Robin's Nest

The font fight again! Finally the right part has been located for the downstairs furnace.  Now the fun begins... connecting the gas line. This part always makes me a nervous wreck.. I can smell the least little escape of gas of course this is a good thing because DH cannot smell it all. So my job is to smell and worry and smell some more. I am good at my job. But tonight the smell is lingering a bit too long for me. I don't mind not having heat down here... it isn't that cold. The fireplace can be started and yes the smoke smell makes me nervous but not as nervous as the gas smell :)  I sometimes chalk the nervous bit up to him being a bit of a daredevil and taking unnecessary risks. Like flying a helicopter upside down... hey I don't care if he took first place in England in '86.  Some things just aren't worth the risk! Okay so there's no helicopter involved right now. But there is a history of buzzing the house, running without checking the fuel, and other...

This has been another long week :( Not sure if it is me or just the world that is off... Nope it's the world... my car is right side up.... just sayin' Not so pretty lights... you cannot even see the mountain   Glad I am not having that kind of day!!! I need to go out to the chicken house and see what "gifts" my girls may have left for me.  Always fun to find fresh eggs!  Or a stray snake... but it is too cold for snakes so maybe it will be eggs! Thank goodness for technology or at least I think I feel that way... could change if I cannot get my printer to work or the fax machine. The little girls just came and asked if they can get into the bath... that could be scary. I can picture floods and baby alive floating over the side and down the steps. But it is Tuesday... probably a week from the Tuesday that I started this post... Good news and Bad news There were 10 eggs today!  Say that would be 5/6 of a dozen... I think.. I digress the ...

Good Morning world and other concerned parties ;)! You really have to love road conditions that make you feel as if you are trying out for the ice capades lead skater. Or a forecast that says patchy ice instead of patchy dry areas :(. All said and done I made it to the city and those roads are pretty good. Be careful what you wish for. I am pretty sure I just lamented about not being on the cart any more and how I missed it... well here I am passing pills and going to meetings!  Oh yay! Now I get to do laundry for the independent residents and some of the skilled ones...going to be a long day! 8 loads done and only four to go. Hmm somewhere in this mess I have to go pick up a new phone.. mine has had a major meltdown :( But now I get to choose something else I might like..did I mention I am not good a choosing thins? My history of bad choices should support that...

It has been busy day for 4 out of 5 kids! Outside, inside, outside, inside... melting muddy snow! Lots of hot cocoa today, half a gallon so far. Dinner is ready but they are screaming for more snow ice cream They enjoyed the trampoline even in the snow....  Hard to stand in it... lots of falling down!  Good to get out even if you freeze your tush off!!  Not a ton of snow but enough to have a good time soon it will all be gone :(  Breakfast was good!  Eggs, potatoes and lots of wood to keep warm!  Warm, warm, warm! This should last for at least through the night tonight! The roads are pretty rough according my daughter who came out to get of kids, their district almost never cancels classes so she felt it best to challenge the drive... she qualifies it as a sheet of ice most of the way... ugh! I really dislike driving in the ice and I am not that fond of snow either but it is fun if you don't have to work.  With ...

It is too early to be up :( The last grandkid fell asleep after midnight and that's when little miss woke up.. She was sleeping on the floor in her room and the only boy in the sleepover group took her bed.  That went over like a lead balloon! She keeps begging to sleep in the baby's pack and play, so I offered to let her sleep in there...nooooo way! So I tried the come sleep on momma's bed routine she just stood there crying. So I picked her up put her in the bed and informed her that if she woke the baby, who was sleeping in the pack and play in my room, I would not be happy. At 0300 she almost fell hard asleep. She was fitful before that but at least quiet. At four thirty or so my grandson started wandering the house, just hanging out, enjoying the quiet of being the only one awake. I was only semi-conscious and frankly if he isn't trying to get my attention then he must be fine. At 0640 the day begins because little miss is awake therefore everyone should be awa...

This has been another crazy week. In looking back, it might have been better to just go back to bed and start over next week... I mean really just today I tried to get to work early... didn't happen. I tried to get to an appointment early... didn't happen. I tried really hard to be on time to the appointment... didn't happen. What did happen you ask? A fire drill at the precise time that I should have been walking out the door for the appointment.  I should have brought a phone charger to work (but I thought that I had left one here).  Lots of things should have happened but didn't.  I did get to the appointment just as they were calling Cheif Reed... talk about stroke of luck timing! I was blessed on that one because I had already missed one appointment last week for the same thing. So we do the usual screening tools.. B/P 164/94...what!?!?! In my defense a lot had happened and I did have to run to make in the correct area of the building in time.  After the provi...

Time to get stuff ready for the big storm! Firewood is in, all the blankets are washed, snowsuits and boots have been located... just in case. Mittens are stockpiled and the last task that I can think of is to clean out the wood burning stoves.  All the grandkids are over waiting with high hopes that snow will in fact appear!  So do I because I will push them all out the door as soon as it starts!! The other perk would be snow ice cream!! I don't work until Monday so who cares if it snows!! And I bought snow tires!!! It would be nice to have some snow for them... well actually I don't really need snow. Cookies just came out of the oven and the little monkeys smelled them from outside... too funny. Now I know how to get them in the house in a hurry :) As I hung the last load of laundry outside the wind from earlier had all but disappeared so I figured on the towels being a bit stiff, but as I watched the kids on the trampoline from the window... the laundry started flap...