My Day

I had a fairly good day today, nothing exciting to report, I was just thankful to have a good day. I accomplished a few things and I always feel good when I feel like I have accomplished something, especially several things. I have up days and down days, doesn't everyone? I like to take advantage of my good days. I don't expect to get everything done but I do try and do as much as humanly possible. I tend to get behind on everything when I have down days and after a few in a row, I have to force myself to do things, but I usually feel better once I do. Today started out as one of those days when I had to force myself to do something. I usually set a goal for the day. I pick one thing or two that I have been putting off and I concentrate on getting it done. If I get it done quickly, I take a little break, but not long. I then pick something else and do that I have been putting off. Sometimes one or two things are all I get done, but some days like today, it can have a snowball effect and I actually accomplish quite a bit and as a result, I feel quite a bit better. I never know for sure how the next day will be. Sometimes I go to bed with a big game plan for the next day and by the time I wake up, the game is over.

Well, today one of the things I did was work in my garden. It isn't a large garden, although, I would like to have one that is a bit bigger. Right now, I just have several raised beds. I have tomatoes and cucumbers. I plan to do more, but that is all I have for now. I have some tiny bell pepper plants in little cups that I will transplant soon. I also like planting flowers and things. One of my planned projects is to redo the walkway from my front porch to my driveway. I had extended an existing sidewalk with bricks spaced an inch or so apart, as a temporary fix for a muddy mess every time it rained. Well, it has served it's purpose but it didn't turn out quite as well as I had pictured, so I am going to dig them up and replace them with 24 inch pavers. I would have poured some concrete or used stepping stones but I already have the pavers from where our large grill use to sit. We decided to move the grill around to the back of the house onto the back porch for more privacy, which leaves me with six large pavers, perfect for my walkway. I am also taking out quite a bit of loriope grass which now forms an edge for the sidewalk. I plan to redistribute it to different parts of the yard as well as give some of it to family and friends who are willing to take it. I am going to leave a few patches of the loriope grass and plants flowers along with it. I haven't decided what type of flowers to put there yet. I do know that I will need something which can tolerate lots of sun. It is one of the few spots in my yard that gets sun and it gets quite a bit. I have spent quite a bit of time searching for shade loving plants for the rest of the yard. I would also like some sort of perennial, so that it will come back again each year until I decide I want something else. Well, I will let you know if I accomplish this before summer is over. Wish me plenty of up days. I will need them.

About Me

I am still trying. I am no, where near, good at this, but hopefully I will improve. I am not really sure what to write about yet. I don't have a lot of excitement in my life, so I'm not sure there's much to tell. I am just a stay at home mother/grandmother. My daughter is grown and married with a little girl, who I adore and my son is just out of school and still living at home, which I don't mind. I like having a little company. My husband drives a truck and is out of town 3-6 days a week. I like that too actually. I like time to myself, so, having a truck driver for a husband is good. I lost the alone time for a while, when my daughter moved back home with her daughter. I love them both, but I really missed the time I had to myself before she move back home. Now she has gotten married and has moved out again. I miss them, but I really love having my alone time back. My son is here, but he is a lot like me, in that he likes being to himself most of the time and when he is around we have similar interest, so it is more than just polite chit chat. We actually have conversations. My daughter and I are close, but we have a different relationship. Our common interests are cooking, gardening and my grand daughter. My son and I discuss cooking and computers or electronics in general. We talk about music some also. We both like working with computers. I am more software and he is more hardware but we both like putting them together and trying new software. We really love Linux, actually Ubuntu mostly. I got into Ubuntu years ago and got my son into it a few years later. I had tried several linux distros before finding Ubuntu, but haven't found one yet that I like better. I still lean on Windows for certain things, like hardware and software that does not yet support Linux, but I prefer to use Ubuntu. I also like fooling with Windows just to keep up to date on what's new and finding free and open source programs for my Windows dependent friends and family, although I am slowly trying to convert a few. Well, I guess this is enough for now. I will be back. I hope if anyone does read this, that they will at least give me an E for effort and maybe check back, once in a while, to see if I have made any improvements. Wish me luck.

I'm Back

Well, here I am again. I can't believe it's been nearly 3 years since my last post. I am just as new to this now as I was then, I guess. It never really caught on with me. I am going to try it again though. I like the idea, I just don't know whether or not I will ever be any good at it. I have posted a few blogs on my Myspace page, not that it has made me any better at it but, hopefully every little bit helps. I mostly posted about recipes I have tried and thought were really good. I really like to cook and to try new recipes and I love sharing them. I am still not sure though, whether or not to post on just one subject or several. I have a wide variety of interests. I have noticed with some of the blogs that I have read, that they post about different subjects, but then there are those that post solely about one particular subject. I don't know which would be more successful.
I have joined several social networks. I love Twitter. I have found that it is considered micro blogging. I like only having to say a little at a time. I like trying to sum up everything I want to say into just a few letters. It's sort of a game. I am new to that also, but I have been checking it out and I have learned a little more than when I first started. In reality I am not extremely social. Crowds make me nervous and I don't even feel comfortable at small gatherings. I do better one of one, I guess. I am trying to overcome that though. Well hopefully this whole blogging thing will catch on this time and hopefully I will get better it. Wish me luck. Have a good one.