Grandma & Grandpa's House

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This house has a lot of meaning to me. When I was growing up we would go to my Grandparent's house almost every Sunday. My Grandfather had mini bikes, antique cars, an antique shop and all kinds of interesting stuff. Some of my best memories from childhood are of this place. It looks a lot different now. The swimming pool is gone, the orchard is not kept up or non-existent and the big pine tree in front is long gone, but the memories of all that come through when I look at these pictures.

This house seemed so big to me when I was little. It may not really be big, but it is huge in my mind and in my heart!

I hope I can be the grandparent that my grandparents were to me! :) RIP Viola Shores-Kennedy and Denton Shores, your memories live on!

Love Life

This really inspired me. I want to share it with the world because it is so powerful. It is really long but worth watching every minute of it. I am sure many have seen it before but I hadn't.

Enjoy!




UPDATE: July 25, 2008 Randy Pausch died from his cancer. RIP and thank you for your inspiration. You made this world a better place.

Cocoa Beach, Florida - Space Shuttle Launch

My daughter went to Cocoa Beach, her first trip without parental units. Weird for me, but fun for her! She made it there and back safely with her best friend. Here is a movie she took of the Space Shuttle launch at 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 12, 2008. Her friend is talking, she is so DRAMATIC!! Enjoy!

Destination Destin!!

Well, we made it to Destin. We stopped by and visited Chel on our way. It sure is nice here. Here is a video. Just ignore the strange whispering I did at the end!! I don't know why I felt I needed to whisper like that~!!??`~~!!. Oh well, enjoy!LOL It is supposed to be nice like this again tomorrow too!

Santa Monica, California

Over Christmas, instead of stressing out, my daughter and I went to California. It was so much fun. This was a weird Christmas because all the offspring are grown adults now. Such fun and here is a little clip of our adventures. This was in Santa Monica, I just can't get away from animals that love balls. If you know me, you will know about BANDIT and his love of balls!

Enjoy!

Swiffer

Okay, now I love Swiffer. I have to say that I came from the "olden" days when mops were messy and moldy! Swiffer is a great idea! I love it, bought it, used it. There is just one problem and that is the engineering of this device to make the consumer have to go and buy it AGAIN! That drives me insane.

As you can see (somewhat) from the pictures, my Swiffer broke in a perfect little chip that made it impossible to use. So, thinking I must just be really hard on the equipment, I went out and bought another one. Well, guess what happened to the next one too!

Thank goodness the hubby is amazing at fixing things because he clamped the second one before the little plastic square (exactly the same as the first) broke off! As you can see the clamp works great.

I would love to hear if anyone else has had this problem with this design. I bought another one for my daughter recently, and she said that it is made so that it is all one metal shaft now and wouldn't break like that.

My question, how many people loved the darn thing and had to go out and buy another, just increasing the profits of a company that made a poor design. Does that mean they KNEW it would do that? Does that mean they learned it would do that?

Swiffer reps, where are you?

Thanks and that is all. Please let me know your experiences with this product. I still love it, just hate that it was easily broken!!

Happy November

Well, it is November now. Amazing how fast the days and weeks pass by.