Hi Everyone! BIG NEWS!!! We bought a new television! The old one in the bedroom has been "sick" for a while, and finally gave up the ghost. I hunted all around on the internet and ended up calling local dealers to find the best deal. I was kind of leary of buying from Wal-Mart - their brands were some that I'd never heard of. We ended up at the local new Sears and bought a 26" Panasonic that was on sale. Yippee - it's wonderful. Dad did pretty good installing it, although he kept muttering "I need Scott" and "I need Mark" - but after it was all connected and didn't work I called Panasonic and they stepped us thru it. It seems that one of the cables from the DirectTV box is not necessary and when that was removed everything was fine. They also stepped me thru programming the remote - it still isn't quite right - have to use new remote and the DirectTV remote - but I ain't complaining!
Will watch Hillary's speech today in full living color in air-conditioned splendor on my king-sized bed. As much as I like and respect her, I thought my heart would burst with pride when Obama finally won the nomination!
I think Jane's idea of wedding cake and punch is a very good one. Do you remember that strawberry cake Nancy got for Jaida's birthday from Sugar Plum bakery? It was the best cake I think I've ever had. Probably very expensive. And about the flowers . . . today I will dig up the heliopsis and pot them. I have been watering and fertilizing the past few days and we'll see how big they get. In the mean time Jane, keep your eyes open at Wal-Mart. Our local Wal-Mart gets in some really pretty stuff during the summer - last year they had some absolutely gorgeous delphiniums in full bloom. I was sorely tempted, but in the past the delphiniums I've had did so poorly I resisted. They just don't like our heat and humidity. I remember buying my heliopsis at Wal-Mart during the summer - tall and in full bloom. My oak-leaf hydrangeas are blooming now - best I've ever seen them. Their blooms last months and are very fragrant. If they are still okay, I will bring a huge bouquet for the festivities.
Oh yes - can Fritzy come if he wears a tuxedo??? LOL.
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Friday, June 6, 2008
I got the grass seed down
I got a small bag of grass seed at walmart..$8.88, and Mark says I didn't spread it right!
I got a job at walmart on Battlefield blvd. working on the store remodel, they are changing it around like the one on lynnhaven, it will be from june 16th until sept 1st. I will be working 8am to 5 pm monday thru friday...it will be a little money to help get our bills caught up.
Mom I am thinking of having just the cake and punch...then later we will have a BBQ and hopefully some of the people will have left. Jackie had said around 3 or 4 pm...I think around 2pm would be better..I will call her later. Adam called last night he is doing well and is excited about getting married. Jackie still has not told her father....she is afraid of how he will act...she wants Adam to ask him. Adam is nervous about it.
Hey Ellen, Mark is selling his truck..$2800 if Scott is still interested, we need to buy a small econo box with the money from the truck. I am still waiting to have enough spare money to bring up the wicker to you too. Maybe you could come visit with us before I start my jjob at walmart.
Ok well I gotta get dressed and go take my drug test!
luv
jane
I got a job at walmart on Battlefield blvd. working on the store remodel, they are changing it around like the one on lynnhaven, it will be from june 16th until sept 1st. I will be working 8am to 5 pm monday thru friday...it will be a little money to help get our bills caught up.
Mom I am thinking of having just the cake and punch...then later we will have a BBQ and hopefully some of the people will have left. Jackie had said around 3 or 4 pm...I think around 2pm would be better..I will call her later. Adam called last night he is doing well and is excited about getting married. Jackie still has not told her father....she is afraid of how he will act...she wants Adam to ask him. Adam is nervous about it.
Hey Ellen, Mark is selling his truck..$2800 if Scott is still interested, we need to buy a small econo box with the money from the truck. I am still waiting to have enough spare money to bring up the wicker to you too. Maybe you could come visit with us before I start my jjob at walmart.
Ok well I gotta get dressed and go take my drug test!
luv
jane
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
That is a beautiful dog, Catherine, and he looks like he's going to be big - REAL big! We'd love to have you bring him up here - Sandi will play with him, Fritz tends to keep away from the big dogs, at least he does with Max, Ellen's big collie. Except, when Max is sleeping, Fritz will sneak up and sniff him you-know-where, lol. There's lots of agression when Nancy comes with her doxie, Brutus. Thought they would love each other - WRONG. I'm told it's because they are both un-neutered males, but we both have plans to get that done. Sometimes, it's so bad we keep them both on leashes. Bowser (am I spelling that right?) is enough bigger than Fritz that he will probably stay well away from him.
Had a nice surpise yesterdy while working with my oakleaf hydrangeas - 2 volunteers hidden way underneath. If I can get them out safely I will save them for Jane and Ellen. Am also going to root some catmint for them - it's so pretty this year. I counted 32 redbud tree seedlings, too, so will pot up a lot of those.
