Two more days until Mom!

I awoke this morning to a thunderstorm coming in from the west.  We are having them for a while this morning it looks like.  I need to hurry up and get off here.  I've been really busy the last few days with work and getting ready for my Mom to visit.  Kids and I did a thorough cleaning of the living room.  Now this entails more than just picking up.  The floor is littered with toys, papers, popcorn, pens, garbage etc...  These kids are slobs and when I get home I'm usually exhausted and let things slide.  It looks really good now.  Just need some touch up work like glass cleaning and another vacuum session with carpet fresh.  I went to a few garage sales this weekend, primarily looking for something unusual to turn into a flower planter.  I signed up for that for the fair, unusual planter.  I was thinking of using my planter that has rabbits on it, but I realized thats not really unusually and I think they are looking for something different.  I saw a couple construction helmets but they were too rolley.  I may look in Dave's garage, they have alot of things just sitting on shelfs.  I was also thinking about maybe a tackle box.  Have to look at one and see what I can do.  One of the rules is that the plants must be grown in the container.  I don't know if they mean grown from seed or grown for a while or just planted in the container and not in another pot and set in the container.  Sigh...  oh well, how are they gonna tell the difference?  I also realized I signed up to make a carrot cake too.  So I have to buy the ingrediants for that.  Luckily its just for a single layer cake.  Well time to go.  Have a nice week everyone!  Linda

Thanks Sugar for the pretty graphic!

Black raspberries

I had a lovely hummingbird go after my red, white and blue shirt yesterday!  I think he thought I was a flower!  I found a big patch of black raspberries near my job and picked a coffee mug full.  I am going back Saturday with a big ziploc to get more!  My garden is really coming along.  My jalepeno's are really producing and I have a few habenero's.  Also the bush beans have baby beans on it (only 2 plants survived the squirrels) and my peas are almost as tall as me and flowering.  I have one peapod starting.  Tomatoes are doing good.  Lots of cherries and regulars.  I will have enough to show for the fair at least.  Next weekend, the 15th is pageant rehearsal and also the day I turn in my entries.  I have been keeping a good eye on the wild flowers this year.  I am doing a wildflower boquet.  I think I will make it large and put it in a decorative pitcher that I have.  I am also doing on of just foliage and one in a teacup!  Also entered a dahlia which are just getting ready to bloom.  Hopefully one will cooperate and be perfect for fair day.  Ok got to get ready for work.  Graphic is from Sugar, she just started a new graphic journal!

Worth showing again

After reading this on AOL news, I just sat and wondered what this world is coming to.  Murder, rape, child abuse, war, drugs etc...  Unspeakable acts of violence against each other.  I hate to say this but if there really is a God, how can He allow this to continue?  How can he allow children to be stolen in the night and sexually abused and tortured and killed?  How can he allow women with unborn babies to be murdered.  If anyone out there has the answer please let me know.  I hate to feel my faith being weakened like it is.  I want to believe in a strong loving God.  Maybe we are all just highly evolved apes after all.  Just a few thousand years from the cave and club....

Happy 4th of July

This video is one of many from Youtube with this song, God Bless the USA.  Please remember our troops today.  The only reason this country is FREE is due to the blood of thousands of Americans spilled.  That is the one and only reason.  God Bless our Troops!

Monday morning photo shoot

Something interesting in your yard.  Well, let me see what I can do here:

How about some reproducing bugs?  Hmmmmm....

Go here to see the other entries, or try your own:  John Scalzi

An Award for Me???

I was awarded this by NightmareMom.  She is an awesome blogger and has great graphics and tags too!  She has also been a great friend and supporter of me.  So to pass this on, who do I want to nominate?

Carlene - A recent widow who has shown me what strength is.

Lori - A woman struggling to save her daughter

Jeannette - a Breast cancer survivor

Jeannette - Welcome to my travels

Susan - Another strong woman who inspires me with her love of the Lord

So these are my people that I nominate! 

 

Remembering Hell

Dec 16th, 2006

Drunk several days.  Verbal abuse-keep your F*cking hands off me, (claiming I hit him), Go ahead and try it again, I'll knock out all your teeth F*ing Ahole.  Smashed Christmas tree and broke several ornaments.  Denied it.  Came to bed at 11PM more verbal abuse.

Feb 22, 06

Heavy drinking, D verbally abusive about me to Sarah on phone.  Whore, fat pig, slut.  Called Sarah and told her I was mean and moving out with another man.

Feb 23rd

Dave drunk again.  Took Travis tv away after bursting into his room.  Called T a dickwad.

March 13th

Dave cooking drunk, cut finger and it wouldn't stop bleeding.  Wouldn't go to hospital.  1 am decided to go and verbally abused me because I couldn't drive him.  I had taken cold medicine.  Very drunk.

Mar 20th

A man IM'd me and D was in a drunken rage all weekend.

June 12th

Dave drinking and driving, wrecked truck with property damage left scene of accident. 

June 25th

Dave drunk Friday and Sat night.  We were supposed to go to the zoo with kids and he wouldn't get up.  I said I guess I'm the only one that wants to go.  When he did get up and we left, he stopped and got himself food but no one else and when I said something about it because Sarah was crying in the backseat, he became verbally abusive.  Started screaming at me to shut up.Also said that he wasn't charged with DWI for accident because he wasn't drunk.  And it never happened.  Claimed I ruined everyones day.  Called me a fat ass. 

This goes on and on until I finally left July 25th 2006.  Hard to believe I am gone and its been almost a year.  Funny how even in court, he tried to blame it all on me and make me look like I was the crazy one.  Even managed to fool the drug/alcohol tester.  It will all catch up to him someday, or will it?