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This is the before shot...I took it last night.
This is what I found this morning and it's been snowing all day today.
There is a bush under there....trust me.
Yeah we are supposed to get one to two feet of snow. More's supposed to come this coming week.
Wind blew snow away from the front of the buildings, giving me a nice little trail to walk on. I guess that was God's way of telling me to stay on that trail.
That's what it looked like in front of me.
That's what the canal looked like, last time I was outside.
In fact, it was starting to freeze.
Snow's blowing in my face, I'm not winking.
God had the snow mix with the ice so it wasn't slippery.
Me again. I'm looking at the trees on the other side of the ditch...I could barely see them.
Actually, it's just one picture....I don't know why I said plural.
That's what our side yard and the side of the house looked like from the hill.
Lol, Rich, our maintenance guy, parked that trailer behind Grandma and Grandpa's camper...saying that Morgan, Mom's boss, wanted him to store it there. Rich said that it doesn't work but, he sure liked it. In fact, he found it on the side of the road. He's such a goon sometimes.
This picture looks like a wynter card
lol, me again.
Let's start this off with good news. First, I am off today, so I could sleep in as long as I want. Which lasted till around noon. When I finally got up, I only went as far as the end of my bed though. Turning on the TV and tuning into Olympic coverage since there is really nothing else on.
My mother got home from work around 3 PM. They brought home corn. Oh boy, Corn is ok, but let just be honest . Um, it's just corn isn't it? What so special about it? Other then corn for dinner which I only ate one ear anyway. I had a couple hot dogs.
After dinner it was lawn mowing time. My father had got gas when he went to pick up my mother. Good, no arguing about it this time. Guess his back was feeling ok, or he didn't feel like arguing with me. So, before he finished eating , I went out and started doing the lawn. I was almost finished with my part of the front yard, before he got outside. I finished my part of the lawn long before he finished his, and was inside with my mother, helping move furniture around so she could vacuum.
While finishing up vacuuming, he even said "thanks for helping with the lawn" which was sorta shocking. Guess he woke up on the kind side of the bed for once.
Anyway, now that all the house work, and yard work is finished. It's back to Olympic coverage for the majority of the night. I'll be visible online when I feel like chatting, and on as late as I want, as I don't work till tomorrow afternoon.
~ TTYL 
Yay. I dropped my A1C's from a 6.8 to a 5.8. Add that to my back to normal blood pressure I am setting good right? Wrong! I am borderline on my Cholestrol. Fuck! So I have another 6 months to maintain my bloodpressure and my A1C's and get my Cholestrol down before they will take me off my meds. On the up note, I don't have to check my sugars 3 times daily! I only have to check 2 times a week. I can handle that and will do it!
Now I couldn't find my pedomitor so I didn't start the over all walking program yesterday and after what I mowed yesterday my poor knees couldn't take any more activety on the eleptical machine. But here are the pictures of what I mowed yesterday and of the new dog:D
The picture of the drain tube is there to show you I went from the side closet to you down the hill because I worked on the opposite side of the yard and around the house on Monday. The rest of the pictures show the rest of the yard I worked on. Oh and a picture of my Troy Built 21" deck self propelled push mower. This will help me get my cholestrol and body back this summer! Walking down and up these hills really works the core muscles!
The big brown spot on the one picture is my old garden that got the initial tilling yesterday afternoon via my daddy. He extended the garden for me by a foot or two and next year I'll extended it again. I am goign to ask my uncle have one of the hired men who bring back the discs from plowing down set aside fields to put in my rows for my corn on the other side of the house you can't see. I am about done with the yard work besides the mowing all summer long. Finish up my soon to be herb garden in the next week or two (have to block up a window) and rack a small hill off that has wood peices on it from cutting down a dead tree and I am set with a clean yard this year.
Holiday's Over With-check
New Year's Over With-check
The Beginning of Me Plotting-In Progress!:D
Yes, January is the month of plotting for me. In January alone I have LOTS of bdays. My dad's, my sister's, my sister in laws (I really don't do anything for her), and Randy's.
Then comes Febuary, Randy's dad's bday (this year to be a bitch to him sending him a black laxitive forrest cake!:D) and our 9th ani.
