Sunday April 29th 2012

This is Sunday morning, Linda isn’t feeling to good so I guess I will go to church by myself.

Sunday School was good and the teacher, Jim, was looking at the attendance records and was saying we have a lot in this class but a lot of them I don’t know, like Joel and Linda Floto, which really doesn’t surprise me because I don’t know very many last names either.  I let him know though that that was us.  He knew my first name but not last. That is kind of funny because I don’t like to say my last name.  People can’t pronounce it even after I spell it so it is a lot easier just using my everyday name, Joel.

I’m not going to enlarge this because it is blurry. This is Pastor Joe singing a special and he is a good singer. My camera doesn’t take very good pictures inside without the flash.  Also this was using the telephoto lens and that doesn’t help either because I can’t hold it still and the subjects don’t hold still either.

I picked up some chicken from Food Giant again.  They have good chicken so we had that with baked potato and asparagus for our dinner.  Yummy!

Tonight was Pastor’s last message on Angels. It was very good and had some things in there that made me more confused.  He agrees with Pastor Don about the sons of God taking the daughters of men and the offspring being “giants” were not angels (wonder what they were?).  He used the scripture in the New Testament about the woman with seven brothers as husbands.  In Heaven there will be no marriage we will be like the angels. They cannot reproduce…hummmmm…I’m confused!  That really doesn’t take much though.

Well, tonight we watched a little TV and I played some games on the computer then, yup, I went to bed….Night Y’all…

Saturday April 28th 2012

I think that the weather is going to be great today.  I took a picture of Sparky and me outside. I was going to get one with Bud laying in the other chair but he heard another dog bark and he was gone in a flash so it is just Sparky and me…

Sparky is also wondering what is going on over there…

Didn't do a lot this morning, was great sitting outside having coffee though.  The little gnats are really pests though.

I was surprised this afternoon at work.  Daniel stopped by with Wesley.  Well, it could have been Keaton, I can’t tell them apart but they have a new puppy, Daisy, and I hope I can find the picture…

Daisy is part Dachshund and is really cute..  I think Daniel is going to be our neighbor again.  Will be nice to have him back.

Work went pretty good, really slow though.

Not much going on tonight either. Guess we are pretty boring today.  Night Y’all….

Friday April 27th 2012

The wind is blowing out of the North like crazy!  It is cool this morning but I think it is supposed to make it to seventy (it didn’t).

I had ordered a tent for Dee and the kids.  I really should have had it sent to California.  We went into town to pick it up but need to waste some time so we went to Food Giant shopping.  They had some pretty good deals on meat.  We bought more than we needed for sure!

When we got to Wal Mart I went to the “Site to Store” place and they had a really hard time with their computers but they finally got in and found the tent.  The box was a lot bigger than I thought it would be.  I found Linda and we finished our shopping and we went on home.  I had to take a picture of the box and send it to Dee to ask if she wanted us to put it up or if she wanted the honors of being first….

The box takes up most of the “love seat” so I at least took it out of the box. When we head to CA we are going to have a loaded car!

Linda found out that her brother, Bobby, in Amarillo, is in pretty bad shape so we will stop there on the way out to California to see them.

Work again today!  I work in the office again.  Linda bought me a Sudoku book to mess with at work.  I kept kind of busy.  Mark and his mother, Mary Lou, planted flowers.  I finished on time and got out on time.  Nice relaxing night tonight.  I played on the computer for awhile and Linda worked on her puzzles.  More tomorrow….Night Y’all…

Thursday April 26th 2012

Back to work again today. It is a beautiful day, supposed to get some showers but right now it is great!

When I got to work, Mark had all three golf carts loaded on the trailer ready to go to Neelyville to get them fixed, again.  He took them all last year and only one ran for the duration and it wasn’t running good.

Mark said his in-laws house burnt to the ground this morning.  That is a real bummer.  We know Dave and Ellen, they are are very nice couple.

I had more than enough to keep me busy again today.  Spraying Roundup and weed eating never gets done.  I had some other things to do also.  I did change the blades on the mower but I didn’t get the old ones sharpened.

Mark made it back early this afternoon with all three carts!!!  I was surprised.  Not sure what they had to do to them but I guess it wasn’t much.  I used one golf cart and I wasn’t impressed with the way it ran.  I used it to go to the burn pile so I could spray some more and I was wondering if I was even going to make it there.  I don’t think it runs good but then that is my opinion.  As long as it gets from point “A” to point “B” then I guess it is OK…

Got out of work on time and I am sore again today.  Maybe I will get used to this and won’t hurt quite so bad, you think?

When I got home I mowed the lawn, Larry had mowed his and the neighbors.  I was kind of amazed that I got off work at 5:30 got home mowed the lawn and took a shower and it was only 6:40PM.  I think that was fast.  I don’t waste time mowing.

