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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - 8:25 am
*Tuesday's Mission* Looks super simple! Looks like Vee got busy today. Maybe she's getting some work done at the house! I got out my brand spankin' new microfiber towels today to see how they work on windows and mirrors and tile.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - 8:32 am
Serate, we had our grandkids Saturday,Sunday and Monday morning. They both help with the cleaning, too. Grandson learned how when they lived with us, and granddaughter is finally catching on now (since he has waited on her up to this point and she didn't need to learn how.) This flylady thing is a great way to learn how to clean, and they make it so routine that you don't even realize how much you've accomplished.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Wednesday, June 27, 2007 - 7:25 am
* Wednesday's Mission * We finally managed to get the yard mowed in between rain showers yesterday. The yard has developed about a dozen kinds of grass over the last couple of years and the turkey foot is horrible. I looked up Tru-Green lawn specialists and we don't have any in the area any more. Bummer. Rain is expected for the rest of the week, too, making most of Texas under flood watch. Another bummer is that the kids won't be able to use the new inflated pool until the weather starts cooperating. I may end up sending it home with them next month. Another note on the garden, I have one of those 'feathery' bloom plants that came back all by itself in one of my pots. Can't remember the name but it has purple edged heart shape leaves and a purple flower. I had planted it with a tuft of ornamental varigated grass that has grown nicely, and something else that didn't come back. Happy dusting everyone! (Vee come back!)
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Serenity
Member
06-28-2005
| Wednesday, June 27, 2007 - 5:04 pm
Thanks for keeping up our missions Urgrace! My company has gone and I am pleased to say that my DH did get my bathroom vanity done in time. It looks great and we had a great time with our visitors. My house didn't get 100% decluttered yet, but it is getting there. It is tough to keep things tidy when you constantly have to keep moving things around for renovations. At least my DH's "honey-do list" is getting shorter! Urgrace, I hope you get your lawn troubles sorted out easily enough. Our weeds disappeared after a couple of treatments. Now I just have dandylions in the boys' sandbox to contend with. I just keep pulling them out by hand because I don't want to use chemicals where the kids play. I suppose I could put in a plastic liner, but that would involve shoveling out a ton of sand ( the box is 10' X 12')just to have to replace it all again!
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Wednesday, June 27, 2007 - 5:34 pm
Been there, done that - once Serenity! Forget the liner. It would just be in shreds soon anyway. Pulling the dandelions by hand is a good thing. Yippee on the renovations! I'd call that real good news.
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Chewpito
Member
01-04-2004
| Wednesday, June 27, 2007 - 5:58 pm
I had terrible weed problems in my lawn, and finally I just took matters in my own hands..a good pair of gloves and a sharp knife... by hand I went over my entire lawn a little at a time piercing each weed and pulling it from the root..It was a job and took me a couple weeks to compleat but now that I have done it Im amazed at how nice my lawn is... I fertalize it regular and constently check for any new weeds (its easy now) and pull them out right then and there never leaving them to reproduce.. My lawn looks great and the maintnence now is so much easyer...
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Thursday, June 28, 2007 - 12:18 pm
Hi all, I am back -- moved into my new home! Boy do I hurt all over and no matter that I was so organized in packing, etc, I was so tired at the end of the day that I just had the movers put all the boxes in the dining room (I don't have my dining room table yet). This morning it occurred to me they are stacked with no ryhme or reason, some of them are probably too heavy for me to move, so now I am just unpacking the top ones, LOL! My goals for today are to find the silverware, LOL and the rest of my tolietries. I put them in a special bag so I could easily find them, but then I ended up with about 5 special bags, LOL. Oh well, baby steps, I am taking a 15 minute break now, then back to "special bags".
