Well... no movies this weekend. But we had fun anyway!

Ethan had to work so we are delaying our trip to the Theater to go see Disney's UP!
So instead we just did some shopping, grilling, I was in a draw down raffle, and we did some riding!

Friday and Saturday Mary and Raelynn held a garage sale at Raelynn's house. We did very well, Jordan and I both sold bicycles that we no longer use, Jordan sold several of his toy snakes and a few board games, Mary sold some old stamping supplies, and the old car amp and speaker we found in Ethan's car when we purchased it. We don't know if they were any good or not so we sold as is. Someone made an offer and they are gone.
We did well enough that we opened a new savings account for our vacation fund. We are going to put our extra money we get from Prez. Obama's stimulus into this account. Should be just about the right ammount for our next vacation!

During the garage sale, I was over at Heritage Harley Davidson for a charity draw down raffle.
Only 500 tickets were sold. Every 25th and 75th ticket would win a T-Shirt, Every 50th or 100th ticket would win $50.00 The 499th ticket would win $500.00 prize.
The last ticket drawn will be the winner! What to win? A Harley Davidson Heritage Softtail Classic!
Beautiful bike!
Well I was there sending Mary text updates of the status.
100 down still on the board!
150 down still on the board!
175 down still on the board!
200 down still on the board!
225 down still on the board!
250 down still on the board. They are taking a break, I made it past the 1/2 way point!
275 down still on the board!
300 down still on the board!
325 down still on the board!
350 down still on the board!
375 down still on the board!
Somewhere between there and 400 my number was pulled.
So I didn't get the new bike...
Oh well It was a lot of fun anyway!


Here are the winners!
(Picture from http://www.fvhog.com/)


Later Mary and I rode over to Westmont on the motorcycle and had dinner at J. Flemming's Absolutely Delicious.
It was a nice restaurant and they have an outdoor dining area between the buildings so we were able to eat outside. It was good.

Today we rode over to Ace Hardware to shop for some sanders and lawn adornments.
We also took the truck over to Menard's and purchased 4 new doors for our bedrooms and bathroom upstairs.

Very nice doors but I have to stain and varnish them before we put them in. We are going to pick up the stain next week and I will get started.
We purchased the molding for the doors and realized when we got home that we only purchased enough to do one side of the doors.... we will have to go get another 4 molding kits for these doors... Oh well, I was never all that good at math... LOL
Marvin said he would come up after the beans are in and teach us how to put in a new doorframe. Then he will supervise while the boys and I put them in to make sure we don't screw it up.

For supper we grilled!

Mary had a recipe for BBQ Chicken Packets from Kraft.com and she put them together.
I had received a gift of salmon fillets from my neighbor Bob. Bob is a very talented fisher. He has given me Tuna steaks from a tuna that he caught on one of his trips. He never comes back from a fishing trip without any fish. Usually enough to give away to the neighbors.
He told me to marinate in 7UP, so I did. I also had some McCormick Salmon Seasoning that I used. I placed the salmon in the grilling basket that I had purchased for the Tuna Steak.
We grilled the Chicken in the packets we made, and I grilled the Salmon all at the same time.

Everything turned out great! Wow! that Salmon was Sooooo Goooooood! MMmmmMMMmmMMMMMMmmm!
The Chicken packets had BBQ sauce on the chicken, topped with a pineapple slice (sorry Marvin) and a slice of green pepper. Those came out very good also. Mary gave me a taste of hers and it was like sweet and sour chicken, but grilled with a nice smokey taste!
Very good!

So for the rest of the week I have salmon fillets for lunch!
And Mary has Chicken!

I have set up my tractor sprinkler today. I know that there is supposed to be rain for the next few days, but the new grass down by the street was looking dry. We want that to keep growing. Plus I wanted to see my tractor go again. I just replaced the broken wheel on the front so now it will follow the hose unsupervised and will not go off track as often. It is almost done now, when it finishes I will have to put it away. That is a pain. picking up all that hose and coiling it back up. But that's OK. It is such nice weather today!

