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05/12/2005 Archived Entry: "thursday talk"

We did more work in the back yard today. One thing we accomplished was emptying Tabitha's sand box. Because of the alternating rain and heat waves, the sand had a greenish tint due to algae growth. So there I sat, with my little sand box shovel putting the sand into a little bucket one scoop at a time. Chris decided to go the more effective route and used the regular shovel and filled a big bucket. Working together, we emptied it pretty quickly and then just tipped it over to get rid of the rest and swept that up. Actually, we did all that yesterday. Today we put the sand box back after it finished drying out from the hosing down we gave it yesterday. Chris also took out a weed, we were calling it a thistle, that went from a small annoyance to taller than Tabitha in about a week's time. Of course it was thorny and I had to remove a few from him despite the fact that he was wearing gloves. Weeds are the bane of my existence this year to the aforemention rain and heat. My lawn has never had weeds and now they are all over it. They are impossible to dig up too. Right now I just mow over them, but that's too temporary so we're going to get some Rid to spot kill. I also did a bit of trimming of my rhododendrons and my rose bush. That I trimmed way back, even though it's a little late to be doing it. But it's constantly in bloom so it doesn't seem to matter when it gets trimmed down. Now, if I was only as good at getting things to grow as I am at trimming stuff back.

After dinner tonight, which was spaghetti and "meat" balls, we decided to walk to Baskin-Robbins for ice cream. Daisy likes sitting up in her stroller, but it's like the movie Speed, if you're moving, all is good, but slow down to less than 3 mph and watch out!

Right now we've got both kids in bed, but neither is asleep. The difference is the little one is actually trying to go to sleep and the big one is doing her darnedest to ensure that she doesn't fall asleep. In a minute, Chris and I are going to check out my new phone online. I still have a pretty old Nokia that was the one T-Mobile gave me about 3 years ago or so. It's so old, that I can't even download ringtones for it anymore because they don't make them. What can I say? I don't like change. Lately it's not working real well though in that it won't receive or send calls half the time. So, Chris called T-Mobile today and they are sending me a new one. Now I have to go to the trouble of getting a new Disney case (I currently have Peter Pan), new wallpaper and ringtones. Annoying. I'm sure I'll feel differently in a week when I see how cool the new phone is, but for now, I'm going to get my last games of snake in.