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Keeping in touch with relatives

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I ran into my ex-brother in law the other day. It was my twin niece and nephews birthdays and I was calling the house to talk to my nephew but he wasn’t home so I ended up having a long talk with my ex brother in law.

I hadn’t talked to him for over a year, so it was good to catch up with him. It sounds like he’s pretty much the same as he used to be. When he’s not working he’s either barbecuing or smoking meat in the back yard or he’s out in a forest somewhere hunting. In fact part of our conversation did involve talking about hunting. It seems he’s looking into getting new hunting tree stands or something so he’ll be already for hunting season this fall.

I really should call him more often. Just because he isn’t my brother in law anymore doesn’t mean we can’t talk occasionally. I always liked him. We should stay in touch. Do you stay in touch with “ex” relatives?

Almost finished setting up the garden for summer

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My husband and I have been working so hard in the garden the last couple of weeks. It’s really shaping up. I think it’s going to be the place to be this summer.

I was out in the garden earlier this afternoon after it had been raining most of the day and the roses just smelled heavenly … oh yes, I have lots of roses that have the old rose smell and it’s fantastic .. that’s why I said that the garden is the place to be.

The only thing missing from our garden or backyard – as my husband would say, is one of those dlp lcd projectors. He’s always wanted one of those to use outside for movies. You see our yard faces the back of our neighbors house and he figures we could just project a movie right onto our neighbors wall while sitting in our lovely garden surrounded by flowers and lovely smells. Pretty cool idea eh?

I’ll think about it … maybe we’ll do it this year.

A new baby for a friend

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Aw … I was just reading a friends blog and I learned that she gave birth to a baby girl earlier today. Her husband had updated her site for her.

He even posted a cute little picture of the two of them! I’m sure there will be many more pictures to come, but the first one is always so special isn’t it?

Now I’m going to see if I can try to find a place to get flowers in Long Beach CA. I’ll try to send some to her tomorrow if I can as a way to congratulate her.

I’m so happy for my friend!

Working very hard in the garden

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I’m so tired. I’ve been working something like 6 days straight in my backyard between preparing for the new fence to go in on one side of the yard and now working on the after effects of the fence in. In other words … getting torn up by roses for 6 days straight.

At least I’ve been getting a lot of exercise! There’s no way I’ll need to look for anything like the best muscle building supplement because working in the garden, lifting trellises and pushing gigantic rose branches out of my way is definitely getting my muscles in shape.

I still have a few days worth of work to do. I had to replace earth from where I had to dig a trench in my garden bed for part of the fence, and now I’m in the process of putting in some new trellises, adding in some manure to the current garden bed earth and then I’ve got to secure the roses to the trellises and plant some annuals.

Yep still lots of work to do. No wonder I’m exhausted. The garden will be very nice by the time I’m done though!

A wedding we can’t go to

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My husbands niece is getting married next weekend in Mexico.

My husband and I wanted to go when we received one of her lovely wedding invitations but we just can’t afford to go at this time. My husband has been going through rounds of temporary layoffs at work so we just can’t go away for a week. We just can’t spend that much money on a trip.

We’d love to go. We were talking with my husbands sister earlier today and their leaving on Tuesday. Somehow they managed to get a really good deal .. something like $1200 each for a week including the flight. Pretty good! If we could have afforded to have spent that much money we would have. I’ll be that Chris’ brother calls us on the day of the wedding .. someone he’ll make sure we’re there even if we’re not.

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