Darla Kay's Web Journal

Last updated on whatever date you see as the date of the last entry which will be the first one...

April 1, 2004
OK, I'm trying again at this... Found an interesting site today, Welcome To The Drive-In Theater!, that has a list of all the operating drive-in theaters in America. Only three left in Arkansas, the 112 Drive-In in Fayetteville being one of them. It has the Mena Drive-in listed as a dead drive-in. Sad... I grew up at that drive-in. Really.

October 6, 2003, Monday, 12:02a.m.
So, now it's been a REALLY long time since I've added to this web journal. A whole lot has happened in the time that's passed. I had a baby, Benjamin Panther Sanders Weatherford. He is now 15 months old and walking and doing a little talking. He's becoming a little geek, I fear; he just wants to play on the computer all the time. We're working on having him grow up thinking that Life Is A Carnival. We've taken him to Springfest (Fayetteville, AR), the Vandervoort Fourth of July Picnic, the Tontitown Grape Festival, the Washington County Fair, the Carson and Barnes Circus (where we rode an elephant!), and the Apple Festival in Lincoln. We go to the Farmers' Market on the Square and yesterday, we went to the Fabulous Fall Function. I've started scrapbooking with Mary. I need a place to keep my memories. We might be moving to Greenland. We are in the middle of buying a house there, in that limbo period where you have to wait for an appraisal to find out if the whole deal might fall through... I've written a couple of poems; they're linked from my Words page.

Here is this year's front flowerbed!  The stuff in the middle there is wormwood.  There are petunias all in the front and vinca vine all along the bottom.  There is a mixture of things on top, mums, marigolds, etc.  I am making a page to show the progress of the front flowerbed...

I got sick and then went to Indiana and got sicker and I couldn't hear at all out of my right ear and then I got back and a guy hit my little Shadow with a Jeep and totalled it and I got a Mitsubishi Mirage today.  I hate insurance companies...
Indiana...  there is a lot of corn in Indiana...  Sue and Jaret and Dare and I went to Indiana to see Jeremy.  It was a long drive, but we had a great time.  It was so good to see Jeremy and to spend some time with Sue and the kids.
I will get more pictures scanned soon and link up lots of the stuff here...

Springtime has come to the Ozarks!  The weather is beautiful; rain at night, warm and sunny all day.  Mornings are humid as the rain steams out of the ground. I have been exhausting myself in the flowerbeds.  I have pulled out every rock and filled in the holes and replaced them, making changes as necessary. I am redoing the front bank. To the right, see the picture of this flowerbed a few years ago; it was planted mostly with petunias and rose moss. I am rearranging all the rocks and planting the bottom with Vinca vine that I'm transplanting from the backyard where it's taking over; Terry hates it, but it blooms pretty purple flowers in the spring. And it comes back every year so I won't have so much work to do in the future!

My New Thing:  Saltwater fish!  I don't have any yet, but I'm planning to soon! Actually, they are for Terry's birthday.  We have this 40 gallon tank just sitting around collecting dust, so I thought, "I'll clean it up and throw some fish in it for Terry's birthday."  So, Terry's birthday is tomorrow, and I'm still researching everything.  But he knows; I realized there was no way I was going to haul that 100 pound tank out of the bedroom, clean it, let the water sit, set up everything, and acclimate the fish and somehow manage to surprise him...  He's letting me pick out the fish!  So, Mary and I visited the local fish shops and were pretty disappointed.  Not a big selection and high prices.  Worlds Under Water on College Ave. is pretty good.  That's where I saw the reef tanks!  And I wanted anemones and that pretty purple color and seahorses!  Yeah, seahorses! I've wanted seahorses all my life, but I hear they are hard to keep...  I'm also looking into Tangs, Damsels, Blennies, and Cleaner Wrasse.  I (and Terry) want nice fish.  We don't want to watch mutilations every day.  Hell, I can't even watch the animal shows on Discovery Channel anymore...  And I don't want anything that eats seahorses!  So, being disappointed at the fish stores, I got online and was very happy to find places that will deliver fish and other stuff to me.  I think I might go with Flying Fish Express.  They have good prices and a one week guarantee (which doesn't sound like much, but is apparently pretty good for saltwater fish).