Sudokuaholics Anonymous 7

Julie, I had to turn my heater on just reading about going out at 6.30am in those temperatures.... brrrrrr, actually - ouch!

Hope to see you all later!

Oh is that what woke me up... Zusy's cackling !!!

and yes, got the Blonde Antelope email !

Hey Suzy, what is the blonde antelope email? Is it a short video?

21 seconds gail, from cg

do you want it?

No, it's ok, I looked it up on google and watched it...OUCH!

Today is feed the machine day. I am finally getting back into a routine. Tuesday is hsaw day. Man oh man, I so wish I didn't have thirty dirty kids...I don't you say! Only three teenage daughters...well, where did all those clothes and towels come from!!!
Hannah has finished school, so I might slip out with her and do some more Chrissy shopping. We might even locate a real tree, sorry scouts!

I fed the dreaded machine all day yesterday, and will be again today. Curtains and blankets today so they are all fresh for mum's visit.

No real tree for us, but I want to get back to the tree paddock to see if we have any noice smelling pines that would be willing to donate a couple of sprigs to our festive season..

I just posted a picture of d2s bus stop. It boils my blood that it will take them months to fix this!

#2 boy got the tree out of the shed yesterday and is now in the Family Room.
He also got the plastic see thru crate that holds all the decorations for the tree out of the shed, which is now located outside the family room under the patio..
Now we just need someone to remove said deocrations and place on the tree..

Leave it overnight Rolanda, the tree fairies will do it!

Fed the machine yesterday, today need to finish the ironing, before picking up the Ironing Lady ..
wonder if mum has to do Grocery Shopping.. a tad too early to be ringing her yet to find out.

One plastic box? Boy, you are restrained! It took me an hour to drag all the boxes down from the pantec - and now I have to put the empty boxes back up there again!

left it overnight Gail, and the tree fairy didnt do it !!!

Big grate Suzy... mind you my tree is only 4ft high

She must be on strike, after all, it is Christmas!

and is a fibre optic one.. so dont have to fight the tangled string of lights to put them in the tree..

not good timing, if on Strike !!!

I guess my boxes include all my shelf and wall decs. Mum has made me a lot over the years too - all the wooden ones.

The tree fairy must be protesting poor work conditions.

I have those in the crate too Suzy.. just dont have a lot of decorations really..

We have 2 smaller boxes of just lights - from when we used to put lights on the outside of the house. That hasn't happened in a while!

I have some stuff that won't even fit into boxes - Mum made them!

We bought a lot of new ornaments a couple of years ago. D#1 wanted a theme tree! We decided on purple and silver, which looks very nice.
Still have most of the other tree trimmers we used to have but don't use them any more.

Better get a move on here, all the machines have gone quiet...that can't be good!
Bye.

hi all. my deep breathing worked. dinner was great and a good time was has by all, including me. i got a great nights rest and woke up with a better attitude and lots of energy. i got tons done, and am feeling like i might just be able to be ready to travel to seattle on saturday. it is no small feat to travel 12 hrs. by car with 5 kids fighting and screaming the whole way. i must be crazy!

i just had to let you all know that i didn't have a nervous break down yesterday, so no need to worry. well, off to do a hundred more things!

I'm up again.... after dark, of course. Am I turning into a Vampire?
I'm gonna have to look up that blonde antelope vid. Sounds.... interesting.
Are you crazy, Mariannnnna? TWELVE hours in a small space with FIVE kids????? It's your turn for the strait jacket.

Julie.... phenomenal avatar!!!

Today I did my shopping for foods to take to the party. Aldis did not have the Lima beans I wanted and they wanted way to much for the sweet potatoes that were not even the kind I buy. I buy round end sweet potatoes not pointy end. Mine always turn out tasty, that might be the reason. Today I got the kind I wanted and for 30 cents a pound cheaper too! Adds up when you are buying pounds and pounds of sweet potatoes!

OH, we were given the nicest oranges and lemons today, both were HUGE. A customer came up from Florida to visit Al and they brought fruit from their trees. I am enjoying the fresh lemon in my iced tea and had an orange at lunch today, yummy, juicy and sweet.

Tomorrow is doctor day, not fun having to sit and wait so long in his waiting room. I have a lot of things I need to do, but have not get enough of it done today. I have tomorrow afternoon and Wednesday morning, before D#3 and her fiance get here. Oh well, I will do what I can and do the rest when she is here, I know I will be up hours each day fore they get up, they like staying up all night and sleeping most of the day, when not working.

I am off to fling food, and wrap my gift for Saturday. I just picked that up Saturday. I did not have time to sew any, boo hoo, and probably will not till after Christmas bummer. New sewing machine and not able to use it!

MizT.... I always take advantage of the wait at the Doctor's by taking a nap there. Sometimes it is hard to get comfy, though.

Just popping in - power has been out for over 9 hours...we have the generator on for awhile...hoping the power comes back on before it gets dark.
Posted pictures of the snow on my page.
Hugs to all.

YIPES! Vici..... that does not sound fun.

Good morning lovely SA7 people -
Vici - that (power outage) might be why I can't get an email through to you despite the blacklist message!
Heidi - glad you got off jury duty.
Rolanda - I'll send my daughter over. She does my tree decorations because since she was about 10, I couldn't be trusted to 'do it right'! That goes for shopping, finding my way out of a paper bag, anything really - she now has a daughter, nearly 8 - her time is coming!

I just won 2 more Red Golden pheasants on eggbid.... both females. The others are settling in nicely... they love the heated building and rarely go outside in this nasty weather. Do you think I'm spoiling them?

Congrats Heidi - on increasing your menagerie. Nah, how can that be spoiling in such nasty weather.

Thanks Cynthia..
what time does the plane get in..
I will get the guest suite ready for your daughter at the Hotel Rolanda !!

Rolanda - Ho Ho! I'm sure she'd be there in a flash if she could. If there's one thing that girl loves it's organising everyone else. Hope she's not reading this - she has a habit of lurking around the easy pages but not here, I hope.

Actually, CynB, I'm not off jury duty. I'll be "on call" for a year. but the odds are that I won't have to serve. Not unless we have a serious crime wave here. Even the last bank robber in the county 2 years ago) never made it to a jury trial. It got settled out of court with a plea bargain.

lost a "(". Don't know how.

Sorry Heidi - I did read that. Bad terminology on my part. A year is a long time to be on call - anything could happen during that time even in a quiet area like yours. Hope it doesn't, though, for your sake.