Today Daughter and I drove up north to my sister and brother-in-law's house. We all had a wonderful time. Does it surprise you that I took over 300 pictures? No. I didn't think it would. It didn't surprise me at all.
So while Kado entertains you with his expressive expressions, I will pour out a couple of random thoughts.
I just finished watching the PBS series "Abraham and Mary". LOVED it. Soon I shall finish the Lincoln biography "With Malice Toward None". I believe once I finish that I'll haul my copy of Mary Chesnut's diary out from under the bed and pick up where I left off. All this reading just to remind me of the cliche, 'the more things change the more they stay the same'. Good grief. What a rotten time in history.
Last night we had to call in the 'big guns' for our drain problem.
$200 later, it was fixed. $200 would have been a lot of cheap thrills at the thrift stores. But it seems an even bigger thrill to be able to do laundry and other things not mentionable on a blog. At the point in which the sewer people came, we would have been willing to pay them ANYTHING to save us from doing what they did. Seriously. I DO believe they were worth every penny. Because I'm the shy unassuming sort I stopped myself just before asking the kind man if he had aspired to unclogging sewage pipes as a young child. It does make one wonder.., did he lay awake at night thinking of that next big clog. Our clog, by the way, was composed of DRYER SHEETS. Don't ask. We have no idea.
Lately I've been investing a lot of time reading blogs. Normally I read my friend's blogs (hi friends!), surf through a large variety of crafting blogs, and follow a few deep thinking blogs. But last night a post on a blog I've read for years led me to a site that NEEDS to become a book. NEEDS to. Just as it stands. Some day I may link to it (with permission) but for now I'm just letting the truth of it all sink in.
And in the light-hearted reading department, I have the latest issue of Somerset Life. Sooo glad I bought it BEFORE the afore mentioned drain issue. Or I would not have it. (STUPID DRYER SHEETS!)
It only took two years and a relentless wave of heat and humidity, but looky there at Kado's hair! And although Daughter cannot believe it, I LOOOOVE the smell of sweaty little boy hair. It smells like summer and all things happy and good.
Anyone else having blogger trouble? I cannot change the font, font color, or use spell check. What's up with that? I installed a NEWER browser which was SUPPOSED to SOLVE all of my ills. But that did not happen. It caused even more, I'm thinking. It probably even crammed box load upon box load of dryer sheets into my drain.
You never know. Could you prove it beyond reasonable doubt? I doubt it. Although I do doubt it reasonably. Because of all the things I'm not, reasonable isn't one of them.
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I've heard blogger blamed for a LOT of stuff - but dryer sheets?
Isn't it discouraging to lay out $200 for ANYTHING?
Sounds like you're getting in some significant reading. I need to do the same. Don't know how you do it surrounded by those sweet kids with such expressive faces!
Oh Judy, I'm with you on paying them anything to just get the drain flowing. Been there, done that and it is not fun!!
Kado looks so cute in his little button up shirt. I love little boys in those shirts, they look like miniature men, which they are I guess..... I have been crafting. Finishing up a Smurfette pink mushroom cottage for darling granddaughter. I will do a blog post on it soon. It has been the most fun for me. I still have that little girl inside.
Forgot to mention, you have me most interested in that blog that should be a book. I find the best blogs by following a comment left on another blog. I do hope you can post a link, would love to read it.
Seriously wild and crazy hair!!
BTW glad the sewage problem was fixed...dryer sheets - seems like a kid thing
Could those sheets have been baby wipe sheets. That was our problem a few years ago. They are supposed to be flushable, but apparently were not.
I'd be interested in reading the blog you mentioned too. And like you, I have been spending way too much time reading blogs lately. It is something to do while my husband is watching the Tigers.
I am reading like crazy lately too. I still have no camera...and trying to blog without one is posing problems. I persevere with idiotic thoughts though! What kind of camera do you have? I was hoping to get a refund on mine but it looks as if they w=may just repair it :(
Love that baby boy's hair!
You've reminded me I have a biography of Mary Lincoln that I never read. A couple of summers ago we visited the Lincoln library and museum, their home in Springfield. Fascinating people.
Love the photos of Kado and that hair!
I haven't had trouble with Blogger, but I just detest it when they keep changing things!
Have you ever watched "Dirty Jobs"? Any kind of wipes, even the ones that say they do dissolve, do not throw them into any thing that ends up in the sewersystem and preferably do not use dryer sheets unless they are enclosed in those zippered nets for lingerie, that is the advise our local government stows upon us. Not having to pay for sewerproblems, but a fortnight of stench due to our neighbours throwing wipes down the unmentionable is no fun either. This happened during the hot spring we had, sewerproblem solved, in came seven weeks of cold rainy weather. You could use a washcloth with some splatters of liquid fabricsoftener instead of sheets if your machine eats them or use the lingerienet in future, I am trying to be of any help. And Kado has really left babyhood since Feintsje arrived, his looks have matured. Have a nice read, Judy.
Ahhh...sweaty little boy hair! Yes indeed! I love it too! I'm wondering...where on earth do you find the time to read along with everything else you do!
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