Comments on: Random Sunday

By: Sheri

Sheri — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:53:24 +0000

I finally have internet again (long ugly story that I may have to blog about) so I am playing catch up. Callie is just so amazingly beautiful that I couldn’t leave without commenting on it… And the pink hoe–are you serious? Pink?! Wow…. Truth is, I think my oldest daughter would buy the whole set if she was on her own and needed gardening tools. I have already seen pink appliances that I will have to get her when she moves out–did you know that Kitchen Aid makes it’s big mixer in pink? Yep. But pink gardening tools–guess they will look nice with the pink flamingoes in the front yard…

By: Richa

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By: Bruce A.

Bruce A. — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:35:47 +0000

An old refrigerator came with the first house Hilde and I had. It was quickly nicknamed “The Botulism Special” and almost as quickly replaced. (Excepting the house, first thing we ever bought on credit. A wallet-threatening $10 per month.)

(And the scary part: back then, $10/mo really was a threat to the household budget.)

By: Marta

Marta — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:51:40 +0000

I have my eye on a lovely bottom freezer, french door LG with sliding plastic bins in the freezer so the cold air doesn’t fall out, the full width compartment in the fridge that’ll take big deli platters and sheet cakes, and an exterior ice dispenser. I fondle it at the store, and it whispers such sweet promises. If my bottom freezer Amana would just DIE, but no, I have to have a husband who can actually fix things . . .

And, about that baby, wouldn’t you just love to have a camera on a live feed internet connection so you could peek at her all the time? She does have a mom who could whip that into being in fractions of seconds . . .

By: Bren

Bren — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:36:16 +0000

I’m not one of those people who believes all babies are beautiful, but your granddaughter is gorgeous. Congratulations!

By: McB

McB — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:11:04 +0000

Bob looks like he is almost having fun down there by the river. Probably picking out cache report locations.

Have fun with the kitchen renovation and go ahead and get Callie toddler stuff. She’ll use it eventually. And please don’t stop doing the proud grandma thing. In case you can’t tell, we are eating it up with a spoon.

By: Lani

Lani — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:00:28 +0000

Inflatable pools come all compressed in little tiny boxes these days. It would have been no problem to bring one, but hey – knock yourself out. Which you did. And you’ll have all the stuff for when Callie comes to visit. Bubbles!!!

Can’t wait to see the TV. And the fridge. And you, too, of course. Hee!

By: Denise

Denise — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:41:59 +0000

No need to wait for the girls to get there to play with the bubbles. You have the dogs as an excuse. Most dogs (in my experience) go crazy chasing bubbles if you blow some at them.

By: inkgrrl

inkgrrl — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:26:47 +0000

Gratz on the appliances! A fridge you don’t have to bargain, cajole, or threaten with pot roast is a beautiful thing.

And Callie is getting gorgeouser by the day. I love how her little hands are tucked under her cheek. Squee!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:37:27 +0000

Just for the record, I did not buy the Sub Zero. It came with the house. And it was butt ugly like the rest of the kitchen.
The Whirlpool is a thing of beauty. And it opens.

By: ArkansasCyndi

ArkansasCyndi — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:40:13 +0000

First – Callie is absolutely beautiful. Honestly.

Second – Crack F’r Grandmas – HA HA HA HA HA HA

We’re having time writing here at my house and I just read this blog aloud. Great way to break the concentration.

By: Kyrathered

Kyrathered — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:04:03 +0000

I’m not just saying this to kiss up … Callie is very cute. Like, could-be-a-Disney-baby cute.

I also found Bob in the picture. Did they teach him to disguise himself as a blurry log bit in Ranger School?

By: robena grant

robena grant — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:02:09 +0000

I like random Sunday, it’s like a dinner of leftovers that taste better the second time around. More flavor or something. Lovely pics.
I knew a pink ho … um hoe, back in the eighties. Looked like a Barbie doll. Tall, slim, blond. She used to play tennis. Little pink and white skirt, tight pink tank-top with boobs bulging over the top, pink sun visor, white tennies with half-socks with the little pink fuzzy ball of wool at the back. Remember those things? Anyway, she loved to flirt with all the guys, married, single, handsome, not so handsome, she didn’t care. She had the full bodypress-squirm-release, down pat.
Last time I saw her she looked like hell. Body was still okay but the face was well-worn. Hoeing is hard hard work, I suppose.

By: JulieB

JulieB — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:01:05 +0000

Wow! I was going thru baby withdrawal, glad to see pics are working! Just look at her _fingers_!

By: Nancy F

Nancy F — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:38:19 +0000

Glad to know I am not the only one perplexed. I spend a lot of time shaking my head and muttering to myself in grocery stores…who buys this stuff? If gasoline get ever more expensive and we going to fuel ourselves with caffine boosters and run back and forth to the store pushing over-large grocery carts?
Now the pink hoe…that I might buy, nothing like pretty tools to make you want to use them.

By: Jenyfer Matthews

Jenyfer Matthews — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:16:20 +0000

I had a brief love affair with an Amana freezer-on-the-bottom fridge. Alas, we moved abroad a few years after we purchased it and after a few years of it sitting in storage, I sold it to a friend who was moving into a new house. One day I’ll have another…

Bubbles and babies and refrigerators and TVs and beds – what a lot of excitement! How’s the knee?

By: Marilyn K

Marilyn K — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:55:27 +0000

Lucky you about blowing bubbles and not blown-out of proportion head Brats. Callie is beautiful. Do you have steps/stairs to the river? There were sub zeros in the 80′s? Huh! I’ve always had the most inexpensive fridges until now. Love my Whirlpool. Also have an upright freezer that will not let you open immediately after closing it. That is some kind of suction/airlock!
My oldest needs that knit thingy-thing for her chemistry class. LOL

By: Micki

Micki — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:34:45 +0000

(-: My goodness, she’s even more gorgeous than day one! I can imagine how cute she’s going to look a year from now in a toddler pool in your backyard (zebra fencing — I think you’ll need to get that next). Plant some daisies. One-year-olds love daisies. In the swimming pool. With a grandmother behind the camera (-:.

You gots some good wheels right now (-:.

By: talpianna

talpianna — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:33:04 +0000

Jenny, you don’t need to blog about the refurbishing any more. Flanders and Swann have already said it all for you:

We’re terribly House and Garden
At Number Seven B,
We live in a most amusing mews
Ever so very Contemporary!
We’re terribly House and Garden;
The money that one spends
To make a place that won’t disgrace
Our House and Garden friends!

We planned an uninhibited interior decor,
Curtains made of straw,
We’ve wall-papered the floor!
We don’t know if we like it, but at least we can be sure
There’s no place like home sweet home.

It’s fearfully Maison jardin
At Number Seven B,
We’ve rediscovered the Chandelier
Très très very Contemporary!
We’re terribly House and Garden.
Now at last we’ve got the chance,
The garden’s full of furniture
And the house is full of plants!

Oh, we’re terribly House and Garden
As I think we said before,
But though Seven B is madly gay -
It wouldn’t do for every day -
We actually LIVE in Seven A,
In the house next door!

Full text here: http://www.nyanko.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/fas/hat_design.html

By: Lynda Ward

Lynda Ward — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:02:02 +0000

Jenny: Calliope is incredibly beautiful, as all grandchildren are, and you’re going to love being a grandmother. Congratulations!

And while I realize that new appliances can’t compare with new grandbabies, enjoy them, too.

Lynda