I Have Moved!

Just to let everyone know, I have moved my blog and I no longer will be using this one here at blogger. The new blog is:

MarshaRozalski.com

This will be the last post on this blog so if you want to keep up with me be sure to update your bookmarks!

A Garden - FINALLY!!

Well, I finally found someone to till up the garden! The neighbor boy borrowed one of the neighbors tillers and did up my garden in less then an hour! It's a kick butt tiller too. The kind where the blades are in back of the wheels and not in front of them. I want one of those so bad!! I will be planting at the beginning of the week. It's supposed to rain tonight and tomorrow and I'm busy Sunday so maybe Monday I can start. I hope Chuck gets the blades changed on the mower soon so I can use the clippings in the garden to keep the weeds at bay.

Here is Richard doing up the garden.

I know it's in an odd place (right off the back deck) but when we rented the place out in 2006 while we were in Florida, the woman had 3 truck loads of sand brought in for her pool. This is where she put it. So, I now use it for a garden. It does REALLY well in this sandy spot. We are also going to be tearing up the back yard and getting rid of all the stumps this summer and I don't want Chuck or anyone else running the garden over with a bulldozer!

Tennis

The boys had a Tennis match yesterday. They played doubles and I finally remembered to bring my camera! Here are some pictures of them playing.

Oh My!

Okay, I'm sitting in the library using the kiddy game table so I can plug in my laptop and this kid about 15 or 16 just comes over to me asks me if I know this song, can't remember what song now, and then proceeds to sing the English version and THEN the Japanese version right here in the library!! I was SO uncomfortable!! He had purple nail polish and had a long cloth type raincoat on, just over his shoulders, and had on a t-shirt and jeans. Then talks for a while and leaves. YIKES!!


Joe had his finally band concert last night. We met his girlfriend and her mother. She seems very nice. I wanted to get a picture of both of them since they were dressed up but Joe was having none of that! LOL!

I did get a picture of the 2 of them sitting way on the other side of the gym but it turned out really dark. Oh well!

Today the piano tuner came and for 5 hours all I heard was PING, PING, PING, PING, PING!!! He really hits all those keys HARD! BUT, we now have a piano that sounds really nice!! We have been living with an WAY out of tune piano for almost a year. We had it tuned but it went out that same week. ARG!! We have to get used to it. All the songs sound wrong to us since we are used to the piano being a half step lower and flat.

Flat Tire

Man, what a day today has been! Tomorrow we are going to a birthday party so Chuck wanted to take me out for Mother's Day today. He wanted to take me to Erie and look around for porch swings and go out to eat and see a movie. We left at 2pm and we get about 10 minutes from the house and I hit something in the road and popped my back passenger side tire! I pull off into a gass well driveway and we had to call his brother, Dave, to come rescue us.

WHY?

Because my spare has been dead since 2006!!! It has a bent rim and doesn't hold air, though the tire itself is fine. Wonderful!! Now we are stuck with no spare and had to call for help. Dave FINALLY gets there and takes us home and we took Chuck's truck to Erie. We got the tire fixed at Wal*Mart. We now have lost 2 hours!

But, we did have a great time! We ate at the Outback, looked around at the swings, stopped at the video store with the boys, saw the movie "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" and then went back to my truck to changed the tire.

BUT, I must have left the key turned in the ingnition as the truck was dead and I couldn't get the doors open. You have to have power to use the keypad or the remote. I haven't EVER used the key to open the door so it's froze up! SO, we left my truck there and we will deal with it tomorrow. I guess I won't be going to church and getting my flower :(

CJ's 14th Birthday

Yesterday was CJ's birthday. They only had a half day at school so I picked them up at 11:30am and went to Ashtabula. Joe got spacers put in his teeth. He will be getting a device put in to widen his upper jaw on the 20th of this month.

After that I took them to the video game store. CJ knows he is getting a XBox 360 for his birthday so he took his money and got himself a game and Joe bought him one with his own money! I was surprised at this! I bought him one too for his birthday.

