Christopher and Nikki

I got to visit my nephew and niece today.  I haven't seen them in 5 years except for seeing Nikki at Great Escape last week.  They both look so good.  Chris works at a local paper mill and its a really good job.  Nikki is going to be a senior this year and has been working at the Great Escape for 3 years.  She is a costumed character this year.  She says its hot and she gets hit, groped and kicked all the time.  Nice huh?  She showed me her art portfolio.  She is a very good artist and also a photographer.  She likes black and white mostly.  I got a picture of Chris, Nikki doesn't like her pic taken.  Here is Chris

This is my last lily of the year and one of my dahlias:

What are these?

These mystery plants were allowed to grow in my garden.  I don't know what they are.  The Japanese beetles sure seem to like em tho.  They got these tiny orange flower on them and now its turning into a seed pod or fruit of some type?  Hmmmmmm. The last picture is a picture of a millet plant that grew itself in a pot of pansies I had. 

Bad girls

These two have been causing alot of trouble lately.  Yesterday, they picked all my jalepenos and chopped them up and buried them.  I could hear Isabelle (friend) out there laughing hysterically and every time I looked out, it just looked like they were playing in the dirt.  It wasn't until later that I found out they picked about 15 of my peppers, leaving only one left and destroyed them.  I think Isabelle is the ringleader and Sarah won't stand up and say no.  I told Sarah that Isabelle isn't going to be allowed to play in the front yard anymore. 

Sarah makes enough messes of her own.  "Cooking" in the kitchen and putting different foods together and then adding soap etc... Leaves a mess for me to clean up after. 

Now she was just in the bathroom spraying the cat with perfume.  She cut his hair earlier this week.  She is out of hand... Help me!

Veggies, store savings and a nice car...

After a pretty good day at work, I went to the grocery store.  They had coupons for 2x manufacter coupons so I got free Pantene shampoo, a big jug of it, two cans of Folgers for .99 cents each, 3 boxes of Friehofers chocolate chip cookies for 3.69.  I also got some Ajax dishsoap at .40 cents off.  So I got 27.43 dollars of stuff for (drumroll.........)  $7.99!  Then I came home and followed this type of car out of town.  Its a Lotus Elise. 

 I thought it was a great little car.  Only a two seater.  While I was waiting for Travis to get off the computer I picked greenbeans and peas.

 

So today I feel like a WINNER!  Linda

 

Dave's Birthday

Isn't this an adorable graphic?  I got it from Donna at D's Designs.  Her link is on the right.

I am itching intensly on my chest/shoulder area this morning from a sunburn healing.  I hate the itching phase.  Its an itch that won't go away! 

Dave's (good Dave) had his birthday on Thursday.  He turned 40!  He, He!  I'm going to be 40 again this year, because my real 40th birthday was spent in the shelter.  I think Dave's family may have a little party for me.  My own family wouldn't think of it.  My birthday will be followed quickly by Travis' birthday and then Sarah's.  Anyhow, we had a nice cookout with shish kabobs, rice, salad, and fresh corn on the cob from Vermont.  His sister, Laura, lives in Vermont and flys.  So she rented a plane and flew in for the occasion.  She used to be one of my best friends in elementary school.  I like Dave's sisters alot.  Jen and her husband were there.  They are the ones with the giant pigs.  Jen is the artist.  Her link is on the right also.  I brought the fixin's for strawberry shortcake so we had that.  I also added some fresh blueberries and it was all very good.  Dave has been sick.  He has an infection on his foot.  He has an open area from the diabetes.  The medicine they put him on has made him all wacky and a little grumpy.  That is one of the side-effects.  Anyhow.  Yesterday was a boring day.  I took Sarah to her last day of camp.  They had a big youth day at the town park.  They had 4 different bouncy houses, pony rides and a sprinkler set up.  Also free pizza and T-shirts.  I also got a free T-shirt in the mail the other day from Hills.  Thats the dog/cat food company.  I entered a contest where I wrote a story about my adopted cat, Tarzan.  Everyone who enters gets a T-shirt.  So if you want to write a story about an animal you adopted you will get one too maybe!  Ok time to go get ready for work.  Everyone have a great day! 

Fair photos

Here are some photos from the fair.  Pretty self-explanatory captions!  Enjoy!

Response from the Great Escape

I wrote a letter to the managers at Great Escape regarding the water issue and bathing suit issue.  This is their reply...

Thank you for your comments regarding your visit to The Great Escape.  We value your opinion and recognize that receiving guest input is the best way to continually improve our park.


We understand your disappointment when you realized that we no longer allow food or beverage into the park. We felt it was important to institute this course of action because of increased security measures and to increase the flow of traffic coming into the park. The food and beverage policy only prohibits outside food and beverage inside park gates, where our guests are in a controlled and somewhat confined location.  Picnic baskets continue to be welcome on the park property.  For the convenience of our guests, we offer comfortable picnic areas outside of the park complete with picnic tables, trash receptacles, and our maintenance service. In addition, as always, Guests can come and go throughout the day, since the park has a very flexible re-entry policy.  You need only to have your hand stamped and you have the freedom to come and go all day long.  In addition, all of our Guests are welcome to bring in sealed water bottles or empty plastic water bottles to fill once they are in the park.  We offer complimentary water to our Guests at most food locations as well.  


In reference to our prices - In a recent pricing comparison, we found The Great Escape to be very competitive in value with other forms of entertainment such as sporting events, concerts, and movies in the Albany/Glens Falls area.  Your comments have been forwarded to our In-Park Services Director for review and consideration.


The reason we don't allow bathing suits outside of Splashwater Kingdom is because we implemented a new Guest Code of Conduct to support our goal of improving the family environment throughout all Six Flags parks and to encourage all Six Flags guests to be considerate of others.  The Six Flags Guest Code of Conduct requires our guests to comply with a set of rules and policies designed to make the park experience fun, safe, clean and appropriate for children and families.  


Thank you again for taking the time to comment.


From: Linda Wheeler
Phone: 518-XXX-XXXX
Email: geocachelinda66@aol.com
Reason for writing: Merchandise Questions
Park: The Great Escape, Lake George
Message: I visited today with my family and was once again discouraged and disgusted by the high prices of food and drink.  For people on a lower income level we can only afford to come to the Great Escape once a year.  When families are not even allowed to bring water in and stands charge close to $4.00 for a small bottle of water it is very upsetting.  I see there is plenty of cold water available for employees as each station has a large cooler of water but very little public water fountains.  I saw only one during our whole day.  
On a brighter note, the park was very clean and there were costumed characters everywhere we went, which the children enjoyed.  
I am also wondering about the policy about no swimsuits being worn in the park.  I wore my full bathing suit into the park with shorts over and was not notified at the gate of this policy.  I was stopped by an employee and told I had to put on a cover shirt and also barred from a ride.  There were people walking around wearing shirts with less coverage than what I had on.  The only difference was they were not swim suit tops.  I think as long as someone is not dripping wet and decently covered they should be allowed to wear the suits.  Thanks for your attention...