Happy Halloween!

The Otter just got home from trick or treating with her friend. She said she enjoyed her last time to go out, but her feet hurt and she was glad to be home. Took forever & lots of cold cream to get her vampire make up off! She got lots of chocolate, we will work out a deal where I buy it from her tomorrow. We have had several kids, but not the number we usually have so we will have left over candy as well.

One of the parakeets is sick, it is probably not going to make it. We don't know what is wrong with it, we are keeping a close eye on it and also on the other one.

It's in the 40's tonight!

Yard Work

Today we took down the 2 flower beds in the back yard. One was up next to the house and ran the entire length of the house, the other one was the old tulip bed and wasn't too big. We have a big problem with moles & gophers, since the dogs are always trying to dig them up I can't keep the pooches out of the flower beds. The last mole they got was caught in the flower bed in fact. So we decided to move the beds to the front yard, the tulip bed will be on the side of the garage. So we had to dig up all the wooden edges and then drag all the wood to the woodpile. It was old fence rail and was very heavy. I'm also going to extend my rock garden about a foot since it was bordering the flower bed next to the house. Otter has a small rock garden but I think she wants to combine hers with mine, since hers in in a corner by the fence and the wind always blows leaves into it. She has several concrete animals that I've painted for her, they are in her rock garden at the moment.

William's stitches were removed today. His finger is healing fine. While the nurse was removing the stitches, a man came in the door to get stitches in his finger from where he caught it on a saw blade! What is it with men and power tools? Genetics maybe? Or just clumsiness but they don't want to admit it!

Email addresses

We have had some problems with the new email, I think we've gotten all the bugs worked out but if you sent me an email and wanted an answer then you might want to resend it, if you sent it Tuesday through about Friday. I think we're now getting all emails sent to us but I know I missed a few in there!

Sock Monkeys

If you are bored one day, do a search on eBay for sock monkeys. They are very big sellers right now!

We are finally through with the internet/email/dish tv switch. I think we have all the bugs out of the email, but I'm not positive. We had a problem with the virus check program we had, it was stopping all emails going out and some of the incoming ones - but none of them had virus problems.

The Otter has had a sore throat since the choir concert Tuesday, it's still there so I don't think it's strained from singing anymore. Also some of the kids in choir have bronchitis apparently, so we are hoping that she's just got something mild. Because brochitis always means an asthma spell is on the horizon! Flu shots have been postponed now, although we only have about another week that they will be available so we might miss them this year. They didn't keep us from getting the flu last year anyway!

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes!

New email address take effect today! We will email everyone with the changes, but if you attempt to email us at the old address we might still be able to get it but probably not past today.

Choir concert at school last night, I took a few pictures and will email them out. It was great!

School pictures came today, for once the Otter is smiling! She smiles all the time, except when the school photographer is there. But this year she smiled so we're happy. I'll send pictures out in the next few days.

Sunday Frustrations

Bill managed to saw the pieces he needed without dismembering himself! However, it was nerve wracking!

The dish was supposed to be installed today. The company called about rescheduling it because the installer hurt himself on the job right before ours. I'm wondering if Bill's contagious? He didn't get hurt today but somebody else did! The dish is rescheduled for Tuesday afternoon.

Flu shots on Friday!

Cable & Internet Woes

We will be changing cable & internet providers in a few days. The cable has been out more than it's been working, and that makes it really hard with eBay! So when it went out again yesterday, after I called to get it fixed I called and arranged internet service with my phone company and they also offer satelite tv service so we ordered that too. The dish will be installed on Sunday, the internet will be sometime next week and I will email everyone with the new email addresses!

Otter is just happy we'll have the dish because we'll have the History Channel - what can I say, she's her parent's daughter!

Otter's Turn!

Thursday, Oct. 19th

Otter's turn: Ever hear about that old remedy for a sore throat? Its "Gargle warm salt water" That is absolutely a load of CRUD and I know it. Here's what happened: I had a bad sore throat a few years ago, and Dad said "Gargle warm salt water-it works!" So mom got a cup of hot water, and started dumping salt in it. She kept putting more in until the water was cloudy. I then tried to gargle it but there was one little problem. You know what happens when you eat a lot of salty foods? Your tongue goes numb. That's just about what happened. The hot water didn't help. All this did, was make me want to barf, and have an awful taste in my mouth for a few hours. I couldn't even gargle it, because when you gargle stuff, if you do it right, it goes to the back of your throat. If it tastes bad, the gag reflexs starts up. That's about what happened. So, In short, that's another thing that started out with good intentions, but has turned into rubbish.

Ottermom's disclaimer: Comments and opinions by the Otter do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the management!

Oct. 18 Update!

Watch this space for Otter's comments. Otter is the nickname for the redheaded kid that runs around my house, she wants to make the occasional comment here.

I think I now have it set so that you can leave a comment without having to be a member or sign up. If it doesn't work, email me the old fashioned way! Oh, before I forget - we might be changing internet providers in the near future and that will mean new email addresses. I'll let everyone know if/when that happens.

In the meantime, I am nearly through with eBay! We're going to take a break from it for a while. Although Bill is going to an auction with Don on Friday, hopefully he won't buy a whole bunch of junk this time. The eBay break probably won't be permanent, although I'd kind of like it to be. Except for shopping!

Tuesday's adventures in Bill Land

Bill's latest accomplishment: trying to drill through his index finger! We just spent about 2 hours in the emergency room, he has 11 stitches in 3 layers. He was not a happy camper, especially when he had to get numbing shots in the two slashes in his finger. The thing is, we bought him a drill press so that the drill would be safe to use. Obviously, it wasn't! Pilot error probably had a lot to do with this. He goes back in 2 weeks or thereabouts to get the stitches out - I already told him that he is not allowed to remove his own stitches. I'm considering banning him from ever using power tools again! There is a reason I call him my other child.

Today's Ramblings

Warning! I am not politically correct! I have varied interests, so expect this to not be the same thing twice in a row. Or to be updated every day, I'll get around to it eventually.