Spring's here!!

Today was a gorgeous day! It was around 80 and sunny. It was a little windy, but I can easily overlook that in exchange for the sun!! It was probably a curse to do so, but I washed some of the winter coats and hung them up in the closet, hopefully until fall. I didn't put my flowers out yet tho, just in case.

We had a baby shower today for my cousin and his wife's new little man, Lucas. He's a doll. He's so content, he just looks around at everyone, then sleeps. It was great to see everyone again and just hang out and talk over a tasty brunch.

Also... Happy Birthday to Nadyne!! We hope you had an awesome golden birthday today!! ;)

Later all!

Happy Easter!!

Happy Easter everyone! We hope everyone has a great Easter. Hope the Easter Bunny left everyone lots of Reese's Peanut Butter eggs ;)

Eat lots of candy today and have a great day!!

Same old story!

It's been a while since I've blogged. Nothing too eventful here lately. We are still waiting for spring. It is still snowing here just about every Monday- I'm beginning to think it's a conspiracy to ruin my day off :) The last 2 or 3 Mondays it has snowed quite a bit then it has all melted by the end of the day.

Saturday was a joyous, long-awaited day in the ol' V-household. While I was at work, Dan was able to get the truck's brakes fixed! He's been working on it occasionally since at least last fall. The truck has been, well, monkeyed with, and it's hard to tell sometimes what has replaced what since the truck was built 50-some years ago. But, hey, it stops now and that's important. He also got new rims for it. I'll have to post a pic of them at some point.

I am trying to convince him now that his next purchase should be power steering. Have you ever rode in a vehicle that doesn't have power steering?!? I hadn't. Let me sum it up for anyone who hasn't been unlucky enough to experience it for him or herself. Put a big cardboard box on top of a skateboard (don't secure it in any way, oh, yeah, and no seatbelts allowed- they apparently didn't put them in all vehicles at that time!) Now find the tallest hill you can find and climb it. Once at the top, get into the box and try to "drive" down the hill using a steering wheel that is attached to absolutely nothing. That's pretty much it. You have to fight the wheel to turn or go straight and it may or may not decide to follow your command. It's really a lot of work. I'm not sure how so many people survived in the 1950's if everyone's vehicles drove like that!!

Lightning is doing well. I recently learned that apparently some cats like bread. After his third offense of getting on top of the refrigerator and dragging the bread down, then eating it through the bag, we decided to start keeping the bread in the refrigerator. He's something. He keeps us on our toes!!

Hope everyone has a good night!