Vegetable Garden

Got my vegetable garden planted today. The space is way to small for the amount of plants I have in there. Oh well ....We will just see how it goes. Tomato plants, Squash, Bellpepper, Onions, Canolope, Watermelon and some Orange marigold flowers. I'll try to get a picture of the garden put up next week.
In my front yard flower bed, I Planted a few more gerber daises, some marigolds, red with white stripes pansy, and some variegated pansy ( pink, yellow, blue ) mixed in one plant. Oh...And got our outside Easter tree fixed. Hung plastic eggs on Cherokee Rose Tree.
~~ Ocean ~~

Strange Feelings

I am having some strange feelings lately. It's like I can't make decisions. When I do decide to do something and after doing it. It feels wrong, the only things that come to mind are what I could have done different. Why didn't I just wait and think about it more. Thinking of how I can re-do it and change it back to the way it was before.
This is not normal for me. I usually make a decision and stick with it. So what's up? Right now I'm thinking who did I just ask that question?? Myself ? My blog readers ?......See what I mean? This is crazy.
My stomach feels really weird, like something bad is going to happen.

And to add more confusion.... I just went back and read last Thursday Post. " You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying over the future.

Could this be the lack of nicotine. Maybe so...It's been almost a month now, no smokes. I have been doing really well. Actually haven't even wanted one really bad only a few times. Right now would be one of those times.....grrrrrr!

Well on to another subject. I seen my Aunt today for the first time in 9 months. Last time I saw her was our yearly family reunion, and didn't get to talk to her much then. This is my mom's baby sister. Since momma passed away, this Easter will be 5 years. I have a hard time being around my aunts. The memories of my mom come back so strong, I can't hardly take it. Anyway she seems very distance with me, like we just don't connect. I had never been around her without my mom being there, and it seems strange to me. Not sure how she feels.
Got finished with weeding all the grass out the vegetable garden today. Second day of shoveling and hoeing dirt, whew my back has had a work out. Maybe why I can't sleep. Went to bed at 10:30 pm tonight. Got up 12:30 am, after tossing and turning for two hours. Watched a little TV, did some reading on computer and then started writing this. So here I am at almost 2:00 am in the morning typing.
I've been going full speed. Don't have any plans for tomorrow. Might be a good day to do Nothing. Well maybe not, that will just leave more time to think and I don't want to think.

~~ Ocean ~~

New Buggie

To catch up from the last few days:
Friday Shopping bought a 98 Gas Golf Cart. Now if you have never rode one of these buggies. Let me tell you they are so much fun. I have wanted one for a long time, we found a used one for a pretty good price. It has the lift kit and nobbie tires, will be great for scooting around the pond.
Saturday- Got laminated hard wood floor put down in bathroom today. I like the way it looks, a big change from carpet. We are thinking about doing the whole house with this stuff.
Monday- Started weeding and turning the dirt in our little vegetable garden out back. I didn't plant anything last year. The grass has really taken over this past couple years. Got a lot more work to do on that, in the next few days.
Today will probley be mostly inside cleaning. All that dusting, vacuuming, kitchen cleaning stuff.

~~ Ocean ~~

Words To Live By

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying over the future.Love ......and you shall be loved.
All people smile in the same language.
A hug is a great gift..one size fits all.
It can be given for any occasion and it's easy to exchange.
Everyone needs to be loved...especially when they do not deserve it.
The real measure of a man's wealth is what he has invested in eternity.
Laughter is sunshine.
Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.
It's important for parents to live the same things they teach.
If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
Happy memories never wear out....relive them as often as you want.
Home is the place where we grumble the most, but are often treated the best.
The choice you make today will usually affect tomorrow.
Take time to laugh for it is the music of the soul.If anyone speaks badly of you, live so none will believe it.
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
Love is strengthened by working through conflicts together.
The best thing parents can do for their children is to love each other.
To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it.
We take for granted the things that we should be giving thanks for.
Love is the only thing that can be divided without being diminished.
Happiness is enhanced by others but does not depend upon others.
You are richer today if you have laughed, given or forgiven.
For every minute you are angry with someone, you lose 60 seconds of happiness that you can never get back.
Do what you can, for who you can, with what you have, and where you are.
The best gifts to give:
To your friend - loyalty;
To your enemy - forgiveness;
To your boss - service;
To a child - a good example;
To your parents - gratitude and devotion;
To your mate - love and faithfulness;

~~ Ocean ~~

Slide Show

1- Red Ruffle Azalea 8 years old
2- Lavender Wisteria - Smells Awesome
3- Sweetie Girl - My little helper
4- Red Ruffle Azaleas - New ones we just planted.
5- Gerber Daisy - Only one blooming today.
6- Flower Bed - lily's, Glads, Roses, etc...
7- Lavender Wisteria- Bigger Vine on side of yard.
8- 3 Flower Pot Holder- Shamrock, Blue Lobelia, Orange Rose

These are some of the flowers I have been talking about in my previous post.