Then we went and got them both new shoes. They REALLY needed them and they really like their new shoes and I liked that they were on sale!

I then went to Wal*Mart to get CJ's cake. They only had a pink cake in the size and flavor I wanted, oh well! LOL!

We finally got home around 2:30pm. CJ had his friend from school come out to play his name is Collin. Dave, my nephew, was here too helping Chuck with cleaning up the yard. Chuck tried to mow with the mower, LOL!! What a joke!! It really did NOTHING LOL!! So, he needs to put new blades on it and get it so that when we turn the key it will turn over and start running. BUT, the back deck and around the house got cleaned up. Chuck likes to put stuff EVERYWHERE and doesn't care how long it stays there!! This drives me crazy!!! So, now I know that if I want the place cleaned up, throw a big party!!! LOL!!!

So, when Collin came out we had CJ open his present.

Here is his cake

Here is the neighboros dog, Teddy, his is a BIG MOOCH!! He was here ONLY for the food, LOL!!

Here is a group eating, Collin is sitting in the back and that is Chuck's youngest brother, Paul, the girl in the yellow is Pauls and the other girls are Brenda's.

We had a fireworks show, of course!! We are fireworks crazy! It was a good show, though not huge. We all had a really good time. Dave spent the night with the boys to play on the Xbox, I went into there room at 2am and told CJ to shut it down and go to sleep! Joe and Dave where sleeping on the floor. I guess CJ was too excited to sleep, LOL!!

All in all, I think he had a good day. OH, I asked him if he wanted to invite his girlfriend and he told me that they had to break up. CJ told me that she LIED to her parents about the movie!! She said she was going with her girlfriends and didn't mention that CJ would be there too!! She isn't aloud to date till she is 16 so they had to break up. Might be for the best and he's fine with it so I am not going to worry about it. I'm glad CJ didn't lie to me about it.

He got about $45 in cash for his birthday too, this made him quiet happy!!

This Weeks Happenings

Not much has really happened this week so far. CJ will be 14 tomorrow! Then in Sept. Joe will be 13 so I will officially have 2 teenagers come Sept 5th!

The boys have been playing a lot of Tennis matches this week. This was supposed to be the last week of Tennis but they may have some make-ups to do so it may run into next week. I know I will be glad not to have to run here and there all the time.

We have to fix our mower. Chuck wanted to have a party here for CJ tomorrow and our mower needs some serious help! 2 tires, a battery, blades, and a starter thingy, LOL!! I'm glad that Chuck wanted this party, makes him fix the mower! At least I hope so. He says he's going to do that today. I usually mow once a week. I'm tired of blowing up the tires and jump starting it and turning it over with a screwdriver!!! That is how I mowed last year and this year I REFUSE to mow like that so we have REALLY tall grass right now LOL!!

Chuck bought a bunch of fireworks so we'll be having a show for his birthday too.

Work has been pretty steady for Chuck but we wish it was more. We are slowly starting to pay off all the bills that accumulated over the winter with him being out of work. This summer we are going to work on paying off everything we can and paying things up for a whole year so that the bills that come in over the winter will be much smaller. The roofing seems to be going much better this year then last year. Thank God he has his roofing company cuz the logging SUCKS!! But, I'm not going there!

Today is lunch with the girls. Every Thursday at 12:30 we meet at Crazy Dave's Sugar Bowl in town and have lunch. It's not just girls though. Sometimes we bringing our spouse's or bosses, LOL! But we have a good time. It used to be us girls that used to workout together every morning at Curves, but Curves shut down here in town and now it's just a group of people that hang out every Thursday to chat and catch up with each other.

WLD Ranch

Today WLD Ranch had an open house where you can go for free and ride horses, shoot bow and arrows, throw hatches, take a wagon ride, and all kinds of stuff. The boys didn't want to ride horses because it was just in a circle going very slow, they thought they were to old for that, LOL! The line for the wagon ride was WAY to long so we didn't do that either. They loved shooting arrows. We took my nephew David with us too.

