vacation?????

I guess it is a vacation, as I am not at work......but all the ideas for things to do this week went out the window with other stuff that was more urgent.....like dentist appts for me and the kids, and even more urgent--getting tires on the vehicles and getting my oil changed and Ron's inspection done.

So the last vehicle is at the local garage getting new tires and the oil changed, and it is now Friday and we go back to work Monday. Well, like I said, at least we weren't at work this week....we need to go out later and get our stuff for a cookout tomorrow. We hit WallyWorld last night when we took the boys to a birthday party so we could get a brake light and a headlight for the van, and we got the basic necessities--milk, etc....but for good meat we prefer Foodfair over WM anyday.....it just seems fresher.....maybe it's just our perception, since I have never had any problem with the meat from WM, but I just prefer the local shops to anything else....

It's not been a bad week weather wise---cool evenings, and the days have been almost humidity-less, and warm enough to make you sweat if you are active, but not enough to kill you just by walking outside.....

We took a long drive yesterday, Ron and Shel and I......boys begged off so I put them back to their summer reading for school.....we drove down Rt 10 to Harts--Ron hasn't driven it since he and his ex split almost 10 yrs ago and I drove it last about 3 yrs ago when I went searching for the Logan paper when the girls' uncle was killed in a horrific car crash, so they would have the obit. He said there were a lot of changes since he was last down there. The biggest I saw since my last trip was the store/gas station at the base of the hill by the family cemetary is gone. Just gone. I had no idea---I had stopped there as my last stop in my newspaper quest that summer. We always had used it as the base of operations, so to speak, when we went grave decorating. My great grandparents are buried at the top of the hill, and if all the trees and stuff hadn't grown up so high, if you looked down over the edge from where they are buried, you could see where my mom grew up---there's now a trailer there I think. I tried to find it yesterday, but wasn't sure of which fork to take off the road.

So after we did that, we drove on to Chapmanville and hit rt 119 back to Charleston, stopping at Southridge for a late lunch/early dinner, then hit WV Quilts in Barboursville to look around...really didn't do any damage this time around, I didn't have the "gotta have it" bug like i normally do---I 've got enough on my plate as it is....

Well, I am going to try to post this--apparently people have been having problems posting their blogs, so we'll see....