Brown Patch

Up this morning before the sun showed up. Made the coffee and had my first cup before Sherri came down the hall. We are suppose to have and real nice day today. The sun will be coming out and temps will be up around 78.

I guess with the weather as nice as it is I will go to work on my Brown Patch. Yes we have Brown Patch because of all the rain we have been having. Our yard has been standing in water for several weeks now. This causes a fungus that turns you grass brown. It really works on the St Augustine.

I put a fungicide on this morning and then watered it in. I hope this takes care of the problem...

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Somebody

It is early and I just climbed out of bed and made the coffee. I decided to sit down here and tell you about "Somebody". 
I don't know around your house how things play out but here when the kids were growing up my wife would always talk about somebody. 
Somebody left the toilet seat up. Somebody left the refrigerator door open. Somebody did not close the front door. Somebody lived at our house but none of us really knew this somebody. You never saw somebody leave the door open but Sherri would know that somebody did.
All those years have passed with somebody doing all these things and us not knowing who somebody was. 
Well I found out who "Somebody" is. 

  Somebody

Now that there is only one person that could have done these things left I put it all together and realized I am "Somebody". 

And here all these years I thought I was "Nobody", but all this time I have been "Somebody".

I think Sherri knew who "Somebody" was but she never told us.

OK now that Kris is getting older and able to do more for himself...Somebody is starting to creep back in and making me unsure if it is me or is Kris somebody? 

Do you have somebody living with you. Maybe you will find out who somebody is...

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Will the sun ever come out?

Last night the sky was firing off lightning every second or two. I just new we would have a terrible storm but that never happened. We got more rain...just what the yard needed...NOT! We have brown patch in the yard. Our grass is mainly St Augustine and it is a prime target for fungus. With all the rain that we are having and no sunshine St Augustine develops fungus that turns the grass brown in spots. I purchased a product that is suppose to rid this fungus amungus.
We will see...as soon as it stops raining I will apply it to the yard and see if I can stop it. 
I know I am selling the house but I still dont want the new owners thinking that I sabotaged the lawn.
Sherri and I are heading out to the lake to pick up some things for the garage sale. Kris is going to Dallas for a symphony. He is really excited about it. 
Have not heard a word about a closing date? Oh well I am sure we will hear something...

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Looked but not buying

We left out yesterday to take a look at an RV we had been checking out on line. We talked about how much more it would cost a month and what we would have to give up to have it and decided to have more fun in what we have.
I have always said I don't care what I go in as long as I get to go. Buying a bigger and better RV now would only cut us back on how much fun we could have traveling and seeing things. 
I guess we will just have to wait for that new RV and have some fun traveling first. Our RV is sooo economical that we would be foolish to buy now. We can pull ours for pennies and have money to go and do things. There is plenty of time to sit in a new RV after we see what there is to see out there.
After all our RV has two bedrooms and a nice outdoor kitchen. The indoor kitchen has more cabinet space than any RV we have owned before! Why change?
OK nuff on the RV we are waiting on our appraisal Monday. We get that behind us and we are on the down hill side of this thing. We have our fingers crossed and hope for the best. Maybe this summer we can plan an adventure in Texas. We are hoping by this next winter we will be able to head out to a warmer climate. Have not made those plans yet...but we will...

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We missed the storm

We missed the storm last night. Sherri and I sat in the Den and watched it come in West of Ft Worth and track all the way to Wills Point. Just as it got to us the weather dude said he was going to return us to our regular scheduled programming! WHAT! We waited all this time to see what it was going to do and when it gets to us you stop forecasting! What kind of a deal is that. Well I can see where we fall into the scheme of things.
Oh well I hope in the future we see bad weather coming we can pick up and get the heck out of Dodge! By the way we just got some rain...no wind...no hail...nothing.
The Realtor called today and said that they would be doing the appraisal Monday. So I guess this is going to be a done deal? Inspection appraisal...surely these folks aren't backing out?
Today we are planning on going out shopping for RV's. No we are not buying one this year but we are looking for one that we can live in for the rest of our time here on earth. We like the RV we have but it is not to live in. We will travel in it for some time and enjoy the economy it brings and then when the time is right we will get our "Home"...

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A few repairs needed

The inspector completed his walk-through this morning and we had a few minor things that have to be fixed. The buyer has to let us know if they want all or just a part of them corrected. Some are really ??? Many of them were here when we bought the house. What does that say for our inspector?
We have the appraisal to get done and then if that all goes well we should have a sold house.
I will not get excited until I am signing the papers at the closing. Then we will go out and celebrate! 
The next time we buy something without wheels under it I will have to be where I can't roll any more.
We are looking for somewhere to put our home when we are no longer moving. A place that has room for an outside patio and maybe a storage barn. I don't want a yard to tend to. This is what we will be looking for as we travel this time.
Today I have to head to Home Depot to buy some odds and ends. And here I am trying to get rid of some odds and ends. Oh well odds are we are coming to the end...

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Cross your fingers!

The Realtor called us and said that she was looking at a offer on the house. The offer was good and we accepted it. They want a inspection before they sign anything which we OK'd. So we should find out in a few days if the house is sold.
My gosh...if it is we have soooo much to do! There are few things we need to do whether the house sells this time or not. We need to get those things done and then if it does sell we will have to move into high gear!
I will keep you up to date on all that is going on...

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Time at the lake

Becky came to visit 

The weather man said that we had a 60% chance of rain so we decided to go to the State Park and stay for a couple of days. We always wait for the worst possible weather to go anywhere? I don't know why we just do. 
I think the real reason is we are so bored of being in that house all the time with nothing to do! We got a lull in the project department and headed out.
I will have to put my water line over to the laundry room now that the trailer is out of the barn. I get that all hooked up and then all I will have left is the electrical work. Maybe if I am real lucky the house will have sold by the time I get all that done...

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Time to head back to Texas

Well it has been fun.
It rained a lot here but we  got to see the family and spent some time visiting. We had to move the dinner on the grounds to the dinner on the boat dock. 
They have a covered boat dock down on the lake and it has tables so we just moved everything down there to get out of the rain. It all worked out great and we had a good time. 
Maybe next year we will have some better weather...

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Working off my new Unite

I think I told everyone that I had purchased an Internet hot spot from AT&T. This is my first outing to use it and I want to see how much I use each day. I have 3 Gigs on the device at a very nominal fee each month. Now to see if I can work off of that much or not.
We are in the deep pines here in Louisiana. I mean deep as in alligators and marshes. This is a beautiful place to stay if you like those sorts of things. 
We are here once more for the family reunion we have once a year in April. It is nice to visit with family that you have not seen in a year and go over all the news.
As things would have it our children are getting less and less into this reunion thing. I guess many families are experiencing the same thing. As our generations move further apart and have lives of their own the family is not as important as it once was.
Not that our children don't care about the family but they just don't have time for that with all their friends and lives so patterned by society.
And as more and more of the family passes on to that life after we find that the reunion is taking place more in the cemetery than at the old home place.
We are here to have fun and enjoy the outdoors even though it is damp and rainy. We can sit under the awning and visit while enjoying the birds singing. 
All is well here...

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Emily's Senior Prom

My beautiful Granddaughter is going to graduate this year from Wills Point High School! 
We are so very proud of her. We took time to do some photo shoots in town. You have to understand Wills Point is not your most popular spot for photographing. But then it is not the scenery we were looking at but the subject and she was the prettiest graduate around!
We wish you all the best in your future. We love you and we can't wait to see you in college next year!
Love Maw Poppa and Kris...

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