Back to normal....

Good morning campers!!

Well they're gone...and safely back in chilly old England...we had a lovely time..but it is always good to get back to normal..I could tell my sister was itching to get back to her boyfriend and even my dad wanted to get home..2 weeks is a long time for a visit but that's the way we have to do it when you travel so far otherwise it is not worth the expensive..it is the same when I go to UK..I am always happy to get back home...they said they had a fabulous time and that I took real good care of them..it was not always easy as my dad is set in his ways and will not try anything out of his comfort zone..he is a meat potato and veg kind of a guy and will NOT try anything different ..he also prefers to eat his main meal of the day at lunch time but there was no way I could manage that with our schedules..the best I could do was have us eat as early as possible... anything after 5pm was late to him..LOL..but even with all the minor frustrations of having our lives uprooted for a couple of weeks...the switching around of beds and schedules etc it was all worth it in the end..there is no one who knows you better than family and the reminiscing was so much fun..the kids enjoyed hearing stories of me when I was growing up...I will post pics later.. I have a lot of catching up to do and intend to just that..I have a big old mug of coffee and a quiet house so I am off to read and comment..;-)

Miss me??

Good morning Campers!!

Have you missed hearing me say that every morning?? I certainly miss you guys! I have over 800 alerts (alerts were down???) so obviously I am deleting all and will start over when the family leaves..their visit is winding down..we have had a lovely time..the weather has been good for the most part..it has rained pretty much every day but only in the evenings...I think hubby jinxed himself digging up the yard and putting in sprinklers because we have not had to use them yet... ;-)..anyway we have been to the dog track..the base to see hubbys command...fishing..playing golf..to St. Augustine..where we had one of those old tyme photos done...shopping...hanging at the pool..we did the mexcian thing...my sister and true beauty and I went to ladies night at our local alehouse...did I mention shopping? there are boxes waiting to be shipped back to UK as I speak...LOL..all in all it has been a great visit and I will be shedding some major tears on saturday morning I think... :-(   Tonight we are having hubbys dad and his wife around for "beer butt" chicken on the grill...it's delicious I promise!!

I hope you are all doing well..I will be back in the groove next week...thanks for leaving the porch light on for me....

hugs...

L

rain rain go away....

My Dad and sister arrived safely Saturday....we had a nice sunny day Sunday spent by the pool and then it did this...

 

:-(

  Current Conditions

Reported from Jacksonville NAS 09/19/2007 6:24 AM EDT

Temperature:	70°F 21°C
Conditions:	Light Rain
Winds:	NW 10 MPH NW 16 KPH
Relative Humidity:	88%
Barometer:	29.99 Falling
Visibility:	6.00 Miles 9.66 Kilometers
Feels Like:	70°F n/a

Local Doppler Averages, Records Weather Alert Sign Up Hourly Forecast

Seven-Day Forecast

TUE

n/a n/a
74°F 23°C

WED

80°F 26°C
74°F 23°C

THU

83°F 28°C
75°F 23°C

FRI

88°F 31°C
75°F 23°C

SAT

88°F 31°C
75°F 23°C

SUN

87°F 30°C
75°F 23°C

MON

86°F 30°C
75°F 23°C

Detailed Forecast

Plan events with our local guide for Jacksonville

Wednesday: Windy with showers and thundershowers likely. High 79F. Winds NNE at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 90%. Rainfall may reach one inch. Locally heavier rainfall possible.
Wednesday night: Windy with showers and thundershowers likely. Low

 

I am so disappointed...all the things I had planned were meant to be done in the lovely Florida sunshine.. I am at my wits end..we have been shut up in house for 3 days now except for excursions to the mall etc...they assure me they are okayand just happy to be spending time with us but I still feel so bad...obviously I am not commenting as I don't have time but I did want to say hi and tell you I miss you guys!!!

 

MWAH!!

 

L

Anticipation

Good Morning campers!!

Anticipation. Almost as good as the real thing. I am beyond excited. I have butterflies. My dad has not been here since 1998. My sister since 2001.They will not recognize the place. There is nothing here from the original owners except the ceramic tile in the kitchen and hallway and one ceiling fan in my bedroom! All doors..floors..roof..windows..bathrooms..kitchen..appliences everything..replaced! I can't wait for them to see it. I have been cleaning like a mad fool.. the house looks great...going to the base today to grocery shop and get some liquid refreshments  ;-) getting my haircut and then off to Orlando tomorrow to pick them up..if you don't hear from me you can rest assured I am just spending some time with my family..can't believe I get to say that.. I finally have plans with FAMILY...and I bet I will be back bitching about them in a couple of weeks..LOL..

please think good thoughts for them to have a safe and uneventful flight..the fear of flying is what has stopped my dad from coming..he things he is going to get a blood clot in his leg from sitting for so long..he has clogged arteries in his legs and of course the good old NHS hasn't done squat about it....he suffers from terrible pain at times and I just pray he'll be okay on the flight or I don't know what we will do with him....he'll have to stay here I guess...;-)

have a great weekend everyone!

