Get your galoshes

I hear that we are in for a nice rainy Saturday. Not something new. My plans to take Maryann from Featherbed Nursing Home to get her hair cut may be put on hold, its hard enough for her to navigate in good weather. Oh Well.

It's Official

Another school year has started, last week there was a workshop, this week an in service and two days of workshops, tomorrow back to the library. Monday we're in for the long haul.

Believe it or not, I can't wait!

The 'girls' don't look too excited...

what the heck is wrong with this picture, a perfectly good big girl doggie bed sitting empty while they pile into the smallest one, go figure.

Dog days of August

Lexie doesn't have a care in the world

And the winner is...

Alan and a hive had a run in, as you can see, the bees won! Thank goodness he is fine, went to the doctors and is now back at work. Poor baby!

August!

Today was going to be a nice quiet day, yesterday I started to sew a fleece jacket for myself and was planning to finish today. WomenSpace was very busy, three calls during the day. A new record! Hopefully things will quiet down for the ladies and gents, too.

Just wanted to give a big shout out to Staples, yesterday I took my ink cartridges in and they handed me a set ~ off I went, this morning when I tried to put them in the printer there was no way I could get them in, long story short, I had the wrong cartridges - opened. After leaving the police station tonight I went over to Staples in Langhorne ~ they didn't care that the package was open, they didn't even care that I had tried to put them into the printer, the clerk went and got the right cartridges and the cashier and manager were very apologetic. What a nice bit of service! To add to the transaction, the right cartridges were $13 less than the wrong ones! Thanks Staples!

Tomorrow my knitting club comes for dinner ~ I'm thinking of a zucchini quiche and salad. So, first thing in the morning, its off to the grocery store.

Summer is half over :(

Can't believe the summer is half over already. I go back to work in only 25 days. Not that I'm counting.

Tomorrow is Brenda's (my cousin) shower. Should be fun to see the family. We are officially in wedding mode now. Brenda is getting married in October in Boston, another cousin, Christy, is getting married in May also in Boston, Eric is getting married, here, in July and Alan is getting married the following June. So for the next almost 2 years, weddings on the horizon. How fun.

Speaking of weddings, Eric and Maia saw a photographer Thursday night. She seems to be very thorough and although it was eye opening to see how much it costs for the pics, oh well, its only once in a lifetime. So with 11 months to go, we have the minister, caterer, the tent and the photographer. Still to go ~ disc jockey, bathrooms, clothes, favors, flowers, decorations and the shower. Marlene and I were going over the budget, right now we have none, but need to rein in our spending or we'll be in hot water too soon. Although its their only wedding...

Alan and Melissa are invited to lunch with her grandparents in honor of their engagement. Hope they have fun.

Met the new principal this week, things look real good for the fall considering how tight the budgets will be and how far behind our kids are in relation to the rest of the state. It's funny that our kids have so many different experiences in life compared to those of their contemporaries but it doesn't seem to count when they take standardized tests. If there was only a way to measure their knowledge a different way. Sigh. Back to the principal, she is very enthusiastic and open to change. It promises to be a positive year. Maybe we can begin to turn the corner and make so real improvements. Also, she said the plan to build a new high school has been approved and we should see something happening soon.

Just heard that my cousin Bryan and his new baby Grant will be on the East Coast later this month, can't wait to meet Grant, he was born in Feb and lives in San Fransisco so we've only seen pictures. They are taking a trip to Dubai among other places and will be stopping in NYC on the way.

Back in good old NJ

Had a GREAT time in California with my west coast family. My Uncle Stas and Aunt Holly and their daughter and her family are out there. I went with my Uncle Joe. We fished in the Pacific, went to the casinos, house parties, Disneyland, Knott's Berry Farm, the Hollywood sign, and the Nixon Library among lots of sight seeing both on land and water.

Uncle Joe, Uncle Stas, Holly and me.

Darcy, my cousin, and Rubin, her husband have the cutest little girl, Marley, she is a pleasure to be around and so even tempered. Rubin also has a daughter, Jordin, who is a great kid, getting ready for high school. Marley was still a happy kid after midnight as you can see in this picture of our "Polish Night' where we made home made perogies, platskies and even had Polish beer!.

Here we are at the local music night at the park, they had a free drawing and Uncle Joe won!