Good Monday Morning

+++ My Simple Daybook is updated!

It's a beautiful day... it's overcast and we might get rain :-) There was a 40% chance yesterday but we didn't see any, I'm hoping today is the day.

We had a fun filled weekend doing nothing in particular. I didn't mention in my last post on Saturday that I had gotten up that morning at 6.45am and went out looking for yard sales! I just felt in the mood for doing it for some reason. Actually the reason was probably because I had taken a box of stuff to Goodwill the day before and ended up browsing around in there, coming home with a couple of baskets and pillows, (the pillows being the inserts for the ones I showed you in my last post, that I made). Well the yard sales were pretty disappointing really. To be honest I think they are better in the Fall, I mean who wants to be in their garage clearing out stuff and organizing stuff when it's 100 degrees. Usually when the weather starts cooling down is when people feel more like doing that. So perhaps I'll hold off another month or so then start going out again in the Fall.

Jason was over at our neighbor's yard (Cheryl's Dad's) for most of Saturday afternoon, sort of helping him dig posts. I say 'sort of' cos he was sitting there having a beer for the most part. But look, he did help - I have the evidence to prove it . . . ha ha!

While he was over there and Kristen was playing on the Xbox, I got on and made the pillows. I still need to make 2 more curtains, but I keep putting off! Later in the day I popped over to chat with my neighbor Cheryl.

Yesterday Kristen and I went to church, and Jason packed his bag to head off to Denver for the week. When we came home he'd already left for the airport. He'll be gone til Friday. It's going to be a quiet week for us but that's ok. We are still enjoying the relaxing mood of this long hot summer. It's 10am as I type this, and Kristen only just woke up! And yet other mornings she's up before me at 7am. It's going to be hard getting back in to an early bedtime routine when school starts, but we won't worry about that right now.

Also this weekend, I played around on the computer alot. You'll notice my blog is now 3 columns (or perhaps you won't!) and I have made little links to my other blogs on the left hand side. I have created a NEW blog for our 'Farming' news. Lest I bore you with the same ole talk about what we're growing every day I decided to keep our farm news in one blog and just update once or twice a week.

I'll let you know here when I've done that so you can pop over and read it if you want. I did opt not to do this a few weeks ago, thinking it was easier just to keep all the news in one blog, mainly this one, but I don't want my posts to become too long. Posting about the garden, then other stuff that we are doing might just create huge long posts so I'm trying to avoid that. Same goes with the cooking blog. When I make something I'll post it there. The knitting blog is not updated much at all these days because I'm not knitting much. That might change in the Fall when it gets cooler and I have Christmas gifts in mind!

One other thing I've added is a couple of new buttons for 'memes'. I've never really joined in with these before, but now that I post more often I thought it would be nice to follow along with a couple so I don't' run out of ideas about what to post. On Tuesday there is 'Tempt my Tummy Tuesday'. You'd think this post would be on my cooking blog, but I'm going to use that blog for more in depth recipes with pictures. The tempt my tummy post might just be a picture of something I made quickly that we enjoyed, kinda like the acorn squash I baked. No recipe, but they were yummy and it was nice to show the picture.

On Thursday it's 'Mom is missing' day, where you have to post a picture of yourself. So often we mom's find ourselves behind the camera and are never seen. I don't know if I'll keep up with this for 52 weeks but I'll try my best.

This post is now getting seriously long, so I will end it here and wish you all a happy Monday.