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Author: donna  |  Category: Family

Gasp.

No pictures in this one.  Just wanted to jump on the blog and say hello.

Hello!  (waving)

And add a few of my thoughts…

First, I’m sorry you’re having to look at the SAME picture on the banner portion of the blog.  It’s been that same picture for over three years.  Dylan doesn’t even have his first leg, for pity sake, and he’s on his third!  But, WordPress doesn’t make it so easy to switch stuff like pics and fonts, which is a pain.  Our friend, Alan has been working to make this easier, and Randy promises me he’ll sit down with me to try and get a new pic up there.  I have hope…

If you read the last post, you got woozy watching Randy teetering on the top of our ladder.  You’ll be happy to know that he now has a 25′ extension ladder.  Problem solved.  As well as freshly replaced outside floodlights.

Guess what we have?  A bit of an infestation of fruit flies.  Eeek.  We thought we just had gnats at first, and wondered why so many were in our kitchen.  We now have several homemade traps filled with apple cider vinegar, topped with paper funnels.  Flies get in, can’t get out.  Hoping this takes care of it.  Any other ideas?

Randy took care of one of those pesky “list” things this weekend.  We’ve had a spot in our backyard that was constantly wet, no matter what the weather.  We were concerned that maybe a pipe leading to the garden sprinklers had busted or something.  Turns out, the previous owner was just a dimwit.  Attempting to divert drainage from the house to the backyard, he used pvc pipe, buried it only a few inches down, and then just left it open at the end.  The water was dumping from it and just saturating the ground, with nowhere for the excess water to go.  Randy, with some of the kids help, got it all fixed up so it drains downhill and into a gravel area (with a special drain thingy on the end).  Voila.  One honey-do DONE.

I’m in purge mode.  If it’s not nailed down and we’ve not used, worn, or played-with it in a while, it’s GONE.  Another criteria for my purge-fest…do I love it?  I hate clutter, having too much stuff around stresses me out.  Proof of this?  When I AM stressed, the first thing I do is straighten up, organize something, or re-arrange something.  Hey, it helps!  I’ve been taking gobs of stuff to charity drop-offs, kids consignment stores, and this weekend I’m taking a bunch of my “done with” clothing, bags, and jewelry to a women’s consignment event.  Yay for paring down and simplifying!

I’ve been cooking a lot lately.  Two of our favorites lately were Sweet Baby Rays crockpot bbq and cheesy potato soup.  Both were YUM and I’ve been told to make them again.  And, a lot.  No problem, they’re both really good and very economical.

I’m hoping to blog more often, I know I’ve been very lax about keeping up with it.  I think I’m just taking less pictures, which I have no good excuse for.  Gotta work on getting the pics off my camera, onto the computer, and then on the blog.  I’ll do better.

Well, It’s Sunday night, and I think I’ll go sit and watch TV with the family for a bit.  Before Monday shows up and the real-life of school, activities, and errands commences.

Night :)

4 Responses to “No pictures”

  1. Kristin Friend Says:

    Would you share your recipes with us?

    Have a great day! :)

  2. emily Says:

    oh we are so the same– when i am stressed i clean and purge — it makes me feel so good– weird huh???

  3. Mom West Says:

    First of all, “whew” that Randy bought an extension ladder and won’t get back on that high step ladder!!

    Funny that I read that you’re in a cleaning-out stuff mood…must be this wonderful crisp fall air, cuz I cleaned out some bedrrom drawers today! Found an 8×10 pretty picture of your senior year cheerleading portrait! I took a picture of it with my camera and will make a print for you…Rah rah!!!

    Kuddos to Randy for solving the “wet spot” problem…he’s pretty smart, and I just knew he would find out what was causing it!

    Fruit flies? Oh my!! That makes me itch…HA! Hope the traps work!!

    Um…I tried to straighten up, organize and re-arrange back when you were in high school…and college. You’d come home for spring break…and there was a mess here & there…especially in your room! So nice to hear that you’ve changed thru the years…kids will do that to you!! You used to tell me that I was “too neat”!! HA!!

    Your “cheesy potato soup” sounds good, but the “cheesy” is a problem for me…:( Glad it’s a big hit with the family!!

    Glad you decided to take a break and watch TV with Randy and our fab grands! Everyone needs a break!!

    Hope you all have a great week. Bye (waving!!)

  4. Gram Says:

    I was just thinking the other day that you really do need a new picture for your site. All of the kids have grown so much that it will make a huge difference.

    Glad my son bought a safer ladder…. nuff said.

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