This is the biggest long weekend holiday up here all year, the Queen's Birthday, the same weekend that is traditionally for the planting of annual flowers and opening the cottages for the season. Highways are jammed, plazas empty, stores closed. I'm so relieved we sold that darn cottage last summer! Enough already.
Ted's back out in the garage, determined to get that minivan in there by hook or crook, lol. I have no idea what it is he's getting rid of in there, but he's happy enough shuffling things around. I think he still has his boy scout camping equipment out there.
Right after brunch (he wants poached eggs and peameal bacon) we'll head off to the nursery again for some hanging baskets and a few pots of geraniums for the stairs out back, then a light shopping for the bbq tomorrow. Everything will be closed on Monday, so it's important to get the stuff done today.
Nick is now getting ready to move into that condo I talked about last month. He figures he's given poor mother enough time to adjust to the idea, and given his weird hours and dog barking, I'm actually looking forward to it! I called our painter and rearranged things with him so that he'll go paint Nick's condo bedroom instead of our den on the date he'd filled in for us. Sort of a birthday present for Nick. He'll come back and do our painting when that contractor guy (curse and mutter) has finally finished with the bathroom downstairs.
Hey there. It's quite nice here. Cody has tournaments all afternoon. Hubby is supposed to fiish picking up the front room before we head out but I'm not seeing it happen. I might have to "inspire" him. He's already on very thin ice because he thinks he should be my boss more so than my husband. He's been so terribly insecure lately, and doesn't want e going ANYWHERE without him. Not to friends, out, or anything. He's about to just be told. I don't care if he doesn't like it I'm no fracking bird in a cage.
Other than that. CONGRATS to Shelly!!!!!!!!!!! So proud of you sweetie!!!!
busy day, church, errands and then we did some digging. Finally finishing the front landscaping, can not wait to see it all done!
But doing it ourselves just saves a ton of money
We are now looking at buying a pop-up camper! Really cute used one sleeps 6 - 8. I like the idea of camping as long as I have some basic necessities. hot water, electricity, a bed off the ground, a small fridge and access to a shower and pool
Hope we actually go and camp. I hate when Ed gets an idea then never follows thru
Thanks Jessica. Needless to say we had a busy day. Had to be at the theater for graduation at 1030 and the ceremony didn't start until noon. It was long and we were out at about 230. I was starving so we hit Applebees and then went to my friend Kelly's who also graduated today. Stunk since they were on the same day I couldn't go to hers and she couldn't come to mine. She had a big party at her apartment's club house. It was raining outside but we got to go swimming and Jolene loved it.
It was just a cold and rainy day yesterday, so it wasn't very festive. I did get some pretty gerbers and dahlias from the Home Depot garden section at a great price, and no sooner were we back, than a dear friend dropped in for tea and stayed for hours until it was time for both of us to start dinners. We both have about the same enthusiasm for all that cooking.
Today is also kind of nippy, unusually so for May, so we'll have to have our family dinner inside tonight. Everything is closed today, so we'll be staying in until people come around 4.
Did you watch Desperate Housewives last night? Maynard, LOL!! Did like the way the ladies rallied round for Katherine, a major Tuc sighting, and Nathan Fillion too! Yeah for that.
Tina, your description of camping made me smile. When I was a girl, my parents sent me off to Algonquin Park to a camp up there that was REAL camping - all summer, for years and years. We made 7 day canoe trips each month, no facilities, no hot water, certainly no electricity, and the lakes were full of leeches. You couldn't PAY me to go anywhere near a campsite now. So have fun, lol. You can be sure never to get a surprise visit from me while at it.
KaeEll, did you poach those eggs by hand, or did you buy one of those poacher thingies I told you about?
By hand, and the pan I used yesterday is still soaking. Quell mess! I went to William Sonoma for the poacher, out of stock at the time, and I just haven't been back. The mall where it is located is massive, and I have to be in a special frame of mind (slightly insane) to go there.
