MAY TUESDAY

[Nasoosie]

GOOD TUESDAY MORNING TO ALL!

I checked the Ruckus responses in the ORS GTG room before I got on here, and, so far, it's looking as if it will actually happen, even with the horrendous gas prices! In fact, there are quite a few of you who will be coming, and I am really looking forward to seeing some of you again, and meeting Anita for the first time! (Carol, beware of leaflets three!) I am already getting excited thinking about being back home and preparing for the annual event. I really need to whiplash myself into working on my website now, to update that and make it usable! After my yard chores this morning, I will go there and see what I can do with it.

I bought some more edging yesterday at WalMart, and 4 more bags of mulch to make my new adders' tongues plantings look neater. When I finish this morning, I'll take some pics of the new job along the side of my house. Then I will head to the pool to cool off, and then come back here to do the website work. Right now it's coffee time and reading the messages from yesterday. I hope you all are recovering from the tornadic stuff, getting ready for a new camping season if you live in an area where the winter has broken and spring has sprung, and finding fun stuff to do.

Happy Tuesday in May to us all!

[AlmostThere]

Morning!
I can imagine you are getting homesick for your mountain home, Soos, but am so happy that you enjoyed your first Winter in FL!

My niece left late yesterday. It was nice to have her if only for 2 days. She is very easy to be with. I had a great visit with her. She and her friend are leaving, as I type, to drive to the OR coast and then down to the redwoods in CA.

Sunday was almost too warm, yesterday was cloudy and sprinkles on and off, this AM back to rain and in the 40s right now. There has to be an ending to all this goofy weather, right?

Well, I need to get my day going. I have an appt with the lawyer this AM. I will be glad when this 'estate' business is finalized.

Sarah, thinking of you this AM, and the other tornado survivors.

Hugs and blessings to all of you!

[jemek]

Good Morning...

My trailer is still in winter mode. It has been too cold and wet this spring and I have not been down there in about a month. I want to but the lack of spring..has not put in the camping mood. That and baseball season...LOL DS, Zeke (14) is playing his last year of Pony Baseball and next year it will be High School Baseball. Seems weird in a way..for all these years he has done club sports, now it off to school sports. Which seem to start right up as soon as school gets out. We have all the "summer training stuff and camps information. Norm was called and asked to be one of the assistant coaches for the Freshman Football Team...I am a football widow and the season is still months away. As they start planning in the Spring..so now he has coaches meetings 2 nights a week for the next month or so. Then weight training in the summer, he took the Thursday shift. I have to say..he is blessed with a flexible boss who is supporting him. He only works 4-10's, so he can make up missed hours on Friday.

Kodie started T-ball this year. It is the Little Rookies program through the YMCA, she is actually on a team with 5-6 year olds and it is totally for the fun of the game. I think it will be good for her to work on her physical motor development, we try to find creative ways to get her to work on those things.

Mychal (17) is trying out for the High School Cheer Squad..she will only do Football Cheer as she does gymnastics and that overlaps with basketball. She has tryout's on Wed, but they had practice last night and will again tonight. Then they find out after school on Thursday.

Ethan my 20 year old...finished up at the community college in March on his transfer degree and was accepted to Western Washington University and will start there summer quarter. He is working a temp job right now at the local refinery.

ME...well I keep busy keeping up with the kids schedules. I did join a group called Bellingham Freezer Diva's. We meet once a month and swap freezer meals. Each person brings 6 meals (all the same). Then we do this round robin type thing. You take turns selecting other meals. So you go home with 6 different meals. Plus I now make 2-3 recipes every two weeks. It is nice knowing that dinner is done and taken care of 4-5 days a week. We have a menu that we plan, I check it before I go to bed and make sure the next days meal is pulled out of the freezer and placed in the fridge if it needs to be defrosted, some don't..some can go start from freezer to oven/grill/etc. I admit I have tried this before and failed and that was in part, because of a lack of a good resource and trying to double batch cook my own meals. Now I have this great book..called Fix, Freeze and Feast.

Well I should get off here..and get to cleaning up some things before the day gets to busy.

Thinking about the storm survivors and hope they can soon get back on their feet. Looking forward to planning some camping trips.

We will gain a son this summer for a month. We will have an exchange student from Spain.

[Nasoosie]

Kristy, your schedule exhausts me just reading about it! And yet, even with your already large family, you are taking on an exchange student? WOW! You have more gumption than I ever had! Hope your spring actually shows up soon----I've heard it's been a very wet and cold spring out there so far.

[dayspring39]

It is afternoon here my how time flies when you are having fun! and I have been trying to show everyone what the day is like here in Normal... this is not a picture of our sky but one that looks like what we have today... now if old sol will push away the clouds we may reach the high 50s today...
I trust each will have a wonderful day... I have spent far to much time with this...
Kathleen