It is Random 5 time...I do love this meme. I don't get everyone visited but I do make a good stab at it. The only thing is I cannot comment on some Google+ entries. I don't know why, but I have to set up an account if I want to comment on them, but I don't want an account.
Now for my Random 5.....
1. I am really, really ready to sit on in the swing and read...wish I had room to move it inside.
2. It is going to be a while before I can do that...we got more snow. At least 3 inches...and we are supposed to get more, though how much I don't know.
3. Does anyone besides me patch jeans? I do it with a sewing machine for the most part. I used to always do it by hand. I can remember my mom patching them and them looking so neat. I think that is why I patch them....just remember her sitting patiently stitching away.
4. Lorelei is supposed to come this weekend...she wants to come tomorrow but the roads are so slick we don't want to risk getting in a wreck.
5. I have a few posts that I go back and read every so often. Most recently were this one and this one from Sandra. I had Roger read them because I was laughing so hard I couldn't. Add to that some of the actions he did and it was comedy at its best.
The day just past has been a roller coaster ride for me with emotions...oh, not a bad one but just one of those days...we had had to have the trucked worked on and they called that it was ready. So ran and got it, then ran to Walmart.
As some of you might remember, I love to watch youtube videos late at night...I have been watching them by streaming them through our Blu-ray player, but apparently that part of the player became corrupted. So, I have been limited to Netflix on TV.
I had looked at the Roku players before we got it, but decided on the player. So I had gone back to looking at the Roku but did not do any in depth comparisons between the models. Well, I wanted to glance at them at Walmart...and ended up getting one. I had a bad feeling about it...I got the middle of the road model. The players did not have the chart on the back that allows you to look at what each model offers side by side.
Got home and got it hooked up....no Youtube. I get on-line and that only comes with the top of the line model. I didn't think Walmart would take it back but they did and I got the other model and got it hooked up. And everything worked...so much easier than through the Blu-ray player.
I came in here to write a quick email and had a note from my brother asking me if I had listened to this video in a while:
For awhile it would not play on Youtube....too long of a story to go into. Anyway, it just seemed like my cup was too full of blessings. I have the song and can play it any time but it is not the same as sitting and watching a slide show from home.
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Now I have just watched the move The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn. I had read about it at A Joyful Cottage....I am so thankful she mentioned it. It will be a favorite--one I remember and will
probably watch again.
So overall it has been a good day...I do have other concerns but won't bore you with them. Just wanted to share the good things that have happened today.
I had to search to find this photo...I wanted a pic of a window that I had not shown before...just to have something new. This is from Nashville, Indiana. I have taken pics of this window before..you can see it here...it is the one on the left side. This place has such unusal stuff.
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I was reading a little today and in it the character mentioned remembering her mom opening the window. And just that phrase 'opening the window' ...it brought back memories. I remember mom always having me open the kitchen windows. We didn't have AC so it got quite hot in there in the summer with all the canning and cooking going on. Sometimes if they were stuck, we had to wait for one of my brothers.
I had a corner bedroom and could open up the windows in there and I would get a cross breeze. Back then, heat didn't bother me near as bad as it does now. I think I have become 'soft.'
I also remember when I was really young, I slept with my pillow on the window seal and laid there and listened to the whippoorwills. And I could hear the traffic down on the highway...but there was not the traffic that there is now. I also remember my brothers setting listening to vehicles and saying what kind of car it was...and maybe even saying what kind of motor. I don't know if they really knew what they were talking about or if they were just guessing...the highway was about a mile away....so there was no way to see what cars really were.
Then when Roger and I lived in Tennessee, we opened the back door, then opened the window to the bedroom and our little house cooled out real quick. But it was where the sun didn't really shine on the house till up in the morn...probably 9:00 or 10:00 of the morn and then it was back in the shade early in the evening.
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It has gotten colder....it was shirtsleeve weather yesterday. Tomorrow the high is supposed to be in the 20's. With some snow tonight, but they are still talking like it will be more like flurries.
