School Bound

Sydney and I both start school within the next 2 weeks, he starts kindergarden and I start Paramedic classes. Sydney is excited about it as well as I am. Tired nights are in store for the next year as school, work, Sydney and Jim will all need tending to. I honestly think that Jim will not survive it. He is very demanding, more so than Sydney.

Summer Heat

It's hot and I know somewhere they are sizzling eggs on a sidewalk. My garden is brown but the weeds in the back yard were green and 40 feet tall. It took 2 days to mow the yard down since we do it by self propelled mower. We took a break after being outside for 10-15 minutes at a time. Inside for a half an hour. Were is the rain? Were is the snow? Where is my pillow? The heat drains my every being.

Happy Fourth of July

Jim and I watched a movie tonight. It was a good chick flick,a sniffle here and there from the both of us. We tried to watch the movie as Sydney kept coming in and asking for us to go "Fireworking" as Jim bought him a few Roman Candles and colored sparklers. After the movie I sprayed each of us down with bug spray. Jim lit one candle and Sydney went screaming for the back yard gate. The fire scared him. I hate the noise. There was enough smoke in the air from neighbors fireworks to eliminate any bug, critter or any creatures that lurk in the night away for miles into the countryside for the next 2 days. And humidity. Did I mension I hate the heat? We come in the house and turn on the weather channel, a trip next week had me interested in the states that I will be going to. I hear,"Seattle having trouble getting out of the 60's". I was internally screaming,"WHY DID I EVER LEAVE THE COOLNESS OF WASHINGTON?"

What Constitutes A Trail Mix?

Now I like to think that every once-in-a-while I give Sydney something good to eat for snacks. But this my parental friends this is a great one for adults. Who cannot resist graham cracker cookies shaped like a bee, yummy miniature chocolate bears with cute belly buttons and yogurt covered raisins? And do not forget the mini pretzels either.
Sydney and I ate this on our last trip, one box and one hour later......going going gone. Now all that is missing is the M&M's.
This is one that is great for anyone who can chew the raisins, numbing with the gums is only allowed with persons over the age of 30.

Summer Heat Before The Flowers Fade

It's 4pm, 92 degrees, and muggy. I looked outside my front room window and admire the beautiful plants that are in flowering mode. Not pink, not blue, but an array of colours to cheer up my headache (I believe I am allergic to that big orange thing in the sky) I have much to do in the yard and feel no need to sweat when the air in the house feels too good right now. Maybe I can hold off for a few hours and work like a mad woman to avoid the Arkansas State Bird.(Mosquito)
When the evening starts to draw near the wonderful purple martins are out in full swing. I counted 6 of them yesterday around my yard. How wonderful they are. Getting the flying bugs in flight is a good thing. If it gets rid of the bugs I don"t mind their early a.m. squawking outside my bedroom window when I have it open.
I did not know it till last year but dragon flyies eat mosquito's! They call them squiter eaters around here.

Cloverfield -movie

Here you go Chester..... Hated the ending, but on the other hand I love anything that destroys New York City!

The Colour Of My Garden

Funky For The Week

What A Spring

Lynn, I see you are all getting hammered by the weather just as we are. Keep safe and let me know how you are all doing.
I ordered my transcripts from the few colleges that I have attended and had them sent to my local community college. I am applying for the Paramedics program there. First I have to be accepted into the class. Hopefully my gray hair and pissy attitude won't be tooooo much of a deterrent and I can gracefully make my presents known again on a local campus.
Jim and I got the garden tilled up and planted corn, green bush beans and put potato eyes in a few truck tires. Everything has came up already without a hitch. I put in garlic and Walla Walla Sweet with Texas sweet onion sets in and they are standing tall already. With the price of everything going up, including food; it just makes good since to put in a garden more than ever before. Even Sydney has gotten to know that you cannot step on the rows.

It's Been Forever

Hello from sleepy land.
Seems these days that whenever I get time off I am running around not doing the things that I really need to get done around the house.
Last week I bought a new/used 2007 Chevy Silverado. sniff sniff I will miss my Pathfinder that I have had for the last 7 years. I know that I said I would never buy an American car, we will see how it goes............trust me when I say that I have never had any luck other than a Nissan vehicle. It is a 2007 demo, 6,000 miles, loaded with everything accept the power seats, So I paid 27,000.00, my credit was good but not great so I sacrificed the 4.9% to a 7%. The sales man said if my credit was bad then they would have charged me about 15%. So I don't feel so bad with the 7percent.
We just returned from a Clegg family reunion and stopped at home so Sydney could spend the night at the sitters house. I will be working hard for the next few days.
The flooding in this part of the world has been bad. The Mississippi River looks like an ocean.

