Day 126 - Lisa

Picked the colors for my bathroom and bedroom.  I got the blues!  About the post-it's on the doors.  When I have to leave notes for the locksmith about his work, it never good.  12 PAINFUL hours.

Day 126 - Sis

Dishwasher delivered. Small problem, we weren't told WE were suppose to disconnect old one and remove for installation of the new one.  Delivery men don't remove the item, only install, so here it sits until we can find someone to take care of it, plus now we have to find someone to haul the old one away. No biggie but it has to be installed before the granite is placed on top of the cabinet it  sits in.  Next problem of the day.  Decided and advised we should change all locks on our doors, all seven of them.  Okay, Lisa is able to get a locksmith out this very day.  Up drives this very petite man with an accent and a bit of an attitude. He starts work around one, has doorknob sets, deadbolts, screws, washers everywhere he's working and he begins another door before he finishes one.  At 6 p.m. with every door  either missing a doorknob, deadbolt or put together wrong  he gives and tells us he will have to get help tomorrow to finish.  Ah, what? Lisa tells him, "We can't leave without being able to lock the doors, we don't live her yet."  He's astounded, "You don't?"  Guess he didn't notice our makeshift dining set and no other furniture in all the areas he worked.   So he jerry rigged them to close, oh there also was one left with no doorknob in it!  It was plugged and covered with a plastic bag.  We leave for the night with fingers crossed, okay we were a little crossed too.

Day 125 - Lisa

oneeya enjoying her new backyard.  She was a very happy doggie!  On a somber note, I was so sad to find out about Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys passing away today.  He was a rapper, a singer, a musician, a director and a humanitarian but I love the picture below of him as a father.  Far too young at 47!  My fav of his rhymes, "One lone Beastie I be, all by myself with nobody."  Just tickled me to always sing it, for what reason, I have no clue and that's always the best.  Got to see the Beastie Boys with Run DMC back when Walk this Way and License to Ill took off.  They were so outrageous.  LOL

Day 125 - Sis

We are homeowners again and the adventure starts.  First we had to go to the attorney's office to sign all the paperwork.  Our agent, Cathy then invited us to lunch, fortunately it was a restaurant we all liked and Lisa and I had recently ate at for the first time.  So lunch was our second visit to, The Three Blind Mice and it's very close to our newly purchased home, less than a mile.  We enjoyed our meal and still had time before our first appointment. This card table served as our office, which means we lost our apartment dinette set. LOL

Day 124 - Sis

One day away from introducing oneeya to her new yard.  We've been telling her all about it for so long think she's just ignoring us.  Wait until she sees this view!

Day 124 - Lisa

Congratulations to my nephew Ryan.  Graduating from ASU today.  Very proud and curious to see how life unfolds for him.

Day 123 - Sis

Boxes being made for the move to go along with the ones in storage. If you count all of them and include the ones I had to make at different jobs over the years, I probably could have built a prefab house. The cat is grateful though to have some new hideouts.

Day 123 - Lisa

They are growing up fast.  Today I stopped and fed them Panda Express fried rice.  No one else wanted it.

Day 122- Sis

Read two books last month, one fiction, The Last Child and the other, non fiction, The Invisible Thread.  Enjoyed them both although very different story lines but similarities in the two boys written about as far as survival in a grown up or so called grown up world.  Don't know how much time I will have to read in the next few months, busy, busy, busy.

Day 122 - Lisa

I went here mentally several times today.  Just closed my eyes and daydreamed about the lazy ways of Nawlins, the warm fuzzy feeling of a drink, the pulse of the drum under my feet and the trumpet in my ears.  Less than 90 days away keeps me focused.

Day 121 - Sis

Very large trendy jewelry?  Only electric stove burner coils, that I will soon be rid of and like the old saying goes, cooking with gas!  By mid-June should have my cast iron pans heating up on new stove as long as we can get a gas line installed. Please, please!

Day 121 - Lisa

Agonizing trying to decide colors for my room.  I know it will be blue and brown but what shades of blue?  Perwinkle has my heart this week.   

