Hmmmmm...

Lots of good stuff on my list and I was trying to figure out why I hadn't blogged about it. Because I didn't have a computer. Well, I should get to it, then. Ready?

• Hubby and I have talked about putting ourselves on a no frills, no extra budget for the next year. Barring things like food and bills and essentials, no extra except what we already do, like dance. Great talk. Then I went out and bought two new shirts and a pair of shorts. Dumb ass. So we need to sit down and decide when we're getting started and what no extras actually means. We still need new front steps, a new fan motor for the A/C, a section of privacy fence for the garden and soil for the rest of the beds, the rest of the beds, new tires for his truck, and really that list needed bullet points of it's own. You get the idea. I am not looking forward to it, but I think it's now or never. We talk about it all the time, but I think it IS time. It will force us to be accountable to each other about where the money really goes. It's times like this I wish my feet were still growing. Good excuse for a new pair of shoes. Alright, I'll stop whining. About this. For now. But I'm gonna start again in just a second.
• I am really enjoying our local PBS stations. I wasn't sure we would. I was starting to miss my cooking shows something fierce. Flipping through channels, I came across a few good ones. We get three sets of PBS channels from various bigger cities around us. We get one all the way from the coast. One is in Spanish, so we took that one out of the saved channels. There is also a group of channels produced in Canada that we are really liking. The only problem is that when the weather gets too bad, we lose that set until the storm passes. I do miss some of the channels like TNT. They have great shows. The Olympics has dominated our television these last couple of weeks. I do miss having all the extra channels to watch some of the other events. We can't stream from the computer, so we've missed quite a bit. And I just now thought about streaming through the Wii. I am brilliant!! Late, but brilliant. 
• I am not a fan of coconut, at least not the shredded stuff you buy in the store. That is just a cruel thing to do to a coconut. As hubby and I were walking through the grocery store one day, he noticed beers from Kona Brewing Company. Well, sign me up for Hawaiian beer!! He got a pale ale that was scrumtious. I picked the coconut ale. Why? I don't know, but it was really good. It was really, really good. Hubby and I were supposed to be sharing one and then I noticed he had walked off with it. Oh, no, I do not even think so, Mister. So I got my own. Ha! That showed him. As I was retelling the story a couple of days later, I made the comment that although I am not a rum drinker at all (it doesn't like me and I don't like it back!) I liked Malibu Rum. Light bulb! It's not that I don't like coconut, it's that I only like my coconut with alcohol in it. Not surprisingly, I'm OK with that. 
• Our trip to Texas left a lot of work when we got home. The garden was horrible, the chicken coop needed to be cleaned, the laundry, the mail, the pool, the, the, the. Hubby and I took that weekend and worked our buns off. Our saving grace was our neighbor. Thank God for great neighbors. Our neighbor mowed the whole yard, collected the mail, and kept an eye on our chickens. Good neighbors can be hard to find, but he is wonderful. He keeps an eye on us, takes care of us, mows our front yard on a regular basis, and I could keep going. He knows everybody and everyone and if you need something he is the go-to guy. Love it!

And on that positive note, I think I'm done. That feels so much better. I'm going to bed now. The Olympics are still on and I need to get caught up. Go USA!!