Unreal!

And I missed it!!  I'm so sad...glad I got to see my nieces, but seriously!  This crazy!

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=11438998&ex_cid=sportscenterFB

Yuck!

Working off and on from home today after just a couple hours in the office.  Managed to acquire some upper respiratory garbage yesterday on my way home from Colorado.  So I decided it was better to feel like crap at home than in the office where I might just make everyone around me sick.  I stopped in the little clinic we now have onsite and the nurse practitioner (or whatever she is) suggested trying over the counter measures for now and if I'm still ill next week, she'll prescribe something.  Uh...okay.  So my gunky nose and throat came home with me.  And then I logged into work.  Not exactly the resting I was told several times I'm supposed to be doing.  But I did take an approximately 30-minute nap.  Doesn't that count for something?
And as I lie here on the sofa between asleep, watching the news, logging back into work, I keep thinking of all the things around the house and outside that need to be done.  I have zero time and even less energy.  Working 60+ hours a week is doing me no favors...except for the money to order a new battery for the lawnmower.
I need another nap.

... And I miss my dog.  He's at the farm with my parents while I was traveling.  It's strange to be in the house without him.

Something to listen to...

It's a YouTube "video" but it's about listening, not watching.  It isn't our best version, but it's the only recording we had and it still gives me goosebumps at the end.

Eric, Sarah, and Corrine...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhnVVUd0Jqw

TV Flashback Thanks to a Commercial

This was great!!  They don't make 'em like this anymore.  :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XonxZvXEPE

Getting Ready

Unbelievably, the annual post Independence Day, post Corrine's b-day, movies on the barn party is only one week away.  We are already in preparation mode as Mom as begun food preparation, I'm gathering "materials" and thinking ahead to the theme, games, and et cetera.  This should be really fun.  And, it's getting here really fast!

A little hard work...

Even when I'm not at work, I end up working...just a very different kind - hard labor.  Mom came to visit and we worked hard the whole time she was here.  What were we doing, you ask?  A lot, and it wasn't easy.

First we begin cleanup.

Before Picture

 

Raking, weed pulling, leaf collecting.

Out with the old "dirt" and in with the new.

Grandma Geu's irises have finally been planted.

 

Hens and chicks have been planted.

Trimming the chicken wire...in the rain.

 

It was a dirty job...

...but someone had to do it.

Our work here is done...ish.

Come next year there should be all sorts of irises blooming.  Meanwhile, I have a few thin areas to fill in with the river rock.  Then this will truly be done.  Thanks to my mom for all her help!  It never would have happened without her.  Can't wait to see how things grow next Spring!

I laughed so hard I cried!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPfZ78m3xZo

Seriously!  Laughed so hard it hurt!  Still laughing!