Tuesday

Wow..almost a week since I've blogged. Wednesday I had a Doctor's appointment. My quarterly..he said things were looking good. Of course I am on medicine so good means I don't have to take any more or stronger medicine. After the Doctor's appointment I went to Walmart and wandered around for an hour. I especially checked out their discounted items..They had 5-60 hour sterno emergency candles. I love burning candles. I only picked up one because they weren't marked and I had no idea how much a sterno candle went for regular price. When I got home I checked out the price online..$9.30...I paid $2.97 That's approximately 66% off. Thursday I had to go to the dentist.On the way home I stopped at Walmart again..to make a picture CD for Sammy of Kayla's party and to pick up those other 4 candles.
Also Ken kept texting me saying He loved me and he was bored and he had a surprise..Got home around 11:00 and at 11:30 he walked in the door. He'd had to go in on an emergency call Tuesday night which netted him and automatic 4 hours-paid for 6. They don't want them working overtime so he only worked 4 hours Thursday and had 6 off-paid. Nice. So he took me out for lunch. Then we went over to a friend from Churches new house and Ken put up 3 ceiling fans for him. I got to hold their new baby. He's such a cutie with his head full of black hair..Honest, he looks like he needs a hair cut already. Friday was Ken's usual day off so we did the grocery shopping and waited for Jen and my father in law to get here from Tennessee. They pulled in early afternoon. Dad took off to visit some friends and Ken,Jen and I went to the new Monte Alban that finally opened in Webster. Mmmmm Mexican food. I had a beef taco,beef enchilada, refried beans and rice. Saturday I did the laundry and mowed the lawn. Had to get that out of the way as I was supposed to pick the kids up Sunday night for the week. Dad called and asked if we wanted to go out to supper..his treat. Hey, we never turn down a free meal. Mom called and said there were severe thunderstorm/hail storm warnings. A tornado had touched down in corfu and possibly in Hilton. All we got were down pours and a little thunder and lightening. Then Ken Jen and I went and saw G-Force. It was a cute movie. Sunday was church and we hung out in the afternoon at home with Ken's Dad. Back to church and then off to pick up my kiddos. I pulled in the driveway to see Colin running through a huge water hole in long pants. He's such a boy. They'd just had a huge downpour.Came home and put everybody to bed. Got up this morning, got everybody fed and dressed, said good bye to Dad..He's on his way back to Tennessee later today after playing golf for the first time in 5 years. He had gastric by pass surgery done earlier this year and he's looking great. He's already lost 90 pounds. Today (Monday) Loaded the kids into the van and took of for church. They're having vacation bible school this week..9:30-12:30. Friday they have pony rides. I'm sitting here in the van catching up on my blog but I probably won't be able to post until I get home. In a little while I'm going to take off to Wegmans to get some stuff I forgot to get for the week. Then if the rain holds off we're going to go walk a couple of trails this afternoon and the kids may go swimming in the little pool I have for them if it ever warms up. So I'm sure I'll have lots of adventures to talk about and lots of pics from the week.

Well I guess this is going to get rather long as I forgot to post yesterday's blog. So as I was sitting in the van I thought,"Uh Duh!!!! I could go shopping at the Wegmans' near home, take the stuff home and then go back to church". So I did. After Vacation Bible School we came home..packed a lunch and went to North Ponds Park. Ate lunch and walked 2 trails to get 2 of our 6 trails we need for our $5.00 Wegmans gift card and t-shirt. The kids were pretty bushed when we were done. So home we came and they changed into their suits and hit the pool. After that Jen took them in and they watched Spiderman 1. I made supper and when Ken got home we ate. Boys went to bed at 8:30 and Kayla at 9:00. Off we went to VBS again this morning..I stayed this time. When they went to class time I went to the nursery and rocked the baby I watch sometimes to sleep. Came home..ate lunch and took off for another 2 trails and then realized that a 3rd was really close so we did 3 trails today...only 1 more to do. Today was a lot warmer then yesterday..We all came home sweaty. It didn't take long to chance into bathing suits and now they're all splashing in the pool. Lots of giggling, laughing and occasional crying but they're having fun.

