Wendy
Glad the parade went well and all okay.

Fleur:
At first I thought the water was a puppy! ROTFLOL DS is growing leaps and bounds! Nothing like water for little kids to play in. Use to put the sprinklers on for the kids to run in.

WL:
Been in the house for 4 days straight. Cooler this morning so going to go do errands and grocery shopping. Good idea to cook outside if your house is so small...and hot!

Bless:
You did good!

Purdy:
Hope you plan on resting today. You were really going for it!

Wendy: Happy to hear the parade went well and you didn't overheat!
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We just have not gotten much summer here in the PW Northwest. I'm sure it will arrive one of these days.

Well, DS's team won their game again yesterday (11-1 in 4 innings) and so they play again tonight. If they win this game, they will go to the championship game on Friday. So high excitement in this house! In the meantime, they will ride through the parade on the 4th.

Today we are going to see the movie Brave. Shopping for the 4th of July (finalizing my recipe choices and making my shopping list) and then back home to get ready for the game.

Have a couple bags of donations that I need to get into the van today to drop at DGM's. The donation van comes this week. Kids need to clean up the living room floor since I didn't have them do that last night and it's mostly their stuff. I have a few things to put away too. And I need to find my trifle dish for the 4th. I think it's in storage in the garage as I don't use it very much. Hopefully it will be a quick search.

Thanks Jodi and Diana! I think between the Lord blessing and us being better prepared it did the trick!

Today I've been alternating between helping the girls with their chores, making phones calls and plans for the week, and getting my own stuff done.

DD#2 and I are working on the 5th load of laundry. We brought about a load of new to us clothes home on Saturday, and DD#1 couldn't do much laundry with us gone a lot. The clotheslines are definitely getting their workout!

DD#1 did the dishes and will soon have to put them away. She's working on her clothes right now. I started helping her again. She wasn't keeping her dresser neat because she had too many clothes. She had too many because she wasn't getting rid of the ones she doesn't wear. So now her closet and her dresser are sorted and she has a HUGE pile of unwanted clothes in the middle of her floor. Most we'll put aside for DD#2 to grow into.

DD#2 started doing the same thing with her clothes. Yipee!! She even asked me if I need to do the same with mine! I said that I do regularly purge my clothes. I just got some new-to-me ones Saturday, so as I add these, I'll take away the others. Gotta like that!

I didn't get to make my bread, so I think I'll have to get up early and do it tomorrow.

Well hope you have a great day!

What busy bees we are! I too have started July very productively

Sunday - I went through the shed and organized it and tossed some items. I put the ground sheet down for the rest of the paving slabs to go on. I vacuumed the ground floor and wiped all the surfaces too. I shredded some paperwork.

Today - We went to the store to fetch some more sand and edging for the garden project, but it rained all day so we were unable to anything outside. So I sorted through all the kitchen cupboards bar two reorganizing and cleaning them. This evening I have sorted through some drawers in the bedrooms.

Tomorrow - We are at the in-laws doing some jobs for them, but I am hoping the sun comes out so I can get back to work in my garden too. Night everyone!

I knew it! Diana is friends with the energizer bunny! Even without power she still goes on and on!

Waterlady what a good idea to cook outside with the electric cooking devices! I use the bbq a lot but never thought about using electricity outside.

Wendy, I use to have friends over for DD and DS almost every weekend, hardly heard them bickering as they entertained each other. Glad everyone was fine at the parade.

Fleur, my a/c gave up on me too the week before last and I'm afraid I don't have another choice but to take it to the shop Glad your DH could find the problem!

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I was sitting on the patio with a cool beverage when it started to rain, no matter I live on the second floor and there is another patio above, sat calmly while the rain intensified. Then I realized I had left my sun roof slightly tilted! Was soaked by the time I got back up the stairs, so I changed into my pyjama. I gave myself a pedicure and prepared the things I’ll need tomorrow ‘cause we’re going to the beach with the kids at work! Work done on the street will cut off the water for most of the day so we’re going on an outing! I hope the sun will be at the rendez-vous

Did not do all of my cooking yesterday so will continue that shortly and have supper. Then branch work and fold the laundry I did before leaving for work this morning. More reading before bed and that’s about it!

Made my July list of goals. Starting small as can expand if needed.

Family: plan trip to visit our daughter next month (2 weeks-plus!)
Health: call dr for appointment; lose 2 lbs
Home: inventory food pantry and go shopping for what's needed
Family tree research: continue work on Dad's album and his line.
Photos: organize the June digital photos and then work backwards by month
Yard: put mulch around. pull up spreading ground cover.

Today: I took a load of tossed items to charity.
Wrote two letters and numerous emails.
Vacuumed the floors.
Grocery-shopped.
Walked treadmill 1/2 hour.
Start next painting project.

Great job all! Busy day at work....will have to do some reorganizing as I lost some space and have to find other ways to store the stuff. Hung out with the family after coming home, ds enjoying his new blowup pool. Did quick cleanup of our messy kitchen, washed dirty dishes, cleaned and cleared countertops. Looks good now. Going to watch mindless tv now and hit the sack. Think we may do evening fireworks show tmrrow night.

Dianaro - Nope I didnt' but today is pretty light with the dailies and I just did a few of the video sorting this morning.

I blame it on these American Military Cadences I downloaded to my MP4, you just have to get up and do something when you've been listening to them.

Hi all, sorry to disappear for a few weeks there!

I've had a busy day doing all the little jobs I've been putting off, so I've paid bills, booked appointments, written a letter and ordered things. Nothing large, but all the bits that add up to making life a bit easier.

Will have to catch up on what everyone else is up to! Have a good day, very wet and rainy here and I need to collect DD from school. We are heading towards the end of term and the next couple of weeks are a bit lively!

It is just pouring down rain here today! So dreary. But hopefully it will all clear so we can have a nice 4th.

DS's team won their game last night 10-0 so they are going to the championship game on Friday evening. We are so happy and proud of all of them. If they win Friday they will go to State.

My shopping list is made, decided to do that today instead of yesterday. Probably best as I need to pick up some posterboard and paint for the parade entry for the baseball team. Pulled out the other decorations from last year's parade that can still be used. Could not find my trifle dish so am borrowing my DM's. There is a lot of sorting that needs to be done in the upstairs of the garage. Lots that needs to be donated. Filled one box that will go with me today along with the two bags already in the van. Can't believe how much baby stuff we still have!

So today will be filled with work and errands and this evening will be cooking and getting ready for the parade and other July 4 activities.