Pine Tree Crosses, Garden planting and TGIF

This is an awesome story about Pine Tree Crosses.  I'll be on the lookout for sure!  http://wandascountryhome.com/pinetrees/index.html

My Papa told me many things about trees and their leaves but I had never heard this story.  I am amazed at how nature "knows" the seasons...like the dogwoods will be in bloom by Easter, no matter when Easter is, March or April.  Pine tree crosses shooting towards the heavens.....the animals knealing at Old Christmas.....sunflowers "following" the path of the sun.....leaves curling up when there is impending rain.  God is awesome in His creation.

Speaking of nature, my Yankee husband just called me from the seed store to ask "which bean did you want most of?" and I said the "speckled kind - not the green ones".  He and my step-Dad are in the middle of planting the garden.  I said don't forget the fertilizer.  I do love speckled butterbeans and now my daughter is actually hoarding them from me when my Nanny cooks them.  They planted Dixie Lee peas on Wednesday (this is funny cause my hubby is such a city boy) and I said "how many seeds to a hole and did you toss in some fertilizer too?".  Hubby says no fertilizer.  HUH???  Oh my you've gotta be kidding me!  No wonder they had to replant the peas last year LOL.  I need to get a picture of Tom planting a garden...to send to NY and FLA to his family - kind of a city / gothic america portrait!!!!  What I need to do is let TOM come to work for ME and let ME go help plant the garden.  Of course I say it's doomed anyway cause my Papa always said you had to wait till after the new moon or plant on Good Friday.  Neither is here jes yet.

Well it is TGIF....and payday Friday (and I'm alone today) for all my subcontractors and as usual the boss is still mulling over the legistics of their invoices (grrrrrr).  Especially masons....why is it always a taffy pull when it comes to brick counts?!  ~*#^%  And could we wait a liiiiiiiiiiiitle later to get these guys paid today huh???  Ruin my morning already, cause the phone will be ringing "when can I come pick up my check?" and I have to say "dunno"....I have begged and begged for these things to be done by Thursday no later, but da boss always, ALWAYS, drags his feet.  One Friday it was so bad that my co-worker and I went to lunch (checks were not ready yet) and we put a note on the door that said "Call Boss at cell # for your check".  Now that went over real good!  There was a line of subs waiting outside when we got back and the boss was GONE.  That'll teach him..........so we thought.

I need to clean house this weekend....and you're all expected to KICK BUTT if I don't....I've talked hubby into taking Tara to the birthday party in the morning.  That way I have quiet time to do the things I need to without being disturbed.  Plus I bought some material and I just might get around to cutting out a dress for Tara and making a matching pocketbook.  If I do well on the pocketbook, I'll make one for her friend, Cassie, who just happened to spend the night last night.  They are at the farm today, too, chasing the goats not planting LOL.

Oh well, TGIF to everybody and have a fun April Fool's Day!

 

Friendship is like...........

This summary is not available. Please click here to view the post.

Pop-In-Law, Spring, Chin Ups & the Preacher

Yay....we received the call that Tom's Dad is out of surgery and on the way to ICU.  Thanks for all the prayers and well wishes!!  He had the abdominal aneursym repaired today along with some bowel & kidney flushing and even flushed out a blockage he had in one of his legs.  They really gave him a Spring cleaning LOL!!!! and everything is looking good! WOOOO HOOOO!  So Tom's trip to FLA didn't have to be bumped up and he'll be taking his shift with Dad April 17-24.  Now we gotta remember those poor nurses who'll have to deal with him for the next 10-14 days!!  Geesh!

Spring has sprung today for a good showing....the sun is out, the weather is 68 today and climbing to about 80 by Friday.  My burgandy car is laced with the yellow etching of pollen and my Yankee hubby is learning how to plant a garden (hang on while I stop laughing).  Tara has just come home from shopping with the Grands...Nanny and my Mom.  Remember???  She's on a mission for that new chair.  (Wonder if she found one??)  So Miss T now has a new Bratz Genie doll, Meygan.  Like we don't have enough dolls of that sort in this house!!  I am home today =) so there is ribs in the oven and I'm making a quick little appetizer.  We'll have fresh green beans and mashed taters with the ribs tonight.

Yes, I said "home today".  Sometime during my sleep last night I was laying on my tummy, dreaming.  I reached upward to the top of my mattress and gave myself a PULL, more like a slide, up to the headboard.  I immediately woke up with a YIKES! because what I felt was the inside stitched areas from my recent hysterectomy PULL.  Oh boy...it was about the equivalent of my trying to do a chin up so you can imagine all my weight pulling against fresh wounds trying their darndest to heal properly.  Will I ever learn??????  Plus I had been to the Chiropracter yesterday AND swimming at the Y...yes I actually tried to swim to see how my middle reacted to the reach and pull.  Must have been why I was reaching in my sleep......gotta watch that stuff.

Tom has been helping my step-Dad on some projects he's picked up and today when they finished up, they went up to my parents church to help errect the crosses for the Easter season.  (Mind you...Tom is a Yankee Catholic; parents are suthern SBapt)  So Tom is thinking "this is a set up" especially after his recent sleep over at the jail.  He kept expecting one of those "by the way..." conversations to start up, but they never did.  Would have served him right.  Yankee sandwich rat thar on the church lawn between those good ol redneck boys.  And under the crosses to boot!  (another moment of ROFLMAO)

And April Fool's day is just around the corner.......gotta come up with a doozie for the boss.  One year we rigged his whole desktop to fall into the floor when he opened a drawer or picked up a phone.  The best one was removing the cream filling from the Oreo and replacing it with toothpaste!!  He refuses to eat Oreo's anymore unless HE is the one to open the bag.  Go figure!!

