oh life.......... I just have to laugh!!

I know I have already blog today but I just had to tell you about supper tonight!! Well let me first explain that my oven is SO old. I have to relight it every time I use it. So tonight I decided I was going to fix baked chicken, mashed potatoes, and broccoli. One more small detail I should mention it was the first meal I had ever made for my father-in-law. Well like I said the oven is very old and sometimes decides to just cook slower. Well the chicken was done 25 min late, than when I opened the microwave the bowel of broccoli fell out and all over the floor right in front of Josh and his father. Well we finally got to the supper table and all was good. We just had green beans so we still got our color. Just a memory made!!

cold hot cold hot:-(

This has to be the hardest and most annoying time of the year. It's freezing cold in the morning and I can't think of anything but to somehow get my feet warm. By afternoon I have the windows open and the air conditioner fan on. It tough on the throat, hard on the ears, but I'm sure it's going to be a wonderful winter!! Well its 141 days, 14 days, 45 min till spring!!!

Shop shop shop!!!!

Today me and my dear Friend, Christy decided to go shopping. Of course we went to all second hand stores and Walmart. To make to very long story much shorter, we were very lucky. You see my kitchen is decorated with bird houses but since I had been unable to find any bird houses my kitchen was simply plain!! That is till today, we were about to leave when I noticed one place that I had not been, and that is when I hit the gold mine!! I found 4 bird houses for $2.50 total (sorry for the details I just love good deals). They all needed re-painting but everyone knows that is fun!!

Well now they are all dry and ready to hang and I'm so very happy about that!!!

Oct 15

Today is Wednesday..... We are going to Mode retreat on Friday..... I'm already almost finished packing..... I think I'm just alittle excited!!!!!

busy mind!!

Tonight I sat at a stop light and began to think. I was about 15 min from home yet I could have taken any of the other 3 routes and ended up at home. If I had turned right I would have ended up taking the busy interstate. If I would have gone straight I would have gone through town, with many stop lights through a rough area of town. And if I would have gone left I wound have to take the curve road through the trees than follow it along the river. Non of these were "right of wrong" it simply was different. Well that made me think about life and the many choices we have to make. When I have to choose which way to go to reach my final destination. One way may end up very busy, fast pass, never stopping like the interstate. Another may lead through risky roads that I would have to trust nothing jumped into my path, Any yet another could lead through rough times and have many stops. Non right of wrong just different. But we will never know what the route is going to hold until we take it. I had to stop and wonder which route I had/was choosing. No one else in at the same place so we each must choose for our self.

Sorry to ramble I was just thinking and decided to blog:-) And for you all who need the end of the store I chose to turn left!!

Hmmmm

"You only feel the thorns when you stop running. So you must keep going." from the movie Amazing Grace

Just a thought

"Each life affects the other and the other affects the next" from the movie "Five People you will meet in Heaven"

Happy day Happy day!!!

I decided that I was going to loose my little mind if I didn't get some sort of nature into my house. Dog, cat, plant, fish, hamster, rabbit, bird... etc. Well we aren't allowed to have any pets in the apartment so that removes dogs, cats, rabbits, hamster. Well that leaves fish, bird, and plants. Well I have limited sunlight so that removes plants. That leaves fish and bird. I don't like to change fish water cause it smalls bad. So that leaves birds. All that so say today I went and bought 2 parakeets!! Words can not explain how wonderful it is to hear birds singing while it is raining out side and the grass is know brown! Any help with their names...............????

Quartet!!

Today Josh's quartet sang. There was a stage set up at a park and about 5 groups sang. It was a great day to hear them sing again and to get to see Christy again!

Christy's brother Joe came along! Lucas and Rachel.... crazy Ryders:-)

Some of them wanted to go play on the toy set... I said no. You should be proud dad!!

The guys wanted to get me in the tank but notice the color of the water..... no way!!