Day 7

Wow. It's already been a week since I started blogging. Still undecided about my blogging 'fate' but we'll see where it takes us.

Woke up this morning before Bobby. That doesn't happen very often, but it was nice to check my mail before he did LOL.

The garbage men had me laughing so hard this morning I was crying. To make a long story short, I made a headboard for a bed that we will be using as a prop in our Ladies Night Out Expo this Wed. at the Mid America Center in Council Bluffs, IA. I decided to assemble it on Easter Sunday as it was nice and quite at our house that day. I thought I had purchased everything needed for my project. Wrong. I bought a large bag of batting, buttons, needles, dental floss (to sew the buttons on with), bolts, screws, staples for staple gun, etc. The idea was to pad a piece of wood to make a "tufted" headboard like they had in the 1950's. I'm not thrilled with the fabric I used, but forgot to get new fabric and had to use some that I already had lying around the house. That should have been my 'omen' to put it off another day. But I'm not a procrastinator, so Easter Sunday it was to be. I cut the batting and layered it on the board. It wasn't nearly thick enough and there wasn't a store in town open to purchase more. So I went digging in the storage bins and found an old comforter. Ah ha! I thought I could just cut down the comforter to size, put it on top of the batting and add my fabric. Good idea ~ wrong comforter. It turned out that this comforter was filled with itsy bitsy teeny weeny feathers. So when I cut it, feathers went flying...literally all over my house! Bobby thought this was hysterical and I was just about to have a nervous break-down. So........added the comforter, got the board covered, tufted it with the buttons, covered the back and the headboard is done. In cleaning up the feathers we filled 2 trash bags! Forgot all about the ones in the trash (we're still battling finding them all over the house) until the garbage men came this morning. Bobby was upstairs getting dressed, and I was downstairs at my desk when the trash men came. I don't know why, but we both looked out the window as they were picking up our trash. Well when they dumped the 1st can into the truck, feathers were flying everywhere! It looked like it was snowing in our front yard and the men were frantically waving their arms trying to stop the flying feathers. They were laughing and we were bent over in hysterics watching them. Probably isn't as funny reading about it...much funnier in person, but had to share.

It does, however, remind me of a similar incident with my children when they were young. (we have 5) I was in the hospital for surgery and we had been operating an in-home business that required us to ship a lot of things in packing peanuts. So we had about 2 dozen enormous (like 7' tall) bags of packing peanuts stored in our garage. Our daughter Kristen decided to pop all the bags and go "swimming" in the sea of peanuts. Popping the bags filled our garage about 4 1/2' deep. When she found that she couldn't actually swim in the peanuts, she decided to play hide and seek with our 2 lb yorkie. So she threw the dog in the peanuts and proceeded to find her. This was fun for awhile, but then all of a sudden she couldn't find the dog. Knowing she would be in big trouble for losing the dog, she ran to get the other kids. T.J. had the brilliant idea of opening the garage door thinking the dog would run out and they could get her. Well....we had incredibly strong winds that day and the second the garage door was opened ALL of the peanuts went flying out the door! The good news: the dog was found. The bad news: it literally looked like it had snowed for a 2 block radius of our house. The neighbors were so displeased that they called the city and the children were out picking up peanuts for weeks! Now I thought this was funny because I was lying in the hospital and didn't have to help with the clean-up. In fact I laughed so hard I popped one of my staples. But Bobby didn't laugh so much and neither did the kids.

Bobby is off running errands this morning and I need to get busy, so I'll add more later.

10:30pm The feather fiasco continued all day. Suffice it to say that I had to modify the headboard as my drill wouldn't go through the fabric and batting and that feathers once again infested my house. To make matters worse, as Bobby was trying to help vacuum them up, the vacuum clogged and it switched from "sucking" mode to "blowing mode". Imagine thousands of feathers being blown into the living room and then imagine my mood after that. Not great.

Took a 4 hour nap, woke up, went back to work and all is now well with the world.

I'm doing parties the next 3 nights in a row, so my days will be filled with computer/phone work and trying to pull the finishing touches together for the expo. Will be a busy 3 days, but that's what I thrive on :)