Old Married Couple

Well, Sam and I have just spent another quiet evening together. It is so strange just being the two of us. Most days I come home put something on for supper and spend a little time working in the yard. We eat supper together at the table and talk about our respective days. When we have finished piddling around we sit in the living room and watch some TV. Very much the old married couple. I have just been amazed at how quickly we have adjusted to our "empty nest". I won't say that I don't miss Ansley...I do very much. But it is kinda fun being just the two of us. We talk more and have truly grown closer. Speaking of missing Ansley I will be in need of some major support when she goes to Ecuador. She will be gone almost the entire month of June. She is really looking forward to this semester being over and having a couple weeks to relax before she leaves. Brittany Stephens told her last week that she is not going to LSU next year. She has applied to Shorter for the summer and my understanding is that she is going to go to there next year and then transfer to a bigger school the year after. Ansley is so excited to have her close for a while. I look forward to seeing her more too.
Oh well Ansley just called and Sam asked, "Who is this?" He's being so mean...classic Sam.

And the beat goes on...

I finally finished the curtains for the dining room! I started them a year and a half ago : ( I am such a procrastinator. Keith put them up for me. It feels good to get that detail finished. I just talked to Lacie, she is having lots of fun hanging out and playing games with friends. She cooked supper for some of them last night and they played card games and stuff like that. She had interviews yeterday for a possible RA position. It looks like there are 62 applicants and 22 jobs. All 22 RA's from this year re-applied, and there were 40 additional applicants. So, we'll see.

Cody was playing basketball at New Armuchee yesterday and hurt himself. He went up for a lay-up and hit the wall with the right side of his face. It gave him quite a jolt, he was very sleepy, had a bloody nose, and headache for a while. But he never lost his memory or slurred his words, etc. I think he's gonna have a black eye from it, too. But other than that, he had a really good time. He's glad the graduation tests are finished, I'll be glad when the results are in : ) Right now he is playing some kind of racing game on X-box. His cost to the state from damages is >$111,000 and he has 26 police cars chasing him...not sure what the goal of this game is. Oh, he just showed me his score, it actually keeps up with how many police cars he rammed, how long the chase lasted...living vicariously through the X-Box.

Levi and Britt have some beautiful flowers beginning to bloom in their yard! Tulips and flowering bushes, and a tulip-tree. Their yard has puddles, it's such a low spot any way. Brittany finished the spare room as an office for Levi. It is so pretty! It has a very out-doorsy feel and he has his deer head and bass hanging on the walls. They went to the mountains last weekend and Keith and I "puppy-sat", the puppies, they are getting really big. I took them outside Sunday morning, I had my bathrobe on, and both puppies and Bonnie cold-nosed my legs! Yuck.

I thought of a way to store our pool-tools, chemicals, and toys without having to build a shed! We are going to build an "L" shaped bench on the back porch and the poles/tools will fit perfect in the long bench under the kitchen window and the toys/floats will fit in short end. So many ideas, so little money and time...

Well, I tried to load pictures of Cade's Cove but they wouldn't load for some reason.

Question

By the way what in the world are you doing up at 12:30 am on a work night? Can you not sleep? I myself usually have about 2 nights a week I participate in a stare-down with the ceiling. I put it down to "pre"menopause...or maybe its just Sam twitching his legs around.

Learning Process

Well my Otter friend you are determined to drag the three of us kicking and screaming into the technology age. So here we go. Blogging will definitely be a learning process for me. I think this will be a wonderful way to keep in touch with each other. Thought I would try to add a couple pictures of Sam and Ansley. So far this process seems pretty straight forward. I love the both of you and I look forward to this new way for us to keep up and share our lives with each other.

What is this???

Here we are in the Information Age with instant communication all around us. Cell phones, text messaging, "social networking" web pages all ready and available to communicate with anyone you could possible want to communicate with. An Otter's dream come true! So I tried MySpace...yuck. Next attempt at communication in the information age was on FaceBook...again~yuck. I tried a blog, but it didn't inspire me cause I was talking to myself...and me and I. And we can be really boring when we are not with our friends : ). So....I looked into the blogging thing again from a different angel and found out that we (that's you two, Lucy and Ethel) can have a blog with multiple authors.

What I am trying to accomplish is to find a way we can share what is on our mind, be it deep contemplation or slap-stick comedy, with each other when it is convenient. I get so lonely for friendly communication, but hate the phone, can't text, and we all work 40+ hours a week, and have immediate and extended family obligations. So when do we have time to connect with each other? A blog will allow us to write things as posts when it is convenient for us, and the others can read it and send comments back at their convenience. With this blog we can write notes, share stories, lift each other up...it can be anything we want it to be. It can be public or private, our choice, we just make the changes. And it can have up to 100 authors so we could invite others to join us if we wanted to.

What do you guys think? Does this sound like something you would like to try? It could be like our own private "FaceBook". The way this one is set up, the three of us can all post on the same blog, so you won't have to start your own. Let me know what you think. Love ya!

A Place for Us!

This blog is dedicated to my friends, Andie and Deneta. We have shared so many moments in the last 20 or so years. We have cried together, fussed together and laughed till we were out of breath. Thankfully the laughter has WAY outweighed the crying! I hope this blogspot is a place we can all post to, whether it is pictures, thoughts, devotions, jokes, whatever is on our mind! We are all three venturing into some unchartered territory in our lives and, praise Jesus, we won't be going alone. I love you girls! I hope we can include others from our circles of friends to post here as well. I don't know if this will work, but i think it will. Love you girls!