Linda fixed a great supper tonight.  She had chicken and salad with a piece of  “Key Lime” pie for desert.  The salad was great, she put all kinds of stuff in it!  I ran out of Ranch Dressing though and had to use some Caesar dressing which isn’t my favorite.

Took some Aleve tonight and I feel pretty good and even got a little nap while watching TV….Night Y’all…

Wednesday April 25th 2012

Well, lets see, what all did I do today???  The wind is blowing, not bad yet but I think it will blow pretty hard today.  It is a little chilly but is supposed to get nice and warm

Mark made out a list of things that need to be done so I guess I will start with the things outside because it sure looks like it could rain.  I was right it started raining, well, sprinkling, but it was enough for me to get wet.  I didn’t stop what I was doing, I figure it won’t hurt me to get a little wet.

I sprayed Roundup, used the weed eater, blew off the driveway, fixed picnic tables and changed the oil in the mower.  I didn’t get it all done but I got a good start at it.  I will finish doing what I can tomorrow.

Linda fixed fish tacos for supper, they were excellent!  A little messy but I think she has the formula down right now.  I would compare them to a restaurant style fish taco and better than most.  It was really good.

Watch a little TV tonight then to bed.

Need prayer for Daniel and Rachel, they have some more problems in their lives.  I’m sure the Lord will take care of them though.

Time to say Night Y’all..

Tuesday April 24th 2012

The days off sure seem to go fast, but then all the days seem to go fast!!

This morning I kept pretty busy outside.  I am cleaning the garage (kind of) and burning a lot of the things I don’t need  and then some of the things that won’t burn I take into the dumpster. Doesn’t really look like I’ve made a dent in the “stuff”!

Back to work this afternoon.  The office is kind of boring but the time still seems to go pretty fast.

Mark did some mulching this afternoon and I think it looks pretty good!

I took another picture of a camper and, well, you will see…

These people use this to travel back and forth to Texas.  Talking with them, they go to Mission TX to Mission West RV Park!  What a small world!  We go to Mission West to go dancing.  Well, we’ve only gone twice but will probably go more next year.  They seem like very nice people.

Well, the rest of the afternoon went kind of slow, got all the chores done and waited until time to go home in my little cubicle…

Not a lot of space to roam around in here.

Everything went well and I got out on time and the count came out right!  There wasn’t much to count!!

Tonight will be a relaxing night, not going to do anything special.  I watched some things I had taped like AFV and Linda watched “Dancing With the Stars”.  Parts of the show is

OK but the have way to much information for me.

Time to call it a night….Night Y’all…

Monday April 23rd 2012

Let me tell you it is chilly outside this morning!  The wind is blowing out of the North and it is cloudy!

We decided to take a ride into town to get a few odds and ends done. We stopped at a couple of furniture places to look at recliners.  Found one that wasn’t to bad but not sure if I want to spend the money to get it.  The salesman said to wait until next Thursday and everything will be on sale.  OK we will wait.  We stopped at another furniture store to look around and we saw Sheila, from church, and talked to her for quite awhile.  She is very nice and a great singer. This is Sheila….

We stopped at a couple of other places, one being Aldi’s.  We like Aldi’s, they have great prices and pretty good food.  Their fresh produce is better than Wal Mart but we had to stop at Wal Mart anyway to get s couple of extra things for home.

I’ve been having trouble with the security light.  Sometimes it won’t come on and if I hit the pole it will come on then.  I decided to go up and try to tighten everything and so far it is working OK.

We just had soup and sandwiches for lunch and then this afternoon I took another nap but I sure didn’t feel very good afterward.  Not sure what happened but I have a little headache and I just don’t feel like doing much. I guess I will be OK later.

Didn’t do much the rest of the day, I worked on the computer for awhile but that was about it.  I think I will say Night Y’all..

Sunday April 22nd 2012

Linda isn’t feeling very good this morning so I’m going to church alone.  It is also very chilly this morning and it is supposed to rain.

I always enjoy church and it was another good day.

Karla and another lady I think her name is Jaime had special music this morning…

Well, I can’t believe it….the picture is blurry!  Sorry..

Tonight Pastor Joe started a series on Angels.   Very interesting.. Most of it I knew already but he had scripture to go with it.  I always wondered about Angels and he has scripture to prove they were made before the world, or creation.  There are different levels of angels and different jobs or duties for the Angels.  Lots of good stuff

The special music tonight was good.  I think the lady’s name is Shirley…

This picture isn’t quite so blurry but the microphone sure doesn’t enhance the picture any..

Nice quiet night at home.  I wasn’t to tired tonight because I got a nap this afternoon.  We even talked for awhile after going to bed and that is really unusual for me.  She couldn’t sleep so she got up and watched some of the shows she taped.  I didn’t know that until she told me.  I must have gone to sleep before she got up…. 

