It started out warm enough but on Friday afternoon the furnace popped a breaker. So, Bill fixed it (and eventually put in a bigger breaker - more wattage). But by nightfall we knew something was up. The thermostat was set for 68, which it had stayed at during the day, but started to fall once the sun went down… and continued to fall to 55 ( Read more... )

As some of you know, we go on a two week camping vacation every year to PSG (Pagan Spirit Gathering). We go early as we are on the layout crew. We are the first ones on site to start putting up signs so the setup crew knows where to put everything. We tape off the vender spots and other layout duties as needed. So we arrived at Stonehouse Park ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I gave you an update on the house in the country. Yes, we are still working on it, no, it's not done yet. Unfortunately. But we have made some progress. Bill put insulation in most of the walls upstairs and in the shop downstairs. We had the electric hooked up to the furnace and Bill has most of the duct work in. He ( Read more... )

It's amazing what asking for your money back will do to light a fire under a mail order company. Toshiba isn't exactly a mail order company but they have been dragging their feet on sending my new laptop for weeks now. Monday I wrote an email to them stating that I had waited long enough and if the laptop was not here by Friday I wanted my money ( Read more... )

I ordered a new laptop from Toshiba a few weeks ago. My old Toshiba is about on it's last key and before the old girl dies, I wanted a new one. (I work from home two days a week ( Read more... )

It occurs to me as I read some of my friends on here that haven't posted for a while that I havn't posted for a while either. That's not to say that I've not been hanging around. I read your posts every day and sometimes comment but I forget to actually post myself sometimes ( Read more... )

I was looking back at 2014 and while it seems like it went by so very very fast, it was a good year. Some of the highlights included ( Read more... )

You know it’s funny how I have so many friends that are writers - I seem to collect them like the books they write. I’m not full of stories like these folks are but every once in a while I get inspired. I watched “The Red Tent” last night and that is a powerful story. I laughed and cried and felt for Dena. I read the book once long ago and it ( Read more... )

I had posted about them getting engaged before but never a pic of the ring:


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I should back up to Thursday night about 11:00pm. I got a text from Erik asking if I was still awake. "yes" I replied and then waited.... and waited... and waited.. finally I texted back "Why" I got a phone call (at this point in time I'm now worried about what is so important to call me at 11 at night!) it's Erik asking what I had planned for ( Read more... )