Finished Powder Room

They finished the powder room this morning.  I think it looks fantastic!  It is airy, roomy, uncluttered and totally remodeled in the same foot print!    The cabinet I stress painted looks good too!  I also painted the toilet paper holder (which will also have hand towels in it once we get them).  We also need to get a towel ring that we're going to place on the left wall to the sink. 

But this is how it looks right now and we're thrilled with it!!! :)

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Sunday already??

What happened to the weekend?  Oh I remember.  I worked some and relaxed some and also painted the little stand we're going to put in the powder room.

It started out black and hubby spray painted it white.  Then I used chalk paint (a light rose color) and painted it and then sanded it, just a little to give it more of an antique look. Turned out nice.  We're going to use it for toilet paper and hand towels.  The bathroom will be totally done tomorrow so will post pictures tomorrow.  The transition is phenomenal I do have to say!  It is so much roomier without the large cabinet above the toilet and the bulky vanity.

Sharing a few pictures

Just wanted to share some pictures I've take to show how much I love my Paparazzi(tm) jewelry!  I actually usually wear at least three big rings :)   I'll occasionally post some pictures from time to time.

Saturday Progress

Much to my surprise the contractors worked today as well!  I am very impressed!! Although I know the wallpaper issue took a lot longer than expected, he told me today that when they are getting behind they'll work weekends. He may even come tomorrow.  That is impressive because normally contractors (at least the ones we've dealt) with do not work over the weekend. They were working until near dinner time today!

The progress today consisted of: the drywall prep was completed, walls were textured (drying time allowed so came back later in the afternoon) primer coat of paint done, trim up, and new gfi outlet installed. I was surprised that they put the trim up before the finished painting was done, but he assured me that they are careful about the paint.  Okay, they're the experts.  LOL

The powder room really looks bigger too with the light walls all done!

No Picture

Sorry no picture today.  They had to remove some patched area and put up some drywall instead.  Guess it wasn't drying very well. Right now there is a fan on in there and the door is shut (to likely keep dog hair out of it too).  But will post some pictures tomorrow.

I signed up last weekend with a jewelry company.  No I am not doing any house parties.  But I do have a website. The jewelry is all costume jewelry and looks nice for the price! $5.oo a piece!  There are no catalogs to have to get as the inventory changes often.  That makes it really nice because there is always lots of new jewelry to select from!  The name of the company is Paparazzi (tm).  Here's my website if you care to look: My website

I just love it and am so much happier being a rep for this company than the one I was year's ago where the jewelry was not nearly as affordable! :)

Thursday Photo

Real quick posting of today's pic!

I've had internet and work issues all day!! 

Wall paper all off. Walls repaired. Tile down where vanity used to be.

Powder room demolition

Let the remodel begin! :)

Here is a few pictures I snuck in during the workers lunch break

No more cabinet on the wall above the toilet

No more vanity, mirror, sink

No more toilet (see the opening right inside the ladder)

The wall paper which has been on the walls for as far we know perhaps 31 years was so stuck on the wally they are having a hard time getting it all off.  Below are the pics at the end of their work day.  The one photo of the floor I took because it shows a vinyl floor underneath the tile floor which we thought was the only floor that the sellers had put down.  They were the one and only previous owners so that was weird to see vinyl flooring underneath.

Partial area where wallpaper removed

Vinyl flooring underneath the tile

Teaser Day

What I mean by teaser day is that we got a teaser of rain today.  I don't even know if it was 100th of an inch.  I'm glad to have gotten anything but it was barely enough to wet the ground for a few minutes. So I hosed the front yard for my mom again this evening when I went over to help with dinner.  It is just getting so dry in her front. We'll have to get someone to check her sprinklers too because there are at least two broken heads that I know of which makes the water just spout way upward in a straight line, thus the reason I have been using a hose the last few times. She lives in a PUD too. They seem to be a very relaxed PUD thankfully but I'd hate for them to send mom any notice that her grass is not allowed to die - against the PUD rules.  Personally I would rather never live in a PUD. Don't want a bunch of rules dictating the way we live but I know some like it.  They know their neighborhood will never go to pot. 

I don't live in a PUD but we have a great neighborhood.  Nothing looks trashy. A few lawns are very dry but I don't care about that.  We really need to conserve water! 

