2024: ran out of white thread, so using some of Grandma Grace's.♥️. now she's helping me make a quilt.
2023: making a voodoo doll. I have my reasons.
2021: gas station register and kitchen schedules.
2019: we're going to Kentucky, we're going to the fair...to see a senorita with roses in her hair....
2016: People on unemployment want a job. People on unemployment want a job. People on unemployment want a job.
2015: from tree to pie.... complete with vanilla ice cream!
2010: got my 15 year PSF gifts today....$300 Best Buy gift card that I'm giving KJ for a belated graduation gift (being middle class is just so frickin' sweet!) & a picture frame & fancy pen.
2025:
High Creek Ce3metery, Rock Port, MO. a 'haunted' cemetery.
back by tree line talking to shadow figures. small critter ran through grass by my feet and I screamed.
2013 Watching Mountain Monsters alone in the dark...today was the day Daisy Mae Clementine made a run for freedom....
2011...after waiting in line 45 minutes, got shorted the bacon at the PSF Employee Meat Sale (Kevin went back and got it when it came in...and no line.)
2010 wrestling at the park with a guest referee!
2026 Zerelda is home, she's a pro on the crutches. helped her daddy clean house so there is no clutter for her to manuever around. AND made a Jello cake. nothing says summer like Jello cake....
bucket list item: Odds Voodoo Shop 2025! Marriott Hotel Omaha
our room had delightfully creaky closet doors 👻
hotel soap smelled like sage
2014 making Queen Anne's Lace jelly AND It appears something large has been nesting in the pasture behind my house some would say deer but I'm going to guess Bigfoot....
2012: 81 degrees at 5:08 a.m. Means a long day in PSF land...
--deb!(:
2009 I want 2 buy a treehouse on YoVille. not enuf $....constantly thwarted @ every turn. (sigh)
I spent 3 days at Koren's. Ian had dental surgery, I was happy to help. Cora met her first Fugg. Ian is a model patient. there was hide & seek and sleepovers and a dance party.
2025 finally made it into Squirrel Cage Jail!
2009...now that my shift at the wicket factory is done, guess I can go to bed....
2014 King Tut at Union Station with Katie, Koren, & Ian.
2011 the house is quiet....Katie is at All Night Skate, KJ is out, Kevin is at work.....Daisy, Miss Cuddles, & Sasha have all went to bed...
2017 I'm proud to announce that this coming school year KJ will be the History Teacher at Ridgeway 😊
2015 Katie brought home a wildflower bouquet
2013 living in Mercer Hotel while our house is jacked up to replace basement...After a week of freedom, Lyle the turtle was found strolling down the hall & returned to his "room"...
2022 Oz Museum
2010 took KJ & Corey to NWMSU SOAR
everytime I see a centipede (or a cricket or spider....) I grab the bug spray and away I go. is this a Mid-Life crisis thing? although, tbh, I am 61. this would be Late-Life crisis, I think. or Silver-Years Crisis?
years ago, I told myself if I ever got to remodel the bathroom, I'd have a walkout enclosed patio so I could walk out naked and brush my hair and lounge about in a chair for it to dry. all these years later, I have the shower I dreamed off, and a walk out patio with walls so I could really go out naked and brush my hair...although I have not done so yet. I do go out in my pjs.
today was a big day for KJ's girls, they were going to VBS with Nana Nancy. they were so excited. it was going to be such a good day! early in the day, Zerelda tripped over a curb and ended up at Children's Mercy with a dislocated knee....and spent all day in 2 different ERs. she did have Nana, Daddy, and Mommy with her. I'm sure it was not her favorite day ever. hopefully she heals up quickly. I'm on Meggie duty this week. and also finally vacuumed Z's bedroom like I promised to weeks ago....
I celebrated Summerween by making pumpkin bread, watching True Crime, and finishing up The Murder House when the last element arrived from Temu....
2024: Mark Twain Cave.
2019 was Pignic. I avoided this shit after the kids outgrew it, but my coworkers sucked me back in. and it was fun.
