Murphy trip

Scott and I have come out to Murphy, NC to visit with my Mom and Ray.  This is the same house we rented last year, so the pictures may see familiar.

We had a good trip out here.  We had to pull over for Scott to make a conference call, but it didn’t really take too much time.

Scott wiped my netbook while here because my Verizon wireless access thingy wouldn’t work any more.  He did a system restore and then had to reinstall all my programs.  It took about 8 hours for him to get it all done.  Fortunately, the usb thingy recognized that it was installed and now works.  I was a very happy camper, to say the least. 

I bought the new lens for our Nikon D5000.  Scott and I have had a blast with it.  It handles distance photos very well.  We took over 430 pictures, so it was challenging to weed them down to 15 for everyone to see. 

Scott has a couple of conference calls tomorrow morning and then we will go ahead and head home.  It is so nice to be able to have such great scenery.

Next weekend, we are going back to Dad’s place.  I am looking forward to getting some great pictures with our new lens.  The ocean is my favorite place in the world! 

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September9.2010

I’m down here in Florida with Mom and Ray.  Mom was supposed to have knee surgery on Wednesday morning, but Tuesday 40 minutes before her pre-op appointment they called to cancel the surgery because of a personal emergency with the surgeon.  They are also sending her to another surgeon, so who knows when the surgery will end up being.  She has an appointment with the other surgeon next Tuesday, so she will be hopefully told then when her surgery will be.

I am taking the train home tomorrow night and will arrive in Raleigh on Saturday morning.  I only have taken a few pictures while here this time.  I had a couple from home that I’ve gone ahead and included in this posting. I snuck out this morning to try to get some ducks that were sleeping under the weeping willow tree, but they noticed me and went running to the pond and were gone before I could get the shot.  When you see these awesome pictures of birds in flight, etc.  it was a miracle that the picture was taken! 

I’m pretty sure I have figured out everything that I’m allergic to.  The dermatologist gave me a cream to clear up my eczema and now my skin is healed up.  It tends to turn purple here and there, but it is amazing to see my skin not totally raw.  I’ve been able to keep away from all the offending foods while here, which is nice. 

I’m not one to speak out on much, but the pastor burning the Koran is not right.  Burning anyone’s holy book is just wrong! 

 

 

 

 

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Pantliner assembly

After Scott was laid off from Nortel Networks, he got hired by another company and took a $35,000 cut in pay.  This kind of hurt our budget, to say the least.  I started looking for ways to save money and I came across the idea of making cloth pantiliners.  I got a pattern from some lady who was making them.  I didn’t like the way she put them together, so I took her pattern and made it do what I wanted it to do.  I took pictures of each step and have the link posted at the bottom of this blog.  Taking the pictures made this one take a little longer than the 20 minutes it usually takes to put them together.  I’ve made a bunch for myself and have started making them for my girls.  I also started making cotton hankies, but they aren’t interesting enough to take pictures of each step, so I won’t bore you with that.

I’m doing better with the thyroid medicine.  I quit caffeine a little over a week ago and that has been another adjustment in my life.  I am used to feeling all this pressure to get things done and now I don’t have that.  I am going to have to learn how to keep myself going without a drug!  It is nice not feeling stressed and jittery, so I tell myself that every time I want a caffeinated drink.

I’ll be heading to Florida on Monday.  My mom is having knee surgery and I’m going down to be a help for that.  It will be nice to see her and Ray again. 

A hurricane (Earl) is heading to North Carolina but it seems like it is going to keep to the coast, so we should be okay here in Raleigh.  We could use some rain from the outskirts of it though. 

My eczema is doing better.  Last week it about tripled in size, so I got fed up with it and called the dermatologist.  She gave me a prescription cream that wasn’t as strong because the other bothered me so badly.  It is working nicely.  I no longer have raw skin everywhere, but it is all purple now and hopefully that will go away soon.  If you’ve never had severe itching, you don’t know what you are missing.  I don’t recommend trying it though!

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September1.2010

I tried to write a blog the other day and it sounded like I was complaining, so I deleted it.  I’ve got two pictures for you, from my little canon.  One is from a ladies luncheon we had at the end of our summer bible study.  Elijah was being held by a friend, Lorrie Taylor, so his babysitter (Coreen Gray) could eat some of her food.  He was very tired and he gets giggly when he’s tired.  Mine would usually just get cranky!  I pulled out my camera which I now take everywhere with me.  You never know when a Kodak moment will occur!

The other is of Bear and Chloe sitting with me on the deck.  If they aren’t off chasing squirrels, they are laying down somewhere near me.  I was hoping a bird would land at the feeder right next to me so I could get a good picture, but that didn’t happen so I took a picture of the dogs!

 

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