The powder room remodel is starting tomorrow morning.  I'm excited but anxious at the same time.  I just don't want anything to go wrong.  Every time any plumbing is involved I picture...busted pipes with water spewing out. LOL.

The sky looked really pretty before the sun set this evening. Ran out with my camera for a few shots.

Painted

I picked one of the hottest evenings to paint the cabinet for the powder room. Oye!  It was still in the mid 90's when I donned a t-shirt, slathered on sun tan lotion and went out back to one of the bistro tables on the porch to paint the once white cabinet that hubby put together today for me.

I haven't waxed it yet, but I did paint and sand it.  The paint was drying so fast I could barely get it on the wood (well probably particle board) before it dried.  The color is called Alaskan Tundra Green.  We are planning on going with a light mint green for wall color in the powder room and this looked like it would go nicely with it.

I am going to wax it in about 15 minutes after I've had a little snack of coffee ice cream. Hey I deserve it!

Bathroom remodel

Today has been a fairly relaxing day although I did work some it wasn't real long and I'm all caught up too. :)

Tomorrow evening I'm planning on stress painting the cabinet that we got for our powder room.  Here's the before picture (taken from the store's website) .  Yes I know basic and dull.  It will look cool by the time I get done with it. 

Below are some BEFORE pictures of the powder room. I wanted to make sure that I took some before I forgot.  We got a pedestal sink from someone selling it locally a few months ago and I'm looking forward to seeing it all come together.  We've had the sink on the spare bedroom bed for so long now, it is like it became a fixture there!

Shorty

Just writing a short one tonight.

Got a lot done today.  Helped my mom out with some things and also go the crock pot meat loaf on this morning and made some 5 minute fudge in the afternoon.

Late morning hubby and I went out and got some supplies for the powder room that is supposed to be started on Wednesday. We got the toilet, mirror, lights, faucets, cabinet.  I'm going to stress paint the cabinet because it is boring white.  I plan to work on that Monday night (it is not very big so won't be a big deal).

Also got some work done and a load of laundry for mom. Then hubby and I ate dinner over at her house with our crock pot in hand.  All in all a good day!

Sitting here..

..just waiting for the pizza to arrive.  I'm getting bread sticks too because I am pretty hungry and want a little more than just a pizza. 

I have to share a picture I took this morning.  As I usually do every morning, I looked at what I was wearing to pick some jewelry to go with it. When I spotted this necklace I thought it would go nicely with my top.  Little did I know how camouflage it was! :)  See?   Too funny!!

I'm done work for the night. Yippee!! We actually got some rain yesterday for the first time in 50 days (according to the weather man). It wasn't significant but we'll take whatever we can get.  It is almost weird when it rains now because it has been so long since it has rained.  Yesterday I looked out the window, saw that the sun wasn't blaring down and wondered what the heck was going on at first. :)

Foot in mouth

Don't you just hate when you put your foot in your mouth?.. Well I should have anyway (put my foot there!!).  We have a neighbor who was so very nice to us by coming to my dad's funeral and he has been out of town for over 2 weeks, perhaps 3 and just came back a few days ago. His father has been in a coma and he was likely on his last days.

This evening he called and I asked him if his father met his maker.  I didn't mean to be glib, it was just that I thought he had passed a little while ago because I figured he was gone so long because there was the funeral and estate settlement or at least put in motion.  Well no he was calling because his father just passed away a few hours ago and he had to go out of town again and wondered if we could watch their dog.  I didn't know that as I had hung up shortly after he called ..but not before I stuck my foot in my mouth!

Hubby picked up the phone at the same time so I had hung up after a few minutes.  When he told me later that this guy's dad had just died a few hours ago I called him up to apologize.  I didn't want to sound like I didn't have a heart.  I honestly thought it had been nearly a month since his dad passed. Oops.. He was fine and said he didn't think anything of my comment.   Oh well.  I did tell him I was sincerely sorry before I hung up.  Next time I won't be so quick to speak before thinking!

You know you need a break...

When things that normally don't bother you about work get to you really fast.  So it is time to take a few days off next month.  That is a good month to take off anyway with all the birthdays and our 16th wedding anniversary. Yup 16 years.  Sometimes it seems time flew, other times not.

Lately it seems time is going faster, must be with age time seems to go faster. That must be because it is running out. 

