TGTIF

Thank God Tomorrow Is Friday...

Gotta share these beautiful pics of the sunset I just took a little bit ago.  I happened to glance out the window, bolted out of my chair to grab the camera and ran up to the balcony.

Early Day

I finished work a little early today by taking a shorter lunch. So I decided to blog some now before dinnertime.

Before I forget here is a shot of one of the baby birds with its mouth open.  Isn't it cute? Top picture was taken today (7/10). The bottom one taken 7/5. I'm sure hoping that all 4 hatched and are alive, but I do not know. I don't want to mess with the nest that much to find out.

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I have a short story about investing that I was told.  One day about 44 years ago, a man was standing in line at the bank and he overheard the lady in front of him.  She had in her hand some stock shares that she wanted to cash in.  The bank teller told her she would have to go to a broker in order to do that and the woman was quite perplexed.  The man behind her asked her what stock she was interested in cashing in. It was Heinz stock and she wanted $200 for it, the going market rate at that time.

The man told her he'd buy it from her and the teller told her they could handle that type of transaction as long as an officer of the bank handled the transfer. They waited for a bank officer and then completed their transaction. The lady got the money she wanted and the man left the bank that day with stock in Heinz he never had before.  The stock split, and increased in value and split again, on and on for years.  The dividends at first were reinvested, but the last 10 years, the man decided to get paid for the dividends to supplement his income. Then after owning 44 years, he was forced to sell his stocks in Heinz as the entire company was being acquired by an investment group.  That $200 piece of paper grew to be worth over $40,000!!  That man was never happier that he went to the bank that day back 44 years ago!  That is fantastic to me!  It sure gets me thinking I need to start saving more for retirement and I don't even have anywhere near 44 years for it to grow. 

It is going to be another hot evening tonight. Sure glad I got my walk in early in the morning. I'm off to go turn on the air conditioning.

Too fast!

These last 4 days went by way too fast!  Boo!!!  Here it is Sunday evening already. 

Can't stop time but at least it was a great 4 days.  Yesterday we went down to the square with my youngest who came home for the weekend and strolled around down town and shopped some and had lunch too. It was fun and I got a few new outfits at a neat new shop down there. 

Also visited our favorite store Divine Patina and had a great time seeing what was new. We are going to get a picture that caught hubby's eye. He's going to get it in a few days.

Then yesterday evening we had dinner at Cotton Patch. I like that restaurant. It has decent food for decent prices.  Stac knew our waitress too as she went to high school with her.  The only drawback to dinner was that I wanted a nice relaxing dinner and the waitress was asking us if we wanted dessert when we were only half way thorough eating. I absolutely hate that!  Of course we said no!  We weren't even close to being done dinner yet to know if we had room.  Then she gave us our check, but "No hurry".  That's baloney.  As soon as they do that I feel rushed.  So for that I didn't enjoy it but she lost out anyway as I may have gotten dessert to go, but not after I feel rushed.

Today we visited my folks for a little bit in the afternoon after Stac and I went to the movies. There were so many good ones out but we agreed on World War Z.  I liked it more than I thought I would.  Sometimes when you see the previews to something, you think you've seen all the best parts, but it was a great movie that kept me captivated to the end.  I had to go to the bathroom because I had to go so badly that I just couldn't focus on the movie an longer, but I only missed  few minutes.  I hate when that happens, but it is better to go than to wish the movie would end so that you can go. :)

It is back to work tomorrow but I has been a nice holiday weekend.

Friday AND the day off. YES!

I am very fortunate to work for a company that was closing yesterday for a 4 day weekend!  Woo hoo!

I was chatting with my oldest last evening on Facebook...I really miss her!!  I told her about my garden and a few what I consider miracle things happening.  So I thought I'd take some pictures and post them since, yes I have the day off!  It will be hard keeping track of the days as yesterday seemed so much like a Saturday that I forgot to exercise (so I did it today). And today now seems like a Saturday but it is only Friday.  I'll be reminded when we order pizza tonight though. We have a tradition that Friday night is pizza night. It has been that way for years and well we just like our pizza!

So the neat things about my balcony garden.  The one container that has the failing zucchini (there are still a few small zucchini plants hanging in there but no actual zucchinis yet), actually has a pole bean plant!  It has grown quite a bit and has grown up through the wire fencing. I have not planted any beans this year yet so it is left over from last year. Cool! Maybe I'll get a few green beans!

