My neighbor is coming to save the day. I cook for him, and since my husband works third shift, our neighbor take care of things if need be. To be honest, I guess I wasn’t thinking clearly due to really not feeling well and I didn’t remember my friend and neighbor Larry is a handy man and jack of all trades, not to mention a farmer.

I had to go to the little store/gas station here and told one of my friends what was going on. He said he didn’t know anything about furnaces, but offered propane for the heater we have. I really don’t like using it, as they scare me, so I thanked him anyway and came home. I wasn’t in the door ten minutes and my neighbor Larry called to tell me he was coming down. The mutual friend of our that I talked to at the store apparently called Larry and told him what was going on here. We are fortunate living here and having good friends and neighbors.

Down in the basement I have an antique work bench I usually sort my garden seeds for Mom’s yards and also my woodworking hobbies. The cool thing about this workbench is I discovered even secret drawers in side of drawers. I’ve often wondered what kind of secrets were hidden in them.

My daughter and I like to help Mom around the house. She is getting up there in age and really appreciates the help. The great thing is, she is an awesome cook and cooks all kinds of great Hungarian food for us, along with her twists on other wonderful foods. Yep, I’m looking forward to going home.

I have directv at home and I’ve been watching a lot of home improvement shows. I love that there are so many great programs on décor and redoing the backyard and everything like that because I’ve got this new house and I really want it to look good. Since I moved here I’ve been all about making this home somewhere I can be proud of, it is my first house afterall! I am so thankful the down real estate market has finally afforded me the possibility to buy a home that I can call my own. I love being a homeowner and though it’s a lot of responsibility I am really proud of myself for already making this place so great on the inside and I’m planning on having a housewarming party relatively soon to show off my work. My friends are impressed because I’m the first one of us to buy a home and you know, that feels good. It makes me feel like I’m happy I’ve done this well for myself by this young age.

Like her father, she is left handed. I didn’t know that there are scholarships and financial aid for left handed students. Her counselor at school never told us this. Maybe she doesn’t know, but one would think that a counselor would know about various scholarships and about financial aid, as we were told this was part of her job. There is however a seminar that my husband and I are going to attend that will give us a lot more information than the counselor has been.

Right now my daughter is not only going to school during the day, but also she has night school three times a week, so her grades improve. Perhaps she can get a scholarship but we will still be needing to look into more financial aid information for her. With the economic times like they are, we are going to need a lot of help. My husband has a good job, but my medical bills just keep piling up and it seems that getting ahead is going to take more time, if we even can.

I’ve gotten a replacement, but I don’t really like it. Still, it will have to do until at least Spring. The ground is too frozen now to put in another post.

I wish people would drive more carefully down this road, and slow their speed down to what it is supposed to me on this road also. This keeps costing me money and I can’t move our mail box any further from the road.

I didn’t know you can actually join a seed exchange program and you exchange seeds with other gardeners. I thought this was a really cool idea.

There were a lot of websites given in the magazine, so when I have time I’m going to check them out. I might be able to find some seeds I want to plant that are rare or heirloom plantables.

I turned on the porch light and saw that it had started to snow sometime while I as asleep. Then, I saw my mail box. Someone had just hit it, and totally demolished the poor thing. They never stopped either.

From the looks of the way they took down my mail box, I’m pretty sure their car is in pretty bad shape. The mail box was mounted on a solid post, that was about two and a half feet into the ground. I could see the skid marks in the snow, and I give them credit for at least trying to stop, but they could have at least come to the door to tell me that they had hit the darn thing. I did have lights on, as I fell asleep reading and it was only about 10:00 pm. Now I need to get a new mail box.

He has commented at times that he would love some steel storage cabinets to put his valuable tools in, even though he has some really nice tool chests. They are jam packed though, and he does indeed need more room to store things. The garage is his domain, but I think it would be so much easier for him to work in there if there were some kind of organization.

Garage cabinets are exactly, in my opinion what he needs. I think he is a hoarder when it comes to his garage, but I’m not going to tell him that, since it IS  his garage. He doesn’t tell me what to do with my kitchen. I think if I bought these for him though, he would like a gift like that.