Yesterday I made sun tea. This is when I fill a large jug with cold fresh (bottled) water, put a few tea bags in it, and let it sit in the sun for a few hours.  It is the natural way to make iced tea.  The bad part is I woke up around 4:00AM and remembered that I never brought the jug back in !!! ARGH!!  So that was a wasted batch. 

Started all over again today and remembered this time. Iced tea is all done and chillin' in the fridge.

School starts next week around here.  There have been a ton of back to school ads on TV and there was a news story today that some areas are testing the school zones lights. Other than seeing the school bus in the morning, there probably won't be much difference in our neighborhood anyway.  I rarely see any kids 'outside playing'. There aren't a lot of families right now with kids on our streets.  There have been a few new families that moved in the last year or so but still is relatively quiet.  

Sometimes I miss the hustle and bustle of back to school shopping for the girls, orientation, football games and such.  I know I could still go to the football games at the high school if I wanted but I don't really see the point in it.  I wouldn't know any of the kids playing and my youngest is no longer in Georgettes, so it would be, well strange. 

I am looking forward to some new TV shows this fall. TV has been rather boring this summer, although I have enjoyed watching Extant and Zoo, but usually there is a lot more than interests me. For lack of anything better to watch we often have America's Got Talent on but I can take or leave that show.  I do find America Ninja Warrior surprisingly interesting and find myself cheering them on. Too bad more women do not make it very far.  But I'm not going to complain watching the men. :-)

Short Note

I'm just stopping by because I said I would try to write every day again :)

I am a bit tired, just got done work .  Not anything new to really write about today. Still got those medical supplies and someone mentioned on facebook that maybe an animal shelter can use them.  I didn't really understand how but the could cut the catheters and use for feeding tubes or whatever.  I don't know.  That will be an option I suppose if I cannot donate them for 'human' use.  lol

Jimmy Fallon just came on so I'm going to hit the sack and catch a few minutes of him. 

Nite!

Can't give it away

This weekend I took out a little time to take stock of the medical supplies that were left over from dad's house that were not used.  There are: 1 unopened box of 30 '14 FR' Urinary Catheters, 3 boxes with 12 each - Red latex catheters, 12 Foley catheters, 100 swabsticks, 4 - Foley insertion trays, 4- Urinary Drainage Bags, 2- Latex free urinary Drainage bags and 4 - urinary leg bags. These must be at least a couple hundred dollars worth if not more.  I called a place down in Austin that someone told me should take these unopened supplies and they weren't interested. The man I talked to suggested I contact some local assisted living or elder care places.  I posted on Facebook instead to see if anyone could use them or know a local place that could use them.  I don't have a lot of time to call places.  I did call one place that a gal let me know may take them as she worked there part-time.  It is an assisted living type of place.  The person I got the name to contact was not there but I asked someone else if they might be interested.  The answer I got was that the nurses that come bring their own supplies.

It is very frustrating when all I am doing is trying to help out someone who may be able to use these supplies and not just waste them by throwing them out!  I get that people tend to be leary, but once they would see the unopened boxes and wrapped up catheters and bags, they could see they have not been tampered with nor used.  I'll give it a couple more day and see what happens.  If it goes over another week with no interest I'll just throw all these supplies out.  That would be a shame though.  So we'll see what happens.

On a more pleasant note, we are getting estimates to get the last two bathrooms done.  I'm excited to get them done. Then it will seem like we practically have a new house :-) . Hubby's already replaced the flooring in the living room, and two of the three bedrooms.  His buddy at Christmas built up our stairs and replaced the carpet on them and the upstairs hallway. And I've posted before about the improvements we did to the kitchen which I think at this point was about 7 years ago now, maybe not but it has been awhile since we got the granite countertops, sink and stove. 

So something to look forward to as the fall season approaches.

Another start to another week

Here it is Sunday evening. Another week has started.  I got a good amount of work done this weekend and left myself set for a good day tomorrow (ie., not a late night in store...woo hoo!).   I didn't get my office cleaned out like I wanted to but there wasn't enough time.  I did get a few other minor things done such as writing down the medical supplies that were left from my dad passing, like catheters and such. I'm going to call a place I heard about tomorrow that may accept medical supplies as I just hate to throw out perfectly good, sealed unused supplies. 

I made a turkey breast in the crock pot today.  Man that smelled good cooking all day long!  It was hard to not cut a slice in the afternoon.  But I managed to hold off.  We took some turkey and stuffing over to my mom's for her dinner. It made it easy.  There is enough for her to have leftovers for a dinner another evening this week. 

