Month: April 2009

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Work boots and more

I don’t know about you but I love to wear work boots when I’m not a work.  I don’t think they look quite right with a dress in the office, ya know?  But I guess about my favorite boots of all are Wolverine Boots believe it or not. Since there were three of us girls and no boys, I was a bit of a tom-boy and followed Daddy where ever he went and wore what he wore, Wolverine Boots.

Metboots.com is where I usually buy my boots.  Not only do they have a great selection but they also have great customer service.  If you get the wrong size, they are really easy to return and get the right size.  I just thought you might want to check them out.

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Isn’t nature amazing?

I just received this in an email and just had to share it with you.  It’s absolutely amazing. Abagail Alfano of Pine, Louisiana lives in a Hummingbird fly zone. As they migrated, about 20 of them were in her yard. Abagail has been studying hummingbirds daily so the small birds had gotten used to her standing by the feeder.

One morning Abagail put the water filled cup from the feeder in her hand. She says their touch is as light as a feather. (She also said, ‘if she had known her husband was taking pictures she would have put on makeup.’)

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Pretty neat, huh?  I sure thought so and that’s why I wanted to share this with you!

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One of my friends is on Steroids

I have a close friend that has started using steroids.  Just the name steroids scares me to death.  I don’t like them and even talked to him about my concerns.  I know they can enlarge your heart right along with your muscles because after all, your heart is a muscle too you know.  He told me that I had nothing to be concerned about because he was using them responsibly.  In fact, he was under a doctors care while using them and had a prescription for them.  I asked him if his doctor worked on a street corner or in a real doctors office.

I decided to do a little checking into buying steroids through the Internet myself just to see if it was easy to do or what.  One web site I found helped to put my mind at ease just a bit.  It didn’t promote illegal use of steroids or even readily promote anabolic steroids for sale like I was afraid it would.  It was full of warnings about steroid use such as what harm it can do along with a few of the benefits too.  Steroids are like any other medication and should be seen as just that, medication.  It does have some benefits but they still scare me.

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Camping when we were young

When we were younger, we took our camper and decide to camp on Assateague Island in Virginia. The fishing was great and my Daddy and us had a blast. Mom, my sisters and I had a great time at Ocean City Maryland shopping. The first night we spent on the island, we thought we heard something but didn’t really pay it any attention. Well the next morning, there was horse droppings here and there and also hove prints too.

I knew there were ponies on Chincoteague but didn’t realize they were on Assateague too. That was one of the reasons for going camping there when we did; we wanted to watch the pony roundup. It totally amazed all of us watching them swim the ponies across the Chesapeake Bay. If you haven’t ever seen the roundup, you have got to try and at least watch it on TV or possibly go to Chincoteague yourself and see this amazing display of humans taking care of local wildlife.

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Fire Ants are coming out!

We went to the beach and darn it, the fire ants are back out.  I hate those things!  I didn’t know what they were and was standing close to their home and those little suckers got on me and set me on fire!!  I told Mom she needs to get some fire ants killer right now so we can get rid of them now.

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Crazy Weather!!

I don’t know about where you live but we have had some really strange weather around here. One week, it’s in the lower 70’s, the next week, we’re lucky to be in the mid 50’s. It’s no wonder there are so many kids sick. This strange weather is enough to give everyone pneumonia.

Oh listen to this. I think the low this week was supposed to be about 30 degrees. THAT’S COLD!!! It needs to either stay warm or stay cool. Not COLD!!! I’m just not much into cold weather. Besides, it’s Easter weekend so it’s time for old man winter to get the heck our of town!

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My sister moved to Raleigh

My sister and her husband moved to Raleigh, North Carolina.  They bought a really nice house that has a two car garage attached to it but it doesn’t have any garage doors on it, can you believe that?  That just floored me that it didn’t have them.  She was telling me that they wanted to have some installed but since they just moved there, she wasn’t sure how to find someone reputable to do the work for them.  Her husband isn’t the most handy of all men but he’s a good man just the same.

I suggested she check Raleigh garage doors and she would have a better chance of finding someone that was not only reputable, but would do the job right and possibly find one that will do it at a fair price too.   In this day in time we all need to watch our pennies as they say so finding someone that will do the job right and not charge you an arm and a leg is just about as important as finding someone to do a good job.  I can’t wait to visit her and see her new house.  She sent me a picture of the house and when they get the garage doors installed, it’s going to look absolutely beautiful for sure.

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Going Green?

Everyone is talking about going green. Well we have been green for the past 25 years at my parents home. Behind our house we have a building that has our Radiant Heating system in it. It not only heats our house but also all of our hot water we use.

There are 55 gallon barrels at every downspout from our guttering so when it rains, the barrels fill up. At the bottom of each barrel, there’s a spigot that is attached to soaker hoses that go through our landscaped plants and if it doesn’t rain enough, we just turn the soaker hoses on and water everything. There’s stuff you can put in the barrels that keeps mosquitoes from breeding in them and it also won’t hurt the plants either .

All the junk mail we get is sorted through, shredded and added to our compost bins along with any scraps we have like banana peeling or any other fruit or vegetable peelings. We always have rich dirt for my flower boxes on Moms porch rails.  It’s not that hard to most of what we do so you might want to take some of these things we do and do them too.

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I might not seem like this type but…

You might be surprised to find out that I absolutely love shooting paintball.  I might not seem like the type but I thoroughly enjoy it.  I was just looking at paint ball scopes so I can eliminate my friends better.  My father used to take me to a gun range and taught me how to shoot when I was young and I guess this is just an extension of that.  At least with this, you don’t really hurt anyone unless they don’t wear the proper safety gear and then they might get hurt but all of my friends and I always wear the proper safety gear.  It’s very important because if you accidentally hurt someone, that sure will take away from the fun.

A friend of mine suggested I check out Choicepaintballguns.com when I was looking for a new paint ball gun.  Paintball guns aren’t the only things they have either.   They have a wide variety of products associated with shooting paintball.  You can get the paint balls, all kinds of guns, scopes, the co2 cartridges that you need to propel the paint balls and even carrying cases for your paintball gun.  The prices are great too.  I have never heard of anyone I know of complaining that they didn’t get good service from their web site either so that’s a huge plus, don’t you think?

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I’m so proud of my friend

I have always thought my friend acted a bit odd from time to time but thought it was just her. You know, every one’s different in different situations. Some days I’m really quiet and other days, well I’m wide open. She has been that way since our junior year in high school. I just thought maybe she was ‘blossoming’ since she was usually pretty shy. It wasn’t blossoming though. It was drugs.

She called me today and told me that she has a cocaine addiction. Cocaine!!! I was shocked. I didn’t know what to say. Then she told me that she was going for treatment for her addiction. I almost cried I was so proud of her. She’s a great person and has a really good family that is standing behind her all the way. That’s a lot more than some families would do.

The treatment center she’s going to is a really good treatment center too. I wouldn’t expect her family to send her to anything but a good one. I made sure to let her know just how proud of her I was for admitting she had a problem and going to get help. That’s a huge step in the right direction. I promised her that I would write her at least once a week while she’s gone.