I just received an email from a cousin that lives in a very rural area of Australia.  I was so surprised to get an email from her!  The last I’d heard from her was by US Mail, and she complained that she lived in such a rural area that she could not get Internet Access!  That news alone was a big shock to me because I’ve had Internet access for such a long time; it seemed to me that she would have had Internet access for a while now too!

Posted: June 18th, 2009 under Business, Computers / Software, Entertainment/Fun, Family, Internet, Life, Online, Shopping, Technology.
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This past weekend we went to a fair. As part of the fair, they had vendors selling their wares. That’s my favorite part of going to a fair; going to all of the vendors booths and seeing what kinds of cool things they are selling.

I especially like the handmade articles of clothing, the leather belts and purses and wallets and such. I also really like hand made jewelry, and decorated articles of clothing.

I went to one booth where a lady was selling things that she had painted by hand. I fell in love with a hand-painted T-shirt that she was selling, so I bought it. The hummingbird is glittery, which I think is really cool!

I’m including a picture of it to show to you. I hope you like it too! I really love it! She only had the one in my size; if she had a second one I would have bought it too, so that when this one wore out I would have another one to wear!

Posted: May 17th, 2009 under Entertainment/Fun, Family, Life, Shopping.
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Yesterday was Mother’s Day.  It was such a nice day; my hubby made sure that I didn’t have to lift a finger doing anything other than entertain the baby from time to time.  He even did diaper duty!  I got to putter around in my flower garden (which is something I love to do!) planting the new pansies that he bought me as a Mother’s Day gift.  He also bought me some new Daylilies which are supposed to rebloom, and I got to plant them, too!  He cooked a nice crock-pot chicken for supper, and we had home made bread.  We had his mother join us for dinner, which was very nice too.  Yes, it was a good day.

Posted: May 11th, 2009 under Entertainment/Fun, Family, Home and Garden, Life, Parenting.
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I’ve always been amazed at how many people in this area love to play bingo!  It seems that there are several clubs and organizations that hold bingo games every week to raise money for their club, or for charity.  I haven’t played bingo in years, but my mother-in-law loves to go out every Thursday night to the Knights of Columbus hall for her Bingo night. 

I guess it comes as no surprise that bingo is also a game widely played on the Internet.  I was recently reading an interesting article about bingo on the gameon bingo website. The story was about a bingo scam that was discovered in Sunderland, where it is alleged that the caller fixed the game so that his girlfriend could win the big prize. It seems that the girlfriend was also an employee of the organization that was holding the game.  I was really surprised because I would have thought that employees would not be allowed to play the game!  I guess I’m just naive that way.

Posted: May 6th, 2009 under Entertainment/Fun, Family, Finances/Money, Internet, Online.
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DH is busy out in the garage working on the car and it doesn’t sound like he’s going to be through any time soon. Guess I’ll pop a movie in the DVD player to keep me company while I sort through the mail and pay bills.

We have the Indiana Jones collection and I haven’t watched any of those for YEARS, so it sounds like a fun way to pass time and get my paperwork chores done at the same time!

I’m glad DH is handy with the cars. He does a lot of the maintenance on all our vehicles and saves us a ton of money by not having to take it to a garage and pay those kinds of prices. Plus, I think he enjoys working with the tools and getting his hands dirty!

Posted: April 23rd, 2009 under Entertainment/Fun, Family, Life.
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