Have a good week everyone!

Movies!

Well I went to see Star Trek. Gary and I were going to go on Saturday night last week, but when we arrived at the Cinemark Theater we found it was blocked off from traffic by several fire trucks and police cars.
They had noticed smoke on the second floor so had shut down and called the fire dept.
Well needless to say, they were not showing the movie that night.
They gave us rain checks.
So Gary said, "Do you have to go home?"
I said no so he said he was kidnapping me. We were going to go out. He was angry that the theater was closed and wanted to go do something.
So he took me to Clementines. A nice little bar. No food other than chips or salty snacks behind the bar. We sat and talked for a couple hours.
We went back to Cinemark on Wednesday and used our "rain checks" to go in and see the movie.
Ethan went with us this time... I guess he was good luck because they were open this time.
We saw the IMAX presentation. 5 story tall, 7 story wide screen! Wow the space scenes felt like you were falling through the screen! It was a very good movie. We all enjoyed it.

Then just last night, Ethan Jordan and I went to see Night at the Museum - Battle of the Smithsonian,
This was a good movie, we all three laughed through the movie.
But really two movies in one week... Don't do that very often!

But it was fun!

Fraidy Dog

My dog sounds real tough when someone walks up to the door. But if there is thunder? even if it is far away, he runs and hides in the boys bedrooms.
Well today while we were at work, there was thunder...
Dillinger tried to get into the bedrooms. But the doors were shut.
So does he lay down as close to the bedroom doors as he can get like usual?
Nope!
The dumb dog tries to dig his way under the door.
Ripped the carpet and the padding right off the floor for about three feet back from the doors.

Now we have to figure out how to fix this carpet.
I was able to lay it back down, but it is lumpy and the padding under it is destroyed. I can't get it all the way back down to where it will lay flat across in front of the doors. Now when the boys leave there rooms they have to be careful or they are going to trip.

He is not the big guard dog he pretends to be... he is a fraidy dog...

Bob Evan's for Breakfast!

Hey! We found an open Bob Evan's Restaurant!
OK this may not be a big deal to most of you, but ever since the Bob Evans restaurants near our house closed down, we have not had a place where our whole family could go for breakfast and everyone would be happy.
We have tried Cracker Barrel, IHOP, Sand Piper, and a few others. Always someone was left with not getting what they wanted.
(Occasionally one of us would not even get edible food - but that is a different story)
Mary was told that there was still a Bob Evans Restaurant in Planefield. Not too far away!
So this morning for Mothers Day breakfast we all went over to Bob Evans!
Mary had her omelet with hash browns and biscuits with honey.
Jordan got his French Toast!
Ethan got his Cinnamon pancakes with chocolate chunks throughout (cooked in and sprinkled on after)
and I got my biscuits and gravy with eggs, sausage patties, and hash browns!
It has been so long since I had GOOD biscuits and gravy that was made with sausage gravy. Sausage (that tasted like breakfast sausage, not like ham)
MMMMmmmmMMMMmmmmMMMMMMMMMmmmmm!
So Good!

What are these flowers?

We have some ground cover flowers we were given that are very pretty and actually are doing a great job covering the ground where we needed it ... behind our shed.

However we have noticed that they are taking over... We are trying to find out how to stop them.

(1)

Here they are where we wanted them. Behind the shed

(2)

Here they are in front of the house spreading

they are choking out the other flowers here.

(3)

Here they are taking over my Strawberries.

(4)

Here they are in the Grass near our neighbor’s yard, after I mowed them off.

Anyone know what these flowers are?

We can't remember!

Now I had a ... ID10T moment

I was having breakfast and forgot my coffee.
So I went to get my coffee.
In the few seconds it takes to get to the kitchen from the table, I forgot what I was going for and I went to the fridge and grabbed a soda...
I sat down and remembered I wanted coffee.
I took the soda back to the fridge and came and sat down. Without my coffee.
So I had to get up and go get my coffee.
This trip was more successful.
I have my coffee! Maybe now I will wake up!