No Halloween ?

It appears my kiddies school no longer recognizes Halloween as a holiday.  Apparently not everyone celebrates it so to make those who don't celebrate it happy they are not doing any Halloween parties, costume parades or the like.  So I think in all fairness they out to do the same for other holidays that not everyone celebrates.  Thanksgiving is only celebrated in the U.S. so it probably should be shot down as just another day since it's not a worldwide holiday.  Not everyone celebrates Christmas so that should be just another day (hell it would save me at least 20 bucks[5.00 per kid for the present exchanges] if they would cancel Christmas celebrations at school).  Valentines day...what a phony holiday I definitely would not mind not having to buy about 100 valentine cards for my kids to give to people in their class that they probably do not wish were their sweetheart.

So for my own little agenda I think I'll tell the teachers (when the time comes) that my kids will not be participating in Valentines day at school.  Now at home we will be making treats and homemade cards to send to close friends and family...you know people we actually care about, not some snotty nosed little brat who throws spitballs in peoples hair.  Sounds fair to me.  If they cancel one holiday they should cancel others...'cause there is always people who a certain holiday means a lot for.   Halloween is important to me, so I will continue to celebrate it with my family.  We will continue to go out trick-or-treating and knocking on strangers doors for treats.  It's fun, it's the start of Samhain and again it's fun.

New Hobby

Sorry for the crappy picture.  Hopefully Hubby will get me a new camera for my bday next month...I just have to show him which one I want ;) .  I'm getting him a video chair that costs nearly 200.00 he can spend about that much on me, right.  Anyway there is my new hobby.  I was cold yesterday and something knitted sounded so nice and warm.  So I ran down to Wally World to get a space heater and knitting needles and yarn.  It's gonna be a scarf and the blue is much prettier then what showed up in that pic.  It's says Ocean on the package.  What else is cool is that the yarn is made from recycled plastic bottles and it's actually really soft (well softer then the Red Heart yarn).  Well have to make this short and sweet as it's time to get the kiddies on the bus.  In 29 degree weather...brrrr.

No, No, Noooo

Can you see those low temps...yea the ones in the low 30s.  I'm so not ready for those.  I'm especially not ready for this little tidbit from the weather service

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Issued by The National Weather Service

Memphis, TN 

3:57 am CDT, Mon., Oct. 27, 2008

FREEZE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING... ... FREEZE WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING... 

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A FREEZE WATCH... WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM LATE TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING. 

A FREEZE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. 

LATE TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING... TEMPERATURES AT OR BELOW FREEZING... MAINLY BETWEEN 28 AND 32 DEGREES... ARE LIKELY FOR 1 TO 4 HOURS BETWEEN 1 AM AND 9 AM CDT. THE COLDEST READINGS WILL BE IN RURAL VALLEYS. PATCHY FROST CAN BE EXPECTED. 

TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING... COLDER CONDITIONS AND WIDESPREAD FROST WITH LOWS MAINLY IN THE 25 TO 31 DEGREE RANGE CAN BE EXPECTED. SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES CAN BE EXPECTED 4 TO 8 HOURS BETWEEN 1 AM AND 9 AM CDT. THESE LOW TEMPERATURES MAY END THE GROWING SEASON. 

A FREEZE WATCH MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE POSSIBLE. THESE CONDITIONS COULD KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. 

More Information

... THE COLDEST AIR SO FAR THIS FALL WILL BRING SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES TO THE MIDSOUTH AND FORECAST AREA... 

.MUCH COLDER AIR WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO THE MIDSOUTH AND FORECAST AREA THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS STRONG CANADIAN HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO THE AREA. AREAS NORTH OF A FORREST CITY ARKANSAS TO MEMPHIS TO SAVANNAH TENNESSEE LINE WILL LIKELY EXPERIENCE TEMPERATURES AT OR BELOW 32 DEGREES LATE TONIGHT INTO TUESDAY MORNING AS WINDS SLOWLY DIMINISH AND HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FROM THE NORTHWEST. AS HIGH PRESSURE MOVES OVERHEAD TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING... A WIDESPREAD FREEZE CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE ENTIRE MIDSOUTH AND FORECAST AREA WHICH WILL LIKELY END THE GROWING SEASON ACROSS THE REGION."

Nope definitely not ready for that.  Most of my plants are ready for the end of the growing season.  Pretty much all except for my loofah gourds that decided not to do anything but vine until the beginning of this month when it decided to bloom.  Now that winter is fast approaching it has decided to make it's gourds.   So tonight I'll be covering as much of the vine as I can in order to hopefully protect it for a few more weeks.  Luckily our daytime temps are in 50s and 60s it looks like so maybe, if it can hold out a few more weeks, I can get one gourd off the plant.  I think I'll get some seeds and start some indoors for next spring.  It's taken this particular plant about 6 months before doing anything.  So I'm thinking if I start it indoors now I can have it produce sooner next year.

What I Wouldn't Give For a...

...vanilla shake.  Made just perfect (for me) where it's not so thin your just drinking milk and not so thick that you need a spoon to drink(eat?) it with.  That would feel so good right now.  As my throat feels like I've been swallowing hot broken glass, with a bit of sand thrown in for good measure.  Add in a low temp (only 100 right now) and Hubby being out of town till tomorrow night.  What a great couple days off I'm having right now.  I'm hoping that this is only a short lasting bug and by morning I'll be at least 50 percent better.

Happy Birthday Son-o-mine

I know this is a day early, but I got to work and then do your birthday so I won't have time tomorrow to post this.  So I wish you, my dear son, a happy 9th birthday.  

You might be my middle son, but your the one who does things first.  You held your head up sooner then any of your siblings(or any other baby I know) at 2-3 weeks.  You were crawling by 4 months and pulling yourself up into a standing position.  You were walking by 8 months (when the rest of your siblings waited till around a year).  Shoot you were the first to get tonsillitis (and you got that the first time at 18 months).  To this day you have to be the first, the best and I love you for it.  I love that you keep going till you achieve your goals.  I love that you have set reasonable life goals already (he says he wants to be an Ironworker, a mechanic and have 6 or 7 kids...I say good luck and hope you don't mind hardwork, lol). 

Now that you've reached the grand age of 9 years you can slow down a bit and enjoy what's left of your childhood years, or at least slow down so I can enjoy what's left of your childhood years.

Wordless Wednesday

Just thought this smoke cloud was kinda neat.  The pic is crooked 'cause I was snapping the pic while I was driving.