You can get your picture show here at Slide. It will give you a html code to copy for your blog. Then go to template and place it in. I put mine just above where is says Begin content and I also changed the width to 700 and height to 150.

~~ Ocean ~~

Skeet Shoot

Happy First Day Of Spring Everyone !

Saturday was my first day of skeet shooting.
Using a 20 gauge shotgun. I hit the first one and the second no problem.
The guys saying hum did she say this was her first time. Me head starts to swell as they say oh she's doing good.
Then I miss the next four. These skeets are small ( about the size of a grapefruit) Flat orange clay (very fragile) things. Now they say hum maybe we should find some plastic one's that don't break on the ground.
Yeah hearing a few Dick Cheney jokes behind me in a low chuckles.
Ok they so quick to judge. I'm really trying to hit the thing now. Low and behold I did...boom boom boom get the next two. So from here on out it was hit and miss, had a lot of fun.

I Shot about 30 shells. My finger started to hurt from pushing the shells in the gun. That was the hardest part for me. They asked is your shoulder hurting, I reply nope just my finger. So I decided to stop for today, before I start missing a lot and really get the put down.
Go over to the skeet thrower and sit down, Bad move.....
Now I'm sitting there over an hour pulling the skeets for the guys. This is not an easy task either, if your not used to it.

ok so Sunday morning we getting ready to go over to sister in law's house to eat fish we caught earlier Saturday ( yes We, I caught two fish today...Smiling well that's better than none and the bass was a nice size ) We had a 5 gallon bucket almost full in all. So anyway Sunday morning , ohhhhh ouch I was aching with pain. Both my shoulders, under my arms, my whole back, my poor finger almost had a blister, it was red with pain. My neck, could hardly even turn my head.
After an hour of moaning took me a shower and got dressed. Feeling a little better I did manage to make it to dinner.

Monday morning still feeling a lot of aches and pain, thinking real hard on if I will be doing the skeet shooting thing ever again? It was fun while it lasted though :)

~~ Ocean ~~

Tech Tips

Happy St. Patrick's Day



1-Clear System Restore Points on Windows xp :

If you haven't done this in awhile it will free up approx. 5% free space on your computer.
First bring up your defragmenter and check your free space.Then do the steps below and check back with defragmenter to see how much free space you gained.
Accessories / system tools / disk cleanup
After your disk cleanup runs , a box will pop up. Click on More Options there. Then at the bottom System Restore, click on Clean up.
This will delete all restore points except the most recent one.


2-How to lock your PC without logging off :

If you want to lock your computer when you leave your desk, you need to change WinXP’s default setting for Fast User Switching. Open the Control Panel and click the User Accounts category. Click the Change The Way Users Log On Or Off listing to display your options. Deselect the checkbox next to Use Fast User Switching and click Apply Options. All you need to do from here is hold down the Windows function key and press L. This locks the computer and displays a logon window that prompts you for a password to unlock things.
However, like most people, you probably installed WinXP without a logon password. If so, this makes the lock function worthless because without a password, all it takes is pressing the ENTER key to unlock your PC. Go back to User Accounts in the Control Panel and click Change An Account. Click whichever account you need to change, and then click Create A Password to assign and confirm a password.

Check back for more, as I may be adding to this list.

~~ Ocean ~~

Wake Up!

A husband and wife are fighting and they’re giving each other the silent treatment.

Then the guy realizes that the next day, he needs his wife to wake him up at 5:00 AM for an early morning flight.

But he doesn’t want to be the first to break the silence (and LOSE), so he writes on a piece of paper, "Please wake me at 5:00 AM."He leaves it where he knows she’ll find it and goes to bed.

The next morning, he wakes up, and realizes that it’s10:00 AM and he has missed his flight.

Furious, he’s about to go charging off to his wife when he notices a note by the bed.

The note says, "It is 5:00 AM. Wake up."

~~ Ocean ~~

The Ice Cream Diet

As we all know, it takes 1 calorie to heat 1 gram of water 1 degree centigrade. Translated into meaningful terms, this means that if you eat a very cold dessert (generally consisting of water in large part), the natural processes which raise the consumed dessert to body temperature during the digestive cycle literally sucks the calories out of the only available source, your body fat.
For example, a dessert served and eaten at near 0 degrees C (32.2 degrees F) will, in a short time, be raised to the normal body temperature of 37 degrees C (98.6 degrees F). For each gram of dessert eaten, that process takes approximately 37 calories as stated above.
The average dessert portion is 6 oz, or 168 grams. Therefore, by operation of thermodynamic law, 6,216 calories (1 cal./gm/deg. x 37 deg. x 168 gms) are extracted from body fat as the dessert's temperature is normalized.
Allowing for the 1,200 latent calories in the dessert, the net calorie loss is approximately 5,000 calories.
Obviously, the more cold dessert you eat, the better off you are and the faster you will lose weight, if that is your goal.
Now that I think about it. Maybe this is why alot of people drink smooties when attemping to lose weight. I know I sure love them, any way , any time, and most any flavor.
Yum sounds good to me. I'm off to the freezer for some of my favorite Strawberry Ice Cream.
Today's Question : What flavor is your favorite Ice Cream? Brand? Any special way you like to eat it?