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Thursday, June 28, 2007 - 1:49 pm
* Thursday's Mission * Chewpito, our lawn used to be like that due to the special care and hand weeding, but last year some underground fly larvae ate roots of some of the Bermuda grass, the birds brought in seeds from all around, the squirrels left pecan and acorns here and there, and the drought conditions just about killed my yard. We are steadily trying to improve it by ourselves. Hi Dipo! Didn't you write the rooms on the outside of the boxes? Ack! Baby steps. Good luck.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Thursday, June 28, 2007 - 3:58 pm
LOL, Urgrace I did write the room names on the boxes. The bedding box is at the bottom and in the back of all the other boxes, thankfully, I had a special bag with sheets, towels and don't really need the comforter until Iget to it. If I had been thinking I would have had them set all the kitchens together, etc, but I was bone tired and just happy to get everything into the house and be done. LOL. It will get done, just a little slower than usual.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Thursday, June 28, 2007 - 5:16 pm
You sound tired, you poor dear. Hope you get some good sleep tonight.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Friday, June 29, 2007 - 8:08 am
* Friday's Mission * Vee! You do realize this is a temporary job for me, right? I'm just here to help you out until you are back online and up and about. My whole house is vacuumed! Yay! I'm sitting here waiting on the cable guy to come and fix my lines to the tv's. With the 8-12 appointment scheduled, he has 53 more minutes to show up. grrrr
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Friday, June 29, 2007 - 10:04 am
Urgrace, if my cable people gave me the old "8-12" I would expect them around 5. Time Warner has never been anywhere near on time! Hope your people show up so you don't waste your day away waiting!
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Friday, June 29, 2007 - 5:30 pm
Luckily, if you can look at it that way, he showed up at 10 minutes to the noon hour. Tells me I can't have a splitter for one of the cable connections, and I tell him oh yes I can, since Time Warner told me I could and gave me the splitter and extra cable. So he hooks up the new DVR box and puts in a brand spankin' new splitter! Then he put in a new set top box in the living room and tells me our phones aren't working due to some software glitch and maybe not the computer connection either. Now this is all going quite well until he leaves, and I find that the tv he changed the splitter on only gets half the channels it did before he messed with it. I drove to the office and complained. Didn't do a bit of good. They told me to go buy a universal remote and recode the da** thing! There's more, but I won't write a book since the whole day was a real bust and just kept going downhill! Ack! Hope everyone has a fabulous weekend.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Saturday, June 30, 2007 - 1:47 pm
ugrace, that is such a bummer about your cable. I am sort of going through the same problem with my phone. I made all the arrangements to disconnect at apartment and set up for condo. ATT put the address down wrong so, no phone and the first appointment was Monday from 9-12!! BUT, the good news. . . I just got back from the container store and got a ton of excellent stuff to organize my new kitchen, hall closet and bathroom! It was so fun, I hope everything fits but if not I will take it back since I am sure I will need more stuff. (I did have my measurements with me and my tape measure). Now I can unpack all my bathroom stuff and finish up the kitchen! YEAH.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Tuesday, July 03, 2007 - 3:01 am
*July 2–6* *Tuesday's Mission*
Urgrace, I heard that plaintive call! Thank you so much for stepping up and keeping our little thread going. Flying is a thing of the past around here right now, but I can, at least, sit long enough to post a message or two. Thanks again!! Chewpito, I so appreciated the description of your removing the weeds from your lawn one baby step at a time. It was a powerful image for me as I imagined you bent over the task, with your tools in hand, individually whacking away at the weeds that had overrun your yard. So many of our daunting life tasks are just that way...one step at a time. Dipo, yay for getting moved! How's it going with pacing yourself? Any chance of a picture or two when you have those closets organized with your new stuff? Happy 4th of July preparations, everybody! Hope to hear from those who have been wandering like me. 
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Serenity
Member
06-28-2005
| Tuesday, July 03, 2007 - 5:15 am
Welcome Back Vee!
