Weatherman was throwing darts again?

We all know that the weather is less than predictable sometimes, but the poor weathermen around here have sometimes got it really hard here because there is a saying here that goes like this, "if you do not like the weather, stand there a few minutes an it will change." Now this is true, except during the summer especially when a drought has got its fingers wrapper around us.

So I just checked my "reliable" (take that like a grain of salt) iPhone weather app. The weather for what it says my "local" weather is...

Now I would like to point out the high for today...

No where on the lineup for today's hourly forecast do we come right at that high. Now that I mentioned that, was the low there either? Of course, there were a few hours to go....

Yes we feed daddy's crazies

So I made calzones for dinner. I needed to use up the roasted chicken in the fridge. So I needed something to do. Easy with the supplies on hand. I am not sure what I was thinking with "easy" but let me say that "easy" and "lots of work" can go together in the same sentence. Just because it is a lot of work does not mean that it is hard work, it is just lots of work. I do, however, have a calzone press thing that makes the job go faster.

I digress...

So my husband, Ben, is a bit crazy sometimes. We love him all the same. It was time to start putting dinner away. The left overs you know? This is what I got...

It was a chicken...

So a roast chicken is a lot of fun to debone. In my opinion, it is more fun to debone a cold, already roasted chicken than it is to debone a raw chicken. Give me a left over chicken any day...

This is what happens when a cooked chicken and I cross paths...

Why I like it here

Not everyone likes it here. I have decided that not everyone is capable of looking past the negatives. At least not far enough past the negatives they see. It is all a matter of perception.

Would it make a difference if I told you that these reasons take place just one block from what I am about to show you and you really do not have to look fat to find the positive?

The reason I like it here?

Because roads like these still exist! The rain still makes for exciting rides and back roads really are back roads! Yes, these do exist in the booming suburbs of Houston, Texas and no you don't have to look far off the beaten path to find them. This road? Two blocks off the highway? It is not the only one there...

Roads like this on a rainy day make me smile.

I finally emptied the bucket!

So for a while we have had this 18 gallon storage bucket of stuff that I would get to some day. Well, some day came today! It is empty and reassigned temporarily to something else!!!

What was in the tub for all this time? Should I even admit how long? Years. Several years. It was mostly empty and it became the catch all for things over the years. Mostly it was the catch all for the toy and game pieces that I would some day put back where they belonged...

Some day never seemed to come often enough...

Now in all fairness, there where times over the years where I would take the bucket and dump it out, sort, put stuff away as I knew where things went and what not. Somehow, there was always something left in the bucket every single time...

Then brutality struck when I had to do radical cleaning to get the house ready for four extra bodies. Radical cleaning meant that bucket was almost empty again. Almost. Then frustration set in as game pieces started showing up.

Now everyone has a hot spot in their house that is just a constant eyesore. I would like to say that mine is limited to that 18 gallon blue, Rubbermaid bucket but it is not. The extra formal room is taking up that role now. The bucket is only one bucket in that room. It is the catch all room...it has become the organizational staging room in the house as of lately. It was the empty room (mostly with just the piano) so it was a likely candidate for the job. It is doing it well, unfortunately it progressed from "staging" room to "catch all" very quickly.

I am trying to make it the not catch all room...

Slowly.

Today I have taken out two trash bags. This is not the start. That was today's progress. It is hard work. Clutter will have its last stand in that room!

The big accomplishment, the catch all bucket for the kids' miscellaneous stuff is empty. I was brutal. It took an entire bag of trash by itself. There are a few miscellaneous things for me to find homes for, but that should not be too hard in a much smaller box for the time being.

Lots to do but today I made headway....