A few weeks ago we were driving home from a new church that we had tried. My husband asked me a question and I was reading through the little pamphlet they gave us trying to find the answer to his question. He kept talking and I kinda tuned him out because I was reading, trying to answer the first question. My ears perk up just in time to hear him saying..
"...you need to listen to me, I only use 2,000 words a day and you are missing them.."
Isn't he cute?
Awhile ago we had read some article or saw some show that talked about how women use about 30,000 words a day and men only use 2000 so that's why when we get home from work we have all kinds of information to share and their answer to 'how was work today' is always a one word response.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
A few of my Favoirte things...
I love when your check book balances the first time.
You get that letter in the mail from the bank, put off opening it until you have time to sit down with your checkbook, a pen and your calculator. It is such a wonderful feeling when the first number you come out with matches exactly. There was not a missing check number. There is not a questionable number that you can't read...is that a 7 or a 1? It's the simple things...
Am I old school? Does everyone still balance their check book by hand?
You get that letter in the mail from the bank, put off opening it until you have time to sit down with your checkbook, a pen and your calculator. It is such a wonderful feeling when the first number you come out with matches exactly. There was not a missing check number. There is not a questionable number that you can't read...is that a 7 or a 1? It's the simple things...
Am I old school? Does everyone still balance their check book by hand?
Monday, April 20, 2009
Dogs and Compost
I know I have been gone for awhile....Same excuse, nothing new, been busy with work.
Anyway.....Bob and I were watching TV tonight and flipped on Modern Marvels. It was all about energy saving things. Now, I have been doing my part to be green. I have the reusable bags and I remember to take them about 75% of the time when I go shopping. We have two recycle bins: one for cardboard stuff and the other for glass, plastics, and cans. I think it's been three weeks since we remembered to take the trash out of the garage and put it by the street...but that's fine since our trash has decreased dramatically.
One thing I have wanted to try, but was not brave enough was to have a compost pile. My husband has a green thumb and grows things all the time. I figured once we got settled and had a garden here, I would try a compost pile outside. Well...I don't have to wait anymore!!! I think we may actually buy this.
It's called Nature Mill. It sits in your kitchen, can handle up to 80lbs of waste a month and is smell free.(i know those of you have real ones are laughing at me, but don't burst my bubble) I could upgrade to the next model that can survive in the outdoors. As I was reading i saw that it can handle pet waste. It hit me......When I finally break down and get a dog for Bob, he can put the poop in our compost pile and we can have lots of good soil for our plants. I told him....When YOU pick up the poop from YOUR dog, YOU can put the poop in the compost thing outside! How cool. This is the closest I have been to being excited about a dog....Pretty sad, I know.
Anyway.....Bob and I were watching TV tonight and flipped on Modern Marvels. It was all about energy saving things. Now, I have been doing my part to be green. I have the reusable bags and I remember to take them about 75% of the time when I go shopping. We have two recycle bins: one for cardboard stuff and the other for glass, plastics, and cans. I think it's been three weeks since we remembered to take the trash out of the garage and put it by the street...but that's fine since our trash has decreased dramatically.
One thing I have wanted to try, but was not brave enough was to have a compost pile. My husband has a green thumb and grows things all the time. I figured once we got settled and had a garden here, I would try a compost pile outside. Well...I don't have to wait anymore!!! I think we may actually buy this.
It's called Nature Mill. It sits in your kitchen, can handle up to 80lbs of waste a month and is smell free.(i know those of you have real ones are laughing at me, but don't burst my bubble) I could upgrade to the next model that can survive in the outdoors. As I was reading i saw that it can handle pet waste. It hit me......When I finally break down and get a dog for Bob, he can put the poop in our compost pile and we can have lots of good soil for our plants. I told him....When YOU pick up the poop from YOUR dog, YOU can put the poop in the compost thing outside! How cool. This is the closest I have been to being excited about a dog....Pretty sad, I know.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
H A I L spells cold....
Yeah...I said it, Hail.
Today it started to rain, again. Bob wanted to sit in the garage and watch the lightning. I agreed and we headed out to the garage with our folding chairs.
