cake day!! i think i survived the month on cookies and pie , but there is nothing like a good piece of cake... with buttercream icing....
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i was counting on the report that we ere supposed to have downpours overnight-- my poor grass project- there may be only one explination for my lawn problem... and i would settle for green weeds it doesn't have to be grass........ that huge loader that filled my trailer with black dirt stuff... must have had some stuff stuck in the bucket from a different load..-- thei marvelous "brick ends recycling composting " place... produces 2 kinds of lovely looking black dirt stuff... one is terriffic for grass-- the other is great for gardens because it naturally discourages weed growth--- so i am told...-- because when i got that big load and picked it up and spread itw ith my tractor, there are places where the grass is growing beautifully all around a 3 foot shape of no grass,,, no weeds,,, nothing.-- that is true in the flat field and the guest house-- must be some of teh"no weed" product got in my pile of grass growing stuff-- i have suffered... watering and fertalizing, liming and seeding all parts equally-- yet we have bald patches... too large to be dog induced... so i went back and inspected the loader before he scooped-- and i have re seeded alot-- which now needs attention...while some other areas are growing wildly- and needed cutting by the mower which bud got going again.
any green will do--- when i moved in... it was 100% forest-- and if i don't pay attention the forest wants to claim it back again...
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you have often seen me say "get 'em young, train 'em early" and heaven knows my mother tried but i did escape part of it-- can you imagine me spending sunday morning looking for spotless white gloves to wear for church?? ... there were 3 of us... and often there were only 5 white gloves-- on a really bad day only 3 or 4 gloves and we would have to wear one and carry one of fathers ironed hankerchiefs just so we looked "right " . that worked for a while when i was young-- but when i got to babysitting age- i found people were very happy to have me skip the hour long church service by offering to babysit teh young kids so teh parents didn't have to deal with wiggling kids for that hour... i did.. on nice days i had them hold on to a stick... or a string... and we would walk around teh block... there were usually 8 to 10 of them- and i considerred them a lump of kids... not individuals- which for my purposes worked well... until one day one got a bloody nose- not a really gushing blood but enough so the bright red blood all over her shirt made matters look dreadful...-- she was scared-- i knew i had to find her parents. so i asked her what her mothers name was... all i could get was MOMMY.
proving that keeping track of even 10 kids was a logistic nightmare.
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TODAY EVE HAD SWIM LESSONS AND HER INSTRUCTOR COMPLEMENTED HER ON HER VERY IMPROVED FREESTYLE STROKE! SHE ALSO THINKS EVE WILL BE A “BUTTERFLIER” IF SHE STICKS WITH SWIMMING! SO WE WILL SEE! I GUESS IT’S NO SURPRISE THAT EVE LOVES THE DOLPHIN / MERMAID KICK (PART OF THE BUTTERFLY STROKE)!!
I KNOW THE FASHION SHOW IS OLD NEWS BUT WE JUST GOT THE PHOTOS FROM THE SHOW TAKEN BY THE PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS!
track of even 10 kids was a logistic nightmare.
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TODAY EVE HAD SWIM LESSONS AND HER INSTRUCTOR COMPLEMENTED HER ON HER VERY IMPROVED FREESTYLE STROKE! SHE ALSO THINKS EVE WILL BE A “BUTTERFLIER” IF SHE STICKS WITH SWIMMING! SO WE WILL SEE! I GUESS IT’S NO SURPRISE THAT EVE LOVES THE DOLPHIN / MERMAID KICK (PART OF THE BUTTERFLY STROKE)!!
I KNOW THE FASHION SHOW IS OLD NEWS BUT WE JUST GOT THE PHOTOS FROM THE SHOW TAKEN BY THE PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS!
hopefully it copies...
