takin' care of business....

another katie edit!

took all the patches off kate's jr. vest & sewed onto her jean quilt.

katie was bored, went to hang with mackenzie for a while.

josh is watching wrestling with kj.

now I'm gonna blog!

thus far on saturday...

I slept in, de-spooked the woods, blogged the lengthy Willie Axsom biography from the AAA newsletter, got the college laundry done, started taking patches off Katie's jr. vest to put on her quilt, looked thru the xmas catalogs we rec'd today before tossing them, & am cooking a frozen wad of hamburger to make something for lunch.

Katie picniked some amazing photos...see above.

last nite I hung the Bridges of Madison county picture on the 'vacation' wall with the colorado picture....sewed stuff on kate's cadette vest...put the TOP patch & pins on her dance jacket...and blogged from amanda shafer scrapbook.

Sick Day

started out feeling just fine, we took a break at 8 a.m. & I started feeling bad...it got worse. took me forever to breed 12 sows. the boss asked if I needed to leave. I never go home if I get sick. so we walked the boar. we put the breeds away. we were going to load the farrowing room. I was hot & cold, hurt everywhere so bad I could hardly move, and was trying not to puek right there in front of everyone. couldn't quit leaning on the sow wash & decided maybe I should go home. had to pull over at the old Mercer state shed to get out & puek. couldn't even get behind the truck, just fell down right there by the road. that 's a vulnerable feeling! came home, put on my jammies & crawled into bed. felt better when I woke up, just tired.

Kj is home for the weekend. looked at katie's camera. I can't figure out why the message is flashing. we did put the wrong batteries in it, but then put the right ones back in....maybe that screwed it up. she says she formatted the camera card. it just flashes an error message & shuts back off. ???

transferring official pins & badge insigna to her new cadette vest. at some point in time will put all the badges on her quilt. bought a Bridges of Madison County patch to put on my jean quilt. so many plans...so much laziness. have so much more blogging to do from great grandma amanda's scrapbook....

wow!

Koren & Cody bought a house in Grain Valley, MO! split level, 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 2 car garage, basement....
I put gas in truck, returned late dvd, & kevin's library books, took katie to &from dance, & did some blogging out of grandma amanda shafers scrapbook. am making some headway on it!
kate's new digital camera worked, then quit. need to read book for troubleshooting/address to send it back to! I probably didn't keep the invoice....
got laundry done....paid the dance lesson fee, ordered recital flower & tshirt, and competition makeup kit. stephanie is done fundraising, the moms can take over. do I have time? have girl scouts (2 fundraisers there), the band carnival I need to start planning for....
Katie & Emily next door are friends, she wanted Katie to come meet her new baby sister so we did. They have much nicer furnishings than we have...the baby is so tiny & beautiful.

November 2

is Katie Scarlett's birthday. this year she is 12. she didn't want a friends party....there were no movies she wanted to see....so she decided to go to Pizza Hut and her dad took her to Snappy's to rent movies to watch when we got home....I watched The Lovely Bones with her...I knew it would be sad, which is why I never read the book. then I went to bed and her & Kevin watched Valentine's Day. she stayed up late on a school nite....typical Katie!
I took her to school with her birthday cookies. the teacher promptly emailed me that Katie wasn't feeling well. several emails later she had been to the nurse for crackers & had no fever.
she selected an Oreo Moosecake for her birthday. she put her own hot pink camera in the walmart.com shopping cart. she doesn't need her mom much anymore. but it's all good.
she had her hair layered & thinned after school. did she have a good day? kind of hard to tell. But I love her & hope it was good!
I spent 90% of the day blogging stuff out of great grandma amanda's scrapbook & got all caught up in the Truman Osburne/Osborne clippings...he was our family's Clyde. small town scrapes, jail time...and shot down at 25.

November already?

eek!
katie went to a princeton ball game at the last minute. I tried to take Sasha for a walk at the park, she was too worried about the neighbor's dogs, so gave that up. did the outside chores, then drug out the great grandma amanda shafer scrapbook & blogged till I was crosseyed. found an article about my great uncle dean serving cakes at a christmas party in south vietnam & great uncle junior who died in the war got a medal and all kinds of amazing things. and that was on like 3 pages!
did some laundry, started the dishwasher, found girl scout forms, logged onto the abc.snap site & registered all our new girls for the cookie sale, got on facebook....doesn't sound like a lot, but man, I am exhausted! kate is home in the shower, she wants bday cake for supper when she gets out!

busy weekend...

elementary fall festival, returning hay, dance studio fundraiser, & sleepover Friday
Beggars Night at Lineville Sat.
visiting Aunt Mary @ Mom & Dad's house & Mercer Trick Or Treating Sunday

+ laundry, cleaning floors, & all the other daily fun stuff....
back to work today, then off tomorrow for Katie's 12th birthday!