Gritten’s Casa

Had a wonderful Christmas and awesome New Year.Hope you all had the same.Gosh,I spend way to much time on Facebook! I’m lacking on posting on my blog big time.Everyone around here have colds and they suck.We have had great weather for this winter.Today is 39 degrees but the rest of the week in 40’s and 50’s.Can’t beat that. Posting pictures of the Christmas get together at my house.It was a blast.I did the meal this year.Have a great New Year everyone@

Jack’s prostate surgery came out good.He was in surgery for 3 hours and recovery room close to 3 hours.He came home the day after with a catheter in him for 10 days.That’s all new to me.I have to clean it daily and so far he seems to be getting along as good as can be expected.So thankful for that.He doesn’t eat or sleep to well yet but as each day goes by that’ll get better too.That was a very long day the day of surgery.We got up at 2am left the house at 4am..it’s a 70 mile drive..he had to be there by 5:30 am surgery was at 7:30 am.So glad it’s over.It sure is painful for him.I keep telling him to take it day by day and he’ll get to doing better.All takes time.I have to watch for a fever above 101..sometimes it’s scary.That’s all the update for now more later.

Hey I watched a special on animal planet lastnight.It just made my skin crawl.It was called Bed Bug Apocolypse.I think those parasites are worse than cockroaches,which I despise in the first place,and the only real way to get rid of them is to have an exterminator come into your house and heat the inside temperature to 104 degrees.I guess from what was reported on there was that you can get bedbugs just from sitting,laying your coat,purse,etc.on someone’s bed,or sitting in a chair in someone’s home,motels,hotels,and they can be transported even on your clothes.How scary…yikes! In the 50’s they sprayed fields etc. with ddt which was stopped and now the bedbugs are on the rise.It’s time to be very careful.This was a very informative program.I know I never want those things in my home.We have had very windy days this past week but really nice temps and a few sunny skies.Today is sunny but 25 mph wind gusts..no surprise..and comfortable.Hope all have a great day.Blog later…..

I’m still around in case you were wondering.I’ve been trying a lot of blogging platforms out of curiosity and wordpress still wins my number one blogging platform to use..simply because of all the functions and ease of use.Not much more to write about.It’s 83 degrees here and wind gusting over 33mph.Blog later.Till then..

These crazy php codes drive me nuts!I worked for a couple days on smilies and could see them under the post area until I added the remove content generator on the functions.php file.I removed the snippet of code and walla there they were…sigh..crazy huh!The more I work on wordpress the more I learn and make mistakes too.If you don’t try you will never learn it.I can’t afford to have someone always add codes I like so if I want them I gotta do it myself.Still remains,php drives me nuts!! I saw on the news lastnight that Delores Hope died..Bob Hope’s wife,she was 102 years old,amazing.A very nice day here today.Sunny and 73 degrees.Just my kind of weather.Hope all have a great day.

It’s Friday again and I have spent the last two days working on replacing the wp smilies..ugh,was that a job to say the least.I about when nuts! For two hours I couldn’t get into the dashboard because of a syntac error and it took me the full two hours to fix it.I finally got the smilies changed and was that ever a learning experience. I do really like these cuties but the link to her site doesn’t seem to work anymore? If anyone knows what it is I’d sure like to know.It has been cool and rainy here all week and I finally put the heavy quilt on our bed…brrr.It sure beats the triple digit heat..sigh.Posting another picture of my clematis.They are my favorite garden flower.Take care and have a great weekend.

I just love this stuff!

Just a tribute to the people that lost their lives on this fateful day.We will always remember and pray something like this will never happen again.I added a cool mp3 player to my blog yesterday.It’s a very nice plugin and simple to use.I am using wp 2.9 version at the present time.So far so good.

Labor day already and I spent my weekend upgrading to 2.8 wordpress version.Don’t know if I like it or not?The 2.7.1 was really nice but for some reason I was getting hit with massive amounts of spam?One thing I’ve noticed with this version is that the widgets won’t stay where you put them and you have to keep dragging them back…real pain.I might have to upgrade some more? I think out of all the blogging platforms I’ve used,wordpress is still the best one around. Jack spent the whole weekend putting a metal roof on a two story house.He’s a workaholic for sure but it pays the bills.Our weather for this week has sure changed.Lastnight the temp went down to 46 degrees and will remain that way all week.Sure beats the triple digit heat..sigh.Hope all of you have had a great labor day weekend,mine was quiet and I kept busy.Take care.

I went ahead and upgraded to 3.2.1.Hope I like it?

Hi everyone.The heat is really going to be on today.Supposed to be a record high for September…103 with a 110 heat index.I’ll be so glad when it starts cooling off..sigh.Been planning for Jack’s surgery but now the Doctor said he’d only be in the hospital overnight with a 4-6 week recovery period.That would be nice for him but I guess it depends on how fast his body wants to heal.I think it takes time with a surgery like that.Jack isn’t one to sit around.He always has to be doing something.Can’t sit still for a minute.Hoping all goes well.Me on the other hand,I can relax and take some time for myself.I find things to keep me busy.I enjoy my computer when I’m not cleaning,cooking,or doing laundry.Jack bought me an ipad 2 for an early Christmas present and I just love it.Hope all have a great Thursday.