Alrighty then, got a bit of gardening done yesterday. Got the Irises, Sweet William & some Marigolds planted around the maple tree in the front. I figure they should be safe from the roofers there. We also 2 rows of wax beans planted. So we are well on our way to getting the garden planted. The boys and I will see what else we can get in today. I need to figure out where I can safely put my herb garden so it doesn't get trampled.
Everything is all set to start the roof. They should be able to start Wednesday or Thursday, depending on the weather. It should only rain thru Wednesday, so hopefully the forecast will hold and they can start. I think the dumpster is scheduled to be delivered Thursday regardless. We have settled on some colors, I think, but who knows. We are a ways off from painting.
Bill has figured out what he is going to do about the porch. In order to get the North column back in plum, he has to replace a joist, and re-deck the porch, which he was going to do anyway. That however, can wait until after the roof is done.
Passover was awesome!!!! It was so good to see everyone, well almost everyone. Barry had to work, so that was depressing, but the food was good and the boys were fairly well behaved :) We didn't get home till after 11pm which I knew was going to be a problem and it was. Sam and Mama alone, in the house for long periods of time, usually means trouble of one kind or another.
Apparently, Sam had problems holding it till we got home. It was a mess. I ended up staying up till almost 2 am cleaning up pee, crap & blood. Not sure what Sam did this time to annoy Mama, but she was a bloody mess. The couch is micro-suede, and it took forever to get the blood off of it. Glass Cleaner is what I finally had to use. I know sounds strange, but it worked. I just had no idea a dogs ears could bleed that much. I think Mama isn't just scratching her, I think she is biting her. I think we might want to consider a life insurance policy on Sam, just in case. They seemed to have worked it out by the time we got home, because they were both hanging out on the couch, watching me clean.
We discovered yesterday, that the kitten Gravy, is in fact a girl, not a boy as we had originally thought. Which gives Gravy a much better chance of getting into the house. Bill is a sucker for girls :)
It looks like half of the mud from outside, is now inside. The boys kept running in and out yesterday, so I am going to have some massive cleaning to do today. If I was smart I would wait until we are done outside today to clean it up. But, I can see the chunks of mud all over the floor and it is starting to get on my nerves lol. But, this is one reason we only have wood floors, its easy to clean :)
I might well go ahead and do it now. The boys are actually occupying themselves in their room and besides it is sprinkling now. We may have to wait a few days to plant anyway.
Well, its already 9am and I haven't gotten anything done today, I want to get alot of crap done today, just in case tomorrow doesn't go well.
I still have hopes that the doctor can do whatever repair work he needs to do without keeping me in the hospital more than a few hours. I guess we'll find out tomorrow afternoon :)
Anyway, I better get busy. Happy Easter :)
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Sunday, April 24, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
I-Phone, Tomato Thieves, SWAT Teams & Stupid People
I still haven't got the hang of the title thing. I was told to make sure my title is relevant. Relevant to whom? Me, You, People in Singapore, the Dog? Now its been a long time since I took any writing classes or even an English class, but I seem to recall, way back in the day, before crawlers, that your title was just your title. Not a bunch of key words strung together. Granted, they didn't have crawlers then, but why should I cater to them? If I was doing the title I wanted it would look more like this.
'Stupid Mother leaves babies in car, Swat Team called in while Tomato Thieves run Rampant through Florida, all while being tracked by their I-phones'.
Its a bit long, but I think it sums it up better. I am starting to really dislike key words. I especially don't like tags.
Whatever, I should stop or I'll end up complaining about it all day :)
So the porch guys came back out yesterday with an engineer this time. Smart move on their part. After several hours of fiddling, the North column is as good as it is going to get, with taking it completely apart and getting a real mason to rebuild it.
Bill is actually considering this. I think it is a very bad idea, for now. The porch roof is supported, it will not move. The columns are as level and straight as they are going to get. Let's just get the roof done, before any more damage is done. We can always rebuild the column at a later date, after the roof is done.
Speaking of the roof, we just saved $3500 on the roof, by switching 2 materials for the sofits and facia. Awesome!!!! We aren't sacrificing anything because both materials have a 50 year warranty. Works for me. So instead of using PVC for the facia, we are going with fiber cement. And Engineered wood Strand for the sofits. So, there we are. Hopefully, very soon, I can start complaining about what a mess the roofers are making, I hope.
Let's see, Evan is feeling better today, I think. Yesterday, I couldn't get him to eat anything, which is very strange for him. He eats everything in sight.
Bill is so looking forward to having the weekend off! I am too. It just seems like I see him less now, than I did before he was promoted.
