I bet you didn't realize it.

I almost missed it too. The one year anniversary of this blog. That's right a year ago yesterday (I said I almost missed it) Maria, created this blog for me. I didn't even know how to set it up. She was dying for me to blog about something. So that's what I did. I just let the fingers ramble a couple of times a week.

It's not much, and at times (like now) it's even less. Sometimes it's hard trying to think of something to write about. Entertaining is hard work. Maybe that's why 3 or 4 of the blogs I follow have gone on hiatus. It's just that hot dry time of the year. There isn't much going on that's so interesting that I feel the need to tell you about.

You already know my summer is drawing to an end and I'd hate to go on and on about being off for 6 weeks and dreading going back to work. Especially when so many people get very little vacation or none at all. And I'm not really dreading going back to work. I love my job, it tends to keep my life organized. I just wish there was a way I could knit and read while I was at work.

Speaking of knitting... I started a sweater, (I just heard someone close the blog,) I hope to have it done by the end of the week. That way I won't be tempted to take it to work with me on Monday. I need to get back to the socks. Someone asked me last night how many pair I had to finish before Christmas... 5! If I leave Jeff and Jolea off the list. They'd much rather have cash from Dad. The rest of the family would probably rather have cash too, but it ain't going to happen.... get over it, you're getting some socks!




Did I mention it's been a hot and dry summer? Too many times huh? Well this is about the extent of my gardening this year. Two tiny Chili Pepines. I brought a 2 foot tall chili plant home from Michael's that had a good dozen chilies on it. Before I could get it transplanted from the pot it was in to a spot in a flowerbed, the birds or squirrels ate all the chilies! They must have eaten them, they were nowhere on the ground. Jody said he did see what he thought was a squirrel running down the street with a tiny blue flame under his tail. The little b@$#@&%$.... first they eat all the tops off the onions and dig them up. Then they dug up all my herbs and threw the plants out of the clay pots they were in, then ate holes in the bell peppers. And now this. I think we may need another cat. Next year I'll be blogging about cruel and unusual treatment of squirrels... game on you little.....


And here are the books I'm currently reading. Reading takes time away from blogging. And reading books about Yoga hoping that just looking at those pictures will transfer the benifits of yoga to my body by osmosis takes a lot out of me too. But it doesn't take the fat off my arse, so I guess I should practice what I'm reading.

I guess I should have taken pictures of the No Bake Chocolate Cookies I made yesterday, but I didn't even think to take pictures of them, see... my mind isn't on blogging. Duder will appreciate not having to find the bullets to her gun or her razorblades. I'm not going to post anything about food today. Besides they ate most of the cookies last night and what was left were taken home by Mark in a Big Gulp cup.

There are no pictures of last night.... (I just heard someone breathing a sigh of relief) just go back to the day I did post pictures of Garland, it was the same people standing in almost the same spot, probably wearing the same clothes. Only they were chowing down on cookies not brownies.

A lot has happened in a year and a lot has stayed the same. We've had battled illness and moved on to wellness. Some of us have moved out and in and back and forth, keeps life interesting. We've had jobs and changed jobs. Jody starts a contracting job tomorrow. Jolea made it to St. Thomas last night and will probably be working somewhere by Monday too. Jeff and I are still plugging along with what we have. It's all good.

(By the way... it wasn't Maria at school that set up this blog.... it was the other Maria, the Overboard around the world Maria. Thanks girl!)

It was a pretty good year in Blogdom. I can't complain.