Things seem to be kinda slow on here recently.
I was just curious how everyone is doing? I'll start...

I got four heirloom tomato plants in the mail today from Brook the Brat
Thanks again Brook.
I cannot wait to get them into some pots. Def gonna save seeds from them.
My mother in law and her second hubby left on vacation for a week today. They took the two oldest grankids with them. Jon and I have to go to their place every day and feed their outside dog. Have to walk her and give her a break from her kennel. She has a pet fish I have to feed. They have this crazy alarm system down there that I hate to mess with. It is one of those that sends the police if you dont know the password when they call :eek: I hate to fool with that thing. Have to get the mail and newspaper for them. Something is wrong with the alarm system and they are supposed to come check it in a few days. I really hope that crazy system doesnt go off in the middle of the night like it has been. The guy took their garage off the system cause something is wrong with that part of it.

Our family is doing good. My father in law is big into getting out gardens right now. They put out 300+ tomato plants at Jons brothers a few days ago. Still hard to catch a break in the rain to get much in the ground right now. My sis and her cutie pie kids are doing good. Here are a couple of little pics she sent me from when they went to the park a few days ago.




I saw this pic and had to get it for Kev. It is a shot from the filming of New Moon in Italy.

Dang, janie! The pics didn't come thru for me! Only boxes w/ red X's in the upper-left corner. (AGGH!)

Thanks for catching us up on all w/ you!

I'm good here in my remote neck o'the woods. Not a whole lot going on- I've actually had the great chance to work lotsa over-time lately 'cuz many folks have been taking vacations. I know what you meman though- it has been sorta slow here. I miss folks! Where's Jeff, Francie and all the gang? I've seen mama, CanMan, Cookie, Cath, MsMai and most the others here and there... This time of year folks are enjoying gettin' outside again, I imagine. Still, I miss our l'il family here!

janie- I work w/ various home and office alarm systems these days. Here at State Farm Corporate CMS (Central Monitoring Services), where I work, we monitor the security systems of 7000 agent's offices around North America. My entire night is spent receiving burglary, fire, environmental/mechanical, communication failure, and personal panic and/or medic alarms.

On any given night we receive 25-100+++ burglary alarms, call 25-100+++ different police departments, and wake-up as many or more agents and other keyholders on after-hours, emergency call-lists.

Sounds like for unknown reasons to arm-up the system at the main panel (or a remote wireless keypad) you've had to bypass the garage sensors, yes? There could be serious reasons for, (or easy remedies to) this.

If you have any difficulties, PM me and maybe I can offer assistance. I'd be happy to help if you run in to any snags, dear...

Oh.. I remember you couldnt see the pics I posted before.
That is a pic of one of Edward from New Moon shirtless. Have you read the scene from New Moon where he is standing by the town square clock in Italy about to let the sun hit his chest. He thinks Bella is dead and it trying to provoke to Volturi into killing him. I saw that pic and I was like .. Kev would appreciate this lol. Later Ill save the pics to a different format and see if you can see them.

Your exactly right about the alarm system. The past few weeks the garage alarm has been going off several times a night. I imagine their neighbors want to kill them. The guy came and took the garage off of the system before they left yesterday. He told them he had to order parts or something. If he comes back to change anything before they get back he is supposed to call me. I had written down how to bypass the garage but since it is disabled for now I dont have to worry about it. I asked her what company they got it from and she just said someone out of Lexington. When she described the guy who maintains it for them she said he has bad body odor lol. I was like uh.. sounds like a great place :rolleyes:
Jons in the shower now so we can go take care of their place soon. They are giving really bad storms to hit here soon and I wanna get their place done so I dont have to go out later.

Yeah where is everyone? This place is kinda deserted.

Can you see this one Kev? It is a different format than the others.

Oh, I'm still around, just listening more than I talk, as usual. I've mostly been busy tuning up my telescope and plan to put it to good use tonight after a stretch of cloudy nights. Made a strawberry cake this morning, I cheated and used a mix. Made whipped cream frosting and put a layer of that and a layer of sliced strawberries on the first layer, then finished frosting the whole thing and put a thick layer of sliced berries on top. That just about sums up my week so far.