Monday Update

Not much to update about. We are finally getting tomatoes from the garden. They are beautiful. We are also getting plenty of cucumbers, even though we are not pickling this summer. The cucumber salad and dressing is very good. I can't wait to try our first yellow squash tonight in the stir fry.

Saturday Update

Thursday night Doug and I watched a movie called Stranger Than Fiction. It starred Will Farrell. It was excellent and could only have been better if Zack Braff would have selected the music. This morning I am taking Ilse to the farmers market. I hope she enjoys it.

Thursday Update

Today if we take two canned food items to work for the food bank we get to wear jeans. I'm wearing jeans. It is also supposed to be a food day, but I didn't feel like bringing anything to eat. I have Friday off and plan to weed the garden and dye my hair. What a fun filled day that will be.

The best pictures, ever!!!!

Saturday Update

It sounds like Thomas and Diedre are having fun on their mini vacation. Last night they went to the dog track and bet on a couple of dogs. They didn't lose too much and had fun. I am very worried about Doug, he may have broken his hand when he fell yesterday. I hope he doesn't have as much pain today.

Wednesday Update

Wow, what a storm early yesterday morning. Mark and Wanda had a huge branch split from the tree in thier back yard. After I got off work we went over to take pictures. Mark's brother was using a chain saw to cut it in pieces. It had reached from the tree clear over to the fence on the other side of the yard and touched the house by the back door. No damage to the house and only a small chunk of wood was broken off from the fence. A piece of branch even landed on the roof of Subway. Most of our tomato plants were knocked over on thier side. Luckily none of them were damaged much and only two tomatoes actually feel off. We had a few branches come down in our front yard. We had thought they were very big until we went to Mark and Wanda's.

Monday Update

That was a fast three day weekend. Yesterday's Birthday Bash for Chloe was wonderful. Lots of people showed up, the food was fantastic and the fire was great. Diedre made the best ice cream cake ever.

Happy 19th Birthday Bobo










Hobbit Drive

US first lady (1963–9), born Claudia Alta Taylor, in Karnack, Texas, USA on December 22, 1912. As a child, a family nurse declared she was as "pretty as a ladybird." The nickname stuck. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's degree in art followed and continued on there studying journalism, with the plan to become a newspaper reporter.

In the summer of 1934 she met Lyndon Baines Johnson who was a Congressional aide. They married in November 1934, just seven weeks after their first date. Johnson gave her a $2.50 wedding ring bought at Sears. She borrowed from her inheritance to help finance his first election campaign.

As first lady, she supported the ‘war on poverty’, the Headstart Program, and worked for the ‘beautification’ of Washington, DC. Following the presidency, Lady Bird Johnson wrote the 800-page White House Diary which detailed her husband's life including the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination. She also remained active in beautification projects.In the1960s, she planted bulbs and trees along roadsides to call attention to the growing crisis of habitat and species loss. Lady Bird Johnson created the First Lady's Committee for a More Beautiful Capital and her work became the first major legislative campaign launched by a first lady, the Highway Beautification Act of 1965. Her love for native wildflowers inspired her to create the National Wildflower Research Center in 1982 near Austin, Texas. It was renamed in her honor in 1998.

Lady Bird Johnson also remained outspoken on women's rights issues, calling the equal rights amendment, "the right thing to do." She was honored with the country's highest civilian award: the Medal of Freedom in 1977, and was given the Congressional Gold Medal in 1988.

The widow of former President Lyndon Baines Johnson, had suffered a stroke in 2002 that left her with difficulty speaking. She died on July 11, 2007 at the age of 94.

Biography.com

Wednesday Update

It's Wednesday and I can't think of anything to write about. I am taking off this Friday in honor of Chloe's 19th birthday. She says her hair will be red, hmmm. There will be Choc-O-Magic Pie for her and all who love her.

Sunday Update

I don't like the big downtown Farmers Market. Way too crowded, too many old people just stopping in front of you and people taking dogs where they have no business being. The prices are jacked up and we couldn't even locate Diedre and her mom. The only good thing was that I was able to buy 6 nice plants for $4.

Saturday Update

Last night we watched a very funny movie, "Hot Fuzz". It was made by the same people who did "Shaun of the Dead". I laughed a lot.




This morning Wanda is coming over at 7 to go to the farmers market with Doug and I. We are going to meet Diedre and her mom there. I hope to find another nice house plant.

Friday Update

I can't believe it is Friday already. The days have been going rather quickly at work this week. Tomorrow I am going to the downtown Farmer's Market with Diedre, Wanda and possibly Diedre's mom. I hope Doug decides to come along as well.

Happy 4th of July

We need this cool grill for the 4th

Tuesday Update

I think I will get off work early today. Probably around 2 or 3. Yeah!!

Monday Update

This will be a weird week. Work Monday and Tuesday, off on Wednesday, work Thursday and Friday. It will also be weird because now that June is retired I will have the cubicle to myself.