L

R.I.P. AMY

I  never met Amy. I found her blog while researching leukemia when my sons best friend was diagnosed. I have read anonymously for the last 18 months. Her story ended yesterday.

R.I.P. sweet Amy.

 

Click here: Living with Leukemia: Ultimate Healing

Last years entry for 9/11

911 My memories.

September 11th 2001.

I was on the phone with my dad in England. I had the TV on in the back ground and something caught my attention.. I don't know what...it was then I saw the burning tower..I told my Dad to turn on the TV in england..they don't normally have it on during the day.. I said "dad are you seeing what I am seeing?" he said " oh my love I think I am' he cried out for my Mum to come look..then we were all on the phone together in silence as we both watched the 2nd plane fly into the building...we were in complete and utter shock...we spoke a little more..me and my Mum were crying and my Dad was saying this was going to change our lives forever..they were so worried for me being over here..for Lester as a service member...so many thoughts rushing through our heads...we hung up and I just sat glued to the TV..Lester was playing golf on base.. he called me and said they had sounded the alarm on base and announced for everyone to return to the clubhouse..he had no idea what was going on..they NEVER sound the alarms on base..it was then he saw what was happening...as you can imagine it was chaos on base...he made a quick call to me and then had to report to his command... the base was on lock down..he couldn't leave I couldn't go to him.. I was worried for the kids... he eventually came home and the kids and he and I just sat with the rest of the country and watched in horror. I will never forget those feelings..it was the first time I had ever felt like that.. I cannot even put in to words how I felt...but I know I was proud that my husband was a part of the Military and that he would get to do his part...he has served in Iraq twice since 911... the support we were given was amazing..the yellow ribbons in our neighbourhood..and at my job...strangers hugging me.. I have never been more proud...and I still am..today IS a special day but every day is a reminder in my house....

God Bless each and every one of our troops still fighting the fight...God Bless everyone who lost a family member or friend due to 911... RIP to ALL those who perished.... you will never be forgotten...

L

Waxing, Broken pipes ..Britney...

Good Morning Campers!

Just another manic Monday ;-)

I had an interesting weekend. Hubby has wanted sprinklers put in for the longest time. You know the ones that are on a timer and pop up out the ground and water your lawn with no requirements from you..that come on in the wee hours of the morning  while you are sleeping comfortably.. he has been pricing them up for ages..we had quotes ranging from a couple of thousand to a couple of thousand more...so he gets  a tip about a guy who does it "on the side" for a lot LESS as in only $1200 for front and back yards... 5 "zones".. hubby got that look and I knew it was all over..we went from "just getting a quote" Thursday night to my entire yard being dug up Saturday....now this is the pristine yard that I was wanting to show off to my dad who hasn't been here in 9 years ... it now looks like an army of giant moles ran through it.. not to mention on Saturday they cut through the pipe to the pool..yes the pool....let's just say Lyn was a mental case on Saturday.. so I was banished from the house...It was pouring rain at this time too..and the black dirt they were traipsing all over my beige pool deck was not helping my mood.. so off I went for a relaxing pedicure...no problems there..feet look cute...so I decide to get my eyebrows waxed...as she is waxing she "suggests" I get my lip done...hmmm... I have blonde cute little hairs on my lip...not many but they are noticable when I have a tan...no one has ever pointed them out to me before though so I think if she can see them everyone else must be able to so I tell her go ahead...BAD idea...it hurt like a son of a bitch! I truly think she took the top layer of my lip off with the cute little blonde hairs!! I know all about waxing pain..I get my eyebrows done regularly but this was a whole new level...but the hair is gone..guess what I have instead?? a lovely row of little white heads where the hair used to be..I guess my lip area is too sensitive for waxing.. ya think??

 9 PM Saturday night they finish the yard. All the sprinklers are working. The pipe to the pool has been fixed. Yard looks like crap though.

 "But hunny it will look fine in  a couple of weeks" says him

"And my dad will be long gone by then and will tell everyone that they have giant moles in America" says me  ;-)

I did not get my Mexican food fix this weekend either...hubby couldn't leave because he was too busy supervising the sprinkler project. Yesterday was a much better day though. ;-)  I went to church... I  did not enjoy it as much as the first time..they lost me when they started acting out scenes from the bible... but the music was good and I left feeling better than when I went in so that's a good thing... I stopped off at the grocery store to grab a few things for dinner and then I came home and spent the afternoon laying by the pool reading....my kind of afternoon... I finished off my weekend by catching the opening of the VMA's...oh my poor Britney..what the ??? I will leave the bashing to the professionals...she sucked though...and as for the rest of the show...I don't know they lost me at Britney....

So how was your weekend??

 

Name Game

Marie at

http://journals.aol.co.uk/mariealicejoan/MariesMuses/

has tagged me to play a little game called the “Name Game”.

Here's the rules:
Players, you must list one fact that is somehow relevant to your life for each letter of your middle name. If you don’t have a middle name, use the middle name you would have liked to have had. When you are tagged you need to write your own blog post containing your own middle name game facts. At the end of your blog post, you need to choose one person for each letter of your middle name to tag. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

As I don't have a middle name I will use the one that I often went by as a child..they used to call me Lyndy Lou.so...

