Watching the Debates tonight?????

I think the debates should be kinda interesting tonight. I thought the day would never come.... Just think only about 4 more weeks before the election... about time right? I for one am disapointed in the way the campaigning has been going...seems like brilliant men who want to be President could find a nicer and smarter way to go about it all. Maybe it takes a woman to show them how to go about it... At least I sure hope a woman would know how to do it better.... Anyway I will watch even though I know who I'm going to vote for but I want to see what they are going to talk about.... Do you think they might have thought of a nice way to go about it so no matter who wins we can all be proud of who the United States will vote for.....

This is my thought for today on my new calendar:
When you apply your unique individuality to tasks, you'll find that you can create anything you place your attention and imagination upon.
                                                                          Dr.Wayne Dyer

FAll is Here

Fall is in the air tonight. Leo and I did some work in the yard this afternoon and it was a perfect day for it too... Nice sunny day with low humidity and in the very low 70's.... Perfect!   Tonight its supposed to go down to 38 I heard and now Leo has the heat on.... What a change in the weather. When Mike was here it was summer and now Fall. At least Winter didn't arrive yet. Leo had backed into my clothes line pole with his riding lawn mower  just before Mike came home so today was the day to put a new one in while I cut back some plants and got some pruned.. I got a nice little start. and Leo got a nice start on the clothes lines. Tomorrow if it warms up he will paint it and put the lines back . I probably won't use them for awhile though as we have something in the air around here that looks like rust on our shoes. It is also clinging to a couple of my bushes. I thought they were dying but Mike says its probably coming from a farmers field or something.... Leo too thinks its some kind of pollen and Mike and Gary both had runny noses and were sneezing so maybe thats what it is.... I wonder.  We haven't had any rain for a long time and all that beautiful weather the last 2 weeks so who knows.
My furry kids miss Mike I can tell as they aren't as peppy now that he is gone and seem to be waiting for him to come home... all 3 really liked having him here but then we all did.... what a treat for us!!!!!!!!!!
Goodnight, Sandra

I can't sleep

I can't sleep yet because if I do when I wake up at 4 am it will be time to get ready to take Mike to the airport..... wish he could stay and stay for good but not to be so I must put on a happy face and say good by..... hard to do. It has been just like Christmas having him home and seeing all my kids so often... It has been nice and we have a lot of pictures to proove what a nice time everyone had. Now he has to go home and repair his roof again. Teri said the water is coming down on their bed under the place where they lost more shingles.... It will be a lot of work and probably a long time before a roofer comes their way too. We heard today that a roofer going there today can expect to have 2 years of work before the damage is all taken care of... Sure wish some roofers would find their way to Florida soon.
I took this picture just the other day... We have had such beautiful weather in the last 2 weeks its hard to believe.... God is good! 
Goodnight, Sandra

One more day?

Mike is home one more day???? will he be able to go though as the hurricane is looking like its getting closer to Orlando now and probably will close down the airport.... Its touch and go I guess and he will have to wait until tomorrow morning to see what he will have to do... He would like to go home so he can rest one day before he has to go back to work. He has been so busy every day... Everyone missed him a lot and had all kinds of fun things for him to do... It sure is nice having him here and I wish they would come back to live but he said he doesn't think he is quite ready for it yet but he is thinking... Thats good  ;>)  Today he is duck hunting with an old friend up north at his cottage. and yesterday he played golf and went to Julie's for supper etc.
  This is a picture of Gary just coming home from work and then Mike getting ready to go out and Tom and Cindy who came over to visit for a little while... they are holding Mickey because Teri, Mike's wife, always has a hidden Mickey when she takes pictures at Disney world.... We sure had perfect weather for him.... If we asked we couldn't have asked for anything better....
    So today maybe I will do a little yard work and again maybe I won't, lol  Leo is fishing so I think I will go for a walk and just relax.
Hope everyone is having a nice day and please send good thoughts to Florida and maybe the hurricane will be easy on them. Sandra
Orlando airport is closed so Mike will stay one more day.... Poor Teri is alone with the bad storm coming and she sounds pretty worried... Hope things calm down soon.