Day 120 - Lisa

Um, my mom is freaking me out down there in that other box.  She looks like Javier Bardem from No Country for Old Men.  I think I'll sleep lightly till she gets her haircut.

Day 120 - Sis

No, I didn't forget to comb it, just proving I need a haircut.  I'm sure there are whispers that I should color it.  No to that. If I start with coloring then I have to get the wrinkles taken care and that isn't quick or cheap.

Day 119 - Sis

As you have read Lisa's day 119, I will just add my version of that trip. Yes, 45 minute traffic jam, then turning off the freeway too soon, added another 15 minutes to the destination.  Love walking around Cost Plus but my shopping was very limited; pumice sponge, cinnamon sticks and teeny, tiny pack of saffron. Left that shopping area to find the Target store.  Missed a turn off again and ended up in a lovely setting of shady trees and quietness, nice. It was a business center, apartment complex, where Lisa reset the GPS,  and we were off with new directions, about a block away from where we started! Lisa bought the lamp and shade she wanted and maybe she was feeling like I was left out and I needed to purchase something, because she almost insisted I find something to buy. " Is there anything you need while we're here?", she asked. "Nope."  Lisa, kindly tries again, "Nothing?"  "Okay already." I picked up a box of envelopes and a baguette for the artichoke dip/topping bought at Cost Plus. Yep it was just a whirlwind shopping spree!

Day 119 - Lisa

Waiting around to get into our home is not a good thing.  All the idle time is causing us to shop. I hate clothes and shoe shopping but I can tolerate accessory shopping.  So I knew going in that a day spent at Cost Plus and Target would not be good.  Sure enough they had a SALE going!  Chunks of bath soaps for .99cents.  Lavender bath lotion!  Aloe bath salts!  Wine from Spain and some Coppola Sophia I love 30% off.  Some candle holders, a pumice stone and a 60's bubble lamp.  Oh and throw in some artichoke pesto, hot diggity!  I only got us lost both coming and going to Cost Plus and sat 45min in a traffic jam, so 5 hours later we were finally home.  I was exhausted but I'm sure going to smell good!

Day 118 - Lisa

When we had our two doggies, Sammy & Simba, my kitty Nicia and lived in Cali, we had a daily routine of greeting.  I'd come home from work and go sit on the stairs.  The dogs would stand at the bottom getting their pets and pats in, while my cat would come down the stairs and rub all against me and sit next to me.  I miss our babies so much. Here is Georgia with our new cast of characters I really gotta work on a better routine.  I come home and they wait for me to change my clothes which includes if you look below a little nap time.  I had no clue I took that long.  However, the dog and her welcome lovers are a tad over the top.  I cannot wait to get into the new house so we can start the less sticky, fur spitting and wet "staircase" greetings!

Day 118 - Sis

Bought a straw broom to sweep the outside patio/porch here.  Made me think what this broom was used for besides cleaning up. Let's see, a horse when you play cowboys and indians, (either side), flying on it when you pretended to be a witch, a bat you used in the ninth inning with two outs, two strikes, three balls and you hit the homerun to win the World Series, a bug swatter, a javelin, a jousting stick. So many uses but for the mother of seven wild kids, (my Mom), it came in handy when your kids would hide under a bed to escape punishment and you would take that broom, get down on your knees and jab at those hooligans until they surrendered to your command to come out NOW. Amazing that so many people always talk about how sweet and gentle my Mother was.  Ask me about her flyswatter method, ho boy!;-

Day 117 - Lisa

And here I thought she'd wear Puma!

Day 117 - Sis

Stepped out early this evening for the last dog walk of the day and saw this sky.  Almost looks like some of these dark and ominous clouds are going to set down on the roofs.  I was anticipating a rain storm but none arrived.

Day 116 - Lisa

I learned the word "escutcheon" today.  I had no clue that a faucet deckplate was called a escutcheon.  Learn something every day.  Our new counter will not have an escutcheon by the way.

Day 116 - Sis

Don't you just love it when the items you order come to you in this condition?  So how many people get to preview what I bought before I receive it?   Please, here, take a look and maybe take the goods with  this opening making it available.  Little frustrated since I had ordered four items almost a month ago, with the invoice saying they should be delivered by April 13th!  I am receiving them one at a time with two more to go. Complaint already made first and last time I order from this company.

