Only a few more months and hopefully I will be sitting in the not warm sun over at my sister’s house enjoying their new pool. And what a nice pool this is, they did good on this one, I have to give them that. They got a great deal on their “dream pool” that has all the perks you can think of. My favorite part is the heated spa area which is semi attached to the regular pool. Another great feature is the automatic pool cover which will save them a lot of time, energy and aggravation for many years to come. There is a lot to having a pool, so glad they will deal with all of that while get to kick back and just enjoy it all.
All they need now is some great patio furniture. Now that Christmas is over and done with we are all keeping our eyes and ears open for a good deal on some to pass along to them. I hope they realize just how much the rest of the family is excited about the pool and how much time they will be spending there. It’s a good thing we all get along so well, so it should be a hoot!
All of the hard work and rushing around paid off for this year’s Christmas with the family. My favorite gift today were the yoga mats that my brother and his new bride picked out for me. They knew what I wanted and made sure that I got exactly that. They enjoyed the video camera that I gave to them as well. It works out so much better when you communicate and get people things that really want and/or need instead of some crappy generic gift that will most likely be re-gifted at the first opportunity.
Yesterday turned out to be a pleasant enough day outside. I got to enjoy it in many parking lots, walking from my car into the stores and back again. My son joined me and we managed to spend some good one on one time with each other, he got use some of his gift certificates that he got for his birthday last week and we even stopped at the park so he got to play on the new playground equipment for a good while. I sat at the newly installed Picnic Tables, which are a bit more comfortable then the hard Park Benches that have been there for way too long and I got to read a little more of my book and he got to use up some energy on the playground.
It is supposed to be unusually warm this up coming week, but cloudy and rainy, but that is O.K. we really need the rain and it is better than being freezing cold and snowing! I a so ready for spring, I am not a winter loving person at all.
I am looking forward to spring so that hubby and I can start preparing our veggie garden out in the backyard again. Last year wasn’t the greatest, we learned a lot from it and hope that we will do much better and that our harvest will much more plentiful. My favorite was the cantaloupes, they take up a lot of space in the garden, but if we do it right this year it will be wonderful.
I have always wanted a Telescope. I remember putting Telescopes on my Christmas wish list each year and never woke up once on a Christmas morning to find one under the tree. I gave up asking for one years ago, but I’m thinking that this year I just might start asking again, stranger things have been known to happen.
I have been getting some inquiries from some family members as to what I plan to do this year for Thanksgiving and Christmas, it is always a mad house trying to figure out who is doing what and who is going where, kinda takes a lot of the fun and excitement out of the holidays trying to keep everyone happy and keeping feelings from being hurt. I’ve also been asked for gift suggestions from a few but have had to say that I really didn’t have any at this point. But now I know that I can ask for one of the nice dobsonian telescopes that I’ve been looking at on a site that has the most wonderful and affordable telescopes for sale at Skiesunlimited.net.
A friend sent me this last night, it’s one of those that you don’t know is fact or fiction, but it certainly is a curiosity.
During a private “fly-in” fishing excursion in the Alaskan wilderness, the chartered pilot and fishermen left a cooler and bait in the plane. And a bear smelled it. This is what he did to the plane.
The pilot used his radio and had another pilot bring him 2 new tires, 3 cases of duct tape, and a supply of sheet plastic. He patched the plane together, and FLEW IT HOME!!!
I’ve been thinking about Christmas and what I am going to do about getting presents for the family. Things have been very tight for every one this year, much like last year and the year before, sigh. One thing that I think my folks would like would be a membership to the Good Sam Club which offers a great rv travel emergency package. My parents have owned a RV for many years and are always hitting the road to some where when they feel the urge and it would make me feel much better if I were to know that if they ran into trouble on the road that they would be taken care of. My Dad isn’t getting any younger and isn’t always able to fix things the way that he used to.
I’m so glad to hear that the movement that has been growing to make more girl games available for the young female population of online game players has finally made a difference. I know that while I was growing up it was a real pain in the rear to try and find games that would appeal to girls like me, except maybe Ms. Pac Man, and how many times can you play that without going totally out of your mind?
The other day I ran across a site http://www.easygirlgames.comthat was jammed pack full of girlie girl games like, dating games, kissing games, make-up games, dress up games, make over games, fashion games, cooking games and games for Barbies and Bratz lovers as well, which I thought was pretty darned cool. I have a niece that just turned 11 last month that I sent an email to with the link to this site in case she wasn’t aware of it all ready. She is a good kid, an only child that spends a lot of time on her laptop and loves playing games so I hope that she will enjoy the huge variety of these girl games that they have listed there for girls just like her.
Last year I went to my first high school reunion, only because my best friend insisted that I go with her because she didn’t want to go alone. It was more fun then I expected and I’m looking forward to the next one that will be coming up in a few years.
We first all met at the school and attended the football game against our biggest rival. It was fun but my rear end got really cold sitting on those darned aluminum bleachers. We had to use the bathroom and decided to go into the school and find the bathrooms and see all the changes that have taken place through out the years that have been done to the place since our last time being in there. Funny how much smaller those steel lockers looked after such a long time. but then again from what I understand most schools are now installing the small locker to accommodate the larger population of students that they are now teaching. I don’t see how anyone can fit all the things necessary to put in your locker, especially come winter when you have so many extra things that you have to wear and then store in your locker. But then we didn’t use back packs back then so I’m guessing a lot of the stuff that we used to store in our lockers are now being carried in their back packs.
It’s too bad that we lost the football game, but that didn’t hamper our spirits for very long. It ended up being a really great time and now I have re kindled several old friendships, most of them are on Facebook which is so cool!
