Earth Day and a birthday!

I left Larry at home today on Earth Day cutting grass and replacing more of the fence and finishing up a chest-of-drawers that he's been working on and I spent some of the day down home in Montezuma for our Katie's third birthday party.  Katie loves Minnie Mouse so a Minnie party it was, complete with cake, cupcakes and pizza!  She got Minnie clothes and toys and Larry and I gave her a Minnie Mouse sofa!  She was so cute opening her stuff.  

I just love this picture of her when she saw Minnie on that little sofa.

Here she is tooting her birthday horn!

Clumsy me, I busted my camera while I was there today.  The strap came loose and I dropped my camera on the concrete step.  10 seconds earlier and it would have landed on the soft dirt and been all right.

Owwee.  Hopefully we can get it fixed.  I finished the birthday party taking pictures with it and they all turned out good so it still works, you just can't see the picture.  I probably won't forget hearing that craaaaackkk any time soon.  It sounded like my ankle felt when I broke it.  Owwee.

I came home and finally got my little garden planted.  I decided to try container gardening this year so I planted my 'maters and peppers in a pot and I planted zinnias in the middle.  In two other pots, I planted my lavender, sage and rosemary.

I still have flower seeds to plant --- wildflowers, zinnias, marigolds and mums and I even got a pack of catnip to plant in a pot for Tabbie Hoffman.

Maybe tomorrow... 

An Expensive Lesson. Shut Up.

So.  Two weeks ago, give or take a day or two, my washing machine started making this God awful noise.  A grinding, screechy noise that was worse when the washer was agitating. This coincided with me washing Larry's thick, heavy Colts Super Bowl sweatshirt so I thought that's what the problem was.  The machine started making this really loud noise so I just turned it off, heaved that heavy ass sweatshirt out and let it dry in the tub.  For three days.  But the machine kept making that noise every time I washed a load of laundry so I thought the sweatshirt had burned the motor up.

Nope.

This did.

I finally called a repairman today and this is what he found.  The underwire from my favorite bra that has been "missing" for two weeks.  Guess where it was??????  

The wire had cut through my bra one day and I just took it out and put it in my jeans pocket and forgot all about it.  I've been wondering what happened to it!!  The repair was $130, the bra, probably $15. 

Idiot.