Today: Cheerful

On August 19th, at 4:51 pm, the newest member of our family, David Owen, my great nephew, arrived, weighing in at 7 lb., 4.7 oz, and measuring 19 and 3/4″.  He missed my birthday by 7 hours and 10 minutes.  I guess you can call him an early birthday present.  :-)  This is when it really stinks living so far away from family. 

Here he is!

Today: & Housework

It is very wet out today. It’s not coming down hard, but it is a steady drizzle. I woke up stuffy this morning and have taken some drugs to help clear my head. So far, I’m not feeling it. Surprisingly though, I do feel energetic and up to doing the things I haven’t felt up to the past two days. So I’m getting ready to jump in and get some stuff done. Kitchen is in order, but the house needs vacuuming and dusting. (more…)

Today: Cheerful & Birthday Girl

Our neighbors have been out of town and I’ve been taking care of their home. This entails going to get the newspaper, feeding the feral cats and other animals who like cat food. They have me keep the door of the garage opened slightly so that the cats can get in and out of their garage for shelter. I go down and put a can of wet food and a bowl of dry in both the front and back yards. There’s one pitiful cat that I put a bowl of milk out for as she’s old and on her last leg so to speak. Well, yesterday afternoon I walk into the garage to start my rounds and there is this awful “dead” odor. I’m worried it’s the old one who decided to bow out on my watch. She runs to greet me so I’m relieved. I look around a bit and find the little darlings have caught a squirrel and left me a birthday gift. I had DD with me so kept her away from the “real” reason for the smell and left. DH just went down to deal with it. UGH! Better he than me! (more…)

It’s been dreary here today, but not too bad. The coastal area about an hour and a half south-west of us seems to be feeling the brunt of this storm. Oddly Faye has picked up steam while over land. That is very unusual. We’re waiting and watching what she will do next. Predictions right now take her out to sea and back in north-east of us. But she seems to be stalling in the last few hours and may begin her northerly track sooner rather than later which will affect us more. For now, school is supposed to be back in session tomorrow. But we’ll wait and see what she does. Right now we have one of the bands coming through with some rain and wind. I’m getting the kids ready for bed now so that we can get up in the morning if we need to.

Today:

First Day

I guess you can call this funny. DD has the same teacher that DS did for 2nd grade. Hurricane Charlie hit the 4th day of school the year he had her. We also missed school for Frances and Jeanne that same year. It is quite unusual to have hurricane days here. We’ve not had any others in the last 5 years. I’ve got a very strong suspision that there will be no school tomorrow or Wednesday as a result of Faye. If my suspisions ring true, I think I’ll write her teacher a little note and tell her that I want DD moved out of her class, at least until hurricane season is over. She knows me well enough that she’d giggle over it I’m sure.