Well, guess it is time to say.Night Y’all…

Saturday April 21st 2012

Got up pretty early this morning.  It is very chilly and a really good day to make bread.

We asked Jim and June over for coffee and I made cinnamon rolls and some other stuff….

We had a good visit.  Been a long time and Jim has been having a lot of physical problems.  He goes to the VA for his medical and they sure have been giving him the run around!  Seems like they would have more time for others if they took care of a problem right away.He has been having problems with his prostrate for a couple of years now.  They did work on him but it didn’t help much. Now he has hemorrhoids and this has been going on for over six months and they keep giving him dates to come in for different things but his dates are like two or three months away and he is hurting!  Kind of glad I didn’t go with the VA.

Linda made a twisty and I took a picture of it…

It looked like a question mark but at a glance it looks like something Sparky may have left…  Linda ate it…

Work this afternoon.  I found my mistake from last night, can’t believe I made a mistake!!  Today was really different.  Seemed like everything I did didn’t quite work out right!  Very slow day for sure.  Only had two campers come in and one renewed for another day.

I tried reading but that lasted for about ten minutes so I started working on the calculator.  It wouldn’t figure out the tax.  I even called Mark and he worked me through it and it still wouldn’t work.  I had lots of free time and I think I worked on it for about an hour before it started doing something, not right but at least it would do something!  After another ten minutes it finally started calculating the tax like it was supposed to do.  Have no idea what I did to it.

I downloaded another game on my telephone and it is called some thing like bust the bubbles.  I got into that and when I looked at the clock it was about five minutes until quitting time.  I have a lot to do!  Fortunately, the day was so slow I didn’t have much to count.  I was out the door by about five minutes after seven and the count came out right tonight!!!

Well, we had leftovers tonight, BBQ and I fried some potatoes and onions.  Ate to much again but it was really good.

Taking it easy the rest of the night…..Night Y’all…

Friday April 20th 2012

It is chilly this morning but that is OK.  I can live with chilly, cold, that is another story!

We went to town today to get a few things.  I bought some flowers and I think it is spelled “Impatience”.  They look like they will be pretty, and I wanted to try something different than petunias.

The flowers were kind of root bound and I had a hard time getting them out of the plastic container.  I didn’t separate the flowers, I planted them all together.  I figured that if I separated them I would probably kill them.  Sure didn’t want to do that!

We must have bought some other things because it cost over $100 but I can’t remember what else we bought.  Must have been important stuff though.  Oh, I remember some of it, we bought vitamins and they aren’t cheap!

Work this afternoon went quite well, I kept kind of busy.  My count didn’t come out right at the end of the shift so I figured I would get to check it out tomorrow.

Not much going on at home.  I had Linda come out after dark to check out our solar lights.  She likes them.  I bought fifteen so far and may get some more, depends on my mood I guess.  I need to work on our security light in the back.  Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.  Be nice if it worked all the time.

Well, so much for today…Night Y’all…

Thursday April 19th 2012

Another gorgeous day!!!  Cool this morning but going to warm up nicely!

I will be mowing again today at the campground.  It takes almost two full days to mow the RV Park and the mobile home park.  I do get a couple of other things done but not much.  The little lawn mower doesn’t go very fast and it isn’t very big but when it is all done it sure looks nice.  The Kubota is a fantastic mower.  When I was all finished with the mowing, I sprayed a bottle of Roundup and it was 5:30PM and time to go home and do some more mowing!  Larry was mowing when I got home so I knew I was going to have to mow!  It is supposed to rain tomorrow.  Larry cuts his grass a lot shorter than I do, it looks very good but with the trees I have and the roots sticking up out of the ground plus the mole hills, I need to mow a lot higher.

Linda fixed BBQ pork tonight, wow, it was goooooood!!!  We didn’t have sandwiches but she fixed baked potato to go along with it.  Then we had some pork and beans and apple sauce to go along with that.  I ate to much!

I took a shower and we took it easy tonight.  I probably should have taken some Aleve but didn’t want to get up after I had gone to bed.  Maybe if I’m hurting in the morning I will…Night. Y’all…

Wednesday April 18th 2012

What a gorgeous day!  It is cool but it is beautiful out today!

I go into work today at 9AM and will probably be mowing most of the day.  Well, I had to do a little work on a mobile home roof.  It has just a little leak. After that I got gas then started mowing.   Some places the grass is really tall and some places I have a hard time telling where I have mowed.  It is also kind of dirty and the wind really doesn’t help at all.

I stopped about noon and sprayed a bottle of Roundup around some of the fences.  Once the grass is all dead I can use the weed eater to clip it off so it doesn’t look quite so bad.

