This & That

It's been beautiful weather here lately. In the 80's with a nice breeze. Warm enough to get out and enjoy the sun without sweating. Wish it would stay this way all summer but we will soon be using the a/c and feeling uncomfortable while praying for enough moisture to keep the fires away.

Today Jim and I went to the pool and swam and exercised in it. Felt great. Was even better that we were the only ones there so could enjoy the peace and quiet and relax. We used the jacuzzi also. Then we went into the rec. room and played a game of pool which was fun just the two of us.
This evening he is working at the baseball game and I got my haircut.

I've just been keeping busy lately with this & that.............. still watching the boys four days a week, scrap booking, cleaning, reading.
With school almost out for the summer the days will be busier and there will be many trips to the beach, park, pool, museums and anywhere else we can go to keep from going crazy in this tiny house all day!

Jim's loving his job at the baseball games. We go to the gym whenever we can. The rest of the time we are a couple of couch potatoes!

Keeping Up

Just letting everyone know that I haven't left the country.

Haven't been on here for quite a while but no particular reason why. Busy with life.

Sunny here. I'm looking forward to scrap booking this weekend with Lisa. Sarah's CYT performance was wonderful and she is a star. Nathan is the home run king hitting his fifth last night. Ryan is becoming a working man now as an umpire as well as enjoying playing baseball. Kyle is doing well in school and looking forward to soccer season to begin. Conner, well he's just being Conner, adorable and busy. Jim is busy all the time with going to the gym , bowling, helping or watching the kids with their activities, and working his usher job at the baseball games. Eddie is working and busy with his family. Lisa is just busy, busy, busy. Vanessa is turning 30 years old today. Lance is having trouble with his truck and finding affordable transportation. Jim's mom has stepped into that hard to handle phase of life in her 80's. Pepper is fat and happy.
Me, I'm just trying to keep up!

zombie day

Haven't had a lot of exciting news to tell the last couple of days since our trips to zoo.
Today I woke up feeling like a zombie. A dull headache but mostly feel like the victim of Dracula sucking all the life out of me or as though someone had given me a sleeping pill.
This feeling stuck to me like glue the entire day no matter how I tried to ignore it. I even tried to deal with it by lying on the couch in hopes of a catnap but then insomnia seemed to have taken a hold of me also!
Just call me a mess and blame it on the weird weather. Cloudy, windy and cool.

So since I plan to spend the rest of the evening with no physical effort of any kind I can play on my laptop!
My daughter started talking about Facebook which she has recently started using. So I got curious. I don't have much of a clue what I'm doing or why but kinda fun to see if there are other people on there that I may know. I'm now a face on the book and even have a few friends that I've gotten notes from that I haven't talked to in years!
If only I'd paid attention many years ago when they first started talking about this "highway in the sky" stuff and had put a few penny's into the stocks...............ugh, $$$ I can dream can't I !

HOT wild animal day

WELL, this was quite the day!

Every spring the Wild Animal Park here has the display of butterflies. It is really neat because you can go inside and there are hundreds of butterflies flying around and will land on you plus it's full of birds and plants.

Lisa and I decided to take the kids today. It was "suppose to be slightly cooler" and we figured it wouldn't be as crowded with spring break over.

As soon as we got there Lisa discovered that there was no camera battery in her camera The one that I have had terrible focus and a battery that died.

We did manage to get these photos before it died.

. Conner was sliding out of the stroller he was so tired and when we took him to see the butterflies he took one look at them and said "all done bunnerfies now" with that quite whiny voice of his that he has when he's tired.

There was the touchy feeling woman that kept poking at the butterflies ON our shoulders even after we asked her to stop touching us.

There was the grumpy old man in the elevator that smelled like he hadn't showered in a month. And there were all the Headstart field trips of kids lined up where ever we went.

The kids loved feeding nectar to the birds.

The kids were decorated with bird poop.

The mommy monkey hung on the fence right in front of us as the baby swung around in a frantic dance before us.

The lion walked straight up the the glass wall in front of their faces.

We left early because it was just way too hot. It was so HOT that we were all red faced with those sparkly sweat beads.

While I'm driving home on the freeway a bird decides to decorate my windshield in front of my face. Soon as I use the wipers to wash that off the truck in front of me shoots a tiny rock straight at me and I watch it as I hear it hit the windshield in front of my face. At least it wasn't big enough to cause a crack.

Conner slept from the time we got in the car until I drove him and Kyle home at 2pm. He was tired.

But I had a really good time because I was with some of my most favorite people on the earth!

spring?

I know there are a lot of people living in rain and snow and cold right now.

Sorry guys but here where I live IT IS HOT.

We don't get enough of that cold or rain here. It just jumps from a short time of cold with some sprinkles to HOT. It's only April and the a/c came on at 4:00pm today.......it was set for 81* . We had all the windows closed with the fans on because it was so hot outside with a lot of wind causing a lot of pollen to fly around.

RIGHT NOW, at 5:20pm Google weather says its 92.8 * outside.

Now don't get me wrong. I like nice weather that is sunny and nice to get out and enjoy. I like going to the pool and the bay or ocean. However, with the pollen and wind it is not comfortable outside. I wouldn't go to the pool, bay or ocean today because I'd get mobbed by the crowd, AND I don't like paying the high electric bills! With it being only April if it does this often by the real summer we will again be so very dry and hot.

So lets make a deal. You guys with all that rain and snow share with us and we will share some of our hot sun with you..........lets leave out the heavy pollen blowing all over the place!

get a goat

So why didn't I listen to my dad many, many years ago!

For YEARS I have not been able to eat cereal or many things that requires liquid milk. It just doesn't agree with me.

Murphy's law comes on board and I also have the beginnings of osteoarthritis/low bone density which means I need more calcium in my diet. The bonus to all this is that if I take the required amount of calcium supplements I get the wonderful side effects that go with those.

My tummy just likes to rumble & crumble too much.

This week a light bulb went off. The subject of goats milk came up when I was talking to my daughter and I realized that my dad used to talk of using goats milk on several occasions to ease an upset stomach.

So while grocery shopping today I got a couple of quarts............yes, quarts. Goats milk is expensive. Seems anything that makes us healthier is expensive.

I also bought some healthy whole grain cereal. I came home and ate cereal for dinner. I haven't been able to eat cereal for many years without an upset stomach to follow.

I enjoyed the cereal and with goats milk my stomach is just GREAT!!!!

So if you can................get a goat!!

Easter-- headache

Well, first of all I'd like to say HAPPY EASTER to everyone.

Especially a thank you to our amazing Lord and the blessings He has given us.

I had a fun evening last night and this morning scrap booking with Lisa and sorted through tons of photos and got a few pages done in an album.

But woke up this morning with congestion and sinuses bothering me and came home this afternoon, fell asleep on the couch and woke up over an hour later with a very annoying headache that feels like it's driving a drill through my left temple. So far none of the pills I've taken have helped.

So I hope everyone has a wonderful blessed day tomorrow and that my headache is gone! :)