Glasses, internet and storms...

Hello All,

Let's see, what happened last week...'C', whose contacts have been bothering her lately, has been wearing her glasses more often. Well Tuesday she got in the car and start feeling around for her glasses. She had put them in her jacket pocket and they weren't there. We hoped her friend might have picked them up... she didn't. I told her to check in the office to see if anyone turned them in...she kept forgetting so I called on Friday morning and they had them...thank goodness. They were stretched out, like someone tried to put them on, but I fixed them back. I'll go by one day and let the vision place adjust them a little better. I had just replaced a lens that she lost a couple of weeks ago...but all in all, she has been wearing glasses since she was four and has only had to replace one pair because of damage (in Texas)...and I think they were covered by a warranty.

Then our Internet was out all day Wednesday and part of Thursday...I cursed that blasted cable company again....but it wasn't their fault....our wireless router had went bad....ha. I don't care, I'm still gonna blame them...ha.

So now, we are waiting for 'Ida', the school is closing two hours early and will be closed tomorrow and they were already going to be out Wednesday. Hopefully it won't be too bad...

Have a great day,
Sheila

We survived the trick or treaters...

Halloween is over so it's time to move on to Thanksgiving. We had a good amount of trick or treaters, but they seemed to come in bunches. We had a buzz lightyear, princesses, dracula, power ranger and others. We also had a group of girls dressed as football players and boys as the cheerleaders, complete with rouge on their cheeks, the boys not the girls...ha.

But it's over now and we have too much candy left over...but we always buy too much...you would think we do that on purpose...ha. I didn't scare any one but 'J's friends who came by, the others were to young. We had some little strobe lights around the door that were sound and motion activated and they made scary sounds, so that was enough for the younger ones.

'C' went to her friends Friday night to make funnel cakes, they didn't turn out well so she wanted us to get a recipe and try them. So Saturday we found a recipe online, I bought a funnel cake kit years ago so I had the container to pour the batter from. They turned out pretty good. We put powdered sugar on them, but I think next time I'm going to put strawberry on mine, kind of like strawberry shortcake.

'C' went to another friends birthday party on Saturday night and when 'J' and I went to pick her up, 'J' wore my 'michael myers'(spelling?) mask (from the movie 'Halloween') while I drove. She had a good time seeing peoples reactions...ha.

Sunday we fixed a pot of chili, and we have left overs in the fridge.

I hope everyone has a great week,

Sheila

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! BOO!!

Well the decorations are out and we're getting ready for the little trick or treaters. We might scare some of the bigger kids...


I tried to hit an armadilla in the head with a left over piece of sprinkler pipe...

Yesterday morning...

but he/she ran before I could get to him/her.

So I threw the pipe at him/her...

missed, but got close...

It was a light color instead of dark...never seen one that color before.

I hope I scared it enough it doesn't come back....

Hope everyone has a fun day...
Sheila

Grrr...

Good Morning Everyone,

I had to decorate my blog for Halloween. Thanks to Joyce at 'Tags Only' for the header picture and entry picture. http://tagsandalittlechatter.blogspot.com/. I don't know how to put it in where all you have to do is click 'Joyce' or 'tags only'. (Thanks Debbie, I tried it and it worked, quite simple really...ha.)

We have the worst cable company ever. I won't say the name of it but it starts with an 'M' has 'edia' in the middle and 'com' on the end... :) We have been pretty lucky, of all the places we have lived, we have had pretty decent service...but not here...we had the service since we moved here over 4 years ago, and I have lost count of how many times I have had to call them to come out.

Yeah, I know I could call a satellite service but you are stuck with them for two years and they may be as bad or worse...but they are still an option. We have a cable box in the corner of our front yard by the woods, but we aren't hooked up to that one...oh no, we are hooked up to the one on the other side of our neighbors, because the wire was cut to ours and I guess it was too much trouble to fix!? They did fix it eventually, a few years later.

They never came back to bury our cable when we moved in, so when they were building the house next door, the workers buried it for us. Well come to find out, the cable was above the ground by the box (probably from an earlier fix) and the neighbors lawn service run over it with their lawn mowers...so our cable went out about 3:00 pm Friday. It would have been out until yesterday morning, because that's as soon as they could get a technician out, but Hubby went and bought some connectors when he got back from golf Saturday and reconnected it. (couldn't miss those football games...ha)

But it still didn't work, so we found a cable with connectors on both ends that was left over from our house in Texas. He hooked that one up in place of the old one that was coming out of the box and it worked. He called them and told them he wanted them to make sure they notified me when they got here to fix it because he wanted our cable back..ha. So the guy put new cable on, gave me ours back and buried it...and I got a new remote...ha. Oh well, can I keep my fingers crossed that nothing else will ever happen??

