A BIG THANK YOU

Before I post today I want to say a quick thank you to all you readers out there.  You have stuck with me through thick and thin, boring posts, whining posts, nasty posts and the good times.  My blog is approaching fifty thousand hits!!!!

I remember very clearly my very first post.  I was sitting in my garishly painted yellow laundry room in the big house, right after the fire.  The blog was named The Laundry Room Shelf back then.  I didn't post very often and certainly nothing interesting.  I was into reading other people's blogs more than writing in my own.  But as time passed I noticed something.  Maybe one in a hundred kept up the posting.  Almost everybody would post a while and then you never heard from them again.  So I vowed not to do that.

When we moved up to the new house that used to be Aryn's, I took over the purple bedroom and made it my den.  I LOVED it and renamed my blog to Purple Room vents.  And now I am sitting in my third purple room!

As time passed, my blog became a friend to me.  When I sit in my room, very late, in the dark, blogging...I feel all of you there with me.  There is no way can I ever get lonely with  all of you there.  And that was truly tested last year while Spod was dying.  Every night it was easy to drum up the energy to do the nightly report.  All that love and support was utterly amazing.  So as I approach that fifty thousand mark, I want to thank you all!

Last night Monte and I went to the hockey game and had a blast!!!  We are getting to know the regulars that sit around us which makes it even better.  Fortunately there was no one sitting in the row in front of us so Monte could put his legs over the top and down on the seats in front.  He is just so damned tall.  The people around us just look at him in amazement then laugh...not in a mean way but in incredulity.  Its crazy how many people come up and ask how tall he is.

There were people on the bus I knew!  A couple of men from Kiwanis and their wives...whom I got to know at the Christmas party.  One of the women is starting up a knitting club.  I am going to go and she has agreed to teach me how to knit!  You can't be a genuine granny unless you either quilt or knit and I know quilting is just too much math for my old idiot brain!!!

Today Monte and I are going to home depot.  I need to check out the price of dremels and wee chain saws.  I have always had access to a little chain saw and I just may get one.  We sure could have used it over the christmas season.  Also I could have cut down my own tree out front and saved enough money to buy the darn thing.  There is another tree out back I want down.  I can do that myself.  Plus right now I am signing off and I am going to phone Shaw to come and put in that connection in the kitchen.  I can't wait!  TTYL