Found this on Kate’s Blog. You read it top to bottom. The more blue letters, the more you divulge. ‘POLI’ is politics; “FREQ’ is how frequently you blog (hmmm); ‘SPEC’ is how specific about things you are; ‘PERS’ is how many personal things you relate and ‘Rant’ is how often I rant about things. I think this is pretty accurate. ; )

How not to be a good salesperson….be crude and use the BS word several times and why not throw in a few GDs while you’re at it?
I had another window rep here from a company that does some heavy tv advertising. I’m thinking their prices have to be good to do so much business.
First the guy gets lost and has to call me twice. He’s an older gentleman who should know better than to cuss. So he gives me a quote for the garden window and it’s $500 more than Window Wizards. I told him I hoped they would be cheaper and I told him who the other quote was from and he said, ‘they are bs’.
The man who was here on Friday was the complete opposite. Why do people think they can get away with acting like that? He should be trying to impress me rather than disgust me.
I have another guy from the same above company coming to give me a quote on the kitchen floor (it’s scheduled and they are known better for their flooring and it’s a different dept). I called Home Depot to find out about their quote and it seems pretty good (20% off), so we’ll see.
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Last night HGtv had a special about homes where famous movies were filmed. ‘Groundhog Day’ was not filmed in Penna. at all, it was filmed in Woodstock, IL. And ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ house was in California. ‘Meet the Parents’ was in New York and ‘The Wedding Planners’ was an estate in Maryland.

These are the alliums in a circle.

Daffodils my younger brother Don planted when we moved here-almost 20 yrs ago.

The forsythia-lots of dead wood, lots of leaves under them. It looks 85% better there now.

See how much prettier they were last year and how green the grass was (even though it was a few weeks later in this photo.

I decided to try a little more tidying up outside since I felt better. I’ve been eating Dannon’s Activa Yogurt and I think it helped tame the beast. Thank goodness.
It was nice out, probably high 60s, but it’s dry as punk and I saw several cracks in the earth all over many parts of the yard. We are down about 4″ with the expected rainfall this yard. Even my forsythia don’t look quite as glorious as they use to. They also seem to have a lot of dead wood underneath them too.
So I got my woodland garden cleaned out and noticed I have to edge it and weed it sometime soon. Maybe when the kitchen is getting worked on, but hopefully before. It’s hard to garden when the earth is so hard. The wind was whipping around and the skies kept getting dark and foreboding and then sunny again. It’s been windy for months. We have branches all over the place. I even lost a big main branch off my lilac bush.
It’s hard to clean up leaves in the wind too. I had so many things working again me today.
Brian came out and helped a lot. We just dump all the debris down the hill in the back where it will eventually decompose.
My irises all look good in their little semi-circle around the ‘crop circle’ garden. I cleaned that out too. Something definitely nibbled my big mother tulips, but the alliums look fine. I guess they are leafy and the stalk comes up eventually. I saw no signs of the hibiscus I raised from seed and planted near the irises.
I told Brian the leaves should have been cleaned up better as they were decomposing and killing the lawn. I am not planting grass seed every year. He blamed the lack of grass on the roots from the trees, telling me I was not an expert gardener (I’ve been gardening since I’ve been about 15-16). With that, I leaned over and lifted up a wade of decomposing leaves and there was brown earth under it. Case closed.

So the suggestion (so far) to help my tummy at the herbal medicine tribe was to cleanse my navel chakras. Ok, how do I do that and I hope it doesn’t involve needles. So I found this website. It looks interesting as it relates to yoga. Anything to feel better. I was doing some deep breathing today too. Sometimes you just have to sit back and say ‘whoa nelly’-you gotta take a break! Even though I relax through stitching, sometimes that makes me a bit hyper, like the Independence Hall square. An end is in sight, but it was bugging me because I. H. is not brown-it’s made from ‘simple red bricks’. I decided to backstitch reddish color floss over the brown instead of ripping it all out. It works! Thank goodness.

I have someone coming from Window Wizards to give me an estimate on a garden style window for the kitchen today. I took down the curtains and it’s a nice big window. I hope it will be cheaper than what the Home Depot quoted us. I may have him give me an estimate on the front window too. There are 3 casements right now which I never open. We should try to snaz up the place as much as we can.
The kid from Home Depot called yesterday and said the floor I wanted was out of stock. They would have to have a special just when I wanted a new floor! I had to go on the internet with him on the phone and look at different ones. He finally found one that matched the one I like-a Pergo. I get 10% off for installation. I am waiting to hear what the price will be for that. Maybe we’ll wait and I can call another place. That’s what I should do.
Did I tell you that it was the multivitamins that made my stomach spaz (move) by itself? I stopped taking them and it stopped. My guts are still not right, I think it’s all the stuff that’s happening around here. I’ve always been a hyper person (more internal). I just need to calm down or find something to calm my tummy. I have a question in at the herbal medicine group I read. I also found that my tummy is so touchy, I can’t even chew gum that has sorbitol in it. What I need is to take a slow, relaxing boat to China.

Charlie McDermott, a West Chester, PA native is playing Kris Kristofferson’s son (Kris will be 70 this year-so grandpa would fit better) in a new movie called Disappearances. Charlie was also in The Village filmed in Chadds Ford, near where he lives. I’ll have to find more info on Charlie, but I thought I’d share info about another up and coming actor from Chester County.

Mary Lou Quinlan-the only female judge, hails from Philly!

The judges said ‘yes’ to the edible snowglobes!