This afternoon was kind of hard, I had a hard time staying awake while mowing!  I had to stop and walk around every once in awhile.  That isn’t fun.  I finished mowing the mobile home park and was going to do a little work in the RV Park but Bobby and Maggie had stopped to camp and I had to go see them, then the electricity went off and we were trying to figure out how big the problem was.  Went to the mobile home park and it was out over there.  Come to find out it was out at home, Linda said it went out at them same time.  Now, I forgot my telephone number, I was close but the person I called wasn’t Linda.  Bad when you can’t remember your own phone number!!!

The electricity came on a little after 6PM and it was SEMO electric’s  problem.

Not much going on tonight so guess I will say…Night Yall..

Tuesday April 17th 2012

Well I notice that I have yesterdays date wrong, I will have to change that.

It is cloudy this morning but not real chilly.  I am kind of tired this morning, not sure if it was from all that I did yesterday or not but I guess I will make it.  I’m not going to do a lot this morning.  I have a couple of packets of flower seeds I need to plant yet.  One packet is a ground cover and they aren’t supposed to be planted but put into indentions in the ground!  I’ve never done that before but will give it a try.  I planted a couple more packets of seeds which are all perennials.  Hopefully they will grow and look nice.

I bought a new leaf blower, which I didn’t buy to blow leaves but to blow off the deck of the mower!  It works great, almost sounds like a hair dryer or whatever they are called.  The deck on my last mower rusted through and it wasn’t very old so I think that I will try to take care of this one.

I need to go to work this afternoon and I left early to pick up Linda’s prescription.

Work went pretty good today, tired yet, but kept kind of busy all day. Got to check and see if I have another picture… Found a picture of Scruffy and Bud relaxing on the deck….Bud really likes the chairs!

Got off work on time tonight and everything worked out well.  Books balanced etc.

Had a couple chicken sandwiches for supper and watched a little TV and dozed some.  I have to go to bed, I’m tired…Night Y’all….

Monday April 16th 2012

It rained last night!!  It is cool this morning and cloudy but not raining now.  The dust should be settled now and maybe I can get some things done.

I guess the first thing I did today was bake bread.  I baked some jalapeno bread for Linda…

Turned out pretty decent this time.  It is just a little warm, spicy that is. I think it is just about right, you can taste the jalapeno and get a little heat from them. 

Next I washed the car and tractor then polished them..

I bought some polish that you just spray on and wipe off.  Leaves it nice and shiny!

I got the tractor all dirty again though.  I tilled the garden then used the tractor to smooth out the dirt!  I planted four tomato plants and four bell pepper plants.  The rest of the garden I think I will put back into grass.

I planted some perennial flowers.  Hope they grow. I usually plant petunias in planters in front of the garage and this year maybe, maybe the will grow and I won’t have to plant them anymore.

Linda fixed pork burgers for supper tonight.  I still think they are better than regular hamburgers! They are really good.

Well, guess that about says it all for today.  Night y’all…

Sunday April 15th 2012

Today is another windy day!  Wasn’t to bad early in the morning but as the day wore on it got it worse. It is really dry and the dust is blowing like crazy. I want to wash the car and camper but with all this dirt flying around I sure won’t do it until after it rains and it is supposed to tonight!  Got another picture of the dust….

Just walking around the yard the dust is so think in the grass it just puffs on every step.  Sure need the rain.

Church was good this morning.  Got a picture of Marvin and Steve singing a special..  Not a good picture though.

Today was a real good day for a nap!  I was tired and if tomorrow is a nice day there is a lot of things I want to do.

After church we stopped and got a Subway Sandwich.  That was good.

Not much else went on today, church tonight.  I was supposed to storm tonight but the sun is still shining and the clouds are still off to the West. We are supposed to get some rain so we will see what happens…Night Y’all..

Saturday April 14th 2012

It sure is windy this morning.  I took a picture looking west from our place…

I know it doesn’t show up well but in the background it kind of looks like fog, it is dust.  I think the wind is probably blowing about twenty five miles per hour or more.  I figure it will be a slow day at work.  I sure wouldn’t want to be driving a camper in this kind of weather.

Pecan blossoms???

One of the pecan trees is loaded with these things.  I don’t remember seeing them before and being from up north I don’t really know anything about pecan trees.  Wonder if this means there will be a lot of pecans??  There were a lot last year but I only got a few of them.  The rest were still on the trees when we left for Texas.

