Wednesday June 26th 2013

Well, I did it again, I have procrastinated and haven’t written my  blog for a few days so it is catch up time again.

I am at work and I don’t have a lot of time before going home (actually this is Saturday).

Let me see, I know what I have to do tonight, I am trying to remember if I worked today or not and I think that I took the day off.  Grant is going to mow the RV Park and I will do the mobile home park.  I think it may be a good choice to do it this way, it is raining!  I may end up doing part of the RV Park tomorrow.

Well, tonight I lead the class on the “Seed Principle”, not sure I am ready to do this but hey what do I have to lose?  The only ones that will be there are the Pastor, assistant Pastor and a few deacons, why should I worry about that???

Actually, the study, after we got going, went quite well.  We decided that doing two lessons per night just didn’t get it.  We did make it through one chapter and we were supposed to do two plus a finishing chapter, way to much for one night. In fact, we went about fifteen minutes over just to get the one chapter done and the study that will come after this will be one chapter per meeting or what ever we happen to get done.

I know I have a picture… Lets see what I have….

OK, this is Bud the neighborhood dog.  I usually feed him in this basin and I guess he likes it, he has his foot in it so it won’t go anywhere.  Quite the dog.

Well, I have to get out of here because I have to finish up work.  Night Y’all….

Tuesday June 25th 2013

I guess I have made a little mistake in the postings, I have posted some before the others, or maybe it is the other way around, oh well, I am sorry but I do get things mixed up sometimes.

I went to work today and dumped the trash, sprayed Round Up and did a little weed whacking.  I worked until noon and then went home.  Grant and I will change days for mowing, he will mow tomorrow and I will mow Thursday.  We just changed days and it will make things easier for the both of us.  I won’t have to move the picnic tables as long as he gets it done.

This afternoon we went to Cape to Wal Mart and I picked up a couple of cards for my “Hot Spot”.  Can’t get them at Sikeston, they don’t sell them.

We also stopped at the airport to see about the seating arrangements for the airshow and we are OK. There is no special seating.  We bought tickets for Don and Cheryl after we bought ours but we are AOK!

I fixed some brown rice and Dinty Moore beef stew for supper.  It wasn’t bad at all.  Linda made rice pudding from the left over rice and wouldn’t you know, I ate way to much but boy it was good.

Tonight we took it easy and watched some TV.  I had a little problem with my eyes though, couldn’t keep them open for some reason.

Had a nice relaxing night.  Time to say Night Y”all….

Sunday June 23rd 2013

It looks like kind of a nice day today, it will get warm I’m sure of that. 

I decided to call Miss Kay around 8AM this morning and see if she would like to go to church with us.  I was very surprised when she called back and said she would.   I told her we would pick her up in about forty five minutes and she said she was ready!

Kay is having a really bad day.  This is her son’s birthday and he died about 36 years ago in a skate board accident.  Her husband is also gone as are her parents so today wasn’t a happy day for her.

I guess she enjoyed church, she said, after I asked, that she would like to come back again.
We stopped at Subway and treated her for lunch.  We had a good visit.

This afternoon I was tired so I took a little nap, not sure it helped but maybe tonight I will be able to stay awake.

Church was good tonight. I think Pastor Randy’s sermons are almost better on Sunday Night, he is really relaxed.  He preached on John 3:3.  He kind of explained this statement was actually for the whole world, an explanation of salvation. Probably hard for a non believer to understand even though Nicodemus was a religious person and very knowledgeable about the things of God.  Good message.

We got some rain tonight.  I am not sure how much we got but it rained pretty hard for awhile.

We are taking it easy tonight and I know I will go to bed after the weather.  Guess that is kind of a habit.  I have already seen the weather and know what they are going to say but I stay up and watch it anyway…

Night Y’all..

Saturday June 22nd 2013

I work in the office this afternoon.  Shouldn’t be to bad.  I am taking  the computer with me and my book for Wednesday night.  That should keep me busy for the rest of the day, after my chores.

The day went by really fast, I was surprised.  I got off work at 7PM on the dot!  We weren’t real busy but that is OK.  Doing the cleaning etc took quite awhile then the study and the computer pretty much took up the rests of the day.