Just to say Hi

I just want you all to know that my son is still here and we are still having a nice time and the weather is also wonderful. All my kids have been here at one time or another and many times even so its a nice time but I haven't been doing much else but thinking of the kids and what they want etc etc.... time for myself in a week or so, lol
Its nice to sit out on the patio every morning for coffee and talks too ... today I didn't get up early enough though as they had their coffee and were gone fishing by 7....
  Hope you are all happy and healthy and having nice weather like we are... even half as nice is great weather. We sure are counting our blessings... Sandra

I guess its the style now for my sons to cut their hair short... first Tom then Gary and Rick and Mike and now Dan... they don't like looking partially bald I guess and it seems to be in style.... Whats a mother to do? LOL and he always had such nice curls too.... :(

Family get togethers

This is a picture of my daughter Shari and my son Mike(from Florida) and Tyler, Sharis son and in back is Mindy my grandaughter.... I sure am a happy mama! Today I had lunch with Gary, Mike, Dan and Leo.... I just was so happy I just sat and listened to them enjoy themselves....Our son Rick was over this morning before work and again later . I made a chicken supper for Mike, Gary and Leo and then Mike took a bike ride and then Our other daughter Julie and Mark (her husband) and Shari and Dan and Rick came back over for awhile and then they went out for a little while..... Oh happy days. They asked us to go along but you know its for the kids sometimes and Mom and Dad are so used to staying home.... Gary is home too as he had things to do. Mike and Leo and Gary went to the Packer stadium and atirium to look around to see whats new and all came home with a little package of packer memories. What a beautiful day.... Mike did think it was the middle of winter though and didn't know what to wear... :>)  Tomorrow and Sunday it should be a little warmer and he should feel better... He took 2 bike rides today.... one to his sister Shari's and one to sister Julie's house... got to meet his great neices and still hasn't been able to meet Carley yet but will be home for over a week yet.... We are taking lots of pictures and even some videos..... its been so long since we have all gotten together and we all are very happy..... I even am forgetting about my stomach problems..... LOL   must be all in my head I guess or maybe happiness heals.... do you think? I think so.
Hope everyone is as happy , Sandra

Mike is home!

Mike got home this noon and now they are getting ready to go fishing... something tells me I won't see as much of him as his father does but its just great having him home!

WARM RAINY DAY

Charlie is looking for Mike. Mike is coming tomorrow! yeh!!!! Finally he gets to meet my furry friends. He hasn't been home for a long long time... at least 5 years. not since our son Dan and Minda got married and that was 5 years in June. He gets to meet an older Carley and Kevins girls too. There is going to be so much for him to take in in the 10 or 11 days he is home. Everything around town is changing so much. He will be going to the Packer Bear game with his Dad, Brother Gary and a good friend of his and Garys boss. The first time he has seen teh new Packer stadium too... a big thing around here and he is excited. He called me last night and wanted to know how cold it is here now... He wants to wear shorts home.... Wants to know if that would look silly.... Its in the 80's now and we are finally getting summer but tomorrow its only supposed to go to 70 and for the Packer game in the high 70's so he should have a great time... My other son Dan is going to be home too after being gone for 9 months so that will be great.... the whole family can get together.... My kind of time!!!!!!
Yesterday Leo scrubed all the carpets and I bought some new scatter rugs and we are cleaning and getting ready.... emptying a closet for his clothes and getting food ready.... I don't even remember what he likes to eat it been so long, lol 
I hope that Ivan calms down some more and doesn't do his damage. I'm praying and sending good wishes to everyone in the path... Please take care.   Sandra

Charlie my pal

Charlie likes to look out the window while I'm on the computer and if the window isn't open he does something I don't like to get my attention and as soon as I open the window he is good.... he's a good boy but he sure knows how to get what he wants from me.

Today was such a beautiful day. We are getting nicer days now then we got all summer but the flowers don't look as pretty or the grass as green. After I got my work finished I went outside and read for a little while.
I got some new books and cd's by Dr Wayne Dyer. He is sure helping me already. I guess maybe my stomach problems are from not being able to relax and now they seem to be going away. The book and cd Im using now is "It's Never Crowded Along the Extra Mile"  Sure is a brilliant man I think. So Now I'm going to go and listen to tape number 5 of 8. there are 10 secrets for success and inner peace.... wonderful!
Hope everyone is having a beautiful, happy, peaceful day,
Sandra

Lady Alice Lily

My special Lily just opened yesterday and it wasn't at all what I expected. I thought I sent for an old fashioned tiger lily, the kind my mother used to grow and it isn't anything like it. I sent for it in a very good catalog and it was so expensive ~ the picture looked just like the right one and this is what I have... I really think its beautiful but now I am still looking for the right kind... funny but I guess it was meant to be. I was eating a popsicle or should say finished eating one and instead of putting the stick in my mouth or on the ground I just had to keep it in my hand.... maybe the next picture I take of this beauty won't be with a popsicle stick.... lol  I had to hold it up as its not really a hardy plant yet.... I planted it too late but hopfully next year it will grow stronger and multiply. I planted 3 but the others are even smaller.... I blame planting it too late and the weather.... . So enought of that. I hope the picture is a better size. The picture of the rose was longer so I must have taken it side ways and didn't size it right....
hope everyone is having a beautiful  late summer day and the storm goes out into the ocean sooner.
Sandra

I did it

So I got another picture in but have probably added it a couple of weeks ago... I don't know. Happy to be able to do it though. maybe I couldn't get the other one in because I didn't take it ~ who knows. At least I'm in and maybe will get somemore in later in the week.

