I am home today, by myself alllll day!  Josh is at work, then has class until 10pm tonight, so it's just me and the 2 dogs.  (we are dogsitting Hershey).   

Hershey is on the left, Rock on the right....They look pretty cute huh?  They sure are!  And Hershey doesn't look like it, but is a total terror on the leash, she pulls like crazy!  So she was able to test all my new leashes out, and they passed without even a small stretch!  I will post those later. 

Today, I got up and made a bunch of soap, before my 11am appointment at the dentist.  I had to get a cavity filled, I havent had a cavity since college.  Most of the soap I needed to make is finished, I used shea butter this time, its very soft and the soap changes shape easily with a little pressure.  When i was attaching my tags, the hemp just being tied onto the soap made an indent.  I will have to be more careful next time I wrap the shea soaps.  I had wanted to make more, but after coming home from the dentist, I didn't feel like making anymore.  Its been 2 hours since the numbing, and my mouth is still REALLY numb...and I am starving, so I will try to eat some pizza.  This should be comical.  

I wanted to post a 2005 house photo, and a 2007 photo to show how much the trees have grown in the front yard.  And how much work we have done........but i'll bet you cant tell that, lol! 
 
Here is house 2005, notice all the bushes all over the place.  The Maple tree looks really small and had a big huge dead branch coming out of the top.  The pine trees to the left of the photo are much smaller too! 


The grass is not looking too great...it was better earlier in the summer.  The maple is loosing her leaves, so she looks smaller than she really is...And you can definately tell the pine trees are growing!

A couple of months ago, I decided to ask if I could work part time, 32 hours per week.  Suprisingly, my boss agreed, and my hours were dropped to 32, yay!!!!  SO typically I have Thursdays off, which is not my first choice for the day, but I am still glowing from not working 5 days per week!!!  
My thursday is for sewing, crafting, and working on my website...so I am trying to do that today!  I hope to post a batch of threads this weekend, 1 new dress, 3 new tops, and maybe an apron skirt and petticoat.  The website has been slow lately, and I am not sure why.  I used to get 100 hits per day, now i only get about 40-50, and I am not sure what changed....the 40 hits is UP from about 20 at one point.  I am not sure what to do.  My site doesnt come up when you are looking on google or yahoo until WAY down the list.  How do you change that?  I surely dont know.  

On another note, we ended up putting pesticides in the garden to get the earwigs OUT OF MY VEGGIES!  I was sooooooooooo pissed when I found them eating my corn on the cob!  So we bought something you sprinkle on the ground, the bugs leave the veggies, and get the poision.  It has worked so far.  yay!  we harvested about 10 ears of corn yesterday, now today I need to freeze it....hmm, thats not sewing is it?! lol
Next year we will have to move the garden anyway, its too near the side of the house which has water leakage problems, so our sump pump has been on.  I am not sure where we will put it next year...but I hope its away from the bugS!