Two Old Fogy's and The Window Blind

Saturday Nat and I went shopping. I wanted to get a rug for my office/bedroom. I wound up getting a blind in stead. Well Sunday Tom and I decided to install it, shouldn't be to hard just take the old mounts down and install the new ones. Ha!didn't work that way, it needed to have new holes drilled. Talk about a Laurel and Hardy show, it was a joke. He is sitting in the chair telling me to push harder on the drill. Then he tries it and swears it is hitting metal. Neither of us have the strength to get the screw in the hole. I am saying lets forget it, I'll call Blaike, or Kelly P. he is saying no we can do it, but most of the time he is sitting in the chair giving instructions to you know who. Happily it was soon time to leave for Easter dinner at Nat's, and we had one bracket up and the other one started. When we got home I slipped up stairs, and quietly got the other bracket and center brace installed. I hung the blind which will probably fall on my head in a few days, but the window is covered. Old people should forget the mind over matter attitude, because it is truly a "matter over mind thing"; no matter how hard you try you just can't get it done. The solution, find a young un and pay them.

Well it is another day and I need to figure out how to shorten this blind, the others I have puchased were custom made. Nat said it is easy we'll see, danger, danger, this is probably when it will fall on my head.

Don't you love this large type. " I can read it!!!!"

Hummm, Retirement!!

Our neighbors Dave and Jill hooked up their trailer and headed south last fall, and we haven't seen them since. Yesterday we stopped and talked to the guy who is taking care of their place, and he said they were coming home around the first of April. He said they headed out for Mesquite, and just kept going south as the weather got colder. They ended up in Yuma, AZ. I am thinking maybe down where Cindee and Steve went. He said they bought a bigger trailer, and are thinking about selling there home here and just traveling, they have met a lot of new people and have loved every minute of their long vacation. We'll see what they have to say when they come home. I can't see myself living in a trailer for 6 months, no matter how big and nice it was, and did I mention they also took the dog.

Wonderful Weekend!!

Last weekend was one we will be talking about for a while. The kids came to Grandma and Grandpa's for Abigails birthday party. This is the first time I had to seen her since last August, and Natalie hadn't seen her since Sarah's wedding, so we were pretty excited. Poor Grandpa had the sniffles, and since Abi spent a week in the hospital with RSV, he chose to stay at home. Natalie took a lot of cute pictures he got to see her by proxy.

She is a hat girl and we snapped these pictures of her in dad's hunting hat just before the party. They are my favorites. Great Grandpa dubbed the one of her peaking over the chair as "Kilroy Was Here." for those of you who remember the old WWII slogan. It was a popular slogan the soldiers used to show they had been there.

Now the party didn't end here. Ryan, Meg, Addi, Kelly & Sarah Jean met us for breakfast Sunday morning. G-grandpa got to see Addi, because she had the sniffle too so, no harm done. She is the sweetest baby, she was so good during breakfast, she would just smile and clap her little hands. I just feel so lucky to have these little great grand babies, I am sad to think Ryan, Megan and Addison, will soon be moving away. So, we need to see them all we can before they go. They are so busy this is almost a impossible task, but where ever they are they will always know how much we love them all.

The new babies coming will be a welcome addition; I can hardly wait, this is going to be a great summer......

Family News

Sarah Jean just called with baby news, and I wouldn't dream of spoiling her news by telling what I know. So, if you are curious now, I would be checking her blog because I am sure she will be posting. She also told me that Grandma Doris said Kelly and Sarah would be making their announcement this weekend.
Kelly and Sarah, Sarah and Kelly it's babies; and with Ryan and Megan it is what school are they going to, where are the going to be. Curiosity could kill the cat! I guess I am just plain nosey.

Working World

Yesterday I was having second thoughts about the joys of returning to work. It was a day from hell, and a Monday to boot. It all started with a call from Accounting. The system they use for receiving is not user friendly, and someone screwed up probably me. Anyway I spent an hour on the phone with them trying to find the bug, and finally they just decided to use a new Purchase Order and void the old one out, which would have be nice if they would have done this in the first place. My six hour day turned into seven with no lunch; good I had my Cheerios and snack crackers. It took the extra hour to cover all my bases, and I will probably walk into a mess on Thursday. It seems if Mondays go bad the week follows suit. Today my neck and back are very sore so I must have really been tensed up. Oh well a couple of days to rest up, and things are not all that bad just what you make of them. If I feel I am to old to do this, I will be, and I plan on dieing with my boots on. So, what will be, will be.

Happy Birthday yesterday, to our little Abigail now 2.
Happy Birthday today, to Blaike his 25th.