We took it easy the rest of the weekend, 'C' went over to a friends Saturday and then to the fair with her on Sunday. We also grilled hamburgers and hot dogs on Sunday.

Hubby and I went to the doctor yesterday for his biopsy results. He doesn't have cancer, but he has a small spot of 'funny' cells, not cancerous or pre-cancerous but they will keep an eye on them. He'll go back in six months for a check.

Have a great day,
Sheila

Cookies, Hubby, X-Men and Snow....

Hi,

I hope everyone is having a great weekend. 'C' decided Wednesday that she wanted to make cookies from scratch. So we went by after school and picked up the stuff we would need. No, I usually do not make cookies from scratch, I buy the packs you break off the squares and cook...quicker...ha. She mixed up the dough with a little bit of my help. She split it into thirds with chocolate chip in one, white chips and macadamia nuts in another and reeses peanut butter chips in the last. They tasted pretty good.

Hubby went for his biopsy, he will go the 26th for the results. The doctor didn't see anything suspicious on the ultrasound so I hope that is a good sign. He did have a problem later on with his blood pressure dropping too low, making him feel faint. I kept it checked, it was 92/60 first, then 89/59 then 90/60. It finally went up enough he started feeling better. They added 5mg of Lisinopril earlier this year, I think I blogged about it. I didn't think it was necessary because what he is taking keeps his blood pressure low enough and that just made it lower. I think that, in addition to what they gave him for the biopsy, is what caused it to drop. But he is better now, he didn't have any pain and he played golf this morning.

I also watched all of the X-Men movies with daughter 'J'. Not my usual type movie but they were 'ah- ight'...southern for alright.

My Mama scanned some pictures and sent them to me so I could show Lucy that we have gotten some pretty good snowstorms in the south. The first three are from 1973 and the last two are 1994. We got one in 1977 too but we didn't have any pictures of that one.

This is standing in front of the house, facing our neighbor.

My brother Terrie and I and our dog Skipper.
Doesn't looked posed does it...ha.
Us again by our neighbors fence. She lost that metal building

(behind us) a few years later in Hurricane Eloise.

front of my parents house 1994

I lived in Kansas at this time so

I missed this one.

Oh yeah, it was cool enough for a pair of jeans and a long sleeve shirt yesterday.

I'll go now,

Have a great weekend everyone,

Sheila

Dentists, doctors, drivers licenses and shopping...

Thanks for all the birthday wishes for my Mom. We're all good here. We had a little bit of rain off and on all week.


The girls and I had our 6 month dentist appt. for cleaning and checking on Tuesday and we are good for another 6 months. Hubby had an appt. on Wednesday, he has to go next Friday for a prostate biopsy. I hope it comes out well. 'J' and I had to go yesterday and get our licenses renewed. Afterward we went shopping a little, I got two more sets of sheets for our bed. Hubby somehow managed to rip a hole on his side down around his feet...for the 2nd time. I couldn't find just a bottom sheet to replace them, so I just bought two more sets. I also got me and 'J' a pair of pajama bottoms, me a pajama top to match and 'C' a sleep shirt with matching over the knee socks. She's had the socks on ever since...ha. She did take them off to take a shower. 'J' is going to get a matching t-shirt to wear with her pajama bottoms. She doesn't like the kind of top that went with the bottoms. She also got another pajama bottom and baseball style t-shirt at a different store.


Poor hubby didn't get to play golf today. The bigwigs were here from overseas so they had a 'bored' meeting today...I mean board meeting.... ;D They have a new contract with a customer they have been negotiating. I was texting the football scores back and forth to him...ha. But it's not all bad, he will play golf tomorrow.



Ok, I have bored you enough,
Have a great weekend,
Sheila

Happy Birthday Mama...

(Be careful what you wish for...)

Happy Birthday to my Mama,

I am not going to tell her age because I enjoy living,

She is the Mother of five,

The Grandmother of twelve,

and the Great Grandmother of eleven

Happy Birthday Mama

We love you!!!

Sheila