Sunday

So, I finished celebrating my birthday today with lunch at Albasha in Baton Rouge where my mom & step-dad treated Walter & I to lunch. We had a nice visit with the folks, and I got my new crock pot and a cute shirt! When I get the shirts I ordered with my birthday gift certificates from Land's End, i'll post some pictures of them too. My sista, Kim, always likes to see my new shirts!! The crock pot is a Versa ware Pro and you can saute veggies or brown meat directly on the stove with the removable stoneware pot thingie, then you can cook with it in the crock pot, put it in the oven, put it in the microwave, refrigerate it, or even freeze food in it! And it has a really cool feature - a timer that automatically sets the crock pot to warm when the time is up.

Walter's metal wall porch project came out really well. We put the wall at the end of the porch to block the neighbor's view directly into our living room, as well as to block our view of their junk in their yard and on their porch. The wall really looked kind of trashy, so Walter said he'd come up with a plan to cover it and give it a rustic/country kind of feel. I tell you, my Mr. Wizard can do anything and he really made this work, and in just a day! There is a shelf above the wall that we will put some fake plants on or something. We have decided to wait until after Walter's 50th party next month to buy furniture for the porch so that we can put tables & chairs on the porch for the party. The guest list is pretty large and we have 50 RSVPs so far, and another 50 who haven't decided yet. Yes, Walter is from a LARGE family!!!

We drained the pool 1/2 way on Friday, fixed the leaky connector, then refilled it yesterday. And what do we get?? GREEN water again!! When we first filled the pool, it took a week for the water to turn blue, and then it was really pretty and inviting. It makes me wonder what is in our tap water that would leave the water looking GREEN?? It doesn't escape my attention how close the color of the river is to the color of the pool! Yuck!!

Cameron will be home tomorrow after school and I'm always glad when he's back here. I hope he isn't still mad about the computer, but if he is, that isn't going to change my mind. As it is, he'll have THREE HOURS a day to use the computer. How can that not be enough?? If his grades look good, then we can talk about some extra time, but honestly, he doesn't need any more than that. It's sad because all of the kids have computers and that is how they socialize now - through games, instant messenger, email, myspace, facebook, etc., but hey! GO OUTSIDE!!!!!

Nothing much going on over here tonight. Maybe if it would stop raining for a full hour, we might could go sit on the swing or something. Walter put some cool lights on the pier, so maybe I can get some pictures of them tonight.

Be sure to visit tomorrow! Debbie from Blog Around the World is kicking off her world tour in the morning and the first stop is my wonderful state of LOUISIANA!!! I'm expecting lots of visitors and hopefully some new friends!! Yay!!