My Pets

I thought it would be nice to add some pics of my pets, since I haven't decided if I am going to post my kids, which I probably will at some point and time. This is Rosey. She is about 3 years old and we got her as a kitten from a friend of Boo's. She is the meanest cat you might ever meet. She looks so innocent sitting there. Which is true since no one is touching her. But wait, try and see if you will have any fingers left if you try and pet her.
This is Rosey's favorite thing to do. Lay wherever she feels like it. It doesn't matter what the surface is, it could be a hard floor, carpet, bag, shoe or one of Cor's shirts. It just doesn't matter.
This is Rosey and Georgia. Georgia is THE cat. We have had her since we moved into the house over 7 years ago. We are not sure how old she was when we got her because she came from a farm. That farm had about 20 cats and when we got her, we actually thought she was just very young cat. But she never grew. We think that the overpopulation of the cats at the farm caused the mothers to give birth too often, resulting in smaller babies. We love to have Georgia lay with us except when she sneezes, which is often. Unfortunately, when she sneezes, her whole body shakes and she has been known to slide across the laminate floor if she happens to be sitting there when she has one of her fits.
Have you ever seen a more comfortable cat? Neither Cor nor I can lay on the couch without having her for company. If we are each on a couch, she will jump between us because she can't decide who has a better lap to lay in.

As you can tell, we are a family of cat people. We did have a dog but we were unable to keep him due to the fact that we both work and it was very hard on him.
So we will remain a cat house. Shorty has always wanted a turtle or a hamster but I have tried to explain to him what would happen if we had those kind of pets if they came into our house. That they would end up like the salamander we tried to have last year.

Shorty found a salamander last year at the farm. He brought it home and we put it in a platic cage that was meant to hold bugs. It was quite a strudy cage though. Well, we left that poor salamander alone over night in the living room and when we got up,the cage was knocked off the table and there was nothing left. Both cats looked very innocent and to this day Shorty refuses to believe that the cats would have had a midnight snack.

So these are our two pets. Stay tuned for the next installment of our two legged pets, aka our children :)

Rain, Rain Go Away

It has been raining here for almost 2 weeks. We have had maybe 2 1/2 days of sunshine in that whole time. You know its bad when the weatherman comments that the yellow disk in the sky is actually the sun. Too bad we only get to see it for about 2 hours at a shot. We are becoming very bummed out here.
But at least I have lots of things going on that is keeping me busy. My scrapbooking class started last week. Every Monday night for 2 hours, I get to work on my pages. I am very into scrapbooking now. I have almost a full book done and still have only done about half of my previous pictures. I just finished picking about 70 pictures before the class started. The only downfall is the amount of stuff I take to class. But is worth it because I enjoy it so much.
I have also joined a womens self defense class. I had thought about taking it but decided against it for financial reasons. Then my best friend D offered to let me take it for free. She had joined it and since the instructor was already paid for and the class wasn't full, she thought it would be fine to let a few freebies in, me being one of them. It is a great class to take and I recomend anyone who lives in a city, to take the class if they have one available to them. But be warned, it is a painful class. You actually learn and execute the moves. My wrists and knees hurt so bad at the end of the class from falling and having my arms twisted a bunch of different ways. But I think it is a good class to take to learn at least a few moves so that you can be a little prepared if you are ever attacked. It also is a bit of exercise and I know for sure that is something that I can use.
We have already had a frost here so I am hoping that next weekend I will be able to pull up all my plants and get my beds ready for winter. I have a feeling the snow will be here earlier than normal this year, which will probably mean close to Thanksgiving. This is okay though, because since school started, I put myself in fall mode and basically ignore anything outdoors. I have so much other stuff on the go that I am happy with it.
Well, enough for now. More at a later date!!

Another week closer to fall

I got my new computer a couple of days ago. It is always amazing when I get a new computer, how much faster it is than the last one. My last one is on its last legs and hopefully Kat will get some use out of it before it completely dies. The a drive and the cd drive no longer work and I haven't decided if it is worth taking it in for someone to look at. The real crapper is that I can't get anything off of the old computer to put on my new computer because I can't burn a disk. All 900+ pics have to stay on it until I can figure out what to do. I am thinking of buying one of those little keychain dumahickies that will plug into a usb port and I can try and move all my stuff that way. I should have printed off my email addresses, so if you are reading this, send me a quick email and I can add you to my list again!!
So there won't be any pictures for a bit until I can get this all figured out.
But I will still get on and tell you what is going on.

Almost a whole month gone by already

Holy cow, I didn't think it had been that long since I had posted anything. The sad thing is that there is not that much to tell.
The kids have started back at school. Kat is now in grade nine. The first morning was just for the grade nine kids and it started off with a breakfast for the kids and the parents. The sheet said pancake breakfast (yuck) but I went anyway for Kat. I wanted to be there for her. Plus my boss at work let me start one hour later that morning so that I could do all of that stuff. We get there for the breakfast and we are one of the first families there. So we walk around a little bit and then we go to the cafeteria to get a table. When we walked in there, the first person we meet is the principle who happens to be my bosses' sister!! I knew that they were sisters before, I just thought there would be so many people there that not only would I not meet her, I didn't even think I would see her.
The breakfast turned out to not be pancakes, but a fabulous treat of fresh cut fruit, bagels and cream cheese, pastries, home made cinamon buns, yogurt and coffee and juice. I was in heaven. I never ever eat breakfast, but I had my fill of everything except the yogurt.
At this time I had left Boo and Shorty at home and they also had to register for school that morning. I was impressed that I had only gotten one phone call the whole time I was gone. So I get home, pick up the other two and off we go to school #2. Boo is in grade 8 this year and she has the new teacher to the school for grade 8. Mr. B was actually in Kat's class last year at a teacher in training and this is his first job. I am sure that he will be great. She seemed happy that all of her friends are in the same class as her. They always put all the kids together that are in band and of course most of her friends are in band the same as her. This is her third year playing the flute.
Shorty is in grade five this year and I am so happy about the teacher that he has. Mr. W has been there for several years and has always been so great to my kids. When Kat broke her foot in grade 3, he was the one who picked her up and carried her into the school. I have pics of Kat at her grade eight grad with him so that I can scrapbook it as him being her saviuor :)
So Kat has to take the bus to and from school. It is a city bus and each way is going to cost me $1.35. I bought 20 tickets the other night and it cost me 27 bucks!!! I am not at all happy about this. I have a phone call into the school board to complain. Not because the tickets are so much, although that is a kicker, but because the other school board sells the tickets to their students for half price. Of course I have not heard back from the school board giving me any kind of explanation as to why they cannot do the same.
But she is happy. I am happy for her. She has classes with some of her friends and she is taking classes that will help her decide what kind of classes she will want to take as she gets into higher grades. The only two classes that I pushed for were french and band. She has been playing the clarinet since grade 5 and is quite good at it. I have paid a lot for her clarinet and I am not ready for her to give it up yet. The french is more just to have the second language and since we are in Canada, might as well go with the other national language, eh? LOL
Well, I think my next step is going to be getting my pics off of my camera, finally.