I think this is a cardinal.  I was kind of surprised to see one here in this kind of weather, I just figured they were a cold weather bird.  If you notice the tree it only has a couple of leaves.  I think the tree is dying.  It didn’t have many leaves last year and this year it has less.  It isn’t dead yet but some branches sure look sick!

We spent a quiet evening at home, not a lot going on so I guess I will  just say Night Y’all…

Monday June 24th 2013

I am taking today off, we have a couple of things to do in town later. 

I let Linda sleep in and then we headed into town. I want to go to the Christian Book Store to look for a new Bible and I want to pick up a Bible for Nikki because she doesn’t seem to have one.  Nikki was saved in Sonny’s last Sunday School Class, what a day!!  We bought a Bible called “The Book”.  It is a lot like The New Living Translation which is what I bought for myself and Linda has one like it also.  The are a lot easier to understand.

We stopped at Aldi’s to pick up a few things and then headed home.

It is getting hot outside.  We don’t keep it real cool in here but it is comfortable because it keeps the humidity down.  It doesn’t take much for me to get chilly anyway.

We got to watch new new show last night “The Dome” and it wasn’t to bad, it makes you wonder what is going on for sure.

Not a lot more to say so I guess I will say Night Y’all….

Friday June 21st 2013

Going to be another warm day. I will mow Russell Street today, again.  It grows pretty fast and gets looking ugly pretty fast.

Mark wants the truck back so he can go home at 1PM so I had to hustle to get back by one.  I was back about ten minutes until one so I think I did good.  I sharpened the blades on the mower and gave it a little try and it seemed to do OK.

I went home around 3PM.  It was hot but mowing wasn’t bad at all, I didn’t mind it.

When I got home I enjoyed the time with Linda for a little while then went out and mowed our lawn and Tommy’s lawn.  Beautiful day to work outside!

Linda fixed taco salad for supper and it was excellent. We are back on our diet again, been eating beans and taco salad was a nice deviation from the beans…

I’m not sure if I mentioned about the Seed Principle but I did a chapter that I am going to lead next Wednesday and it is something else.  Didn’t do a thing for my ego!  I put in the space by the edge.  Can’t think of what it is called, I know I will remember later…(margin).. anyway, I wrote “oh me”  a bunch of times because I know that it is telling me I’m not doing things like I should be doing!  Would be a good night to stay home and watch TV.  Not going to do that, I need to face my shortcomings.

We got a call from Bren and she wants to come to the Floto Family Reunion an sounds like Kim may come also.  We will see what happens here, I am really surprised!!! Pleasantly surprised!

I had no trouble at all going to sleep tonight, can’t say the same for Linda, I think she was up most of the night.  Night Y’all…..

Thursday June 20th 2013

Got up this morning and it was really nice out, I opened the house again for an hour or so.  It is going to get warm today.

I was right it got up around 95 today and it is humid!  I trimmed some trees, did some weed eating and dumped the trash.  Oh, sprayed some Round Up too.  I went home at noon. I figured it was hot enough to take the day off.

At home I didn’t do much of anything definitely to hot to do much outside.   Tomorrow I will be mowing and that will take most of the day I think.

I still have been looking at tile saws but haven’t bought one yet. 

This stupid computer is giving me fits.  I was going to shut it off and it decided it was time to up date.  I think I finally shut it off after about three hours then had to take the battery out to get it to quit whatever it was doing.  I will probably find out later if it still works on the internet.  I can’t get on Facebook and now I can’t get my mail!  When I get back on the internet I guess I will find out.  I will have to wait until tomorrow to get on the internet. 

I think I will look and see if I have a picture to put in here….

I may have put this picture in here already, I can’t remember..

Not sure what kind of flower this is but but they are really colorful.

Time to say Night Y’all….

Wednesday June 19th 2013

Back to work today, I will mow the mobile home park.  That is a pretty good job, no picnic tables to move.  It is very nice this morning but I’m sure it is going to get very warm.

I was right, I dumped the trash and am already sweating.  Maybe after mowing I will spray a bottle of Round Up, then again maybe I won’t. 

Mowing went fine, didn’t have any problems.  I stop around 1PM for a drink and a little something to eat.  The mower is usually almost out of gas so I need to stop.

When I got done mowing it was almost 4PM so I think I will go home and forget the Round Up.  I will try to spray some tomorrow.

