I did a bit of trimming to my friends list. 

I mainly cut people who never write in their own journal or people who rarely/never respond to posts in mine.  I don't want to bore people, so if you don't respond I assume you don't read.  If I've made a mistake, comment and I'll add you back.

Doing a little friends list edit.  There are people on here who haven't posted in their own journals in forever, let alone responded to anything in mine.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion.  

It's OK if you don't agree with mine, but I don't deal well with people who twist my words and life to fit their perceptions. 

If you can't be respectful of my values, you don't need to hear about them.

This is your life on Google

Regular contributor M.K. has uncovered a disturbing bit of business regarding Google Calendar. Type "user" and "password" into the Calendar's search window, click the Search Public Events button, and voila -- you'll gain instant access to a couple hundred log ons for bank accounts, meet-up groups, singles cruises, domain renewals, applications to become secret shoppers at Starbucks, and a lot of church groups.

Do a little more clicking and you can get to everyone's Gmail address as well. Apparently these folks pasted emails containing their log-ons into their calendar events, then made the calendars public. (Google's default setting is to keep calendars private.) One-stop shopping for stalkers and identity thieves.

Moral of the story: If you use Google Calendar, best keep it to yourself.

I don't know if any of you are Mulberribush fans like I am, but Blue Turtle Kids is having an awesome sale on fall clothes. I just stocked up for Thomas for next fall.

You just think you remember it! This is too funny (and cool).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNIeMoFOyho

Enough said. Yikes!

for Ohio. 21-7 already.

They didn't have a Thomas's, Thomas' one in there, though. That throws me every time.

I learned in my last plea for help not to call you sewers  :)


I want to make something like this for Zeus:

<img src="http://www.yorkietreats.com/images/Style_images/Treats/67_1.JPG"/>

It looks like it's just two pieces of fleece sewn together.  Is that what it looks like to you?  Could I make it with a nicer fabric on one side and fleece in the middle?  Or would that be too complicated for my very rudimentary sewing skills?

I find this especially amusing in light of our trip this summer.  I think we saw some of these people along the way (especially we were between the Wasatch and the Tetons for a significant amount of time)

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/slc/203274705.html

Since I absolutely don't feel like doing anything productive today, I made myself a new necklace.



It's black hematite beads with some red glass for contrast. It should go with most of my clothes.

I've started working in the back yard. When we put the yard in, we had some shrubs planted along the fence. In the 7 years we've been here, the shrubs never died, but they never grew, either. They just looked stunted. So today I went to Lowe's and bought some perennial flowers to put in there. I got some lantana, some lavender, and something called plumbago. I only did about half of the border, though. Later this week I'll pull out the rest of the stunted shrubs and get some more plants. I want another plumbago because I think it's pretty. I'm also going to get some astilbe if I can find it. It looks pretty.

T should be home in a few minutes. Tomorrow I'm going to do my first day of volunteering in Andrew's class. I think I'm just going to be doing paperwork, though, but we'll see what she has planned for me. Tomorrow is back to school night, too. I'm interested to see what Connor's teacher has to say about how she runs her class.

OK, more household decorating opinions needed. We desperately need to replace the floor in he family room. Right now it is filthy, dirty carpet. It's so stained it can't even be cleaned. So, I'm thinking tile.

We can't get the original tile we had put down. So I'm thinking about using this border/tile combination to make it work. Opinions???? I can't find anything that is a close enough match to what we have already to make it look good, so I"m trying for a contrasting color instead.

The large beige tiles are throughout the downstairs. The border will run in a 14 ft stretch between the kitchen and family room, and then we'll put the darker tile down in the family room.

I'm going to brag and say that for my first ever cake, this looks pretty darn good. Not perfect, but good. (but after viewing, I see I need to add icing on the bottom!)

Now to keep the boys fingers out of it until Friday.

You know we saw wildlife on our trip. Here is a small sampling. And unlike someone, I did not endanger my life taking up-close pictures of buffalo in South Dakota.

Prarie Dogs:( Read more... )

Jackrabbit (underneath our picnic table)( Read more... )

Crazy dogs sleeping under the truck( Read more... )

Woodchuck( Read more... )

Bison( Read more... )

Pronghorn Antelope( Read more... )

Elk



Mountain Goats( Read more... )

So, Thomas stuck part of his granola bar up his nose yesterday. I wonder if I can sue. No where on the box does it say "Do Not Insert into your nose."

Good thing he knows how to blow his nose and was able to blow it out. I wasn't looking forward to an ER visit for something like that.