Tired, Tired, Tired!

Alrighty then!
I'd like to say "another day another dollar", but I don't think it works like that!
I'm working on my October calendar at work.
Where does the time go!?
I'm going to drag up the Thanksgiving decorations, and maybe mix in the Halloween, cause you KNOW that stuff's out in the store! I've already got my costume! How many times do I have to tell you guys that it's my FAVORITE holiday!?
Here's a pic of us Rec. Ass.es from last year!

OK, it's from the year before, only cause I don't have all night to find the darn thing! AARRGGGG! I think it might even be from 2006! Oh well, they just get better! Last year I was Satans' mistress! Oh the fun to be had!
OK, I found one....Facebook, don't be groaning, I was putting lots of pics on there until it just became too painful with dial up! Another reason for the needed lottery win!

We sided the naked side of that shed for 2 days! It's done up to where the
soffet(sp)needs to go on. It really looks way better than that grey plywood, although I was getting used to that!
Ray had to work today so I had a reprieve!
I came home and made pepper jelly.....red and green!
My recipe calls for 'Apple Cider Vinegar'! I've looked and looked and can only ever get 'Cider Vinegar'! Is that the same thing? The jelly turns out awesome anyway!
I've decided I could make that any time of the year though, as it only takes 2 peppers in each batch...TOPS!
My mom sent me money for scrapbooking. She's an enabler! We were just on the phone discussing how I was sooo darn excited to sign up for...and it has a name......and it will come to me eventually, but it's to make cards once a month at my friendly Stampin' Up ladies home! Only 6 people get to sign up, so every one gets a turn to be hostess and qualify for free stuff. ( I get October, think of the fun I'll have with my lunch I'm supposed to take!)
Anyhoo.....I told her I had to spend $40.00 a month, and she said, "Holy that's a lot!"
I said, "Mom, some punches cost that much!"
Mom, "Well, what kind of things can you spend $40.00 on?"
I gave her the condensed version, guess I'll just have to save her a catalogue, which by the way, I left at work. I could be sitting here drooling over things in that instead of talking to you!
I did buy a couple stamp sets earlier this year(ME, who was never going to get into stamping!) that were being retired.
I didn't have the heart to tell mom that I spent WAY more than $40.00 a month last winter on scrapbookin', card makin' stuff!
Camp Tamarack with my peeps was cancelled. It was supposed to be this week. I'd already made plans for Friday afternoon, cause YOU KNOW I don't EVER work the day after we come home from camp. You think camping with kids is exhausting!? It's fun, but I think maybe it's a little stressful, which is what wears me out!
Better go, it's getting late, and I still have to find something to wear for tomorrow!
No, I'm not gonna iron a shirt!

SSSSSuper sunday!

I only call it that, cause I'm wondering how much longer I can work like crazy around the house on my one day off a week!? (And stay sane!? Too Late!)
Last weekend, the kids & I went camping!
Ray didn't want to come and by the second day I was thinking there was a method to his madness! OK, it wasn't that bad.
We went (again) to Hilliards Bay, to Wayne & Elaines'. Rays sister Marlene and her husband Randy were there too!
Went fishing once Saturday afternoon. So, games were played.

This is Kendras "I hate it when I'm not prepared" face! She sang for us....hey I didn't ask, it was Marlene!

Sunday it was windy, so we never went fishing until about supper time!
Then we ALL caught a fish! I never thought to take a picture in the boat when Kendra & Jason caught theirs, so I asked at the fish cleaning stand if they wanted to hold one for a picture.
First the instructions on how to hold it:

Then, and I must tell you, this lovely photo was taken

after a LOT of these! hahahahaha

Jason read a lot

Paul Bunyon was there

Fun was had by all! Well I haven't asked anyone, but I had a great time.
We came home to find that Ray had planted the forest I had brought from moms!
So we had the Great Grandpa & Grandma Extravaganza at the lodge on Friday night.
Today was Grandparents Day.
We had a campfire sing a long

And a lot of other shananigans! Hopefully fun was had by all, cause only 17 participated! Darn rights I'm counting!

So anyhoo, last night when I got home from my other job, I mowed ALLL the grass! Cause that's it, mower's getting put in the shed, and the snow blower will be parked in the woodshed in it's place!
Today, I got supper ready, did laundry, hung it out, whipper snipped for 2.5 hours....you heard me...two and a half hours.....with the gas guzzling Stihl that will go back tomorrow! It was sent out to be fixed, cause I couldn't start it, and it was some kind of spark arrester in the muffler. Well since it wouldn't start, I guess they thought it should run...really fast! OK, Ray says the idle is set too high, but I even had to shut it off to get the string to come out!
Then it just quit, and I cussed it out....and had to take it all back when I realized it had run out of gas! They use every drop...it was dry as a bone!
It was another hot day too! I BBQed for the second day in a row, and while supper was cooking, the dog and I fought over the little bit of shade the clothes on the line were providing!
Kalen & Jason came out again.
Ray had brought over the rest of the siding for the poor shed that's sat half naked in the yard for, oh I don't know....3 years. So I said lets put it on. 3 sides are done, just the front, and fascia, etc. isn't on. Note to self, always start at the front! Then it will look done!
He's built some more shelves in the shed, cause the pump house needs cleaned out, and new insulation etc. before winter.
Thursday, he said that Ronny had told him it was going to freeze. So we picked the cucumbers, tomatoes, onions and peppers. I said, "I don't know what Ronny was listening to, cause I never heard the "F" word!" And it hasn't.....yet.
Well better go iron a shirt, the accountants are coming to my other job tomorrow....sure I'll still wear jeans, but I should iron a shirt!