28 thoughts on “Rants! and Raves! 5-25-13”

  1. 🙂 Bonfire for pizza night – We won’t have many more chances to do that, for the rains are coming.
    😦 One of the cats has gone missing. It was just half-grown and we think it was taken by one of the resident owls or another beastie.

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  3. 🙂 School’s out for summer!

    🙂 Vacation to Connecticut next week. Isn’t there one of us Wanderers who live there? We’ll be in Storrs for about a week visiting D3’s pen pal.

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  4. Elvera is off to the mall. JCPenny had given her a 20% off coupon.
    Thing is, I can’t think of anything in Penny or Belk that we need.
    But I expect to head offf to Home Depot after I scrounge up something for lunch.

    😦

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  5. 🙂 Today is our 17th wedding anniversary. Hubby took us out for Chinese and a Movie last night and I made him blueberry pancakes for breakfast this morning. I told him he is the reason i can’t write Romance novels. Romance novels are full of conflict, difficulty and heartache. He has made my only real experience with romance too easy and pleasant.
    😦 He has to leave for a road trip in about an hour.

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  6. Happy anniversary, kBells. What a nice compliment for your husband. 🙂

    🙂 Routine hospital test, which is unpleasant, is finished or done or whatever, for at least 5 years.

    😦 Lots of little things going wrong. 🙂 Nothing compared to what so many (and even, we, have gone through) are going through.

    😦 SIL hasn’t been able to get a job in his field (teaching) after losing his job.

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  8. 🙂 Mmmm, bonfire pizza night. Sounds like a fun time.

    🙂 Saturday. But so much I need to do, inside and out.

    🙂 I’m working Monday (which also is a 😦 , I guess, were it not for the fact that Memorial Day assignments are interesting — plus the OT in the aftermath is always a perk). But no 3-day weekend for me.

    😦 Did a story for the weekend on vector control finding West Nile virus-infected mosquitoes in one of our local city parks again this year. Whenever I do these stories, I inevitably start scratching my arms as I’m interviewing vector control officers on the phone.

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  10. ;0 Bonfire pizza. Is that made over a bonfire or just eaten around a bonfire?

    🙂 A bit of rain today – good for the garden

    🙂 Double flowering plums have burst into flower – so gorgeous.

    😦 Destroyed a whole load of laundry when a pen was left in a pocket. Oops.

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  17. 🙂 Raked up the leaves on the patio, got a few things put away in the garage.

    😦 Mulled over the garage door which probably needs replacing here sometime soon. … As it was, I shook my head a bit at it, sighed, and locked it back up to — I’ll deal with that later. Had to make sure I got Annie out of there first, though, the garage fascinates her.

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  18. 🙂 Very impressed with the photo company Winkflash. They have a promotion (till Tuesday) to print a book that would normally cost $105 for just $25. That’s still a lot of money . . . but for 15 years or so I’ve thought it would be fun someday to have a book of tree photos I’ve taken. (I sort of “specialize” in tree photos, with many hundreds through the years and a photo album of some of my favorites. Multiple varieties of trees, with some of whole trees, some of roots or leaves or flowers or fruits, and with all the seasons.) A 20-page photo book would be useless, as it wouldn’t hold enough, and no way would I pay a dollar a page extra to get it long enough. So a 100-page book for $25 was a perfect excuse to go ahead and do it. And with eight projects in the last couple of months, the income has been good enough to justify another photo book too.

    Anyway, cynical me thought that maybe they were doing such an offer partly with the hope that people would forget to apply the coupon code and would be charged full price. But the coupon showed up in the shopping cart on its own, so even if I hadn’t known about the promotion I would have received the special price. I’ve ordered prints from them in the past and been very impressed. Hopefully they do a good job with photo books too. They don’t have the range of special effects some other companies offer, but I wasn’t looking for fancy tricks with this book, just a book of photos.

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  19. Now, if I’d been a good girl and scanned in childhood photos as I was supposed to do years ago, I could have made a book of childhood photos. But I pretty much had to use photos that were already on my computer (some in digital and some scanned) supplemented by a few more I hadn’t scanned yet. But really I should open that trunk and scan those photos, and next time I see an offer that good, I’ll be ready. . . .

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  22. Peter, when I got engaged, an older friend of mine told me something like, “Don’t worry, the honeymoon won’t last very long.” I wasn’t even sure what she meant, but it didn’t sound very good where her own marriage was concerned. (I had heard her say several times, sometimes in front of her second husband, that her first husband had been her “soulmate.”) But I quickly told her we intended to stay honeymooners the rest of our lives. If that sounded naive, it was less so than her own words of wisdom to a woman about to marry!

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  27. Ricky, Oldest GD married a Gator fan. He is from Florida but graduated from Greensboro College. He went there on a baseball scholarship, pitcher. We also have a Ky Wildcat in the family.

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  28. 🙂 Got to hold a 16 hour old newborn today! This was the little boy whose mom you all were praying for about 8 months ago with the hyper morning sickness. He’s beautiful and his mom was radiant! (His daddy was pretty proud too!)

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