HOT AND MUGGY!!

It's going to be another hot and very humid day here....it's been this way every day this past week and we're melting!! Thankfully, I spent the last 4 days with my mom and we were in the A/C most of the time except when we went from the car to the store entrances...so we didn't get too hot. Neither of us can take the heat, so we stayed inside as much as humanly possible. Now I'm back home and my house will be my refuge until this humidity breaks, if it ever doesn..I do have to run a couple of errands because I need some grocery items and I have to get my DH's birthday gift...other than that I plan to stay in and keep cool.

Am supposed to scrapbook today with my friend, Bonnie, if she actually shows up to do some work. I love her to death but she's not always dependable when she says she's going to do stuff...and she is never on time! She goes in 5 different directions at one time, makes me tired just watching her! Anyway, that is the plan for today...if she doesn't come, I'll just play with stuff by myself.

DH is still on his canoe trip and should be home this Sunday or at the latest, Monday afternoon. He's been gone since June 15th, so it's time for him to get back here and do some yard work...I'm not an outdoors person and hate gardening--nothing lives when I'm left to take care of it..thank God for the rain we had up through Monday, it sure saved the garden. I'm hoping we get more today so it'll drench the plants good..I did water last night when I got home from Illinois, but they still need more with this heat..so if no rain, I'll be watering tonight again. And the grass needs mowed, but he told me not to touch the mower---when we first got married, I tried to mow when he was on one of his canoe trips and I broke the mower (hit a tree stump ), so I'm not allowed to touch it...he's also afraid, I'll mow down his plants besides breaking the mower. LOL!!

Well, just wanted to update the old blog, so I'm going to get busy and get ready to scrap. Later.

New Layouts.

Here are two recent layouts that I did of my granddaughters...the 4 mo. old is a Sear's photo taken of Ashley, who is now 15 mos. old..the Easter one is our 4 yr old, Maxie.

Last weekend was fun taking my stepdaughter's children (Alex, Zach, and Ashley) to the Newport Aquarium in Newport, KY. Since the kids live in Milford, Ohio, we thought going over for a visit and an overnight stay would be fun, especially since the boys were leaving to go to their dad's for the summer. We did the trip on Friday and came home Saturday afternoon--after watching Zach's ball game. It was a fun trip and on the way home, I got to stop at two scrapbook stores--Scraps, ETC. in Cincinnati and Archiver's in Southport (Indy)..so that just made my day great.

Now I've spent the day cleaning house and grocery shopping...tomorrow will be laundry. Such an exciting weekend!!! Actually, it's the last weekend for a couple of weeks that my DH will be home...he's leaving Monday with his friend, Alan, for 12 days. They are going on a canoe trip in the northern Minnesota Boundary Waters area and up into the BWCA in Canada. This means I'm a widow for two whole weeks, and I don't know what I'm going to do with all my free time...since with Bruce gone, my house will stay extremely clean (yes, he's a slob, but I love him anyway). I do plan to go to Illinois and spend a couple days with my Mom and doing some shopping with her and just having a nice three day visit. Then there is a weekend crop on the 19th and 20th that a friend is holding, so I plan to do at least one of those days and visit with some friends who will be there too. Other than that, I'll just be home messing around in my scrap room and enjoying my alone time with no interruptions...no cooking, etc.

Not much else to post today..so I'll close for now.

Productive Day...

Today, started out dreary and hot...cloudy and foggy!! I actually didn't think I'd get anything done because it was so crappy that I just wanted to curl up and sleep all day---Right!!! But I surprised myself, I not only did three loads of laundry, vacuumed, got a couple scrapbook pages completed, and actually started my exercise tapes, yes, I said exercise. I made a New Year's resolution to start exercising this year in an attempt to lose weight and have just now gotten around to starting--hee, hee!! Now it remains to be seen if I can actually keep it up and really lose about 20 lbs. before our trip to Minnesota in August--well, okay realistically, if I could lose 10 lbs and get into some of my fishing pants, I'd be happy; but I'm shooting for 20! And Bruce was happy to hear that I had exercised too---he's an avid walker so he's really been on me to hit it...I get preached to all the time, which really doesn't motivate me at all, so he should know better but he just keeps it up anyway.

Made motel reservations for Friday night in Milford, Ohio so we can see our youngest grandson's ball game...it's his last one then he has to go to his dad's for the summer (missing the next 4 games). We decided it would be wise to go over on Friday, do something with the kids before they leave for the next two months, then stay overnight for the game---then I get to stop at scrapbook stores on the way home!! We were going to just drive over Saturday morning but it's a 3 hr drive and the game is at 11 a.m., so we'd have to get up really early to get there by 10 or 10:30...so instead I suggested going on Friday morning and taking the kids to the Newport Aquarium, which we haven't seen in about 5 yrs and just spend the day with them having fun...Bruce jumped on that one real fast. So that's our weekend plans.

Nothing much besides stormy weather has been going on around here this week...our life is so exciting! I don't know how well I'm going to do staying home instead of working but time will tell and if nothing else, I can attempt to find something very part time to at least get me out of the house a day or two a week....that is after our Minnesota trip.

WEll, that's all for now, my dryer is buzzing away and Bruce is yelling about it. Catch you all later.