a taste of summer... or spring

This last weekend was B-E-A-UTIFUL! In the mornings, though it was cold, you could see bits of sunshine peeking out of the clouds and hear the birds singing and all that fun nature type stuff that happens. As Scott put it to me after cleaning out the car early Saturday morning, "You know how when it is so quiet after it rains that you can almost hear stuff growing?" How sweet was that?! When he says stuff like that I know why I married him all over again. Right when I am about to feel like he doesn't notice little things or he feels possibly like I don't, he says something like that that just melts me.

This weekend was Izzy's foray into some serious 2 group foods. She ate some vanilla biter biscuits and had some peaches, oats and plums, I think it was. That girl knows how to eat! She loves food, she starts shivering and shaking when we put her in the high chair, and then she attacks the spoon like her life depends on it until the jar is gone, empty... not a single scraping of food left. It's amazing!

Now, today, Monday it is raining and not quite as cold as it has been. I am taking that as a good sign. Hopefully we'll be seeing summer soon.

It's Finally Friday!

Today, more than any other recent Friday in memory, makes me feel good. Maybe it's the weather, maybe it's the new house. I don't know, but I am reminded of this song by George Jones and so I share the lyrics here...
Enjoy and sing like crazy because It's Finally Friday!!

got a hundred dollars smokin' in my billfold
I know I oughta save it but it's burnin' a hole
Right through my pocket and into my skin
Come Monday morning I'll be broke again.

It's finally Friday
I'm free again
I got my motor running for a wild weekend
It's finally Friday
I'm outa' control
Forget the workin' blues
And let the good times roll.

I got a little sugar baby down the road
She's sittin' on a radio and rockin' on roll
We'll dance up a storm and later all night
We'll be workin' on doin' all the wrong things right.

It's finally Friday
I'm free again
I got my motor running for a wild weekend
It's finally Friday
I'm outa' control
Forget the workin' blues
And let the good times roll.

--- Instrumental ---

Monday, I'll be hurtin with my head in a vice
Tuesday, I'll be wonderin' if I'll ever survive
Wednesday and Thursday, I'll be slowly tunin' in
Friday, I'll be revin' up my motor again.

It's finally Friday
I'm free again
I got my motor running for a wild weekend
It's finally Friday
I'm outa' control
Forget the workin' blues
And let the good times roll.

It's finally Friday
I got my motor running for a wild weekend
It's finally Friday
Forget the workin' blues
And let the good times roll...

Seriously, it's June not January

I am looking out my window and seeing gray, rain and clouds and wind. Lots of rain and lots of cold, very very cold. I understand that I moved to a cold and wet state, but come on! It's JUNE for cryin' out loud.

Anyway we are really cold here at the house as our only source of heat is a wood burning stove and we have no wood. We have asked around about wood but everyone who says they will get back to us, doesn't. We've called places and noone is allowed to give a definitive answer and we have been checking the classifieds, there is either nothing or a 7 cord minimum... at $135 a cord I just don't think that's doable.

Soo... if you live in Washington and you live near Mount Vernon and you know where we can get some wood... please please email me! We are freezing!