I haven't written in a while because I haven't had anything to write about. Still don't!

I think the cough from my flu is finally gone. And about time. I'm still catching up on my sleep from last weekend and wishing I had somebody to go to yardsales with. There are several inside and one advertised books and I really need some. I read the whole winter on books I bought last summer, but I'm down to my last one. Maybe I'll go by myself. It's not fun alone, but I'm desperate!

Now that it's April I was hoping for nice pretty days, but so far all we've had are dreary, rainy ones. One day this week it was kinda nice and I took a bunch of stuff to the dumpster and picked up trash that blows from No. Main down to my back yard. The city put up two nice wire baskets for trash on poles....one in front of my alley and the other on the other side of the street so folks that buy food and stuff at Quik Chek and eat it before they get home, will have a place to put their wrappers, bags and bones. But they ignore the trash containers and throw the stuff down and it all blows down on both sides of my house. The guys at the funeral home picks up the mess on the parking lot side, but I have to pick up all that ends up in my yard. With all the wind some of the bags end up hanging way up in the trees.

Wed. was Rachel's 16th B'day and her other grandparents invited me to the Japanese restaurant to help celebrate. Bobby and Teresa picked me up and Rachel's boyfriend's mother dropped them off. (They had been to the skate park).The food was so good. I wish I had some now. I brought a doggy box home and Emily ate it. It's so much fun to watch the guy cook it right where you're sitting. Also, he was a funny guy!

We had a storm tonight with thunder, lightning and heavy, blowing rain. I hope that means that Sat. will be sunny and pretty!What it probably means is that it will still be wet and miserable.

Rebecca and Tommy usually come on Friday evening after school and we get up and try to leave the house by 9:30AM for our trip to Charlottesville. However, the principal word is try. Only once until yesterday have we ever left the drive way by 9:30 and that time we had to make two trips back because the kids forgot something vital to the trip. CDs and gameboy!

This time Ginny brought them about 9:20 Sat. morning, already dressed, fed and with their trip essentials in bags ready to put in the car. We only had to wait for Rebecca to pee. So, we actually left at 9:30.

When we pulled out from under the carport, the first drops of rain hit us. From then on until we got just outside of Colleen, VA, the rain fell. And fell. And fell. It was pretty heavy at times and it also thundered and lightninged. But once it stopped, it cleared off and we had sunshine, blue skies and warm weather.

We got to the check-in desk at 12:20. Of course, there was a long line of folks waiting to get in and half of them weren't in the computer and there was only one lone female guard working and she had to check names in numerous big, green books and then had to give the visitors forms to fill out so they could be put into the computer. We finally got to the visiting area at 12:50 and Sharon was already there waiting for us.

We had carried $30 worth of change and Tommy and I went to the snack room to get Sharon some food that she doesn't ordinarily get. Tommy didn't feel good and that's why I went to help him. Usually he eats a bunch of junk, too, but all he got this time was a Mt. Dew. After we filled Sharon up, it was time for picture taking. She had bought tickets to get pictures taken and they took four without me and then insisted that I get in the last one. It was really terrible. I don't like to pose and I hate being taken unaware. It was a really bad picture. Not of them, just me.

We got to visit for 1 1/2 hours and then when we left, I let Rebecca drive from "the big house" to the second traffic light before Charlottesville.It's a nice two lane road, fairly straight and no other traffic. She's had her learner's permit since Dec. and she does real good. However, I took over when we started to get to the populated area. When we got to Charlottesville, we went to MacDonalds and met Sharon's friend Rose and she bought us lunch and had brought gifts for all of us. She was Sharon's roommate for a while, but got out the end of Feb. She was in there for threatening to kill her sister's husband who was beating up on her sister. She was real nice and the kids enjoyed talking to her. She even brought Tommy some old coins cause he and Chad are really into coin collecting these days.

After we got back on the road, we made pretty good time. Didn't see any hidden cops or state troopers and no accidents. Did see a lot of dead turkeys on the side of the road. It's turkey mating season until mid May and I think they all go to the road to "do it".

When we got back to town I had to stop at the grocery store cause Tommy wanted to cook supper for us, so we bought beef strips and he made beef stir fry. It was pretty tasty, too. We had to pick up Chad after the store stop and they played outside on the skate boards until dark. Then today they played on the skateboards and with humongous airplanes Ron bought for them. Tommy had to leave at 2 today because he had a Boy Scout meeting and just now when I went outside to wash bird poop and a million dead bugs off my car, Chad had taken all these parts of bikes he and Tommy had in the basement and had made a bike! It actually runs, but it had a loud squeak, but Chad said he could fix that. These boys are always building or taking apart something. Their project for when Tommy comes back in two weeks is to build a skateboard ramp. And Chris, the guy next door said he had some paint he'd give them. Unfortunately, the paint is PINK!

I don't know where to start! Doug has been in the musical Cabaret for the past two weekends. Sat. Tami and Hayley came up from Sanford to go to see it with Linda and her two girls. I was asked to go, but had already planned to go on Sunday with Cindy and my friend Margaret.

Well, they came back Sat. night bubbling over with excitement because Doug was so good in his role as emcee. They couldn't believe how good he could sing and dance! Tami had seen him in a comedy back in Feb., but she hadn't seen him in a musical. I had, so I sorta knew he would steal the show.

Sunday Cindy came up from Durham and in addition to us and Margaret, Emily and another friend from church went and we were lucky enough to get seats up close to the stage and we could see everything really good. He had so many costume changes I don't know how he did it. But he did, and it was a good show. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and so did the rest of our "theater party".

Cindy spent the night Sunday night and Doug and Emily came by and we ate popcorn and watched TV together. Hadn't done that in a long time. It was so nice.

Monday morning I was fixing breakfast for Coby and Cindy asked if I'd ever made a boiled omelet. I hadn't, so she told me how and I made her one and it turned out so nice that I made one for me. Here's how: heat a pan of water to a full, rolling boil. Beat your eggs in a bowl and add whatever you want....cheese, ham, mushrooms, etc. then pour the mixture into a zip lock baggie. Put in pot and boil for 10 minutes and then carefully (so you don't burn yourself), open baggie and empty onto plate. It slides out into a perfect omelet. And tastes good, too. It's really neat.

Well, maybe I didn't have as much as I thought. But it was so good to have Cindy here for part of the weekend. And to have Tami and Hayley here for a few hours along with Kerri after she got off work. It was a good weekend!