General Discussion & Chat: Coffee and...for Thursday, April 27, 2006, 1 by CARAT

CARAT wrote:
Good Morning to all of you devoted DGers. WOW Coffee is still going strong. Sorry for dropping off the face of the earth but between computer crashes, work, daughter graduation coming up, sewing a few needed work outfits and normal life upheavings I haven't even been able to sit and read more then the important emails. Thought of you all often as various event occured but never could time a break near the internet.

My oldest child is graduating from high school on June 13th. She volunteered for spirit month and has kept our entire family on its feet with kidnappings to early morning breakfasts, dances, required meetings and events to help celebrate the last days of high school. Really has brought back alot of memories for both DH and myself. She has been accepted at UNLV here in Vegas and Winthop College in NC. This has allowed her an extra month to make her decision of where she wants to live. We are hoping she will chose to go to community college here in Las Vegas for the first year for her core classes and save some money and then move with us to SC and attend Winthop College for the remaining years. My oldest son has decided he is going to stay in Las Vegas for 6 months after we move and finish high school here and then move to attend a college back in the Carolinas. I am so happy about this. Not having the two of them close was having us thinking of redoing our moving time line. My daughter is also moving out on May 1st into her first apartment. In the excitement of having a new home and the realization that it wont have the normal noises she adopted a pure black 4 week kitty from the rescue home. His name is Todd and my two cats and two dogs are not happy about the invasion of this little black spot running through their domain but have been very attentive to his cries. He was the only kitten of the litter to make it and he is so skinny and small. We are hoping that by his first check up next week we can get a little more weight on him. Yesterday was his first day of wet food without formula since he has been here. Hopefully he will be able to handle it or its back to formula and food mixtures. The rescue tried to use a wet nurse cat to help wein him but it didn't take. He really needed some major one on one attention and he sure is getting that here.

Work is in a constant stage of change lately. Administrative changes are beginning to trickle down the pole now. Some good and some not so good but all seem to take alot of work to change over. I am looking forward to not working once we move.

My garden is alive. I have two small tomatoes on one of my patio plants and the rest are getting ready to start flowering. I lost my black magic elephant ear and one brug in a freak freeze but everything else is going strong. I did manage to get 45 asparagus roots planted in SC when I went home for spring break. Mowed all the cleared area on the property and have the farmers tan and burn to prove it. That project helped me decide that we will be purchasing a zero radius, 5ft wide mower when we get there. It took me 5 hours to mow the entire thing with the small riding lawn mower. Had a blast mowing a sipping on an ice tea in the 70 degree weather but I am sure the excitement will fade quickly once the heat and humidity hit and I have other chores to get done. I did take one afternoon back by the natural spring cleaning and clearing out dead trees and overgrowth. I will post a picture of the spring if I remember.

The weather here has been awesome for the past couple of weeks. Wish we could get a little rain but with only 4 inches a year average I dont see it happening.

Know that I miss you all, and I will try to at least check in to say hi more often. I hope that all of you that have been ill are well and rested now, and all injuries have healed completely. Family members that are testing your nerves find new hobbies and sunshine fills all your days. Those of you on journeys have safe trips and for Darius who I am assuming is on the mobile run by now I hope that you find your dream home with your sister and it has everything you are looking for.

Casey