Oh I have roots/stumps that grow back all the time and it is SOOOOOO annoying!! I need to see if I can get Nathan to chop on one with the axe, but we have to be careful because when they pulled the stump up, they found power lines (not sure there is power to it tho) but I made Nathan bury the line back, but the tree roots that are left are trying to grow back. ARGH My lilac bushes died :( I want to get some new ones eventually. I like lilacs too. Memories. Vines I have a lot of. Honeysuckle, poison ivy, blackberry, and I don't know what else - something with thorns and leaves (NOT roses or blackberries...they are kind of spade shaped leaves I think...) :P Terrace is covered in vines growing on everything!

You are going to town on your yardwork!! :D You don't like maple trees? Or like the other trees better/they are bigger?

This was dogwood or something I think? I don't remember, but I google lens it to make sure it wasn't like, poison ivy or anything.. but it was like 3 inches thick! haha.

Oooh well, I wanted this to come back to life! :P That's why I was trying to trim it down and get it to.. so hopefully it will! Right now it's looking pretty sad, though!

Awww. These.. grew from a few pieces that I.. dug up and stole from up the road LOL. When I was like 13 or 14. I used to go up and cut them for my Nana, then one day she sent me up with a bucket. :P It's the middle of a field though, no one cares!

I just like the other trees better, the maple trees were growing through them. :(

Mine are gum trees, that are growing back. (sweet gum) very annoying. I like the gum trees. I like the oak trees. I like dogwood trees. I like anything that is flowery in the spring and colorful in the fall and Ryan cut down almost all of those around here :( oh well. I do NOT like pine trees and I have baby pines ALLLLL over the graveyard. I told Nathan to go dig them up waaaay earlier in the spring when they were littler and he did not. ARGH

I used to love the Bradford Pear trees that we had in one place we lived, soooooo pretty!! Very messy hahahah (leaves EVERYWHERE!!!!)

I ordered these online. They moved to florida with us that one year and back here. One died, but the other kept going, and then a tree grew up in the middle of it and it died too :(

Your pet Shelirious gains 5 Level! - that is TWICE the Oracle has done that (5 levels). At least I don't have to worry about training levels!! :P It is taking forever to get out of Tier 11 tho. I still have over 2k points to get thru. I keep battling in the battle quests, and try to remember to do some regular battles since they revamped it and I can battle everyone again - but phew. F O R E V E R!!!

Tier: 12 To Next Tier: 18802 / 22001

I've been on t12 for like 3 years LOL. Like.. I'm moving but it's SO. SLOWWWWWW. :P

I like the pines! And I like the maples.. I just like trees :P BUT! I know that I can't let EVERYTHING just grow where it wants, or everything will die. :(

Hello lovelies! Excuse my being gone a bit here. Been so tired lately, and school is finally finishing this week for the semester! We're behind others here :P I'm playing in commencement, so I won't be on as much Friday or Saturday since I am slotted for 6 ceremonies playing bassoon :D

Ooh trees! We have some lovely pink ones here but I have no idea what they are. We have some people that have weeping cherry tree hybrids. Trees are a lot of work! Sounds like you have some persistent buggers there!

And congrats on another successful semester Kat! I know you were worried at times.

Ooh training. I am on tier 3 for three pets. Just starting out!

Do any of you play Spectrail, Cybill Sledding, or that burro game? I am trying to help my friend get the last plushie from Spectrail. He's new like me but loves collecting plushies like you, Kat :D

6!! ceremonies?! That's.. a LOT.

College is finishing up here this week too, it's finals week! El just left for their psych final, actually.

Ugh spectrail is so annoying, and I swear that plushie doesn't exist! I like cybill sledding though, and it's a good source of SPs! So is the burro game, but I don't really play it often.. I like caliphs tomb, though! the one on the bottom right is my favorite.

Thank you Mieke for the musical wearables :D I didn't think to look for those!

Ooh best of luck to them for the psych final! :D I didn't have any of those this semester but will have two next semester.

Oh yes I LOVE Caliph's tomb! I love that kind of Solitaire game :D I also find the bottom right the easiest layout to win!

Edit: Yeah six in two days because most of the colleges are on Friday and the one that's like 90% of our majors has 3 ceremonies Saturday! Nursing is on Thursday so that makes seven. I don't count the doctoral one because only brass quintet plays there.

Whew that is a lot of ceremonies!! I used to play the flute. I think sometimes about getting one and seeing if I can still play anything lol I probably can't but could with practice again

I used to play spectrail like crazy. I am not sure if I ever won the plushie but most likely I just bought it. I know I don't have the scores required for prizes for most games. I rarely play any of the games like that anymore. I mostly quest and do simple games like mallarchy pond lol

Edit 410 Just bought my renfair tickets and stuck $100 in a unicorn graduation plushie I got for Nathan (it has a gift card holder "congrats" card it's holding lol) I also bought party poppers, a banner, and door decor for graduation No I'm not doing a party but wanted to have some decorations. Need to get more party poppers And decide what kind of snack he wants (cake, cookie cake, brownie, ice cream whatever) for after I saw this cake topper and I might get it too lol

Awww, that's fun Kat! So he's going to do it, you think? I hope so.. for both your sakes!

