretch it out. Need to get an appointment wtih the eye doc, I just can't se good anymore and it's been awhile.

Well we made it home. Nothing more exciting happened. We are really excited about the new computer system. Siwa MY new clothes didnt get stolen, I took all my new stuff in, just in case I wanted to wear something new to eat that night, but all my husbands and son's did. Plus they stole my dirty clothes that I had worn the first part of the week. We had them in a plastic hotel laundry bag.

We listend to books on audio all the time we were gone, enjoyed some of them, a couple were really boring. Tomorrow it is back to work as usual. Hope everyone else has a great week.

Barb...that's awful about your car! I think it takes less time to get somewhere and longer to get home.......just my perception........

Candice: I agree with you. Going somewhere always takes longer than coming home. What's the psychology of this anyway?

Barb: So sorry about your stuff being stolen. It almost makes one lose their faith in mankind, or at least some of them. Hope this first work day wasn't too bad.

Siwa: your party sounded like fun. But 8 abreast on the sidewalk would be like 'no one gets through this line' sort of presentation to the rest of the walkers out there. How is you garden? You and Candice haven't posted any pretty flower pictures yet.

Just finished riding 4 miles on my bike - not a stationary one but the real thing. And did my stint at Curves today. got to be serious about losing my extra weight.

Good night Ann

Just sent my flower pictures in so in the next few weeks I will have a link up I'm sure

Made a big pot of veggie soup, used chicken broth, tomatoes, turnips, carrots, green
beans, zucchini, mushrooms, corn,celery, kidney beans and edamome (sp). Threw in
some garlic and sweet basil and parsely for flavouring. Comes out to be about 1 pt a
cup and made about 16 cups. Putting it in the freezer so I will have it handy when I
get in my hungry moods!

Anyone know when you plant your fall crop of lettuce? We have had an unusual
growing season this year so not sure I should even try sewing a few more seeds. I
enjoyed my spring lettuce so much this year, hard to go back to the store bought
stuff!




Gotta stay out of DH's m&m's !!!!!!!!!!!! Blew 10 pts!

DS, got mooved into his new apartment and his car got broken into, they smashed
the window and took out the Stereo. The police say there is nothing they can do,
this is the 7th break in in his apartment complex! (Downtown Des Moines, Iowa)

Storms today maybe so not sure how much sleep I will get.

Those same storms moved thru S MN but all we got was a little rain. Took out trees and some bldgs in the south tho. We had our Natl Nite Out party tonite next door. We had about 30 (including kids) turn out. Good food and interesting conversations. The mayor lives on our block so he and the police chief always visit our group and then a hook and ladder came later. The kids really loved that. They even let the kids go inside the fire truck.

Nothing new, nothing old happening here.

Glad the bad weather missed you Siwa..we are in a watch tonight and then it should be much cooler. Hope the storms miss us too!

Kinda tired..only got about 4 hrs sleep the past few days................

Walked 2 miles outside today.......................hips hurt..........Ouch!

Made some PB cripsy bars with coc topping...ate way too many but I also did 2miles outside again. sending the bars to work with DH!

Been busy painting the last couple of days and looking forward to another day of painting tomorrow. Too bad I've been cooped up inside cuz the temps have been great--not hot and not humid. DS went camping w/friends and DH went to the cabin yesterday to do some work. I had a Red Hat dinner last nite and also wanted to get the painting done so I stayed home. I even skipped Curves 2 days in a row! I figured up and down that ladder was enuf for this old body. Being home alone is not always a bad thing. Since I am painting the entry and hall there would be too much traffic if they were both home. I just hate all the prep work of painting but I really enjoy the actual painting. It sure feels good to sit and relax after all the up and down. Ahhhhhhhhh.

What a work out Siwa........What color are you painting it?

Did a 30 minute workout and terrilby sore from it!.....in hips mostly.

What a workout that painting turned out to be. It took me 6 hours to cut in around 9 doors, ceiling and baseboard moulding. Yikes! I thought I'd never finish. When I looked at my work today in the sunlight I saw so many places where I'd missed. The light on a cloudy day just doesn't work well w/my eyes. So I did some touch ups and then began the fun part of painting the walls. Even that took 4 hours today. Whew! I'm tired. I was so tired that I napped for quite a while. Longer than my usual 20-30 min naps. Now DH is doing the same in the high part of the stairway. I just don't like getting that high on a stairway. I had no problem doing the high ceiling in the kitchen but when steps are involved---no, no no. Now that my painting job is done I can see that I'll have to do a 2nd coat. I just want this job to be finished. The blue painter's tape is also removing the paint from the moulding so we'll have to touch that up too. Almost wish I'd hired someone to do this job. Only once hired a painter and was not 100% satisfied w/their work. They just don't take as much care as we do. Perhaps we're a bit too much on the perfectionist side for our own good.

CANDICE--colors are variations of tan/beige. I hate to use the word "beige" cuz it sounds so boring. Paint cans say the colors are Sawyer's fence (ceiling) and squirrel's tail (wall) but that's not descriptive at all. Sawyer's fence is NOT white but I thought he whitewashed the fence. I don't like white ceilings so I paint them various colors.

Sounds nice, we have hired a man to come do out out side trim but he keeps putting us off! It needs to be done cuz the wod is rotting. It's too steep for DH and me to do it. The inside needs it to and the last painters we had got paint all over the woodwork and our funiture, they were very sloppy! I want to live in a maintenance free world! :LOL:

Cleaned today so very sore..I am off to bed now!

Siwa: We have been painting too - our guest room. called sky blue, and when the first coat went on, it was too brilliant for me, and so three walls are a much lighter version of it, and then the bright wall is marbelized by using the light paint and a crumpled up newspaper. We did have someone paint it, and he is very good, and careful. So now we call it the 'Blue Room". Just bought a new white matelasse bedspread and pillow shams. It looks very nice, since the ceilings are white and the bedroom furniture is white french provincial style. Now I just need to get new curtains and cover some accent pillows for the bed and it will be done. DH thinks I just want to spend money. :

Went shopping for a new stove today. My oven died yesterday while I had a loaf of bread baking. UGH!! And the bread was in the oven because my bread Machine died too. Just not a productive day for me yesterday.

We have been having a lot of rain, and in some areas flooding. Not here where we are.

Candice - I agree maintenance free, would be good. We are close to that, as we have lawn people, etc. but not interior.

Have a good day everyone. Ann

Yikes! the high temp was only 59 today--a record low high. Will we evern have tomatoes? It was so cold that I got out a sweatshirt and jeans and made chili for dinner.

My zuch isn't doing well. The plants look fantastic and there are blooms and then small zuchs form but when they reach about 2" they poop out and turn yellow and mushy. So I asked a master gardener what was wrong and she said they are probably not pollinated. No bees? she asked. Yes I've seen bees in the flower garden so why did they avoid the zuch? She told me how to pollinate them myself so I did that yesterday. There are male flowers and female flowers (the ones that form the fruit). I broke a couple flowers open and sure enuf, they look different. This was a real botany lesson for me. Now I'm anxious to see if my pollination works.

ANN-I might consider hiring a painter but how does one know (when it's the first time) if the painter will be careful. The freezer section on my refrig seems to have a serious problem. Ice is forming on a frost free. This same problem was repaired just 1 1/2 yrs ago. Unfortunately the Co. that repaired it is no longer in business. Sure hope it doesn't mean a whole new refrig.

I took a couple days off painting cuz I was very tired and now I feel rejuvinated enuf to put on the 2nd coat. I'd like a sunny day for that job and it doesn't look promising so we'll see when it gets done.