Morning all. Beautiful outside today, grass cutting weather...

Baking this a.m. smells so good.

Beautiful day here, too, after those flash t-storms we had last night! They were wild! Where Nancy is in PA, 200,000 homes lost power in one of them & they've been told it will be several days before it comes back on!

Maxi has swimmer's ear again and is fairly miserable. I just made him some toast & gave him so yogurt so he can take the Tylenol. Ear drops are already in.

Off to dialysis soon.

Good morning. Happy Friday!

Morning Merme, Happy Friday Tina

Zach has left with his Aunt and my day really begins..waiting on the grass to finish drying. I am so impatient

Waiting on a truck load of lime for my hay field as well. Not going to be fun hand spreading it though, that's a week end job in itself.

Good Morning--(I have been up for only 30 minutes.)

beautiful day here as well. only 75*F so far today.

Baking--perhaps I should try that too, Tamara...Rod would be happy if I did.

Mmmm, chocolate chip cookies

ya know--I think I will go and do just that--he loves Choc chip cookies---and I have lots of chips in the freezer---

Evening all, spent the day doing yard work..again.

Delivery guy didn't show up with the lime..makes me so mad. 'Call before not when you close' to say we can't make it today.

I swear if DH doesn't start that chain saw in a few minutes..I'm going to borrow extension cords from all the neighbors and whip out the circular saw..yes I am impatient On a good note, DH told me to get something next time we go shopping to plant against the new fence

Yup, apparently it should have roses..hey, I'll not argue

yea !!! be sure to find something pretty that you have always wanted...

Tamara, this is great fun being here with ya, but I need to go and fix the sides for supper. Rodney is grilling tonight.

K. I gotta go also, I'm supposed to be up at the barn waiting on a farmer for cattle a pick up in a few.

I had a Don Juan climbing rose before but it broke in a bad winter, i'd love to find one again.

Do you protect your roses in winter, Tamara?
Busy days with company. I drop in now and again.

Hi Tina, I don't need to protect the ones I buy now, I buy Rugosas for our zone..but I do have to mulch an old floribunda..and it still dies back to the base every spring.

I've learned to buy the 'hardy' roses, I spent a lot of money for years making mistakes trying to buy the 'pretty ones'.. just doesn't work.


Sold another cow , only got the three mommas and babies and the new dad. Last years calves are all gone.

Hi everyone! Had a busy but productive day today. Got up, made breakfast, started laundry, took a shower, went to the mall to pick up some things I needed, got my allergy shots and test prep meds, finally made it home, switched out the laundry, and now I'm sitting. Temporarily. Aros is sleeping but not for long because I'm going to wake him up. The girls are at sleepovers so it's just me and the boys for dinner. And, I still have to make a list and go grocery shopping. Phew, no wonder I feel tired. Tomorrow and/or Sunday I'm hoping to get some work done on the weeds I didn't do last time and I still haven't been for a run since since Tuesday.

What a week. Agree? I read through four pages of the last coffee house, and I bet you do! Company, accidents, china saw problems, wakes, ... .

What a week. Had to go to Jackson on Thursday. Blah. By all measures, Jackson, Mississippi is not a particularly big place but once you get used to putt putting along and farmer waving at everyone you pass on the road, Jackson is a real pain. (And this from someone who on more than one occasion drove her pick em up truck in NYC & DC.) We took the back roads home. Putt putt wave.

Two pieces of big news. We finally broke down and got... wait... three pieces... a medium large HD tv, and actually got it hooked up with few problems (read: very little cursing). Of course, we don't have the correct receiver, and we need a new dish b/c the old one, that would be the one installed in October, isn't HD ready or whatever. This is a treat. Sort of like Tamara's roses. (I'd been hinting at it and then John had a great idea.) It's an extravagance, but hey, why not? I mean, if you're going to watch RFD TV, might as well be on a screen bigger than 12".

#2 We bought walkie talkies! This is not an extravagance. It just makes sense for John & I to be able to communicate.

[#3 relates to a topic I've never seen discussed here (ammo!) so I'll just set that aside.]

The plan was to do some fishing early tomorrow morning. The lake has small mouth & brim. Sort of funny-- we were so happy to get this place with a lake and a place for a shooting range and now that we have them, we're too busy working to go fishing or shooting. :-) And we didn't turn the tv on at all tonight.

Here's to a restful weekend. Yeah. Right.

What about ammo, Marica? We get ours from Cheaper Than Dirt.
Good night all. I bought my friend a few drinks so she is sleeping like a baby and I can get to bed at a decent hour.

I'm still trying to get used to the new PC. The keyboard messes me up big time.

Otherwise, it is very most nice in every way!!

Particularly since it was free!

Maxi's ear is still troubling him but it is improving. No more swimming for him w/out putting alcohol in before & after each swim!

That lock down at dialysis today really put me on edge. It couldda gone so much worse!

Marica, I wanna visit your farm.

But I must say, I got to laughing when you mentioned the need for ammo & then small mouth & brim in the next breath. I wondered if you were planning to shoot the fish? Then I read a little more & found out you want to fish AND have a shooting range! duh.

What can I say It's late!


Tam we have many rosa rugosa's here also. But Portland has a formal rose garden too & I've always meant to ask the park rangers how the manage to keep the thing alive....

there's a big difference in our treats. DH is a TV nut also, he wants a big screen..uh that doesn't fit in a tiny house.

