Man Shoots Lawn Mower

Okay, this is just ridiculous! I saw this on the news this morning and had to share....can we say "Stupid Criminal!"?


Here's a link with the story to follow:


A Milwaukee man was accused of shooting his lawn mower because it wouldn't start. Keith Walendowski, 56, was charged with felony possession of a short-barreled shotgun or rifle and misdemeanor disorderly conduct while armed.

According to the criminal complaint, Walendowski said he was angry because his Lawn Boy wouldn't start Wednesday morning. He told police quote, "I can do that, it's my lawn mower and my yard so I can shoot it if I want."

A woman who lives at Walendowski's house reported the incident. She said he was intoxicated.

Walendowski could face up to an $11,000 fine and six years and three months in prison if convicted.

A call to Walendowski's home went unanswered Friday morning.

What Kind of Fruit are you?

Thanks Sunny for this! I actually had a hard time with a couple of the answers, but I think all in all it's true! LOL

You Are a Strawberry

You are friendly, outgoing, and well liked by many people. You are popular, but there's nothing you ordinary or average about you. You a very interesting person, and you have many facets to your personality. Sometimes you feel very conflicted. Your different sides of your personality pull at you. You are a very sensual and passionate person. You are fiery... you can't help it. In general, you keep your passionate side under wraps. You are only wild in private.

What Type of Fruit Are You?

Time for an update!

I don't have alot of time, and need to post some pictures later this weekend, but I wanted to pop in and give an update. The boys went to Salem last week for a nice week with the aunts and Grandma Niecey. They went to a water park 2 times and swam on the days they weren't at the water park! LOL They needless to say came home tan and exhausted! I'm so glad they had fun though. They enjoy their time, but had told me by Tuesday night they were ready to come home. :)

Terry and I went to the condo with the Hosey's for the weekend and we had a blessed time. We had our 'owners meeting' with the people there...which basically means they tried to sell us more. We get so tired of these meetings and really hate having to every time explain why we will NOT be buying more than we have. It's so exhausting and we finally this time got a bit hateful with the people and told them if they didn't back off, we were gonna just walk out. Anyway, it was a fun weekend. Other than the meeting with the sales people, we didn't go outside till Sunday! :) We played games and watched movies and just chatted.

I really didn't get much done through the next few days without the kids. I tried, but for some reason, very little was accomplished. LOL I got the fans and cold air returns and ceilings vacuumed and cleaned the school room up to get ready for the upcoming year, but that's it. I felt a bit guilty, but know also that I needed the break.

This next week is VBS for our congregation...and I can't wait! It's gonna be fun. I'm so glad we have nothing else going on this weekend so that we can get some rest before a crazy week begins again! Okay, so the boys are really the ones who need the rest, but I'm sure I might take a nap too! :)

I got a great gift!!!

On Saturday evening, when we got home I was trying to get Terry to give the boys haircuts and he was just hemming and hawing and not giving me an answer. I asked him one more time and he said, 'Man you're wearing me out!' So I quit asking, thinking he was just tired and a bit grumpy from the day. Well, we unloaded the van from the youth activity and came inside and the boys had the couch cleaned off and were telling me to sit down. They all came in there and one at a time, told me what they thought of me.

Clayton: "Mom, thanks for everything you do for us! I just love you so much I could give you a kiss!" (and he did)
Brent: "Mom, thanks for cleaning for us, and teaching us, and taking care of us, and feeding us. And thanks for staying home so that we don't have to go to a baby-sitters."
Terry: "I love you very much and I know I don't say it as often as I should. You do so much for me and for our family and you take care of us and do more than you should have to do. I know I'm not as romantic as I should be and I don't include you in on decisions like I should, but I want you to know how much I love you and appreciate all that you do for us."

WOW! I was nearly in tears. But then it got even better....they got up and said I had to be blindfolded and that they had a present for me to show me how much they appreciate me. So they disappeared into the garage and came back with this blanket-wrapped package. I start to pull the blanket back and it's a Wii!!!!! Oh my gravy!!! I was so excited I started squealing and screaming like a little kid! I've wanted one of these for a long time but we just couldn't afford it. We figured we would be able to in the fall, so that was when we planned to get it. But Terry surprised me with it on Saturday for our anniversary, which is this coming Saturday. (11 years!! Can you believe it??)

Anyway, we started playing it that night, and the next day, and the day after that, and...well, you get the picture. We LOVE it...it's so much fun and the boys enjoy making little Miis, too! And boy it works you out! There's so much action! But really, that's one of the main reasons we like the Wii better than any other gaming system...it gets you up off the couch! And boy do we need that! LOL

I feel so blessed and lucky to have a family like I do and to have a husband like I do. He may not show me much romance in everyday life, but he really makes up for it with little surprises here and there, like this one! :)

Summer Water Fun!

Our congregation had a water day for the youth group this past Saturday and rented an inflatable water slide for them to slide down. There were also smaller pools for the little ones (although many of them didn't venture far from the water slide!) and a slip-n-slide too. Then after they were finished playing for a bit, there were hot dogs and hamburgers for them to scarf down! LOL The kids all had a blast (and some of the adults too!) and played until a storm rolled in and made us end the afternoon.


The boys and I ended up sun burned too! It wasn't too bad, but we did go ahead and pickle ourselves that night! I HATE vinegar with a passion, but boy it really does wonders on a sunburn! Now, there's no blistering and no pink or pain. :)

Here are some picks and a video to enjoy!

(These are Brent going down the slide...the first one is him going down front ways. But he got tired of the water splashing his face so he started going down backwards, like in the second one.)