{{to all}} ...Sharon

Binky Lemondrop

Binky Lemondrop.....yep, that is my Easter Bunny Name!!!

http://www.quizopolis.com/newest_fun_stuff.php

My Nanny

Sharon’s Horrible scope "….. when a very strong feeling hits you now, admirably, you won't think twice before expressing it. You won't even want to." This is funny because I usually DO say whatever comes to mind.

Especially where my Nanny is concerned. She is one of the neatest people ever. She doesn’t mind one bit telling me what to do or how to do it or when or to get off my butt. That’s why I don’t mind telling her "what for". Like lately she’s having issues being light headed. The doc said she was bordering diabetes and to keep an eye on her sugar levels. Well Saturday and Sunday her levels were up to 200. I made her a list of things to NOT eat/drink…like cutting the sugar in her tea by half, buying the brown rice instead of the good ol white one we love so much…easy on the pie and soda. We’ve been telling her to lay off the white stuff for a while now but does she listen?? Nooooooooooooooo. And she wonders why she gets so sleepy. She has made a Dr appt for Tuesday and I said to her "are you gonna tell him everything? you know, the truth? cause the truth shall set you free!" and she said YES she was gonna tell all…..Yeah right, I’ll bet. She’ll leave out the part about dipping snuff. No wonder she’s light in the head. And she’ll tell him she eats normal meals too…….WRONG!!! Her lunch yesterday was beef, rice, gravy, potato salad, 2 biscuits (one w/jelly) and tea. Hello!! Where are the veggies??? She loves veggies. Too much starch!!! Starch = sugar. This lady drives me crazy. I told her I was gonna fax a letter to the Doc saying "this is what really goes on" just so he’d have a better idea of reality. Maybe my Mom will go with her and spill the beans.

Nanny also wants what she wants when she wants it, which is usually right now. She has a funny way of encouraging you to hang a picture for her or take her shopping. At 83 she is fiesty and has a lot of energy. Plus she is always changing things in her home like pictures and paint on the walls. She even had Tara on the ladder painting the highest parts. She will paint anything in sight…she has gourds growing and when they are ready THEY get painted! Now Nanny wants, more like NEEDS, a new chair in her sitting room. Of course someone needs to go with her to pick it out and bring it home (we all have trucks) but she wants to go Yesterday!! Whew it never ends.

Refecting

All in all it was a pretty good weekend.  Tara went to work with me on Friday since I'm only there 1/2 day it is a good idea.  After work we set out on a mission to get her a real live manicure .... the French Tip kind.  She was nervous but soon realized it was a great treat.  I think I've created a monster!!  What have I done?!?!?!?!

I had promised a friend that we'd go bowling Friday night, so we met up at a bowling alley.  I totally cut up and let loose...I needed to.  I've been so caught up lately in Hubby drama and Kid drama and Nanny drama and bestest friend moved away to be with a loser boyfriend drama (I finally convinced her to move back home this weekend!!), father-in-law surgery upcoming drama...you get the picture.  We had a blast.  We ventured over to the pool tables, shot a few games and then headed out to a dueling piano bar.  I love this bar (hey, isn't that a country song??).

Saturday was sleeping late....oh boy did I need that after coming home at 1am.  Lots and lots of Cap'n Morgan & pineapple the night before.  Actually too much pineapple...that acid eats at my tummy.  Must switch to Sprite or a citrus drink.  So Saturday was recoup day and just lay around till time to go to the bosses wife's Pampered Chef party.  Not much of a party let me tell you, nor did I expect it to be.  Not compared to the night before.  Nevertheless, I indulged her, played nice, bought a couple of gadgets and drank her punch - I offered to go out to my car and get my rum.  Oh the frown I got for having booze in my car.  Mini bottles or as I like to call em "pocket booze".   What??? What did I say???

And Sunday is usually the catch up day...the OMG look at the laundry day.  A few loads here and there, some TV or radio- I actually watched that nut Larry the Cable Guy - I don't normally like him, but it was tollerable.  I think my reasons for not liking him stemmed from the resemblance to hubby's drunk plumber friends.  Gotta stop that stereo-typing.  And I did make myself watch "My Best Friend's Wedding".   As far as Julia Roberts goes, I liked "Erin Brockovich" and "Runaway Bride" much better.  I like the drama of "Erin"....the mystery.  I like action stuff...like "The Rock" and "Entrapment" and "Murder at 1600".  But sometimes a chick flick is in order.

Hey did you notice.....?  No romance.  No walks in the park.  No candlelight or fireplace's with champagne?  What's up with this picture???  Gotta do something to change this scene.  The night is still young yet...........hmmmmm.  Crap, I just remembered I need to change the sheets..........

 

Sunday is.......

Sleeping In
Usually Lazy
Nap time at 4
Dinner creations by Hubby
Alot of TV or Radio
Yikes! Tomorrow is Monday!