What fun grownups can have at a kids birthday party

Tuesday

The Birthday Girl My Hubby Judy and I Today I needed to do some running..er...walking around. I left the house at 9:35 and walked over to the Webster Parks and Recreation Office to pick up our Wegmans Passport to family wellness booklets. They have a program that runs from July 1, 2009- August 1, 2010. There are 10 trails in the Webster area. Each trail has a raised marker and you do a rubbing of the marker in the booklet. When you've walked 4 trails you can take your booklet to the recreation center and receive a coupon for a free Wegman's product. Upon completion of 6 trails you get a free T-shirt and $5.00Wegmans gift card. If you do all 10 you get a chance to win a free rental of Liberty Lodge at Finn Park. We're really only interested in the gift cards but we'll take a t-shirt. I get the kids next week and we have Vacation Bible School in the morning but I figured it would give us something to do after lunch. And most of the trails are under a mile so it's something the kids should be able to do easily. So after the Parks and Recreation department I walked to the post office to mail off a DVD for Samantha with pictures and videos from Kayla's Birthday Party Saturday. Left there and walked to the library to drop off a book. Walked across the street to the dollar store and K-Mart trying to find cowboy hats for the kids for next week. Nothing. Then back home...I walked in the door at 11:35. 2 hours on my feet and they were not happy. Ate lunch and now catching up on e-mail and surfing the net.

Monday

What a busy week end we had...well actually it was Saturday that was busy. First let me back up to Friday. Hubby came home and we had to go back to his work coz he brought the work keys home with him. After that we stopped at a blood lab in Pittsford so I could get my quarterly blood work done. Then it was off to lunch. We ate at some wood fired pizza place. It was ok but way over priced. Then it was back home to get the bags so we could go grocery shopping. Didn't have a whole lot to pick up but we managed to spend alot of money anyways. Saturday morning we got up and I wrapped Kayla's birthday presents. Sammy was having a party for her and we were invited. Oh oh..I forgot a card and I wanted to get her some balloons so off we went to Irondequoit. Oh but wait....before we go to Factory Card Outlet lets go to Harbor Freight ( They carry the solar system I'm interested in ) So we went...we looked...we didn't buy. If it was me I'd just buy the sucker and bring it home but I want hubby to be onboard...So we talked about it...and talked about it...and talked about it..not just at the store but the rest of the day and it looks like we may be getting one. Its just a little cheapo 45 watt system and we really want it just to be able to play with it and see if we'd be interested in doing something on a larger scale. So maybe soon. Went and got a birthday card and picked up 3 balloons. Took off for the party. We had a good time. Left there around 4:30 came home, Nicole followed us. Then we walked over to the Webster Firemen's Carnival so Ken could get his steamed clams. That's the only reason we go..well..that and the cotton candy. Nicole had to work an overnight so she tried to sleep on a mattress on the living room floor but every time she drifted off they set off a tester for the fireworks display they were going to have. We're so close to the fairgrounds that when they go "boom" the house shakes..She didn't get much sleep. She left for work and I went and sat on the back patio and watched the display. Might as well watch them..you can't sleep through them. Fell into bed and got a whole 5 hours sleep. Body clock is set at 5:30. Nicole was back at 8:15ish. She had to go back into work at 4:00 so she crashed at the house for the day. She usually works the 4-midnight but she wanted to go to Kayla's party so I guess somebody who works the 4-midnight switched with her. We had great messages at church yesterday. Pastor just got back from vacation so apparently the Lord recharged his batteries while he was gone. Today when the alarm went off I was so tired from the week end that I made hubby's coffee, breakfast and lunch and headed back to bed. Finally got up at 8:30. Had a banana and went out to mow the lawn. The sun was brutal but its done. I did the laundry yesterday though today might have been a better day to do it. No matter..its all done. That's it for today.