Work!  I had a weird day at work.  I figured things would be slow today. The credit card machine was almost out of paper so I figured I may as well change it.  This was the start of a lot of problems.  I couldn’t get it rethreaded again.  I tried for ten minutes and it would even budge and now comes the campers.  Got three of them in the driveway and I can’t get the credit card machine to work.  Bits came in to buy a bag of ice and she got it threaded for me.  I forgot from last year that the paper needs to be cut with scissors not torn!  Well, it still didn’t work, it jammed up and I need to get copies!  Finally got it unplugged (paper) and tried it on the next one and it jammed up again. Remember the song “If I Had a Hammer”?  I think I would have used it.  Well, it didn’t end there.  I finally got the machine working and made a copy for the camper that was going to stay another day.  After looking at the receipts I had voided his transaction so I had to go get him to run his card again.  It worked, checked and it was fine.  He left, I did my paperwork and there is his credit card laying on the desk.  What else can go wrong, well, he hadn’t left the campground so I took it back to him.  What a day!

The rest of the day went fine until 7PM.  I had a camper come in late, I was ready for him and got him parked by five after seven, now to put the golf cart away and go home, wrong, here comes a guy that needs the battery charger, the battery on his car was dead.  Golly, he has been here for four hours and just finding this out?  I’m already past going home time.  I was nice but I really didn’t want to lend him Mark’s brand new battery charger!  Mary Lou said she would put it away a little later, PTL…

Linda was on the phone talking to Connie when I got home.  Not sure what they were talking about but they talked for about an hour after I got home! I can’t talk for an hour on a really good day!  Oh well, they are sisters and things need to be said I guess.

Linda cut my hair tonight.  She didn’t want to but it is getting so long I can’t hardly comb it anymore.  I said if she didn’t want to I would try it, yeah right!  She did it and it looks pretty decent, at least it is a lot shorter and I can comb it now.  By the time she got done cutting it and we had a bite to eat it was almost time to go to bed so….you guessed it…Night Y’all..

Friday April 13th 2012

Friday the 13th!  I am wondering why the 13th is supposed to be bad luck.  There has to be a good story behind it but I don’t know what it is.  I guess I could Google it and see, maybe I will do that.

The weather isn’t to bad out today, it is cloudy and kind of cool but not real bad.

We went to Wal Mart this morning and I bought some more solar lights!  I am really cheap, these cost a whopping ninety seven cents apiece (plus tax)…

The one on the right is the dollar one and the one on the left is the two dollar one.  Getting ahead of myself, all the ones on the right, the dollar ones, all work!!!  I only bought five.  The other ones I had to take apart and put some tape over the light sensor because they wouldn’t come on unless it was really dark, the security lights we have would keep them from lighting!  I’m happy with the cheap ones, they aren’t quite at bright but they are bright enough!

Well, work is getting slower!  I did the chores and checked in a few campers and got the vacuum cleaner out and was going to vacuum the office.  The cleaner doesn’t have any suction.  I proceed to take it apart and found the problem right away.  There are screws etc plugging the tube! I took it outside to take it apart and Kim came and she decided to help.  She got a fork and a knife and started digging and twisting (dog hair, lots of dog hair) trying to get it out.  I bet she worked for fifteen minutes on it and I didn’t get a picture, what a bummer!  She got it though and when it was all done I had about a handful of screws and nails and a pound of dog hair.  They have an Australian Shepherd that has lots of mighty fine hair!

I didn’t take a book to work with me so I found a paper with a Sudoku puzzle in it.  That took me about two hours to do (I had to cheat) but it was interesting and made the time go by faster.  I will take a book with me tomorrow if I don’t forget.  (This was my first try at Sudoku)

Got out of work on time tonight.  The count was even correct!  I must have done something right!

I sprayed the garden with Roundup trying to kill the weeds before I till it and plant tomatoes and peppers, and grass seed.  Hopefully we will get some rain otherwise I don’t think I will be able to till the garden it is so dry and hard!

Nothing special going on tonight, will take it easy and relax some more.  Night Y’all….

Thursday April 12th 2012

I don’t think we got cold enough for frost last night or this morning but it is pretty chilly!  The wind isn’t blowing like it had been so it doesn’t seem near as bad as yesterday even though it is colder.

Well, at work today I got to spray Roundup, blow off roads and do some trash pickup and a little weed eating.  Not a bad day but I am tired and sore again but not nearly as bad as yesterday.  I didn’t have to take any Aleve today.

Daniel brought back the roto tiller last night and had a little talk with him. I don’t envy his situation.  I decided to roto till the garden but I think I will only plant tomatoes and maybe a couple of peppers.  The rest I will put grass seed back in it again.

I picked up a part for the toilet this morning and I put it on tonight.  Seems to work pretty good except I need to shorten the chain about one length or maybe two.  I will check on it again tomorrow.

I did mow the lawn when I got home.  Larry mowed his and now mine looks kind of bad and I think it is supposed to rain tomorrow or tonight, not sure when but I want it done before the weekend.

