I got such a late start on the garden this year, but it seems that am not alone in that boat, it seems most folks that I have talked with waited as long as I did and some even now are just getting their seeds in the ground. The weather of course has not been the best for the spring planting, it had us not knowing what to expect from one day to another, but it has now settled itself into Spring and the gardens are doing fine for now.
Luvie just called from work with the most exciting news that she had to share with me. At the warehouse they had a silent auction at their last company dinner extravaganza, one of the items that caught our attention was the offer of a trip to Costa Rica for two, and by golly we seemed to have won it after all. We were in a fierce competition with another co-worker and her husband that evening, they really wanted to win this get-a-way and since we hadn’t heard anything since that evening that took place several weeks ago we figured that they had given the auction a good sized chunk of money and had won it.
Anyway I am now sitting here on the PC listening to some wonderful music in the background from the web-site of http://www.florblanca.com, Luvie gave me the info over the phone so that I could check this out and make sure that it is on the up and up and not just some prank that are so popular with some of her co-workers. This web-site is of the resort that we are scheduled to stay at for four wonderful nights that we are so looking forward to staying at. The music has put me in the mood to go ahead and start planning right away. And the name of the resort is Florbanca at Latitude Ten sounds which sounds intriguing enough wouldn’t you say.
There seems to be a lot of activities that we can get into, as long as I can have just one day at the beach, relaxing and just taking it all in, the rest of the stay I will leave up to Luvie to figure out what other adventures that we can get ourselves into at such a diverse locality. Staying at such a lovely Costa Rica resort will turn this into a very exciting and romantic memory for us to share many years on down the road.
Was watching the news the other evening when a story was aired about a group of girls that wanted revenge on another girl due to something gone wrong with a relationship with a boy. So the girls set fire to the house in which the rival girls lives, she is now in the hospital with severe burns and her father was pronounced dead at the scene. This all took place not far from where I grew up and where mother still lives to this day just a few miles out of London.
The news reporter indicated that this is a growing problem over there, that there is groups of what they call Ferrel girls that are causing much trouble and concern all over England. Girls that are coming out of single parent families and have too much time on their hands and are causing quite a bit of trouble for the communities in which they go into. This is very disheartening indeed.
With a family that has become as large as ours over the past decade or so, there isn’t a month that goes by that there isn’t at least one birthday to be celebrated in that month. I’m glad that Luvie takes care of most of the date remembering and makes sure that a gift or card goes out in time, there are a few that I am responsible for, but it is just a drop in the bucket in comparison.
We have one grandchild that I have always been very close with, we have a lot in common and he has his head on pretty good and we keep in touch with emails every week or so. He has a birthday coming up and I want to get him something special this year, he turns 15 and by his next birthday he will have begin driving a car and he will become mobile and much more independent. Until he does get his driver’s license he relies on his skate boarding, which is has become very good at so i was wondering if he may be interested in the new craze of skate shoes, that I’ve been hearing about.
I have found a web-site of http://www.buyskateshoes.com and have found several kinds but I think that the best thing to do is give him a gift certificate that I can purchase right on-line and let him redeem it for any of their products, whether it is for their Supra, Vans, Adio, DVS, Ambush or the DC skate shoes that they have to offer. I would rather him choose the ones that he prefers and I have no idea what size shoe this kid wears now a days, so a gift card is in order, I do believe.
It was not unexpected but to pay $60 to fill a 15 gallon tank at $4 a gallon really hits you where it really hurts, ouch!
After Alaska, states with the highest average prices for regular gasoline on Wednesday were:
– Connecticut, $3.977
– California, $3.947
– New York and Illinois, $3.926
– Hawaii, $3.894
– Michigan, $3.891
– West Virginia, $3.889