Hey Merme, I've seen fish hunting with bullets, an illegal way of salmon fishing. They put a balloon over the end of a 22..put the tip in the water and wait..bang. fresh salmon for supper

Morning all, raining a bit. Sun is trying to peak out, storms for the afternoon...and I want to go berry picking, no fair

Good morning. It is still cool here at 58* but will climb quite a bit as the sun rises and sets. I am not doing a lot of my stuff these days. Mostly entertaining my guest and a lot of my normal stuff. But today is the last day and she will be leaving tomorrow. Then I will begin going outside to work more and when it is too hot, working on getting more of my house squared away. It is bill paying season here too.

Good morning.

Marica: surely I have mentioned ammo here. My DH target shoots as a hobby. To That end he has a few blackpowder rifles, and a BP pistol as well as the regular type of guns. WE had a range back at the farm. Here in town, not such a good idea. Luckily for him my dad has 20 acres he bought for recreation, out in the country about 20 minutes from here.

Tina enjoy your company. The work will always wait. I have yet to see it go away because I was busy with something else.

Merme, good to have you back & see you posting. I am so relieved that yousterday came out as well as it did.

Tamara--good morning to you. Tell your DH he can have a wide screen TV IF he adds on to the livingroom. I bet that shuts him up, I know it would do so here.
bwerry picking?? What kind are ready there now??? andf hey if it is raining at least teh humidity is no there. 79 here and no rain. But it is supposed top be nasty today, so they say. I guess I should really go out & water teh back yard stuff now before it gets so hot.
The neighbor started cutting grass at 8am--Now Really!!!! I am sure the grass still had dew on it !!!

hi Carol Jean, it is nice to see you!

We just did a small container garden this year because we are still planning to move. Didn't want to make it a big mess with too many difficult plants to move. So we've got some flowers and some vegetables and that'll do for now. Maybe I'll take some pictures later.

Maxi is sleeping hard today as his ear has been really bad. But I think we've just about got it beat now... at least, I am hoping we do!

Does anyone like to play those "Hidden Object" games? I am addicted to the silly things. And when I get stuck, I ask Maxi to help. He swears he hates them, but man dear, does he ever have "eagle eyes" and can spot the most unlikely things quickly. If I am really stuck, my weekday girl will put on her glasses and help, too. Sometimes the three of us are huddled around the computer, looking and looking.

We have a beautiful sunny day here although they'd forecast rain.

Yup, I agree with Carol Tam. Ask your husband to build an addition to your home and let him add the big tv also!

The other day when we were shopping for the computer, we spent some time looking at big tv's. It was pretty amazing. We would have no place to put such things in our little apartment. And if we did manage to squeeze one through the sliding glass doors, it would overwhelm the room. TV, anyone?

Afternoon all,
We have a had a busy couple weeks,, did get to our b& b vaca in the mountains- was lovely and never went anywhere else,,, just napped in the hammock- read- sat by the campfire in the evenings,too our food mostly prepared so didn't have to do much cooking or cleaning- got smart and took paper plates...
Joe had the whole week off so we have been cleaning and doing chores too- spring cleaning I couldn't do while I was blind, now we have company coming tomorrow so got to finish up house stuff and make food ahead- heading to the grocery in a few minutes- 14 yr old niece will stay with us for a week..what do you do with girls? haven't had one around in a while..LOL got a baby shower to go to tomorrow too... can't forget that...
Well Nana is off and running again-
back later,,,,
Nana

Hi Sherri!

Busy as ever, I see. I'm so glad you were able to get away.

Having your neice with you should be fun; a nice change of pace from so many boys! Just think of all the fun "girl stuff" you can do with her that the boys would strenuously object to!

It looks like we are in for rain after all....

Hey y'all!

Tina, sounds like you're having fun but are ready to get back to "normal." Back in May we had four batches of company. Enjoyed each one, but it was sure nice to be just the two of us again.

I agree-- sounds like Tamara's Dear Hubby has a project! You are, afterall, having a grandchild soon. His new TV room could double as the play room! The funny thing is, we really don't watch that much TV. We have "our" show, and it's too stupid to even tell what it is. And we watch RFD TV when we come inside to cool off in the middle of the day. John and I both like sports, but we end up just screaming at the bad referee calls. We do like watching movies. Our old DVD player blew a gasket and I bought a new one but our TV was sooooo old that it was incompatible with the new DVD player.

If there's been talk of ammo, I missed it.

Nana-- sounds very relaxing! But I don't envy you having to entertain a 14 year old. They can be so fickle. One of my nieces is about that age. She spends some time on facebook, but I think alot of her friends live there. Sad. Good luck!

Merme, if you want to visit the farm, I'd advise you to wait until early spring before tornado season! (Fall = hurricanes) If you didn't like the heat & humidity in DC, you wouldn't like Mississippi summers.

We did go fishing this morning!! I did not shoot fish, by the way! Got out in the Jon boat and wiled away over two hours! Yeah!! Got some good hits but didn't catch anything. John & his dad caught over two dozen, so I know they're out there. Oh well. It was just fun.

We had a heck of a storm roll through about mid-day, and I'm hearing thunder again. We needed it.

Baked a pie crust & now John is calling me to "help" him make the key lime pie. I think he just misses me!

Back later I'm sure!