This and That

Well, it sure has been a while since I have written.  Sorry about that.  Life is busy.  Work is really busy, and home is even more busy.  With summer (HA!) here now, there is all sorts of outdoors type stuff to do, and just not enough time to do anything.

The kids are all growing like weeds.  I am try to enjoy them while they are young, and succeeding for the most part.  They do try my patience every once and a while.  But they are kids, right?

I hope to get on here a bit more often than I have been, but we will see.  I need to weed the garden, wash the bike, play with the kids, and about a zillion other things first.  Maybe I can work through some of my work around here this weekend and have some more free time.  Of course, I have other things to do if I even end up with free time.  I still want to take a couple of more camping trips this summer.  Perhaps I will just take the boys next time.  It is hard to keep track of the Walnut and Almond while we are camping, but it should be better without the Queen of Whine, the Peanut, around.  I mostly had fun when we went, but man, if she doesn’t get her way, it is not fun.

I am glad that I am able to ride my bike most days.  This past week has really been a little on the cold, damp side.  It’s hard to drive when I could ride.  Next year I hope to have a larger bike which will make the ride a lot more enjoyable and smoother.

We are looking forward to the weekend.  I think we could be heading to the cities for some fourth o’July action, but we will see.  I am not sure.  Tomorrow is the wife’s birthday.  She is (already has) a new camera. So happy birthday dear!  Take some nice pictures for me.

I wish you all a happy and safe fourth.  If you choose to drink, please don’t drive.  Any don’t forget, you can still have fun if you don’t drink.  And you will remember all of it too!

Thursday, May 28th

I can’t think of titles, so that will be it from now on.  All posts will be Thursday, May 28th!  HA!

This morning I was doing some taking care of some financial stuff, like entering information into my checkbook ( ok, really I was entering it into a program that keeps track of my money.  Does anyone actually use the register in their checkbook anymore to keep track of their balance?  How last century!)

Anyway, I realized that I have more money than I think.  A lot more.  Since taking the Dave Ramsey class, it has become apparent to me that we all probably have more money than we think.  We have just become hoodwinked into believing that debt (i.e. CREDIT ) is OK.  It’s not!  I highly doubt that my Grandparent even had credit cards.  I am sure I will be corrected on this if I am wrong, so correct away!

Anyhow, my point is that in today’s society, not only do people have their priorities wrong, our entire attitude about money is messed up.  I am not going to rant about that right now.  I have to go to work, and I try to keep my posts short.  Maybe another time.

In other things, to my sister, Argh!  I hardly know you apparently!  But to be fair, you were just RAVING about the Star Trek movie, so that was a bit of a trick question.  And I was certain it was you, not our brother who liked shrimp.  So, I guess I really go 80% on the quiz.  I am glad to see that I was able to get all the important question correct.

It looks like it will be a nice day, finally.  I actually have my bike back, and we are much the poorer for it.  But it runs wonderfully now, and it should run well for another 12k miles, when we will do this all over again.  With the way gas prices have been going up in the past two weeks, it will be nice to ride the bike and save some money.

Have a great Thursday!

Potatoes!

The potatoes are planted!  Yea!  Also some onions.  If there is one thing about the garden that I don’t like, it’s the planting.  I don’t mind the weeding so much.  The planting is what I can’t stand!  But, it was a family affair today.  It was actually pretty well organized, and it went well I thought.  We got in 5 rows of potatoes, so we will have to see what the fall brings us.  The rest of the garden should be in next weekend.  If anyone wants to come help, just show up!

 

Have a nice week.