Hi Everyone

What a few weeks it has been. Work, trip to San Antonio----see my other blog
and with two days I had off I went to Wynne with Jim and Sydney, then today I worked most of the day on phone calls, fax machine work and letter writting for Jim on the identity theft cases we are working on.
Sydney has been good these days but is very much a 5 year old. He loves to learn and I try to accomidate it. I am on Jims lap top right now and will have to scan the pictures to my computer later. I had 3 rolls of film plus my digital camera. Lots of pictures of SanAntonio, Dallas, and Arlington Texas. There are pictures of Sydney in there also.
I had a problem with Norton AntiVirus. It KILLED my computer!!!!I had AT&T work on it. Said Norton would not even let me on the internet!!! No kidding, that is why I spent 139.00 to have them tell me that. Then I could not even get Norton off my computer. I had to take it into a computer store in Wynne, AR, Mathewson's Computer Repair. He saved all my files to 3 disks- man my book I'm writting is long!- Then he had to wipe everything off. But guess what? Norton would not budge! It destroyed 2 cards in my computer.Another 220.00 later, my computer is home and I have STOP SIGHN on it, I was told that it was the best protection for my computer. So heads up!

Been Too Lazy Lately

Well I have been somewhat busy around the house taking the opprotunity to clean up the yard after my butt has had a few cups of coffee after I awaken. I'm sorry Lynn I had not responded to your e-mails, forgive me, I had not been on the computer taking the time to spend the nice spring days outside before the heat of summer sets in. And then there is work. I worked a few days last week so that also did not allow for pewting time. I saw a movie advertised and went to Wally World and spent my hard earned tax check on a movie called August Rush. My love for music made this a hit. Jim cried, yeah, it's a 1 hanky on a 5 hanky scale. A wonderful movie for the family and reminded me of Mr Holland's Opus.


I have to leave town again to do some more work and will chat again after I have gotten some sleep from my journey's as usual.

Sydney and Frost The Snow Man

Yesterday was a snow filled, short of a winter blizzard for my neck of the woods in Arkansas. While I was at work Jim and Sydney built a snow man. Sydney was upset that once the hat was on the head of the snowman that it did not come to life. What an imagination that boy has.

Our First Snow in 2 Years

It was 70 degrees yesterday, today's high of 38, and tomorrow is to be 60+ degrees.

Dry Wall Going Up

Funky For The Week

New Attic Ladder

Jim and I were collectively removing the old attic ladder, it snapped shut. My left hand was caught by the metal, my right hand caught by the wood enclosures. Jim's left hand was caught. I moaned and cried in pain, Jim was yelling,"I can't get free", I managed to use my thumb on the right side to lift the sprung wood and lifted it up to pry my fingers out. I grabbed the left side that enclosed my fingers and lifted the metal. I helped Jim free his left hand opposite of me. I ran to the kitchen sink and immurced my withered fingers in the icy water. My fingers were numb and the cold watered burned. I can sympathize with the "KNUCKLE TORTURE". I wrapped my left hand in an ice bag immediatly while Jim held his hand under the cold water. His wedding ring saved his finger, my wedding ring caught by the metal was bent and my finger began to swell around it. The Marquise setting was now 1/2 flattened, destroyed. Knuckles are sore to touch today but we survived.

Trip

I enjoyed my trip last week and got to relax somewhat. Sydney ended up getting a sinus infection from running around in the cold air. Right now his nose is red and sore from the constant blowing and wiping of the massive snot that the little 5 year old can produce. (Buckets and buckets of it!)
If it were not for me having to return to work I would have stayed longer. But bills must get paid, dogs must be tended to, and the complete udderly mess from construction must continue.
Mom called me to let me know that they were on their way to pick up grandma (Dad's mom) from Vegas, she is coming to live with them. She is going to be 90 years old in September and needs the care of family now as she is not able to get around like she use to.
Donna and Brenna are moving in this year so that Brenna can finish out her high school year on the mainland (She is in Alaska), I guess the -40+ degree weather in Alaska is just a little to cold for them to concider a permanant spot after Rick retires from the Air Force.

Loving Labels Again

Thanks Lynn For The Video