~~ Ocean ~~

First Spring Bulbs

On my shopping day this past Friday, I also got a bucket of a variety of bulbs. Glads, Lily, Dahlia, Freeesias and Acidanthera (not sure what this one is)

I spent about 3 hours out in the flower garden today. Planting my first spring bulbs. Clearing out some weeds, sticks, leaves. Put out some better top soil. Mixing in a couple small boxes of wildflowers. Did some raking and finished off with a topping of pine straw.

Wanted to make a note of this to see how many days it takes for them to come up and bloom.

~~ Ocean ~~

Pond Weekend

Had an ok weekend. Friday did some shopping and went out to eat at Chinese restaurant. Got myself a flower pot holder that holds three flower pots. Think I'm trying to hurry spring time along. My favorite time of the year. Great weather to get outside and work in my gardens. I have a few flower beds around the yard and usually have small vegetable garden out back.
Already had one orange color miniature rose to put in one pot. Bought a Shamrock plant with white flower, no leaves it has 3 leaf clovers for the green part. Nice looking plant, I had never seen one. With St. Patrick's Day coming soon, Just had to get it. So that went in my second pot. For the third, I found a plant with dark blue small flowers. That added a great pop of color to flower pot holder.

Today's Question for everyone: What is the first plant you can think of right now? Other than the three I just named :)

Had a day out by the pond Saturday. We just enjoyed the openness of the country. Sitting under the big oak tree and walking around in the woods always gives me such a peaceful, free feeling. Thinking of all the animals out there. How they survive, finding their own food and water. As they raise there young. Then we fished in the pond for 3 hours. I didn't even get a bite. Hubby caught two bass, brother caught a nice size brim. Very annoying after fishing for 3 hours and not get a bite, except for mosquitoes...Got plenty of bites from them. Was a wonderful pond day, had fun being outside. And I could write another whole page on what my daughter did and how much fun she had :)
Then Sunday was nice sunny day with middle 70's temp. So I got outside again and sat in the sun for about an hour and half. Didn't use enough sun screen. I'm all pink now, always happens my first few times of direct sunshine.

~~ Ocean ~~

Burn Flip Burn

Here is a great way to label your disk, no paper labels or Sharpies.
With LightScribe, you just burn your data, flip the disc, then burn your label.
Love it, Love it, Love it....My new light scribe is just wonderful, so glad I got it.
After Clicking the right buttons, we got a picture cd burned last night. So today I burned another picture cd. Then put one of daughter's birthday pictures from last month, her name and the year on the label, using the light scribe program. It burns it all into the cd with a laser.
I'm so proud of my first one, I think it turned out really good. Oh and btw if you would like to get one for yourself.
This is the make and model of the one I have:

HP External cd burner drive with light scribe
dvd740e DVD+R/+RW 16X
Double-Layer LightScribe Drive

I purchased mine at Walmart. I couldn't find one online at the walmart link, but they do have them in the stores. Mine is an External, they have the internal ones too.

~~ Ocean ~~

Light Scribe

Today's question for everyone: What is the last thing you bought for yourself?

43- Last thing I bought for myself : HP External cd burner drive with light scribe.

Have installed the software and plugged it in so far. Just got it last weekend.
You can make your own cd title and it is suppose to burn it right on the cd for you.
This will be great, if it's not hard to do, well I will find out soon. When I get the nerve to try it out.

~~ Ocean ~~

My Computer

Breaking News ~ Remembering Dana Reeves ~ She died last night at the age of 44~
After being diginosed with Cancer~Her huband Christopher Reeves

What kind of computer are you using right now?
When and where was the first time you used a computer?

Continue of 100 things about me:

41- My computer is a 5 year old Gateway 5300 laptop.

42-The first time I used a computer was : The year 2000.

Was in the library and had no idea what I was doing. I did get the page typed out. Then I asked someone sitting near by how to print it. They came over and showed me how. Then did a spell check, and put spaces between the paragraphs, I remember being so amazed at how Fast they did all that.

Year 2001 got my own computer. Never did take any kind of computer course. I did buy a book, think it was called Teach Yourself Visually. Very easy step by step instructions on how to do the simple things like e-mail and surfing the web.

lol yes 5 years ago, I didn't even know how to compose or send an e-mail. The computer I bought is a gateway solo5300 laptop, Pentium lll , with Windows xp Home. This is what I'm typing on right now, and still working just fine after 5 years.

