Gardens

I planted 4 of these hydrangea nikko blue bushes yesterday in one of the new beds we started last June...............I worked all day getting my garden beds ready and am toast today. Had several meetings and was really too tired to think well in any of them. So, I came home from work early and we are having leftovers and will call it an early night...........My sister told me I had to read the Twilight series and I bought the first one yesterday..........finished it tonight...........hate it when a good book is over.

Election Day

Today is Election Day................and like half the country, I believed the media about the long lines and got up at O' dark thirty to meet my friend Poody at the polls.....When I got there 100 people or so were already in line. I knew several people and actually had a great time waiting.....about 40 minutes in all...............Chris went at 8:00 and had no line,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and there was no line the rest of the day..............oh well! Kids out of school again and had another great yard day, planted hydrangeas.....finally and used all the pine needles lying around for mulch..........felt like I saved a fortune in not buying pine bark..... and really enjoyed just being home with the boys................E. was of course out canvasing and working the polls...........The funniest part of the day was when J. answered the phone and said, "Mom, Robert Duvall (pictured above and my FAVORITE actor) is on the phone.............he wants you to vote for McCain........do we know him?"

Yard Day-No School

After another trip to the apple orchard, I made the kids help in the yard. Could you hear the complaining? Even E.'s buddies helped!

Good Mail

These two received hand knitted hats and scarves in the mail today from Grandma.....in the special colors they requested. T. got his earlier, but is never home for me to get a pic. E. and her "young liberals" friends have been canvasing for Obama all day.................

Work Day

Today was one of those days I will pay for tomorrow.......and maybe even the rest of the week....Everybody was gone all day but me.......such a rare thing.....and I moved furniture around the house......therapy for me....worked in the yard for hours!!!! I did laundry, changed sheets, went to the grocery store and have smoked a pork tenderloin, baked a pie (I am on a quest for the perfect pie crust.....not there quite yet) and we are having company for dinner...I hope I can stay awake to visit with them....

Happy Halloween!

I can't believe it...............I have been so busy and didn't take one picture of Halloween and J. trick or treating..................truthfully, he went with friends and I just kept waiting for him to come home so I could take a picture, but by the time he did it was so late and all over with............so, just imagine this picture with an orange jersey over the pads..............of course, he was a football player!

Bloggers Game

One of the blogs I read had everybody post their 7th file 7th picture from their pictures files. Here is mine. It's my kids in Austin, Texas in front of my 4 times Great Grandparent's cabin which has been designated historic . How many kids get to see their own history like that from so long ago? We also saw the Grandfather's tombstone in the state cemetery. He was a Texas Ranger.