Another quiet weekend

TJ played softball on Friday night, 2 games back to back which left him a little sore over the weekend. Being the loving, compassionate, sympathetic wife that I am we spent Saturday out walking around trying to find some softball shorts for him. I figured the walking around would help loosen the poor ol' leg muscles that were, as he put it, "on fire" after he ran to the first base.

No luck on the shorts but we did get a nice walk in around Dick's and the mall. We also checked out the farmers market looking for the best kettle corn in NC. We want to take some with us when to head up to WI for vacation. On Sunday after church and lunch we headed over to the airport in W-S, TJ wanted to see the B-17. You could take a 25-30 min ride for only $430.00 per person, that's right, only $430.00. We didn't take a ride. After that we stopped in on Mark and Brenda to say "hey" and just to check in with them. Brenda's under a very heavy work load so we don't get to hang out with them much. Prayer for her during this time would be appreciated.

<---eating store bought kettle corn from WF, good but not like the other stuff at the farmers market.

<--da plane, da plane

Quiet Weekend

We had a pretty quiet weekend since the weather was a bit to warm to go and play (85). So TJ worked on jeep parts and I did domestic things, clean house, make pancake mix and took a nap. Yup, that's about the extent of our weekend, days of nothingness made for a good time.





The yard is coming along nicely and we hope to have grass back by next spring. There is still new bamboo shoots coming up on the pit side, but we expected this since it's pretty tough stuff & puts a hard fight to the death.......but I think we'll win.

visitors in the night

There are times when I wish we had a full, plush, green yard to run barefoot in. But then things like this happen and I glad it's a natural area for wildlife to come and visit. This is not zoomed in, I could have reached out and gotten my arm chewed off. But I chose not to.

creepy factor & just because

While walking the edge snipping off bamboo shoots I saw this spider and it took awhile before I realized it has babies on it's back. It was very interesting watching the babies dart around the ground then come back and catch a ride. I watched for awhile then it just started to give me the hebegebes since I HATE spiders.

I have yet to see any lizards this year but I know they're around. I'm guessing it's the blue tailed skink.

Uncle Sams got your back.................

They changed the verbiage on the site on Aug 3rd and said it was a poorly-worded privacy statement. Yeah right. I've lost the video when added the comment but if you are interested here's the video......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWs12ccbOiE

Cat Chow, not just for cats

Makes him happy

TJ has come across many great finds in his job, a gas grill, a sterling silver tray from Germany, landscape lights, air compressor, bedding sets in new condition, skill saws, table saws and now this. It amazes me what people throw away.

Recycling is for the birds

The humming birds that come to our feeder are always fighting and spend more time chasing each other away than actually feeding. I wanted to put out more feeders but don't have the $$ for that. So I checked out the designs on different home-made web-sites to see what kind of ideas are out there but didn't care of any of them. So I came up with my own idea.












Clean out pill bottle, drill small hole on top, paint top with red then outline the hole with yellow.


TADAAAAH