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.