You're welcome for the wearables! I thought of them when I saw your HA, so I thought I'd help a little :P That's crazy, here there's only one ceremony, but there's no doctorates or medical stuff so.. maybe that's why :P

Cut back the bushes/trees a bit.. then I started cleaning the sunroom. Oof. Got rid of 3 bags of trash and took two boxes of stuff out to donate already, and I only made a small dent. But now I'm waiting on El to burn trash and Lily to do the recycling, because uh.. they apparently haven't been doing a great job and have, instead, just been.. throwing stuff everywhere?! So uh.. I just threw what I found in the direction of their piles.

Had a shower, then a VBS meeting while I ate dinner, then I went out and weeded the porch (the concrete doesn't go all the way under, so weeds grow through the wood. So annoying!) and the tire planters on the side of the garage.. Iz planted her two onions she's been growing, and I'm going to pick up tomato plants on Friday, now that it's finally.. probably.. not going to freeze!

And now.. I'm going to sit :P

I'm holding onto hope by my fingernails. He has a 67 and. 69 in his two English classes and needs 70s to pass He says he's turned in some more work. And he has finals Monday and Tuesday next week

Since I got home I have...played on Farmville. And talked to my mom on the phone And now I'm reading and I just finished eating dinner (Zaxby's again) I did just start the washer, load of towels so I can shower in the morning lol

I've been grabbing towels out of a basket I put in the kitchen all week.. now I washed more this morning, and uh.. they're on top of the towels that were in the basket in the kitchen.

Eventually they'll get put away!

The kids helped and planted some stuff and now they're burning cardboard and playing with water balloons.

I'm like that with my clothes. Out of the dryer and into a basket and there they sit for a while. Sometimes two three weeks before I hang up and put away whatever's in the basket lol Right now it's in piles on my bed as I needed the basket to gather the dirty clothes and towels

I normally put my clothes away within 24 hours.. sometimes they wait until the next time I wash. :P I normally do Wednesday and Saturday for ours.

We each have our own baskets (ok well, Alex and I share! That's why we have two wash days, everyone else and towels get washed on Saturdays normally. And we have an extra basket for towels, too).

I usually do all laundry on the weekends But it's gotten all wonky somehow and I was out of towels. So. I think because I washed clothes last Wednesday because I had to wash my field day shirt to wear Thursday and I didn't get it til Monday ... As for the towels I dunno But I needed towels and didn't wash laundry this weekend lol

Oh yeah, sometimes I get off track! Especially in the summer haha. I tryyyyyy to have everyone wash on Saturday though, just to make it easy :P

Yea. It's easier to keep track and do it all at the same time I used to have a day for everyone's stuff when we were 5 of us here.and then towels and whites on the weekends But as people grew up and left, we fell back into weekends...

Yeah, I think so too. And I can yell at everyone to put their stuff in the dryer :P

I come (hopefully) bearing an image of my Autumn cat :D

Oh my goodness he's so close Kat! Praying he makes it!! At least it's not in the 50s for his grades. Also yay fellow flute player! That's what I started out on after my rental trombone got stolen. Got me through middle school to 9th grade.

Let's hope it doesn't freeze, right? It's getting down to the 50s on Thursday here and around there for the next few days or so.

Yeah Mieke I love all the music wearables :D But we're missing a bassoon for instruments, and I'm sure others! :D That's my main instrument now. I do like that we can have a whole piano. :D Though I'm not the greatest at that!

Oh, she's GORGEOUS!

And yes, those grades are pretty close! Hopefully he makes it! We honestly didn't know until the day of graduation if D was going to make it so.. thankfully El and now Akira aren't the same :P

I played the clarinet in school, D played the flute, El played mallet percussion, K plays trombone, Lily plays all percussion with a focus on mallet, and Iz is playing most percussion already, and it's only her first year LOL.

Ugh I really hope it doesn't freeze! It won't be like, WARM but I don't think it'll freeze. I hope :P Or at least not a hard freeze!

Oooh yeah, there's a LOT that are missing haha.

Pretty pretty kitty!!!

Nathan did percussion. For a while. He was pretty decent at it. My oldest brother played trombone and was gross to us.....and mean too

I didn't have this worry even with Shane who often failed classes. He excelled (for him) the last two years of high school....which is when they changed to block schedule. Going from 7 classes to 4 made a huge difference for him. He went from C's and D's to B's and C's with As sprinkled in!! Nathan pissed me off and freaking me out. Because I know he is capable of doing better and is choosing not to bother