I wanted to make sure the boys had something to wear for tomorrow night, so I went upstairs to make sure I could find their dress clothes. Yep, I found them. Damn it! they don't fit! How can this be? Evan's slacks are about 2 inches to short, Aden's are to tight in the waist, which means Evan won't be able to wear those either. At least, I can give Evan, Aden's shirt, then I am only down 1 shirt and 2 pairs of pants. I know I kept alot of boys clothes from when I was doing Ebay, so I should have a bin or two somewhere, with pants and shirts. But I think I only kept size 6,7 & 8. Aden needs a 5 slim or he did. I have the sewing machine out so I can always take in a size 6 and let it out later. But what a pain. At least I found out yesterday, and not tomorrow when I was trying to get them ready. Now I just have to find that bin! And I have to fine me something that fits. It does really amaze me, how skinny Aden is now. He was such a fat baby! Not chubby, huge.
I did find this sewing sit online, that talked about customizing your store bought bras. They had awesome instructions on how to take in your bras. I followed the instructions and now one of my nice bras fits! Finally! I had to take in 2 inches on each side of the band, but I was to scared to actually cut the material out. What if I end up getting bigger and need those inches back? Bras are stupid expensive. Well, the ones I got were anyway :)
But since the sewing machine is out I can start taking in my jeans so I don't have to keep using Bill's belt. I know, I could just go and by a belt, but that would involve actually spending money :)
Storms today and it looks like through the weekend :( I wanted to try and get the garden in Saturday. I want to at least get in spinach, lettuce, tomatoes. I think the green beans & peas can wait a couple of weeks.
Bill will just have to fence around the garden.
Okay so I watched the news this morning. Yep you guessed it, it was an idiot fest.
First, we have a mother, who drove her mini-van to dollar general or dollar tree, one of those, left her 11 month old and her 3 year old in the van, while it was running, and she went into the store. When she came back out she noticed her van driving away. The SWAT team was called in, and a 3 hour stand off, ensued. The children are okay. Maybe its just me, but what kind of idiot leaves her kids in the car, while its running, to go shopping????? Does she not watch the news, ever? She told authorities that she has never had a problem before, because the 3 years looks after the baby... The 3 year old! Really? I have a three year old, I wouldn't trust him to babysit anything living. I can't believe the mother isn't in trouble.
Next up on the list.
It seems that there is a new organized crime ring in Florida. If this doesn't convince you the economy is in the toilet, nothing will.
Apparently these guys, set up a fake trucking company, in order to steal....wait for it.......tomatoes.
Tomatoes. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of...tomatoes. They have yet to be caught. So, be very careful out there. They could be armed with bacon & lettuce. Very Dangerous. I wonder if when we plant our tomatoes we should put in some sort of security system??? Maybe we will just let Sam stay outside at night to guard them? Maybe we should get a couple of vicious Doberman's to guard the tomatoes.
The next idiot was perhaps my favorite. This guy was in court for parole violations and he decided that instead of going to jail, he would try jumping out the window. He broke the window, then tried to jump out. He was stopped by a petite policewoman, who yanked him back into the room. He only suffered cuts and scraps. She probably saved his life, since it would have been a fall of a couple of stories. I think, she should have let him jump. They would have had plenty of time to send officers down to the parking lot to make sure he didn't get away, just in case he lived. He might have only broken his legs. It would have saved the state tons of money. Unless of course he did live and broke alot of bones, then the state is stuck paying his medical bills. Okay, I have to change my mind. The policewoman was right to stop him.
But it was still funny.
Then we have the story about how people with I-phones are having their movements tracked by their phone. Gotta love it.
On today's agenda, we have alterations to make and hair to cut, if Aden will let me. He is starting to look a bit like Shaggy (from Scooby Doo, not the singer, although I really like that Shaggy)
I hear the laundry and litter box calling my name. Oh joy of joys!
Protect your tomatoes!!!!
'Stupid Mother leaves babies in car, Swat Team called in while Tomato Thieves run Rampant through Florida, all while being tracked by their I-phones'.
Its a bit long, but I think it sums it up better. I am starting to really dislike key words. I especially don't like tags.
Whatever, I should stop or I'll end up complaining about it all day :)
So the porch guys came back out yesterday with an engineer this time. Smart move on their part. After several hours of fiddling, the North column is as good as it is going to get, with taking it completely apart and getting a real mason to rebuild it.
Bill is actually considering this. I think it is a very bad idea, for now. The porch roof is supported, it will not move. The columns are as level and straight as they are going to get. Let's just get the roof done, before any more damage is done. We can always rebuild the column at a later date, after the roof is done.
