Day trip

Well I am on my way over the mountains to Eastern Washington to get several cases of apples and pears to can. Lots of Fall color over there, I think I will take my camera...

See Ya when I get home.

FUNNY

Thought this was apropos

Hunkerin' down

The weather has changed with a POW! THe fog has a grip on the land and is not letting the sun get close. It is so foggy out, that the deck has puddles, the grass is wet, and the trees are dripping with the moisture grabbed from the sky. It is cold. Cold compared to what it has been. It is in the 50's which isn't really COLD, but with the humidity so high, it seeps right into your bones. A Grand day for Hunkerin' down as my mom used to say. I got up with Sadie at 6:30 and took her out to pottie, she ran around in the yard until she was really wet, then pooped and wanted to come back in. SO in we came. Shivering from the cold and dampness, because I was stupid enough to go out with no robe, just my ratty looking flannel pj's. So worn, that they are nothing but threads...literally. Holes, sleeves cut off 1/2 way, no hems, COMFY!!! NOthing to keep you warm. Anyway, I digress...We came in, and I stumbled back into bed, and let Sadie run. Donnas room was open, and she was not up yet, so I knew Sadie would find Bandit in there and would wake Donna up, that way I wouldn't get yelled at. (teehee) I pulled the covers back up over my shoulders and turned on Katie, Matt, Al and Ann to get the latest news. It was so comfortable, bed still warm, cool air coming in the window, back and knee finally not aching, and I immediately went back to sleep. The heater cats were doing their job. One on top of my back, two as close as they could get to me on the side. Life is good.

I woke up with three cats levitating off of my bed, and my face getting washed by puppy tongue. Mean nasty Donna must have put Sadie on the bed. Woke up all of us. The cats are ok with Sadie, but not while she is fully awake and they are asleep. So I made a wall out of the pillows that I sleep with, and Sadie and I hunkered down and went back to sleep.

Woke up with Martha making glow in the dark lollipops. A Grand Day for HUNKERIN'...

Ichabod Crane

Tonite as I came home from the playhouse, I had a tough time driving. THe moon was out, sort of, but the ground fog was forming so fast, that in some places you could not see the road. I now have a car with halogen lights for driving in the fog. Guess which two lights are burned out? go figure. ANyway, I was driving up over the high hill, dropping down into Coupeville, and remembered I was out of milk and Bread, so I stopped at Prarie Center and then drove home the back way. The fog was rolling across the newly shorn fields and laying really low in the swales. As my headlights hit it, it turned to instant white, and blinded me. You need to turn your brights down in FOg. I turned down Wanamaker Rd, and started across the now empty fields where corn stalks stood just yesterday. I had the weirdest feeling that I was being followed. I thought immediately of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman, and started beating my horse to go faster. It is amazing how you can buy into the fables so much that reason goes right out the window and fear takes over where you know that in your right mind, there is NOTHING there. Or is there?....

surprise in the grass

I found this today peeking out of the grass. Where I did not plant it.

Fall ? really????

It is October 1, 2003, and if I had been asleep for several months, I would swear it was Mid July. The only thing that shows FALL is the leaves on the trees. Although some July's have been so dry that the leaves are brown then. I drove Sadie to the Vet today, and went the back way along the spit. Admiralty Inlet was very calm, but out on the water, there was a very thin low lying layer of fog. The tops of the Olympics were showing over the haze, and there was no snow on them. THe sun is falling lower and lower in the atmosphere, and the mid day sunshine is showing gold. Summer time shows white sun, fall shows gold.

I woke up at 630 this morning, and it was pitch dark out. What happened to full sun at 500? there was foggy haze over the neighborhood, and when I took Sadie out, the grass was really wet and you could see your breath. Just a hair from the freezing mark. It won't be long now.

Along the spit, the sea grasses were red and gold and yellow. Just about ready to go to sleep. The tide was in and sloshing rythymically on the rocks. I could tell it wasn't July, because the Ferry line only had a few cars in it. July is over-flow time, backed up into the Fort Casey State Park. It is starting to become habitable again. The tourists are almost gone, the ones left are the old farts with their honking big motor homes. taking their time, enjoying our island.

I just had Sadie out to play in the back yard, and there is a rose that I never knew I had trying to make a comeback. I think I will let it. It almost looks like a miniature rose, but I did not plant any of those. It is a bright orange red almost looks like a Flame. I will dig it up and move it into a whiskey barrell so it will have a chance to come back. I had over thirty roses planted when I got my orders to move to Nevada, and my renters trashed my house and my yard. It has been almost three years, that I have been back, and I am just now finding my back yard. I am moving all of the roses, (at least the ones that survived) from the middle of the yard to either around the deck, or into the garden. That way I can mow grass, and not cut them down.

THe Vet had a fit over Sadie, He is the same one who put Mariah down, He was giggling over her, and we were trading potty stories, and laughing. What a difference in visits.

Sadie is in to her terrible twos, and I am finding little "presents" everywhere. I guess now we have to corral her a little more, and watch her a little closer now. She is going longer and longer in between pottie times, and is getting unpredictible. She is almost big enogh to leave out in the yard for a while. I will get her house refurbished and painted, and renamed. and make sure she knows that it is hers. She still is really good about not going in her penned in area. But the floors are starting to become fair game. I pulled up my carpets and put down Laminate flooring when I got back from Nevada, and they are wso much easier to clean up after, but I still dont want poop on my floor. It is pretty bad when one of the cats walks by it and tries to cover it up. Then I see them and think, OH GOD SHE THINKS I DID THIS!! I don't of course, because it looks different. But Darn they are funny.

