Holy cow. I almost forgot about this blog, and am shocked it wasn't deleted. wow! Okay, so life changed about 6 months ago when the retail drug chain I worked for decided to eliminate 14 job positions in our district. Don't let anyone ever tell you it pays to work yourself to the top, because in my ( and 13 other store managers) case, we were the first ones to be cut. Thank you Rite Aid! You did me the biggest favor any one has ever done. My blood pressure has come down, I'm not miserable all the time, I'm not exhausted all the time..and I actually have a life now! I'm not saying I won't work again, but I am so thankful I no longer work for that company!

This is Carlyn, our newest grand daughter. Isn't she just the sweetest thing?! I LOVE that baby!

Well I'm not sure what I'll do with this blog, decisions...

Have a wonderful day!!

July 15

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY Kenny and Brenda!

Bad blogger!

Holey Moley. I can't believe I didn't post through the holidays at all!
I have been sick all winter, one cold right after another, doesn't matter which kind of medicine I take, I've only felt good about 8 days total since Thanksgiving!
I am SO ready for Spring. This has to be one of the coldest, snowiest winters we've had in a looooong time, I can't even remember the last one like this. I just keep telling myself March is coming!
In the meantime, here's a photo that makes me smile every time I see it! That was our son, trying (and succeeding) to stay on the tube behind the boat! He had so much fun that day, I just smile thinking about it!

End of Summer

~sigh~

I love our boat. I call it my Chill Pill. Really. All I have to do is be on that boat a half hour and I feel better about anything.

It's gonna be a looooong winter.

Ack!

Okay, so my little mop dog is prissy. She won't do her business in the yard unless she is walked, and I am not walking her on a leash in all kinds of weather at 6:30 in the morning before work. So I piddle pad trained her when she was young. We are lucky we have an elevated enclosed porch and have a place for an outdoor (sort of?) piddle pad area, she doesn't "go" in my house anywhere at all.

Anyhoo, Friday is garbage day. Thursday night I was changing out the piddle pad for a clean one. I neatly folded three corners in, then the fourth, folded it over again to avoid dropping anything... and there was a snake under the dang piddle pad! I acted all girly and screeched higher than any owl ever thought of screeching, about climbed up the side of my husband screeching "get it, just get it!" It was ALIVE, it slithered under a bench that had shoes under it, meanwhile I am on a chair screeching "get it get it!" He didn't know whether to laugh at me or what, I am still screeching just get the dang thing OFF my porch!! How the heck did it get five feet up on the porch anyway???

A cat. I have two hunter cats that like to bring me their presents. One of them must have brought that garter snake up earlier in the day and it slithered under the first thing it could. Oh I could have sworn it was five feet long, but more like a foot, and pretty skinny now that I think back on it.
And my husband was my hero, he got it off the porch and way way way into the woods!

Now I walk on the porch kicking at things to make sure no snakes, or rodents are hiding to surprise me again! This ol' ticker can't take too many of those surprises!

All in an instant

So. Two days ago a family member is murdered.
Yep. In my wee little burg, a murder, and a family member at that.
Tom was only 44, not too many years younger than me. Had two daughters and two grand daughters, they were the apples of his eye.
It seems it was a senseless murder, as most are, but he was a victim in his daughters home. The police aren't releasing too many details yet, but it seems it may have been a foiled robbery, that turned homicide.
They have two suspects in jail at this time. One male, one female.
For the sake of everyone in my family, I hope you both rot, in jail or in hell, maybe it will be one in the same.

RIP Tom Lorigan.

Happy Mother's Day!

To all the Mom's out there, have a GREAT day!