SOMEONE lost some weight recently...

...about three ounces of metal, to be precise!

Happy Father's Day

1. GO YANKEES!

2. Our bunnies are becoming fearless. Peter (or one of his siblings) is sighted nearly every day, usually by the shed. He keeps his distance from us but doesn't run away. Then last weekend an older bunny (currently known as Big Bunny) peeked into our backdoor, then hung out on the porch eating cardboard. We saw him again several times during the week. Today we had a picnic with my side of the family - 7 adults, 5 kids and 5 dogs. Big Bunny decided to visit despite the commotion and he hung around eating strawberry hulls from the compost pile. Here's my 3yo nephew:

Sign spotted in New Hope

The horror of blimps

This is the story of a man and his toy blimp. I stumble across it once or twice a year and every time I read it I laugh so hard my sides hurt.

The horror of blimps

How drunk do you think this brickmaker was?

Bricks on the Visual Arts building at Lafayette College

Stuff I found while looking for other stuff:

Odd tools and stuff:
What is it?


"Modern Mechanix

Yesterday’s tomorrow, today."

The Vintage Projects Collection

Pictures

The back bed in this picture is planted with strawberries that are desperately in need of weeding and the front bed has tomatoes and herbs. I still need to put up the trellis. The third bed has more tomatoes and peppers (bell and jalapeno). The fourth bed isn't yet planted but it has a trellis and will get a few pumpkin vines and lettuce and radishes that can be shaded by the vines.


YoungerDaughter had a Spellathon last week to raise money for the American Lung Association. They had a list of 100 words to study and got pledges for each word they spelled correctly. Three kids who spelled all 100 words correctly got goodie bags and a trophy:






And The Boy in action at the All-Stars game.

Catching up again

I had a very long post written out with photos planned to be inserted but I can't get the darn pictures out of my camera. I'll have to hook everything up to the other computer tomorrow and see if that one will work. I *love* tefhnology some days....

The Boy's team lost both of their All-Star games last weekend, but he played well and had fun. He has a game tomorrow when it's supposed to be 90 degrees out. It's days like that that I wish he'd play Ice Hockey instead!

Younger daughter had a game tonight and she played very well. She was more focused on the game than usual - we think it's because she was the "pitcher" where all the action takes place (it's coach-pitch softball, but the coach only pitches so she did the fielding .

I went to Home Depot today to buy topsoil and manure (I can't believe I actually paid money for ...manure). I actually had two employees offer to load the bags for me - one onto my cart and the other into my car, so all I had to do is get it out of the car. The Husband is presently useless as far as manual labor goes since he had a nasty growth removed from his middle finger last week and the dermatologist wants him to do nothing until it heals completely. And I actually heard her say it so I can't very well call him a liar.

I got two of the garden beds planted - one to go (pics are stuck in the camera), and the soil I bought is for a flower bed by the shed - because I need yet another project to work on, in addition to painting chairs, re-planting trees that died over the winter, painting the shed doors and the front door, re-stacking the bricks around the front tree that I knocked over with the tractor, fixing the dog-fence, replacing the siding that blew off the summer kitchen, and-and-and.... Oh, and school gets out next week :o(

So much for an unscheduled weekend

On Thursday we learned that The Boy is on the All Star team again this year. We also learned that the games are this weekend. Tomorrow's game is at 10am and if they win they also play Sunday's game.

Next weekend he goes to Scranton for the regional MLB Pitch, Hit and Run competition. He won the local hitting competion in his age group a few weeks ago and advanced to the second level.

Baseball is our life.

Girl Stuff

Older Daughter at riding lessons last week. To say that she enjoys it would be a *huge* understatement!



And here's Younger Daughter at her first softball game last Thursday. She got a base hit and later scored! And the game was mercifully short - about 45 minutes. So we were home by 7, which is the earliest evening we've had in ages.


And today for Mother's Day the kids have been weeding the garden while I sat and supervised. Meanwhile, The Husband assembled the new weedwhacker. He began cutting around the garden beds then stopped when he miraculously spotted this:


Peter is a lucky rabbit because he not only has all four rabbit feet but he is virtually unscathed. We spotted a tiny spot of blood on the tip of one ear, but otherwise all is well. After a few minutes of calming he hopped off. Her rested for awhile under the maple tree then disappeared (probably to underneath the shed). And we will be totally paranoid about weedwhacking forevermore!

One Hour

Yikes! I didn't realize how long it's been since I've posted.

In the past hour I have:
taken the dogs out
dug a hole for the new apple tree
banished the two big dogs to their crates for not listening to me and crossing the road
emptied the dishwasher
refilled the dishwasher
chiseled jelly off the kitchen table
ran a load of laundry
loaded pizza dough in the bread machine
taken a shower
(most of those things have been MUCH easier to do with the two dogs locked up!)

We've been keeping busy with baseball and softball practices. The Boy started games a few weeks ago but Younger Daughter has her FIRST softball game tonight. She's very excited to say the least.

