I long for the sound of a slamming screen door. YOu know the sound... an old wooden framed screen door with a spring. Nothing says summer like the sound of a slamming screen door.
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
screen door
I long for the sound of a slamming screen door. YOu know the sound... an old wooden framed screen door with a spring. Nothing says summer like the sound of a slamming screen door.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Weekends are GOOD!
My weekend was very good. I got to spend some quality time with my husband and we did some fun things. Sunday morning breakfast out and then a few errands. I spent some time working on a quilt (first one) with my daughter. It was good to spend time doing something with her. My husband is working on the chicken coop. This week we finally met our neighbors down the road and they seem very nice. They have chickens too so we stopped over to see there coop and get some ideas for ours. They stopped by our house yesterday afternoon to see our baby chicks.
I am going to be calling the doctor today to ask about some issues I am having with pain. I think it may be my ulcer or maybe even a kidney stone. It's not constant pain, but when it comes on... OMG It's very very intense.
But all in all "Life is good".
Thursday, March 12, 2009
A quick post
Time for a quick post. Everything is pretty good in my world, I am still struggling with parenting teenagers but I guess that is to be expected. The latest disaster on that front is a car accident. My son was in the city late at night with people he shouldn’t be hanging around with. Those two things alone were enough to get him in trouble with me.
The story begins with a call from the police asking if my son is home, do we know where he is. Well its 2:30am and he isn’t home. We don’t know where he is but we track him down on his cell phone to tell him to call the officer. Oh by the way the officer wouldn’t tell us why he was looking for our son. We suspected it couldn’t be good at 2:30am. We find the boy child and his story goes like this… “Mom, I’m not sure exactly what happened because I fainted or blacked out or something. I ran over a fence and I woke up to “Fred” slapping me in the face. I was sooo freaked out. I sat there in my car for a few minutes and then I drove “Fred” home and went to “Sam’s” because I didn’t want to drive all the way home. I’m not feeling very good.” Hummmm sounds suspicious to me. I tell him to call the officer and I give him the number. I ask him to call me back as soon as he talks to officer. Now I am AWAKE.
Wait for two hours and son calls home. Officer is satisfied that son isn’t under the influence. Thank God. Tells him they know it was him who drove through this yard because he happened to leave his license plate in the fence. (Only my son could be so lucky). Now the story gets even better. The house belongs to a Judge. Not only that but the house has some damage too and it’s protected by the historical society.
My husband drove to the house to look at the damage and it isn’t real obvious where the damage is. So hopefully it won’t be too bad. We are just waiting now for a summons to come in the mail. I’m afraid that I can’t rescue him from this one. He will have to suffer the consequences of his actions.
Well enough with problems in my life.
Last weekend I resurrected my grandmothers Singer sewing machine from the basement of my daughters house. It was in rough shape. I cleaned it all up and oiled the machine. The machine is in a table, it’s actually a nice piece of furniture. I painted the cabinet and reupholstered the seat cover. It’s working like a charm and I am starting a small quilting project on my own at home. I am really having fun with this. I joined the quilting class and have started working on a table topper to match my kitchen curtains.
The second thing I am working on is learning all I can about chickens. We moved to the country from the city where I had lived all my life two years ago. I have been thinking about getting chickens for some time. I only want 5 or 6 chickens. I have been reading all I can find and talking with others that have a small flock of backyard chickens. I am hoping to be able to get them just before Easter. I want to take my Grandchildren with me to get them and let them be involved with getting them set up in their new home. The chickens will have to live inside for the first month so we will have time to build some kind of a coop in the backyard. I have done quite a bit of research on that too. I already know what I want it to look like and I have a good idea how big it needs to be. I think that my husband and I will start working on that this weekend. (hubby isn’t at all excited about chickens but he is going along with it)
If you are wondering if I am crazy… maybe I am. If so, it was the teenagers that drove me round the bend!
The story begins with a call from the police asking if my son is home, do we know where he is. Well its 2:30am and he isn’t home. We don’t know where he is but we track him down on his cell phone to tell him to call the officer. Oh by the way the officer wouldn’t tell us why he was looking for our son. We suspected it couldn’t be good at 2:30am. We find the boy child and his story goes like this… “Mom, I’m not sure exactly what happened because I fainted or blacked out or something. I ran over a fence and I woke up to “Fred” slapping me in the face. I was sooo freaked out. I sat there in my car for a few minutes and then I drove “Fred” home and went to “Sam’s” because I didn’t want to drive all the way home. I’m not feeling very good.” Hummmm sounds suspicious to me. I tell him to call the officer and I give him the number. I ask him to call me back as soon as he talks to officer. Now I am AWAKE.
Wait for two hours and son calls home. Officer is satisfied that son isn’t under the influence. Thank God. Tells him they know it was him who drove through this yard because he happened to leave his license plate in the fence. (Only my son could be so lucky). Now the story gets even better. The house belongs to a Judge. Not only that but the house has some damage too and it’s protected by the historical society.
My husband drove to the house to look at the damage and it isn’t real obvious where the damage is. So hopefully it won’t be too bad. We are just waiting now for a summons to come in the mail. I’m afraid that I can’t rescue him from this one. He will have to suffer the consequences of his actions.
Well enough with problems in my life.
Last weekend I resurrected my grandmothers Singer sewing machine from the basement of my daughters house. It was in rough shape. I cleaned it all up and oiled the machine. The machine is in a table, it’s actually a nice piece of furniture. I painted the cabinet and reupholstered the seat cover. It’s working like a charm and I am starting a small quilting project on my own at home. I am really having fun with this. I joined the quilting class and have started working on a table topper to match my kitchen curtains.
