HAPPY WEEKEND

I guess this could be a Friday Fragments but I'm not linking anywhere. Downloaded a few photos off my camera but not much there either. I've been so boring lately. Without Wednesday Hodgepodge my blog is rather bare! 

Recently I took a few picture of our Bougainvillea's that Mark trimmed a few weekends ago. He only trimmed two of them. There is a third one around the corner leading to the front door. 

The reason I did this is because I think it is time to hire someone and they can have a visual of how he likes them trimmed.  I'm tired of him up on the rooftop and climbing ladders. They are now ready for the Santa Ana winds we get throughout the winter months. 

While I was out there I snapped a recent photo of our Norfolk Pine Tree. The one pictured below is from 2011 when I put blue bows on the tree for Jack's Tree. This tree is just growing like crazy. I just love it. 

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2015

Next up is my new eating plan. I'm not calling it a diet because I already eat a healthy diet of fruits and veggies along with following a low carb way of living. This is about portion control because even though I may eat healthy I am still eating too much food.

Because I can't exercise very much, including walking, I am hoping this will help me lose some weight. I'm so tired of being heavy. I did not order the whole kit which includes DVD's for exercise, I just ordered the additional set of portion sized containers. There is plenty of information out there to help you figure out how to use them. YouTube videos too. Wish me success......

Put the coffee mug there for a comparison. 

On a different note Mark will be leaving this evening from the UK and arriving at LAX tomorrow around 2 pm. Also Adam is flying home to Pittsburgh tomorrow from LAX at 6:30 in the evening. I would definitely appreciate prayers for their safe travels. 

A little bit of a funny story here. Probably going to long today but I want it down on paper. Remember when Mark was landing at LAX and the limo driver ended coming to our house instead of the airport but Adam was coming in the same day, they meet up, got Adam's car and Adam drove him home??? 

Well it almost happened again. It is Tristen's dads car and they are selling it. He expected the papers this week and would take it to CarMax and sell it. When they hadn't arrived yet and he thought he may have to bring the car here which meant I would drive him back to LAX tomorrow.

Okay the papers ended up arriving but it was going to turn out almost the same way again. Mark gets in at 2 pm, Adam leaves at 6:30 pm. Adam could have picked Mark up and Mark would have dropped Adam off for his flight and just driven the car here so Adam could sell it next month!!!!

On a sad not Amber is in the process of finding out if Charlie has cancer. He went in for some routine tests because of his age and they found a mass in his bladder. He has no signs of illness at this time. 

Charlie is still the same guy we have loved for almost 11 years. The first test came back negative and his urine is being retested today. Charlie is Amber's life so if you could say a little prayer for him I would greatly appreciate it. 

FRIDAY FRAGMENTS

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Mrs4444

Don't laugh, I'm really not crazy but I have travel underpants. Does anyone else have a set that they travel with? I don't know when or why I started this but I just love having these nice undies to put into my suitcase when I travel.

What I recently realized is that my everyday undies need to be replaced so I'm thinking it's time to buy new travel ones and retire the current ones to my everyday drawer! 

This one you may want to laugh at. Sometimes I like to put pictures or images when I post something. So I Googled underwear images and OMG the trash that came up. So now I'm sitting here thinking what if something happens to me and my family looks at my recent searches, what are they going to think???

My husband can get real sweaty when he is working outside so I've been looking for stronger detergents that actually wash out all the orders in the clothes. We buy almost everything at Costco so I've only been using detergents that they sell. 

Recently when at a local grocery store I noticed a product from Tide that I had never seen before. It is Tide Sport and I want you to know that the clothes come out smelling wonderful! We actually had a laugh about this one because his dad always called him "Sport" growing up.....

Marks been in Wisconsin this week. Wish I could have gone with him and taken a few days visiting all my wonderful blog friends who live there. He did take an afternoon to drive to Phillips, WI where he spent most of his summers as a child and has fond memories. 

I would like to personally thank our host today for her donation to my For Your Tears Ministry. 

I haven't even begun to write posts about my 17 days in Florida in June and now I'm home from Mammoth Lakes for 6 days without even loading the pictures onto my computer. 

I feel like I am in a fog since I've been home or maybe I'm making up this fog around me because it is keeping me from seeing everything that needs to be cleaned after traveling 25 days out of 30! You decided....

Do you ever find yourself typing a response to an email and hitting enter thinking that is going to send the email out like responding on Facebook? I know you know what I'm talking about if your on Facebook......

Here are a few duck photos 

from the pond by my Dad's house.

This is the one post I need to write soon. While in Florida I surprised a blog friend at a fund raiser for her granddaughter. We had never meet in person before!

