JR Racing

Yesterday I dropped past the R&R Sports store to see if our race team shirts were finished, and this is what I found...

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I just love having our guys wear the black shirts embroidered with pink and silver on the back! Not to mention that their names are embroidered in pink on the front :) Hey, when they pilot the bikes down to the end of the 1/4 track they can have whatever colors they want.

Hence, my motto - only real men can wear pink!

Ever Laptop on the Sofa?

So, an interesting debate has arisen. An upcoming trip to Indiana brings me to a computer dilemma - do I take the laptop with me or leave it at home?

Sometimes I feel that this thing is attached to my ankle like a ball and chain. I wake up in the morning and check the computer for overnight emails. I come home for lunch and check the email. I come home from work in the evening and turn on the computer, peruse Cousin Jonna's 'The Full Life' and daughter Jen's and daughter-in-law Kathy's My Space pages, pay bills, check out all kinds of things I'd like to buy, research things of interest (ever tried watching "Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader' while googling for the correct answers??)... and of course check for emails. I might check my email 5 - 10 times throughout the day (not that anyone really emails, but I must clear out all that junk email!)

All this (except for the part about checking out friends and family blogsites) makes me think I would love not being attached to my computer. Maybe I will just take a book with me instead.

As evening progresses, after dinner dishes are done, Roger and I sit here and 'lap-top' together on the sofa . Wait...if I go on my Indiana trip with my computer I can laptop in the evenings with Roger from 1200 miles away! - how romantic :) That does it - I will take the book...AND the computer!

My Recycled Christmas

With all the hype about recycling and seeing some of the really neat things made from recycled products, I was pleased to see Calallen High School's Earth Club come up with these two Christmas recycling projects.

Now, I do realize that these projects do not stand up to recycling disposable diapers to be used as roofing material (I am totally impressed with whoever thought that one up), but they really are crafty ideas!

Sometimes my aluminum cans get recycled, but unfortunately most of the time they end up mixed in with the other trash. Once, years and years ago, I crocheted cut-up Mountain Dew and Dr. Pepper cans into hats which we wore to the Indianapolis 500 race...that was fun :) Even my mother-in-law wore one!

I Give Up!

See that black bike on Jen's right side? The one she is resting her arm against? Well, just a week ago it was YELLOW. I don't know how things like that change so quickly...obviously while I have my back turned, or am blinking my eyes.

The other bike, on her left is the one that carried Jen and then her dad to over 200 mph at the Texas Mile just over 2 months ago (seems like yesterday, not over 2 months ago!)

I don't know how I am going to handle this when the grandboys get older and begin to do some of the things their dad, papa and Aunt Jen do. Surely they won't want to do those things...?

There must be some reprieve in there for Grammy's...right?

Should I just give up now? I've got it! I will just give up blinking - nothing can happen between blinks.

Last look at bright yellow GSXR-1000 before it became the black racing bike with pink decals.

"No, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night"

4:00 a.m.

What is that noise? I awoke wondering if I'd slept through my normal 5 a.m. alarm. Nope - it was 4 in the morning. I could hear trucks...big trucks...cement trucks... Ah come on! It's 4 a.m.!

6:00 a.m.

Since I had been rousted from my sleep so early I decided to go to the grocery store (WalMart) across the road. On the way I found the noisy trucks 1/2 block away at the new yet-to-be-opened Holiday Inn Express. They are putting in the parking lot... Isn't that nice a Holiday Inn Express 1/2 block from my house...right next to the sign that says they are putting a strip mall in on what is left of Brookhaven Drive. Sheesh!

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This is Texas for crying out loud - a State where the cattle outnumber the people...just not on Brookhaven Drive.

Funny Faces

Sometimes when we have pictures taken we want to hide them from the world. Recently I had my school ID photo made and YIKES! Fortunately the photo is quite small and I certainly don't have to look at it anyway. My friend/co-worker didn't particularly care for her picture either (they really weren't that bad!) so she immediately put her extra picture copies through the office shredder! Mine are not shredded, but I am not sharing them either!

I have a favorite 'face' picture of Grandboy AJ that was taken at summer camp this year...

Then there is the picture of this Grammy'face' that would scare any Grandboy thinking about causing trouble for his Grammy...

Of course this 'face' picture of Grandboy Caden is so adorable that no Grammy can resist :)

Oh, and then there is this great 'face' picture of husband Roger taken just a few days ago that I just adore :)

It is the Season!

No Black Friday for me - Christmas Shopping - Gifts to buy for Grandboys…Done! Jen and I went to the toy store - Toys R Us - the day before Thanksgiving and found great things for the grandboys! I am so happy to have that task behind me.

Now, for the Christmas tree - yikes! Ever since I can remember it has been my duty to decorate the Christmas tree in our home. Where did I go wrong? How is it that I hear these wonderful stories from friends and family about the decorating of the tree. And honestly, I do remember decking out the tree many years at Grandma Farnsley’s house. We traipsed out into the snow, cut down a ‘real’ Christmas tree made decorations from construction paper - beautiful paper chains, lovely ornaments, all from cheerfully colored paper held together with glue. What fun! (Note: yes, it is true...nearly every one of the gifts you see under that tree are for those two grandboys - but don't blame me for all of them...several are from their Aunt Jen!)

Christmas is a bit different with the air conditioner running - we did have snow on Christmas Eve 2004. It was beautiful! - a gift none of us will ever forget. Hmmm...Some gifts are worth repeating!