Friday

Well I've not written much coz there hasn't really been much going on. Tuesday we went to AT&T about our phones that keep shutting off. The good news is Ken's still had 14 days left on the warranty so they replaced his for free. The bad news was supposedly mine had gotten wet and that voided the warranty. The only wet mine had gotten was from persperation but whatever. The good news is I found out I could go to Walmart and buy a cheap $20 GO phone and put my sim card in it. The even better news is Nicole had an old Blackberry that she gave me and I didn't have to spend the $20. I may never buy a phone from AT&T again. We'll see. I don't know...that I Phone keeps calling my name but as you HAVE to get internet on it for another $30 a month that may be put on hold for a long time. Right now I'm going to concentrate on making extra principal payments on my house. The way things are going I really want to get it paid off so if something happens to my pension or to Ken's job we'd only have to worry about taxes and insurance and not mortgage payments also. Been watching alot of you tube videos about rain barrels and solar systems.Interesting things. Right now I'm waiting for Ken to get home..yes I know its Friday but they had training scheduled for today so he had to go in for 2 hours. Hey its overtime. So off I go to do something constructive...

My Monday...and Tuesday morning

So I woke up at 4:15 yesterday..not only woke up but got up. Did my devotions, made Ken's coffee,breakfast and lunch and left the house at 6:15 for Warsaw. Got to Judy's about 7:30ish and set her up a yahoo account. Only problem was we couldn't read her e-mail. Kept getting an error code..ok the heck with it..Lets see if we can get her RoadRunner account set up...Yep..we did that. Showed her how to do e-mail and search for stuff. Now its time to take her to the Doctor. Do that then go over to Social Services so she can get some papers copied. Across the street to McDonald's where she bought me lunch. Nice!!! Then we went to Walmart. I got Kayla some clothes for her birthday and picked up a wireless router for Judy. Apparently Time Warner doesn't do wireless routers. Frontier gave me one and I didn't even ask for it. Try to hook it up and it didn't work..Ok..we'll start all over again. Plug the ethernet cable back into her computer...no internet..oh oh......not good. She calls Time Warner...one of their automated menu items is.."to reset your cable modem press...". She presses it and sure enough the modem starts blinking and we can access the internet again..Hey that was easy...lets try setting up the router again. Computer finally says everythings ok but....we can't get onto the internet. Arrrgghhhh. Open this window, push this, yank on that, wiggle our nose a little bit and tada !!!!!!!!!! We're on the internet and there's no cord attached. Yeah...what did I do?? No idea...don't care....its working. Leave her house about 4:30...later then I'd planned and now I'm rushing to get home to make supper for my hubby..fought with my phone all the way home coz we got the cheapy phones and they're C-R-A-P. Eat supper...lets go to AT&T and get new phones...ok...we pull in at 7:10..they closed at 7:00. In the mean time my phone has shut off...again. Turn it back on...there's a voice mail from a friend at church..she found out her son got his orders to Iraq. His first deployment and she's upset..My wonderful hubby says....go. So off I go to comfort my friend and assure her its gonna be ok..Its quiet in Iraq..he's a mechanic so he won't be in the thick of any battle. And besides the last time I talked to Shaun..(a couple of weeks ago) he told me he was so bored he was going crazy. We spent 2 hours talking and walking the roads around her dad's farm. Left her house at 9:45 and found out my hair dresser had tried to call me to see if I could baby sit today. It was to late to call her back so I figured I'd do it this morning. At 6:45 Judy called coz she couldn't remember how to do something or other..and now I can't remember what it was..LOL. Tried to talk her through that but I don't think I was very successful. We'll get it. Went over and baby sat for a couple of hours and then rode my bike back home and had lunch and now trying to catch up on e-mail and blogging and all that good stuff....Later

Gee Whiz...2 posts in 2 days.