Although there are moments where she gets sad or every teary eyed about my dad's passing, she is a real trooper and is doing well considering. 

My oldest had her first high school reunion this weekend, her 10th.  It is hard to believe she's already having high school reunions! I hope she had a great time.  She married someone from the same high school. I wonder how many married couples there were that from high school? :)  My 40th high school reunion was held in July back east but I didn't go.  A few friends from high school that are on facebook asked me to please go to the next one.  I suppose I could give it a try. It was nice to hear I was actually missed.  I was just back east last August for the oldest's wedding so didn't want to make the trip out again so soon, not that I wouldn't have loved to see the oldest again.  I really don't like to fly!

Well tomorrow is another day....

Free Plug

I am not getting paid anything for advertising this product for Proctor & Gamble, but have to blog about this anyway.

We have had our new stainless stove top for I believe going on 7 years now.  Although I still love it dearly, I have not been fond of the staining/burning/cooked on stuff that has developed on all the burners and have been meaning to give the Mr Clean Magic Eraser a shot at it.  I remember using it years ago to remove marks on walls back in our home in PA and hubby had gotten me some a few months back at my request.

So before plowing into work today I decided to tackle the stove top with it.  Here are some Before and After pictures of one of the burners and then the photo of the finished 4.  It took a little elbow grease (lol) but did a phenomenal job!

August is almost half over!

Hard to believe tomorrow is mid-month, although it is easy to believe that it is August as we hit the 100 degree mark for yet another day (if not close to it)..haven't heard the weather yet this evening to know for sure.  Anyway, it is Friday, YEA!!!  And had my pizza and beer, am done work for the day and life is good!

I heard it may drop down to the mid 90's next week. Wow a cold front..lol.  Really do wish it would rain though.  Every time I walk outside the grass is crunchy.  Today it was Merlin's turn to walk with me after my first walk and he got a bunch of burrs in his paw.  I got them all but these were nasty!  Each one I pulled out pricked ME while I was pulling them out and I had to flick them off my finger to get them off. My thumb and index finger hurt for a while after that. But main thing was I got them off of Merlin so the rest of the walk went well.  I'm going to try to keep all the dogs in the street when I am near any house that has any cactus or growth like that near the edge!!

So it is going to be a work weekend this weekend but that's okay. Last week was the visit from the youngest so I can work this one. I;m hoping to get some time to organize my office better.  There is getting to be too much clutter.

Well off to relax for the rest of the eve.

Okay I forgot...

..to blog yesterday but yesterday was sort of a blur....to me.  Got up early for a walk. My foot only hurt the first minute or so. Then took hubby's truck out to the mechanic we use out a little in the country (not too far from here though) to get inspected. Here in Texas they are doing away with the two sticker system (one for inspection one for registration) and you now have to have your car inspected BEFORE you can renew the registration. Sure glad they weren't too booked up because I was going to just renew the registration Tuesday (the 11th) to get it by month's end.  Then found out the new 'process'.  Wonderful. But now it is done and registration renewed online so hopefully will come by August 31st. So there will just be one sticker now (not two).

Anyway I am getting off my day yesterday.  When I got back from dropping hubby's truck off I had to wash up quickly because it was about time to get to work (remember we had gone walking and I was sweaty and stinky from that still).  After that it was a regular work day until 4:15PM.  Hubby's truck was ready so I stopped work to pick it up. Then it was time for dinner shortly after that so rather pointless to get back to work. Then after that I went to my mom's to make her dinner, do her dishes, get the front of her lawn sprinklers done (it is getting really dry here again), and got back home around 7:30PM. Then I had work to do which I didn't finish until just after 10:30PM.  So yah..I forgot to blog yesterday.

That wore me out all over again just reading that. :)

Today will be a bit easier on me. There is no truck needing inspection and it is hubby's turn to help my mom.   Well my lunch 1/2 hour is almost up so better get back to it.

Got through it..

I was able to do my regular exercise today with the Aerobics.  My foot did bother me a little when I first starting the aerobics part but then it felt a little better after a minute or two.  It was the same as walking. At first it hurts a little then gets better.  I don't know if it is the way my sneakers fit or what but my toes look pretty good except one small red mark at the part of my 3rd toe that meets the rest of the foot (not sure if I am making sense).  So I may not be at 100% but I am dealing with the little bit of pain when I first start walking (with sneakers on), etc. Hopefully by next week it won't hurt at all.  It has been a week and a day since I stubbed it.  That is one thing that does suck about getting older. Every injury seems to take longer to heal.


