Mike's dog....is so gross

I know I've been a little AWOL and I'm going to have to blame blogger for this one. I've wanted to post...really I have. And a time or two I've tried. Half the time it won't let me post, part of the time I can post but when I realize I've made some typos and go to edit, sometimes it erases my posts completely. Other times it decides it won't let me edit, it likes it the way it is. So if you see elementary mistakes in my posts, I try to fix them but it just doesn't want me to. That being the reason that I'm currently thinking of switching my blog over to Wordpress where I hear nothing but good things. Sure it doesn't have all the bells and whistles that blogger does but I need reliability, people!




Back to what I was saying. Mike's dog is so icky! She came in from outside a little while ago and dropped something that very clearly looks like an animal skeleton at my feet. How disgusting is that? I'm just glad it was all dried out. She's so gross. Of course it would be dried out in this heat. I thought I left that in TX! A heat wave decided to make it's way over and park itself on the East Coast. It doesn't bother me at all because I'm used to TX heat, I'm just a little surprised. I'm not sure what the temp is right now but the high today was supposed to be 99 and the heat index is 106. It doesn't feel that hot to me. The same temp in TX felt a lot worse. We had really bad storms last week. I think it was Wednesday afternoon/evening/night we were under a tornado warning for a long time. Mike and I stood outside and watched the rotation in the clouds which was really cool. We've seen way more severe weather here than in TX. I don't know if that's normal or just a freak thing. Based on what I've seen thus far, it looks like they get their fair share of tornadoes around here.



We took the kids to a beach Saturday. Well technically it was a beach. It wasn't my kind of beach but it was busy and they had fun. I like beaches on the ocean. This beach was on the Potomac River. The sand wasn't fine, it was rocky. They liked it...I didn't really. I'd much rather keep on driving to Virginia Beach. We only went to this one because it was so close. We tried to go to another beach but we didn't know it was private until we got there. I'm surprised they didn't physically chase us out. They had enough signs that sure made it clear they didn't want any outsiders around. Pity too. It looked really nice...and really empty. Snobs.



I really haven't done too much stitching lately because I've been busy doing some finishing. I FINALLY did the finishing on the piece I stitch for my partner for a color exchange. I'm glad I waited because I ran across the perfect fabric to finish it with just the other day. I don't think I could've found a more perfect fabric for it really. I'll show you a pic when she receives her package. I also finished a couple of really small pieces for a woman I met at the shop. She told me she stinks at finishing and loves the flat folds she saw I made for someone else so asked me to finish a couple for her. They're really small...about 4 inches square give or take a bit. I took them to her yesterday and she loved them. I thought they turned out really cute too. Pic came out a wee blurry...sorry about that. She asked me if I could come over this Summer and help her learn how to finish some things herself so I'll be looking forward to her call. Sometimes it's a lot easier when you have someone to show you how to do something. I tried to teach myself to crochet once and it didn't work out. I have been thinking of taking a knitting class. I might do that next week because......



I'll be alone. While Mike's at work anyway. If he goes in to the office. He works at home a lot you see. The kids will be away for a week visiting my parents. We're taking them on Saturday. He and I will come back home on Monday and then they'll bring them back either the 22nd or 23rd. *Sniff sniff* I think I'm the only ones who's not happy about this. I'm sure I'll find plenty to keep me busy. I might go on a day trip myself while Mike's at the office. If he goes to the office. Can you believe they let them work that much from home? He doesn't know it yet but if the weather's good on one of his days off he might be taking me to Busch Gardens so we can ride the BIG roller coasters. We can't do that when the kids are with us.




Cassie came home from school last week happy as a little piggy in slop. She got in to the gifted & talented program at school and is so excited because her best friend is in it too. She'll start next school year. She was disappointed that she missed out on dissecting sharks last week. Como? Why she wants to dissect sharks is way beyond me. Maybe she'll be a doctor. They have an awesome GT program here and I'm really excited that she'll get to be a part of it. Only 1/2 days this week and then at noon on Thursday they're out for the Summer. Finally.