I haven’t found a whole lot that I want to watch this summer on TV. We watched the first episode of Treasure Hunters the other night and liked it, so we’re going to give that one a try. Yesterday, I was reading the newspaper and saw on the TV grid that a movie was coming on the Hallmark Channel last night called “Love Comes Softly”. It sounded really familiar, like a book my mother-in-law and sister might have read and liked. So, using one of my favorite online tools, IMBD, I looked it up, and sure enough, it’s a movie made from that book. I watched it and really enjoyed it. I coerced Tim into watching it with me, and even though he didn’t want to admit it, I think he really liked it. Another one is coming on tonight, “Love’s Enduring Promise” and I plan to watch that one as well. These are from the books by Janette Oke, which I have not read, but now have on my library list. She’s a Christian fiction writer, and I like reading books like that, and watching movies like that – clean, simple, old-fashioned and with a good message. I really enjoyed it, and am so happy to have found something on TV to watch. Can’t wait to watch the other one tonight 😆
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Today is “officially” the first day of summer, otherwise known as the summer solstice. It’s also the longest day of the year, and I for one am looking forward to shorter days, and cooler temps!
Anyway, it’s been summer here for several weeks, maybe a month or more. It’s been really hot, and up until a few days ago, we had had no rain. I think we went 2 weeks or more with no rain, and it was so blazingly hot and dry. Thankfully, we had a shower over the weekend, and another one on Monday. Irregardless, it’s still really hot. Part and parcel of living in the Deep South. 🙄
I took this picture several weeks ago with my cameraphone, I think it was in late May. So, we’ve been hot here for a while!
OK, today seems to be a “don’t have anything to blog about” kind of day. I’ve been doing a lot of memes lately, and I couldn’t find one I wanted to do today. Plus, my days have be minorly boring, with nothing really interesting to blog about (I could blog about the amount of golf my better half is playing, but, I won’t!).
So…. Let’s do a simple poll… please feel free to leave a comment with more info, if you’d like 🙂
Have a great day! 
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Happy Father’s Day to both of our dads, as well as all the fathers out there!
My dad is at the beach with my sister Suzanne, so we won’t get to see him today. Tim and I are headed out soon to go see his dad today. All of his brothers will be there with their families, so it will be really great to see everyone.
Hope everyone has a nice, relaxing Father’s Day 🙂
Happy Birthday to Shanna! Today is her birthday, and I hope it’s a very special day, and a wonderful weekend. She’ll get to celebrate with Trent and their kids, Grayson and Ava Clair. We really miss seeing them, and hope we get to see everyone soon. We miss you guys!
Have a great day Shanna!
Happy Flag Day!
Flag Day is a day for all Americans to show respect for the flag and what it represents. It represents our freedoms, and the people who have bravely protected it and our nation for hundreds of years.
One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
We have our flag flying today – do you? 🙂
I had a terrible afternoon on Monday. I decided to clean out some clutter from a bathroom drawer, and I was throwing things out, into the garbage. One of the main things I was culling was old bottles of fingernail polish. For whatever reason, I decided to open one of them and look at it. Don’t ask me why, I have no idea. I thought I had it closed, but no, it was not closed, and being the clumsy oaf that I am, I dropped it. It was a bottle of really bright pink nail polish and it bounced on my white counter tops, spilled out a bunch into my white sink. Then, I tried to catch it and ended up tipping it down my white cabinets and onto my new ceramic tile floors, including in the light colored grout. Then, when I finally got the bottle and threw it away, I got bright pink nail polish all over my wicker wastebasket. 😳
Well, I only had about half a bottle of fingernail polish remover and I went through that in just a few minutes. I tried to clean up polish from the sink, counter top, cabinet and floor with other cleaners that I had, only to learn that nothing gets up fingernail polish other than nail polish remover. I drove to Walmart and bought several huge bottles, then spent the rest of the afternoon trying to get it up.
I learned two things:
1. Fingernail polish remover will take the top layer of paint off of latex painted surfaces. My cabinets and drawers now need to be repainted because of all the paint that peeled off where I was cleaning off bright pink nail polish.
2. Not even fingernail polish remover will remove hot pink from light colored grout between ceramic tiles. Nothing gets it out. I used a bottle of remover and then some grout cleaner and they are still stained.
Sigh. I despise being clumsy. I despise ruining things that Tim and I work so hard to improve and maintain. I hate messing up my homey little house. Sigh. Monday was not a good day. I know in the overall scheme of things it doesn’t matter, but yesterday, and today, it matters to me. Especially every time I walk in the bathroom and see pink. 😥
Whew, things have been so busy around here, that I haven’t even taken the time to blog about them. Not that they are especially interesting or even eventful, just our exceedingly mundane lives 🙂
Let’s see… to catch up on the last several days for us, click here (beware, long, but it does have pictures!):
I’m too weary to blog today… we’ve been busy in the yard and out buying stuff for the yard. I’ll try to catch up tomorrow or the next day. Yard work in 95º weather tends to wear a person out! 🙄
If you’ve read my blog before, you probably know that my better half is recently, totally and completely obsessed with golf. He started last December and has played almost non-stop since then. He has had lessons, hit golf balls in the back yard, gone to the driving range, played in scrambles, and gotten in as much “regular” golf as he can. He has been wanting me to go with him, but I have resisted thus far. Until yesterday, that is.
