Hot, Hot, Hot

 I can't stand this hot weather - blah!  I am watching J.D. for two weeks in Maryland since Kate has to teach CCD's Summer Course.  He is very active and very talkative during the day.  He is always making me pretend smoothies, sweet tea and coffee with his kitchen appliances Sr. Mary Joseph gave us for the kids.  He has been in his swimming pool a couple of days this week and is having fun shooting his water pistol.  I've been out in the garage cleaning up after my big sale last weekend.....it's so hot out there, but I wanted to get my car back in so it wasn't so hot in the car everytime I wanted to go somewhere.  

It's Getting Hot Down Here

The days are getting hotter and hotter......Blah!!!! Anyway, we make settlement on our Mobile home on Saturday and then we will start cleaning and assessing the situation down there. Here's a couple more pictures of the inside of our house.   The picture below on right is our kitchen area.  We plan on replacing the front windows with a large bay window with a window seat, plus for now paint the dark cabinets white and take down the wallpaper.

The other picture of the kitchen is looking into the living room (notice how dark the paneling is).  That will all get painted a light color now and maybe down the road we will drywall (not sure yet).  There's a bar where we can put stools on the other side of the kitchen counter.  Check that wallpaper! :)

The picture above is our 30 foot long porch. It's been renovated with new T11 paneling and new berber carpeting, so all we have to do out there is clean the windows.

Monday I am bringing Kate and boys here for a couple of weeks.  We will visit the beaches, try to go Kayaking, take the Ferry over to Cape May, have our Annual Summer Yard Sale and just bum around.  It will be fun....can't wait!

My Garden

Well, we planted four tomato plants and two pepper plants and some herbs.  Here is the garden a couple of weeks ago.

Here it is today - can you see the small grape tomatoes?

Also, my potted plants are doing good too.  Here's a few.


Still working on my compost, but it isn't quite ready this year to use.  Maybe by the Fall.

Busy, busy, busy

My life is non-stop most of the time.  Today I was running around buying birthday gifts for this weekend, looking for decorations for the two boys cakes (It's Mikey's birthday today and J.D.'s on the 15th).  Now I'm ready to make the icing for the cakes and decorate them.  Tonight we will drive to NJ.  Birthday parties tomorrow, then Mattie's Dance Recital tomorrow afternoon.  Sunday we will be driving down to O.C., NJ to see another mobile home for sale....then take the Cape May/Lewes Ferry home.  Oops....I have to water all my pots outside before I go.  Talk later.  I'll put pictures of the cakes when they are done.....not as fancy as I usually do.

Taking One Day at a Time

The days have been beautiful.....I love Springtime! I've been working in my gardens in the front and back of my house and I enjoy it so much - it brings me peace and contentment.

I traded my Mazda 5 in for a Ford Taurus X, which I like much better. The Mazda was nice, but just a little too sporty and compact for me. The seats were not comfortable for long trips. Got a good deal on a 2008 Ford Taurux X (white with a wide gray stripe at bottom and thin one up further). It's wider so I have much more room and it also holds 7 people.  It's more of an "old people's car" than the Mazda :)

I'm still trying to figure out a date for my Garage Sale.  I'm so overwhelmed by the stuff in my garage that I don't know where to start.  I think I'll probably have it when Kate and boys are down in July.  Got to get the garage clean so I can pull my car in.

Busy, Busy, Busy

The last two days I have been baking (7 cakes in all)....  6 Italian Pound cakes and 1 Moist Chocolate Cake. 
This morning I woke up at 5 am with a migraine headache and upset stomach. 
Packing and getting ready to go to NJ for the weekend. 
Mikey's solo piano recital tonight (2 cakes go there), Leon's Family's Beef & Beer in PA (3 cakes go there) and then Kate and John's Anniversary on Sunday (1 cake for there).
Lots to do before I go....water plants.....pack.....empty dishwasher......take a shower....so I better go do those things....Talk to you soon.