Good Grief!!

Yup, that's my Yana. She's just sunning her belly. I watched her from the house and all she did all day was follow the sun and move from one 'perfect' nap spot to another. She napped the day away!! I guess that 20 minute walk we took that morning did her in.

Newest Family Member

Mike has been looking for a gun to purchase to put over our fireplace. We already have one gun to mount over the fireplace. It's an old single barrel shotgun that his Grandpa used to hunt rabbit. We bought this gun at Hyatt's in Charlotte. It's a Parker Vulcan side-by-side shotgun and was made in 1904!! Pretty cool huh? It looks pretty good considering it's age. It's in working condition. Meaning, we can shoot it. We may pay one day to have it cleaned up so it'll look like new. Right now, I like it how it is. Now we've just got to get motivated to get it mounted over the fireplace.

I'm Rich!!!!

Yup, that's right, it's a check for one cent!! We closed our account at Wachovia and they sent us a check for a few day's interest on the small amount of money left in the account. Now what to do with all my new found wealth??

Lumberjackin' with the Lawlors

We invited the Lawlor's up to the house on Sunday to have lunch and watch the Bristol race. We've known the Lawlor's for, I don't know, 6 years maybe. Dave was a client of mine when I worked at Dixon Hughes. He is just a super nice and likable guy. We became friends over the years. We've gone to handful of NASCAR races together and share a common interest in the local hockey team as well. Maybe we can go to the Martinsville race again this year.

Dave knew that Mike was splitting wood for our wood burning stove and he decided he wanted to take a crack at it. He wanted to hearken back to his younger years. Leslie and he used to have a wood burning stove years ago. Mike thought Dave wouldn't have enough 'ass' behind him to split much wood...here are some 'action' photos, you judge for yourself.

Dave's son, Shaun gave it a shot too...

I was just impressed that the weight of the maul didn't make him fall over!!

Here are all the 'manly men' doing their manly men duties!! And of course there's Yana, offering her moral support.

Let this be a warning to all of you potential future guests out there...I've learned from my former co-worker Diane, that if you want to come over and partake of some free food, well, you'll have to work for it first!!

A Girl and Her Kong

Isn't that sweet...she's cuddling with her most prized possession!!

My New Favorite Thing

I LOVE the re-usable shopping bags at Wal-Mart. When they first came out, they were just out of my price range. They cost a whole dollar!! I knew I could wait it out and get them for cheaper. They recently dropped the price to .50 cents. Bingo, I'm on board. I've bought three. They are awesome!! I got all my groceries in two of those bags (almost, I had one thing in a third bag, and I bought Mike's sodas at Food Lion this week ($1/2-Liter, bargain!) - so not all my groceries, but all my Wal-Mart groceries. I hated getting all those plastic bags before. It would take forever to get them in the house. Now I can get the groceries in the house in one trip. I would highly recommend these bags. They make my weekly Wal-Mart experience ALMOST bearable!!

Oh Well

Well, it looks like Annette was right, sort of. I caught my 'dear' friend in the act the other day.

This will be my last post about the stupid peanut butter nailed to a tree.