Are you a homeschooling mom or a stay at home mom? Then you’ll be familiar with those inuendo’s and glances that you get when you tell people this is what you do. Other women can be the worst. Guys don’t really want to comment – being activists where women are concerned – isn’t really their [...]

Think it’s time to rescue the rescue couch? We bought this couch about 8 years ago from the LaZBoy oops backroom. It has seen alot of bouncing boys, influenza episodes and hairy dogs. It’s amazing how well duck handles being washed over and over and over again in hot water and bleach or lysol. If [...]

I received a letter from the Georgia State Tax Authority telling me that I would have to pay a fine if I did not send in the sales tax reports for months when I hadn’t had taxable sales. So far, that’s the last two years. Fortunately, I called and spoke with a really sweet lady [...]

The power company has finally fixed the problem. Slobo called during the day on Monday to the head supervisor at our Electric CoOp company, expressing how frustrated he was becoming with the power brownouts! If you aren’t familiar, it’s been happening for over a month between 12:00-1 AM and 8 AM. They were so frequent [...]

When we moved into our home over 4 years ago, the walkout basement was stubbed for a bathroom. That was one of the reasons that we bought this house. With others to care for down the road, we thought it would be nice to have a little apartment down there. There was room for a [...]

The previous bowl of blackberries made 17 jars of Jam. 5 – one pints and 12 – 1/2 pints. I ran out of sugar on the last batch recipe, so 3 of the one pint jars were made using 5 c. sugar to 4 c.mashed blackberries. Because of the reduced sugar in those 3, they’ll [...]

For two weeks now, Slobo has been saying he needs a vacation. My brother and his family recently moved near Orlando, Fl. I have been afraid of Slo and T getting together. T will tell him, it’s beautiful down here… You guys should think of moving down here….. Slobo keeps teasing me that we could [...]

While looking for land with a creek on it. One of the things that occured to me is I would like to have our own water source. This means no water company to deal with and I really like that option. Get rid of the water company and the electric company at the same time [...]

Weeding the garden this morning, I found that the bushes in our backyard have started producing again. They aren’t ripe for the picking yet, so I sent Slobo and the kids out again to our favorite vacant lot down the street. The lot slopes sharply down after the first 10 ft. We had picked that [...]

It has been raining here off and on for the last four days. One tomato plant had a limb break because it wasn’t sufficiently supported. The rains have been really heavy, so I’m surprised that’s the only damage. Today was the first clear day since the last post about the progress of the garden 4 [...]

We recently had to replace the blinds in one of the boys’ rooms for the third time. I wonder, do they hang on them when I’m not looking? Exactly how do vinyl blinds get split and cracked so often? When we first moved into our home, 4 years ago, the first year – window treatments [...]

15 years ago or more, I started to write a software package called What’s For Dinner. I hated that question, and being a unix/pick programmer writing Inventory Control and POS software, I felt I had the skills necessary to answer that question. My dept. had just upgraded the shipping / warehousing to use barcodes. This [...]

Yes, there will be a test at the end of this post. Are you ready boys and girls? Note: This is a true story. We went to Wally world yesterday and found that school supplies are on sale again already. The public schools are going back to school here in 3 weeks. The crayons, notebook [...]

Since there is all this buzz about truth in advertising on the web, and some people don’t get a link that says something like ‘luxury homes’ doesn’t mean I endorse luxury homes, I’ve changed my Reviews category to now say, Paid Link Enclosed. Yes, I get paid for attaching a link to a word in [...]

This picture was taken before we started getting all the rain this week. It’s even bigger now. I can’t wait for fall! Everything is budding out and growing so pretty! This is the pond we added to the kids Fort Hoochenu. It’s made from a mish mash but it works. And it now has a [...]

Our oldest son,9, is in love with the Titanic. He has watched the movie (with us fast-forwarding some scenes) and he has watched and read everything he can get his hands on about the Titanic. Above is his drawing of it on the Magna Doodle from a few years ago. His favorite sketchpad, btw. And [...]

Meet my dream house. I’ve been in love with this house since first moving into our new home four years ago. I told our builder, the day of closing, that it would only be temporary, because one day I was going to be living in that house down the road. I know, some people have [...]

Of course, with all of the talk about baseball – there is always boating. That is another really fun summertime activity and my middle child loves boats! Last month he asked for a boat quilt and even bought the backing fabric for it with his own money. I love boats too! Especially sailboats! I crewed [...]

Slobo and I were trying to figure out what we could do with the kids for the summer that wouldn’t be too hot and still be alot of fun and inexpensive. With three boys, it can’t be that hard right? Our usual summer past-time is playing in water in any form and hiking anywhere North! [...]

I was over at iStarLive checking out the latest meet and greet on the internet. This place reminds me of a combination of Kasey Kasem meets John Travolta with a little Karaoke thrown into an IRC channel. And That’s Not A Bad Thing Martha! (Wow, Slobo – that Stuffr spell checker came in handy on [...]