It's about 10:15pm and I"m finally sitting down chilling. It was one thing after another today. I spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to get our printer to work, it still doesn't. I did 3 loads of laundry and hung them out on the line (it's against my rules to use the dryer between the months of May and September), I got out in the garden for the first time since Friday. Wow, what happened out there? I've got about 5 baseball bat zucchinis, my first tomato of the year, my first decent picking of peas, we ate the entire picking for lunch, and I picked, snipped and froze 11 quarts of green beans, which I just finished. Our friend Dan is over today and tomorrow to help us finish the drywall in our living room and I had to go on a 40 mile round trip Menards run to pick up a bunch more joint compound and I had a second run into our town to do banking and get some stuff at the Amish store, we were out of popcorn, which is almost as serious as running out of drinking water at our house. I got WE's room ready for Dan to sleep in for the next two night. Hubs, Dan and I also did a comparison of memories from the time the three of us snuck (is that a word? Spell check says it's not) onto a military base full of nuclear submarines (this was pre 9/11, I'm guessing we wouldn't get away with it now days) and drove around checking things out. I think that about wraps up my day. Oh yeah, we also butchered 4 chickens. When I was at the Amish store, I ordered a lug of peaches. It was only after I ordered them that I found out that they're probably coming in tomorrow, so guess who's canning up peach pie filling tomorrow?
Yesterday we were at camp. You may remember that every year we volunteer at a camp for special needs adults and children. This year, because of the whole remodel project, we can only make it on Monday and Friday, Angel #4 found someone willing to put up with her for the week, so she's spending the whole week there and we'll bring her back home on Friday. It kind of stinks that we have to miss most of the week, but there's so much to do around here and not enough time to do it. Hubs just got back from a Hawaii work trip on Friday and he's got to leave again next week for more work down there. He's planning on sneaking in between hurricanes from the looks of things. Angel #4 is leaving next week Wednesday to spend 11 days with Angel #2 in Houston. Angel #1 will be getting out of the Marines on the 18th of August (or possibly earlier) and will be road tripping across the country from San Diego to Miami so he can start school in the fall. He's hoping to possibly do a detour through Houston and may be able to spend time with both his sisters, which would be really cool. In the meantime, poor old WE is doing pushups and marching his time away in Basic Training.
It was also Angel #1's 22nd birthday last Thursday. I can't believe my kids are all so grown up and independent. The don't even need their mommy anymore, though I'm glad that they still call me regularly just to talk. Makes me feel like I must have done something right. :)
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