Howdy neighbors, we’ll be at the Safeway on Nob Hill selling cookies today, I expect to see you there…. buying cookies. From the Girl Scouts… See you there…10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
March 29, 2008
And Garden
I think I have to rename this blog mrs Hannigan’s Home & Garden because otherwise I’d have no place to share my garden excitement (Didn’t think of that in the middle of Winter)
Here’s the current excitement:
-Yesterday’s snow didn’t freeze the ground
-Bulb flowers in front are up & I see a bud on one of the daffodils
-Our lawn is so green
-Roses I trimmed are looking great, I better do the backyard soon.
-Family friend has started bush beans & tomatoes in her greenhouse & offered us some once they’re ready. Yippee, G1 will be so excited.
-I should start something
-MrH has done some yardwork fixing planters and clearing the playground / treehouse area of dangerous things to step on, now we need to lay some sod down or something, because we have a hill of dirt and the kids keep coming in the house filthy.
-I left some snapdragons and daisies in the ground and they have new growth.
-Peonies are coming up, too.
Coming Soon- Free Coffee
My coffee sample from Jamaica something will be here………….I hope it’s as good as the Coffee Fool…………I’ll let you know
slept all day
She slept all day and I miss her. Is that crazy? She’s learned to blow raspberries and her chin has been covered on slobbery bubbles.
Scrabble for Spelling Skills and more
Leave it to a reformed unschooler to consider Scrabble an important piece of curriculum. Not only does it help with spelling, but it also uses math skills. Today M1 kept score, and I kicked her butt. I’m a fierce scrabble player, I must confess. I used to be a Scrabble delinquent, my family still hasn’t forgotten about the time in High School when I’d invent words and definitions on the fly. “Hand me the dictionary please, I need to look up yogense… Yipee it
IS a word, it means…. the speed at which milk molecules are enzymatically turned into yogurt.” The gig lasted a while, I’m not sure exactly which invented word or definition finally got me caught.
Free Lip Smackers
I realize they’re petroleum products, but my girls love them. M1 insists they’re the “only thing” that can soothe chapped lips (translation; envelop them in a waxy coating that renders them untouchable and smoothe) I’m a Blistex gal; it medicates, nourishes and cures chapped lips in less than 30 minutes!
Anyhow- They just signed up for the Lip Smackers test marketing panel; for registering they each receive a free tube of lip smackers and are considered for marketing surveys. i can’t imagine what the questions would be “Is this too sparkly? Does this taste like bubble gum? How do you feel about blue raspberries?
You can sign up, too- just visit the lip smackers website and print up the form, have fun!
Nim’ Island
Thank Goodness Abigail Breslin is doing something new. She’s a talented little girl, but I really hated “Little Miss Sunshine.” What a lucky kid to get to work with the elusive Jody Foster, it must have been an excellent script for JF to even consider doing it, WTH does she do lately anyways? I guess whatever the heck she wants. Is Nim’s Island any relationship to the Secret of Nim? Or is it the secret of Nimh? Such mysteries of life and children’s media.
