Friday, July 28, 2006
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Ok so it appears.......
that I took a rather long hiatus from blogging but honestly I was just MySpacing for a while. Both Ashly and Sarah have MySpaces and they wanted me to have one too, so I made one. It was quite fun for a while.
Meanwhile, Doug and I have bought a fabulous new house. It is not only bigger than our last house but much better, too. It's a split level that allows Mom to stay on one floor only. She was having a hard time with the stairs in our old house. It also allows us our own space for entertaining. (We've already started!) Best of all though is the incredible, incredible yard!! It was professionally landscaped for wedding photography by the previous owners.
Sooooo........ we've inherited 42 rose bushes of various styles and colors, eight or more hydrangeas also of various styles and colors, two kinds of honeysuckle (the hummingbirds love it), three clematis, numerous rodedendrons, four peonies, a butterfly bush and much much more. Some of the stuff I don't even know what it is. Oh, yeah, there is a wysteria....several Japanese maples, and other assorted trees,as well. The only drawback to all this beauty is the amount of work it takes to maintain it. Who knew it could take soooo looong to weed a garden! Wow!
Another interesting feature are the hundreds of garden spiders that build their little webs in all sorts of inconvenient places.....like doorways and pathways and in between trees and bushes and almost anywhere you would like to walk. Doug, Sarah and I are perpetually running into them then frantically asking..."Do I have a spider in my hair!!??" That's annoying...but those guys are not nearly as scary as the spiders who have set up home under the hottub gazebo. Those guys are Scary! One of them looks like he's been eating something more than bugs for dinner......I don't think we can allow him to live much longer! Seriously.
Aside from all that fun.....I finally finished school. As of July 18th I finished all the credits I need for my BA in Psychology. Now it's just a matter of formal paper work and I'll have my degree in hand! Yipppee! I'm taking 6 months off before I go back for my Masters'. Hopefully, I won't lose too much momentum!
(Oh, yeah, in the middle of all the craziness....buying a house, finishing up school, moving, and trying to sell our old house...we managed to squeeze a trip to Hawaii in. We took Sarah with us this time.....she loved it....)
I'll blog photos next time.
Meanwhile, Doug and I have bought a fabulous new house. It is not only bigger than our last house but much better, too. It's a split level that allows Mom to stay on one floor only. She was having a hard time with the stairs in our old house. It also allows us our own space for entertaining. (We've already started!) Best of all though is the incredible, incredible yard!! It was professionally landscaped for wedding photography by the previous owners.
Sooooo........ we've inherited 42 rose bushes of various styles and colors, eight or more hydrangeas also of various styles and colors, two kinds of honeysuckle (the hummingbirds love it), three clematis, numerous rodedendrons, four peonies, a butterfly bush and much much more. Some of the stuff I don't even know what it is. Oh, yeah, there is a wysteria....several Japanese maples, and other assorted trees,as well. The only drawback to all this beauty is the amount of work it takes to maintain it. Who knew it could take soooo looong to weed a garden! Wow!
Another interesting feature are the hundreds of garden spiders that build their little webs in all sorts of inconvenient places.....like doorways and pathways and in between trees and bushes and almost anywhere you would like to walk. Doug, Sarah and I are perpetually running into them then frantically asking..."Do I have a spider in my hair!!??" That's annoying...but those guys are not nearly as scary as the spiders who have set up home under the hottub gazebo. Those guys are Scary! One of them looks like he's been eating something more than bugs for dinner......I don't think we can allow him to live much longer! Seriously.
Aside from all that fun.....I finally finished school. As of July 18th I finished all the credits I need for my BA in Psychology. Now it's just a matter of formal paper work and I'll have my degree in hand! Yipppee! I'm taking 6 months off before I go back for my Masters'. Hopefully, I won't lose too much momentum!
(Oh, yeah, in the middle of all the craziness....buying a house, finishing up school, moving, and trying to sell our old house...we managed to squeeze a trip to Hawaii in. We took Sarah with us this time.....she loved it....)
I'll blog photos next time.
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