We have church tonight, and the lesson book is on the Seed Principle and it is very good.  It is getting into marriage relationships and tonight the class was hilarious, well, I thought it was.  Thought Linda and I were the only ones that had little problems. Miss Jean led the class tonight, Coyita was on vacations and next Wednesday I will try to lead the class because Coyita has to go to Jeff City for work.  It will be nice to have this class over even though it is good but doing two lessons a week is almost to much with doing a lesson everyday for Sunday School and trying to memorize some scripture.  I am definitely not good at memorizing!

Guess that is about all for today, I will be caught up with the blog though at least for today, tomorrow is a different story…..Night Y’all

Tuesday June 18th 2013

Well, I am going into work today, this morning is is really nice out, the sun is shining and it is cool.  I opened the house for awhile to let in some of the cool morning air.  Very nice, won’t stay that way long, it will get warm and humid.

At work I took the trailer over to Russell Street and picked up the rest of the branches I had cut.  I had a pretty good load, wasn’t sure I would get them all on one load but they packed down nicely.

I sprayed a couple bottles of Round Up after the branches and then went home early.  I was getting pretty hot so figured it was time to go home.

Today I cancelled the order for the tile saw.  Not sure when, or if, I would get it.  I will check and see if I can order another one.  I almost did  but thought I would check some more before ordering.

Linda fixed a pot of beans (without meat) which turned out very good.  Back on the diet again.  I am doing pretty good, sticking around 195, even after the outing at China Buffet!

Not much else happening today.  Took a picture of my “hotspot” and this is where I have to put it to get it to work!!!

It is kind of funny, I took this picture awhile ago and the field back there is now about five feet tall!  Can’t believe how fast the corn grows here.  My Dad always said if it is knee high by the Fourth of July it is really doing good. Well, this is the middle of June and some fields you would get lost in and I think some are probably starting to tassel.  Probably by the first of August they will be picking the corn.  I was looking at the neighbors sweet corn and it has tassels and looks like it is starting to get ears. 

Well, we aren’t going to do anything tonight so guess I will just sign off for now, Night Y’all…

Monday June 17th 2013

I think I am getting worse!  Today is Thursday and I am just getting to the Blog again.  It isn’t that I’m to busy I just think I will do it later which usually comes a couple days later.

I know I didn’t work on Monday so now I just have to think of what we did.

I know that I ordered a tile saw from Amazon and it hasn’t come yet and it has been over a week.  I decided to check online and there was a place to contact them so I did and asked what the holdup was on the order.  They wrote back later and said that they didn’t have any in stock and weren’t sure when they would get any.  Would have been nice to know but I guess they figured it wasn’t important enough to send an email.

Now I remember, Linda took me to the China Buffet for lunch today because yesterday it was packed.  We had an excellent lunch.  It probably wasn’t real good for our diet though.

Our Lilly's are starting to bloom…

Can’t remember the name, Linda does but they are pretty.

It is cloudy today and looks like rain.  This evening we found out that a lot of places around here got a lot of rain.  Some places over six inches of rain. I think we may have gotten about an inch, not sure though.

We didn’t do a lot today pretty much just stuck around home.  Guess I will sign off and say Night Y’all…..

Sunday June 16th 2013

This is Father’s Day and not sure how many will be in church and not sure if we will have enough for a class.  Linda and I went in early and I was still wondering if there would be enough for a class but the drifted in and we ended up with six in our class.

I had a brain storm!  Not sure it was a good one so I asked the class if they were up to a challenge???  The challenge was to go to the young class, teens, as challenge them to the eight memory versus.  We have about eight weeks left to memorize the eight versus.  Easy huh?  I have been working on these versus for three weeks now and had about three memorized but we are changing to the NIV version and I was memorizing the NLT version, (I think that is easier).  They class wanted to use the NIV version so here I going starting all over again and it seems like the NLT is a lot easier, at least for me.  Oh, when our class left the other class I made a little statement  “we are going to stomp you”!  Almost everyone in  my class told me we were going to lose.  No confidence at all.  The teacher of the teens told me he was having a really hard time getting them interested in the class so I thought this may be a little incentive for them to start participating in classes.