Then they went over and threw the hatchets.





My friend Christina and her husband, Dave and their three girls where there too. It was good to see her and to hang out with them. She forgot her camera at home so I took pictures of her girls doing all their stuff too. She was glad that I remembered my camera! LOL!! I actually took my big camera as it has a really good zoom on it. It's bulky and I don't always take it with me to places.

All in all, we had a good day! Got home by 4:15 and the kids are now watching "School for Scoundrels" then I have to run Dave up to the Church and we'll just hang out around here for the rest of the day.

Helping with the Sub Sales

I went to the church on Wed. around 10am to help with the subs. I was on the veggie crew. The kids come in later and put the sandwiches together. I was doing tomatoes and lettuce. I was doing the tomato slicer, which rocks! Wish I took a picture of it. You put the tomato on it and push it through and bam, perfect slices! It's quick and easy. The guys where coring but they couldn't keep up with me so they asked us girls to help core real quick. I said okay and started coring. I was doing 7 to their 1, they were impressed with my coring abilities so I lost my cushy job as tomato slicer!! LOL!! Pastor Carson took over that one. Ah well!

Once they were all sliced we put them in litter boxes, yup that's what they are but they were never used for that! LOL!! Then we all sat around and put 2 slices per baggie until they were all done. I think we did 750 bags.

Once we were finally done with that we all had lunch of PB&J sandwiches with chips. It was really good as that is my favorite sandwich! Then it was back to work. This time with lettuce! We had to make 750 bags of lettuce too. I did what I could but had to leave at 2pm to get the boys from school.

The boys were doing it wrong and every time you picked up a bag of lettuce it all fell out. We had to show them how to do it right and we made Seth, the one you see there, tape up all the ones they did wrong, LOL!!

Georgia cuts the bread every year. She buys it fresh the day we made the subs.

After I got the boys from school they had music lessons and then I dropped them off at the church to assemble the subs. CJ sold 12. I ate mine that night and so did Chuck! LOL! Joe had his cut in half and that made 2 lunches. CJ ate his last night before gymnastics. CJ took the subs to school and handed them out to the teachers that bought them. It was a long day but it was fun!

CJ's First Date, oh my!

I found a note this morning on CJ's computer. I was gathering up all the laundry and found it. A whole front page! LOL!! It was so darn cute I put a date on it and kept it. He was asking if he could go out on a date with his new girlfriend of 2 weeks!! They want to see the new Hanna Montana Movie here in town. She is a couple month younger then him and they will be going with 3 other girls. LOL!! Joe and CJ have a TON of girls that are their friends and not really any guy friends. I called Chuck and read him the note over the phone. We both thought it was so cute! CJ was afraid to ask me face to face because he didn't want me to say "no". LOL!

We think it's fine as long as I drop him off at the theater and then pick him up there. Man, can't believe I'm in the next phase of life with these guys, GIRLS!! LOL!! Next will be driving and more serious dating, YIKES!! Hope I live to see them graduate, LOL!! You should see all the girls that flock around both of them! It's kind of funny really. I haven't met this girl yet so I'll have to do that. I'm NOT going to be letting him go to their house to hang out though. He hasn't asked but I know that will come. I don't mind if she comes here though. I can keep on eye on them better! So, we'll see how this plays out.

The boys might have an away Tennis game today, I need to find out so I can cancel their music lessons. I will be going to the Church here soon to help cut up veggies and help with making Subs. The kids sold a bunch to help pay their way to camp. CJ made almost enough money to pay his way. We just had to pay a dollar! LOL! Camp is $140 this year, he made $139. LOL! He got money for camp by selling those Chocolate Easter eggs too.

Becky, I hope Tater pulls through. Know that I am thinking about him and praying that he'll do just fine! Glad you got him to the doctor when you did! Poor little thing! Hope he comes home soon!