I wish I had caught Desperate Housewives. Maybe I'll watch online today. Been so busy and tired
As for camping, I went alot as a kid, and my parents did the total "roughing-it" way. That is NOT for me (anymore). My mom used to fry up eggs on an iron skillet over the camp fire, and somehow make coffee in a percolator. I don't know how she did it.
Back then I didn't mind the lack of toilet and shower. But I've grown into a big Miss-priss now!
LOL. Tina. It's one thing to tell a 12 year old she has to take skinny dips in freezing glacier lakes with a bar of Ivory soap every day to keep clean, quite another a grown woman. I'm not so sure the experience did me any good in the long run, except to know that isn't my cuppa tea now!
We also did all the cooking over open fires. We only took one skillet and one pot, caught fish every day (I always pulled the short stick and had to clean and fillet the bloody things), had very few vegetables, gathered berries, etc. We washed the pots and dishes with gritty sand at the shore, boiled some water for rinsing them. The loo was usually a log on the ground back in the bush, had to bury the toilet paper and other sanitary supplies...bears, wolves. I can not for the life of me understand how some adults LIKE doing that. Total torture in my book!
The worst of it was the portaging. Algonquin lakes are not all connected, so in order to reach another one, sometimes long portages were in the works. We always had three canoes, an axe pack, food, tents and clothing stuffed into eight others. We all had to carry a 50 pound pack, cross through some very swampy, leech filled trails, while the guide and counselor had a canoe on their backs, plus a pack. We all had to keep around our necks a vial of salt in a watertight container to pour onto our legs to get the leeches off. Sometimes we'd collect them in a jar, toss them onto the fire later at night and watch them explode. I don't think that's what my parents had in mind when they sent me off.
when I was little we would go camping with my mom and step dad but we rented a cabin in the White Mountains in AZ (absolutely beautiful btw). But when we would camp with my dad we would rough it. It was fun then though after spending so many months sleeping in a sleeping bag in Kuwait I never want to do it again. Cabins are the way for me.
Okay, so I just called the Hilton (where I had an interview a week or so ago) and he said he hasn't decided yet. Thats still better then No right?
Fingers crossed for you, Shelly. Make sure the Hilton knows that you have that diploma now! And maybe your phone call will work in your favour for the guy's decision. He'll know at least that you're eager for the job.
Shelly, we're all keeping our fingers crossed for you! I just know that you're right at the beginning of a whole new set of positive experiences, and your graduation was the first step towards those experiences. I feel that many good things are coming your way...
KaeEll, I'm sorry about those soaking pots!
It's like fall here today. Cool, but absolutely gorgeous.
Oh -- I meant to say too that I loved Desperate Housewives, and am looking forward to next season. Also, the extent of my camping experience is pretty much limited to my Girl Scout days. After that, there was a brief period in my early/mid-teens when I spent the month of August in northern Wisconsin with my best girlfriend, and her family. We canoed almost everyday, and sometimes spent the night in screened structures that were by the river, and separate from the main houses along the river. Since that time, though...no!
-- Edited by Moore ideas at 12:35, 2008-05-19
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oh yeah DH was really good. Not sure how much I loved the end. I want to know where Mike and Adam are. Though when Wayne was beating Adam I almost hoped that he would die so that we could get the good Joey back on OLTL
I'm thinking instead of buying a camper, we just try the cabins at the Yogi Bear Camp grounds. See if we can even stand to be with each other - kids fight alot. Then if we all agree we like it, then invest in a cute little camper.
We did a tent once about two years ago. I was proud of myself for remembering all the essentials but pissed at Ed for drinking an entire bottle of vodka. Glad he's done with that. And if he's not, I'm keeping the lawyer handy!
We slept in a tent, had an electric post, so I had a fan. It was HOT. Camped at Starved Rock State Park. There's a whole Indian story behind the place. Did some hiking, kids got muddy and poison ivy. But I love looking at the stars at night, and I love a nice camp fire.
My mom used to gut the fish, Kae, Yuck! Well yummy when they're cooked, right!
