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No Patience left for this stuff!!!

Today I decided that I should listen to my gmail account that keeps telling me my phone is unsecure. I will never do that again!!! After setting up the pattern I went about my day, texting, cooking and taking pictures. Then I tried answer my phone... the pattern I selected did not work! There are 15 attempts left! If I use all of them the phone becomes a paperweight!!!! This is just the icing on the cake! Perhaps I should spend more time off the phone than on the phone. Guess that shouldn't be a problem now. I will plan a trip to the phone store once the weather is better. In the mean time I think brownies are in order. If those don't turn out....

patience... patience

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It has been 10 months since this journey started. It has been a game of stop and go. Yesterday, we received another stop... one that threatens an entire shut down of this process. Yes the basement is partially poured, yes there is a modular home sitting in the driveway, and there are questions that need to be answered.  This was not a small house... B   But it burned so very fast you would think it was smaller. There was enough fuel to keep it going well into the next day. Life moved on... sort of. Here we are today with a hold on whatever is next. We have the planned future sitting on the property. Waiting to be able to place it on the foundation that has been started where the old house had been. It is much smaller. That is a good thing. Here is what it is supposed to look like put together... Pretty sure it will be overflowing with stuff before a year is out if it gets assembled! Put this over the proposed half poured basement and there is room for more s

As for that house... make the best of it

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When you find a house in your driveway...  Yep that's a house in the driveway  Hmm.. must be mine make the best of it. Invade and take pictures! Well that was all I could see but eventually I will get to see more. It makes the little house I am living in look even smaller. I am growing fond of this little house. It will be hard to leave.  Even harder to live at the scene of the disaster and feel it is okay. I am sure in time it will feel alright. But at first I am sure I will not sleep much.   Each move has brought a bout of insomnia as I learn which sounds are normal for the dwelling I am in. Crazy, but true. Where DH can sleep anywhere, even at the wheel of the car driving, I cannot. I should be safe from moving for a while yet as the weather has changed and it is too cold to do any more cement work at this time. Well that's all for tonight. I went out there today to check on the chickens and to meet up with the Stu

Why is there a house in my driveway?

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Eleven months ago our lives took a turn that would change many things. It would put procrastination in a whole new category. The blaze that took all personal possessions from the two little girls that we cherish, that erased any record of our former lives, that brought us to live in the city, is all but a memory now. Months of looking at houses, properties, modular homes and trailers homes is over. We had ordered a home and started all the groundwork only to be met with delay after delay. The cold weather started creeping in and that changed the plans yet again. Set to stay in the little house that we bought in town until spring we were adjusting. Then yesterday, without warning and totally unexpected DH drove out to the property and found a modular home sitting in the driveway. No phone calls, no texts or email that it was going to be delivered. No siding on it either. The foundation on which it will rest is not complete. But there it is none the less. We certainly have been thr

Sunday Night ramblings..

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After spending most of this weekend babysitting it hit me this morning that I am not feeling the greatest. Hit by a head cold earlier last week I thought I was on the mend. Nope that virus returned with a vengeance. It was all I could do to just lay there and try to sleep between coughing fits. A seal barking in the zoo has nothing on me!  All the great plans I had for organizing my desk were swept under the pile of laundry that isn't getting any attention today either. My youngest daughter took pity on me and went to the grocery for me. Saturday evening I was able to tackle the pantry in this little house and figure out what we have and what we need. But Sunday morning I was unable to muster the energy to do anything! As I lay in bed feeling sorry for my self I remembered that the 19 year old granddaughter was needing to borrow the minivan for a while as her great gramma needed her own car back. Up I got and started clearing out the van of the belongings we had forgotten in th

Veterans Day or Rememberance Day

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Good Morning! This is the day we remember veterans and their sacrifice for this country. But it didn't start out that way. And trying to teach little kids both meanings for the day is not easy. We spent our snow days watching videos of the world war II guess I should have focused on WWI. Today, much like Friday, the house is full of extra kids. So picking something for my own kids to learn isn't going to be easy. The original plan was to just de-clutter the downstairs bathroom where the baby chicks spent their last days before heading out to the property. Originally I wanted a chicken house here at this property and I thought it was going to actually happen! But then the cement guy called. The elusive cement guy. Hard guy to track down when the weather is perfect. But last week was the polar opposite of the week before. He appeared! Much as he disappears! He said we had been moved up the list of jobs and he would be there Wednesday to level and set forms, and then pour on T

Another day off school..

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Yesterday all four kiddos  had Taekwondo after school. It is another fundraiser for the school. If 30 kids signed up at $40 each the school gets to keep all the money and the Dojang donates uniforms and the instructors for 4 weeks. I know this because it is the dojang that my grandson belongs to. It is a win/win because the kids drive their parents crazy until at least one or two families give in and spend $1000+ to have their child join for real. The school gets $1200 for the group that goes twice a week for 4 weeks. And the dojang gets a donation write-off. For this family we will most likely not be continuing, but we will see.  So far neither of my two has made the request. But the other two here today are both wanting to continue. Grandkids usually talk us into stuff that mom and dad won't go for. It is November and there is much to do before December. There may even be a move involved. So that is my biggest reason for saying we won't likely continue. I have two hats al

School Fund Raisers, Great when there are four kids from the same family tree....

School fund raisers happen every week where the kids are going to school. Every Friday they have a "dollar" day. This means they get to do something out of the ordinary that day. Maybe it's wear pajamas to school, bring a stuffed animal, wear a crazy hat, something of that nature. We generally participate in each of the Friday events.  Even if it is just to give the system a dollar and not wear a crazy hat.  Of course then there are catalog sales that are overpriced goodies that you pay for now and receive a lot later, like close to the holidays later. Far enough away that you forget that you have ordered something and replace it at the local store at 25% of the price you paid the school for it. This time the fund raiser went a little far. They gave the children a coupon page and a speech about how they would get a prize for each thing they sold (kids interpretation). On the coupon page they had a coupon for a "good deed" prize. They each had to do a good de