Life has been a bit up and down lately. We're heading off on holidays for a week tomorrow, leaving Saturday and returning Thursday. Jody's Mom decided to celebrate her 80th birthday by renting a beach house in Wrightsville Beach, NC for a week, and buying us tickets to come down and join her, Jody's sister, and his sister's friend. I definitely ( Read more... )

One of my blankets is now being used for a little baby named Katlyn who was born yesterday. I have a few more to add to the collection. I decided to talk to a friend at work who's Grandma had a fabric shop, and gave her two to show her Granny. Granny said I should charge between $30 and $35 for them, so I think I'll go for $30. Time to get Jody to ( Read more... )

Yes, I actually got a chance to use the lawn mower again. We've had a really stormy spring, getting all of the water they need up north, so it's been hard to keep up with the yard work. Jody got the front and side done on Monday, so I decided to do the backyard while the weather was still clear and relatively cool. And this time I only ran over two ( Read more... )

The sirens are going on sporadically. Tripp's closet is cleaned out except for water, pillows, blankets, guns and ammo. Will put the animals in the laundry room if the sirens go off again, and they can take their chances. Man, I hate this time of year!

Here's how your lawn mower works. Around the spinning shaft that also holds your blades are magnets. These magnets pass coils of wire in the housing of the motor and create an electric pulse. That pulse is what your lawn mower coverts into the power that fires your spark plug ( Read more... )

Other than a blanket and a pillow at Christmas, I really haven't made Tripp anything at all. Being a crafty mom, this is something I've felt quite guilty about. So over the past few weeks, as I've had the time and motivation, I've started doing some sewing. Here are some of the results:


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Tripp ratted me out to his Dad today. They were off to go fishing, driving in Jody's truck while I was at work, and following my friend EJ, his son Rafael and his brother. Apparently Jody was following too far behind for Jody's comfort, so he said, "Drive faster Daddy, drive faster." To which Jody replied that he was driving fast enough. Not fast ( Read more... )

I guess I do have some friends at work, because one of the guys I used to sit beside sent me a text with my new shift. I'm not that crazy about it, 10:45am to 7:45pm with Wednesdays and Sundays off. With all of the changes at work though, and all of the new hires to tech being people with more seniority than me, it could have gone a lot worse. I'm ( Read more... )

Here are blankets 8-12. I'm currently working on number 13. One of these will go to a friend from church who is having a little girl, which still puts me a bit ahead of my goal of 2 blankets a month. Today, in between cleaning the house, I think I'll start working on some tealight holders as I can't work on those while I'm at work ( Read more... )

I'm not going to lock this to my friend's list, as I know I have people who read this who aren't on LJ. I will stick it behind a cut, though, so it doesn't spill all over everyone.

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