2 weekends in a row.. Woo Hooo!!

Last Saturday my oldest and her new hubby came to get some things that we needed to get rid of and I also got her to take her dance trophies and other 'stuff' she still had here at our house. She has a lot of trophies, ribbons and awards!  She enjoyed showing them to her hubby as she was packing things in boxes. I was happy she took so much with her.  She took some of her favorite dolls she got when she was young too, and even her own baby blanket which I saved for her.  It is still in pretty good shape for being 22 years old.

We are trying to go through and 'de-clutter' the house.  We have several things set aside for a garage sale and have the garbage can overflowing too!  Good thing trash collection is tomorrow. But anyway that is not what the Woo Hoo is about. 

The Woo Hoo is that I get to see my daughter and son-in-law 2 weekends in a row!  My youngest and I are going to visit on Saturday and see their new digs.  They moved closer to where the oldest will be attending grad school starting next month.  So I'm looking forward to seeing their new apartment and visiting some more!  This will be the first weekend I am not working in a long time...and I am overdue for the break!

Auntie :)

To my Aunt Arline

I did email you back the same day you wrote. I tried to reply again and also emailed you via my yahoo email which I never use, please let me know if you GOT my email.  You can email me or leave a comment here on my blog..

Softy...

I don't know what it is lately but I have started to care about bug's feelings.. yes bugs!
It wasn't long ago I posted this picture on facebook.

 I had never seek a stick bug before and it was a neat thing to get a snapshot of, but my hubby noticed that it was still near there the next day, just down to the next window sill area.  I just passed it off that it liked it on our back porch.  But a day or so later it didn't look like it was moving any more. The poor thing had died. And I felt bad.  I wondered if it would have lived if we would have put it on a tree or on the grass, if it might have lived.  Who knows. I just felt a little sad for our new back porch resident.

Then the other day there was a wasp that kept flying around me and landed on the screen on the window in my office and I shut the window so that I wouldn't feel the need to keep ducking every time I heard its wings buzzing near my head.  I was giving it a chance at survival though.  There is a small hole in the screen that it could get through and be outside if it was smart enough to go to that small hole and climb out. But hubby saw it later on in the afternoon and injured it by smacking the screen with his hand..and I saw it dragging one of its legs after that.  Long story short, found it the next morning in the window sill as it had not survived. I was a little mad at my hub for hurting it because I was giving it a fair chance of escape, and because he injured it, it died.  It isn't like there are not tons of wasps around here.  In fact there are nests all over the place on the house outside..but again I just felt bad for this insect.

And yesterday we picked up my youngest's car after being inspected and just kept the windows down on the way back and one of those katydid's at least that's what I call them, the things with the wings that make a lot of noise...got in the car, freaking my daughter out.  Lucky for her I was driving home (she left her license at home).  When we got home I was using a coat hanger and trying to coax it out from the back windshield where it kept buzzing and trying to get out the back.  I couldn't get it to come out.  I got a large metal spatula from the kitchen to try to get it out and only achieved wedging it further into the back windshield and alas, it too didn't make it. Again I felt a little sad.

So what is it??  Just getting damn sappy in my old age?..that I am starting to feel bad for the bugs that die?
Okay..wait.. I STILL hate those huge big black roach like things that get in the house...those things I do NOT feel sorry for, but for many of the other species of bugs...yup getting sappy.

....RRrrrrriiingg...

Last evening while my hubby and I were eating dinner, the phone rang....it was my youngest.  She just had a scary experience.  I asked her if she was okay. She said "Yes".  I asked if she hit someone and she said "No", but she had to jam on her brakes and they screeched and her tires smoked and laid black tread marks on the road for a bit.  She did stop in time and that is all that matters. After she felt calm enough to start driving again the rest of her drive back went well. She was somewhat paying attention but also told me her mind was on the class she just had in Physics. It is easy to get distracted while driving, even if you are not on a cell phone.  She knows she is going to have to pay better attention especially on those roads that have a higher speed limit when things can happen like 'That'!