Our class went extremely well, we are very slow, but that is OK because I would rather be slow and learn than to rush through it and not get the meaning.  Our class title is “Survival Kit” and the teens class is the same. Even with the small class we had people were participating and helping out. I had given an assignment for this week and I don’t think anyone did it but me.  I figure as the “teacher” I better do the thing I asked them to do.  Well, if we had had more time we would have done it right then in class but the time got away from us  so they still have the assignment for next week. It was a very simple assignment and it was to write some of there feelings about John 14:1-3.  We have certain questions to answer like how does in influence what I believe, how I feel or the way I behave.  Is there an example to follow or avoid? Is there a command to obey? Is there a promise to claim? Now to explain the questions, we answer the questions as part of scripture study in our “quiet time”.

Mark had the service for Father’s Day and he did an excellent job.  Very interesting service he put together.  I think everyone enjoyed it.

Linda and I were going to go to the Chinese place to eat until we say the parking lot and we decided to wait until tomorrow.  We went to Subway instead.  The breakfast sandwich really hit the spot.

We took it easy this afternoon.  Kim, Dee and Bren all called to wish me a happy Father’s Day.  That was really special.  Got to hear about all the happenings in their part of the country. 

Tonight I went to church at Morehouse 1st Baptist Church.  I enjoy going there, the preacher’s name is Randy and he puts out some pretty good sermons.

Tonight we aren’t going to do much.  Watched some of the Emmy Awards.  Not my kind of TV but it was OK.

I think I may have taken a nap before going to bed but I think I will sleep OK.  Night Y’all…

PS  The spelling and stuff may  be all messed up so I’m blaming it on the computer.  I haven’t been rereading so there may be a few mistakes….

Saturday June 15th 2013

Looks like a nice day outside, lots of little gnats, figured they would be gone by now!  It is almost impossible to walk around outside because these little gnats just pester you  to no end!  They will fly up your nose, in you ears, in your mouth, in your eyes etc.  Not fun to have around.

Well, I go in to work in the office today, not my favorite job but it could be worse.  I get to do so homework and play around on the computer during the slow times.

It wasn’t a real busy day but the time went fast so I was happy about that.

Not a lot going on tonight.  A little TV etc and to bed.  Night Y’all…

Mon-Fri 10-14 2013

OK, I have done it again, I haven’t written a blog in a week now and I know I can’t remember what we did during that time.  Should have written the blog so I could read it and see if we had a good time or not!

I remember that I didn’t work Monday.  I have been trying to get into a schedule of doing my Bible reading and Sunday School lesson first thing in the morning.  I am heading the Sunday School Class and this lesson is HARD!  It is for beginners and I am having a really hard time doing each lesson.

Tuesday I went to work and Grant and I went to Russell Street to pick up the rest of the garbage and also a bunch of branches I had cut earlier or maybe last week.

After we got them Grant was ready to stop and take a shower, he has to work in the office this afternoon.  We would have gotten all the branches but we had to do some dumpster diving this morning and that took about an hour.  I had put a sledge hammer in a trash basket and it got thrown in the dumpster.  We did find it, it was clear at the bottom of the dumpster.

In the afternoon I sprayed Roundup.  I didn’t work to long, it is very hot today and my shoulders and back is hurting.

Didn’t do much at home, took a shower and sat around the rest of the afternoon. Well, the evening also….

Wednesday, I sprayed a bottle of Roundup before starting to mow the Mobile Home Park.  Even though the temperature was close to 100 degrees it was bad at all because the wind was blowing and I wasn’t doing any really hard work, just sitting on the lawn mower.

Thursday I took the day off, it is beautiful out!  The temperature is going to be back in the 80s and that is nice.

I think we went to town today, not sure what for but I think we did.  I think I let Linda off at McDonald’s to get her tablet loaded again and I walked over to Wal Mart and got a new batter in the watch I got from Cheryl.  I like the watch, it has a twist band and fits snug.  Works good unless the battery goes dead, then it is only right twice a day!

Friday, lets see, that was yesterday, I guess I went to work again.  I went over to Russell Street and mowed over there.  I also sprayed a  bottle of Roundup and it was time to get back to the campground, Mark needs the truck this afternoon. so in the afternoon I sprayed a bottle of Roundup and used the weed eater and got some weeds cut down and shoveled the mud out of the driveway.  Went home around 4:30PM.

Not a lot going on tonight, just sitting around  so I guess I will say Nigh Y’all for the whole week!!!