As we sat there, a piece of ice bounces off the car in the driveway and lands at our feet in the garage. That's odd...all we see coming down is rain. I jokingly ask if we want to move the car in the garage and begin to recall a conversation I had with my sister yesterday about a hail storm. Then this happens.....
Yeah...Freakin Golfball size hail....look at these things...they are like spiky ice balls
It was incredibly loud as these things were pounding on the side of the house and windows. We felt helpless. Just sitting and watching these things bounce on the deck and accumulate.... (If you look close you can see the hail bouncing off the deck rails)
When it was over and we finally went outside there was the weirdest citrus pine smell. The hail came knocking through the trees and broke a bunch of branches and you could smell the pine scent. It was eerie.
Bob was not happy that he had to actually use the snow shovel. That's the second snow tool we've used since we moved down here. I sure am glad we did not bring down our snow blower!! I can't imagine what use we'd find for that after a week of rain and hail.
Today it started to rain, again. Bob wanted to sit in the garage and watch the lightning. I agreed and we headed out to the garage with our folding chairs.
As we sat there, a piece of ice bounces off the car in the driveway and lands at our feet in the garage. That's odd...all we see coming down is rain. I jokingly ask if we want to move the car in the garage and begin to recall a conversation I had with my sister yesterday about a hail storm. Then this happens.....
Yeah...Freakin Golfball size hail....look at these things...they are like spiky ice balls
It was incredibly loud as these things were pounding on the side of the house and windows. We felt helpless. Just sitting and watching these things bounce on the deck and accumulate.... (If you look close you can see the hail bouncing off the deck rails)
When it was over and we finally went outside there was the weirdest citrus pine smell. The hail came knocking through the trees and broke a bunch of branches and you could smell the pine scent. It was eerie.
Bob was not happy that he had to actually use the snow shovel. That's the second snow tool we've used since we moved down here. I sure am glad we did not bring down our snow blower!! I can't imagine what use we'd find for that after a week of rain and hail.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Creative uses for snow tools
Some of you may think this is a picture of us washing off our snow scraper. Then you realize it's me, and that would be a far to obvious answer to what this picture really is.
Let me take you back to last Saturday. We took our glass and plastic to be recycled and the tub was pretty dirty. We knew it was going to rain that afternoon so we left the bin outside so the rain could wash it out. The next day we go outside to check on some of our plants and realize just how much it rained the night before.
This is a very full tub for less than 24 hours....just how much rain? Let's use the snow scraper to measure.
That's a lot of rain.
The official count was over 8 inches. I am used to measure snowfall, not rain fall in multiple inches.
At least we found a good use for our snow scraper.
Let me take you back to last Saturday. We took our glass and plastic to be recycled and the tub was pretty dirty. We knew it was going to rain that afternoon so we left the bin outside so the rain could wash it out. The next day we go outside to check on some of our plants and realize just how much it rained the night before.
This is a very full tub for less than 24 hours....just how much rain? Let's use the snow scraper to measure.
That's a lot of rain.
The official count was over 8 inches. I am used to measure snowfall, not rain fall in multiple inches.
At least we found a good use for our snow scraper.
R A I N spells wet
If you have not seen the national radar map over the past week, you may not realize that it has been raining A LOT down here. Below is a picture of what our back yard looked like a few months ago.
Here are some picture of our back yard now...
Bob wanted to try to slip and slide across the back yard, but I would not let him because I did not want to wash his clothes.
This is our front porch...It's hard to tell, but that is about 2 inches of water at the bottom.
Here I am trying to unclog a grate that leads to a drain. (Our neighbors probably think we are crazy, wading in water and taking pictures in the rain)
I'll post again later with some more pictures. I need to go tell Bob to come back inside, I think I here him playing with the garbage bags.....he thinks he can use them as a slip and slide.....
Here are some picture of our back yard now...
Bob wanted to try to slip and slide across the back yard, but I would not let him because I did not want to wash his clothes.
This is our front porch...It's hard to tell, but that is about 2 inches of water at the bottom.
Here I am trying to unclog a grate that leads to a drain. (Our neighbors probably think we are crazy, wading in water and taking pictures in the rain)
I'll post again later with some more pictures. I need to go tell Bob to come back inside, I think I here him playing with the garbage bags.....he thinks he can use them as a slip and slide.....
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