Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Blogger issues

Ok for the last month or two whenever I came to my blog it was show for a second and flash away to a widget server screen.

So maddening. I found this article but don't know if I have done this correctly or not...


https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/blogger/7u2HMWP9PDc/XD7vBZ5kCgAJ


I guess it worked if you can see the blog/me? Can you see me? Anyone out there?

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Wow my blog was blocked for weeks!

Some sort of pop up kept coming up and not letting me log in to my blog! It was very maddening.

I found the answer here:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/blogger/7u2HMWP9PDc/XD7vBZ5kCgAJ

but couldn't figure out how to implement it.

I guess it worked itself out as I was finally able to log on today.


Life is good.

Real estate has been very busy for me this year! I have had several listings and have been working with buyers as well. I hope to have my best year ever.


Jamie just started at a new school. They use the Waldorf philisophy of teaching. They teach to the head, the hands and the heart.

She is learning an instrument called a Melodica, (Pictured)


she is learning to surf and to speakSpanish and likes going to school again.

My husband is obsessed with Gator Football and also teaches high school so we don't see alot of him until mid December.

And the storm Michael didn't come near us, so we have power!
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Woo Hoo for power - gotta have my AC for comfort down here in the Sunshine state. It's still in the 90s here.

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Litter Pickup

I am a full time Realtor and Mom to 12 yr old Jamie and a wife to Mike who teaches High School History and loves the Gators. That means my Autumns are very busy. Mike is all Gator all the time pretty much all weekend. And now Jamie is going to games with him. So that means I am alone on the weekends to get things done.

My house is too messy and not as clean as it should be.

So is my car.

I feed a colony of kitties once a week (There are several of us doing this from my church).

I am on the board of our neighborhood and currently serve as secretary.

So not enough on my plate? I got involved in picking up litter in our neighborhood every first Saturday of the month. I drag my daughter and husband with me as I think we all should give back to our community.

When ever I think of giving something up I just can't.

But no more! I have been saying 'No' a lot to extra requests from my church for involvement. And I don't feel bad about it.

After all we only have 6 more summers....


Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Starry Nights' House


I love interesting Houses and buildings. This house in Mt Dora Florida had an unattractive cement wall in front and owners decided to paint it in Van Gogh 'Starry Night' style. Then it looked so good they painted the house to match. They have an autistic grown son and have found it safer for him to know where he lives. Everyone in that town know where 'The Starry House' is.


City govenment fined them and tried to make them change it and the homeowner prevailed.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/lake/os-apology-van-gogh-house-20180718-story.html

Saturday, June 23, 2018

The White Male Patriarchal Society is fading fast or Let's all go back to blogging!

One of my favorite ex bloggers from back in the day of Mommy bloggers got stung on Facebook today. She posted a photo of kids picking berries in her yard and compassionately mentioned that she was worried about the kids in the camps separated from their families and some white 'gun guy' started spouting off against it. I say he was a gun guy because he has a gun for a facebook photo!

WTF White male patriarchal society is tipping over and they don't like it a bit.

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Jamie can really sing!

https://www.facebook.com/martha.aiken.1/videos/10203548409893525/

https://www.facebook.com/martha.aiken.1/videos/10203548409893525/

This was several years ago. This past weekend my daughter Jamie did a solo song at our weekend church retreat talent show. She has such a lovely voice...Really poignant

Thursday, February 1, 2018

Kitties need to be fed, kid need to be driven to school, laundry needs to be done, it's always something

See one of my kitties hanging in the bottom corner of this photo? I feel like there is always a mouth needing to be fed, a box that needs to be scooped, salad stuff that needs to be made or a house needs to be cleaned. Plus I have to bring home the Bacon and it hasn't been easy this past year.

When does life get easier or less complicated anyway? Retirement?  Or even then it will be something I guess. My Mom used to be overwhelmed if she had more than a Dr. appointment per day. Too many pets doesn't help. Two of the cats have dietary needs - The Tortie Calico in this photo has 'pre-diabetes' so has to eat special prescription cat food. Another of my Kitties has had Feline Urulogical syndrome and he also has to eat prescription cat food. So twice a day I separate the four cats and dole out their special foods. (And I feed the dog - but he's easy.)

Ok so cats and dogs are fed. Fish is dead. So time to feed the family. Trying to hope Mike will take over now and then automatically but he always looks to me. I am the planner, shopper and cook more often. He has had recent success with Poached Chicken which is so much better than it sounds when done right. Then he uses the leftovers to make homemade chicken salad. So happy he is showing some interest in culinary needs of the family (or really of himself but thats OK!) One less tummy I need to fill.

My daughter often greets me at the door with "I'm hungry Mommy". So I started letting her cook some things for herself. Thing is she would eat frozen burritos very night and they are pretty chalk full of crap and fat.

I guess in 6-8 years I may be lonely and in an empty nest, seems so far away now.