Exceedingly Mundane

We had so many trick or treaters that we ran out of candy! I can’t remember that happening in a while, and maybe only once since we have lived here. We had tons of kids, and most of them were in groups of 4 or 5 or more. We ran out in a little over an hour. I tried to get Tim to run to the store for more, but he wanted to turn out the lights and pumpkin and hide inside in the dark! So, here we are, out of all of that good candy, hiding in the dark, watching 7th Heaven. 🙂

P.S. Note to self, buy more candy next year! You’d think 2 super size bags from Sam’s Club would be enough, but we put a good dent in those bags over the last 2 or 3 weeks 😛

Do you see the healthy dinner of maple hoisin baked salmon, baked sweet potatoes and a veggie that I had all out and ready to cook before the trick or treaters started ringing the doorbell? (Hint, get it – salmon is sort of orange, sweet potatoes are orange, hardy har har). Anyway, does this look like that healthy supper I had planned?

P.S. We just had our first batch of trick-or-treaters. Very cute, a group of 4 boys, 2 pirates, 1 ghost and one in a head to toe black skeleton costume. Scary!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween is not a big holiday at our house, since we don’t have kids. We don’t get to do all that fun stuff – picking out the costumes for the kids, getting them dressed up, watching them get so excited, and then taking them trick or treating. Not to mention, doing “quality assurance” checks on their candy, and making sure it’s safe for them eat!

We have, however, dressed up in the past (check out a scrapbook layout here and another one from the same year here). We have carved pumpkins (a long time ago), but now we just put them out plain. Tim has dressed up as a monster and sat outside like a statue, to scare kids as they come by. He’s also hid in corners and dark spots and jumped out and scared them. These days, we just answer the door and give out the candy we have not gobbled down over the last couple of weeks! I have this wonderful habit of buying the kind of Halloween candy that I love, so that in case we don’t give it all out (yeah, right), then it’s something we would be willing to eat. Unfortunately, it never works that way. We always eat more of it beforehand! This year, we are giving out: Butterfingers, Baby Ruths, 3 Musketeers, Snickers, Milky Ways, Twix and Nestle’s Crunch. YUM!

Hope you all have a good Halloween! Trick or Treat! 😀

We’ve had a busy day today, lots going on! Here’s the short version:

Went to a new sports club near our house to watch the USM game on TV and eat lunch and snacks. USM ended up losing, which was a bummer, but we still had a really good time.

Went out Lakeland and looking for tile, which we ended up buying at Home Depot

Did yard work, pruning and planting flowers. Tim also fixed a cut in the landscape lighting wires and got all that working.

Lots of other little things… 😀

Now, I think we’re going to pop some popcorn and watch a movie. Hope everyone else is having a good weekend.

OH – and did anyone notice the new design on the ole blog? Tim has stayed up the last two nights late, working on upgrading my WordPress to version 1.5. This is a new theme I grabbed from WPthemes.info – I think it’s so pretty! I have to look more next week and see if I can find a seasonal one… I’d love to have a theme for either Thanksgiving or Christmas. Not sure if I can find a premade (free!) one or if I’ll have to try to alter one. Might not have time for that. Anyhoo, I’m pumped about it! 🙂

Finally, my first bloom opened up today on my confederate rose. We got a cutting from a neighbor several months ago, we planted it, we’ve been watching it grow, then we finally got some buds, then the buds get bigger, and now…. drumroll please:

It bloomed today!

And one more (because I can’t take one picture of anything!) …

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Happy Birthday Suzanne! Hope you have a great day! We wish you were still here, but we had a great time while you were here visiting 🙂

P.S. I might scan some pictures of Suzie and post later, so check back 😆

Forgot to post this picture the other day… me in my birthday suit.

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Happy Birthday Elizabeth – hope you have a great day and a wonderful birthday!

Keep reading for links to a couple of pictures of Elizabeth from her younger days!

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A double whammy is when your sister is here from Chicago and wants to eat out twice in one day.

Ouch. My pants are tight now. 😳

It was all really really good, don’t get me wrong. But eating out one good, over-sized meal a day should be my limit. Definitely. Keifers for lunch (hummus and gyros) and The Haute Pig for supper (ribs, slaw, fries for me, baked beans for Tim & Suzie) and Texas Toast. Yum-O

I had a busy day today, because I had a lot of things to do around the house (Tim worked from home, yeah, I love days when he works from home!!), and then a few errands to run. And then, drumroll please, I drove down to pick up Suzanne! Yippee, she decided to cut short her visit with Dad by a little bit and come up and hang out with me and Tim. We’re so glad! We got home about 5:00, and then we all went walking. Such great seasonal fall weather we’re having, it was in the mid to low 50’s when we went walking. Home for supper (beans and sausage, home made cornbread, total comfort food), and now Suzie and Tim are watching a guy movie (Predator). We’re so glad she’s here!

Tim got called last night with a problem from work, and ended up working pretty late. I was sound asleep, but I think it was 1:30 AM or after before he finally came to bed. I’m really glad he’s going to be working from home today, which he had already planned. It looks like it’s going to be a gorgeous day. When I woke up, it was 39 degrees, and the high today is only supposed to be 61. Finally, it feels like fall around here! Tim said yesterday that he would probably work outside on the deck some today, so that should feel great! 🙂

Another action-filled weekend around here. 🙂

– Friday afternoon, I went and ran errands (bank, Lowe’s, grocery shopping). When Tim got in, we worked outside in the yard. He cut the grass, did the weed-eating and edged, and I planted all the snapdragons and violas I had bought. Still need to finish the front flower bed, rework the dirt and buy some big pansies. Maybe next week!

– Friday evening, we watched USM beat UAB on ESPN. Grilled some brats and had brats with sauerkraut, yum. Gail and Don came over late to spend the night. Visited with them till late. 🙂

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Had a busy day yesterday (Friday) and super busy today… will try to blog tomorrow and catch up! 🙂

Friday is a good day for memes and I have found one or two that I want to do. But, right now, I just don’t have any time to sit down and write out my answers! Maybe later today, or tomorrow morning. I have a long list of things to do, and errands to run all afternoon. Then, Suzanne flies in tomorrow morning, so we’re very exited!

Check back later, maybe there will be something mildly interesting here! 🙂

I’m happy today, more so than normal, because Tim is working from home. YEAH! I love it when he works from home, I just love being around him all day.

It’s gonna be a great day!