Saturday February 9th 2013

I forgot that last night we went over to Don and Cheryl’s for a little visit. He said he would help with the trim tomorrow, which is today.

Well, I decided to paint this morning.  The cabinets are not very nice.  Have lots of scratches and dirt. I painted some trim first to see what the paint looked like.  Well, it is off white and I am not real sure about it but I think maybe it will be OK.  I started taking off the hardware from the doors.  I can’t believe it, seems like everything is glued!  The hinges I had to pry off with a screw driver and some of the wood came off with it.  We have a couple of doors that have handles and glass inserts.  Well, I broke one of the glass inserts but luck was with me, it broke in two pieces and didn’t shatter!  I had to take the handles off which were also stuck or glued or something.  I used a screwdriver and hammer to get them off, should have taken the glass out first.  Oh well, it doesn’t look to bad with the crack in it and we will get some glue to make sure the window stays together.

Don came over and helped me paint.  Glad he did, he is a better painter than I am.  The paint really doesn’t look to bad.  It definitely isn’t a bright white but it is OK.

I finished putting the hardware back on and only lacked one screw.  Usually I have things left over but not this time.

We went to Wal Mart this afternoon and got a new pan, actually a couple new pans, not sure they will be good but we will try and see.

Tonight I have been trying to download Skype on my phone.  I can’t get it to work on this computer unless it linked to this computer, we will see what happens later.

I think Linda is watching her shows she taped, shows I don’t really care for. She is in the bedroom watching them and I am trying to get caught up with the blog and messing with Skype.  Skype for me isn’t user friendly. I have a really hard time getting it to work.

Time to say Night Y’all….

Friday February 8th 2013

Another beautiful warm day, starts out nice and cool and gets up into the 80s by noon or before.

Linda got up early again today!  She went with Mary and Cheryl to a craft show somewhere, not sure where they went but they were gone until after noon.  Guess they had a good time but Linda is getting tired.  She took a nap and got up in time for Happy Hour.

I didn’t do a lot today, tried cleaning the two pans that we used for the gravy.  They were both burnt and very hard to get off.  The one was a new pan we bought last year and didn’t use it until we got down here this year.  Not a good pan, it is Teflon and a lot of it is gone off the bottom so I think we will have to get a new one sometime soon.

Daryl and Cindy asked if we wanted to go out for Mexican.  Sure!  We love Mexican food.  Went to a place called Danny’s.  John and Judy were the third couple, our next door neighbors. I got Carne Guisada, which in other places it is called Carne Asada and I think they are the same thing but the waitress couldn’t speak English so we tried it anyway, it was very good and Linda just got Nachos which was humongous and it was good, I had to help her eat it.  I really got full.

We had a good time and lots of laughs.

Got home around 7 or 8 PM somewhere in there. 

We watched a little TV and then went to bed, we were really tired..Night Y’all…

Thursday February 7th 2013

We have been having some really nice weather, maybe a little warm but we haven’t turned on the AC!  I think it has been in the middle 80s with a really nice breeze blowing.

OK now to figure out what we did today.  OK we went to Lowe’s to get the trim for the kitchen.  We picked up a gallon of paint, off white, and some trim.  They really didn’t have what I would like to have gotten but guess we will probably do with what we got.  We brought Sparky along since it was still cool out but it is starting to warm up!

We got home in time for Linda to go to “Happy Hour” with the ladies.  I did some cleaning and did some things to get ready to paint.

We went dancing tonight, had a good sized group from the park about ten of us I think, had a real good time, did quite a bit of dancing and just a real nice time.

Got home a little after 10PM and took Sparky out.  He spends quite a bit of time by himself down here.  We do a lot more here than we do back home. I think Sparky will like it back home.  Linda stays home a lot more back in Sikeston.

Oh, I forgot, we fixed breakfast this morning, biscuits and sausage gravy so Linda had to get up really early this morning.  There were 24 at breakfast so we had a really good turnout.  We were only expecting eighteen!  I got up around 3:30AM and went to the clubhouse to get the tables set up so I didn’t get much sleep today!

Back to tonight, we went to bed pretty soon after getting home.  It is getting cool out and will be nice sleeping for sure….Night Y’all…

Wednesday February 6th 2013

Today is Linda’s birthday!  I got her up around 6:30AM so she could go with Mary and Cheryl to a craft show!  First thing she said was “this isn’t fun”!  Linda isn’t a morning person!

 

After Linda left Sparky and I went to Wal Mart for a few things.  I wanted to get a card and a cake for her. She specifically wanted a white cake with butter cream frosting.  I also stopped at Walgreen’s for a box of Cello chocolate covered cherries.

