Kessa and Keelan were sitting at the breakfast table working on some scrap-booking project that has been in the works for days.  I had finished sweeping and was running my new Haan Steam Mop around on the tile, as I had just finished doing the living room.  They were talking kind of low and I wasn’t really paying any attention to them when I heard gales of laughter and Keelan saying, “Tell Mom!  Tell Mom!”  Kessa was having a hard time finding her voice she was laughing so h... Read Full Story

Jeeze!  We need to water the lawn!  It is dying out there!  But, on the plus side… we haven’t mowed in about a month. John’s was off for two days in a row and the house looks like… Bosnia.   I never get any of the usual laundry and picking up done when he’s off work cause I spend most of my time with him just cause I usually can.  He’s almost never off two days in a row and he practically never takes a weekend day so the caregiver provider lady is usuall... Read Full Story

As most of you who have been hanging in there with me for a while probably know, Mither and Pop are my lifelong loves.   My mommy and daddy from the get-go. I think I alluded to the fact that Pop adopted me when I was five years old in a previous post… actually I can’t remember and don’t really feel like going and looking for it.   But, trust me, he did! As soon as he and Mither got married, they took me up to the courthouse and the nice judge, (a friend of Pop’s), s... Read Full Story

That Witchypoo, has got me spilling my guts in emails to her AND since she had me be an active part in her post I thought, hey, I can at least pull something together from an email I sent her.  We do a lot of chit-chatting, she and I. I know how the following, (gulp), paragraph looks, but I really did take a breath in there somewhere. It’s been one of those days, ya know?  Started laundry.  Folded a load of clothes from yesterday.  Kes and The Boyfriend went to get the Adirondack chairs... Read Full Story

* I dumped a bit of critter food on a paver sitting in my flowerbed to try to lure the baby squirrels into my yard.    The little shits are very cautious about anything THAT easy to get to.  However I am getting some cardinals and other vermin critters, coming up. *The other night Craig Ferguson said something like, ” Young people  who want change try to orchestrate a well placed riot.  Old farts like me  just think, “Get that riot off my lawn!”   Heh *Overheard at chez Lope... Read Full Story

Henrietta is MOST unhappy with the temperature in the house at night. Her room is the one that’s the warmest in the summer always, (furthest away from the unit in the attic and therefore gets the least amount of cool air coming through her air vent), and she refuses to sleep with her ceiling [...] Read Full Story

Wow!  There are a ton of totally unrelated pictures on my camera that need to come off. Don’t expect any of this to make sense.  (HA! Like I had to warn you about THAT!) It was just whatever moved me to take a picture of whatever at the time. And that’s enough about the wedding. Next we have [...] Read Full Story

Remember Jay Leno’s Stupid Criminals segments?  When he would regale the audience with tales of how someone got caught breaking into a house because they made it halfway through the dogie door and got stuck there?  Or was holding up a liquor store and trying to steal liquor too and when told that they needed [...] Read Full Story

I had a perfectly wonderful good decent acceptable post pulled together that was going to go up today, only all this other stuff happened that was MUCH better to talk about! First of all I have been honored with a distinction of unequaled measure.  Witchypoo from over at Psychicgeek, has bestowed the coveted, (I’m guessing, cause gee, it’s really neat-o), Charming Award on me.  Yup.  It’s right here on me… trust me.  No, not really, you should probably never do that... Read Full Story

Oh man… where were we?  Oh yeah!  The second child was about to graduate high school! Done. Moving right along… NO!  I am much too much of a proud mom to let it go like that.  No, I want you all to experience ALL the glee and joy I did as my darling daughter told us that there was a chance she may not get to graduate due to too many absences. I stared at her with a thousand questions going through my head. “How many do you have?  How many are OK?  Did you play hooky?  How ma... Read Full Story