Sunday June 9th 2013

Well I am a little apprehensive about Sunday School today.  Last week wasn’t the greatest but we didn’t have our books so it was kind of hit and miss last week.

I was pleasantly surprised this week.  We had a nice class, about six in the class but they participated.  We had our books this week and they seemed to want to participate, had to ask some questions but they did an excellent job of participating.  Our curriculum is set for five weeks with five different parts in each lesson.  It is supposed to last about eleven weeks, give or take, that would be a quarter!  Well, our leader is kind of slow so we may not finish the book by the end of the quarter but that is OK, as long as we get what we are supposed to learn.  I am excited, the lessons are for beginners and I tell you, it isn’t easy!  We have verses we are supposed to memorize and that is not an easy task.  Sonny told me he was having a lot of trouble memorizing the versus to, glad it isn’t just me.

Linda made a big pot of chili on the NuWave cooktop.  It sure does work good and the pots that came with it are really heavy and work very well.  We don’t get near the heat from this as we do the stove top.  I am glad we ordered them, I think they will come in handy.

Church tonight was down again.  Pastor has good sermons on Sunday Night, wish people would come to the services!

Got a picture of a flower, well, a couple of pictures….

Not sure if I planted these or not, don’t remember planting them, but they are pretty and I think this is the first year I have seen this kind.

Here is some of our Holly Hock…

I think these are really pretty, I need to plant a lot more of them.  The dark spots in the two corners are the lens cover, it didn’t open all the way.  The camera takes a lot of abuse and sometimes it gets bent just enough to keep the lens cover from opening all the way.  I have to check and make sure it does open or I get a picture with dark places in it.

Time to say Night Y’all….

Saturday June 8th 2013

Looks like a nice day today, it isn’t raining so must be going to be a nice day.

We won’t be doing much today I have to work in the office this afternoon, should be a pretty good day.

Well, most things went pretty good, I took my computer in with me to give me a little something to play with.  My computer gives me problems sometimes.  Like Facebook, I can’t get on Facebook with this computer.  Not sure what the problem is but it won’t let me do anything on Facebook. It goes to the homepage and that is all it will do, I can’t look up anything and there are no posts.  Oh well, guess I will have to use my other computer.

Things were pretty slow today, picked up around quitting time though.  The last three campers came in right around 7PM maybe a little before. I had all the bookwork done and then had to change it.  Oh well, I was a little late getting home.

Linda’s rash isn’t getting any better, guess we will have to go see the doctor Monday and see if there is anything he can prescribe for her condition.

We are pretty much taking it easy tonight. Nothing on TV that is really good.  Terrible to have a couple hundred channels and nothing on what a bummer!

Time to say Night Y”all….

Friday June 7th 2013

Yes, I am going back to work today.  Grant and I will do some cleanup on Russell Street and Mark wants another shed taken down.

We loaded up some wet carpeting and it took all the both of us had to get it on the little trailer. 

We had another piece that was just as heavy and we tried to cut it but didn’t have the right tools so we finally got it loaded and told Ms. Lorene that we would be back soon to tear her shed down.  She moved some of the stuff out of it and when we got back we tore down the the shed and got most of it loaded on the trailer, couldn’t get it all but then there is still next week…

The trailer is sitting to the right and the place where the old shed was is in the center of the picture.  The trees, bushes etc on the left is why I am trying to get my chain saw started!  I told Ms. Lorene I would get them down for her.  Russell Street could use about a month of chain saw and hauling to make it look nice.

I did take a picture of Ms. Lorene but she didn’t want me to, in fact she didn’t know I took it but I am not going to post it because that wouldn’t be very nice of me to do something like that.

I mowed Russell Street this afternoon and I will have to tell you I am sore, back and derriere.  Way to much sitting on this mower.  It didn’t use to bother me but lately it sure does.

When I got home, Linda had gotten the NuWave cook top I ordered.  It is an induction cooktop and we thought we would try it to see if it works.  The utensils, or pans, have to be good conductors.  It did work good, after I put on my glasses and saw that it has a “start” button.  It does heat up very fast and it can be controlled by increments of ten degrees.  Seems to work very good.

Guess it doesn’t look like to much but it does work good and the frying pans work great. They are enamel coated and excellent non-stick pans.