Going to take it easy tonight…Night Y’all…

Wednesday April 11th 2012

Well, I’m wondering about work today!  The grass doesn’t need mowing but there are a lot of other things to do like spraying and weed eating.

I stopped at the Super 8 for a cup of coffee this morning on the way to work. It is cold and I think a cup of coffee might help and since I have a Super 8 cup the coffee is free!  Had to pay $5 for the cup so I may as well use it.

Well, Mark has to work at the cell phone store today and I get to “tweak” the park.  I started spraying Roundup and did that all morning. About noon I got the golf cart and starting picking up trash.  The wind blows papers, etc all over and it doesn’t take long to make a mess.

This afternoon I decided to blow off the streets in the mobile home park.  I got the bad parts done but still have a lot to do yet.  My shoulders are killing me.  Carrying the sprayer this morning and the blower this afternoon, I am hurting.  I will have to take some Aleve when I get home.

Got a phone call tonight from Al, who was my team leader at Beech Bend in KY, and he had a job for me just south of Nashville.  It was working in a Corps of Engineer Park as a campground gate attendant.  I’m already working but asked if he knew what it paid and he said it was a little over $17 per hour!!!  That is about what I made at the steel mill when I retired! I had to refuse because I already have a commitment and I don’t want to break any commitments if I don’t have to. It sure was tempting though.

Not much going on tonight. I had to take a shower right away though because of all the dirt I stirred up with the leaf blower. I need to mow our lawn but not tonight, maybe tomorrow.

I feel pretty good tonight after taking the Aleve!  I still fell asleep during some of the TV programs though.   Well, guess it is time to say Night Y’all…

Tuesday April 10th 2012

It has really gotten cool out and by the forecast I think the next couple of days will get even cooler!

It is almost to cool out to be comfortable but Sparky and I stayed outside for quite awhile not doing much of anything.

Today will be my first day back in the office since last November.  I’m a little nervous about it but hopefully the routine will come back quickly.

Linda fixed some macaroni and cheese to go with the left over chili.  I like chili mac and on a cool day it hits the spot.

Got to work a little early so I could dump the trash.  Good thing I did. Mark said the dumpsters were over flowing this morning and when the truck came, he had to move the trash on the ground so the truck could get to the dumpster and after the dumpster was empty he filled it half full again with the trash that was on the ground!

The day worked out quite well, got all the chores done before I got to busy. Unfortunately, at the end of the day is when it seems to get busy! I checked the last customer in around 7PM and hadn’t even started the paper work!  My usual thing happened, I was a quarter short and no idea where I may have lost it.

I got home around 7:45PM and Sparky and I stayed outside until around 8PM then we watched a little TV and we fixed some pancakes that Linda bought.  They were ginger spice or something like that.  They actually were very good but very hard to cook.  They burn very easily but we got the technique down and they rest of the batch went quite well.

A little TV tonight and a little nap on the sofa.  I really need to get a rocking chair.  I know I will be able to nap good in one of them… Night Y’all….

Monday April 9th 2012

Well today is my day off.  I don’t have anything planned.  I should fix our toilet, the water doesn’t stop running sometimes. I may not fix it though. I think today will be a lazy day.

I got a picture of Bud and Scruffy playing on our deck…

They get along pretty well together but Bud, the black dog gets a little rough.  Sparky keeps a pretty close eye on him.  Sparky like to have Bud chase him but Bud always runs over him and Sparky yelps, but Sparky is a wimp.

I continued doing some cleaning in the garage.  Daniel brought me some weed killer that I really need to use but it is to windy and the dogs love to get into what I’m doing.  I will wait for a day that isn’t so windy and maybe will rain within a day or so.

Well, I took a nap this afternoon but that isn’t unusual unless I’m working.

Nice quiet relaxing day….Night Y’all….

Sunday April 8th 2012

We thought about going to the Sunrise Service this morning but even last night I knew it would be to early.  I did a lot yesterday and I was pretty tired.

Sunday School and Church were very nice this morning.  I stopped at Subway and picked up a couple of sandwiches for lunch on the way home.

I know I have a couple of pictures, I will have to take a look and see what I have to add for today!

Well, I guess I didn’t take any pictures today, no, I’m sure I did, I took a picture of the special music singers at church.  Karla and Sheila sang a nice special and then a guy, I don’t know his name, sang a great song and I think it is called “Go Ahead, Drive The Nails in My Hands” and he did a great job, all I have to do is figure out if I left them in the camera…

This picture of Sheila and Karla turned out pretty good, the picture of the guy didn’t but I think I will put it in anyway….

There just isn’t enough light in here and I can’t hold it steady enough so they are blurry.

I did get a picture of Linda and the dessert we made tonight….

The cinnamon tortilla with ice cream was really good.  Linda thought it was to sweet but I really liked it!

Time to sign off….Night Y’all..

