Grass cutting - if you know anyone in Middle TN area

So, my DH is mowing yards. Haven't offically started a business, but we have two mowers, a backpack blower, weedeater and new trailer. We're talking commerical stuff. Not your ordinary yard stuff. The zero-turn is 61 inches, the walk-behind is 48 inches and the blower will blow your ears off. He's got about 5/6 accounts and the goal is 10. He's just doing this for extra spending money (he's got expensive hobbies). Once we pay off the mower/trailer (our goal 24 months tops) he'll be able to take those lovely hunting trips and maybe take along me! :-). Anyhoo, if you know someone who needs their yard cut weekly at a reasonable price, he's your man ----- if you're in the target area which is west & north/west of the city (basically take a map, draw a line diagonal from Madison to Bellevue and that's target area) . He offers multi-neighborhood discounts and senior discounts. My only caution, he loves when a yard looks lush & full, thus meaning he won't scalp your yard and he doesn't cut when it's too wet. He's pretty anal about our yard, but hey whatever, it's pretty and almost all green (we're still trying to get rid of crab grass). His email is seclawncare@comcast.net

E- Mealz.com - check it out

I read about this on Heather's blog and decided it sounded like something I might like. I hate, hate, hate the question .... whats for dinner and when I tell them, that don't act excited. Usually thats because it's the same old stuff. I don't have time to make up a meal plan and grocery list, coordinate and all that stuff, so I usually just pick up the same stuff every week at the store. So when I read about e-mealz, I thought I can do this. So, I signed up for 3 months, which is $15.00 - only $5.00 per month or $.125 per week ..... for someone else to make up my weekend dinner menu and my grocery list. Every Friday I download my WW Points designed menu and my grocery list for Walmart and shop. Last night was my first meal, since we went to the store this weekend. AND it was really good. Country Chicken with potatoes & carrots and steamed broccoli. Yummy. Pear salad was included, but I was the only one that ate that. Everyone liked the chicken, it had a great flavor. Tonight is a quick night, so probably pizza casserole for tonight. IF DH thaws out the gound meat. Check it out ... it's pretty cool!

No Hunting - but lots of cleaning ......

I slipped out of work a little early Friday. I had lots to do this weekend and work was holding me back. First, I needed to make 4 Death by Cream Cheese danishes for an anniversary party. Not only does that take time, but I only have two 9x12 bakers, so I could only make 2 at a time and they have to cool enough to slice and take out the danish pieces. So, I made two Friday night and put in the frig overnight. While that was baking, I made spaghetti, cleaned the kitchen, swept and cleaned the hardwoods and dusted. Saturday I made the other two danishes, did laundry, picked up stuff around the house, cleaned up the kitchen mess again, made DD do homework then got ready for the anniversary party. We were out till about 1:00 am Sunday morning ..... what!!!! Yes, we missed church Sunday morning cause I slept late. Then got up and made breakfast, went Walmart grocery shopping with DH & DD, cleaned hardwoods again, vaccumed the basement floors and picked up the bonus room. Mom andDad came up for supper to celebrate Mom's birthday. Yummy food! Then DD had to finish homework, which took me and Nana helping her! So it was a busy, fun weekend. I like it when the family can spend time together.

May 2 & 3, I'm scrapbooking for the weekend. Friday night crop to kick off NSD and then all day crop on May 3. Sounds like LOTS and LOTS of fun and hopefully I can get lots accomplished. I'm going to start planning pages NOW!!! And figuring out how to pack everything I need/want to take. My guess is TB, CM and I will be a table together. So, space will be somewhat limited with three people at a 6 foot table (lets hope thats not the case!)

More later ...........

Video

I'm not sure this will work. It's a Quicktime movie. My DH took our neighbor turkey hunting this past Sunday and Mike got himself a nice bird. DH took his digital camera to take pictures (this is why Santa brought him this camera) and what he saw in the woods warranted him taping a couple of minutes. It's lousy taping because, well, DH is trying to watch the action and tape at the same time using a small camera. But you get the gist. This is actual footage of two turkey's fighting in the wild. They are Toms (adult male turkeys) and they are probably fighting over a hen or terrority. The commentary is great. My husband whistles at them, then when they finally break apart tells Mike to shoot about 4 times. Mike is frozen. This is his first bird and both are keepers. He finally shoots. Good stuff! DH is quite the guide!!!!

I'll post a couple pictures of his bird too!

MY TURKEY!!!!!

So this past Saturday (April 5) I went turkey hunting again with DH. There was four of us hunting, me being the only woman. We got up at 4:30 am (crazy, I know, but you gotta beat those turkey up you know) and was in the woods by 6:30. Steve and our friend James called, Mike and I (the turkey killing virgins - meaning we hadn't killed yet) were just waiting for the birds to show up. The turkey were all around us when they flew off roost, but as soon as they hit the ground, they were quite. We had two hens come upon us, but scampered off. Then we had two Jakes' (adolescent male turkeys) but they came up so quitely that we almost didn't see them till it was too late. I didn't even have my gun up and ready because my fingers had gotten so cold waiting. I finally got my gun up shot ..... WOW ..... I killed my first turkey!!! I was SOOOO excited. I laid the gun down, jumped up saying, "I killed a turkey", "I killed a turkey". I couldn't believe it. It was AWESOME! I'm totally hooked. We left my turkey where I killed it and went off to another spot to try and get Mike a bird. It didn't happen for him Saturday, but it got a HUGE bird Sunday. My bird was a Jake with about a 3 inc beard, nubby spurs and weighed between 16 - 18 lbs. DH says now I can "trophy" hunt. Meaning I got the first kill out of the way now I can get down to business and get a good turkey. My first turkey fan is getting mounted and added to the wall of fame in the basement.

Here are a couple of pictures:

Pictures of my hubby

Okay, so my husband went on his first "dream" hunt this past November. He paid for the whole thing himself, saving all his extra overtime money and cutting back on a few things to have some extra money. At the same time he was planning this trip, we were remodeling the kitchen and he was a bit stressed about both the trip and finishing up the kitchen so Em and I would have a complete kitchen to live in while he was gone (not sure why that was so important to him, but I'm glad it was!) Anyways, he killed a HUGE deer in IL. He was so excited the morning he called me to tell me. I KNEW the minute the phone rang it was him and that he had killed something because the whole week he was gone he hadn't called before we left for work, just at night. Here are the pictures

It was an 11 pt buck, don't know how much he weighed, but it was a BIG deer! A lot bigger than these pictures look. Isn't he a cute hunter? LOVE HIM!!!

By the way, I'm hunting with him this weekend ... turkey! Wish me luck!!!