It's been a really nice day. Just one of those "nothing special" sort of days but hey, that in itself is pretty special. We've just been puttering around the house and the yard with no real plans to get anything in particular done. Just hanging out and enjoying this beautiful weather. Have you ever noticed how much you can get accomplished sometimes when your not doing anything?
I've done a few loads of laundry and even got them folded! I have been known to be a little lazy about that. Now I just need to get them put away. I've gone through my coupons and am trying to get them organized. There are quite a few that are about ready to expire so I've been sorting them out to see what I might still be able to use. I have a shopping list started.
Let's see, the front of the house is vacuumed , the dishes are done and put away and the trash is taken out. I got a little knitting done sitting in the backyard and soaking up the fresh air. I'm still working on that scarf and I am hoping I can finish it in time to use it this winter. I guess we will see how that plays out!
We have a pork loin smoking on the pit and a big 'ol pot of pinto beans on the stove. That big loaf of rustic Italian-style bread Mushroom and I made last night and a tossed salad ought to round things out and make a mighty nice dinner. The dog's have been having a great day too. You can sure tell they are enjoying the weather as much as we are!
Speaking of dogs, I don't know if you remember our "criminal" dog or not. She is (was) still playing the escape artist by jumping the fence in the evenings. At least she hasn't brought home anymore new toys! Anyway, when she was a pup we had one of those "invisible" fences complete with the training collar. It didn't take her any time at all to understand how it worked. Within a couple of days she had her boundaries figured out. She was a really easy dog to train. She's a smart girl and hands down the best dog I have ever been lucky enough to hang out with!
Well I guess she thinks we haven't noticed her late night outings are still going on. She hasn't brought any new toys home lately but she HAS been out wandering around the neighborhood. I would be heartbroken if something happened to her. We don't have the training collar anymore so yesterday Mars decided he would put up a hotwire around the top of the backyard fence. Needless to say, it didn't take very long at all for her to discover her escape route had been shut down. Once is usually enough for her. I can't say for sure just yet but I'm betting she won't be taking any more early morning strolls by herself any time soon!
~~Hey... I'm Just Sayin...~~
There hasn't been alot going on around here so far this week. The weather has been wonderful and the weather folks are calling for more of the same for the next week or so. I certainly can't complain. It seems like every time the weather gets like this I wish it would stay this way forever! It just never seems to last long enough.
Those purple beans are starting to come on now. Mars got a good handful of them on Sunday and another handful again today. At this rate it will take awhile to get a good mess of them! I expect they will take off soon though... the plants are covered with blooms. We still haven't got anymore squash but again there are lots of blooms so I'm sure it won't be long. Hey, even the tomato's have some blooms on them. I don't know if we will get any red ripe ones but hey, wouldn't some fried green tomato's be wonderful!
Here's a picture of the things I was able to pick up last week with the help of coupons and in-store savings.
Yes, I know those are Spongebob taco kits! They have 10 taco shells, taco seasoning and taco sauce for a dollar a box. I found some 83% Hamburger marked down and had a $2.00 coupon so I was able to pick up three pounds for $4.00! Lets just say every item here except the lettuce was on sale, including the sausage and the fish sticks.
I am still doing the couponing and am really surprised at the amount of money that I have been able to save. One thing I have found though is that the things I have been buying are more of a "fill-in" sort of hings that I know I wouldn't actually buy.(Like the Pepperidge Farm and Keebler cookies ) But I am not one to argue with free!
Coupons are not going to feed the family but they will sure help stretch an already tight budget! I don't know if you can read that but I paid $14.00 for all this and saved a whopping $38.27. Coupons are not foing to feed the family but they will sure help stretch an already tight budget!
~~Hey... I'm Just Sayin...~~
Thursday I went with Mushroom and her husband Bud to the V.A. Hospital. He was scheduled for a colostopy (darned if I know how to spell it! ) and they put him out to do it. Mushroom doesn't have her driver's license right now so she asked me if I would drive them home. Good thing too since Bud wasn't feeling much pain after it was all over. He was a little loopy and a whole lot funny! He got a clean bill of health and won't have to have another one for five years. It's a good thing too because it's going to take her at least that long to talk him into having another one!! :)
I made it to the Dr.'s appointment on Wednesday and got the test results from the blood work and a diagnosis. There was nothing new about the diagnosis except that things are progressively getting worse. I suppose that shouldn't surprise me since I already pretty much knew what they would have to say. I just didn't realize how hearing it again would actually feel. I won't go into details here, mainly because I figure folks really don't come here to read about that sort of thing. Anyway....
Friday I received a letter from Social Security regarding my filing for disability. Yep, you guessed it. They turned me down again. A bit depressing but at least this time I was expecting them to. My lawyer filed for a hearing with a judge and so now begins step 3. We wouldn't have had to do this if I had got the news I received on Tuesday a few weeks earlier. But hey, that's just the way things go. Things will eventually work themselves out, I just have to try and be patient. Until then life goes on. I refuse to give in and mope around waiting. Life is meant to be lived and enjoyed and that is what I fully intend to do!
We all loaded up this morning and went to an Air-gun Shoot. Bud is a big air-gun junkie and has been looking forward to this for a few months now. We all had a great time with a whole lot of other air-gun enthusiasts. I took tons of pictures and I will post all about it in a day or two. It's been a long day so I am going to cut it short this time!
~~Hey... I'm Just Sayin...~~
I've been a bit under the weather the last couple of days so posts have been a bit sketchy. I haven't even read the blogs I love to follow.
I have a Dr.s appointment in Tulsa early tomorrow morning. Just what I want to do... drive through the land of construction during rush hour! Thursday Bud has a procedure he has to have done. They are going to give him some drugs before hand so I am going to go and drive them back from Muskogee. LOL Some folks would get a laugh out of that! Imagine that... I'm the designated driver! :)
Wow, I'm tired just thinking about it! I must be getting old. There was a time when I could run flat out full speed for days on end and never even blink! So anyway.....
While I'm out of commission why don't you check out some of the folks on my blogroll. There is some great reading to be had there for sure.
~~Hey... I'm Just Sayin...~~
There are all sorts of things in the news lately that we should all be worried about. Our rights and freedoms are gradually being stripped from us while we just sit around and let them take each of them without any fuss whatsoever. Sometimes I wonder just what it will take for the people of these once great States of America to stand up and say NO MORE.
Or will we just sit back and wait for someone else to do it? This article hit me as a good summation of what I see happening around us. Our nation appears to be embracing socialism at every turn without to realizing what is even happening.
Oh, have you heard that over in the UK they are proposing that everyone's checks first go to the government so they can get what taxes "they" think are fair? How long before our own government decides that they will do the same? I can imagine it happening since "they" have us so far in debt already. It won't be long before they come for our pensions and retirement plans to try and make up for some of the money the bankers have squandered with NO repercussions. Will we stand up then? Somehow I doubt it.
There are truly bad things going on around us every day. Things that don't make the Main Stream Media. Things that should make a good person downright angry.
I don't usually write post like this one. Sometimes though things just tick me off. There is so much more I could and should say about the horrors going on around us daily. I will refrain as best I can though I will not promise to rant on occasion.
~~Hey... I'm Just Sayin...~~
