Boy + bikes + welding machine=

Yes, today's question...boy+bikes+welding machine=

Still can't guess?  Here's another hint:

Okay...last hint...

Hmmm...so you've never seen a double decker bike?  Neither have I...until I saw this one in my drive. 

Way to go, Andy!

Look what I can do!

Get ready to ooooh and ahhhhhhh!  Look what I finally learned to do:

Need to get closer?

 

Yes!  Finally, I learned to entrelac!  I tried it before, a million times.  I tried it a billion this week...finally I read somewhere that it's like turning the heel of a sock...you don't try to make sense of it, you just do it!  After reading a buggaboolillian tutorials, I went HERE and found the best tutorial I found yet.  Check it out.  Can you do it???

I'm tagging you!

Ha!  Got you...I've been tagged by Karyn and now I'm tagging you.  If you are here, consider yourself tagged!

Four jobs you have had in your life:

Exercise instructor, wedding photographer, school bus driver, school photographer.

Four movies you could watch over and over:

Forrest Gump, ET, Sleepless in Seattle (my late sister was in the crowd of the New Years Eve party), It's a Wonderful Life.

Four places you have lived:

Pittsburgh, Seattle, Niles Ohio, Rochester, NY.

Four TV shows you love to watch:

Today Show, 30 Minute Meals, Something on the biography channel, Weather Channel.  Can you tell I really don't watch TV?

Four websites you visit daily:

Times On Line, my hometown newspaper, eBAy, and a bazillion blogs!

Four places you'd rather be right now:

Seattle, Ganonoque, Ontario; In bed or Italy or both...

Four bloggers you are tagging:

You and you and you and you!

 

The cat food burglar!

Face it, I live in a very old house...so old, in fact, the main beam of one section is a tree.  I kid you not, back in the mid 1800's (1842 to be exact), they did not call Lowe's or Home DeePot and ask for a beam to be delivered.  They just find a tall and straight tree, wack it down, cut off most of the branches and build a house on top of it.

If you go down into our basement through a trap door in our laundry room:

(no, our house is not that dirty...the picture was taken the day we put in an offer...over 2 years ago), and  I mean YOU...I was down there once, saw the ice trough and the crawl spaces and the 5' high ceilings and that was enough for me, you can peek into the crawl space and see the tree.  I'm not going back down there.

Now, getting back to the story...we are not in the boonies, but we have an acre with tons of mature trees, ground ivy and mice.  Our first summer in this house, we had a flock(flock?) of baby mice who got lost on their way from the pantry to the bathroom almost every night.

Luckily, Andy had a girlfriend who would shoo them into a corner and lift them gently and take them out on the patio and let them go.

Come to think of it, maybe we had one mouse who came in daily for a snack and a ride out of town in Christy's hand?  I don't know.

Back to the story...We have two cats.  Although they love to find mice, they rarely inflict fatal injuries.  Usually they end up fighting each other for the mouse and the mouse gets tired of waiting for them and leaves.  We also seem to go through huge amounts of cat food.

Since we also have a very fat and lazy dog, I started feeding our cats on a high shelf so our lazy dog did not become a fatter dog.

I wondered for a while if those pampered mice were feasting on our cat food while the cats were looking for mice.  Today, when Tony came home from school, he sat down next to Race Car and we may have figured out just where some of the missing cat food went.  Could it be here?

I wonder...

Next on my list tonight...guilt.  Look at this:

and this

and even this

250,000+ fans converge in Pittsburgh today to show affection and admiration for 'our' Steelers.  Do you see my son, one of the most dedicated fans?

No...do you know why?  I wouldn't let him miss school.  Although my personality has gone from an A++++++ to a B+, I still have my anal elements.  Going to school is one.  Good thing we don't home school, I'd never let the kids leave the house!

When Tony came home today and said there were 250,000 people there, I admitted I would have liked to have gone.  He agreed...said it was a chance of a life time.  Now what do I do?  Should I feel guilty (Mom gave me lessons, I can do it!) or hope to cheer the Steelers on to win again next year...when I know better?

 

New Game: Can you spot the idiot?

This morning, after listening for an hour or so for a snow delay, we realized that when our school announced on Friday that Monday was not a holiday, they were serious, my kids got ready to head off to school.

Twenty minutes later, I looked out the window and saw this:

Can you spot the idiot?

How about now?

And now?  Of course I can, I gave birth to it!

Yes, that is Tony who refuses to ride the bus or get his license.  He says it's fun to ride in the snow...

What? You don't think he's a little (ahem) different?  How about this:

We were trying to decide what kind of windows we wanted for this HOTH.  We knew what we wanted them to do, we wanted them to operate smoothly, keep heat loss to a minimum, yada, yada, yada...we just couldn't decide how we wanted them to look!  We drove miles and miles, looked at old house after old house and narrowed it down to two or three.  We came home and Mark duplicated the design on our window with masking tape.  This is my favorite, a copy of an old house in town.

 

This is Tony's choice:

Need I say more?

 

Since when is a B+ better than an A?

When it's the score on my personality test...

 

You Have A Type B+ Personality B+ You're a pro at going with the flow You love to kick back and take in everything life has to offer A total joy to be around, people crave your stability. While you're totally laid back, you can have bouts of hyperactivity. Get into a project you love, and you won't stop until it's done You're passionate - just selective about your passions Do You Have a Type A Personality?   I'm getting better and better!