The second thing I am working on is learning all I can about chickens. We moved to the country from the city where I had lived all my life two years ago. I have been thinking about getting chickens for some time. I only want 5 or 6 chickens. I have been reading all I can find and talking with others that have a small flock of backyard chickens. I am hoping to be able to get them just before Easter. I want to take my Grandchildren with me to get them and let them be involved with getting them set up in their new home. The chickens will have to live inside for the first month so we will have time to build some kind of a coop in the backyard. I have done quite a bit of research on that too. I already know what I want it to look like and I have a good idea how big it needs to be. I think that my husband and I will start working on that this weekend. (hubby isn’t at all excited about chickens but he is going along with it)
If you are wondering if I am crazy… maybe I am. If so, it was the teenagers that drove me round the bend!
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Do you have a "Bucket List"?
This may seem like it’s coming out of left field but as I drove to work this morning I was listening to a CD and I started thinking about things I would like to learn how to do. I would like to be able to sing just one song really well. (you have to know that when I was in the choir at church as a youth they told me to stand in the back and hum). I have little confidence that I will be able to accomplish the singing thing. I would like to learn how to play the guitar. We do a lot of camping and playing the guitar around the campfire is something that I would like to be able to do.
Last week I went out looking for new curtains for my kitchen. I really just need valences for one window and a sliding glass door. I found just what I was looking for at Country Curtains they were perfect for my décor. Golden colored with a rooster print in brick red. I loved them. I needed to buy 5 valances, when I got to the store I found out that the valances were $22 each. I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t justify spending over $100 on valances. I decided to check out a fabric store in the next town that I had driven by several times. I went in and asked the owner if she had any fabric with roosters on it and she pointed me in the direction of the Waverly Fabrics along the wall. I found almost the identical fabric for $11 a yard. I have not sewed anything in several years and I do not own a sewing machine. The owner of the fabric store helped me figure out how much fabric I would need and she helped me pick out the thread. I told her I was going home to attempt to sew these curtains by hand. She told me about walk in sewing classes on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evening from 6 to 8 that she runs and how she would help me make the valences. The cost of the class is $10. I was so excited to get started. I went Tuesday night on my way home from work and did all the cutting and some of the sewing. Last night (Wednesday) I went back and did more of the sewing and I am almost done. I may have been done already if I had been doing them on my own but Laurel, the owner of the fabric store, is a bit of a perfectionist and I had lots of opportunities to get acquainted with my seem ripper. If the seem wasn’t just so I had to take it out and do it again. My valances are going to be beautiful when they are done. This is a picture of the material
I’ve met some nice people at the Fabric store in the classes and many of them are working on quilts. That is what I want to do next. So I will add learn how to quilt to my bucket list too.
I want chickens. I imagine that may sound strange to some people but I want to have a few chickens in my backyard. My husband thinks I have gone round the bend and he wants me to explain why I want chickens. I just think it would be cool and the kids will think it’s neat too. I want to get them for Easter weekend as a surprise for the kids. I have been reading as much as I can find on the internet about raising chickens and I have some good ideas about building a small chicken coop. I will be ready by Easter for the chickens to arrive. Now I just have to figure out where to buy them. That’s all for now.
It’s time for me to put my dreams and wishes away and do the work that needs to be done. I am dealing with a difficult situation with my son and he takes up a lot of my energy right now. Be well everyone.
Last week I went out looking for new curtains for my kitchen. I really just need valences for one window and a sliding glass door. I found just what I was looking for at Country Curtains they were perfect for my décor. Golden colored with a rooster print in brick red. I loved them. I needed to buy 5 valances, when I got to the store I found out that the valances were $22 each. I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t justify spending over $100 on valances. I decided to check out a fabric store in the next town that I had driven by several times. I went in and asked the owner if she had any fabric with roosters on it and she pointed me in the direction of the Waverly Fabrics along the wall. I found almost the identical fabric for $11 a yard. I have not sewed anything in several years and I do not own a sewing machine. The owner of the fabric store helped me figure out how much fabric I would need and she helped me pick out the thread. I told her I was going home to attempt to sew these curtains by hand. She told me about walk in sewing classes on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evening from 6 to 8 that she runs and how she would help me make the valences. The cost of the class is $10. I was so excited to get started. I went Tuesday night on my way home from work and did all the cutting and some of the sewing. Last night (Wednesday) I went back and did more of the sewing and I am almost done. I may have been done already if I had been doing them on my own but Laurel, the owner of the fabric store, is a bit of a perfectionist and I had lots of opportunities to get acquainted with my seem ripper. If the seem wasn’t just so I had to take it out and do it again. My valances are going to be beautiful when they are done. This is a picture of the material
I’ve met some nice people at the Fabric store in the classes and many of them are working on quilts. That is what I want to do next. So I will add learn how to quilt to my bucket list too.
I want chickens. I imagine that may sound strange to some people but I want to have a few chickens in my backyard. My husband thinks I have gone round the bend and he wants me to explain why I want chickens. I just think it would be cool and the kids will think it’s neat too. I want to get them for Easter weekend as a surprise for the kids. I have been reading as much as I can find on the internet about raising chickens and I have some good ideas about building a small chicken coop. I will be ready by Easter for the chickens to arrive. Now I just have to figure out where to buy them. That’s all for now.
It’s time for me to put my dreams and wishes away and do the work that needs to be done. I am dealing with a difficult situation with my son and he takes up a lot of my energy right now. Be well everyone.
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