Update 2

My dragonfly is in college! Yikes...I'm old...

She's majoring in nursing.  Her dream is to become an Occupational Therapist, so she needed some kind of "biology" major.  Nursing looked like the best choice; practical, flexible, necessary.  As an added bonus, it is in high demand in the military.  While we were looking for college money, we ran across information about ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps)...silly me, I always thought that was for high schoolers (btw, that's the Junior ROTC).  Guess that's what happens when you don't pay any attention in high school.  We went to the college and talked to the guy (can't remember his rank! sorry) in charge of the ROTC and he was very interested in getting her into their program.  So, all this to say--"she's in the army now" with a full scholarship and a four year commitment to serve once she finishes college.

first day

in uniform

Updating

Well...uh...I'm not sure what to say.  :o)  You know, it's amazing -- I love to write, I want to blog, but I usually have no idea what to write about...so I don't write anything, and that just compounds the problem because then I have too much to write about.

...sigh...

So, a few of you know that we bought the land we wanted last spring--to update on that, we've had our garden, though not super successful; we have cleared, and installed the septic. 

Some pictures:

the land, before

getting cleared

septic tank going in

the garden, early

apparently, I didn't take any pictures after it really started growing in...

btw, anyone have any tried and true methods of eradicating squash bugs, without poisons?

I'll start another post for other updates

Effective

Laundry, walking, smiles

Well, I've been neglecting the blogging of the exercises...but not the exercises. :) My neighbor walks her dog at 3 every afternoon and I've been walking with her (though not every afternoon--I skip the rainy ones and the ones when I have to be somewhere else). It's always good to have a partner.

Laundry--where do you sort your clean laundry? I do mine on my bed.

And just because I couldn't resist--a smile!

My Children

Turtle, 11-Frog, 4-Dragonfly, 18-Lizard, 15-Ant, 2-Butterfly, 9-Gator, 20 days-Ladybug, 13-Bee, 7 (only managed to exercise once last week-besides Kegels, that is... /sigh/ )