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Odds and Ends...Catching Up

By Melissa Markham on July 2, 2007 12:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

The last three days have been busy, though I am not absolutely sure of what I have been busy doing. I believe that the best blogs have at least one entry a day, but I don't always have something interesting to say. I don't want to bore people, but since ultimately, I have decided my blog is also a way to keep a journal for my family and me, I should from time to time write about what we have been up to.

One thing I have been working on is blogging...I found out about < a href ="http://www.sk-rt.com/index.php?category=AtHome">Sk*rt and I have spent some time the last few days reading posts there, posting links and trying to figure my way around. I like the posts there, but I also know that I can't keep spending hours browsing around there either. So now that my initial looking is done, I will try to curtail my browsing. I do like the fact that it is full of posts that are interesting to women. Helps me to sort through all of the information out there as when I get on the World Wide Web, I feel overwhelmed with information! It is nice to have a filter:)

Now If you don't want to hear what we have been up to the last couple of days, you can scurry on to some other post, but if you want to know more, you'll have to click the link below...

Let's see...on Friday we spent the day in the mountains. We belong to this awesome nature group that meets every other week. During nice weather, we meet in the great outdoors. When it gets colder, we have an awesome local resource that is run by Lynchburg College, called Claytor Nature Center. We can go there and do experiments (they let us use their microscopes even). We can go seining in the river (they have nets and wading boots), and there is much more! It is awesome! But right now we are meeting in the great outdoors.

So on Friday we met friends on Hercules Road in Amherst County. The kids played in the stream. They climbed about the rocks. The dug through the muck and found interesting creatures and the adults talked about what our next course of study would be. We started a bonfire and roasted hotdogs, marshmallows and made s'mores. We had a terrific time!

On Saturday the kids and I got up early (6) and went to some yard sales. We found lots of great things! I got a very nice rug to cover up the fact that our carpet in the den is getting a bit bare. I got a bread box for 1.00 (it looks new). I got an antique magazine rack for 5.00. I picked up several dresses for Katrina, a couple of shirts for Daniel, a couple of shirts and pair of pants for me, and a shirt and shoes for Jack. We got several books to help with our upcoming geology studies and the kids got several books for reading (10 cent each). And Katrina got a set of twin sheets for her bed with a matching pillow for 3.00! Jack got a Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone Board Game. All in all we spent about $30.00 Not bad for a morning's shopping and such a great haul!

We got home and Katrina headed to a friend's house to spend two nights. Jack enjoyed having the house to himself. We played in the pool some (which is finally the right chemical balance) and we watched a couple of movies.

Sunday we watched more movies. I was starting to miss Katrina Sunday afternoon, but she wasn't due to come home until Monday. She called at 7 in tears and wanted me to come visit. She missed her mom! I didn't want her to miss me like that, but of course, it also made me feel good. I went over for a bit (they only live about 10 mintues away) and then we decided that she would go with her friend's family to see fireworks before coming home. They would spend the night here. So about 11 they arrived, along with a dog...

Cindy, K.K.'s mom, told me the dog started following them when they turned onto our road. I have a neighbor with lots of dogs, so I assumed it was hers. The pooch was very friendly. Wanted to come inside and scratched at the door. He also chased my cats...so I decided to drive him home. He readily jumped in the car and I took him up the road...but he didn't belong there. I didn't know what to do. It was 11 pm...not a time to go knocking on people's doors. I couldn't take him home, I am not set up for a dog. Then I remembered another neighbor with a dog, so we went to that driveway and he took off toward the house...phew:) Problem solved!