Rainy Day Monday

Well so much for the hard work put into putting up the tarp. The rain came and brought it down. Guess we need to buy stronger less stretchy rope to get it to stay in place. Our friends took this picture the next day when they went up to finish setting up their camp.

My car is currently at my work, hopefully getting the wheel bearing fixed. I rode the bus today, which I don't really mind doing, but all the walking in the pouring down rain just sucks. I had to go to the store, so I got off the bus about 3/4 of a mile away from home and it's been raining non stop all day. So I walked home in the rain. Then I had to walk a mile to my daughter's school to pick her up and then walk a mile back. This time we had umbrella's but we were still soaked when we got home. I really hope my car gets fixed quickly and really hope it's only the wheel bearing and nothing else. We are about financially wiped out after getting our camp site and the canopy for camp. Our pocket books can't handle much more.

I'm kind of bummed that I won't be able to go to my group power class at the gym tonight. It's my favorite class to go to. I guess all the walking today is exercise enough. Mark is home tomorrow and Wednesday so I can drive the truck to the gym if I have too. I'd better have my car back by then.

I'm making something new tonight. It's Green Giant frozen Pasta & Broccoli in Alfredo sauce. I don't usually make this kind of thing but it looks good. I've got chicken cooking to cut up and add to it. *Hopes it's good*

I think I'm going to go read for a bit while my child is watching the shows I DVR'd for her last night.

I Am Exhausted.

Today we went up to camp and set up the majority of our campsite. We built a 10X20 foot canopy where our tent trailer will live for the next 5 to 6 months. Then we cleared moss from the ground and made a makeshift border of our site with it. There was so damn much of it. My back is killing me from all that we did. We set up our oldest child's tent. Then our friends came up and helped set up the tarp that resides over the fire pit that we moved over from another spot after we got the tarp up. Needless to say we worked our asses off today for a good 6 hours and are home now exhausted.

Now we are waiting patiently for the darn pizza guy to get here with our food. Too tired to cook or do much else tonight. Ah a quick 20 min break while I ate my food.

I found out today I won a copy of Girls in Trucks by Katie Crouch from a contest at Savy Verse & Wit. I'm so excited. It is the first time I've won a book giveaway. I can't wait until it gets here so I can read it!

In the past week or two I've found a wonderful world of book review blogs I never knew existed. There are so many books that sound so good to read. I know where to go now if I need something new to read and can't decide what sounds good.

It would be cool if I did reviews but I'm not too terribly good at that kind of thing. I'm just good at reading the books. Trying to describe what I liked or dislike about a book without giving away too much of it, is too hard for me to do. So for now I'll just read the reviews and enter giveaways from all the wonderful sites I've ran across recently.

Well it has been a long day I'm off to watch this weekends PBR even on TV.

New Book Loot

If anyone happens to stumble across this page, you will soon find out that I am totally addicted to books and reading. I have so many books that I own shelved all around my house and some that are boxed up because I have no more room for them. Occasionally I will post about new books I've added to my growing collection.

I had a 40% off coupon for Borders, so I picked up the newly paperback release of Scott Westerfeld's Extras. Then I found a book in the clearance bins that looked good so I grabbed that one too. It's called Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.




Today was the first day of our local library's book sale. They hold it twice a year and I usually find a few books that look good. On top of that I tend to pick up books that are out of my normal reading realm, so I like to think I'm broadening my horizons with these purchases.

Lets see I got: The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve, While I Was Gone by Sue Miller, Swollen by Melissa Lion, Memory Boy by Will Weaver, Three Junes by Julia Glass, Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly, and Dragonflies & Dinosaurs by Kate Austin.






Hmm I wonder if there is an easier way to add pictures and make them line up nicely. They way they have loaded is almost more than I can bear. Yes I can be a tad OCD at times. I like things to look symmetrical and neat. The blogger tool has kinda strewn them about. I find I can cut and paste but not move to where I want after the paste. Hmm oh well, I don't think I'll be doing too many of these posts and by the time I do the next one, I might have learned a thing or two about Blogger.

All in all I got 9 books for around $13.50 today. Not too shabby at all.

In other news, my car decided to make this horrendous grinding noise and after sitting for an hour at Les Schwab for an estimate, I find out my wheel bearing is bad. Lucky me, I work at an auto shop that can fix it for me a hella lot cheaper than anyone else will charge. I guess it could been worse.

Because I spent the afternoon at the tire place, I had to change my appointment with Comcast to come out to Monday. I hope I can keep this one, I had to change it twice already and all I really need them to do is check the line signal to make sure we are getting the strength we need through them. I think we have water built up somewhere that is slowing it down and causing intermittent outages.

So I am thinking positive thoughts for the rest of the weekend.

New Campsite

So last week we were lucky enough to get our own campsite for the season. Unfortunately the campground had it's worst storm in over 50 years this past winter. Our site is pretty messy and had a lot of undergrowth that we need to clear. We went up Wednesday for an hour or so to start clearing the spot where our tent trailer will spend it's time for the next 5 months.

To the left is what we cleared of moss and such on Wednesday. The picture is showing one side of our site. The site is actually really good sized and with two different driveway paths. There are rest rooms right across the road, which is a big plus to have. No hiking halfway across the huge campground to find one. All in all we are very happy with what we got and once we get it cleaned and cleared I'll be even happier.

We are supposed to go up on Saturday to get rid of the moss we cleared and put up the canopy we bought to cover the tent trailer and last but not least, move the fire pit to another location. After that, there is still a ton of clean up that needs to be done but at least we can start camping and clean as we go this season. I'm hoping to take our first camping trip in two weeks. We can't next weekend. We have a family BBQ for Mother's Day on Saturday. But the weekend after that, weather provided, we will try and get up there for the night.

We have friends up there that have their own site also. It's how we got on the waiting list and got our site so fast. They hosted us all last summer and we had the best time. I am looking forward to another season of summer fun with them.