Monday Challenge Results - early! :)

Ok, I know it isn't Monday but I wanted to post this now!  Who knows if it will look the same on Monday!  After all, we ALL KNOW that dryers don't like to be naked!

To complicate matters, my dear hubby said "You might as well clean up THIS mess while you are at it!  Then you will have somewhere to put all the crap off the dryer!"

This would be the mess he was talking about:

 These are the two cupboards and the top of them....HEY!  I DO have a big pot!  I thought so..... sigh

Now, since he got onery with me, I decided to do an experiment:  All the stuff off the dryer and washer got moved to the diningroom table:  His on one side, Mine on the other.  Now, admitedly this COULD have backfired but luckily for me, it didn't!  hehee

His side (except for the brown basket at the back - that's doggy stuff)

And MY side!  And you'll be proud of me....I threw out the hat!  Dang it, I LOVED that hat.  But a grandson kept pulling it down further and further on his head until his head poked out the top!  It was funny! Kinda.....

Everyone was really interested (ok, you all need a life!) in what was in the Easter Basket. 

Here you go!  Easter eggs, a cup holder thingy, paperplates and a little plastic bag of different sizes of rocks to I can decide what size rocks I want in my yard!  Oh, and that rag that is on the side....

See, perfectly good 'stuff'!

I'm going to let you go to the previous post about the Monday Challenge

so you can see what the before was for the top of the washer/dryer. 

I don't want to embarass myself by posting them again.)

Here are the cupboards now:

What the heck!  Look at all this space!

(On this page, that is)

I moved the shelf on the right and got all the doggy stuff on one shelf.  Now we know where THAT all is instead of digging for it....hey, this may have been a good idea after all!

And finally, the BIG reveal:

Introducing my Washer and Dryer!  As it looks right now!

See the lovely green?  That was Heidi's pick too!

Of interest also is this next shot.  We are always looking for flashlights - where the HECK do they keep going?  Apparently on the dryer:

Pretty sad, huh?  And only a couple of them had batteries that worked (or even batteries at all!)

So the functioning ones are on the shelf above the dryer and the others?  They are still in the kitchen, waiting to see if they will work when we get more bulbs to test them. 

So, I hope you enjoyed my misery!  It sure is fun to see that I'm not the only one!  One of my neices said that HER dryer grabs things out of her hands when she goes past!  I wish I had that excuse!  I use my front door!  So I really have no GOOD excuse...... except it is in my genes!

I haven't decided on my next challenge yet.  DELLAS has!  He wants me to do the closet next.  But I think that HE should have to help because 1/2 .... errr.....1/4 of the mess is his!  And I seriously hate to get rid of clothes.....I MIGHT loose ....... I might need...... I...... ugh.

Old Friends - fun to remember!

Ya know, I think I love facebook.  Why? 

 Because it helped me hook up with my three best buds from highschool!  Brothers, if you will.....who were always there for me.  They were who cheered me when a boy broke my heart, they were there to give me a ride to visit friends in another town when mom said I could go if I could get a ride, they were there when I just needed to get away from home for awhile.  They were just there always for me!  Kenny, Max and Bill,... Bill, Max and Kenny,... Max, Kenny, and Bill...sometimes one wasn't able to help me but there were nearly always two!  I have such fond memories!  Like the trip from Spokane to Lewiston after a football game!  I was missing my girlfriend and they were going hunting!  So, they packed in a pesky 'sister' and away we went - three guys and me in an old pickup truck that barely fit 3 - THAT was cozy as it was!  Me?  I sat on laps....."move over Marlene, my leg is going to sleep!"  So I'd switch to the other non-driver until I heard "Move over Marlene" and I'd switch again.  Aww the memories!  And when they'd have to stop because.........well, I had to, OK? They were good about it, even if they did rib me some! 

We never dated, that would have been too weird! I mean, really?  Ewwww!  I loved them all three dearly...and have such a tender spot in my heart for them.

So, one found me....sorry guys, I don't remember for sure....but I think it was Kenny!  Then in short order, I had my three 'brothers' back!  It's been great!  We send something - once in a while - not often.  Or we just know that if we need someone, we were there! And we can see how each is doing - if they keep up on Facebook!  Sometimes they aren't so good!

Last Sunday, I get a message from Ken on FB "Max is in Tucson....call him!" and his phone number (They, like true brothers, lost my phone number!)  I didn't get the message until late Sunday so didn't call.  Then Monday and Tuesday were all crazy and Wednesday got worse and I didn't get him called.  Wednesday night, I find messages from Ken again AND now from Bill that I needed to call Max!  Ok, already!  So Thursday I called him.  He was leaving Friday AM (darn it) so we made arrangements to meet. 

My dear hubby had a procedure Thursday AM and wasn't feeling up to going anywhere so I went alone.  Max looked so good!  Haven't seen him since my dad passed away - wow, has it really been 26 years? He really wanted to meet my family and felt bad that he couldn't meet my husband.  I told him that my girls were here and I was sure we could find them. So I called Kim...yep, no big surprise here, she and Katie were at Target!  We decided to meet them at a restaurant close by for dinner.  It was so fun to show off two of my three beautiful girls and two of my four wonderful grandkids! Liam, my almost 7mo grandson, couldn't figure out who that guy was with grammy and where the heck was poppa?!?!  But Collin took to Max right away.  I felt bad that Heidi and her kids and Dellas couldn't be there but life happens, ya know? 

The evening ended too soon, Max had other plans with family, so I delivered him back to his son-in-law and went home.

I did take my camera (so there Heidi) but we were so busy visiting I didn't get any pics except this one:

 I'm not exactly sure who these 'old folks' are!  I'm pretty sure Max and I aren't that old!  But this is what was on my camera so here ya go!

I wish we had pictures from highschool.  We never took pictures back then!  We just lived our lives and had fun and figured our memories would hold us!  Yea, well, I don't know about Max, but I'd like to have pics from when we were young - the four of us..............

Instead we have to rely on our memories...and you know how that goes!

So those of you who complain because someone is always taking pictures.....thank them.  One day, YOUR memories will fade and pictures will help you remember!

Thanks, Kenny and Bill, for making sure I called Max before it was too late and he left town.  And if you get a chance to come this way, PLEASE don't loose my phone number! 

Friends are too precious.

Nagging kids = Monday Challenge

The Monday Challenge - on a Tuesday!

(Only because I'm being nagged!)

Katie says her dryer mess is genetic - I have absolutely NO IDEA what she is talking about!

Seriously!

well.....ok......may I do just a bit......

sigh

CRAP!  Doesn't look any better from a different angle! 

Actually, I think it looks worse!

Must be all Dellas' stuff - except maybe, the Easter basket?  What the heck is THAT doing there!  I don't even have kids at home!  ..... I checked, it has ummmm 'stuff' in it!  That I might need some day.

(Oh dear, that sounds like my daddy!  We actually threw out radio tubes from his barn stash when he passed away!  That was only 25 yrs ago - and they hadn't used radio tubes for years before that! Maybe there IS something to this genetics thing!)

Well, I think this may be more than I wanted to tackle this week.......

Is it too late to choose something else???

OK, guess I'll give it a go. 

 (Hubby says 'Do the DRYER!'  I say, stop channeling Terry!)

Wish me luck.

And if you don't hear from me in a week or so, ya might want to send someone out to find me.....

I may be fighting with the Easter bunny over the basket!

Thanks a bunch Katie........................ this is all your fault!