Old Fashion Barter.....

Last night my neighbor (with the cutest two little boys) shows up at the door with an egg carton and a jar of freezer strawberry jam.....

Will you take a barter for more eggs? She asks..... since you wont let me pay you!....

My brown eggs are a hit, my parents and brothers families all eat my hen's brown eggs, certain friends and neighbors ask for my hen's brown eggs and I share with one stipulation, they accept them for nothing.....

I like my chickens running around, even if the rooster starts his serenade at 4:30 in the morning... When I hear it, I know I lived through another night, whew......

So I consider the eggs a bonus and by product and I am happy to share.... I mean if they need the poo, I'd share that for free, too..... in this day and age I would probably make more money on the poo.... go figure.....

It's hard for people to accept something for nothing with no strings, I think it is something that needs to be fostered and spread, especially in these times, people need to think about returning to the old fashion values and principals of our country folk grandparents (at least mine). If you have the ability to help your family and neighbours and those down on their luck, you do so..... that is it period..... So gram's and gramp's, I watched, I learned, never was there a finer example for a kid, than you two..... still miss you.....

So if you find yourself headed down my lane.... stop in the Willows and I'll be happy to share....

What can I say.....

Graduation weekend was full of wonderful reunions, tears of joy, bittersweet sentiment, I could go on..... I was not prepared (I thought I was) to see Samantha accept her diploma.... the end of one road and the beginning of a new journey, one I have limited access to......hmmmm.....

Even though something/someone was missing (his own choice) I had so many friends come from the past to share the day, friends from my school days, my family was there screaming their heads off and of course my best bud was there, even if she was green from the evening before....

I got to meet up with two girlfriends from school days that I have not seen in 8-10 years. Funny, it seemed like no time had passed at all, it was full of joy and a reminder to me that no matter what happens tomorrow I still have these wonderful people in my life, how lucky can you be?....

Friday, ended my three day First MSP course at Groton Cycle Center in Groton, NY..... And I PASSED..... so I will be getting my road test waiver and I can get my licence and get on the road without a babysitter...... Wahooo!!!
The course was hard, these guys are dedicated to making sure you get out on the road and know how to handle your motorcycle safely..... These two big guys (Don and Ted) were out there on the course barking at you to "keep your head up", "go faster", "go slower", "where were you looking?, yep, and that's why your bike went that way!","use your front and back brake" but really they were teddybears, that take their jobs very seriously... I learned so much, came away with a lot more self confidence a very sunburned nose and I found out my motorcycle jacket "is" waterproof. I think I will be hearing their voices in my head for sometime to come...... I highly recommend this to anyone riding.....http://grotoncyclecenter.com/

Quilt.....

For Samantha's Graduation is done... and ready for her college dorm.... Girl's from work are helping me show it off.... So Graduation is this Saturday.... I'll be the one that they have to rescue from the ton of snot rags that I will be buried under.....

I have taken a few days off from the office to take my motorcycle course, tonight was the first class with a bunch of fun people so the next two days are going to be a riot...

This weekend will be one party after another, we are waiting till August for Samantha's so she can enjoy all of her friends party's....

I was....

hungry.... I missed breakfast, my own fault, I just could not get out of my cozy bed this morning.... so I was LATE....skidding out the door, grabbing bags, shoes on my way, had to stop and think, did I remember to brush my teeth? I know I was in the shower, but did I actually wash my hair? You know that kind of morning....

So my tummy is grumbling, like Pooh Bear.... where to go to lunch.....hmmm...what sounds good? Ummm Chinese??? Not now..... peanut butter and jelly, anyone?

I better go home and check on the cats, I had how many...... 1, 2, 3..... hey, has anyone seen Gizmo??? Ya, know that nasty sassy one..... here kitty.....

Whew....what a weekend

That included everything from the ER to a dead rat..... yep... I said a dead rat....live one would have been really bad....

Friday night.... a frantic call from new sister in law, can I get there now,to watch the girls, need to take brother #2 to the ER..... so I drove 80 and made the 5 min trip in 2min (not surprising to those that know my driving!) Brother #2 had gotten into something and was having a severe allergic reaction, hives and trouble breathing.... So I hung/snuggled with my girls.....ya, I really hated that....