2009 AND 2010 Adventureland Band Trip
2013 Black eyed peas in Birmingham.
2024 Haunted Hannibal
2022 Dodge City
“Listen, there is no way any true man is going to let children live around him in his home and not discipline and teach, fight and mold them until they know all he knows. His goal is to make them better than he is. Being their friend is a distant second to this.”
― Victor Devlin this was my dad to a T. Happy Fathers Day.
2018. Sparky's Guest House.... Roaring River State Park
"And then you were born. And there you were, a squalling mess of limbs and hair, you weren't much. But you were enough to show me love.." Increase Mather, Salem.
"Hair strategies are essential to everything in life, we know that. I'm at an age where I can pretty much do what I want: Here I am, whether you like my hair or not." Hillary Clinton
2013 Magnolia Cafe. "If you never had an Andygator, you never had a Real Beer....we accidently found Brad & Angelina's place in the French Quarter... 103.3 Baton Rouge is our favorite radio station down south. The Myrtles Plantation. While I was sleeping they were playing " count the busted windshields....."
2009 KJ playing summer BB. I remembered to apologize 2 kevin this am 4 forgetting fathers day b4 I left 4 work: but kate was the 1 who remembered 2 buy him a card when we went to hy-vee tonite! I've stalled out on level 26 in farmtown
2026 1.5" in rain gauge. a nice quiet Fathers Day at home. Kevin got a call from Koren. and a card yesterday.
2022 Hollywood Candy
2022 Omaha Zoo with the Wills Family & Katie
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. - Oscar Wilde
I tried absinthe in New Orleans...2013
2010 TOP
2022 hotel trip with Koren and family....Ian stayed in our room. so much fun!
2018 we met the Working Bunnies in Eureka Springs! (I might have based entire trip around this very experience....)
2017 in Florida!....rode the ferry! waded in ocean!
2011 TOPS Nationals
2013 New Orleans! (our hotel courtyard is possibly my very favorite part!)
2010 TOP
2009 up from my late summer evening nap...the heat is hard on us old-working-in-a-pig-barn-on-another-hot-day-folks.
2026: 85 days till Alaska Cruise! installed app on my phone.
I missed the cancel timeline by like 15 minutes. ugh. logged in and started checking boxes and canceled autoship. I'll just buy monthly as I run out of meds. emails said I got it stopped. I hope I did. guess I'll know soon enough. dog meds are Expensive. (we'll never recover financially from this).
that. was. terrifying.
2013 Cafe Pontalba
2012 one of my kids is threatening to slit the others throat....just another entertaining evening at The Dailey House!
2012 K.J. Dailey looks so gosh darn cute in his blue coveralls that I wish we were allowed to take cameras in the barn!
2026 mowed at farm. it was Documentary Day for deb.
2017 Sarah's wedding
2016 made My first batch of White Clover Jelly!
2012 baking an apple pie from apples picked off the tree in our backyard...
2021 you learn a lot about a person by cleaning out their house....
2018 Chateau Avalon, Steamboat Arabia, Jack Stack, Boulevard Brewing Company
2017 Arrowhead 5K, beat last years time.
2015 going fishing for Grandpa Bernards Birthday.
June 15, 2015. The day I discovered I could make banana bread with Bisquick!!!
2013....Here we go on our epic adventure! NOLA!
2009 Land Of The Lost was awesome!!!
today I drug quilt back out to work on. baked a loaf of bread. picked up Polaris. chair nap.
AND Foghat in Jefferson Iowa? or was I just posting pictures????
2018 at a Royals game....and Chateau Avalon Hotel....Crescent Hotel....think I'm just posting pics of that years vacation....
2016 Great Smoky Mountains
"I am on a great adventure." Harold Emery Lauder
2014 visited Koren
2012 Tenessee
2011 TOPS Nationals
2009 basketball game
2009 back to my old barn today
2007 Cosmic Cavern
2005 South Dakota- we got to the point where you can see Mt Rushmore through the tunnel....Katie was so excited, then when we were actually there, she just sighed and said, "It's just a bunch of heads?"/blockquote>2026: Izzy "I got left behind today. I was told I couldn't go. So I am here with you." I did 4.25 miles on the bike!