Next, I have a flower coming up among the other flowers I planted. I looked it up and it is called a Celosia.  It is the feathery flower in the center of the next photo.  I haven't planted any of these flowers in 2 years!  Amazing to me that the seed survived 2 years?  Well maybe just one as I think one of these popped up last year as well in the same pot with different flowers.

And I'm quite proud that I have my first jalapeno pepper. It is only about an inch long, but hopefully will grow to full size.  This is the first year I have tried these type of peppers. I don't particularly care for them but hubby loves them.

And here are a few more peppers that I pulled and a cherry tomato (that had fallen off). There are more tomatoes but I'll wait until I'm going over to my folks to pick any more as I give them to my dad. I don't care for them, although I did use one in my vegetable stir fry the other day. The peppers are starting to get a little mold at the bottom (as a few others have) so I picked them but they are suppose to be yellow peppers!  So I'll wait a few days and see if they'll start to turn. If not I'll just use them anyway.  I'm afraid just leaving them on the plant will make them mold faster.

Well off to get an English muffin for breakfast and see what else I want to do with my day off!

Happy 4th! (one of two)

Okay hubby finally finished the spare bedroom floor. Woo hoo!  That's something else to celebrate on this 4th of July!

So here are the before and during photos...

The carpet is the same berber carpeting that we had in the master bedroom. We sold the daybed that was in there months ago as my oldest has not used the room in years. We just were using it as a spare computer room. 

Here's where our spare computer was.

Before photo from the doorway. Carpet still down

More before with carpet still down...

Carpet is up..padding needs to come up

Another shot with padding still on..

Hubby didn't take as many photos 'during'. Here is part of the floor in over pad and some wood floor still exposed.

Here is about half the bedroom done...

All done on that side...the balcony door is open to let some of the sunshine in on that beautiful bright floor!

BEFORE picture at the doorway to the bedroom

AFTER photo at the same doorway

Last bit to finish was the closet..just needs the trim!

Happy 4th!

I'm getting smart about this post of our new bedroom flooring since the before pictures ended up in the 2nd post last time, sort of back assward. So here are the AFTER photos.The floor is a beautiful white barn wood looking grain and really makes the room pop, not to mention helps it look bigger. It is the smallest of the bedrooms.

White Brushed Pine is the color of this flooring

Tika was inspecting the floor :-)  This is the furniture we bought from Divine Patina and the owner did some nice eggplant stressed finish to it. Really stands out with this flooring!

We don't have box spring/mattress yet for the bed but here is a good view from the doorway.

Here's a view of the corner. You can see some of my balcony garden through the window

Here is where that metal desk was. We have a nice vanity there now with just enough room to get around the bed. Looks so much nicer and again, lovin the floor!

Computer was moved to the built in desk that was already there before. Hubby stained the floor trim to match it and give some nice contrast from the wall color.

 Ditzy says "I approve Dad!"

Short break..

Writing a little on my lunch break.  I am so looking forward to having a 4 day weekend!  The office is closed both tomorrow and Friday, and that is enough reason to celebrate for me!

The trim isn't up yet in the spare bedroom but as soon as it is I will post pictures.  Unfortunately hubby did not take before pictures like he said. Maybe he thought he did or accidentally erased them, but he only has pics after the carpet was removed and padding was still down. But will post what I can.

After suffering with some shoulder/arm pain he finally found out today at the doctor's office what his problem is. Since he had some neck vertebrae fused years ago from being in a car accident, the hole that surrounds the large nerves that come out from the spine is getting smaller (from calcium build up or bone growth?) not sure. And so the pressure on his nerve is causing all this pain. He is going to see a specialist about it and may need an operation to make that opening bigger to relieve it. Hopefully that will resolve his problem!  We'll see.  I'm sure he would rather avoid an operation but since this is not an issue that will go away, he has to do something.  At least he knows what is wrong.

Looking forward to a visit this weekend from our youngest. She's still getting her teaching things finalized and also has to get an apartment too, so lots for her to do.

The birds are starting to hatch out on the back porch. You know the ones in that bag for leaves and brush.  Hubby saw one in there he thought it was dead but it moved. So yeah!  There were 4 eggs total so I think there are 3 yet to hatch.  I can't really look in there without standing over it and he is taller than me so he has been peeking at a better distance without disturbing the momma.  Too cute!  Not sure about pictures but I'll see if I get an opportunity once they are all hatched and the momma slips away for food.  We sure know when there is a dog outside laying on the porch though, because the birds squawk like crazy! :)  They think the entire back porch is theirs!