So much to do...

I've been hit HARD with fatigue lately (sleeping as much as 12 hours a day and being groggy and listless most of the rest of the hours). We had grand plans for this past weekend, of which very little actually got done. I was hoping to get outside Christmas lights up while it was 60 degrees out instead of later this week in the rain. I just checked and Thursday's highs are supposed to be in the 60's - I'll keep my fingers crossed that I'll find some energy that day.

We're working on a family Christmas gift project involving wood and saws and paint and woodburners. We managed to get much of the wood cut and some of it sanded, so at least we're making some progress.

I make Christmas ornaments every year with the kids photo inside a glass ball. I've also started making them for my sister to give as gifts and some as gifts for friends (if I have a pic of their families), plus I've sold some. I've managed to make a dent in my sister's and some others, but we haven't even gotten a photo of our kids yet. We also need to take a Christmas Card photo - I have the cards halfway finished but the photo is part of the design.

The Boy woke up this morning with a very painful spot on his thigh - barely able to walk on it. The Husband has him at the Doctor as I type this. And he just called and they're going for an x-ray. The Boy couldn't pinpoint any injury or anything. But he is a member of the familly of medical mysteries...

It's 5 o'clock - I guess I should start thinking about dinner. Crackers and popcorn are currently at the top of the list.

High-speed videography

53 degrees

I can't believe that kid's father let him out without even a shirt on....

RIP Ben the Hamster

We had a bad weekend. Friday it was discovered that Ben the Hamster (Habenero, officially) had gone to that Great Hamster Wheel in the Sky. It has been a very emotional weekend here as a result.

Interment took place in the backyard under a pine tree out in the "Back 40". The Boy, in particular, was instrumental in the final arrangements.


Unlike certain other people who shall remain nameless we don't leave our dearly departed in a brown paper lunch bag in the Arizona sun for the pool installers to trample. We do things differently in Pennsylvania. Just sayin'...

I'm not bragging or anything...

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TODAY ONLY 11/20

Giveawayoftheday.com is a great site that I discovered recently. Every day they give away a different piece of software. The catch is that the download is only available for 24 hours and you have to install it in that 24 hour period.

Today's download is Photo Toolkit 1.5 . It adds functionality to Windows Picture and Fax Viewer that allows you to do quite a bit of photo editing. I've been editing some photos this morning and the only thing I needed Photoshop for was to make the background transparent - everything else I could do right in Win Pic/Fax Viewer.

Go! Now! If I have to reformat my computer and lose this software I will definitely buy it.

Here's the garden, Jenny. We still have a little green - Italian Parsley and a second (tiny) crop of Cilantro. I'm sloooooowwwwly cleaning it up...

Cousins in the leaves

The two little ones are my sister's boys

Just a pretty picture

I thought of you, Jolene, when I took this photo:

Scary

After posting the pics in the post below I thought that YD looked really familiar. She turned 7 in October. Here's a pic of my 7th birthday many, many Octobers ago... Can you figure out which is me?

Pictures

This year's Jack O'Lanterns. Younger Daughter cut most of the mouth of hers; OlderDaughter spent mucho time cutting her cat out; and The Boy cut the skull.



Younger Daughter's last soccer game two weeks ago -- and her first lost front tooth, just in time for Halloween!


















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