Kevin cleared out a fence row, worked more on tree on corner, mowed yard. I made brownies.
2009 ~today is my last day at Wolf 9 & my sons 1st stab @ the ACT~and Katie has a birthday party 2 go
2026 Serial Killer Speakeasy in Des Moines!
2018 Kevin, Taylore, and I went on a ghost hunt in Eureka Springs on family vacay....
2015 boat ride....
2012 K.J. Dailey survived his first day as a pig farmer at Wade 3...
2012 Tennessee
mowed at farm. to Chillicothe. they couldn't fix tire, so got a new one on our tire plan for $26! paid for itself right there.
finished up my Little Trees for the body in the circle. did a drive about of yesterdays tornado damage. we were lucky.
2012 we went to pay homage to The Widow of The South in Tennessee.
also 2022...Thank you Lord for the life of Minerva Brown.
2010...parent loan approved...so KJ can officially go to college!
in 2015 we were at Oar House Cabin
2013 I was sent to Peach 5....The pros of my new barn: 1.A groundhog! 2. Amazing shower pressure! 3. I have a locker again!
2012 1 1/2 hour wait at Lamberts
in today's events at The Farm....KJ helped me hang the new Hello Kitty artwork, then he deep cleaned kitchen. I moved more toys from Izzy's room to playroom, arranged stuffies up on the high shelf, hung some DG metal butterflies, then vacuumed Izzy's room. thunderstorms, electrical outages, tornado warning...quite the day.
I mowed and weed eated here. heat advisory. framed Hello Kitty fabric in antique frame for The Playroom. added some more to my Little Gothic Victorian Manse. found another piece I just HAD to have. I have been pondering it for a while...ANd found (2) 1/64 lamps to lay on the floor. no luck yet. did 20 minutes on the bike. made meatloaf and baked sweet potatoes for supper.
2017 stayed at an original Route 66 motel in Tulsa where I lay awake all night writing my obituary...and saw Sammy Hagar.
2016 Kevin, Koren, Cody, KJ, & Katie went on that family bonding raft trip on The Black River while Ian and I hung out at the cabin
2015 extended family vacay Lake of the Ozarks
2014 driving on Route 66
2012...we're in Tennessee
2026: day 2 of creating The Play Room. brought exercise bike home. put extra dressers in garage. moved more toys into The Play Room. a long phone conversation with Millie (insert heart emoji here.)
2020 home from hernia surgery
2014 we were driving Route 66 to Tulsa
2012 stayed at that America's Best Value Inn in Frankfort, TN where a murder may have occurred...a guest at the desk was very angry about "you promised you'd move it but you didn't and I want a new room."
2011 KJ got a job at PFS
2009 GS award ceremony. and an ER trip. KJ has a perforated eardrum.
in modern day news, today is The Day We Started Transforming Lije's Office Into The Playroom. the girls were very excited and very helpful. got a lot done. more to be done tomorrow. found some books I 'd made for Zerelda, she read the 2 photo books, then read one of them AGAIN and said, "this is fun! I love reading these books!" and my heart just skipped a beat. you just have to find something they want to read!
went to see Scary Movie 6 at the matinee. got my fill of movie theater popcorn and peanut m&ms. did some shopping, then home. got more done on Annabelle dress.
2020, St. Lukes on the Plaza....tommorow... tomorrow... maybe I'll go home tomorrow.. it's only a day away..
2013: Just saved a snapping turtles life on highway 65....
2012 at The Peabody in Memphis for the Marching of the Ducks
2009: this farmtown addict has a small pond & a llama...not even sure what I want now...hmmm.
2022.... mother/daughter spa day with my girlsat the Elms Spa.
2021 fishing trip with Koren, Cody, kids, Katie, & Brayden.
2012: Tennessee vacation for Kevin, Deb, & Katie.
2016: KJ and Taylore moved into a different house in Bethany.
