LET IT SNOW?

Maybe it was all the talk about snow and ice with Rod over the last few days.

Maybe it was the low grey clouds.

Maybe it was the Christmas music on the radio.  (Yea for 35 Days of Christmas!)

Maybe it was the fine mist of rain that looked for all the world like sleet.

I don't know.

But I DO know that driving home yesterday, those 12 lanes of grey highway, the fine mist on the windshield, the grey clouds, the Christmas music on the radio - all combined to make it possible for me to believe it was actually SNOWING!

If you ignored the palm trees and 80+ degrees out there in South Florida.

Day Two

SCORE!

1 T of "dirt" in my Calgary '88 Olympics glass.  Swirl with a mini wisk and slam it back.  AWESOME!  No dirt taste at all!  Yipppppeeeeeeee!

Update:

The guys are in Montana - just driving through Butte (according to Google Latitude) - but it's only 7:00 am. Rod is driving, but his headset broke, so we can't talk on the phone.  (Supposed to always use a hand-free device - makes sense!  My headset broke too - sent it in to the company for a free replacement - and I'm going NUTS without it!) 

They are FREEZING out there.  9 degrees.  Meanwhile, we here in Paradise (aka Florida) have gotten confused again.  Although the calendar says November, I opened the door to JULY this morning.  75 and humid.  (Yah, I was LOVING it!)  Kyle was asking to turn on the a/c last night.  LOL  (And the answer was NO!  It's November!)

EXPERIMENT

We are trying an experiment here at the Corey Connection.

I've been reading and learning about Diatomaceous Earth.  (One of these days I might even learn how to spell it!)  There are lots of websites that teach about it.  But I heard about it from the fascinating women from the T-Tapp forums.  In fact here's what Teresa said when she discovered we were talking about it...

FYI, I just discovered DE last month and I have to be honest, it has done wonders for my skin....especially for accelerated healing of an eczema outbreak on my hands due to stress. I learned about DE while in California from T-Tapp Trainer Jane Heinrich and I am forever grateful. Since she sells it, I told her she should call it "Diva Dirt" because it works so well and it sounds more enticing to take (ha)  ...I put one teaspoon in 4 oz of water, stir and swallow quick before it settles. I also soaked my hands in it during outbreak when skin was "oozing". Within a week there was a remarkable difference! Now I'm taking it twice a week for "maintenance".

Seems that it has some amazing properties and can sweep the heavy metals from your body - cleaning you of any parasites you might have in the meantime.  Lowering blood pressure.  Cleaning the toxins out of your body (and helping clear up skin and make it softer).  Strengthening nails and helping hair to grow stronger and faster.  Besides all the traditional uses - keeping ants, spiders and other creepy crawlies out of your house and gardens. 

So... 

I bought some.

It came yesterday, (thankfully) in 2 five pound bags.  (One for the house and one for the barn.) 

We gave it our first try this morning.  The dogs got some with their breakfast.  So did the horses.  And so did all the people!  Sabrina and I had some in our morning smoothie - Kyle doesn't do smoothies (and was still in bed) so he just had his in some water.

The animals seemed fine with it - everybody cleaned their bowl.

The people...  well, it was a little gritty.  Kyle said it was "gross".  But if it helps his joints - he's decided it's worth it to at least give it a couple of weeks. 

We are going to try it in a shot of orange juice tomorrow morning. 

Some of the ladies on the forum said they didn't find it gritty at all - maybe there are different "grinds"?  A couple of the other ladies bought the same brand I did and should be getting it today or tomorrow, so we'll compare notes and see what they think.  There is another brand I can buy that seems less sand-like.  (And it's really NOT like sand, just a little tiny bit gritty...) 

Anyhow - stay tuned.  I'm interested to see what this brings!  It would be great if it could help Jim's back pain.  (Lots of testimonials of people whose lower back pain improved greatly!)  And Sabrina's insomnia.  And Kyle's creaky joints and popping ankles.  And my... well, I'm already perfect - so I'm just hoping for gorgeous nails.  LOL  (Ok, not really!)

Grass

Ok, here is proof there is grass growing out in the back pasture.  It's not really grass, it's rye.  A fancy kind I can say, but I can't spell...  But the horses are going to LOVE it!  Once I finally let them back there.  I am going to make them wait another couple of weeks.  Want to make sure it's got a good root system...

Kyle has really worked hard getting the property looking nice!  But now he's riding his 4-wheeler in the front yard!  (Since I won't let him in the back...)  But at least he's just riding around the edges - so that's ok.  I told him he gave up his entire track - I could give up a little of my front yard.  I think that's fair!

Oh, and he built a nifty track for his RC truck on the old pool spot.  Boys - they never grow too old for their toys!

Rainbow

It was a GLORIOUS morning!

A little cooler than yesterday, with a light breeze. 

As I walked out to feed the horses, I realized there was a tiny sprinkle of rain, but not enough to even mess up your glasses (if you were wearing any...)

It was so nice, that while the horses were in their stalls, munching on their breakfast oats, I took the dogs and walked to the back of the property.  Just turned around and looked.

