Wine on the Keyboard

I have a love/hate relationship with my Subaru. It’s a cute little Forester. Replaced my die-on-me all the time minivan. It’s peppy. It’s rated as a safe car with side airbags. Decent gas mileage but not great. Knock on wood…Subaru vehicles are known for not having many problems. I’ll get into a full review on why a woman should and should not buy this car on some later post.

But thing that bugs me no end?? It came with “theft deterrent” or that thingie that if someone would break in a window the vibrations from that would set off the car alarm. Well, okay. I wouldn’t have paid extra for it, but it came with the normal car alarm/remote entry. So WHY does that annoy me?? Well, you see we’ve been having thunderstorms all week. When we get big cracks of shaking thunder or lightening…it sets off my car alarm. I have to crawl out of bed, search in my purse for my keys…or if I’m really lucky…discover I left my purse downstairs so I get to run through the house and find where I left my purse. Find the remote, click it, to turn off the alarm. By now my neighbors are SO glad they live next to me…

If I think of it, and they are predicting storms, I lock the car the old fashioned way…you know, by manually switching the locks and shutting the doors. Then no car alarm–equals no middle of the night annoying the neighbors.

I asked at the Subaru dealer what they could do, was there an adjustment to turn it down? No. Can they turn it off? No. Unless I want to lose my whole car alarm system. Well, isn’t that special? Oh, and it also happens sometimes when SuperGuy is washing the car and cleaning the wheels. Honk. Honk. Honk.

So while this is a cute, peppy little car…and gets us out of our neighborhood even during nasty snow storms…it has a few MAJOR design flaws. Like this one. My neighbors aren’t too keen on the alarm system either.

I should really bake some cookies or something and go apologize to my neighbors…

Life, such that it is by Kacey
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Look! My chives have a flower. Okay, don’t laugh, but I didn’t know that chives bloomed. Are they supoposed too? Do you leave the bloom? Pluck it?

Remember when the poor little guy was buried under the snow??

Now it’s so pretty with its little bloom! I really should learn more about growing herbs since I love to cook with them. For now I’ll just enjoy this pretty lavender bloom right out my kitchen door. Do you guys grow herbs? What kinds? Do you grow any in containers, ’cause that’s what I’ll have to do. Our backyard is all shade, but I do get sun on the deck.

Photo of the Month Reminder:

Tomorrow May 31 by midnight is the last day to submit a photo for May’s Photo of the Month. May’s Photo of the Month theme is motherhood. Take it and run with it. Anything that it means to you, reminds you of it. A self portrait. A pic of your mom. A photo of your kids. Your best friend’s baby. Something your kids made or gave you. Get creative and take up an obscure angle of it. You soaking in the tub at the end of a long hard day. A huge pile of laundry. Use your creativity and your imagination.

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Other Creative Things by Kacey
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I’m not sure why my boys didn’t go into a career of ceramic making. I mean, you can see how talented they were in kindergarten, can’t you?

So my oldest made the clay colored one…the next year my middle son followed with the green one. Not to be outdone, 4 years later my youngest made the white one. Kind of follow the leader. Or I want to be just like my big brother. Yes, my boys were into dinosaurs at that age, why do you ask??

I don’t know why I’ve kept these all these years. They’ve been in my kitchen windowsill for like 18 years…

They’re kind of scary looking though, aren’t they? Getting ready to devour the world? I guess I should have been worried?? Well, the boys moved on to new talents, but these remain in my window sill nudging my memories of little boys and laughter.

Have you kept “treasures” like this from your kids? What did you keep?

Family Life by Kacey
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