We finally broke down and are having an exterminator coming on Thursday.  Seeing those huge black bugs they call wood beetles (look like roaches) every day practically is the last straw.  If it was once in a while, ok. But it has been way to common and starting to see other unwelcomed bugs too.  Hopefully the extermination will do the trick.  There is suppose to be no risk to any of the fur kids although I still plan to keep them away from the places being sprayed while they're being sprayed. 

Turning in soon. Night!

Too funny!

Now Merlin decided to keep the new family member company this morning. 

Today it got up to 105 in Austin so it probably got that high as well here. I went out back tonight (while it was still light) and the ground is crunchy and brown and cracked!  It is getting to be drought times again here, even with all the rain we had in May.  We didn't get any to speak of in July.  Hopefully we'll get some sometime this month.

I did take a walk this morning and took Molly. But we didn't get far around the bend when she started to go after something in her paw.  Then we started walking again but within a few paces she was at her paw again (the underside).  So this time I felt around and there was a burr, so I pulled it out  I can see why it was bothering her because it had a lot of prickly sharp points. We started walking again but she went after her paw again.  I felt around again and didn't feel anything.  After a few more times of her stopping and digging with her teeth, I decided to pick her up for a little while and we headed back toward home.  I put her down a few times (because she is around 25 lbs and I wasn't going to carry her the whole way back).  When we got home hubby got a flashlight and looked around her pads. She had yet another burr tucked up behind one of her pads. He got it out and then she was fine.  I'm glad it wasn't anything serious. 

A new friend!

I just got a cute cast iron Boston Terrier bank and put it on the floor next to the railing in the dining room.  When I first set it down yesterday afternoon a few of the dogs came up and sniffed it.  I tried to pretend it was barking (although it was obviously coming from me), but they weren't convinced.  Anyway while I was visiting my mom early this evening, my hubby took a few pictures.  Isn't this adorable?  Tika is trying to keep the 'new kid' company.  :-)

I successfully walked today.  My toe hurt a little when first started but after a little bit it was okay. Took Ditzy for a walk afterwards too.  Then I washed Stac's car.  She's hasn't washed in at least a year I think. Instead of a nice darkish teal it looked black for the most part. I was really sweating by the time I was done. And it still wasn't hot yet. I got done before 9AM. She has been planning on washing it but hadn't gotten to it.  So I took the opportunity to do it. It is a small car at least. :-)  It was nice having Stac visit and it was even better that she only had a little over an hour to drive to get home.

Sunny Saturday

It was very sunny today but also very hot!  So what did we do ?  My youngest came up to visit and we went to see the new Mission Impossible movie.  It was good and Tom Cruise appears to be timeless.  He doesn't ever seem to age much. And he does his own stunts I think I read. Wow! There were more movie goers today than usual, so we weren't the only ones who thought about taking in a movie to get out of the heat! 

My toe injury is healed enough I think to handle a walk in the morning. So will see how that goes. And if that goes well, I will do my regular aerobic exercise come Tuesday.  Here's hoping it all goes well tomorrow!

More Remodeling..

After waiting several months for the guys who did our master bath remodel last year to be available to do our powder room and other bathroom, we are getting estimates from other contractors. I know people get busy and we're not the only customers out there but to go that long is nuts.  We actually have been waiting for them to also fix our drain in the shower too since our bathroom was done and they have not come out to even do that.  I did ask the other day to give them one last shot and will see if they contact me early next week or not about the other bathrooms. It is a shame because we do like them and they did a decent job. We also already gave them the ideas of what we wanted to do with our other 2 bathrooms but guess they got too busy as we didn't even get estimates for them.

   If they do actually get us estimates we'll probably go with them if they actually schedule us in.  Either we're getting the other two bathrooms done and I'd like them done by the end of the year just because I've been wanting them done.  When they are done all major projects will be done, at least for now.

Glad it is Friday and the work week is over. 

Making appointments

You know what is odd about folks in this area, maybe not all of Texas but in this area at least.
When someone tells you they'll be here at 5:00PM, it really means that they may leave their destination by that time and just plan on adding 20-40 minutes from then.  Practically everyone we deal with does this. EVERYONE! I don't know why I keep forgetting this fact and try to always be ready at the time told.

