Awesome Thursday Morning :)

Last night we had a couple of storms go through here but nothing severe...and we got some much needed rain ...which means no watering and by that i mean no pulling around a watering hose...a job i dislike...it is just beautiful here today...it is almost noon here and it is only 64 degrees...love it... there was a yard sale on the block behind our home so michelle and i walked over to it this morning and it felt chilly...it was a waste of time...but i always enjoy my walks with her...we both have had a quiet morning and have much work to do on our blogs and other computer work we have to do... i am going to wait until monday to start laying out the wild game cookbook...i had decided to do nothing my first week of summer break...but i have gotten some things started...need to re-arrange furniture in the living room as we just got rid of one of our sofas...and i have a closed door shelving unite upstairs that alan re-purposed using a wooden shelf and some old shutters ...had it upstairs going to move it down here for journey to use as her storage cabinet for some of her toys...i think it will help her when pick-up time comes ...right now her toys are kinda spread out over three rooms...and lets not forget as she puts it ...you need some baby toys here for my new baby...and i do need to start picking up some...hard to believe she will be here by the end of summer "Miss Felicity " ...for awhile it just did not seem to fit for me ...but after her 3D sonogram...it fits her and now i have a name for that beautiful face...can't wait to see if she is a mini journey...a head full of hair :) i really am starting to feel good..sounds odd to admit...but ALL the events of last year mainly and some that were lingering from a couple of previous years are really seeming to fade...they will never be completely gone ...never forgotten...but more filed...those events are making me for the future..whatever it holds...toxic friends and family and events are no longer needed...feels good ...going to really work on learning to put me first...not easy for me as my kids have always been first...oh hell i have always put everyone before me...that i do not think i will be so good at changing...okay lets rephrase that...i will always put certain people first...but being the door mat for ANYONE is out... have not planned meals for the week yet...so i am not sure of dinner for the night...and i need to sort out my coupons ...cause i know a lot expire today...then i will decide if i need to run to the store to use them this evening...i will try and post some pictures later tonight...enjoy this beautiful day :)

I AM BACK....

I am back and now i will explain why i have not posted in over a month...i was given a chance to take my blog public...with ads and the right to have me blog on certain topics...not of my choice some days...in order to do that...i would have to change some things about my blog...thought about it long and hard...made me feel good that i could do that...this blog is read more than i could ever imagine possible...so that is a good feeling...i will be back at blogging full time today...lots of pictures of things we have done to decorate our home ...as it is back on the market..but the market here is not very good...i will be joining twitter soon and hope to have a web page up and running in the next two weeks ..with lots of pictures and recipes... after much thought i have pulled out the plans to finish my wild game recipe book...i wrote the first one over twenty years ago to help pay off our daughter's nicu bill...it was a sell out and her bills left over after insurance were paid off as well...as i write today i am looking at my shih tzu max ...she has been such a good thing added to my life this year... i will just mention this because i have talked about it on this blog before...my neighbor bill passed away about a week ago...he was charged with the murder of his wife terry almost a year ago...he was as much in love with her as she was with him...just a sad day...no one will really ever have the answer but...they are together again...he never went to trial but was able to move to texas near his brother and live in an assisted living facility for the last six months...thanks to his brother, wonderful lawyers and i hope in some small way i helped...bill was a good person...i will end with that... i hope you all have a lot planned for the summer...we hope to head to maryland for a visit and i really want to go to florida to see my favorite X sister in law...we have always tried to stay in touch and i think the world of her :) this summer is full of changes for our family...journey is preparing to attend pre-school in the fall...she will be getting a new sister in aug. named felicity...michelle has several projects going on ...and i hope to include some of them in my blog as well...the biggest change is alan is dusting off the old resume'...he became an energy manager two years ago and then has been working under a two year grant for three cities in kansas...that ends the first of oct. and with money so tight right now in city government...there is really no way they can afford him...so it has always been his hope to take the added knowledge of the energy manager and combine it with the the 35 years of HVAC experience and come up with something interesting to work in until retirement...so we shall see how it goes...off to have some me time...have a wonderful afternoon :)