Kyle has been doing LOTS of work on our place lately.  He and Rod gathered up all the junk Bill left - they got nearly $300 from the recycle place for all the steel and aluminum!  Then Kyle attacked his dirtbike track and moved the dirt from the jumps to the various holes the dogs have dug in the property.  Then he brought up the dirt levels in some of the low spots at the back of the barn where the rain likes to pond.  Then he dragged the entire pasture over and over and over and over with the metal drag turned upside down so the little fingers dug into the dirt and got it all good and fluffed up.

Then he spread 100 pounds of winter rye seed, and ran over it again with the drag (right side up this time) to cover all the seeds and give them a good start.  (without just turning into "free" bird seed!)

We have had some nightly rain every night since, so now the back pasture is all lovely green!  The new grass is about 3 inches tall - all soldier straight and in perfect little rows.  (Yes, I know, I should REALLY take a picture!) 

It was wonderful just standing there at the back of the property, looking over all the growth and improvement.  We don't look like the Clampets anymore!  Really nice!  (And I'm sure the neighbors appreciate it as well...)

Anyhow - on my way to work - the icing on the cake was a gorgeous wall-to-wall rainbow out over the river.  Beautiful. 

Reminds us to take a moment to be thankful for all the little things!

Sun Spot

Remember CKXL AM 1140?

Can you sing the jingle?

Do you "Drive Decent"?

Do you remember all the controversy about Drive Decent(ly)?  Sheesh.

Priorities

This was an "interesting" weekend.

Saturday morning I was off, so did MORE Instructional in my hotel.  It was a KILLER!

Then after teaching all afternoon, I went to Longhorn Steakhouse for a delish steak, baked sweet potato and a green salad.  YUM.  Back to the hotel, fell asleep planning to take full advantage of the time change, get up at my usual time (6:30 - which would then be 5:30) and do another round of MORE Instructional. 

However, at 11:40, the fire alarm went off. 

 

 I was in that "dead to the world" state so I honestly didn't know what was happening.  I woke up, thought, great, the fire alarm.  Got out of bed - luckily I had folded all my clothes neatly and put them on the other side of the bed - I was NOT going out in my undies!!!!!  As I was trying to dress, I thought "maybe this is that tinitis thing people talk about - maybe this is just MY ears!"  There were no lights blinking, nothing to indicate it was an alarm, just this high pitched squealing that felt like it was originating in my skull!  I honestly thought it was ME!  I was in a total panic wondering how I would survive and be able to teach with this mind-numbing shreak going on in my head!

Then I walked into the living room and noticed it was a little quieter... so decided it was the fire alarm.  (And the closer I got to the door, I realized I could hear the claxon going off in the hall...)

Went back into the bedroom and grabbed my laptop and chords and stuffed it all back into it's case.  I decided if the hotel burned down, I could get new clothes, but I was NOT going to replace my laptop (and all my pictures on there...)  Oh yah, and I took the time to pick out and put on a different sweater, cuz if the hotel burned down, I would still have to teach on Sunday and didn't want to wear the same thing two days in a row.  See?  I really was NOT thinking straight! 

Grabbed the laptop case, my purse, my room key and my leather jacket, cuz earlier it was raining and CHILLY, and headed to the door.

Then I remembered.  I brought my CD case with all my T-Tapp dvds in it!  NO WAY I WAS LETTING THOSE BURN!  So back into my room to rescue those! 

Finally I left the room, hit the stairs next to my room - down and out.

Now - here's the kicker.

I'm was a firefighter.  I know better.  I know you GET OUT immediately!  It's not the fire that kills you, it's the smoke!  And the invisible gases from the carpet, upholstery, etc...  But I was 1) half asleep and the shrill alarm honestly made it imposssible to think and 2) protecting my MOST IMPORTANT stuff.  My life, my laptop and my T-Tapp!  LOL 

When I got to the parking lot, I called Rod (in Flagstaff - having a snowball fight with my Jimbo... first snow of the year) and said "you remember when we were firemen and got called to Holiday Inn Oceanfront all the time and had to rouste people from their rooms and make them go stand in the parking lot while we checked out the hotel?   Yah, now I know how they felt..."  I guess what goes around really does come around, eh?  But now I understand why they all acted like complete idiots.  And I feel badly for wanting to bash them over the head...  (just kidding... about the head bashing, not about the feeling bad...)

Anyhow.  It was a false alarm.  So finally, back up to bed.  At least it wasn't snowing in South Florida!  (And it had stopped raining... it was actually kind of nice out there!)

At 1:30 my "neighbors" woke me up - yelling obscenities and slamming doors.  (I don't stay at Motel 6 for crying out loud!)  And then at 1:40 - the fire alarm went off AGAIN!!!!!  I got up and was half dressed (I already left my computer & dvds in the truck) when it turned off - so back to bed.

Needless to say - there was no workout Sunday morning.  I was GRATEFUL for that extra hour to sleep!

Hope YOUR weekend was GREAT!

CUTE SAYINGS

One of the blogs I follow was talking about cute things little kids say.  And it reminded me.....

Every day when the kids and I were driving into town, we would drive over the overpass above I-95.  As we drove over it, I would point north and say "that way is Daddy's Shop".  Then I would point south and say "that way is Miami".  This went on for weeks.

Then one day I decided to see if they were paying attention. 

I pointed north and said "what's that way?"  A chorus of "Daddy's Shop" filled the van.

Then I pointed south and asked again "what's that way?" 

"MOMMY'S AMMY!"