 

L....... Loyal..I am loyal to a fault...I will defend you to the end...if you have my love you have my loyalty....

 

O....outrageous...I love to live on the wild side...the older I get the less this happens but if you double dog dare me watch out!!!  ;-)

 

U ....understanding..I am the person people tell their troubles too...I will listen to you and validate your feelings...I do my very best to figure things out and put them in perspective...

 

So there you have it! As for the tag part of this I will take the easy way out and just tag anyon who like to do it...;-)

 

 

 

 

Tuesdays with Lyn

Good morning campers!

 I am so thankful not to be going to work this morning.It is nice to have my day to myself after the hustle and bustle of the long weekend.

Yesterday was a great day. We went to the outlet malls first. Hubby scored a new pair of shoes..Ryan couldn't find shoes but scored a pair of polo jeans and polo shirt...I got a new bag..perfume and body lotion..Ginger by Origins..whenever I wear this people follow me and ask me what I am wearing...LOL...we even got Rachel two tops...couldn't leave her out even if she couldn't come with us...then we drove into St. Augustine..had a wander around and then lunch at Harry's Seafood...we were so stuffed after that we could barely walk back to the car....you know that feeling right?? you wait to long to eat so you are starving so you order everything on the menu and eat 2 loaves of bread while you're waiting for your food then wonder why you can't breath...LOL.. we did not even eat supper last night...it was a such a good day...we had a fit of the giggles in the restaurant because the lady at the table opposite had had a couple of hurricanes (potent cocktail) and was talking really loud about everyone under the sun...my son says to me "why do women always talk crap about their friends? I bet she is all nice to their faces" good point my son....well anyway we said we hope they bring her food soon so she'll shut up..and sure enough the food came and their was this big sigh of relief around the room because she was finally quiet.... ;-)

Not much else to talk about this morning so I shall leave you with my five....

1. holiday weekends that go on till Tuesday... ;-)

2.. quality family time....

3... hubby finally got the lawn mowed..we have had a lot of rain and it needed cutting bad...

4....sun is out...I may have to sneak an hour by the pool later...

5.....all of you reading this....

 

Weekend so far....

Good Morning Campers!!

 How are we all this morning?? I hope everyone here in the states has plans to do something they enjoy this holiday weekend...whether it's a barbecue..a trip to the beach or lake or just a lazy weekend at home..I hope you enjoy it.  To me it signals the end of summer..although that is not really so here in the sunshine state..we will not see any real change in the weather  for at least another month or so...but it does make me at least THINK fall... ;-) 

I have had a pretty decent weekend so far...hubby and I chilled Friday night and watched movies.. it was raining and neither one of us felt like going out....yesterday we got up early and did some weeding and general tidying up in the yard...then we went shopping and bought a couple of new plants and some Adirondack chairs for under the pear tree in the back yard..we did have a bench under there but it had seen better days so hubby demolished it and took it to the dump along with several bags of yard waste and some old tyres....what is it with men and going to the dump..he loves going there...LOL.. we also bought a steam cleaner for the carpets...we finally got wise and figured the money we pay for them to come and clean the carpets one time would buy a machine...light bulb moment...LOL..so we had a little play around with it yesterday and it works well....we got a Bissell...I am ashamed at the colour of the water that came out of it...OMG....I am a clean person I swear!! But anyway the house smells really fresh right now...last night we went for Sushi and a couple of beers and then picked Ryan up from work and came home and crashed...hubby had a little date with Jim Beam last night,...don't know what that was all about as he normally only drinks beer but he wasn't feeling very chipper this morning as he headed out for golf....I wanted to go back to that church this morning but Ryan has to be at work at 11 and Rachel is working so I guess that leaves me to give him a ride so no church for me..and yes I am disappointed....I really enjoyed it last time and felt the urge to go again...the last few weekends I have had something going on and I won't go once  my dad gets here... <sigh>  We are cooking ribs on the barbecue tonight...then tomorrow we are off to St. Augustine for the day.. I am sad because Rachel has to work a half day tomorrow so she won't be coming but one kid is better than none....we are going to walk around the town and have lunch and then stop at the outlets on the way back as Ryan needs some new shoes and hubby wants to look at golf clubs and I am sure there is something I can find to buy..;-)

As you might be able to tell my mood has improved tenfold and I am almost back to myself...hubby commented yesterday that is was nice have "Lyn" back..made me happy and sad at the same time .. I must be awful to live with sometimes...I know I am rambling on here this morning but one last thing...I know I must be the last person on the planet earth to discover Sudoku.. well actually I have seen it for years but never took the time to try it..well I tried it and like everything else I try I am addicted...LOL.. anyone else play it??

Have a great day everyone!

PS My fella over the pond is down in the dumps can you all go by and show him some love??? he is my brother from another mother and I hate to see him feeling like this.. Tell him I sent you and please give him some cyber Prozac from me okay???  cheers!

His name is Gaz...

http://journals.aol.co.uk/gazker/Dairyofapodgypoof/