My oldest was t-boned by a driver back in February and luckily she was okay but her car wasn't.  Could she have avoided the accident?  I guess possibly but it wasn't her fault. The other car came from her left and either thought he could jump out or turn right in front of her and he wasn't paying enough attention is my guess. 

Memories of some of my own experiences came flooding back after I got off the phone last night with my youngest. I remember driving home from a church dinner one evening by myself as a teen. It was probably a fellowship group gathering or something.  I had a pot on the passenger side floor with a lid on it and I recall it still had some food in it that didn't get consumed.  I had made a turn and the lid had slid off.  I immediately thought of food ending up all over my dad's Cadillac floor and reached down for the lid.  I looked up for a moment and was headed straight for a telephone pole.  You don't realize as a teenager when you lean down you can be unaware that you are turning your steering wheel even the slightest bit, and it can be deadly.  I immediately turned the steering wheel to the left and was able to avoid hitting the pole and the rest of the ride home did not worry about any lid falling off given the alternative of what almost Did happen!

Another time when I was dating my now husband, I was driving out to his house and was on a two lane country road following a stream of traffic headed to that town my then boyfriend lived in.  I thought I had something in my eye and I looked in the rear view mirror trying to find an eyelash, piece of lint or whatever was irritating it!  When I looked ahead again just a second later,  the cars in front of me had stopped. I to this day think an angel took hold of my actions because I swerved to the right went on some grass made it up to a driveway and then turned left and stopped. I was not going slow either! There I was on the driveway (as if waiting to turn right back out into traffic).  I don't know how I did all that. THAT is why I think an angel was surely making me do what I did.  If I had hit the car in front of me I would have been going at least 30 if not 40 mph and probably would have been severely injured as I don't think the car I had then had air bags.

I'm sure there are some other close calls..but those are the two that come to mind first.  At least I am proud to say I am not ever on my cell phone when I am driving and don't ever text either so that helps. Of course I'll take the help of any angels anytime too....and they are always welcome to help my girls out as well!! 

~ New Friend....~

Last evening my hub was out on the back porch having a smoke and he told me to come out and see what was on the table.  Cute isn't it?

Think I'll call him Little Grey.. :)

                  
                                              Hubby likes this next shot.
                   Says it looks like he's clinging to the edge of a planet

I'm still here...

I see this is the first blog for July..sorry about that.  Just been really, really busy between work and keeping up with the bookkeeping for the store, haven't had a lot of me time let alone time to blog.  I am only blogging right now because I'm waiting for some work...which is rare!

Now that we are winding down Wood Stock closing the end of this month, it figures that our highest sales ever so far was June when the words started getting out to our 'regulars' that we were closing who wanted to scoop up treasures they have been eyeing for a while but figured they could always come back to get.  Some of the vendors have lowered their prices some which has helped as well.  We did more sales in June than all of the other 5 months this year put together.  That's how SLOW it was! 

Hub is starting to realize how much is all ours in the store and where we are going to put everything.  My oldest is going to be coming down with her hubby to get some of the furniture including 2 pie safes that we were using for display cases that I've had since 1993 and I just would like to keep or keep in the family.  These are nice wooden ones with heart cut outs on each door and I got them in PA when we lived there at a store that sells Amish or Amish-like furniture. 

Let's see..what else. OH!  My youngest and I did see Twilight Eclipse on July 3rd.  I loved it!  Of course I'm a Twilight fan at this point, dare I say Twi-hard!  I was hoping during the previews they'd indicate when the next Final one is going to be out but no word on that.  We did find out that the final Harry Potter movie is coming out though in two parts, Part One is in November and Part Two don't remember..next summer I think. Those are ones I don't want to miss either as yes I am a Harry Potter fan as well, although those books I did not read.

It is pouring outside right now, but at least I'm not still in PA where I hear it has hit over 100 degrees the last few days. Funny!  Hotter there than here in Texas! :)    At least the lawn watering has been minimal this year and my balcony garden so far is doing much better than last year.  

That is it for now...Happy Thursday!