Who would have thought?

Who would have thought THIS is worth $105? NOT me!!

Flowers

My what pretty teeth you have

Just look at those 12 year molars on their side. Yikes!!
Yep they have to go. Poor Angela.

The good news? The surgeon is backed up until July to even look at her. Then it takes another week to schedule surgery.

It's official

Angela is FIVE FOOT FIVE!!!

sucks to be me....

I went to a scrapbooking event a few weeks ago and low and behold LOST my blade holder for my craftrobo...do you KNOW what it costs to replace one?
$105.00 plus tax and shipping... shoot me now!!

Flowers.

Tried to get the succulent , the carnations AND the amaryllis is the picture.... Score! The amaryllis should open all the way soon!!


Wisteria love it!!


Looking GOOD this year!!


Veggies. This is spinach


Radish and cilantro


Carrots


Verbena and phlox.... Love the red!


Kangaroo ears


Daisy. Love love love daisies!!

Prom

I'm having home computer issues. More photos when the network is back up!! I'm glad I took ONE with my phone to make sure to have one to send to Sally and Butch.

Ok, internet back up after pulling the plug on the poor thing... plugging it back in ... repeat... repeat... repeat... it's finally got itself together again :)

 Putting on her mask

 All dressed up!

 The mask was slipping...

 Alec brought a gift of earrings to match her outfit.

 

 yes, they are friends just hanging out and going to prom together :)

 Two peas in a pod!

How does your garden grow?

Girls in a park...oh wait, that's my yard...I love my yard!!!


They're being artists ;)


How does your garden grow..
Love my verbena!! I need more RED... Now to find it!!


I have no clue what this flower is... It came back from last year - when I thought it was dead ;)


Amaryllis is almost is in bloom!! Little carnations in the corner.


Succulents. ;)

Weekend warrior

Although I LOVE living in a non-desert environment living with the pollen is gross. You clean and clean and clean and it just keeps coming!! So this weekend was the patios turn. Did you know pollen when wiped on "plicker" (plastic wicker) makes some mean static? Yep it sure does. I sent part of the morning being shocked. :( I think I'm going to have to wash them this year. Same with the cushions. They won't "beat" clean sigh as I was having yard work done I opted to NOT spread cushions everywhere and went for the blower/rag method for today. It's mostly clean. I had to blow it twice - achoo!


So after all the cleaning I have deemed the pool open!


Looking good HOWEVER I do have a large 10x10 aluminum frame shade for the corner that has the umbrella! Need to put that up, but only after we figure out how to "mount" it to the concrete. Or maybe we'll use water anchors? Who knows.


(Yes, need to stain the deck to be one non clay staines color)


The front is looking wonderful!!


The back makes me think it is time to relax!!


AND I even have a pool boy ;)

Elizabeth's mighty LAME 18th Birthday!

Waiting for Korean dinner!

And Butch's card had this pino. It :)


Liz raked in SERIOUS cash

National Honors Society

36 out of 1875 students (sophomore - senior) were inducted.
First sign the "oath"


Shake the first hand, get your paper


Then book for the exit completely skipping the officers of The local chapter as well as the principle. I was too busy chucking to take pictures ;)

All done!


The reality


Hahaha - she wants THAT excited, just that goofy!

Dad working in the yard

Whoohooo I figured out how to email pictures to the blog now!
A few folks who follow the blog have been asking about Dad and how he's doing. Well this is how he's doing - great! A little slower and still needs the stability of the walker or in this case the tiller :) other than that he's out and abut and mowing the lawn and working in the garden as well as he is able. He's starting physical therapy to stretch his left legs ham string as its tightening up on him...
So doing good!

What happened to the LAST day off?

Well, I guess I really took it off :)
I honestly think I just puttered around the house... I would get up an do something, I would take a break and watch the world go by and repeat.
I know I went through my "crafty projects" in the garage to get them all gathered and tidied up and put the cardboard in the car to take on base to recycle... then found out Mom and Dad could have used it in their garden for weed control under the pavers she wants to put down.  Rats!

Monday Angela was able to check the stats on her try out for High School Color Guard - and (drum roll please) she made it!  Gracie did as well, so they are excited young ladies!

The hot tub was cleaned out by the crew and sand put in the filter - and they made a heck of a mess with the backwash efforts - if you don't put the tube on the overflow it will dig a whole in the yard... guess what they didn't do - even with it sitting right next to the pipe?  Yep - dug a whole, put mud all over the walkway and generally made a mess of the place... I mean come on boys... clean it up!!

Sigh.

The hot tub was then filled and grocery store was visited... cooking even occurred for the 2nd time in the week.  This is an accomplishment anymore!  Spaghetti on Sunday and meatball sandwiches on Monday if you must know - so not really cooking on Monday, but I'll count it anyway!

Today is Tuesday and let's just say that the crap that I left a week ago at work is STILL there, still as deep... and I don't really have a better attitude to deal with it.  Ah, well, it was worth a shot, eh?  The sad thing is I think I made it worse and didn't want to go back at all - come on lotto!!!  I promptly checked all my tickets at the store and found none to be winners.  I had manually checked them and didn't think I had won, but I like to double check. I took another shot at it because Fantasy 5 was up to $309 million... sweet chunk of change.  A girl can hope, can't she??

OK, back to the salt mine - time to figure out something for dinner, then off to watch Liz be inducted into the national Honor Society (95 GPA cumulative for her HS career... scary smart that one.  She loves math... I still don't think she's mine!  I had to help Angela with math and had to keep calling Liz in to show ME how to do it... good grief.  I have NO memory of Factorials - they didn't really have those in my day, did they?