Not doing anything much today, just goofing around. I am trying to sink my teeth into The Magnificent Ambersons, a Booth Tarkington novel, but am having a slow time of it. Watching t.v. too, for news of Hillary. I hope she makes a graceful exit and campaigns hard for Obama. I hope laws are passed to limit campaing funding and timing. A year and a half are wayyyyyyy too long. And the amount of money spent is obscene.
Jane, don't worry too much about your grass - just water it and you will surely get crabgrass and that's green! Also, how about just having a nice wedding cake and punch? Do it early afternoon to avoid lunch and dinner times. That would be much easier, and the money not spent on food can be spent on cake. Anyhow, just let me know what I can do, cook, make, etc.
XXX
Mom
Had a nice surpise yesterdy while working with my oakleaf hydrangeas - 2 volunteers hidden way underneath. If I can get them out safely I will save them for Jane and Ellen. Am also going to root some catmint for them - it's so pretty this year. I counted 32 redbud tree seedlings, too, so will pot up a lot of those.
Not doing anything much today, just goofing around. I am trying to sink my teeth into The Magnificent Ambersons, a Booth Tarkington novel, but am having a slow time of it. Watching t.v. too, for news of Hillary. I hope she makes a graceful exit and campaigns hard for Obama. I hope laws are passed to limit campaing funding and timing. A year and a half are wayyyyyyy too long. And the amount of money spent is obscene.
Jane, don't worry too much about your grass - just water it and you will surely get crabgrass and that's green! Also, how about just having a nice wedding cake and punch? Do it early afternoon to avoid lunch and dinner times. That would be much easier, and the money not spent on food can be spent on cake. Anyhow, just let me know what I can do, cook, make, etc.
XXX
Mom
I gotta make potatoe salad too !
At Attention!
and I will never have to tell him to pull up his pants again
I am working on the yard for the wedding........backyard grass looks so shitty....I am gonna see how much a small amount of grass seed will cost.
I am making this one short cause I gotta go to walmart. I am excited that I figured out how to put a picture on the blog!
jane
and I will never have to tell him to pull up his pants again
I am working on the yard for the wedding........backyard grass looks so shitty....I am gonna see how much a small amount of grass seed will cost.
I am making this one short cause I gotta go to walmart. I am excited that I figured out how to put a picture on the blog!
jane
adorable......
Monday, June 2, 2008
wow!
What a cute puppy! He will love Farmville - but tell him to be nice to Fritz, he is THE KING, as grandpa calls him.
Adam looks so grown up and I am proud he did well in boot camp! Jackie looks very pretty. I just hope they don't send him to Iraq. Or Afghanistan.
We went to Farmville this past weekend for some much-needed R&R. I didn't do anything but lay around, and the bags under my eyes are gone (or my eyesight is finally fading very rapidly) so it was worth it. Always good to go back to the farm. We saw Sex and the City, and I'd give it a 4 on a 5 star scale. A good flick. We ate way too much, but I've been craving mom's potato salad and I think I ate 4 pounds of it. (Ask me about my explosive diarrhea! ---its an actual phrase from a T-shirt....). We ate other sinful things like potato chips and cheeseburgers and the dreaded fried chicken. Yum yum! We also watched lots of bad TV, like political pundits and bridezillas. Fun times.
We got home in the darkness, to darkness.....the power was out due to a bad storm that hit yesterday. We had no damage, but other people sure did. I hope this doesn't mean more bad storms this year, but we're making a survival kit just in case.
Well, 8.5 days of school left and then I'll be making my beach plans. See ya'll soon!
Ellen,
oh,...love and all that...
Adam looks so grown up and I am proud he did well in boot camp! Jackie looks very pretty. I just hope they don't send him to Iraq. Or Afghanistan.
We went to Farmville this past weekend for some much-needed R&R. I didn't do anything but lay around, and the bags under my eyes are gone (or my eyesight is finally fading very rapidly) so it was worth it. Always good to go back to the farm. We saw Sex and the City, and I'd give it a 4 on a 5 star scale. A good flick. We ate way too much, but I've been craving mom's potato salad and I think I ate 4 pounds of it. (Ask me about my explosive diarrhea! ---its an actual phrase from a T-shirt....). We ate other sinful things like potato chips and cheeseburgers and the dreaded fried chicken. Yum yum! We also watched lots of bad TV, like political pundits and bridezillas. Fun times.
We got home in the darkness, to darkness.....the power was out due to a bad storm that hit yesterday. We had no damage, but other people sure did. I hope this doesn't mean more bad storms this year, but we're making a survival kit just in case.