When I got home I did a little more cleaning, trying to get the house back in order again.  Still have a long way to go.

We got to take a nap this afternoon!  It was pretty warm but there was a really nice breeze blowing.  There was a record broken today, got really close to 90, not sure what the record was though.

Went to Excalibur tonight for supper.  Linda invited a bunch to come along.  I think we ended up with about ten people there.  We even got to dance a couple of dances!

We left at 8PM and Linda invited most of them over for cake and ice cream.

Pink and purple cake!  Tasted good.

I may put another picture of the kitchen in tomorrow, maybe.

Time to say Night Y’all…

Tuesday February 5th 2013

This morning I sealed the grout on the counter.  I had a problem with the sink, it didn’t fit quite right.  The counter was just a little to thick for the clasps that holds it down.  I did get them on but it took a lot of work to do it.

Don and Joe came over this morning and they worked on it for about a half hour !and got it tightened down a little better.  We figured out that the clasps that hold it down had to be bent to get them to fit.  I put the last one on after they left and it worked good. 

It has been getting very warm, upper 80s but it is a lot nicer than the lower 50s!  We even leave all the windows open at night and it makes it really nice sleeping!

We went to a jam tonight, it was pretty good.  There is a couple from Minnesota that did a lot of singing. She has a voice like Patsy Cline.  Very good…

They have a band back in Minnesota.

This is Sandy…

Sandy and Paul are from West Virginia and the next picture is Don and Denise and they are from Canada, Nova Scotia I think, a long drive to get down here!

They sang for about two and a half hours I think.  Had a good time.

That was about all for today, time to say Night Y’all…

Monday February 4th 2013

Weather is beautiful today, supposed to be in the 80s and sunny!!

Mary is coming over this morning to grout the tile on the counter.  It looks good already but I’m sure the grout will make it look a lot better then I will seal the grout tomorrow.

The grout sure makes a mess.  She did a good job filling all the cracks and they, Mary and Joe, started cleaning.  I kept pretty busy just getting clean water, but I did help clean off the tiles.  It is supposed to be cleaned three times after letting it dry.  It really looks nice while it is wet but when it dries it sure gets a cloudy coat on it.  After letting it dry I used a dry cloth to clean the tiles off but they don’t clean up very well.  Sure looks a lot nicer…

Mary is spreading the grout here.  They are very thorough.

I see the time is almost 2:30PM so she has been working for awhile or maybe this is when she came back.  Tomorrow I will put a picture in the blog of the almost finished product.

It is very warm this afternoon, I think it got close to 89 which is the record for today or maybe it was 88, not sure but it didn’t make it.  Close, but didn’t tie the record, maybe tomorrow.

We watched TV tonight and I keep thinking I need to put the sink in.  Well, at 10:30 I finally started it and most everything went wrong.  The clips to hold the sink in are just about a quarter inch to short but I did get them on but the sink didn’t really fit well.  I hooked up the water and the drain and thankfully only had one leak and that was in the drain and it was an easy fix, just had to put in a washer and tighten it back down.  Midnight!  Time to go to bed.  Oh, the faucet works great, just like a new one!!!

Night Y’all….

Sunday February 3rd 2013

Super Bowl Sunday and I don’t even know who is playing.  Linda wants to watch just to see the new commercials but I think they will be repeated later, in fact, this is Monday, and I still don’t know who played and who won!  I’m sure I will see it on TV later.

 

I am feeling much better even though the cough is still hanging on and Linda is feeling better but hers is still kind of bad.

Our kitchen is coming along great but I am not going to put in pictures of it until it is finished and it should be done tomorrow.

Mary came over around 1PM and we got to finish the back splash and Mary did an excellent job.  She is coming back tomorrow at 8AM to grout the whole thing and then on Tuesday I will seal it and we will then have our kitchen back…YES!!!  We have been without a kitchen now for about a week and a half, seems longer than that though.

I think I have a picture of one of the ladies “Happy Hour” get together..

The ladies get together and have a good time discussing things, lots of laughs, I can hear them sometimes!  They are at Cheryl’s place this time.

 

Well, the kitchen is the big news, right now other than that there isn’t a lot going on around here.  The weather has been gorgeous!  It has been in the seventies and the wind finally quit blowing hard.

We had a bible study last Friday after the coffee, and it was very interesting. Kermit led it and next Friday I guess it will be my turn.  Think we will try to discuss the “unforgiveable sin”.  May discuss more than that though, we will have to see when the time comes.

Well, with the work on the kitchen, the Texas Crud and the surgery I haven’t been feeling the greatest and hopefully I will get back into the swing of things with this blog.  So easy to just let it go and not do it.

Time to say Night Y’all….