This is a different standard though than when setting an appointment for say the dentist at 1:00PM. What that means is they want you there by 1:00PM and no later, but you'll have to wait until they are good and ready to take you back, so you wait some more.  I don't see anyone ever coming in at 1:25PM saying they had a 1:00PM appointment and not getting a stern look by the person at the front desk. That would be unheard of!

Finally this afternoon, my toe stopped sending me the constant reminder that it was badly injured. I think it is finally on the mend.

I actually watched the first Republican debate tonight on TV.  It was actually very entertaining!
Of course a lot of jabs or even stabs at Hillary Clinton were made but some went after each other, and Donald Trump, new to the Presidential race held his own.  No matter how much I dislike the man, it is hard to not agree with at least some of the things that come out of his mouth.

It is late. Time for bed. Nite!

Hump day, bump day

I've been babying my bruised foot, icing it, trying to elevate it when I can...so what do I do?  I was going from my office to the house and it is night time and the light is off in the garage so I walk toward the door to turn on the light and yes, I stubbed my toe again on a stool. It was dark and I didn't see it.  I didn't stub it full force hard but enough that it hurt.  I know.  Stupid right??   I got ice on it again, Hoping I didn't undo what healing had started.  

Well tomorrow is another day, hopefully it will look better.  I'd really like to start exercising again by this weekend. It is extremely hard for me not too, I'm so used to it.

Off to go rest in bed. 

Tuesday Toe update

My foot hurt a little every time I turned in my sleep last night. Ugh.  But I managed to sleep fairly well. The bruising spread to include between my two toes as well. I iced my toe/foot again on and off today until late afternoon.  It felt good when I iced it so figured that was a good thing.  I'll just keep taking it easy for as long as it takes to heal up.  I may have to forgo all exercise except maybe arm weights for at least a week.  We'll see. 

Not much else new.  Going to keep this one short and go put my foot up for a little while before turning in for the night.

Ouch!

Hubby woke me up at normal time this morning to take our walk.  "Okay I'm getting up." was my response. A few steps around the bed and BAM!!!  I crashed (stubbed hard) my left toes into the wooden dog steps we have next to the bed.  If I wasn't awake before then, I was after that!  I rubbed my toes while in the bathroom and although they were sore I could move them..  So we went ahead and took our walk.  I found myself favoring my foot some but got through my normal walks. Came home, took off my sock and my little toe was purple!  Shouldn't have walked on it. I iced it off and on today and elevated it part of the time too. I was actually relieved that I didn't injure 3 of the toes as that is how it felt when i did it.  Fun working at my desk while my foot was on the desk.

Here is how it looked by dinnertime. Yup. Still pretty ouchy!  Think I'll have to pass on my exercise tomorrow. Oh well, at least I didn't break anything (I don't think).

Ice Road Truckers

So, what do you do when it is nearly 100 degrees out to cool off?  Why watch Ice Road Truckers, that's what!  Brrrr.. It really can cool you off.  These people who drive across frozen lakes are nuts! It is entertaining enough. There is even a petite young lady trucker.  She's got a lot of guts (assuming this show isn't rigged).  You never know any more with TV.

It was a somewhat lazy day for me today (didn't work a ton) and got up when I was good and ready which was around 8:00am.  I think it did me some good because I felt pretty good today. So hopefully tomorrow I will be ready to start the first full work week in August.

Hello August!

It is hard for me to believe it is already August!  This year seems to be flying by.  Next month I get another year older..well not really but you know what I mean, I have a birthday, and I'll add another year married to my hubby and he'll age another year too.  Life goes on :)

It is definitely the hot time of year around here.  The grass has been drying up as we did not have any rain in July. So I have turned on the sprinklers a few times and will be running them a few times a week if things stay dry.  I'm very glad that I didn't bother with any gardens this year as everything would have been drying up by now for sure.  I do actually have some aloe plants that are managing to stay alive despite the fact that I never water them. Maybe I'll make sure to water them tomorrow. I feel bad now knowing how neglected they are.

Well that's it for now.  Back to watching Animal Planet.  I don't see that Pit Bulls and Paroles is on during the summer at least not now but I started watching Dr Jeff (Mountain Vet). That is an interesting show.  Night!