When a good weekend comes together

A Saturday spent hunting, a Sunday gettting groceries and doing laundry within a reasonable amount of time, an actual homemade dinner-with others planned for the week. And even time to make marshmallow crispy bars....all that was missing was a nice long work out-the short one will have to do. But a good weekend

hunting for...

Which family can go pheasant hunting and catch more SNAKES than pheasant-hmmmm let's see big fry and small fry. I didnt' actually shoot anything this year but did attempt more than last year. I remembered to reload and take my time and actually aim at something. The weather was a little cool but a good time was had, can't wait to go again, think I will do some actually target practicing before the next outing.

Dusk

We know one of my favorite things is sunrise and sunset which would include dusk, last night's dusk time adventure left me breathless. I dropped everything (which I have been needing to do for more than a few days) to go into the "bug" field by our house for a little rock hunting expidition. Big Fry and I were looking for rocks for Spikes's cage. We grabbed a back pack and our bikes and headed out to the "no trespassing" dumping area where we have been that has tons of limestone rocks. I can't explain how it happened but I looked over at Big fry while we were riding through the field. He was standing on his too small bike with the sunset behind him in the distance, bent over his handle bars with his hair blowing and the biggest grin on his face. If I had a camera I would have loved to freeze that moment in time. Two ways describe my thoughts at that time: Pure childhood abandon is one way to describe it... and I was lucky enough to join him. On the other hand I can't describe in words the pure love I had at the exact moment...other than just love.

Annoyed to infinity and beyond....

The following are not good things...
My tweener is still displaying mood swings
No pheasant hunting this weekend (story below)
Trying to pack in a week's worth of errands and chores in 2 days
Actually packing them into one day, since I need to go into work tomorrow
Wanting so bad to get my fall decor up and seeing no time

Big annoyance... the hubby has been sick since Thursday. With what I have no clue-he doesn't look that sick. Due to sickness we are not pheasant hunting today, which I was really looking forward to as some needed "do nothing but fun stuff R&R". I can't explain it but when he is sick he lays around and does NOTHIING. I know I should allow him that I KNOW this but when I am running around like a chicken trying to get everything done and he is LAYING there I just want to pop his head off-oh like a chicken. I know it is my own fault when I am home sick I still DO things, a little laundry here, picking up there. I digress.

To top it off brotherly love-even like has left our house for an extended amount of time oh and the youngest's whining is about to do me in.


Whoooo I feel bad dumping that

On a good note my workout this morning -the first all week-felt awesome

speaking of mad family members

Karen posted about being mad at the hubby and not knowing why. I had a mad pre teen (I am chalking up the mood swing to exactly that) who vowed to not talk to me for a month (that lasted two minutes when he asked me to read for bed), cried because he lost the chance to go to the bookstore for a new book (chalking that one up to his lingering broncicitis-think dinosaur pronunciation-as his little brother calls it), cried and said he missed his nana. This was all only a few hours after I picked him up and he exclaimed "I only missed 2 on the science test!!" The one he studied for all last week. Like I said a tweener mood swing-I hope

If I could crochet...or knit....

Or whatever you call that sewing stuff:)

Just off...

Ever have one of those days where you are just "off" and scattered. I don't have many so they perplex me when I do. I went to the Y and every exercise I did was HARD, didn't even go on the bike I was so unmotivated and discouraged. I was hit and miss with the laundry, it is still laying in piles here and there. I have sporadically gotten two evaluations written and need to start working on the building plan. I meant to get my fall decorations down to decorate with today, but didn't get hubby sent out to the garage to get the boxes for me. I kind of wander around the house seeing things I should get done but nothing interests me enough to be motivating. Maybe it should have been one of those sit and do nothing days, I can't think of the last time I had one of those...
Oh and I am fighting the urge to NOT color my hair the day before we have family pics out in the hills tomorrow.

Thinking about it...

