Rambling and Evil Knievel

I pulled an acre of weeds this morning.  My fingernails look it.

There are a few volunteer trees growing around our fences and deck that need a saw, but that will be another day.  Our air conditioner needed to get sprayed down as the house yesterday was a swelter, so I was disgusted by the time I walked around the house to look at that and got sidetracked with the overgrowth.  If I do this every day for a week, I'll have a week of disgust, but a tidy yard...

Don't know if I can hack it.

I did some sewing last night!  I'm trying to make a mirror image of an oldie but loved top of mine that looks like this.

Actually it IS this top...  

It's been mistakenly tossed in the dryer a few times and has some pillage, but I still wear it on occasion.  I know people look at it and wonder... "Didn't she wear that to my daughter's wedding TWO years ago??!"  "It is SO five or six years old, isn't it??"  

Eh - I love it.  So I've got a ton of fabric to try it out.  The outer part is going to be a woven silky stuff with a tee-shirt front inside.  The neckline alone is flumoxing me and we haven't even GOTTEN to the side seams or waist twist yet.  We'll see.

I've also got eight of the mattress chunks sitting around the house getting Leon in all sorts of trouble and early bed times.  "LOOK GRANDMA!!!  If I jump from the railing up there, I'll bounce off the four stacked up cushions and land on the couch!"  

Oh NO YOU WON'T!!!!  GET DOWN HERE!

He reminds me of stories my SIL's husband tells of his youth on a farm and adventures of making his own parachutes and trying them out from the barn loft door.

I'm such a spoil sport.  And yet my grandson is still alive... :)  Good!

I need to do something with these cushions before I'm told to pitch them...

AND looking forward to seeing Maddy and Matthew this weekend!  Not sure if they'll try out our new "guest" room (recently emptied out by Meri) or Leon's room, which has poop sheets on the bed. I guess I'll be changing the sheets anyway, but can always wash these and pop them back on if I want to shock them!

Leon loves them and whatever keeps him in his own bed, I'm all for it!  

Ok - enough ramble...  ON WITH THE DAY!  Have a good one!  

Scratching Post News

And now from the Scratching Post News team!  

* The traffic is congested on puppy garage lane.  Tip... wear long pants if you plan to dilly dally anywhere along the route and be prepared to trip over a few puppies and then run to your door as they gallop after you...

* When I was a little girl and we moved to an old farmhouse in the country, we had some chickens and roosters.  I want to say geese, but that's not right...  The house was very old and had some cement steps in the front lawn that went basically no where.

The chickens and rooster would chase us and if we ran up those stairs they'd cackle and claw around at the bottom of them just waiting for us to come back to them. Little did they know we could easily run around the back of the house and escape, but it was pretty fun to make them chase us.

Not so with THESE little puppy monsters!  My legs are a bloody mass of scratches...

* In other news, I found my camera!  It had fallen out of the diaper bag onto the floor in Robb's car. WHEW!  Since the fall in the bouncy house, it has been acting kind of funky, but I think I can fix it.  It still works, just funkily...

* Also in other news, we attended ANOTHER Awards night with Maddy last night.  She got some academic awards and a couple scholarships!  Not nearly enough for a full ride, but hey!  Every little bit helps and if you want something bad enough, you need to work for it, right?

* Meri got all lined up for her summer babysitting gig and it looks like it will be a good one!  She's excited!

* Got some bad news yesterday that will probably throw me into a depression for the rest of the summer.  In some ways it's good because I know the trends...  but by nature am a worrier.  God has helped us in the past and will continue, so I will accept whatever He wants us to go through.  It will all work toward good...  But going through bad is always painful.

* I think I'm losing weight.  And the only reason are those puppies...  I can't sneak into the house for snacks as often as I'd like!! 

* I should really wear long pants.