WEDNESDAY SPACE WALK

WOW  it is already Wednesday! Time for the Space Walk….

now with all the holiday activity, I really havent been "walking" much but I have a neat space that you might just like…(please click on the blog button at the top of the page to view the entire entry.)

Thanks!!

 

Here is a really neat space from a stepmom and she lives out west in the USA.. She writes about her struggles as a very busy step mom who has to handle all the mom duties and what happens in her life. Here is a short section from her space…..   "We walk in the door after picking kids X and Y up from the school bus and it begins immediately….." I’m hungry, can I have a snack"…. "yes you can have some apples or oranges"….. "but I can’t cut them myself"….. all of this while trying to hook into my work email from home so I can finish my projects.  "Can’t I have some cookies too?"….. you can have one cookie….. "but I want two"….  "I don’t like those cookies, can I have something else?"…. "that is all there is, you can wait until dinner."  "Can I watch TV in the living room?"….. I don’t know why I get this question every day…. the living room is off limits… always has been always will be.  "I don’t want to watch TV in the playroom….. I want to watch it downstairs"…. I haven’t even gotten to dinner time where Kid X and Kid Z like ranch dressing with their carrots, Kid Y does not, Kid Y does not like sauce on her pasta either but Kids X and Z do although Kid Z does not like cheese on top of his sauce but Kid X does, Kid X does not like milk and has water, Kids Y and Z have milk, Kid X likes oranges but not apples with dinner, kid Y only likes apples, and Kid Z usually spills his water or milk all over the table at least once during every meal…… this is about the time that my anxiety starts to swell in my chest and I start to turn into the wicked stepmother… and mother.  The needs for these kids never end………. "   Give this space a visit today and see what else she has to say about her life as a "Stepmonster"..I think you will like what she has to say……….

PARDON MY DUST!!!

 

  

 

Time for spring cleaning……….I have been trying some new things here at my space so pardon my little experiements…I will try to get  finished as soon as I can..but playing with this tweakertoy is really

wonderful…I just know as soon as I get it all figured out MSN will change almost everything around and I will have to start over again.

Isn’t that the way it always is?  Well stay cool and have a great day!

 

MEMORIAL DAY !!

 

 

                                     

 After shopping in 90 degree temps with my elderly mother, I was reminded that placing people and pets in a car in that kind of heat is so dangerous. I had a discussion with my mother about how..even though she "doesn’t think it is that hot"..it truly is hot in there!

I had the shields up and the windows down some..but our first blast of hot air really threw us for a loop. The pavement seemed to sizzle and the air was equally hot and humid. It felt like the fourth of July instead of Memorial day. We turned on our A/C and it worked fine..thank goodness! Less than a week ago we had the heat on here..this was really too fast a jump to SUMMER!

 

I looked for a thermometer that could be hooked inside the car to tell exactly what the temperature was..so there was no question that I was not just "exaggerating" the fact. I didn’t find a fancy one but a cheap one would do. I placed it in the car, not by a window but up front where she was sitting and watched it rise. I had her watch it rise too…110 degrees was where it stopped!

I think the solar shields kept the heat from being even higher.

 

Why is it so hard to convince someone that it is TOO HOT to stay in the CAR??? THEY do not feel this heat the way WE feel the heat I guess. Poor circulation or thin blood could do it. I have had the same stern discussion with my mother for years..YOU ARE NOT STAYING IN THE HOT CAR! It is just too much.

I am still very happy that my mom is still with me..fussing and

disagreeing with me all the time over this and that.

 

Today I received word that Beth’s mom passed away and was truly saddened, but glad that she suffers no more. A year ago I knew nothing of this woman or her daughter..but through the MSN spaces, she has become a friend. My thoughts and prayers go out to her and her family.  

BE SAFE out there today and tomorrow…Have a great day !!

 

 

WATERMELON INCIDENT

 

 

            

 

 SO I am looking for my watermelon in the WALMART store

minding my own business..nice as you please..I am looking and thumping and weighing them. I have heard that the heavier they are the more juice they have in them, and the riper they are.

 

I hear a lady across the bin say that won’t work you have to check the bottom to see if there is any yellow on it…YELLOW? I say.

Yes..yellow..if there is some yellow then they have laid on the ground and they are more ripe. Hmmm I had never heard this. Maybe it’s true..who knows but she insists..finds her "yellow one" and I keep looking .. she is bragging to her hubby that she did find the best one and turns to get it to the cart, SPLAT..drops it and it breaks all over the floor!!!

 

She yells and all kinds of people show up to help out. NOW  being me..I am just curious to see if the "yellow" bottom made it riper or not…SO I amble over to the other side of the bin and sure enough there is the proof…………NADA..it was light pink and  didn’t even LOOK good. She looked at me and I looked at her and I said..well I guess that just wasn’t to be your melon. She was

so disgusted and embarrassed she walked away without a melon.

                                                     

I kept looking for mine and found a dark one that sounded hollow. My dad told me to thump them and more hollow sound meant more ripe. My brother worked in a truck stop a long time ago and the watermelon trucks would come in there and they told him to look at the ends of the watermelon. That must have worked he brought us some juicy ones from the truckers.

 

                

 

WELL happy to report the melon was delicious and ripe and juicy.

I dont think I will  be looking at the "yellowbottom" melons from now on. In looking for a picture of a melon for this entry..I came across a picture of the new YELLOW watermelon…OH MY why change the traditional melon? Has anyone ever had this melon??

                        

 

I dont recall seeing one in the stores up north here at all. Maybe they are rare..who knows..but can you imagine the look on that womans face if when it broke it was YELLOW inside..HAHAH

I really would have loved to have seen that!!

WEll Hope your weekend is going well…it is hot here and I like it for a change…better than rain or snow that’s for sure….

 

HAVE A GREAT HOLIDAY WEEKEND!!!! 

HOMEFRONT NOTES…

 

 

 

                   

 

IT has been hectic here the past few days with company,  and I have been unable to visit my space friends like I would like to. I haven’t forgotten..just been really busy…

I got up today and was slapped in the face with a dreaded summer reminder…….HUMIDITY!!!!

This is the first day we have had it… this spring… this bad.

 

Reminds you fast that you are nearing the summer season..Our forecast for the weekend looks great with 80 degree days and sun. I sure hope it holds out..would be nice since most 4th of JULY holidays it rains on us or is so uncomfortable we can’t move at all…

 

I placed the WEDNESDAY space walk on my spacewalk space.

I know I featured it before a long time ago, but thought it was time for a visit with an old friend. With hurricane season upon us again ..my thoughts are with all those in the gulf states.

Check him out he will enjoy it I am sure…

 

I thoroughly enjoyed the finale of IDOL last night it was the best one they have ever had. I was reminded how well these young singers are,  watching them sing all together. I thought the end song "I had the TIME OF MY LIFE" was so appropriate for what has transpired all these months. Hearing Kat and Taylor sing together they make quite a duo…I was sure happy for Taylor..my favorite….long wait til next season…..sigh….

Well  better wrap this up..got lots to do…….

 

HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!