There are so many things we want to do and experience together before we get too old to enjoy them. We have started making our bucket list and will cross them off when and if some of those things happen for us. We realize that life is short and it’s really flying the older we get, I want to be rich, but I know that will never happen unless I hit the lottery. I have a list of all the places we want to go and I have fun checking out the attractions of each place online and computing costs.

My cousin lives in Waco and he told me that the Houston Rodeo & Livestock Show is great fun and since they live around 191 miles from Houston when we go to visit next March that will certainly be on our list. I have been to small rodeo’s, but never a Texas rodeo and we love to watch them on television. We are so looking forward to Bill retiring so we can finally start doing some of our bucket list. Just like window shopping I also like to check out the dates of these things and the prices of the Houston Rodeo concert tickets varied depending on which concert we choose or which day we go, of course I’ll have to recheck next year.

Money will  play a big factor in what we can and can’t do, but we really don’t have to have the most expensive seats, I do have binoculars and just being there would be a new experience for us both. Some of the places I have already been and would like to go back to and share with Bill, like Nevada and others will be a first for us both. I have always wanted to take a cruise, but that’s not something he wants to do, but I still check the prices,  I’m hoping he will change his mind. Our bucket list just keeps on growing and we keep on dreaming.

I found 2 WordPress plugins yesterday that I really like the first one is the WP No Category Base which removes the word category from your url. I think my urls look much cleaner having category stripped out and also it doesn’t mess up any urls to any of my pages that are floating around out there already, it automatically redirects them.

As many of you know I’m not very technical so I’m sure I didn’t explain that right so you’ll just have to check it for yourself and see if it’s something you might want for your own blog. The second WordPress plugin is Widget Context and this one I have been meaning to find for a very long time because it makes it simple for someone without any knowledge of coding to change which pages they want to show their widgets on.

I don’t want my blogroll to show on every single page for SEO purposes it doesn’t do my blog much good to have those links on every single post page and that goes for my recent commenters also. For the links the most important is the main page anyhow so those in my blogroll get the juice and hopefully some of my other pages will pick up some rank over time. I also removed the cloud tag widget and will just start adding tags in post.

I am also toying with the idea of making the Entrecard widget only show on my home page because most droppers are only here for a second anyhow, my posts are never very long and only take a minute to scan. I really haven’t been doing much dropping myself lately so I don’t know how much longer I’ll even bother. My search engine traffic is picking up so I’ll just have to start posting about current topics that people are searching for.

The easiest way to add these plugins to your blog would be to go to the plugin icon on your dashboard and click on add new. Then simply type in Widget Context or whatever WordPress plugin your looking for and hit search. A list will come up and all you need do is click on install and your good to go, you then need to activate it.

With this plugin all you do is go to your widgets then click the widget you want to change and at the bottom you will see a window that lets you easily customize which pages you want it to appear, it’s so cool.

My brother reads the Farmers’ Almanac and he likes to keep us informed, last night he told us that we can expect 40 more inches of snow in March, tell me it ain’t so. The girl that lives behind us already has our garage all blocked in with at least 6 feet of snow now and if we get more snow we may never be able to get the bikes out till August. I don’t know why some people are so inconsiderate.

Update: I checked the Almanac and couldn’t find a thing apparently he’s been listening to rumors which were started by the prediction of an amateur Exeter Township weather forecaster and it was Moyer’s Almanac. Apparently the rumor is being spread like wildfire and being attributed to the Farmers’ Almanac by many.

Last year she kept bringing her dog over to poop in the back lot behind our garage and Bill would have to clean it up before we were able to get the trike out. He finally got to the point that he would simply move it in front of her garage so they could clean it up. Plus she was mowing it when I didn’t want her to. I told Bill that I bet she thought that was her property and he said no one could be that stupid.

She must have got tired of removing all the poop from in front of her garage that she finally had a surveyor come an check her property line. She found out that she only has a very small strip and doesn’t own the lot behind our garage so now when they mow there is a very straight line. They now let their dog poop on the small strip which connects to ours so we still have to be careful not to get the tires in it.

Since that small part is hers we leave her  poop alone, but at least it’s not covering every inch of our property, but now all of her snow is. Understandably we are not going to be riding the trike right now, but we still like to be able to get out of the back of the garage. Bill was so worried about the garage roof collapsing and there was no way to remove the snow, but it’s now braced so that’s a worry off his mind. With all that snow blocking us in we wouldn’t be able to remove anything in an emergency.

Bill has been trying his best to remove the snow from around my shrubs, they look horrible right now, but everyone elses does also so we’re all in the same boat. I love my shrubs and planted them myself and have been watching them grow for the past 6 years so it’s like seeing my children hurt, thankfully my Blue Atlas doesn’t look like it’s been injured so I’m grateful for that. Parts of the yard we removed snow from for the dogs is a muddy mess, I want Spring.

I need to go see if I can loosen a few more shrub branches from the frozen ground so take care all.