~~ Ocean ~~

50 Things About Me

1- Starting with a few things I like...Anything new

2- Adventure...New places

3- Being with people who talk a lot, because I don't

4- Doing stuff outdoors....Fresh air

5- Shopping of course, even if I don't buy anything.

6- Favorite food...Vegetables

7- Fruit smoothes

8- Learning how to make pages on computer.

9- Chatting with people I meet online.

10- Music, mostly country and pop...Something up beat, not the sad stuff.

11- I Collect Lighthouse Figurines, Old Coins and Wind Chimes

12- Favorite Movies...A good comedy

13- And movies that keep you guessing what's going to happen next.

14- Taking pictures of everything my daughter does.

15- Scrap Booking Memories

16- Positive People

17- The only country outside the united states I have visited is Canada.

18- Been to 24 of the states in U.S. All on the east coast and a few others.

19- Planting flowers and vegetables, working in the gardens

20- Playing with my daughter.

21- A few things I don't like.... Hot pepper, hot spicy foods, olives

22- When someone repeats over and over what they are going to do. Just Do It!

23- Rude, arrogant, disrespectful comments.

24- People who do not care for themselves or others around them.

25- Some one that does not appreciate and take care of what they have.

26- I am Easy going , friendly

27- very honest, down to earth, tell you what I think kind of person.

28- Things I would like to be better at....Cooking, Sports, Singing

29- I would love to know how to play the guitar.

30- Have some sort of Business inside my home.

31-My first job was cashier in a grocery store for 5 years.

32-Then I was a secretary for 12 years.

33-My favorite vacation is a weekend bed and breakfast in the mountains.

34- I love to go to a part of the beach where their are not many people. Soak up the sun. Walk a little picking up a few sea shells. Back to my chair and just relax.

35- I should be wearing my glasses or contacts. Although I never do, unless I am driving in the rain or at an unknown place where I need to read the signs.

36- I do not like to be out late at night. 11:00 pm I want to be inside where ever I will be sleeping.

37-I hate to talk on the telephone. I almost always use the speaker phone if I do.

38-I am the youngest of three, I have two older brothers. 8 and 9 years older.

39- My Mother passed away 5 years ago.

40- My favorite tree is the Oak.

41- My computer is a 5 year old Gateway 5300 laptop.

42-The first time I used a computer was : The year 2000.

43- Last thing I bought for myself : HP External CD burner drive with light scribe.

44- 5-2

45- Brown Hair

46- Green Eyes

47- Like to play putt-putt

48- Bowling

49- Never had a broke bone

50- This is the first blog I have ever had.

~~ Sunflower ~~

3 days No Smoking

I have made it 3 whole days no smoking.
Tonight I have been getting a little of the thinking , I've just got to have one.
Ohhh come on girl, don't give in. You can do this! Remember why you quit.
Ok yeah there are a lot of reasons why I quit, so maybe it will help to name them here.

Reasons Why I Quit Smoking :

1- I always hated smelling like smoke the most.

2- Had decided a few years back not to smoke in the house. So having to go outside every time even in the cold, I really didn't like. Would rather do that then have my house smelling like smoke.

3- I would even change into my old smoke shirt every time when going out (7 times a day), so the shirt I was wearing that day didn't smell of smoke.

4- oh and having to brush my teeth after every smoke, whew that's a lot of brushing. It's a wonder I have any enamel left.

5-Wasting $30.00 a month.... $360.00 a year

6-My daughter just turned three years old and starting to notice. Some times she would say....What you doing out there mama, Blowing out your candle?
oh gosh, That sentence alone should make me quit forever!

7- Hubby stopped smoking 5 years ago. So needless to say he's really pleased that I have quit.

8- Health... Can breath better, no more coughing.

Updating my blog tonight. Drinking water, and chewing gum has helped the craving. Haven't been sleeping well. Maybe it's catching up with me and I'll get some sleep tonight. 10:30 pm and I'm heading that way very soon.

~~ Ocean ~~

Ash Wednesday

I am not Catholic, and never knew until today what
Ash Wednesday meant.
At Masses and Services of worship on this day, worshippers are blessed with ashes by the celebrating priest or minister. The priest or minister marks the forehead of each participant with black ashes, in the shape of a cross.The ashes are prepared by burning palm leaves from the previous year's Palm Sunday celebrations.
Today, Ash Wednesday, marks the beginning of Lent, a season of repentance in preparation for Holy Week and Easter.
After reading different blogs. I found another word I didn't know ( Lent ).
Lent is the practice of giving up something you feel you can not do without for the next 40 days until Easter Sunday.

Trying to quit smoking has been hard. So I decided today will be the day I stop. And hopefully Easter Sunday I will be enjoying a smoke free life.

~~ Ocean ~~