Saturday....besides my normal trips to the feed store and the people feed store.... I went line dancing early in the evening at the Sand Dollar in Elmira, NY, which was a BLAST, I am really getting the hang of this, don't look like a newbie anymore....got hit on by a guy with "really" bad pick up lines so I got to practice my "thanks, that's sweet but...." and then "gulp" and "gulp" again...I headed off to the movies and met up with a date.....The movie "Proposal" was very funny and I had fun....(yep...that is where this part ends...for now)

Sunday..... well it started with me screaming my head off for Nate "aka..hitman" but to his disappointment the RAT was already dead and in the dog kennel.... NOPE, not sure how this happened, but Zeke is now a rat killer, and all I want to know is where the heck I could have a rat that big anywhere on my property(really it was huge).....and how he got it in the house without me noticing it in his mouth.... hmmmm.... could be I was still thinking about the date....maybe....
Next was me covered in mud from head to toe....started out weeding my flowerbeds.... I got muddy... then I decided I was already muddy so why stop there, I got out the 4-wheeler and got on the wet,muddy trail and cranked her up and went through every mud hole I could find.... YeeeHaww..... well lets just say everthing, me and the honda had to be hosed off...

The day ended with buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken, at my folks with all us kids and our spawn.... Celebrating our "POPS" and he just loves KFC, and we just loved not having to cook, even though the closest KFC is 45 mins away, I didn't mind..... ya all know I love to drive, just not slow.... I gave Pop's a mushie card, couldn't help it this year the perfect card was there with just the right words, he read it and gave me that misty look, only for daughters, tucked the card away (usually he shares them with everyone) but I knew this one hit the spot and he didn't want my full-o-crap brothers to pick at it....it was too special.....

New Phone Phenomenon.....

Well, the kids are out of school and today is Nate's last Regents exam... He has been biking to his exams and hanging with his bud's in town... He is still required to call and let me know where he is headed and whom he is hanging with, despite all the eyes I have in town watching his antic's....

Yesterday, I did not get a call after the exam to let me know his plans, I tried calling his phone, no answer, sent him a text giving him a "you better call or else"... a few minutes later I see I have a voicemail.... thinking that my threat of chores, till you die, worked.... I listen to my voicemail and it was a collection of young male voices talking about various things, bikes, the test and then "look at the hooters on that babe" then various cat calls, whistles.... huh......

Yes, I had receive the new phenomenon a "butt dial". See these kids keep there phones in their back pockets and with the dial pad on the outside they can redial the previous number, just by smacking their behind on something.....

I now knew he was alive, breathing and a normal teenage boy..... 3 hours later I get a call....
"Oh mom, I am sooooo sorry I forgot to call you (in response to the chores till you die), me and so and so are doing this and will be home by 4pm....

My response: Obviously, I raised your Ass, right because it called me 3 hours ago.....but everything above your ass is in trouble, see you at 4pm..... Love you.....

He will be cleaning the chicken coop this weekend.....

And in this corner.....

This is in response to the Boxing Match that Coffee Man has going on over at his Coffee Shop : I still do not beleive that at the end of round three the husband is winning.... I demand a re-count... I am still waiting to see if we can get a match with the Mother-Out-Laws..... I got my gloves...... at least I wont have to worry about knocking out her teeth, she can put them in the glass before we start!***slap knee, snort,***


So here goes in this day and age of computers:


INSTALLING A HUSBAND........



Dear Tech Support,


Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and I noticed
a distinct slow down in the overall system performance, particularly
in the flower and jeweler applications, which operated flawlessly
under Boyfriend 5.0.


In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs,

such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, and then installed

undesirable programs such as NBA 5.0, NFL 3.0 and Golf Clubs 4.1.


Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and Housecleaning 2.6 simply

crashes the system.


Please note that I have tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems,

but to no avail.


What Can I do?


Signed Desperate




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Dear Desperate,



First, keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package,

while Husband 1.0 is an operating system.



Please enter command: ithoughtyoulovedme.html and try to
download Tears 6.2 and do not forget to install the Guilt 3.0
update. If that application works as designed, Husband 1.0
should then automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0
and Flowers 3.5.


However, remember, overuse of the above application can
cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5,
Happy Hour 7.0 or Beer 6.1.


Please note that Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will
download the Farting and Snoring Loudly Beta.


Whatever you do, DO NOT under any circumstances install
Mother-in-Law 1.0 (it runs a virus in the background that will
eventually seize control of all your systems resources.)


In addition, please do not attempt to reinstall the Boyfriend 5.0
program. These are unsupported applications and will crash
Husband 1.0.


In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have
limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly.
You might consider buying additional software to improve
memory and performance.

We recommend: Cooking 3.0

Good Luck,


Tech Support

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I loved this, I wish I knew who to give credit too!


Additional software, hmmmm.... what other applications


would you girl's want??