Hi Everyone!

[Janet]

You're doing great Gayle! Wow....I have some things that need done here if you're interested...lolol

[Lindsey]

Wow, everyone is so busy! I am so sorry about Jack, Betsi

I have been working a lot of overtime and now have over 2 weeks' extra holiday time from all the time I've banked. That will come in handy one of these days lol!

In my spare time I've managed to get all the trim and baseboards on the main floor painted white. Now you can really tell the ceilings aren't totally white, so we're considering maybe painting the ceilings too before the walls. They haven't been painted in 13 years so they may be due for it anyway. I painted the condo in one week with a lot of stress, so this time I just want painting done at least a month before Christmas I'll give myself some extra time!

My parents are coming out this weekend and we're going to all go golfing at the course across from our house on Saturday. Scott and I are also going to a concert Friday night (Black Eyed Peas) and hopefully we'll have some time to check out "Cruise Weekend", where downtown is blocked off and filled with classic cars.

Oh yeah, and I am so proud of myself with my first ever garden of my very own! Last night I noticed we have TONS of cucumbers, a few peas are ready, and I pulled some carrots but they're still pretty small. We've already eaten a couple of strawberries too, and the onions are huge so we can eat those anytime! My few tomatoes are still small and green, and I'm still waiting for my bell peppers to do something! But I think it was a pretty good first crack at gardening this year

[gja1000]

It does sound like you did great at gardening this year! Oh and your bell peppers need some turkey poop compost. I don't know if you can find it up there, but that is what the garden store told me last year and it worked! My bells just wouldn't set on any peppers and after I put the turkey compost around them, they did! Jalapeno peppers are actually easier to grow than bell peppers. We don't eat many jalapeno peppers, we mostly give them away.

[gja1000]

Originally Posted by Janet

You're doing great Gayle! Wow....I have some things that need done here if you're interested...lolol

In your dreams! LOL!!!!

[Janet]

Well!!! LOL

There are quite a few things around here needing fixed so I guess I ought to be making a list...otherwise they will never get done. Some I need help with.

[judy]

The garden sounds good Linds! My daughter began one this year too, and her stuff is delicious! It is so good to eat from your own garden (or those of relatives, like me).

[DianaB]

Your garden sounds like it's doing very well, Lindsey. There's nothing like eating something that you've grown yourself!!

[gja1000]

Ah! All weekend company gone. Had a nice time with the family, but it is always good to have a quiet house once again.

My school starts on Wednesday. I'm ready though, I love the beginning of a new semester. It seems odd though, it always seems to go by so fast, yet here it is 101 degrees today and it will be cold by the time the semester is over in December! I'm looking forward to a little cooler weather (or maybe A LOT cooler).

[DianaB]

Sorry that I didn't post about our trip to Texas earlier.......We had a great time!!! It was so good to see my cousin, Steve, and his wife, Belinda!!! I hadn't seen them for almost 20 years!! Steve still has his wonderful sense of humor and soon had us all laughing!!! They had a very nice 25th anniversary party that included aunts, uncles, and cousins. My aunt, Joyce, had really gone all out with the cake and everything!!

I went down on Friday with my Mom, Step-dad, and my brother. It was a quiet trip for the most part. My Mom read a book and my brother slept while Art drove. It probably was a good thing because I found out that my brother had been arrested for beating up a guy that was in his ex (?) wife's bed......it's a long story.....well, it's just another in a long line of bad decidions. His life is so full of drama.

I stayed with Rick and Lynette, my cousin and his wife. They are such wonderful people.....Glen and I get along with them so well!!! They've just completed a lot of work on their home and yard.....it was all so beautiful!!! They had a wonderful swimming pool and I was so excited about it but the water was so hot!! The weather was terribly hot and just warmed the water up too much. I did swim but it was not as refreshing as I thought that it would be.

An aunt and uncle who lost everything in Katrina now live in this community and we've never really had too much to do with them because they lived too far away.....had us over for a shrimp supper. It was really good!!

Another day Lynette, Carol (another aunt), and I went to Gladewater and shopped the antique stores. We didn't near make it to all of them!!! I found a Chatty Cathy doll in her original clothes!!! I was pretty excited because I've always wanted one!!!

Glen and I headed home on Wednesday and decided to not go on the Indian Nation Turnpike so we could see the country.......we found out that it takes a looooong time to drive through the southern part of Oklahoma!!!!! So I called my Aunt Marva and we spent the night at her house in Muskogee. The next morning we left and hit some flea markets on the way home!!!

I was so ready to get home and see my Baby Dean!!! Rick and Lynette had a new little granddaughter, Milie Jo, that was 7 months old and soooo cute.......and Marva's little great-granddaughter, Addy, was at Marva's house and also cute.......I told Glen that I had ooo'd and awwww'd over everyone else's baby that I needed to see my own!!!

It was a great trip and so relaxing!! Being down there with my Aunt Carol and her husband, Richard, and Rick and Lynette is like being with mom and dad and a brother and sister. They're very close family to us.