Imbolg is at the start of Febuary.
Then we start honing in on my birthday and the end of School for hte kids. I have plans to make thus the plotting!
Randy is actually in on the plotting this year. He hasn't figured out how to plot with out my knowledge but that is okay. He had me pick out thigh high leather boots last night. Once I get him caught up on dental, vision, and doctor appointments. And a set of new work boots, he is planning on getting me a set of boots. I use to have a pair of thigh high leather boots before I married him and he wants me to have them again. I tried explaining to him that A) I don't have anymore hoochie mamma clothes cause yay I dont' go out and B) the way to my heart is to by me camping gear, books, or sports equipment of what I am doing.
I am happy he is trying to replace some of the items I lost or had to get rid of after we got married because of his ex wife. But that isn't what I am plotting over! I am plotting out camping trips! Yes, it is January in the Midwest. The high has been -6 lately and I am plotting and planning camping trips!
Randy won't give me a yes or no on Memorial Day or Fourth of July weekend campign Trip so he is getting over ruled and told which one of those holidays this year he is taking off since he gets them both off this year if he so chooses. Talked to my sister told her what I am doing. She goes well I have to work Memorial Day but I am all for the plotting of Fourth of July. Count me and my crew in. Call mom and talk to her about getting Dad and Mom up there at the same time! Oh and what about our Brother? I said he is on his own this year cause A) he won't have any gear and I dont' have extra and B) if he is working with the same company Randy is he won't have them off till the following year. My girl Bree is a lil disappointed she wants to go with us but Arjan won't have those two holidays off either this year unless the bosses say he is working with Randy and Randy has them off. So I am plotting and getting things planned so I can tell Randy that Arjan is working with him over Fourth of July weekend so Bree and her crew can come with us!:D The reason I am plotting early is that I have to have the camp ground spaces reserved on our favorite campground that we use to camp at as kids 90 days before that weekend! I amnot shitting you. That is the only bad thing about reservations. You use to be able to go up to the campgrounds, get the spot you want, pay for the nights you wanted, and got it. Now your stupid if you do that! You might not get a spot. And I want right by the lake this year! So I will be marking my calender each month to remind me to reserve 4 possibly 5 camping spots for everyone for the Fourth of July weekend!
The kids and I will also be partaking in various tournies this year for taekwondo. So tonight when we head back to taekwondo I will be asking our instructor for a list of tournies that our organization has on in the midwest. We will make sure to hit our own school's tournie. The tournie up in Sioux Falls that one of my cousin's goes to, and since I am not above driving out to Western NE we will hit a couple out that way. Not to mention Omaha's and Lincolns. My cousins' families hit the IA ones. My ass said to hell with that and I will head south towards MO and Arkansas to some of the bigger ones. Randy is perpared for that.
Randy also gets a full week of VK off as of March this year. He likes to go on VK in June and such cause of his light skin and the type of trips we go on are usually camping. He doesn't like burning. I told him to buck it up cause we aren't going anywhere in June besides around this area. I am thinking either the Black Hills or heading out to WY to Yellowstone for the week. I was invited to go up to the Black Hills with a friend and her family. But some of the places we plan on going I if I go with her, I don't want my kids hiking that long each day just to get to some of her realitives living out in the sticks. About April, I will start plotting and planning a week long camping trip to either Black Hills or Yellowstone for either middle to end of July or early August before the kids go back to school. Randy said to lay in the SPF 60 sunblock for him! Thank Gods the kids got enough of my skin tone that I can get away with SPF 20-30 for them! I only wear about an SPF 4 to make Randy happy.
I am also plotting about a way to either buy my folks place when they retire this year and move or looking into a few other places that are for sale by owner closer to the city but still NOT in the city. The one house Randy is interested in doesn't have a lot of yard and that is going to drive me farking batty but as he pointed out it gives us a place to start out with, fix it up a lil better, and then sell it for a better place. So I am calling on that today after I get home from the doctors.
I have a few other things up my sleeve but nothing can be put into action till I have some more bills paid off.
I am off. It is time for a cup of coffee, refeer a morning back to school fight with the kids, start the vechile up to warm up, and get ready for my stitches to come out today. Hope you all have a great day!
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