Standiford Family Web Log

We went to Olive Garden with Scott and Jess last night to celebrate Scott’s 23rd BD. Food was good. I had pollo fettucini. The salad was OK. The bread sticks were GREAT. And best of all, the company was good. Until a group of about 10 or 12 people came in and didn’t realize that they were the only ones that wanted to talk. It’s OK to have a good time but you don’t have to yell from one end of the table to the other and you don’t all have to talk at the same time in very loud voices and you don’t have to laugh like you are at a comedy show. We honestly could not hear each other talk. Fortunately, it was after we were done so we paid and left.

Today I am going down to the campground with Scott and Jess to get him an associate membership card. Then I will turn around and come straight back. I might stop and talk to our camper for a little while just to let it know that we will be back down soon. I’m sure it misses us as bad as we miss it. Only two more weeks and we’ll be on our way – assuming the doctor clears Beth to go.

Friday night and just relaxing a little bit. I think we are going to go to dinner tonight with Scott and his fiance to celebrate Scott’s 23rd birthday. Hard to believe that our baby is 23.

I came across this link for a blog of some people that went to Alaska in a Heartland Bighorn 3670 5th wheel. This is the same model we have. This is quite a blog. You probably don’t want to look at the whole thing but might be interesting to see the pains that some people take with their blog. Of course, they were gone quite a while and seems like they took their time. http://alaska.mpandgp.com/ The pictures of the RV in the snow is interesting.

Got out the mower, filled it with gas and in two pulls it was running. Mowed the front lawn. It really did need it. Had leaves from the neighbors tree pluss some of the grass was getting rather long. Temperature in the upper 60s so it was great weather. The back really does not need it yet but if it is this nice tomorrow night I may do some yard work in the back. We have a hedge that needs trimming. I think Spring is almost here.

Went over Saturday to Costco and got a new television for the family room. The old one was starting to get very fuzzy. Also got a DVD / Bluray player. Got that set up. Started doing some of the laundry. Beth can’t go down the basement yet. Only one flight of stairs allowed. Sunday, I went and got the truck and took the hitch out so I could help April and Brian get a sofa. The people she bought it from had it upstairs so we had to carry it down. Man, it was a job and a half. Got home and did some more laundry and then went grocery shopping. Probably took me longer than it would have Beth ’cause I don’t know where the stuff is in the store. Finally did a little more laundry and now just waiting for bed. I’m tired.

Yesterday, I started scrubbing the carpet in the room that Kayden (and Brian before that) was in. Looks like maybe it will clean up although I’m not sure yet. I think we may have professionals come in once April has all of her stuff moved out. I don’t want to get them out here for just one room. But also don’t want to wait to get the carpet clean. So I’m doing it. Guess that is why we bought the scrubber. I sometimes wish I would have bought Pop’s scrubber.

I am able to access the old database that stores the blog posts but I cannot import them into the new blog. I guess the database structure may have changed. So, I am going to bring them in manually – one at a time. It will be a lot of work and it will take quite a while but I really want to get all the old posts back out there. Just call me a geek. Anyway, you will see that the posts start in 2007 and then jump to 2010. That will change as time goes on. I don’t know yet if I can do the same thing with comments but I’m going to try.