Well, 8.5 days of school left and then I'll be making my beach plans. See ya'll soon!
Ellen,
oh,...love and all that...
bowser
sorry it took me so long to get pictures of him up here but here he is!!!
he loves to play with my brother's dog jake. i was kind of worried at first because he is so much bigger but jake is so gentle with him.
he likes to watch tv with me when i come home for lunch :)
he loves to play with my brother's dog jake. i was kind of worried at first because he is so much bigger but jake is so gentle with him.
he likes to watch tv with me when i come home for lunch :)
he has already gotten bigger. we weighed him at petsmart one day and he was 18 pounds, two days later he was almost 21 pounds..he's gonna grow up so fast! eric is really excited to take him up to farmville. i think he will love it up there. we took him to the beach yesterday and he loved that. there was another dog there and he played with him for a few hours straight and then he passed out under the umbrella. he's not too sure about the water yet but gets his feet in there to check it out every once in a while. eric is waiting for him to get bigger so he can wrestle around with him.
well not too much is going on over here with us. i hope everyone is doing well.
love,
catherine
That is a lovely picture of Adam and Jackie - Adam looks terrific. Glad Jane and Mark's trip went well and they are safely home.
E and S were here for the weekend - got the AC up and running - oh, yeah - wonderfully cool now. E and I went to see Sex in the City - pretty good - and Dad and S saw the latest Indiana Jones. Don't know how it was - S must have liked it because it was the second time he has seen it. Dad had no comment - probably meant he slept through it - lol.
I think it will be too hot to garden today - I need to do the first of the month bookkeeping anyway - yuck. S backed up a lot of our computer stuff - was getting worried about that. I bought a tiny little gizmo that plugs into computer and copies all kinds of stuff. Amazing. If that little thing can hold all that, why do I need this big console? Don't tell me, I won't understand.
I expect the latest Barnes and Noble order this week - the latest Ruth Rendell (an Inspector Wexford), plus 2 others I can't remember the names of - this old age memory is a pain in the you know what! I am waiting for the reviews before I order Andre Dubus III's (House of Sand and Fog) latest. Hate to order what I think the local library will get, too. And - big news - Wally Lamb has a new one coming out this fall. Right now I have just finished Donna Leon's Death in La Fenice, the first in a series of mysteries set in Italy - very good, will read more of them. Am starting The Magnificent Amberson's today - saw the movie many moons ago and don't remember much except Orson Welles.
Fritz is so funny with Max - growls and acts real tough which Max totally ignores. Of course, when Fritz is doing all this, he is safely away from Max and can't be reached. My little tough guy. He adores E, and tends to ignore me when she is here. I poured leftover KFC gravy on the dog food last night and Fritzy growled the whole time he was eating it to keep Sandi away - guess he liked it.
New guilty pleasure - BRIDEZILLA - thank you E.
Stay cool everyone - Catherine - how about a picture of Bowser????!!
E and S were here for the weekend - got the AC up and running - oh, yeah - wonderfully cool now. E and I went to see Sex in the City - pretty good - and Dad and S saw the latest Indiana Jones. Don't know how it was - S must have liked it because it was the second time he has seen it. Dad had no comment - probably meant he slept through it - lol.
I think it will be too hot to garden today - I need to do the first of the month bookkeeping anyway - yuck. S backed up a lot of our computer stuff - was getting worried about that. I bought a tiny little gizmo that plugs into computer and copies all kinds of stuff. Amazing. If that little thing can hold all that, why do I need this big console? Don't tell me, I won't understand.
I expect the latest Barnes and Noble order this week - the latest Ruth Rendell (an Inspector Wexford), plus 2 others I can't remember the names of - this old age memory is a pain in the you know what! I am waiting for the reviews before I order Andre Dubus III's (House of Sand and Fog) latest. Hate to order what I think the local library will get, too. And - big news - Wally Lamb has a new one coming out this fall. Right now I have just finished Donna Leon's Death in La Fenice, the first in a series of mysteries set in Italy - very good, will read more of them. Am starting The Magnificent Amberson's today - saw the movie many moons ago and don't remember much except Orson Welles.
Fritz is so funny with Max - growls and acts real tough which Max totally ignores. Of course, when Fritz is doing all this, he is safely away from Max and can't be reached. My little tough guy. He adores E, and tends to ignore me when she is here. I poured leftover KFC gravy on the dog food last night and Fritzy growled the whole time he was eating it to keep Sandi away - guess he liked it.
New guilty pleasure - BRIDEZILLA - thank you E.
Stay cool everyone - Catherine - how about a picture of Bowser????!!
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