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Decorating my yard for spring!!!

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

I love to put out all sorts of lawn ornaments and planters each year in the spring.  I think it adds character and color to my humble home.  I am trying to find something “different” this year.  I get tired of the same old thing year after year.

I asked a friend for her suggestions and she suggested that I get some rain chains.  I had never heard of or seen a  rain chain and asked her what it was.    The chains rain water down from the top creating a beautiful effect.  They are a nice alternative to the old plain jane rain spouts found on most homes.   I looked around at several different websites and found that rain chains come in various sizes and shapes.  I think that a rain chain or two or three would make a great addition to my exterior home decor this year, and help me get out of my winter doldrums.

Time

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

Time, we never have enough, we have too much time on our hands.  It can go either way.  I always seem to be on the short end of time.  I work a full time job, have a puppy at home that is the equivalent of having a 2 year old, clean houses on the side.  I never seem to have enough time to get everything done in a day that I plan to do when my feet hit the floor in the morning.  Even when I was not working full time, I still never seemed to get everything done.  Everything took too much time!!!

 

Moving…glad it’s not me!!!

Sunday, January 15th, 2012

The company that my friend, Linda, works for announced that they are opening a new office in Calgary, Albert Canada and she has been one of the chosen few that can go look at houses for rent in Calgary before she actually has to move and starts work there.

She said that she would call me and we could have coffee and look for a new temporary home for her together.  I love shopping for houses, especially for other people!!  She will be there for 6 months to a year and needs a place to call home. Just a cozy 2 bedroom house with a small yard would be perfect.

I asked her how she was going to find a place to live while she is here in the U.S., and she told me about a website that her company had told those chosen few about, where they could “shop” for homes in Canada right from her own home computer.  Well, pooh. I thought she meant we could take a trip to Canada together and look at houses!

I wish her all the luck in the world and can’t wait to go visit her in our great neighbor to the North.

Electronics, what a pain…

Sunday, January 15th, 2012

My new puppy is growing so fast!  I want to capture every new thing on video and share it with all my friends!!  She is so cute and lovable (most of the time anyway).  As she was doing a new “thing” for the first time yesterday I, of course, had to get it on video.  So, I grabbed my digital camcorder and when I tried to turn it on, the battery was dead.  I had not charged it.  My problem is that I have a limited number of outlets that are accessible to charge all of my electronic “gadgets”.  I needed a USB battery charger so I can plug them all in at the same time in one location (such as my dining room table).  That way I would not have to hunt for each item when I want to use it, trying to remember what room I laid it to charge.

So I hit the good old Internet and low and behold, I found a  site where I could get a USB battery charger!!!    The prices seemed reasonable enough and they had so many items to choose from.  I  I cannot wait until it gets here here, so I can continue to capture Roo’s antics to share with the world.

Post Thanksgiving

Friday, November 25th, 2011

Ugh!!!  I am so stuffed!!!  But really, we had a nice quiet dinner with no company, no house full of people this year.  In fact, we ate out at IHOP on Thanksgiving and only cooked our turkey dinner tonight!!

I couldn’t see spending all day at work stressing over what I could not get done within the short work week and then coming home, taking care of our little Roo and Pooh bear (two cocker spaniels – for those of you who are not familiar with the family yet), and then trying to cook a big dinner, get pies made, etc., just to get frustrated and tired out.  So, I did the pies on Thursday for Friday dinner.  It worked out great!!  I had a 20 lb turkey to cook for two of us, so I froze a lot of leftovers.

I tried something new this year.  I made the stuffing from whole wheat bread, instead of white bread; I made my pie crust from whole wheat flour (a little tougher to roll out) and made sugar free pumpkin pie.  The entire meal turned out to be very tasty.  We did not do the traditional sweet potato pie or scalloped corn, since we are trying to watch our diets a little more closely these days, but we did not feel we missed out on a thing.  The pie was great!!!