BYOC - Bring Your Own Crazy!

It's Friday, so it is time for BYOC - Bring Your Own Crazy!  We answer a few questions in order to get to know each other better and to give our blogging brains a break!  Copy to your own blog if you wish and ENJOY!

1)  Describe the structure you live in, (apartment, condo, house, mansion, cardboard box?)

I live in a two story home, about 5000 square feet.  We have six bedrooms, six bathrooms, two kitchens and a wine cellar. Our home is situated on about 50ish acres with a one acre pond - which houses five ducks.  I've posted a "Where I live" post (here) if you're interested in seeing pictures of the acreage or the insane asylum we call home.  It is an unusual home built and added upon by a very unusual lady!  We have hundreds of open acres around us which means there are no neighbors - yeah, that means I can run nekkie through the property and would only scare the deer - uhm..  maybe not...

2)  Describe the city you live in. (population, main attractions)

We live in a township of about 300 people total - the deer far outnumber the people.  Main attractions....  still thinking here....  main attractions...  do you count the flashing red light in town (about three miles away) as an "attraction"??  Actually, we are in oil country.  This "neck of the woods", in Titusville, is the "Birthplace" of the Oil Industry.  You can still see and tour the site where Edwin Drake drilled the world's first oil well in 1859.  I've been there so many times, I could give the tour - and don't forget your obligatory bottle of Pennsylvania crude oil!

3)  Why do you live in the town you live in (job, to get away from a different town, family, schools?)

We moved here so that the boys would have space - room to grow.  We had a pool, hunting, exploring, woods, bugs, animals - all the things that make a little boys life worth while.  Heck, we even had our own ball field on the property when the boys were younger - yes a baseball diamond!  The Hubs and I grew up in the big, bad, city and wanted a "small town America" place to raise the boys - and boy did we find it!  The schools are so small and intimate (about 10-12 per class) and the neighbors seemed to have jumped right out of The Andy Griffith Show.  Honest to Pete, I have a neighbor, Grace, who till this day sends us pies and other baked and canned yummies on a regular basis!  I have traveled the world many times over and wouldn't live anywhere else.


4)  What is the view like from your backyard?

I look out of my window in the office, or from the dining room and I see the pond - and what seems like miles of nothing - or everything, whatever your preference might be.  I see the "everything" that is, to me, true beauty...  trees, hills, grass, ducks and deer.  A sunrise.  Acres and acres of nature.

5)  Repeat question:  How has your week been in blogland and in real life?

Blogland has been nonexistent for me - well, blogging has been..  I've been reading - to keep my sanity and my wits about me as the craziness in this home doesn't seem to have an end in sight!  I thank all of YOU for keeping me grounded during this time, for without you I probably would be in a padded cell talking to the little people who torment me - or the plumbers..  I think they're one in the same...


Have  terrific weekend!

Until Next Time!

The Revolving Door That Is My Life!

To say that things around this psychiatric unit I call my home are out of control would be the understatement of the year - My apologies for being the sole nominee for the worst blogger of the month!  Our GrandAngel has been with us these past few days making things that much more exciting - so know that I've been reading every moment I have had a chance, even if I haven't been commenting much...

Here are some photos of what the plumbing looks like - and as soon as the plumbers are through, next through the revolving door will be the new furnace folks.  Can you say C-R-A-Z-Y???  The first photo is taken in the mudroom - yes the jack hammering still has my brain vibrating..  You can see the remnants of my pantry behind the little boy whose job it was to hammer into the very core of my spinal column..  The second photo is the hole that was the entire floor of our mudroom.  You'll love this - no sooner had they "finished" the work, poured the new cement and replaced the appliances in the room, we discovered a pool of water forming under our clothes washer - take two...  I am ready to claim these young men on our 2011 taxes!  They're baaaaack....  So, the furnace folks are on hold until the plumbing work is really completed and there are no longer pools of water anywhere - or toilets burping, belching and spewing...

All is not lost though!  I have some good news!  Well..  let's go back a bit, shall we??  Me, like the slug that I am, did not post for an entire week - since Thanksgiving!  Yeah, I can't believe it either - a whole WEEK!  Mea culpa, mea culpa...  I gained two pounds over Thanksgiving - damn you Mom's recipe for stuffing and butter gravy - damn you!  But, having my little workout machine here for an entire week - our GrandAngel - has helped me to lose those two pounds and three more!!  Yay me!!  So today...  are you ready for this??  Today I say 200.4 on the scale!!  Wowowow!!  0.6 lbs to Onderland!

Thanksgiving was wonderful, I really didn't overdo it this year - as I have so many years in the past.  The kids all came, friends came, it was a glorious time!!  And thank YOU Ronnie for the chocolate pie recipe - it was a HIT!!!  I had a taste of everything and seconds on the stuffing and gravy...  What are ya going to do, right??  If I hand out the motto, I've got to live it myself - "Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is yet to be, all we have is today..  Make the MOST of it!"  And I did.  I enjoyed my family, I enjoyed our friends, the glorious food, the amazing drinks - I enjoyed!  And I plan to keep on enjoying knowing that I have my band to keep me in check.

Although it is a week past Thanksgiving, I had - actually "have" - so many things to be thankful for..  My December goal is to continue to be thankful for all the blessings around me.......
......even if they ARE spine jarring!


Until Next Time!