Nothing new...

I haven't forgotten about my blog. There just hasn't been much new going on really to write about. Getting ready to register Chance for kindergarten. Started picking up back to school clothes for him here and there and it's weird to be out of the 4T stuff and into the boys stuff. He's in that weird in between stage where the 4T is too small, 5T is impossible to find most of the time, and the 4 in boys can sometimes be too big but for the most part fits him well. He is ready to be going back to school b/c he is "ready to make new friends" as he told me yesterday.

Other than that-nothing really new to blog about. Have been working on the yard some and it's turned green but still some dead-ish patches here and there. Really need to mow it but ugh. First I have to put oil and gas in the mower and in my mind, that takes more effort than actually mowing. We put out a bird feeder...well, to accommodate the amount of birds that visit, it's actually our fire pit since we wont' need to use it for it's actual purpose anytime soon....but they have really taken to it. We bought a 20lb bag of food the other day and already it's over halfway finished. I found a cute, but small ceramic feeder to hang on the 'tree' as well. The finches tend to eat out of that one, but they aren't shy about going up against the doves and pigeons in the fire pit either. It gets a little crazy out there at times. In Georgia-we'd have three or four birds at one time at the feeder...here, it's crazy. There will be twenty or so on the patio eating out of the fire pit, drinking out of the dish or picking up leftovers that have been flung out of the feeder, then there will be a few dozen more across the yard under the small feeder. My mom said I should put out a hummingbird feeder, so I figured I'd give that a try to see if any came around. Never had any luck with them back in Georgia even though Tina did. I had bought the feeder and filled it up, just hadn't put it out yet. Ironically enough, I was watching out the back door when I saw a hummingbird go up to the 'tree' (I use the term 'tree' loosely since it's a very very dead tree and really just one bigass glorified perch now for all these birds.) So anyways, I figured that was my cue to put the feeder out there. Didn't see one go to it until about 5 minutes ago. I'd like to figure out a way to hang it off the patio instead of so far away on the other end of the yard. The finches have the ceramic feeder over there and the hummingbird one is hanging on the tree with it just a short distance away. I guess they think it's another perch for them and they use the hummingbird feeder to sit on. This is probably one of the reasons seeing a hummingbird is so rare...i'm sure it scares them away. Anyways, it's something to pass the time I guess. I think even John gets into it all. My only complaint is they think the patio table and chairs are there for them to crap all over. We have these cute little finches out there that are mostly grey, but have red chests and heads. Chance had went and brought back the little bird book we have (or he has I should say since he said it's his), found the bird in the book and said "I found the bird!" And he sure enough did! So i guess it's proving to be educational lol.

I've been reading a lot. Goes without saying I'm sure. Maybe one of these days I'll post everything i've read over the summer. I finished all the J. R Ward books until she comes out with another-which she needs to hurry up and do! So I started on the Sookie Stackhouse series since so many others had mentioned it. I finished up #4 last night and much to my disappointment, stupid Walmart didn't have the #5 one...but they did have #7, so I picked that one up-so today I will go on the hunt for 5,6,8 and 9. Those books are way too short. Two of the Sookie books are the size of one JR Ward, but yet the same price. So possibly a slight rip off, but ah well. There are definitely worse addictions to have.

Anyways, that's about it I guess. Need to go flat iron my hair, get dressed and go look for these books. My truck is on E and I have been putting that off as long as I could. I loathe putting gas in my truck or really anything that has to do with the gas station so this is quite a chore for me. I was holding out hoping the gas fairy would come but no such luck. But if I want to actually make it to target to look for the books-it has to be done. Need to get my eyebrows waxed bigtime. I haven't had them done since my birthday, so it's past that time. Chance has karate later and I had hoped to go see a movie afterwards but John has to study for his soldier of the month board or whatever it is. So I'll probably end up reading instead haha.