So this morning I decided I really better get the lawn mowed. It wasn't gonna happen tomorrow coz its church day and it is supposed to rain a couple of days next week. Got up and did my Bible devotions..which consists of reading the Proverb of the day, praying over my Wednesday night and Friday night RU prayer lists and reading the devotional from 2 devotional books. Get dressed. Eat 2 slices of zuchhini...oh my goodness I forgot...I made a loaf of zucchini bread yesterday. I think my baking powder and baking soda may be a little flat coz the bread sure was..but it still tastes good. So I ate 2 slices so I could take my pills. Threw 2 gas cans in the back of the van and off I went to BJ's to get gas. Yesterday Ken filled up the car at BJ's in Henrietta for $2.50 a gallon..I paid $2.70 in Webster. Came home and it was still only 8 AM. Maybe a little early to mow the lawn coz of the neighbors ya know. So I finally took the windows off on the back porch. A few years ago I put screening over the windows so I could take the windows off in the summer. I finally got around to doing that. Then I started mowing the lawn and when I dumped the grass catcher Hubby mulched down stuff. I love mowing the lawn because its 2 hours of walking and frankly I could use the exercise. In the middle of that Hubby comes out waving my open cell phone at me..It was Judy..So I laid on the hammock swinging back and forth talking to her. See I didn't know it at the time but there was a reason I did the laundry Thursday and the lawn today. Monday ( my usual laundry and lawn day) I'm going to Warsaw to spend the day with her. She has a couple appointments she needs to go to and with her sprained ankle she would have needed to take the bus. Now I can take her. And she has internet but has no idea how to use it so I'm going to see what I can do about that. Also she's been typing recipes on her laptop but instead of making each recipe an separate document she's just been typing recipes onto a single document. I can't wait to see how long that sucker is..so I'm going to show her how to cut and paste each one into its own document. So just as we finished the lawn it started to sprinkle. Put everything away and come in the house to find out its only 11:30. Hubby and I round up the 5 bags of pop cans and bottles and take them to Wegmans. See today is probably the last day of the 90% lean ground beef for $1.99 a pound sale and I still need to make meatballs. So we went to Wegmans to take back cans and bottles and pick up a pack of burger and walked out $31 dollars lighter...pop open hot dogs, 2 packs of chips, burger, latex gloves, and 2 red box movies..While we were in the store we heard thunder..lots of it. Must have been a heck of a storm but by the time we came out it was only raining..darn. I love a good thunder and lightening storm. Came home made lunch (left overs) and I set to working making meatballs. We got 8 dozen plus another pound of burger in the freezer for tacos or sloppy joes or whatever. Once that was done we watched the new Pink Panther movie...It was pretty funny if not somewhat predictable. So that's it for me today.

Friday catch up

oh boy....lets see if I can remember what I've done since Monday..Tuesday...nothing. Wednesday..waited all morning for the Safelite guy to come and put in my windshield. All morning it would be sunny, get cloudy, sprinkle a little. And I'm thinking please don't rain...There's no way I can get the garage cleared out enough so they can get the front of the van in and they can get both doors open. Noon comes and goes and still no windshield installer. I keep going to the door and looking out at the sky and checking wunderground to see where the rain is. Finally about 1:30 the sun comes out bright and the Safelite guy pulls in. Less then an hour he was done. And it cost me absolutely nothing..nada...not one thin penny. Thank you car insurance. Thursday I decided it was time to get the broccoli out of the garden so I could get the cabbage planted. Put it in the basin in salt water in case there were little buggies in it and decided to do the laundry as it was going to be a nice day. I was hanging out my first load when my hair dresser called and asked if I could watch the girls. I said sure as she didn't need me to be there for another 2 hours. Finished up my laundry, got the broccoli blanched and frozen...a whole 2 quart bags..LOL..got the broccoli plants cut up into smaller pieces and thrown in the compost bin..pics to follow. Went and waqtched the girls for about 3 hours then came home and made supper for hubby and I. Hubby went to band practice and I read and messed on the computer..and watched Big Brother. Today was a bit of a frustrating day for me..I like to get up early and get stuff done for the day..Hubby and my schedules weren't the same..I wanted to go grocery shopping..he wanted to putter around the house first. So I went out and pulled my lettuce which had finally bolted. We now have 3 huge bowls of lettuce in the fridge. I was going to mow the lawn but I didn't have any gas, was too frustrated to want to go and get any and the grass was still wet. I wanted to use the grass catcher this week to do some more mulching and I don't think wet grass would have been good. Finally we went grocery shopping. We went to Palmers and got 2 boneless pork loins for 1.69 a pound...