I can't find the photo that I wanted to post so here's one of my favorites fo the 3 monsters from about 4 years ago.

Printable coupon

for Dick's Sporting Goods: $10 off $25. Expires 5/19

The traditional two-weeks-after-Easter photo

Because Easter Sunday was *freezing*. I got the girls to wear their Easter clothes to church yesterday but I knew there was no hope to get The Boy to wear a dress shirt and pants twice in one month!

Excellent Book Sale next week

Friends of Parkland Community Library
Troxell School Building
2219 N. Cedar Crest Blvd.
(Rte 22, exit at Cedar Crest Blvd., turn right and proceed north for 1.4 miles; building on right. Parking at rear of building.)
610-398-1361
April 21 - 28

* 17th ANNUAL USED BOOK SALE
* 75,000 to 80,000 Items!
o Hardbacks, Paperbacks
o Children's Books
o Videos
o Audio Cassettes
o CD's and DVD's
* Preview:
o Saturday April 21, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.. $10 donation per adult, $3 donation per child
o Free Entry: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
* General Sale - April 22 to 28
o Sunday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
o Monday thru Friday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
o Saturday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
* Directions: PA Rt. 22, exit at Cedar Crest Blvd, turn right and proceed north for 1.4 mile. Troxell Building is on right. Enter on lower side of bldg. Used Book Sale entrance and parking in rear of bldg.
* Presented by Friends of Parkland Community Library

Rumor has it

that Spring will actually be happening in the coming week. I'll believe it when I see it. Last night Younger Daughter had softball practice. Now tell me - do you really think that second graders can actually learn softball fundamentals properly while wearing winter coats/scarves/hats and jumping in place trying to keep warm?

Things are drying out around here following the Nor'easter. New Jersey was hit far worse than we were. Our garage didn't flood, which it is prone to do in heavy rain. I don't think there was very much flooding in Easton, either (where we cross the Delaware River into NJ). But we're keeping the flooded communities in NJ in our prayers - I think Bound Brook had 7 feet of water on Main Street and Manville didn't do much better.

It's cloudy and icky so we've had a lazy day. We watched the first half of 'The Music Man' (the Matthew Broderick version), and 'Annie Get Your Gun' is next in line.

I have some pictures to post if the camera ever shows up...

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I'm a blog neglecter

partly because there hasn't been much to report and partly because I tend to break computers. Now the light in my laptop's monitor has died so I have had to hook up the laptop not only to the ginormous docking station (and mouse and keyboard) but also to a huge boat anchor formerly known as a 17" CRT monitor (the big heavy ones). And for about a week I couldn't find the keyboard so I had to use the onscreen keyboard that is part of windows. It's no fun to type more than 3 words at a time using the OSK....

The Boy started baseball last week (his team is the Yankees again) and Younger Daughter starts softball on Tuesday. Tonight (Maundy Thurday, unfortunately) The Husband is taking the older two to the home opener of the Scranton-Wilkes Barre Yankees, the NY Yankees new AAA farm team. We got 3 ticket packs for 10 games that include free parking and all you can eat from the concession stand (and a line for those ticket holders so we don't have to wait with the people who have to actually have to pay for their food. Even so, The Boy informed me that he wants to have a "small dinner" before he goes....

Meanwhile Younger Daughter and I will be dining at our finest local diner (since we don't have an IHOP which is where she wanted to go) then returning home for a private screening of the new Charlotte's Web DVD. She's extremely excited - she bounced into our room first thing this morning giggling because she was so excited.

How do you clean soap? The other night Wilma was sitting on the bed with "the look" on her face - she gets this odd look when she's hiding something in her mouth. Normally when you tell her "out" she will drop it, but this time she wouldn't even open her mouth. I had to pry her jaws open (with much resistance) and found a whole bar of soap! Fortunately it was the bar that The Husband uses, not mine :o) Either way it was gross.

Except for the color, this is my van!

Aahh Spring

Mud Season is in FULL swing here. The yard right off of the back porch consists of about 6 inches of mud that the dogs keep tracking in. We decided that we're going to sod the area because with 3 kids and 3 dogs grass seed doesn't stand a chance. On the plus side the kitchen floor got a good cleaning yesterday when I let the muddy dogs in and none of them would listen and stay by the door. All 3 of them pretended to be deaf as The Husband and I both hollered and grabbed at fur.

The Husband has been complaining about how much I've torn up the lawn with the van (it's the only way I can drive into the garage at the moment). Well since he drove home from church on Sunday there is no more grass in that area - and the ruts are 8" deep. Consequently he finally agreed with me that we need to actually make that area driveway (I've been trying to convince him of this for 2 1/2 years).

Younger Daughter and I have started planting seeds so I guess it's time to get the Christmas garland down off the deck. The ice is finally gone so I can get out there without breaking my neck.

Other than that everything around here is status quo (and I'm not complaining about that!).

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