Well, this was another day of back aches so I took some pain reliever, which works very well, and sat in the recliner and slept part of the evening.  We did watch a bunch of “Storage Wars” episodes.  They are usually pretty good.

Time to say Night Y’all…

Thursday June 6th 2013

I think I may take today off but it is turning out to be a really nice day so I may go in just to see if there is anything I need to do.

Well, Grant’s girlfriend is leaving today so he is taking the morning off and I am going to do some more mowing.  Guess that will be OK, I like to mow and Mark said to do the easy parts which doesn’t include moving the picnic tables.  I kept mowing figuring Grant would be in shortly.  I think I got about half of it mowed so he doesn’t have a lot left to do.  I took the rest of the afternoon off.

I had to go to the social security office to get a net Medicare card and get a new spark plug for the chain saw.  I’ve been trying to get the saw started so I could trim some trees for Ms Lorene.  She is a sweet older lady that has a son that could do some of these things for him but doesn’t.

OK I did something here and I can’t get it back to the regular printing.  I am going to say Night Y’all…..

Wednesday June 5th 2013

Back to work today, it is just a beautiful day out today.

I mowed the mobile home park today.  Took awhile and my back really got to hurting while mowing.  Guess it is not a real comfortable tractor, couldn’t be that I’m getting old could it???

I finished around 5PM I think and went on home.  Not much going on tonight, not much on TV.  Went to church and had a lesson on the “Seed Principle”.  It was really good.  Glad that people join in in the discussions. Hopefully my Sunday School Class with be comfortable enough to start joining in with the lessons.

Like I said, not much going on tonight so I will say Night Y’all…

Tuesday June 4th 2013

Today we head back home.  It will be later though.

Don and I had coffee and just enjoyed the beautiful morning.  No gnats flying around here but plenty of ticks.

I got Linda up around 8AM and we had breakfast.  Cheryl had fresh fruit and we brought the cinnamon rolls from home.  They went very well together.

We walked around  their pond and got a couple of pictures..

Even though you can’t see the pond it is to Linda’s left.  We fed the fish and looked at the the lilies on the pond….

They sure are pretty!

We had lunch and headed on home around 2PM.  I know it is going to be a long drive, well, about 180 miles, give or take.  I stopped for gas and filled up and it cost almost $100!  The drive home was pretty uneventful.  It got pretty warm but the drive was nice.  We got back in time to vote, just before 6PM and then on home.  I filled up with gas again and it was over $80 so taking this for rides isn’t a real good way to travel.  We enjoyed it though and enjoyed the visit with Don and Cheryl.

We relaxed tonight and went to be kind of early.  Needed to get some rest.  Glad to be home….Night Y’all…

Monday June 3rd 2013

Got up early this morning, we are heading to Gerald MO today to see Don and Cheryl.  We were going to go up there a couple of weeks ago but with the  weather the way it has been we really didn’t want to be traveling in the rain so we decided to wait.

Don and Cheryl have both been having some problems with their hearts!  Strange they both are having problems at the same time.

We left home at 8AM and stopped for gas down the road and it cost $80 to fill it up, I was surprised, didn’t have a heart attack but wondered why it took so much gas then I remember we filled up the last time somewhere in Arkansas and that was quite a while ago. 

We made it up to Gerald about 11AM maybe 11:30 but thought it was a good trip.  We parked and visited for awhile and then they took us for a ride to show us the area.  Rivers are overflowing and some roads are closed.

 

Got a picture of the Missouri River….

Some of the boat ramps, or slips, are floating!  Good thing they are anchored.

This is Jasmine.  She doesn’t care much for Sparky but she does put up with him, a little….

They took us out to Millers Grill for lunch and it was very good.  Linda had a steak and so did Cheryl.  Don had a hamburger and I had a catfish Po Boy.  It was very good.

They took us shopping at a 2nd hand store that had a lot of very interesting “stuff”.  It was fun looking at all the different stuff.  I didn’t get anything but Linda did.  She didn’t get much but a few things to take to Texas when we go.

We had a really good day of visiting and about 10PM Don and I were both ready to call it a day, which we did.  I think Linda and Cheryl stayed up for another hour.