Saturday April 7th 2012

Got the day off!!  Think I may take it easy today….I do have a couple of things that I have to get done.  I have a couple of pine trees, actually cedar trees that are giving me fits when I mow under them.  I need to do a little trimming.  Also have a dead bush next to the cedar trees that I need to get out and put on the burn pile.

I cleaned off the neighbors carport.  He doesn’t live there anymore and he said it was all junk so I have almost all of it off now so I started a little fire around one of the stumps and burnt some things. Well, I have a few things in my garage that need to be cleaned out.  I have a bunch of real short boards that I was saving for something, not sure what for though, so all of those went on the burn pile.  Had a pretty good fire going for awhile and the stumps are gradually shrinking.

Linda and I went to town to look around.  I needed to get a whirly gig vent for the roof, ours blew off during a bad storm.  The neighbor, Larry, picked it up and then went on the roof and covered the vent quite well.

The one on the left is the new whirly gig.  If all the jobs went like this one I would work myself out of things to do.  I bet it didn’t take fifteen minutes once I got everything up there.  It seems to whirl like a new one!

After I got the little things done we, I, decided to put up our new tent just to see if we could do it before we actually need it!  It took awhile to get it up. I made a lot of mistakes and had to go back over some of the steps to get it right.  When we got the tent up there seemed to be a piece missing!   A big piece!  I was ready to call the number for broken and missing pieces but before  I do I am going to check under the tent.  Glad I did, that’s where the top was!  We didn’t see it when we were unfolding it.

Linda is actually standing up!  The blue top piece is what we couldn’t find. When it is rolled up it is pretty small.

It didn’t take long at all to get the tent down but it did take awhile to get it folded small enough to get it back into the bag it came in.  Had to refold a couple of times.

Now I’m ready to take a break.  It is late in the afternoon and I’ve been doing quite a bit all day long.  Time to take it easy. 

We just had soup and sandwiches for supper but it really hit the spot.  We did buy some tortillas, ice cream and caramel for one of these nights.  When we were in Texas, Bob and Pete made fried tortillas covered with cinnamon sugar, then a dip of ice cream and caramel sauce.  Now that was a treat and we are going to attempt to duplicate it (without the calories though). Now that is funny.

Time to say Night Y’all….

Friday April 6th 2012

It got cold last night.  I think it is about 42 degrees  this morning!

I bundled up good for work.  Not sure how warm it is supposed to get but I really don’t want to get cold!  I put on my work T shirt then an insulated shirt, then a light sweater with a hood and then an insulated shirt with a hood!  I think I’m prepared to mow this morning!

Glad I wore all the clothes.  The wind is really blowing. The longer I mowed the warmer it got and about 10:30 I had to start taking off shirts. Bye the time I stopped for lunch I had to take all but the T shirt and light hooded sweater off.  By quitting time I was warm but wasn’t going to take my hooded sweat shirt off!  Actually work went quite well.  I’m tired!  Out of the last eight days I’ve worked seven, time for a break.

I had to take a picture of my snuggle footies that Bren gave me for Christmas.  It isn’t winter but it sure is cool and they are nice and warm..

Actually Linda took the picture!

Really to tired to do much of anything tonight.  Linda made a nice pot of chili that really hit the spot.  It isn’t bad out but it is still cool and I like chili!

Will watch some TV and then, you guessed it…Night Y’all….

Thursday April 5th 2012

The day doesn’t look to bad!  I thought it was supposed to rain but sure doesn’t look like it is going to!

I didn’t take any pictures today!  My bad!

Went on into work, wore my sweater because it was a little chilly.  Mark wanted me to mow Russell Street this morning, he doesn’t need his truck so that sounded like a plan to me.

Russell Street wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it would be.  The grass wasn’t nearly as tall as at the park last week!

Trash.  This is kind of a trashy side of town. Old, really old, mobile homes. People just don’t care here or something like that. I picked up a lot of trash from gum wrappers to a recliner.  I had a pretty good load by the time I was finished.   Our dumpsters are full so the chair is sitting on the ground until they are emptied.  They really fill up fast.

Back at the park I picked up limbs that I had piled up around the mobile home park then finished the mowing and started the RV Park again.  I will finish the RV Park tomorrow if it doesn’t rain. Oh, I forgot, the sun came out and I took my sweater off before heading to Russell Street.  Big mistake.  It got cloudy and windy and very chilly and I just had on my T-shirt.  I about froze.  Oh well, I mowed until 5PM and then it started raining so I had to quit.  I have enough for tomorrow to keep me busy most of the day.

It didn’t rain here at home. Well, it sprinkled a little but that is about it.

Linda was sleeping when I got home all covered up on the sofa and the windows were open and it was really chilly in here!!  I decided it was time to bake some bread, maybe heat it up a little in here.