Speaking of the roof, we just saved $3500 on the roof, by switching 2 materials for the sofits and facia. Awesome!!!! We aren't sacrificing anything because both materials have a 50 year warranty. Works for me. So instead of using PVC for the facia, we are going with fiber cement. And Engineered wood Strand for the sofits. So, there we are. Hopefully, very soon, I can start complaining about what a mess the roofers are making, I hope.
Let's see, Evan is feeling better today, I think. Yesterday, I couldn't get him to eat anything, which is very strange for him. He eats everything in sight.
Bill is so looking forward to having the weekend off! I am too. It just seems like I see him less now, than I did before he was promoted.
I wanted to make sure the boys had something to wear for tomorrow night, so I went upstairs to make sure I could find their dress clothes. Yep, I found them. Damn it! they don't fit! How can this be? Evan's slacks are about 2 inches to short, Aden's are to tight in the waist, which means Evan won't be able to wear those either. At least, I can give Evan, Aden's shirt, then I am only down 1 shirt and 2 pairs of pants. I know I kept alot of boys clothes from when I was doing Ebay, so I should have a bin or two somewhere, with pants and shirts. But I think I only kept size 6,7 & 8. Aden needs a 5 slim or he did. I have the sewing machine out so I can always take in a size 6 and let it out later. But what a pain. At least I found out yesterday, and not tomorrow when I was trying to get them ready. Now I just have to find that bin! And I have to fine me something that fits. It does really amaze me, how skinny Aden is now. He was such a fat baby! Not chubby, huge.
I did find this sewing sit online, that talked about customizing your store bought bras. They had awesome instructions on how to take in your bras. I followed the instructions and now one of my nice bras fits! Finally! I had to take in 2 inches on each side of the band, but I was to scared to actually cut the material out. What if I end up getting bigger and need those inches back? Bras are stupid expensive. Well, the ones I got were anyway :)
But since the sewing machine is out I can start taking in my jeans so I don't have to keep using Bill's belt. I know, I could just go and by a belt, but that would involve actually spending money :)
Storms today and it looks like through the weekend :( I wanted to try and get the garden in Saturday. I want to at least get in spinach, lettuce, tomatoes. I think the green beans & peas can wait a couple of weeks.
Bill will just have to fence around the garden.
Okay so I watched the news this morning. Yep you guessed it, it was an idiot fest.
First, we have a mother, who drove her mini-van to dollar general or dollar tree, one of those, left her 11 month old and her 3 year old in the van, while it was running, and she went into the store. When she came back out she noticed her van driving away. The SWAT team was called in, and a 3 hour stand off, ensued. The children are okay. Maybe its just me, but what kind of idiot leaves her kids in the car, while its running, to go shopping????? Does she not watch the news, ever? She told authorities that she has never had a problem before, because the 3 years looks after the baby... The 3 year old! Really? I have a three year old, I wouldn't trust him to babysit anything living. I can't believe the mother isn't in trouble.
Next up on the list.
It seems that there is a new organized crime ring in Florida. If this doesn't convince you the economy is in the toilet, nothing will.
Apparently these guys, set up a fake trucking company, in order to steal....wait for it.......tomatoes.
Tomatoes. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of...tomatoes. They have yet to be caught. So, be very careful out there. They could be armed with bacon & lettuce. Very Dangerous. I wonder if when we plant our tomatoes we should put in some sort of security system??? Maybe we will just let Sam stay outside at night to guard them? Maybe we should get a couple of vicious Doberman's to guard the tomatoes.
The next idiot was perhaps my favorite. This guy was in court for parole violations and he decided that instead of going to jail, he would try jumping out the window. He broke the window, then tried to jump out. He was stopped by a petite policewoman, who yanked him back into the room. He only suffered cuts and scraps. She probably saved his life, since it would have been a fall of a couple of stories. I think, she should have let him jump. They would have had plenty of time to send officers down to the parking lot to make sure he didn't get away, just in case he lived. He might have only broken his legs. It would have saved the state tons of money. Unless of course he did live and broke alot of bones, then the state is stuck paying his medical bills. Okay, I have to change my mind. The policewoman was right to stop him.
But it was still funny.
Then we have the story about how people with I-phones are having their movements tracked by their phone. Gotta love it.
On today's agenda, we have alterations to make and hair to cut, if Aden will let me. He is starting to look a bit like Shaggy (from Scooby Doo, not the singer, although I really like that Shaggy)
I hear the laundry and litter box calling my name. Oh joy of joys!
Protect your tomatoes!!!!
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