Day 115 - Lisa

While cleaning out the warehouse we found this tool pouch.  It was eerie as it was worn and belonged to a co-worker we worked with for about 15 years.  We had learned he passed a couple weeks earlier.  I had corresponded with his wife a few times since his passing.  So I sent her the pouch.  I'm so glad we found it because it really did kind of define him.  It also brought back a lot of memories of my Dad and his big double stacked rolling tool box.  We brought my Dad's tool box and tools with us, in a few weeks it will be out of storage and I'll get to smell the oil and grease I grew up with, look at the old STP and racing stickers all over it.  His tools remind me of his hands.  Always cut up from his job but always gentle with us.  I hope Seaborn's kids find the comfort and memories in that tool pouch that I do having my Dad's toolbox with me.

Day 115 - Sis

I really miss not being around my tribe, Amah Mutsun, in California. Making jewelry was one of the things some of us could do to earn money for the tribe's financial needs and for regalia. Making this type of jewelry is something that gives me pleasure in the ability to contribute and the circle of company it brings into my life.  Hundreds of hours sitting around a table with tribal relatives sharing ideas, stories and some of our language we have learned, which gives us pride in who we are and where we came from.

Day 114 - Lisa

On a day where I did not need any more set-backs this thing cost me $400 big ones.  Holy cow, so when does your vehicle become too old?  When do you say time to put ole Betsy down and find another mode of transportation?  I've had my 4Runner for 12 years.  People tell me she's got at least another 100,000 left in her.  I hope my pocketbook does too!

Day 114 - Sis

When I first saw Lisa's truck I thought someone threw lentil soup all over it but quickly realized she needs to find another parking spot away from a particular tree!

Day 113 - Lisa

My mom taught my sister and I to play Scrabble at a very young age.  She never showed us any mercy.  So by the time I hit about 16 or so I finally beat her.  It was such a fantastic feeling.  Now we pride ourselves on playing a 700+ combined word score games.  So when we found this mug we were excited. Unfortunately they had no "S" or "L", so only my sister Yolanda is the winner today!  

Day 113 - Sis

Well these were a discovery and surprise.  Who knew, individual designs, sun tinted and part of the sales is donated to the Sierra Club.  I thought my regular old prescription sunglasses and old clothes were enough but that shows how much I know about fashionable gardening wear.

Day 112 - Lisa

Yeah, getting a bit anxious.  Found these cute tin garden markers with sticks to put them in the ground.  I splurged and bought many.  So we "had" to get the seeds too.  Beautiful garden area at the Ace Hardware in Decatur.  Apparently, it's a hot spot to sell chickens too!

Day 112 - Sis

This was a day of different stops in our area and a truly free day the three of us, Lisa, oneeya and me had to waste. Decided we should use the time before we're fully involved in home ownership. Two promising stops of the day were when we went to our town's local flea market to see what that was like. Very quiet and small. Maybe 10 canopies set up with items that made us realize we could probably make a few bucks from some of our junk in storage! Second we headed to an Ace Hardware/nursery combo. Lisa and I enjoyed this part very much, oneeya found sitting in the truck wasn't all that, but she had to notice the other dogs, in their vehicles, solved the boredom by sleeping. I saw this sign that made me think one chicken was for sale, actually means six or seven. Hoping that math applies to other future purchases we may have.;0 This beautiful object, in a garden setting, made me wonder if it was a rain barrel, tall planter or huge ashtray. Oh we did fit in a visit to the dog park for the little pouting girl.

Day 111 - Lisa

I'm starting to enjoy these Friday night dinner and drinks routine we are on.  Sangria - oh Spain you cannot come fast enough.  Hopefully my future has me sitting at an outside table sipping a glass of Sangria gazing at a anciet Castle or Church.  ;>

Day 111 - Sis

Somethings just catch your eye, maybe because they remind you of your younger days or because you're too young and they are all new to you. These make me want to write a country song!