(Clayton didn't like the slide after his first time going down it. He did it once, came off and said, "Okay, I'm done." :) He preferred the kiddie pool and stayed there most of the day. But finally one of the teens went down the slide with him and he was hooked!)

4-H Camp

Well, the boys have been in 4-H Clover Kids this past year. If you can call it that. Between all of Terry's surgeries and illness last winter, we only made it to about 3 of the 9 meetings! Oy. Anyway, they got to go to 4-H camp yesterday and have some fun for a few hours. When I go there to pick them up, they were both just chattering at once telling me all the stuff they did and all the things they had from their day. But I finally keyed in on something Clayton was saying, "And there was this panda and we kept hitting it! And then there was this one kid who finally hit and broke the panda open! And then all these toys came falling out of the panda! And I got this and this from the toys that fell out of the panda!"

Brent finally looked at him and said, "Clayton it's called a pinata!!"

And Clayton just looked at him blankly and said, "Yeah, I know...that's what I said, a panda!"

LOL Terry and I got a big kick out of it and thought you'd all enjoy!

Eye Doctor

We had (the boys had) eye appointments this afternoon. They were so excited, cuz that's the place they know there is no chance of shots! LOL

C went first and she said his eyes are doing really well...she sees no sign of eye strain and that his vision is actually 20/30, which she doesn't see in 5-year-olds very often. They rarely have perfect vision like that. She said her only concern with him is that as he gets older, he may shift closer to the nearsighted side...so we'll wait and see on him.

B we knew was having some problems. He was complaining of having eye watering and blurriness after reading only a little bit, and then having headaches. She looked at him and determined that he's farsighted a bit and needs glasses (for now) for reading. She said he needs to wear them at church, when doing schoolwork, and when doing any sort of pleasure reading or watching TV. So then we went to pick out frames....of course the ones I liked he didn't! LOL But the ones he picked look REALLY good on him and he had very specific reasons for wanting those over the ones I picked out. I couldn't argue with his logic!

But then C got really sad cuz "Brother gets a cool present and I don't get anything". LOL I keep trying to convince him that it's GOOD not to need glasses. But there's no convincing him! So in about a week, we should have his glasses and we'll start the process of getting used to them. I'll have to post a pic of him when he gets them...he looks so grown up! -sniffle, sniffle-

Gratitude Campaign

(I am borrowing this from a friend's blog in order to get the word out more!)

Have you ever seen a man or woman in military dress and wanted to thank them for what they do, but aren't sure if it would be politically correct? Thanks to one man's campaign, we now have a way to thank them...and it's taking the nation by storm. Watch this video on the Gratitude Campaign's website.

Things kids say....

While at the dr's office a couple weeks ago for my swimmers ear, Clayton was playing with the chairs there in the little exam room. He had a couple cars he was rolling back and forth on it...it was one of those ones that a little squishy and has air under the vinyl cover. Anyway, he found a pin-sized hole in the vinyl and was playing with pushing the seat down and the air blowing up on his face. He said, "Mom, come here and sit here..." I said, "No, I need to stay up here on the table." He said, "But, mom it will be much more airy if you sit on it!" :)

Then a few days later, Brent informed me that there are 3 meanings to the word "hot". I said, "well, I know of two...you tell me what you think they are." He said, "There's 'hot' as in temperature hot, there's 'hot' as in spicy hot, and then there's 'hot' as in, 'Wow, she's hot!'" LOL I just had to laugh...what else can you do when your 7-year-old says that to you!?

What a wild week!

There's been alot happen over the last week or so. The most interesting of which is that Terry had an interview last week. !!!! It was something that took place over the course of 3-4 weeks and it was finally agreed upon by all involved to have him come for the interview. We decided that I should go too in order to check the place (town) out so that if we/I didn't like it, we wouldn't waste anyone's time or money with a second interview. However, we found out that in a town the size of 20,000-30,000, there is only one congregation and only has a membership of 90. That just sends up red flags to me on their evangelism.

Terry enjoyed the idea of the job and thinks he would do a good job with it, but considering the church situation, it's pretty much a done deal that it wouldn't work. There would have to be a lot of things just fall into place for it to happen. Plus we would be further from family...no so good for the grandma's!

Now, the hotel they put us up in was something else! LOL It was the Brothwell Hotel (Terry kept calling it the Brothel hotel....LOL) and the room we got was TINY! We went and bought a disposable camera so that we could take pics of it...I'll post them when I get them developed. But Terry was able to open the bathroom door and touch fingers to the door and the wall across from it and span the room. The closet was bigger than the bathroom...and the bed was tiny too!

Then to make matters worse, he ended up with food poisoning on the way home! He was just sick before we left the town and we ended up stopping 6 times (in a typically 4 hour drive) for him. I bought him some Pepto and it helped some and by the next morning he was fine. But oy....what trip.

On Saturday, we took the boys to see Wall-E. What a CUTE movie! We all (mom, dad, Terry, me and the boys) were laughing through the entire thing at the slapstick humor and the silly stuff that happened. And it was CLEAN! A true family movie! Take your kids...you'll be happy you did! We plan on getting it when it comes out on DVD.

Last night, Terry's mom and sister came down to watch one of the boys' T-ball games. Then we came back here and had supper and got the kids showers. Terry and D (sister) ended up staying up till 1 (or later) talking. Oy...I went to bed. I just can't stay up like that anymore!

Oh, and we posted one of Clayton's paintings on Ebay last Friday. If you're interested, feel free to check it out. We're so happy with how it's going!