I came in this afternoon to add a picture and chat a little but I couldn't get the picture in no matter how hard I tried. I think something is mixed up again with my hometown so I will probably be adding pictures this way again as I can't figure out what I did to cause the problem and am not smart enough to check out my computer so there goes my fun ~ maybe another day will be better.
It was a nice sunny day today and yesterday with a temp in the 70's just like I like it to be when I have yard work to do.... The yard work is on schedule so far.... I don't want to cut things back too soon but some I have and it looks a lot neater now.
   I went to the doctor yesterday because I haven't been feeling well and he told me to stop taking one pill for a week to see what that does and basicly stop eating as much.... what a joke as lately I haven't been eating much because of my stomach ..... He did give me some good pointers though that I will be trying to follow as best I can... I sure hope it works....
  Anyway I came in here because I wanted to show off this cute picture of my Great Grandaughter  Morgan.... She is a cutie and so friendly and happy.
So tomorrow is another day and maybe I will try again. I hope you all have been having nice days,  Sandra

Happy Labor Day

Mindy, My grandaughter moved into her collage dorm yesterday. I hope all goes well with her. Its a big undertaking in her life and everyones who love her...At least its not so far away that she won't be able to get home from time to time.... maybe even every week end like my son did when he went to Oshkosh. She and her room mate sure crammed all they could into the small space they give them..... now all they have to do is find their classrooms and figure out a good daily schedule....
   Today is labor day and its raining here.... we need the rain and we did have a nice week end so we are not complaining at all. 
I hope everyone has a nice day off today ~ Sandra
If you want to send President Clinton a get well wish you can go look in my sites for his address and send it from there.

My little family

I got 2 more little people and now I have my whole family Me and Leo and our 7 kids, lol
I thought I would put a cute picture in today so we can pretend I'm not a bit worried about the kids in Florida.... Mike just called and said the wind gust was about 50 mph around noon and it rained but the sun came back out and its 90 out .... so he took the dog and went out side for awhile and Teri stayed in the house and is cooking so they don't get hungry while the storm passes through..... good for them.... Mike used some special nails and good tarps for the roof and he really taped up all their windows good.... no wood left but nowhere to nail it in either so he is satisfyed he did the best he can do.... I wished him well and he said he would call to let me know how they are doing when the next one comes..... some neighbors left because the kids were so scared.... most of his neighbors are still home ~ thats a good thing I guess.
Hope you are all having a good day. Its darn hot here in Wisconsin again today... I think Summer is mixed up this year. It would be nice now if Winter forgot to come but I have never heard of that happening, lol
Sandra

Hurricane Francis

It could be getting weaker so they say... I hope so anyway... even so there will be a lot of rain.. yesterday Mike and Teri were going to go and look for tarps for the roof... I heard today there aren't any left and everything else is getting scarce too. Teri looked for water and she said there were only 2 bottles left on the shelf.... Its a shame they didn't have time to stock their shelves and the gas stations before this one is coming.... no one in their neighborhood has gotten their roof repaired yet.... I suppose its a shortage of shingles.... Thats hard for me to figure out because a son of mine used to be a roofer and some of them would go to states that needed roofers and he never said anything about not having enough shingles. There sure are a lot of people leaving the state aren't there.... wonder where they are getting the gas as they are rationing it now to $10 a car and some stations ran out.... Then when they run out of that where are they going to get more gas? If they run out on the highway it could be just as dangerous as if they stayed home.  What a mess. I never heard of such a thing before but I'm sure learning now.... you would think they would get prepared after all this is hurricane season... and its not like its never happened before.... good ole governor bush.... something like his brother I guess.
See how crabby I can get when I worry..... sorry but hope everyone else is having a better day.
Sandra

Working in yard

We were working in the yard this afternoon and it was hot out so Leo figured out an easier way to transfer the containers to the front to put in the van to take to be recycled.... I had a lot of weeds and plants I cut back and he had some grass and a lot of leaves... our back yard tree is losing all its leaves very  very early this year... Pretty soon the tree will be bare already.... This summer was a bad summer for the tree that was having a little trouble already last year... Hope we don't lose this one too but we might.... I'm going to water it good tomorrow and see if that helps a little.
   Mike , our son, called today and he has his plane ticket bought so He is going to be coming soon.... It will be a long time since he was here last.... when he came when our son Dan got married about 6 years ago or so. Things have changed a lot since then so he should be kept busy. He wants to go fishing with Leo and play golf with Leo and his brothers and go to a Packer game so he should have a good time.... I suppose I will have to cook some good meals for him too... It will keep me busy while they are doing their thing. :)
  Hope you are having a good day and tomorrow will be even better, Sandra