The bread turned out pretty good, Linda says they taste like Lambert’s rolls and I think it tastes like soda crackers, wonder if something is going wrong with my taster???

Well, got to watch some more TV tonight but we are both ready for a good night’s sleep…Night Y’all….

Wednesday April 4th 2012

Beautiful out this morning!  The temperature is just about right, some where around 68 degrees I would imagine.  It is supposed to rain today so if it does I probably won’t go into work.  Doesn’t look like rain, don’t see any clouds at all!

I am feeling a lot better this morning.  I must have strained myself yesterday.  Really hard to walk and my knee was starting to give me fits also. My knee still hurts this morning but not to bad.

When I got to work I told Mark I was feeling a lot better so I would go ahead and work.  I figure if I mow I will be OK.  I started out spraying Round Up.  I sprayed for about two hours and I figured I would mow the rest of the day.  I’m starting to get tired and for some reason I’ve been hungry all day and just couldn’t get enough to eat.  I was even hungry when I got home!

Work went quite well today.  I’m still feeling good except for being tired!  Linda fixed Sloppy Joe’s for supper and they were really tasty.  Still hungry! I found some candy and Linda found some candy bars.  By bed time I was feeling pretty good.

I got a picture of Sparky and Scruffy…

I also took a picture of the field in our back yard.  I figure he planted sometime in March and I noticed the corn coming up about the 2ne of April.

I also took a picture of a mosquito…

Well, I don’t think it is a mosquito but it sure looks like one only about ten times as big!

Well, that is about it for today, I’m tired and ready to go to bed.  Night Y’all…

Tuesday April 3rd 2012

Looks like another nice day.  We had the house open all night and it is comfortable in here this morning.

Before I go any farther I took a picture of myself in my cutoff blue jeans…

Coffee time and the sun is just coming up.  Now I did the surgery on the shorts and if you look close one leg is longer than the other, and I thought I did a really good job…

Work went kind of well today.  The golf cart had a flat tire, I tried to fix it and about three hours later it went flat again.  Had to walk back to the shop and get the air compressor, which is a small one, and walk back to the golf cart.  I tried to fix it again and it lasted a couple of hours but started going flat again.  Maybe I’ll get it fixed tomorrow.

I have to take another picture of the Kubota. You may notice that what looks like racing decals on the hood is actually duct tape…

I just finished sharpening the blades that is why it is up on the blocks. We mow about five acres a week with this little 44 inch mower and it still runs great!

Linda fixed a good supper tonight, chicken, potatoes, beets, string beans and apple sauce.  Really good…

Not sure what happened today but I’m sore, it really hurts to walk so I’m taking a couple of Aleve to see if that helps.

Watched some TV tonight but I don’t feel real good so shower time and time for bed….Night Y’all…

Monday April 2nd 2012

Well, today is Kedric and Jared”s birthday.  I think they are now thirteen years old!  I don’t have a recent picture of them or I would include it in here.  I will have to call them later today and wish them a happy birthday. I’m sure they would still be in bed yet!

Nice day out today, I will get the air conditioner ready to go, it is supposed to get up around ninety today so we may need it.  I put a new filter in it so it should be ready to go.

At work I’m trying to get caught up with the mowing and spraying Roundup. The grass is so tall I will have to mow it a couple of time to make it look decent.  It looks better but not “good”.

I stopped on the way home and got gas for the car, mower and chain saws. I will have to mow shortly because the grass is growing so fast. 

I have a picture of the Iris I picked for Linda and I’m surprised it is looking so good and the buds are even blooming!

I also took a picture of our Azalea bush which was almost dead but is back and looking pretty good!

I am tired and kind of sore tonight, time for a shower and time to relax!  I watched some TV and fell asleep during some of it but that is OK, I don’t think I missed much.

Time to say night y’all….

Sunday April 1st 2012

Sunday morning and it is beautiful out.  Got a picture of the sunrise…

The sunrise between the two pecan trees and the dandelions that the mower won’t mow down.  Beautiful morning.  Had to wear a sweater out just to be comfortable.  I think it is in the 50s and kind of windy.  Felt cool.

Went to church at Fellowship Baptist.  Had a good sermon on the “Nail Scarred Hands”. Sunday School was also good with lots of input from most everyone.

On the way home I stopped and got some chicken for dinner.  We like the chicken from the grocery store.  Really hit the spot today, haven’t had chicken for awhile.

Got to take a nap this afternoon.  I was kind of tired and this morning when I got up I was kind of sore!

Went back to church tonight.  This was the night for the Lord’s Supper.  Had a very good sermon on it also.  Talked about the origination and the meaning of the Lord’s Supper.

Not much on TV tonight.  I think I may play on the computer for awhile… Night Y’all….