Finding things to write about.

Shimming

I'm having the same trouble so many other of my blogger friends are having. It's hard to be fresh and have something good to write about every day. We're on the fast downhill track of 2008 and since I committed to doing Blog365 and writing every day for the entire year, I'm trying to post something, anything, everyday! I'm sorry if it's a waste of your time to come here only to find a post like yesterdays, but I hope you'll understand! It's just that I'm getting sort of burned out on posting everyday. But I'm going to try to do it. I've made it this far!

Swimming

I swam yesterday...I did 1/4 of a mile in about half an hour. Not too fast, but I worked at it steadily. My sister ...AKA Flash ...did 1/2 mile in the same time. We figured that she swam the equivalent to swimming across our bay at the cabin and I made it half way!

Here's a picture of our bay. It's about 1/2 mile across, at best guess. That's going by the mileage of the highway that's just north of us and that runs perpendicular to the lake.



I need to get a pair of goggles so I can do the Australian crawl ***when I swim. If I try to do it without them, I go off crooked and take the chance of crashing into other swimmers in the lane and that would be a bit embarrassing. And there's no way I can open my eyes underwater, not in that chlorine water! I do it in the lake all the time, but not in a pool!!

Trimming

Andy mowed up the rest of the leaves in our yard yesterday. Well, the leaves from our tree, anyway. The wind got to blowing pretty good last night and I'm sure there will be more leaves blowing around, but that's okay...most of our are gone now and that's good! It helps to mow and trim the grass down very low so leaves will blow off our lawn without getting caught in the grass. It also looks nicer when it snows, to have all the leaves gone and the grass trimmed off short. Did I just say the "S" word????

Skimming

The chickens are doing okay. They have slowed down production a bit again, laying only about 7 or 8 eggs a day. They have off and on days. Once in a while we still get 11 eggs in one day...that means they all laid an egg that day. We have some heaters we will get set up this weekend for their waterers. So far their water hasn't frozen, but that time is coming soon! One of the chickens laid an egg this morning that got broken. That's a bad thing because they'll eat the egg and figure out that eating eggs is yummy and they'll ruin all the eggs laid in their coop. I hope they didn't get any ideas!!!

Brimming

We sure are enjoying our newly re-decorated basement. If we get a carry-out salad or sandwich for supper, we eat downstairs and watch TV from our new recliners. I'm going to try to get some photos of the basement this weekend. I need to get some photos of the chickens too! And Rosie. BTW, she loves the new space we have to live in. In fact a couple times she's come up missing and we've found her down there all by herself! I'm sure proud of Andy for all his good work down there...I think Rosie is too!

Dimming

I'm not into doing ANYTHING Christmas too early, but I have gotten a little shopping done already. I found a new hat for Andy ...one of those US Navy CPO Retired hats, like in the photo in my post on Veteran's day. He has asked his daughter (who lives at the Great Lakes Naval Base) to get him a new one for over a year and she hasn't gotten it yet, so I found one on eBay and got it for him. It's going to be a surprise. Our new recliners are our Christmas gifts to one another too ...and we're enjoying them so much, even tho it's this early!! I'll find a few more things for Andy and I'm sure he'll get me a couple other things.

I also already have Dad's gift ...I got him a turntable stereo so he can listen to LP records. I had to get him some new records. I've talked to all my sisters and no one has his old one's so I found his old faves on eBay and got them very cheaply! I hope he likes the player and the records. I hope he can operate the player. I think he'll love dimming down the lights and listening to his memories on LP's!

I bought some Christmas decorations and re-painted them. They were cheapos from Walmart...little buildings for a little mini snow village. The were only $1 a piece, they are hand-painted porcelain pieces, but the painting on them was terrible! I touched them up with lots of white paint to look like snow and now they are adorable! I'm tempted to go get another set or two and fix them up and give them as gifts. I want to get some before and after pics of the pieces, but didn't think of it until after the fact.

Okay, so maybe I AM into Christmas a bit early this year...but I do refuse to start baking for Christmas yet!! I have to save something to do in December!

***Sometimes called the front crawl or forward crawl. My mom was a Red Cross swim instuctor and lifeguard and she always called it the Australian Crawl. Now there's a singing group with that name and that's about all you can find if you Google it!