Thanks Jim

thought: "Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."

Booker T.

OMG someone actually looked at my blog, thanks Jim for your comments. I enjoy reading your's and angies also and my wonderful niece's (Beth). I'm glad Carrie's up there by ya'll she will get used to Dallas, it is really a cool place to be.
This weekend was another hard at it work weekend. We cleaned out the attic, made piles for each family member and ex family members. Giving everyone a date to come get their stuff, then if they don't its ours to do whatever we want with. It is unbelievable how much stuff was up there, with two guys going to Iraq, then piling it in on us agh! Then I guess they forgot about it all when they got back. But the new truck is taking over so the garage has to be clean, which is a good thing.
Then we cut the liner out of the pool, drained the nasty thing and getting ready to dismantle. I'm sore, stiff and old from all of that.

This hurricane stuff is getting to me. Walmart closes at 6:00(not enough employees) the lines in the fast food restaurants are long (not enough employees) and the supplies even to stock the shelves have been slow to come. Every time I try to go out I'm stuck in traffic behind a truck picking up trees off the road. I went to get my car washed on Friday and they said, we are only cleaning the outside, can't clean the inside of your car because we don't have the staff. Everyone that was making min wage must have gotten their FEMA money and figured out a way to get unemployment. Good grief it's frustrating. But it could be worse I keep telling myself.

So I'm doing all and I mean all of my Christmas shopping on Amazon.com. It's wonderful.
David did get a new mandolin over the weekend (Gibson) which is supposed to be all that and more. It should be because it cost enough. He says he got it because he needed it for a model to try to achieve the "tone" he is after in the mandolins he is making, ok whatever. Now he is making sure the doors are locked and so careful about making sure the alarm is set and I was thinking aw that's good he is being protective here lately. Then I realized this change in habit has only been since 7:15 on Friday when UPS made the delivery of the "Gibson".
well everyone have a good week,
luv and hugs,
Pam

it was a truck/beauty product weekend

Quote for the day,
"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know
that your name is safe in their mouth."


Beth, will you please send the link to my blog to Carrie.

Everything is still a mess here. I think it looks worse now than in the beginning because the limbs that did not fall from the trees are dying and turning brown and ugly. I was in my bedroom Friday night and I heard a man talking outside my bathroom window, it was about 9:30. I listened carefully, thinking someone is actually so stupid to be snooping around talking in a loud,loud voice. But as I listened I realized it was the announcer at the football game about 4 miles away. This is the first time ever that we could hear that at our house. I guess from a lot of the trees that are gone now, is the reason.

David got a new truck and it had a lift kit on it. He could not pull the trailer with it sooo the cool lift kit had to come off, that's what he did all day on Saturday while I helped Kaci host her... lauch parties of Arbonne. Which if you have never heard of Arbonne, its makeup and face products. Good stuff. Cynthia AKA Cindy put one side of her face with Arbonne makeup and serum and the other side her regular makeup. She came over about 4 hours later and said look at this, so the skeptic in me was lookin her face over and I'm serious no wrinkles on just one side. REALLY, I was like give me some of that stuff, so her and I both probably are Kaci's best customers now.

Sunday OMG I had to help David install a hitch in his new truck. I had to actually crawl under the truck and use all these tools, don't ask me what they were. But he would tell me get this, get that, then fuss, "not that way you have it backwards". Ten years ago I would have slapped him and quit but with age comes patience into a soul I think. (I guess it did not for him)
He finished and sold his first mandolin, he was excited about that. It came out beautiful.
I kept Jordan for a little while, she did not feel good, she is walking though.
well luv and hugs
Pam

Strike

Well I think I'm going on strike with the blogging. Beth you are the only one that posts and probably the only one that looks at it.

Halloween was a total rain out at our house too. Moss Bluff had opened up their Halloween but Lake Charles still canceled theirs. We had two trick or treaters. Kaci and Jeremy took our little flapper and snow white to the church. They had fun for a very short time.

Saturday I finally drug PawPaw to town and he found himself not one but two redneck cowboy stores. He purchased himself a belt (without the cowhide hair) 2 pair of wranglers and a pair of boots that he loves. He did still have to ask the employee about all the ins and outs of jeans, which ones were the right cut at the boot and in the leg and he was quite impressed with her knowledge in which I was thinking ..."ok I could have made that up and sold you the Gap jeans"

PawPaw has finished another mandolin and I have to say it is the most beautiful one yet, it's sold already.

Well luv and hugs,
Pam