Mike I love tall guys roflmao. I wonder what they see way up there?? Glad you are still bored. Well...wish you weren't but it is to our advantage :-) First year growing MG trees and I just love them! Funny thou on how different they also grow depending on where they are located at. In the ground or pots...all day sun or more shade. Lucy

Luvs....is that you???? JK I'd love to spend the whole day in my jammies some days, but never fails someone always ends up coming to the house on those days or I end up getting called up to the school for something. ha I seem to be sneaking in short naps more and more especially when the night before I don't get much sleep. It is refreshing and I'm not nearly as grouchy in the afternoons when the kids get home and I feel like I can think better. So still on the run with trip to-do's I see. You'll need the vacation after all the prep work. ha I went to the TS yesterday, but only found a couple of old paint mags and a few little toys for DD and one funny looking cat toy that made me smile so I bought it to put on my desk. ha Silly, but whatever works. You can't have enough smiles, right? Oh, almost forgot...I did find a big metal star pocket planter for $1.50. Will hang it outside and put some flowers and flags sticking out of it. I know...take a pic. ha Punk...I think we are planting our garden this weekend?? DH has bought some tomato plants, black and yellow zucchini and cucumbers and we have green onion bulbs. Just need to get some bell peppers and pumpkins and canteloupes. We used to plant corn, but we have a farmers market right down the road that sells wonderful corn for so cheap it's just not worth taking up the room in the garden for. I do miss having the stalks to decorate with in the fall though. I pretty much live on tomato sandwiches in the summer/fall. What do you plant? Bebe~ have fun cleaning your paint room. I'm working on my hall closet today. You've seen those commercials where they open the closet door and everything falls on the person....that's about the point we are at. Our games are all stacked in the top and the kids never put them back right so they are in danger of avalanche if I don't get in there soon....plus everything else gets shoved in the bottom area. I can barely fit my broom and dustpan in there. Belle~ how goes the invalid? When's the next foot checkup? Hope you are getting the princess treatment. =) Ya'll have a good day. I'll maybe stop in for lunch. ~Anj

Hi Anj, I saw your nice comments on the Holiday forum. I looked at the patterns you mentioned in the magazine and they are all good ones. Isn't it funny how sometimes the magazines have so many we like and other times hardly any? Guess what? At one of the TS I recently stopped at, they had some of those galvanized buckets for $1.00 each. At the time, I couldn't think what I'd use them for, but now realize they would make great "May baskets" for my neighbors next year. I love your idea of spray painting them a rust color too. That would be a perfect background for that star design and many others too. I liked the designs on those tags too, but that background just doesn't do them justice does it? I'm sure the tan is to make them look "antique" or old, but I think an offwhite would let the designs show up better. What do you do with your tags after you paint them? I've heard of people using them like an ornament on a tree or tying them on a jar candle. Any other good ideas for them? I stopped by my favorite TS on the way to the mall today. Got a cute little round plastic "kitchen" for little GD to play with for only $5.00. I've seen them at Toys R Us for over $30.00, and it even had some dishes and food pieces with it. Has a little seat attached for her baby doll even. Gave it a good cleaning with Clorox and put it outside by her little picnic table to surprise her when she comes over on Sunday. ;o) (Also stopped in at Marhshall's and bought her the cutest brown knit dress with little pink and lime green hearts on it and a little card game to play--just couldn't resist!) LOL At the TS, I bought three clipboards for 50 cents each, and two wooden trays for $1.00 each. They were so cheap and I thought they would be nice lightweight painting surfaces to take along on our trip. I need to have something to work on while DH goes to his meetings, and they will make cute little gift items I think. I got the goo from the tags off the clipboards and spray painted a coat of primer on them. Will probably just spray a coat of white on for the base coat, then find a pattern I like to paint on them. For the trays, I need your advice please. The big one has a Pottery Barn sticker on the back, and they are both wood. Do you think I should just paint on top of the wood finish, or should I spray paint them some color first? Here's a pic for you to see them. TTYL Luvs

I mowed - again - today, I had just mowed last Thursday but the grass was so high already. Normally I don't like a "sheared" lawn, but I set the deck too low on my mower and didn't realize it. Since it would look weird to do the rest on a higher setting I continued. Golf course like lawns make me uncomfortable! lol Besides all the little wild flowers got their heads chopped off. Maybe I won't have to mow for awhile now though it being so short. There are so many violets and other wild flowers in the orchard that I have a hard time mowing them, so I leave small patches here and there. The ground itself is still very damp. Sometimes when I sit on a chair at my small table down there, a chair leg or two will sink right into the soil sending me backwards. I've learned to be quick to jump off! I think I will plant ever bearing strawberries in my mailbox cover this year just for something different. They will have a white bloom and hopefully have berries most of the summer. At least that's what I envision, will see if it works out.