Randomly She Roles Along...

"We had mighty good weather as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all."  -  Mark Twain

Well there's a quote that pretty much sums it up!  And I wouldn't want it any other way.

Note the absence of any grandchild pictures?  It's not due from lack of TAKING pictures.  No.  I accidentally deleted two entire days worth last night.  Ugh.  Sometimes I even surprise myself at how not very smart I can be.

Anyway...

Who reads my blog anymore?  I'm not even sure.  Feel free to comment or shoot me an e-mail so I know just who exactly I'm boring to tears.

One of the more exciting things that has happened around here lately is the addition of a new coffee maker that THGGM received for being at his job for ten years.  TEN YEARS?  I still think of it as his new job and can never remember who is who at his work place.  But, he is now the proud owner of a Keurig.  I really like it.  My only complaint is that neither of my two polka dot mugs fit under it.  I suppose I'm the only one who finds that bit of information of any note at all, but it does cause me a wee bit of sadness in that corner of my heart reserved for such mundane things.

And besides really good coffee, I'm also now addicted to watching "The Big Bang Theory".  There is no telling as to why.  It could be that one of the guys reminds me of a former boy friend or that I see a bit of Sheldon in one of the grandsons.  Or maybe it's just that on those evenings when I'm too tired to hold a book, magazine, or crochet hook and yarn to my face I can just sit down and laugh.  Also, HGTV isn't meeting my needs anymore (HGTV - Home and Garden TV, silly.  Not THGGM - he's still good).  So there you have it.  I blame my sister, who just happened to mentioned The Big Bang Theory  in passing one day and me being me had to go home and tune in.  If you are interested, I could even sing you the theme song.

See that picture above?  I've been busy in my yard.  When we moved here almost five years ago there was a tree with a dead branch.  Every year since another branch has stopped leafing.  I wanted the tree removed before the fence went up, but I don't always get my way.  So, I've taken it upon myself to remove at least the dead parts.  And look!  One very large branch is down.  I did it with THGGM's miter saw.  It worked very well.  It may take me all summer to do, but I am nothing if not determined.

The past two weeks have been extremely pain filled for me.  For years if not decades now I've had this awful problem with pains that flit about my body from place to place landing for only a debilitating day or two and then skipping off to another place for a day or two.  In April it started in my left arm.  Two days later it was gone and I had a painful lump on my right foot.  From there it slunk on over to my right leg leaving me unable to walk Saturday night.  When I woke up Sunday morning I could walk, but now I have a lump on my left thumb.  Have I told my doctor about this?  Yes.  He doesn't know what it is either.

Speaking of doctors, THGGM went to see one of his this morning.  Everything at that appointment came out well.  Tomorrow he goes to see an oncology surgeon about that spot that was found on his liver last year.  In the most recent scan it appears to have grown.  With this doctor he will figure out what the next step will be, liver biospy or more 'wait and see'.

Have I asked before if anyone of you has read Will and Ariel Durant's "History of Civilization"?  I'm working my way through the volume at the time of Louis XIV.  Seriously I thought that it would put me right to sleep, since I now only read at night, but that has not been the case at all.  And, now I have something NEW to collect as I'm going to want all of the other volumes as well.

It's been awhile since I've update my Simply Thrift blog, although not for lack of thrifting.  Somethings just seem more picture-worthy than others, and lately I've been finding great stuff for the grand kids to play with in the back yard.  Over the weekend I found a cute bowling set that kept them busy on Saturday.  I COULD have showed you pictures of THAT, but those were among the pictures I mistakenly deleted.  They made a 'lane' out of fence post pieces which made the game even more fun.  Oh, and I also found a bunch of plastic 'cowboys and indians'.  Those seemed to get along nicely with the dinosaurs I've been thrifting for years.  Plastic toy history is somewhat as interesting as real history in that much can be learned from it and it tends to repeat itself.

So there you go.  That's what's new here.