Time out while I help Hubby cut it up.

Final tally....25 thick pork chops, 2-1 lb pkgs of pork chunks for stirfry and 3 pork roasts..2-3 pounders and a 1 1/2 pounder. Not bad for $30. About 11 meals of pork. We also went to Aldi's and BJ's. Ok..off to upload some pictures.


The Grandkids Colin Kayla and Ian taken a couple of weeks ago


Other 4x4 bed with 3 Romas in the back and where once was and shall be again lettuce.

Compost bin in place



4x16 Bed with cabbage at one end and a zucchini plant at the other. Maybe I'll plant carrots in between.

One 4x4 bed with 3 Romas in back and onions in the front

Monday

Watched the fire works on R News. It was pretty cool considering it was on TV. Sunday morning Nicole texted me and said I should make her breakfast (she was finishing up an overnight) I told her I could do that. So she came over and I made breakfast and then we went to church. The first Sunday of the month we do nursery and yesterday was our Sunday. We had so much fun playing with the babies. Today I Ken took out the garbage and I finished mowing the lawn. Took me about 30 minutes. Mom called and told me the wood chucks got her cabbage, kholrabi and brussel sprouts. I have to get the windshield replaced so we can get the van inspected this month so I called Progressive and got that arranged. They're coming to the house Wednesday to replace it. Ken and I took off and did some running. We went to Palmer's only to find out they were closed today, across the driveway to Lori's Natural Food where Ken got some stuff to make sushi. Then we went to Home Depot so he could return a switch plate and get a couple of new ones. We stopped at Wambach's and got a dozen cabbage plants. Our broccoli is almost done so I'll pull the plants in a couple of days and plant the cabbage. I wanted some Chinese food so my hubby got us some and then Nicole and Jim stopped over and dropped off a bag of french fries from 5 guys burger and Fries. Now I'm just sitting here catching up on e-mail

Happy 4th of July

Thursday I did not a whole lot. Hubby came home early and took me out for supper. Yeah me...I didn't have to cook or do dishes. Friday we went grocery shopping and got Madea goes to Jail..Hilarious. We went to Carrabba's for supper. Oh my gosh..It was an awesome experience. The food was great and so was our waiter. His name was Noah and he's a college student at RIT. We know coz we talked to the manager. Today I decided we should probably do some work. I did the laundry and then we went to Home Depot so Hubby could get some lumber to build me a compost bin. While he worked on that and did the dishes I mowed the lawn. Well..most of the lawn. Still have the front to do. Had to trim some thorn bushes along the side of the yard and Hubby came out and helped me pick them up. Then I went and helped him put together the compost bin. Its awesome. Right now its sitting on the side walk by the front door but eventually it'll make it to the back yard. Finally around 7:00 we wrapped things up and went and picked up subs. So now I'm sitting here trying to stay awake until 10:00 because they're supposed to show the fireworks on R News.

Wednesday

Yesterday was a pretty busy day. I was peacefully layng on the couch working on my
2nd in the series Tom Clancy book when I remembered it was the first of the month and time to pay my bills. Paid my bills and Shaun's car payment which I'm taking care of while he's gone and then decided that I really needed to get the computer deski cleaned off. It took me 2 hours but many oh man does it look good. Then I decided it was time to call Frontier. A month ago a guy came to the door and talked me into signing up for a new Frontier plan that included call waiting and caller ID for 5 dollars less then I was paying now. Had it not been for the caller ID and call waiting I probably wouldn't have. It was supposed to take effect beginning with the next billing. I remembered yesterday as I was playing the bills that it still hadn't been activated so I called. First the customer service rep tried to tell me that they were offering that plan anymore..well I had a signed year contract that said they should..finally she decided that somebody had made a mistake and that they'd "forgotten" to activate it...YA THINK? But any way when Mom called this morning it came up on caller ID..YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Today I've absolutely nothing but lay here on the couch reading...I have 3 books that need to be read by July 15th. Off I go...again.