it is such a grand feeling to find a cashmere sweater originally selling for $100.00, marked down 90% off to $10.00, with an additional 25% taken off at register and then ... you use your 30% coupon and voila! ... you are almost being paid to take the thing home. so of course you must by three! spent $67.00 with total savings of $470.00. not too bad.
ah the joy of clearance sales! now, what else do i not need but will buy because it is just such a good deal? anybody need a sweater?
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
president's day weekend
time to start the taxes! i'm not quite sure why i traditionally start taxes on this weekend. perhaps it is the patriotic thing to do. nah. maybe it's cause there's not much else to do on a dark and dreary three day weekend in the middle of february. then again, i just might feel the need to start them now because it give me 2 months to procrastinate while somehow feeling a bit better because i at least started. this year really should not be hard due to the fact of the very slow economy and lack of income. ( i don't have to be as creative with my write offs ... . :) ... just kidding! ) on the other hand i have three people to do taxes for, so...maybe that's why i put if off more and more. sigh . . . guess i better go find where i put the turbo tax i bought. hmmm.
Friday, February 4, 2011
it was a dark and stormy night ....
and the wind blew .....
in contemplating the writing of this post i realize how many quotes, songs, poems, stories, etc are based upon the wind. "the wayward wind", "dust in the wind", "wind beneath my wings", "wind in the willows", "winds of war", "the wind walker", and of course "gone with the wind". and that is exactly what happened to two of our large pine trees out back. they went with the wind! saddness.
i suppose it was the fact that we had warmer weather last week. all the snow melted and the hard frozen ground was mushy and soft. add to that 63 mph winds coming out of the canyon and the poor shallow rooted giant trees didn't stand a chance. one fell completely over onto halliday's driveway. luckily the boat has been stored for the winter! the other was leaning heavily to the left and had to come down as well. linda bailey first called with the sad news, as she noticed the fallen timber while dropping amanda off from school, and was planning on sending kirt and mckay over to help clean it up. (note: kirt just had knee replacement surgery!). fortunately reedo and gary humphries came to the rescue.
chain saw in hand they played "paul bunyan" chopped the trees up, loaded them into the back of the truck and hauled them off to the dump. what good guys they are!
this is what is left of the stump of the first tree.
it took several "dump" trips to take it all. unfortunately i didn't get pictures of the lumberjacks. but they were cute. they look a little like this, minus "babe the blue ox".
i now have a very bare, open space and am feeling a bit exposed. thankfully spring is just around the corner. i shall now surf the web and go on "outings" with mom in search of the perfect "hedge" type replacement tree or shrubs. perhaps concentrating on a plant that will have a deeper root system. hmmm.. the need for deep roots....now that's provides enough contemplation for a blog post all its own.
in contemplating the writing of this post i realize how many quotes, songs, poems, stories, etc are based upon the wind. "the wayward wind", "dust in the wind", "wind beneath my wings", "wind in the willows", "winds of war", "the wind walker", and of course "gone with the wind". and that is exactly what happened to two of our large pine trees out back. they went with the wind! saddness.
i suppose it was the fact that we had warmer weather last week. all the snow melted and the hard frozen ground was mushy and soft. add to that 63 mph winds coming out of the canyon and the poor shallow rooted giant trees didn't stand a chance. one fell completely over onto halliday's driveway. luckily the boat has been stored for the winter! the other was leaning heavily to the left and had to come down as well. linda bailey first called with the sad news, as she noticed the fallen timber while dropping amanda off from school, and was planning on sending kirt and mckay over to help clean it up. (note: kirt just had knee replacement surgery!). fortunately reedo and gary humphries came to the rescue.
chain saw in hand they played "paul bunyan" chopped the trees up, loaded them into the back of the truck and hauled them off to the dump. what good guys they are!
this is what is left of the stump of the first tree.
it took several "dump" trips to take it all. unfortunately i didn't get pictures of the lumberjacks. but they were cute. they look a little like this, minus "babe the blue ox".
i now have a very bare, open space and am feeling a bit exposed. thankfully spring is just around the corner. i shall now surf the web and go on "outings" with mom in search of the perfect "hedge" type replacement tree or shrubs. perhaps concentrating on a plant that will have a deeper root system. hmmm.. the need for deep roots....now that's provides enough contemplation for a blog post all its own.
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