Tim got off work a little early and wanted to go play 18 holes. He “talked” me into going with him and riding in the golf cart. Expecting it to be like going to the driving range with him, I took along a book and my iPod, as well as my camera. Well, the iPod never came out and I read maybe 2 paragraphs in my book. The camera, however, got a good workout!
I must admit, it was a lot more fun than I had expected it to be. I’m used to sitting still, watching him hit balls from one spot. Not so on a golf course. It was pretty constant movement and activity. When we first started out, there were two carts of golfers behind us, and I was hesitant about even going. But, Tim played the first couple of holes pretty quickly, and we got a head start on the others, and from then on, we were pretty much on each hole by ourselves. Which was great – we had a lot of fun! I took a lot of pictures, learned to drive a golf cart, helped him look for his ball :cry:, drove around looking for the yardage markers, etc. Not knowing anything about golf, I had no idea you could drive the golf cart out on the fairway (well, not on some holes, par 3’s on this course), and so I had a blast, zipping around with him, looking for balls, taking him his clubs, getting water, etc. The course we went to (Caroline) is really pretty, and I really enjoyed being out there with him. There’s a lake there, and of course a lot of water and sand hazards on each hole. We encountered a bunch of geese on one hole and had to wait for them to get across the cart path. The place was really beautiful and I took a lot of scenic pictures and a ton of flower pictures (they had gorgeous daylillies on several of the holes). I may post those later this afternoon on a separate post.
We were really late getting home, so we stopped and picked up some food for supper (salad for me and burger for Tim). We watched a movie from our collection after we got home, a recent purchase of a really old movie that I like (Memphis Belle). All in all, a really good day!
Click to see pictures from our golf outing…
We have a suet feeder that the smaller birds like chickadees and wrens come to, more often than the seed feeder. However, if you look at the link, you’ll see that the suet cakes were at least half full on 5-29-06 (less than 10 days ago). However, about 3 days after I took this picture, I noticed the cakes were completely gone. They have been very hungry lately!
So, since their suet is gone (yes, I need to go to Walmart!), the chickadees have been coming to the bird seed feeder more often. Yesterday afternoon, there were 3 or 4 of them at one time, vying for attention on the feeder. The ones waiting in line would perch on top of the shepherd’s hook, waiting their turn.
Chickadees on a hook, aka, birds on a wire:
P.S. Please remember that I take these pictures from inside my house, so I’m taking the pictures looking through a dirty window that has a screen on it. Otherwise, the pictures would be a lot clearer 😆
We had a really busy, but really fun weekend. Tim and I grilled out Friday night, and then watched some TV. He is really into the NBA playoffs this time around, and is enjoying all the games. Which is a really good thing, since there’s not a lot else on TV to watch lately! 🙂
I haven’t had any time to blog for the last couple of days. We’ve been really busy, hanging out with Don and Gail, and also getting to visit some with David, Elizabeth and Chris. I’ll try to blog tomorrow
Well, lately, this blog seems to have turned into a series of product reviews and book reviews. Sorry about that, but these things seem to be commanding my attention lately.
So, to continue the trend, here’s another food product that I just bought and really, really like! It’s Blue Bunny’s Brownie Fudge Fantasy fat-free frozen yogurt. I’m not sure if Blue Bunny is available in all areas of the country, but it’s readily available down here in the Deep South. And this is chocolate-y enough to make me happy!
Not a lot going on around here to blog about… let’s see.
I’ve been reading a lot lately, especially since there’s not much on TV to watch at all anymore. I thought I would really enjoy that, and I have, but already I’m starting to tire of it. Maybe I’ve just been reading too much, or a lot of the same type of book, or something, because I’m feeling a tad burned out on reading. I am going to try to go to the library today and see what I can find to interest me. I have 6 books to return, 5 of which I have read. I think the last one, a new Karen Kingsbury one, will have to wait. I normally really dislike returning books to the library that I have not read (something in that OCD gene I have about a completion factor), but I’m just not up to reading another one of her books or starting a new series (this is the first in a set of 3 books in the “Forever Faithful” series). I’ll see what I can find, or if all else fails, I might could read one of the books we have bought and I have sitting on a bookshelf. 🙄
Along those same lines, I seem to be having an early case of the summer doldrums. We’re only one week into the no-tv zone and already I’m wanting something to keep me interested on a regular basis. We’ve watched movies, rented movies, I’ve been reading at night, Tim has his golf and has also been watching the NBA playoffs, but already – I’m starting to get bored of all that. I want something new and fun to do. Gail and I were just talking about this yesterday. Anybody have any suggestions?! 🙂
OK, I’ve got to run a couple of errands today – bank, library, Sam’s. I don’t feel like shopping, but it has to be done sometimes. I haven’t been to Sam’s in months, so I have a decent list.
Sigh, anybody else having the blahs?! 😛