A few years ago I applied to be a participant in this calendar for colon cancer awareness. Got a little thank you but no thank you and never thought about it again. So this morning I receive an email asking me to submit and application for it again. Hmmmm I don't know if my saggy mommy belly is up to, but it intrigues me....The link is below, they are very legitimate

http://www.colonclub.com/colondar.html

On another note, it is snowing...good grief, we didn't even have fall. Big fry is sick, with bronchitis and miserable. Younger fry comes to me to show me something "itchy" on his ummmm private part-it looks odd but nothing serious-or at least the worrier in me is going to give it a day or to..., same small fry was also trying to make a fort and tried to use my wrought iron and glass candle holder-lets just say breaking glass and pottery were involved. Ugggg only one day and my 3 day vacation is over, I ask you what vacation was that?

Note to self...

Do not wear nice shoes to the pumpkin patch...

'The pumpkin patch was deserted (guess the below 30 degrees) kept everyone away, and VERY picked over. I vowed to go earlier this year and that still didn't help. Big Fry didn't care though-he ran among the muck and corn stalks finding just the right pumpkin-think of me trying to find just the right Christmas tree. His biggest goal was to "Find those small pumpkins you like mom that you decorate with I will get lots of those". So we searched and tramped through the field just the two of us on a very cold day to find just the right pumpkins (that were frozen and will probably get mushy) but it was all worth it.

facebook chat

As everyone knows I am not phone person, hate the phone, hate long conversations on the phone so I just.don't.do.them. I CAN though have a hilariously fun time using the chat function on facebook. I don't use it often, no one is ever on when I am, but tonight our tv blew a light bulb so no taped shows. I got on and surprise my bestest friend in the whole world was on. We chatted for almost an hour. Amazing the things you can say in writing when you know they are between two of you and will be deleted. Topics ranged from work (Thankfully only one or two lines), hot 80's movie kisses, ex boyfriends (we were rehashing the 80's), love handles (the husbands, not ours), and taking a road trip to Denver with Jon Bonjovi (Suree's pick until I mentioned he MAY have love handles). Being allowed to be sarcastic-which I can no longer do at work, being a grown up and all- always makes me feel better, it is my one secret vice of pleasure.

Laughing out loud and with someone who just "gets" you...is there anything better?

Tomorrow is Thursday

Ok, tomorrow is Thursday, I CAN'T believe it is Thursday already, that is one thing about this new gig the days go by that I can hardly believe it. It is INSANE. I haven't even put up my fall decorations yet or thought about Halloween, which the planner in my usually has it all done by now, or went to Spearfish canyon for fall pics the days are just blurring together!
Have to give kudos to big fry after some discouraging grades the first month he has been bringing home 3's (proficient) on papers-well ok the ones he remembers to bring home-I am sure there are countless ones in his desk. He actually brought home his science book and notes-the real notes and ones he copied on his OWN to study from. He is the only ONE who wrote his/her own notes. Crazy.
Wishing you all a good Thursday, a day to be.still. or have.it.all, to do everything or do nothing, reflect or pray

For Bobbi

Hubby actually made this recipe, and I am thinking he kind of combined the two, we actually just used whatever peppers we had. I know you are whiz in the kitchen Bobbi so it should go well.
http://whatscookingamerica.net/Sauces_Condiments/JalapenoJelly.htm

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Jalapeno-Pepper-Jelly/Detail.aspx

On another cooking note I actually felt like Karen for a minute this weekend, made homemade "jar" spaghetti sauce from scratch with nothing bought and everything leftover in the garden-all the peppers and tomatoes-we used it to make lasagna-yummyyyyyy.

all in a days work

Arrive at school
Catch up on emails
Find teacher to cover classroom because there are no subs available
Find assistant to cover nurse's office because there are so many sick kids and nurse it out SICK
Find vomit cleaner on high shelf in custodians closet while standing on a bucket (in high heels)
Go clean up vomit mess because custodian is out SICK
End the day by turning in a spreadsheet for a budget of over 300,000 dollars
Come home make mashed potatoes


All in a days work...