Summer Bounty

The blackberries are ripe! So happy to have some nearby us, I thought for sure I was going to miss out this year. Now I get to make my momma's muffins, AKA Karen's Fresh Fruit Muffins....They're delicious!

And all from a couple cup fulls of blackberries.

Getting Dirty....

Before I tell you about my weekend I'll let you in on a little fact.....MURPHY HATES ME! Who is Murphy you ask? He's the Murphy in Murphy's Law...you know, the one who says what can go wrong, inevitably WILL go wrong!

I started out this weekend ready to do some cleaning. I loaded up the car, hopped in and started to back out of the parking space to make a quick trip to the local Goodwill Store just 10 minutes down the road. My quick, thirty minute trip turned into wekk over a two-hour process due to the flat tire that had developed over night.

Instead of calling AAA to have them come out and fix it I decided to do it myself. My car haveing been sandwiched between the other resident's vehicles I didn't think they'd be able to fit between the cars to do the job. So....out came everything from the trunk; the organizer, the roadside emergency kit, the spare tire and the jack....

After that hour-long process I drove to Les Schwab to find out that not only had that tire worn out one of the back tires was in the same shape and had I had to replace not just one tire, but two! They changed them out for me and then set me up with an appointment to come back later in the afternoon to have my allignment fixed...might as well get it all done at once.

THAT WAS YESTERDAY.....

Today I got up, and along with my other errand stopped by NAPA Auto Parts to get a replacement light bulb for my headlight that burned out over a month ago. I drove back to the apartment, popped the hood of my Hyundai and set about changing the headlight. AND because, as I've already stated, Murphy hates me, it wasn't the easy headlight to change....Nooooo....it was the one under the plastic plate and in front of the battery, both of which had to be removed before the headlight could be changed! But I did it, I got it all taken out, the light changed and put back together (the right way too)! I am WOMAN....hear me ROAR!

(Sorry for the bluriness, it was hard trying to hold the phone steady and try to keep it from getting grimy like my hands!)

Who's afraid of a little dirt.....certainly not me!

Summer's Bounty

Earlier this year I planted up a couple pots with my Momma's help, mostly flowers with one little tomato plant. Now though this poor tomato plant has grown to big to stay upright and keeps falling down...I went to Lowe's and after wandering around for about 20 minutes finally found an associate to help me locate what I was looking for. I came home with a plastic plant stake and some plant tape. I may have gone a little overboard with the length of the stake....after putting it in the planter it barely clears the ceiling of my porch.

The plant is now all staked up and ready to keep growing...I've even got a few tomatoes already!

Home Again, Home Again

Just one more day of work left before I leave Brian at home and take off for the weekend to spend some quality time with my family.....I'm so excited to see my folks, my grandparents and mybrother!

I've got a load of laundry in the dryer and a half-packed suitcase sitting on the bed while I take a quick break to eat my spaghetti dinner. Yes, I said dinner...I know it's after 11pm, don't judge!

Have a great weekend everyone, I know I will!

Saturday Morning

It's Saturday! Yeah for not having to go to work again 'til Monday! It's days like this I wish I could turn on the television and start watching all the Saturday morning cartoons I used to watch when I was little. I could really go for some Looney Tunes or Tom & Jerry right now, maybe some Flintstones and The Jetson's too. I may have to do a search on the internet and see what I can come up with....

I slept in this morning and am now spending some time surfing the web, following blogs and bookmarking craft ideas inspired by some very talented women.

Not sure yet what our plans for the day are, especially since I have no idea what time Brian got home from work last night. Though I do know it was late since I didn't go to bed until after midnight and he still had a couple of hours to go when I called to say goodnight. We're keeping our fingers crossed his schedule change goes through as planned in a couple of months! Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Wi-Fi Enabled

We finally have our wireless internet up and running again! After trying and trying to get our old router to work we gave up on it and picked up a new one on our trip to the store today. Now, instead of sitting on one of our hard, not meant for long sitting and web browsing dining room chairs, I get to relax on the couch in comfort while I surf the web!

Easter Door Decoration

After deciding that the winter front door decoration needed to come down, permanently this time....It's been taken down, placed on the kitchen table (that we rarely use) and left there until I clean the house and I hang it back up on the front door....I needed a new decoration, something Spring-y and Easter themed.

Since the winter decoration was so easy, and super inexpensive, to make I decided to do something very similar again.

My supplies...scissors, some glue, a few eyelet screws from the hardware store and the ribbon, foam Easter eggs and floral wire I found at the Dollar Tree. First I started by using the knife to score the dowels attached to the eggs so I could break them off. Then I put some glue on the screws, to hold them in place, and screwed them into the eggs. Next, I made the big bow, that the eggs would hang from..Then I cut some different lengths of ribbon and tied an egg to either end of each one. Finally I gathered all the ribbons together, layered them so they hung just right and using the floral wire attached them to the large bow.

All that was left was to hang it on the door.

Overall, It only took about forty minutes from start to finish and now I've got a sweet looking door decoration I get to enjoy over the next month.

Spring Is In The Air...

....time for some spring cleaning.