Hunt Family Connection

I love Twitter!

I really do love it and find that I learn a lot of interesting things (interesting to me at least!) I try and do one glance at it in the morning, one during my lunch, and again before bed. Of course sometimes I peek at it in between :)

Here's just a sampling of the things I learned/saw this morning.....

This from Komen Oregon:

YES! As a matter of fact I'm very excited for the Eugene Race for the Cure :) It's coming up on Sunday, October 23rd and my Auntie Linda is coming all the way from Wisconsin to walk with me! Looking forward to seeing her and looking forward to the walk....it's always a very powerful experience.

This clip from the Daily Show re: Steve Jobs:

STEVE JOBS TRIBUTE and MOMENT OF ZEN
(and I mentioned this link on my own Twitter acct. yesterday but will put it here too - Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Address - totally worth taking 15 minutes to watch)

This latest blog entry from The Bloggess - she routinely makes me laugh outloud for reals! One of the funniest things I've ever read was this post that she wrote about choosing your battles - I laughed until I cried. Fair warning...you might not want to read if you are easily offended. It might not be for everyone, but I find her to be heeeelarious!

News from Netflix about some tv shows that they have added and will add in the future: Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and Portlandia to name a few. I also noticed that they recently added another season of Army Wives  (KARA - did you see they added another season of Army Wives?!?!) - YAY!! I really do love my Netflix streaming service too....but that might be a post for another day :)

Of course there was much, much more....but these were the ones that jumped out at me this morning and made me want to read more. One more YAY for Twitter - it makes me happy and keeps me informed!

Weekend project and fun

The kids were with Wil this weekend so I got a few things done around the house and got a lot of rest/relaxation too. Kenny helped with both the work and the relaxation.

We enjoyed a trip to Voodoo Doughnuts on Sunday morning - LOVE the pink box!

LOVE what's in the box even more...

That maple bar with the bacon on top - YUMMY! I'm also a big fan of the one on the top left - it's a glazed doughnut with chocolate, peanut butter, and rice krispies. The big one is a peach fritter and I'm told that was pretty yummy too.

The big project of the weekend was cleaning up the sandbox and getting a lid on it. I don't get into the sandbox often, but it was brought to my attention that it was smelling like a litter box. And oh my goodness when I sat down out there to take out all of the toys it was disgusting. Something had to be done, 'cause Ellie LOVES playing in it.

So Kenny took some measurements and went with me to Jerry's to get a piece of plywood. Kenny thought it would hold up a little better (and look nicer!) if it was painted, so I found some leftover house paint in the garage and between Saturday and Sunday, we put a couple of coats on both sides of the plywood.

We also picked up some play sand at Jerry's - we started with 6 bags and ended up putting in 5 more before the weekend was over. Because the litter box smell was soooo strong, it seemed best to empty the whole thing out and start over with fresh sand.

Our only mistake was starting to put the sand in on Saturday before the lid was completely dry and ready to go back on the sandbox. I figured it wouldn't be a big deal to just leave it uncovered overnight...

I was wrong.

Sunday morning when we went to put in the rest of the sand we were greeted with a little pile of cat poo!! Luckily it wasn't buried and quite easy to remove - that will be the LAST time that cat uses our sandbox as a litter box!

After I removed the pile o' mess, Kenny put in the rest of the sand and brought the painted lid out from the garage. Ta da!!!!

It's been raining pretty steady since the weekend, so Ellie hasn't seen it yet. I wish I could have been there when that cat discovered he would no longer be using our sandbox as his own personal litter box - take that!! I'm very grateful to Kenny for helping out with this project. It took much longer than I thought it would and there was a lot of heavy lifting and some measuring (neither is a strength for me!) Thanks also to Jim and Chery for letting me borrow their shovel and wheelbarrow :)

It was a bit chilly and rainy on Sunday night so Kenny got a fire going in my fireplace - COZY!!

It was a great way to end the weekend - very relaxing :)