 Okay it's time to say:

"HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND"

RANDOMNESS WITH FRIDAY FRAGMENTS

#307

Mrs4444

 Not an easy task in Florida.....

The MiFi from Phil is working well here at my dads however I am finding it difficult to read blogs because my dad has the TV loud and he asks a lot of questions. He loves having someone in the house to talk to and I will cherish these moments......

Read blogs or talk with my dad?  You know what I picked! 

I do however have to point out that I am not unfamiliar with the "F" word and yesterday morning, because my Toshiba netbook runs slower then my computer at home, and because I'm a fast button pusher I ended up "DELETING ALL" again in my reader.....(&%$#)

I haven't really been to the pool much. Well actually when I was typing this yesterday I had not gone yet. I haven't felt like squeezing into my swimsuit. 

I have done my Jane Fonda exercise DVD and I have gone on a few early morning walks. Do I really need to sit in the sun? 

Funny how we all wanted to have suntans back in the day and now I worry more about skin cancer. Of course you can't beat exercising in the pool!

Here is something you might laugh about. My dad's shower is rather narrow, or at least compared to my shower at home, so I find is very difficult to shave my legs. 

So here I am (TMI) naked and putting my foot into the sink. Not a pretty picture and I can't even believe I can still do that! 

All I was doing was praying to God "please don't let me fall or have an accident" because you can only imagine how embarrassing this would have been for me to have my dad come in and rescue me.....LOL! 

Mark was still getting the run around from AT&T. One guy told him that our modem was out and we would have to order one for $100. and then make an appointment to have it installed.

So he said to the guy "You mean to tell me that the modem went out the same day we were told that our service was turned off because we never responded to their letter" and the guy said "Yes, isn't that a strange coincidence!"  It sure is....so one day your sending us a $100. gift card and then two weeks later your wanting it back!

So as of yesterday Mark has us set up with a bundle from Time Warner who already does our cable. We are getting 3 new DVR boxes with new remotes plus two converter boxes for TV's that are just direct cable because when they change their channel line up, which has been delayed, those TV's will need a box. 

So we paid $109. dollars a month for phone and cable with AT&T and we have been paying $180. dollars a month for Time Warner cable. They are giving us the bundle (probably for a year) for $139. a month. It includes all of our premium channels . Goodbye AT&T.......

Of course none of this is happening until Sunday July 13th but we have our trip to Mammoth Lakes on July 5th and Phil told us we can continue to use his MiFi until we are all linked up with Internet :)

Dad and I went to the Hard Rock Casino on Monday in Tampa and I won $250. dollars twice. That was fun! We hope to go again....maybe on Monday. Also I've hardly taken any pictures with my camera....what's up with that????

What 91 years old looks like!

We have a graduation party tomorrow for my great-niece Amanda which should be fun. They are expecting about 50 people! 

Also we had some delicious Gyro's last night which I didn't document with a photo either. It's like I'm suddenly not a blogger.....

Hope you have a lovely weekend!

FRIDAY FRAGMENTS IN PICTURES

Episode #301

Every time Shutterfly offers free items I always
order something. Just have to pay for shipping.
Metal Luggage Tags-address on back.....

My new rack for my collectible dish towels!

There is a crown in the center....

Adam brought me two bouquets of flowers 

on Mother's Day!

Amber got me these cuties from Hallmark plus a gift card!

Cute little button flowers in our yard! 

Beautiful tulips placed in a vase for Mother's Day 

from Marite' at bowling!

Fund raiser auction, the item I bid on and won!

Beautiful sunset last week!

Santa Ana winds knocked this gorgeous 

Bougainvillea down :(

It was way to thick and heavy to get back up.

Had to be cut back :(

If you follow me on Facebook you 

may have seen a few of these. 

Have A Great Weekend.....

FRIDAY FRAGMENTS

I have this picture hanging in our sink area in our bathroom. Not a great shot of it but I have had this forever. I thought it was so darn cute when I bought it. Now I look at it and I imagine that little girl being me and that is Skye next to me as a puppy. The girl is even holding a bowl that looks a little like Polish Pottery. 

If you follow me on Facebook you may have seen a few of these pictures which I have posted there. These are some beautiful tulips that Mark bought for me. 

This was one of our cloudy rainy days when Skye decided to sleep in.....

Here I am trying my new OrGreenic pan. You can cook everything and anything without any butter or oils with nothing sticking to the pan! 

Now if you saw this on Facebook you only saw part of the Rainbow. I couldn't get the whole shot in with my phone but I got it with my camera. Isn't it gorgeous with the blue sky in the background. 

This was the next day and something very big was brewing.....

I won another contest over at my friend Kristie's. I'm looking forward to reading it.

How's that for random!

Have a wonderful weekend dear friends....