We were amazed that there weren’t very many bugs there.  We could sit outside and not be bothered by flying bugs to bad.  Unfortunately they do have more than there share of wood ticks.  We felt like bugs were crawling on us most of the night, may have been, not sure but I found a tick crawling on me early in the morning.  Guess they aren’t wood ticks which is very good.

We are sleeping in the camper which is good for us, we needed to get the camper out and and get some use out of it.  It drives good but really sucks up the gas.

That’s our camper!  Time to say Night Y’all…

Saturday and Sunday June 1-2 2013

Haven’t kept up again!  I haven’t even been on the computer for a few days so now here I go again trying to remember what we did a thousand years ago!  Well, maybe not a thousand years but sure seems like it when I try to remember what we did way back then!

I had to ask Linda what we did Saturday.  I forgot that I went to work and spent the afternoon in the office.  I had the computer with me so I must have posted the last couple of days today…..

Work went pretty good, didn’t keep real busy and it was raining, at least until about 3PM then it started clearing off.  Turned out to be a pretty nice afternoon, a little cool but not bad.

Sunday was my first class in Sunday School.  First Linda and I made some cinnamon rolls last night, at least the dough, and baked them this morning. 

I was really nervous this morning and Linda got up early and about 8:15AM and I figured it was time to go and Linda said it was to early but I don’t listen very good and when we got there, there wasn’t any cars there and I looked at my watch again and figured out, for myself, that we were over an hour early, I don’t catch on to fast sometimes.

I think the Sunday School class didn’t go very well, I was hoping for input from everyone and that didn’t happen.  It really didn’t go all that bad I guess and hopefully someone got something out of it.

Sunday night was good.  Linda and I both liked the sermon.  Randy did a good job.

Well, not a lot to talk about for today.  I was tired and kind of deflated so guess that I will say Night Y’all…

Friday May 31st 2013

It is cloudy and it did rain last night.  Wonder if it will clear off today.

Grant and I are going to Russell Street again today.  We have a lot of cleanup to do.  One shed we tore down had carpeting in it and Grant suggested we roll the carpet up with some of the trash that is laying around.  That’s what we did!  Well, it rained and the carpet is soaked and weighs a ton, well maybe not that much, but enough we could just barely drag it so I knew we wouldn’t load it onto the trailer and for sure we wouldn’t be able to get it in the dumpster!

We took a couple of loads to the dumpster.  I got a picture of Grant man handling the shed, or parts of it…

We did get a lot of it cleaned up.  I may have put this picture in the other day I can’t remember!

When we got back I got gas for the tractor and did a little mowing and I put the new steering arm on it, time to get rid of the wire ties…

I went over and mowed Russell Street this afternoon.  Went pretty good.  I didn’t have my camera with me.  I met a lady over there, Ms Ledbetter.  Very nice lady.  I told her I would help get her shed torn down and a couple of trees cut down.  I think she is a widow and I’m sure she doesn’t have much in the way of possessions.  Very nice lady, Christian I think, and very nice to talk to.

I did get sprinkled on a couple of times today but not bad.

Not much going on at home, watch some TV if I can stay awake and then go to bed….Night Y’all.

PS  I haven’t been proof reading these so sorry about spelling errors and whatever else I may have written wrong….

Thursday May 30th 2013

I’m taking the day off today, we can’t haul trash and Grant is using the mower.  I think we will go to Poplar Bluff today to the VA and I think I will apply!

Sure seems like a long drive to Poplar Bluff.  Takes about forty five minutes I guess but it sure if boring.  The lady at the desk, Diana, was very nice and actually very helpful.  We were in and out of there in probably fifteen minutes.  No waiting.  It will be different filling out the forms that she gave me.  They aren’t hard to fill out but finding what I need to put on them is another story.  My filing system isn’t the greatest.

We stopped at Dexter on the way home and ate at Fiddler’s, a pretty good place to eat but today I wasn’t really satisfied.  Nothing tasted particularly good except for the strawberry shortcake and I went back for seconds!  I really like their strawberry shortcake.

I decided to mow the lawn when we got home.  I probably won’t feel like it tomorrow or Saturday.  I have the new blades on the mower and it did a pretty good job.

We pretty much stayed at home and didn’t do anything else.  Quiet evening.  Night Y’all…  Got a picture of our first Holly Hock!!!!!

For some reason I can make the pictures bigger again, not sure about this computer……