2013: Glore Psychiatric Museum.
today was WalkFit Day 365. I'm pretty proud of myself. this means either an exercise each day, or step goal each day, or both. I cut down to 1 Pepsi a day about the time I started WalkFit. the girls came over to hang out while Mom and Dad went grocery shopping. Zerelda brought her new notebook, she has been copying out of the Junie B. Jones book she is reading. She has nice handwriting. and she has put a lot of work into this. Izzy tried to master the hole punch. 1 rain last night. started on Annabelle's dress....cut up the monkey sleeper from a garage sale, and a thrift store sheet, and a pair of KJ's old khakis and the thrift store lace Zerelda and I found yesterday...
2011.....the day parents get to just sit back & watch the magic happen....(after packing the dance bag, hair, and makeup...)..dAnCe ReCiTaL!
2010...Kevin won the argument & turned on the a/c....and he was right. aaaaahhhhh.....so much for being cheap!
2009...RIP David Carradine...Kung Fu was one of the shows that came in on the one channel our tv got with an attenna back in the 70s...
today was Celebrating Zerelda Shopping for Her Own Birthday Gifts Day...we journeyed to Kirksville, where she filled a cart at Five Below...we also browsed at Hobby Lobby and a thrift store, then lunch at Coltons where a nice police officer gave her a Junior Deputy sticker...and if you know Zerelda, she loves to play Police Officer!
on this day in 2020 had my one and only drive thru covid test. hard to pull forward when your eyes are watering so hard you can't see.
on this day in 2013 I posted a pic of the Wade 4 sign captioned " where I hang out these days"
2012...watching my family get ready to go on vacation is kind of like the scene where they overslept in Home Alone and Kevin gets left behind....
2011....think my phone is really lost for good this time...
2009....making 2 suppers....HB Helper lasagna 4 kids...stirfry 4 me & kevin...my life as a short order cook. (aka mother of picky eaters...I created this mess, I suppose...)
GrimmLife Collective will be in St. Louis June 28th! and a Bigfoot Conference in Nixa October 3rd! both things I would dearly love to attend, but we really got a lot going on this year....
Mom's friend Jody called twice to see if I'd talked to my mother, she missed another luncheon date. I told her she'd commented on a FB post yesterday. cause that's the kinda daughter I am. not a very good one. I mowed here, then we mowed at farm after Kevin got home from work. I'm thinking about my new Annabelle doll dress...and I'm thnking ripped up monkey jammies that I got for Everett without realizing the shape they were in. do I have any lace? the old brain is a smokin'....
in 2014: the Daikey's (look at me typoing my own damn name....)on vacation trying to follow directions.....(sigh)
Stephanie has sold McInteer Villa to US GHOST ADVENTURES (I think? they also own Villisca and Lizzie Borden, etc.) and they have big plans...reopening the original front entrance, rebuilding porch, fancy period ceiling tiles, using 2nd floor as B&B...I respect her decision to move on with her life. it has obviously been hard for her. she put her heart and soul into this old house. guessing her skeletons go with her. I loved her decor. it will probably return to being a 'normal' Victorian Mansion now...I'll watch the pictures as it evolves. I probably won't go back, it just won't be the same without her. I had a wonderful experience at Lizzie Borden, but I'd never been there under previous ownership, so I don't know if it's 'better' or 'worse'. I know I can't go back to Villisca, it wouldn't be the same without Johnny. they are fixing up the Mary Peckham House where he once lived. and that's good. of course, I did return to Farrar Schoolhouse after The Youtubers bought it. I won't go back. you have to stay with the group, no free roam on public hunts. all the cameras...like we're going to steal stuff. just a whole different vibe...although seeing the grave and the ropes, etc. from the Hell Week episode was cool. the dog roaming around? does this mean other people can bring THEIR dogs???? I don't know where "thisdollhasseenthings" ended up, but kinda glad she's not there anymore. whoever took her for whatever reason, I do hope she's happy there. maybe someday she'll appear on eBay. she is somewhat of a YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook celebrity....
took GMC for oil change, and they changed key fob battery and got it to work. guessing we had a bad battery. AND it went through the washing machine....
made all beds. started gluing stuff in little black house. decided to make my own couch and chair for downstairs. even 'made' a tiny couch blanket! shipping on some stuff is getting ridiculous. hooped! ordered May pictures.
