Hi Dear Friends,
Congrats on your award, GB!
You are freebie-finder-and-poster of the month on here....and all we can do is give you measly stars......LOL Hope the baby is feeling better.
I haven't been on here a lot lately....seems like I don't have much enthusiasm for doing anything that I normally do but the time sure does go somewhere....
Had the county vector out here a few days ago.....it had been a long time since they had set some poison out in their little cannisters...the poison is this lt. green waxy stuff that the rats scrape off and eat.....if you let the cannisters stay empty, sometimes birds build nests in them.. (I usually set a lot of poison out that I buy at a farm industrial place in a town that is quite far from here---it's very hard to find in California....it's very potent...not cheap either and it's gobbled up every night). Our taxes pay for the vector, but I just don't get around to calling them a lot....
We had a last minute open house last Sunday......it wasn't advertised, and we live behind gates, so we took our chances...(our agent is going to be gone to Chicago for a week, so we wanted to try to squeeze one in at the last minute. Nobody in her 'circle' can hold one for us while she is gone, so we are outa luck....)...but somebody here had had an advertised open house, so there was a bit of traffic to our house, too.....nothing worth reporting though..... We've had interest lately, but interest is not good enough..
We had a lot of unexpected heat last week and I nearly lost my flowers that I planted a month or so ago....I watered like crazy.. And now, it's chilly.
Ketabcha, I don't envy you during November..... I've had months like that...and my best friend's August is like that...people can't help when they are born, but too-busy social calendars can wear a person out....
I can NOT believe that we will be in this house for another Christmas.....our '2nd daughter' lives in the guest room and that is where all my holiday stuff is stored....she has so much stuff crammed into that closet and each week it gets worse.....it makes me mentally and physically ill just thinking about what it is going to take to get to decorations....I feel so drained with all of it.....
On the upside, the plane reservations have been made for our girl to fly home on 12/17, right after her finals....she'll have a layover in Salt Lake City....she's been in quite a few countries, quite a few airports, but this will be her first time in an airport without us...(on the way back, she'll fly a different route and will change planes in Seattle). She has notified all her local pals and is on the countdown on her facebook. She will spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend's family, who live in a small resort town, (Polson), about an hour from Missoula......Polson is by Flathead Lake, very popular for fishing, camping, boating, etc. I'd rather have her here with us, but they are a nice family and she goes there frequently...it helps to get away from the confines of the dorm room....the boyfriend seems to mutually adore her and he makes her laugh....(she's a serious type of person, so laughter is good for her). He has plans to fly here to see her and meet us when she is here during her break...he has never been to California, so I think they are cooking up plans to go to Disneyland, etc.
She will turn 21 on 12/11, just a few days before finals begin. Not being with her is really depressing me..... In
good weather, it took us almost 2 days to get there, (driving). I have thought of flying in and surprising her, but I really don't want to be taking up a lot of her time over a long weekend right before finals begin.....and she will fly home a week later, so... The school has some sort of package deal where you can order your kid a cake, etc......I'll be doing that and it wouldn't surprise me if she spends part of her birthday with the boyfriend's family....(the 11th is on a Saturday).... I'm glad they are there for her, but I'm still pretty down about it.... When you only have one kid and you are close, this kind of thing is extremely hard....
I got a flu shot a few days ago in Costco.....one of the questions on the form, (and I didn't see it, so the guy had to ask me out loud): am i pregnant? hahahahahaha!
None of my pants fit that I bought 2 years ago.....I am trying to get back into them....it's hard....so depressing..... I snuck some cookies last night....Pepperidge Farm snickerdoodles.....gobbled them right up while I was watching The Good Wife.
Out of all the new shows, seems like we like Blue Bloods and Hawaii 5-0 the best.....or at least those are the ones we try to see. He has set up the tv to record other shows that I like, but I don't know how to work the danged clicker for the tivo stuff, (it's not tivo, it's through our cable company), so I haven't seen any.....he showed me a time or two, but since I never do it, I can't remember what he demonstrated.....I'm sure it's not hard, but I can't get around to doing it......especially when I am spending my spare time reading a book....
A good friend came into town and stayed with us this week....he's about the best house guest I've ever had...never makes a mess...even asks if he should strip the bed before he leaves... He was just here for one night and the gang of guys went out to dinner and the next morning, they all met down at the harbor, took a walk and then ate breakfast out, so no worries for me in the kitchen...
Hope everybody has a good, safe day.....keep doing your exercises, Camper....
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