Gulf of Mexico, Biloxi Mississippi

My first visit to the Gulf of Mexico...

Sadly, the big guys only aunt died on Valentines day.

 

We flew down with my lovely mother in law for a few days to attend the funeral.



Despite the occasion, all three of us enjoyed some time away from WI winter weather

 



More Spring Fever at the Nest

If I didn't have spring fever after buying the camper I certainly have it NOW!

Last week I did a very ungraceful splits move in an icy parking lot.

As you may guess, that is not a move for someone over the age of 40.  Or even for someone staring 50 in the back of the head

 

I have bruises where bruises should not be..... and they seem to grow every day.

Still, it could be worse, no broken bones, only stretched and torn muscle tissue. 

Gosh, how luck does that sound?

 

 

Physical Therapy here I come!

And all the while I am dreaming dreaming dreaming of spring.............

 

Spring Fever at it's worst!

 A few weekends ago, the big guy and I attended a camper show and ordered a brand new camper!  Hold on a minute, I need to get my butt back on my seat, these involuntary happy dances that overwhelm me when I think about OUR NEW CAMPER!!! We have been talking about moving on from our "sleeps 8 pop up camper" since we are basically empty nesters at this point.  Plus, there is very little set up with a hard side camper and the awning is easy to set up too!  This one comes with a refrigerator AND a freezer! Well, the pop up had a fridge too, but in reality it was a bit tough to reach it, since it was so low.  Usually a person (moi) had to sort of lay down on the floor and curve around the edge of it to see what was in the waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back.  Usually there was something icky in the way back by the time we were done camping... green hot dogs, gray cheese....  why was it never a misplaced Hershey bar?  Now we get to go look through thrift shops, ( my favorite place to shop) to find small pots and baking sheets for the little stove and oven too!  Spring fever is hitting hard at the Green house.  Very very hard.
Perhaps I can bury myself in my studies and get my mind of of a certain really cool camper...
On that note, my only class this semester is "Using and Understanding Mathematics, A Quantitative Reasoning Approach"
now doesn't THAT sound like fun?
yeah, right.  I'll let you know!

Happy New Year

Oh it's a wild New Years Eve around the nest....

 

Wild I say...



 

At least there was a bit of a vintage fashion show by the lovely Miss V



 

Happy New Year everyone.  I hope it is a healthy and productive one.

I hope we can all remember the good positive things and forget the nasty negative ones, I hope we all come together as God intended, and make the world a better place in 2013 than it was before.

There are so many good and wonderful things to be grateful for, big things like family and health, and small things like hot coffee and a warm smile, a short line at the checkout, green lights, a sale on oranges, mail from a friend, soft pillows, comfortable jeans............ all those happy simple little miracles that make the day go better.

The new Mares Nest!

Well, here I am, a little bit of a new address............

 

I tried a variety of things to get more picture space, and alas, no luck at all.  Or perhaps I am just not technically coordinated enough to figure out my cell phone from my Kindle... or something.

Now to get on with blogging!

My big news, is that the semester is over, and. drum roll......................

pppppdddddddddddddddddddddddd

I got an A in algebra!!!  ME!  seriously.  An A.

and then after waiting not so patiently for my meteorology grade, my lovely (not) professor finally posted them YESTERDAY and I got a B+

Whew!  I kept my honor status!  oh, did I forget to mention that I got into PTK, the honor society?

that was a pretty casual way to introduce that into my blog life.  :-)