Hi Kay, so nice to hear from you. Please drop in as often as you can.G00D MORNING!!!!
I"ve FINALLY managed to log in!!!
I've missed this place! My 3 in1 puter died on me a while back and I've had to get used to this laptop one. "course, the fact that I now have Alheimers doesn't help any...
It's been gloomy weather here in Mi. for a month or so..along with a lot of rain...I WANT SUNSHINE!
I also want a good looking man...oh well..I can't have every thing
It blows my mind that a cell phone can take pictures in the dark without a flash and they turn out. That is just a few of the bushes. He trimmed 22 today. I have a bunch more but I told him not to worry about them. Most of what is left are the English boxwoods. I think they grow 1 mm a year and looked fine. 
My gosh, I bet you thought I would not have anything to write about since dad's passing. Sadly. . . you were wrong. Hope y'all don't mind me sharing so much.
Nope. That's the kind of thing I log in for (since I don't do much, myself).
Thank you, your recommendation sealed the deal. With a couple of coupons on Amazon, I got the Kindle edition for around $6.00.
I love hearing what's happening in your life and yesterday certainly sounds like it was very satisfying. Good for you! Feels good to get all that stuff done and kudos to Jay for showing up to help you. Always more fun to have some company to make the work go easier.I said something last week to my friend about I needed to trim my boxwoods because dad only did one this summer. Today, my friend called and asked if he could come over. When he pulled up he had all the stuff to trim my bushes. I am not sure if that means he likes me or not but I sure did appreciate it. I don't think he expected me to get out there with him and work just as hard as him. I blew all the trimmings away from the house, weed-eated, and raked them up. Then I bagged the trimmings and put them in my burn barrel. The bushes look awesome! I just went out in the pitch dark just now and took a picture.
View attachment 983120 It blows my mind that a cell phone can take pictures in the dark without a flash and they turn out. That is just a few of the bushes. He trimmed 22 today. I have a bunch more but I told him not to worry about them. Most of what is left are the English boxwoods. I think they grow 1 mm a year and looked fine.
Then my friend gave me a lesson on the Exmark. I have been watching dad for a long time so I really knew what to do just not how to do it. I drove it for a little way and it feels weird but Jay assures me that once I get used to it that I will love it. We will see. If I don't, I'll sell it and buy myself a John Deere. heehee
To get it out of the shed, I had to move a big chipper and I told him dad said it was not working. Jay started messing with it and asked me if I knew where dad had some engine starter. I told him no but I knew where the lighter fluid was. He laughed and shook his head. He said he couldn't believe I knew that. Dad taught me that when I was working on his chainsaw. Come to think of it, dad taught me quite a lot. I hope I was a good son to him! heehee
Yay! Now my chipper works. He took home a lawn vacuum. He was going to clean it up and see if he could get that running for me. He knows some landscapers so maybe he can sell it for me. I will never use it.
You may think I am crazy (I imagine you have already confirmed that suspicion) but I had more fun today than I did last weekend when he took me to that party. I had a wonderful day and did not even have to shave my legs.
My gosh, I bet you thought I would not have anything to write about since dad's passing. Sadly. . . you were wrong. Hope y'all don't mind me sharing so much.
I am hoping I will sleep more than 4 hours tonight. Fingers crossed. Hope everyone is ready for Fri-YAY.
My BIL bought a lot of Disney movies on tape thinking they'd be valuable someday and they were all sent to us. Well, that didn't work out too well. Our tape player hasn't worked for years and we couldn't even give them away!I think today I am going to finish disposing of the VHS tapes that are under the bed. For some reason, for which I have not figured out, my mom liked to tape movies. I did not have much room in my garbage can so I could only get rid of 150 of them. I just happen to be putting them in stacks of 25 so I can count them, which I know is just as ridiculous as taping movies that you will never watch again. heehee She took it to another level too. She would cut out the description and most of them, a picture that I know appeared in the TV Guide. Other than the bible, that was the most sacred book in our house.
After reading my plans for the day, it sounds like a lot more fun to get the mower out. I probably will not be as nervous when no one is watching me and it is the only way I am going to figure out if I need to start doing research on a regular residential lawn mower with a steering wheel.
Happy Friday all.
Oh, I still have all the Disney tapes and other movies she bought. I called a couple of nursing homes thinking they may want them. I even offered the player with it but no one was interested.
I just think they are neat. I am having fun going through stuff which is a good thing because I have a lot of stuff yet to go through. heehee
Those are really interesting. Never saw that shape before. Do they work?
They were behind the boxes of clothes she wouldn’t let me toss. She wanted to go through them first, so I took them upstairs. She didn’t want any of them, but wants my nieces to look through them in case they want them. Spoiler alert - THEY WON’T. I’ll end up either throwing them away or taking them to Goodwill (if they’re in good enough shape). Then she argued with me about throwing away a broken barstool and a box of old, ratty stuffed animals and I gave up for the day. I am trying to be patient, but sometimes I just have to walk away. I managed to throw some other junk away while she wasn’t looking, but she keeps a pretty close watch because she knows what I’m up to. LOL. It’s a slow process, to say the least.