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Tuesday, July 03, 2007 - 6:56 am
Oops, sorry I forgot to do Monday, Vee! I'm very happy you were here this morning! Golly, I love it when I do the mission without even knowing what the mission is! LOL Yesteday, I was dealing with dh who was not happy that another tv cable connection all of a sudden quit. (They're supposed to show up again this afternoon). That and doing a fifteen minute run through of straightening the house. Then there was the insurance company, washing floors, rain, hummingbird feeders, cats, grandchildren, cupcakes, etc.
Happy Fourth of July tomorrow my American Friends!   
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Tuesday, July 03, 2007 - 6:58 am
Dipo, yes we need pictures! I'm very interested in how you did this and will look forward to any tips you may have when you finish.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, July 03, 2007 - 8:59 am
LMAO, if I ever get through it all I should find my digital camera and will figure out how to do the pictures. I am in a delima right now on what to do with the spices, I had them in some shelves attached to the pantry door in my old place. Now I have to put them on shelves, trying to figure out how to do that and still see what I have. I have one of those shelve things that "step-up" but it is to deep for the cabinet. I may have to gerry-rig my own system with some boxes or something. Any ideas?
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, July 03, 2007 - 9:24 am
I've been making do the past week. When I can get to it, I do and when I can't I'm not sweating it. Besides my aunt, my sis is now waiting on test results to see if she has gestational diabetes (we're pretty sure how those will turn out.) She has felt terrible lately and when they did the first test, she got really sick with it. Dr ordered a second one and has pretty much grounded her (she can get up and walk around but that's it) can't even drive so we've been helping her out. Today Darren is working on the sprinklers in the front yard. He's been out there since about 7:30, but he's gonna have to come in in a bit cuz it's already 91 (supposed to be 104 today.)
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Wednesday, July 04, 2007 - 2:04 am
*Wednesday's Mission* Personally, I think that the mission today should be to have fun, celebrate independence, and to flag the flag. Ha! Hope that everyone has a happy day. Hope that all Canadians enjoyed Canada Day last Sunday, too. I have happy memories of years when both holidays are celebrated (my mother is Canadian), but this year neither have been/will be celebrated in the usual way. Still, the flag is flying and the holiday banner is out. Hi, Serenity! Thanks for the welcome back. Well, shoot, Urgrace, I didn't notice that Monday wasn't posted. That's okay, it's easily found. You sound busy as all get out. Dipo, my mother uses spring rods in a drawer for her spices. The spice bottle is propped up on the spring rod so that she can easily see them. Perhaps that's an idea you can use. On the other hand, I write the spice name in permanent marker on the top of the cap so that I can see it from above. I am confident that you'll figure something out! Acckkkk, Wargod, sorry to hear that your sis endures more pregnancy woes. I remember that gestational diabetes stuff all too well. Healing vibes heading her way.

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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Wednesday, July 04, 2007 - 7:44 pm
We had fun and celebrated our independence today, Vee! Parade, Concert, Cook-out, and Fireworks all without getting rained on too much! Three pictures are posted in the Messages to All folder.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, July 04, 2007 - 10:40 pm
We did too. Went to my aunts and bbq'd (I did do some minor housework while I was there and paid the kids to do a couple other chores like washing dishes and putting them away.) Then we went out to the desert and waited for the fireworks to start.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 1:31 am
*Thursday's Mission* The entryway is always a challenge. I would love to figure out a way to tame the perpetual hotspot. Besides a key rack, anyone have some good ideas? *You Might be a Perfectionist If...* Hadn't seen these before...short and fun...and, yes, I can relate. Yay for celebrating! That was the important thing yesterday. (And whatever flag the flag means. Ha!)
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 5:35 am
No!!!!!! Not the entryway! Flylady must have been at my house last night or this morning, lol. I went through my entryway closet last night for my dress shoes and ended up pulling out the kids roller blades, helmets, elbow and knee pads and tossing them in a pile right there. Have three cases of water and four cases of sodas sitting against the wall (grocery store was having an awesome sale the other day!) and nowhere to really put them and the table right there that has collected my mail and Caleb's legos. Even worse, I'm going to be gone most of the day so can't get to it!
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