I am going to try fixing my blog. DOnna wants me to re do the template. I am not sure what Is going to happen here, but either it will work or it wont. I really appreciate the morale support. I have website for Dummies right here, and I am reading it. humphhh...gotta run, Oprah's on!!!

Guestmap.

Ok Now that I know where the template is, and I Re-did it, THe Guestmap is alll the WAAAAAYYYYYY down on the bottom. It said it would be on the sidebar, so I guess I dinked it up again. Bear with me folks. I'll get there yet.

or not...

MUUMUU

HEre is a site that shows what a hawaiian muumuu looks like. Go down 7 or 8 items. This is for Kat who did not know what a muumuu was. They are so comfortable. And in Hawaii you wear them everywhere!! NO BRA!!!!

OOPS

Well obviously I did something wrong here. Guess I better wait until Donna comes home so she can fix it. I being technology-challenged. THis is easy stuff. Little kids can do it. Why can't I? (Shut up Donna!)

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Brain Fart!

I was reading some new blogs this morning, and while doing so, I had a really great theme for an entry. But As I took time to pour another cuppa and take my insulin and meds, get dresses and take Sadie out, My brain lost it. I have absolutely no clue what I was going to write about. It was another Pulitzer Prize winner I just know it.

I go visit Bowen Island every day, and from there I usually take a side trip or two. Today I side tracked to a link from his page North Coast Cafe This is a site that I will have to go back to again and again, as there appears to be a lot to get lost in.

Chris' site is about life on Bowen Island, Canada, which is just a hoot and holler away. This Island is just off the coast of Vancouver, but is small and...well, go visit.

Damn! I still cant remember...I know as soon as I log off, I will. I hate Senior Moments....

Fog....

I went to bed late last night, and lay there trying to read a book, but the cool air coming through the window kept distracting me. It smelled so good! It was really cold...and smelled just like the sea. I gulped in great big lungs full and kept it in as long as I could. About 4:00 I had to take Sadie out to pee. It was then that I noticed there were no stars out, and it sounded like it was raining. It wasn't, it was really foggy. THe really thick, you can't see through it fog, that forms in the Fall. THe kind that comes after a really hot dry day. The cool air from the sea sweeps in as the sun sets and mixes with the hot air from the land and Voila!! FOG. This thick fog was hitting the trees, sticking to their leaves, and dripping down like rain. THe grass is damp, and Sadie pees, but then runs toward the trees, to see what all the noise is. About this time a ship turns the corner from the Straight into Admiralty Inlet and hits the fog horn. BOOOOOP! really deep and loud. (as the crow flies I am about 1/4 mile from the shipping lane and up about 100 feet.) Sadie jumps, and heads right for the hem of my muumuu. There she sits cowering, afraid of what she can't see. Peeking out from under the hem as if to say, "Is it gone Mommie?"

It is now 2:00 in the afternoon, and the fog still has a firm grip on the land. It cooled down about 20 degrees from yesterday's record breaking heat. The leaves in the Alder Trees out back are turning yellow and brown and falling faster and faster. Soon the trees will be bare, and the Highway noise will be louder. The logging that was done this summer will have taken down the green buffer zone. It is hard to tell right now how much is gone, because it was done in the center of the Alders. With all of the leaves gone, the damage will show up more. I wish we could put a moratorium on all logging until the evergreens are replenished. It is really sad to see all the trees get cut and houses built. Makes me want to sell and move on...

teaching tech to mom

Are you paying attention?
good.



got it?

Donna's Sushi

Dear darling adorable daughter Donna, has a fascination with Japanese cooking. I bought a cookbook called Nobu that is all about Japanese cooking. Donna has decided that Today she will make Sushi for dinner. She has the sushi mat, the wooden rice paddle, the nori, the wasabi, the soy sauce, the yellowfin tuna and everything else to go into the roll. Cucumbers, Avocado, and rice. She starts the rice last night, washes the rice until the water runs clear just like it says in the book, and puts it into the rice cooker. It is MUSH. so we try again today. I make the rice the way I always do, it is perfect. (of course) she then mixes the vinegar and the sugar into the rice to make the sushi rice to roll into the nori. She has sliced the tuna thinly, she has sslsicied the veggies just so, and when she rolls the rice into the nori, it all falls apart. So there on the dinner plate is all the ingredients that are required, all in a heap. The roll fell totally apart when she cut it into slices.

She mananged to get two more rolls rolled and they looked really good, so That is the way she served them. Leaving it up to us to cut our own. I did. I cut it and put a tuna slice on mine, dipped it into the wasabi and the soy and almost died!! the Wasabi was a real sinus cleaner. It tasted Excellent once you got over the pain. Then she wanted to try eating it with chopsticks. oops. they dont make chopsticks for lefties. She cant pick anything up.

Poor baby, has two holes in her backside and her sushi failed. Actually it went really well taste wise. She just needs to work on her technique. I am sure she will master this also. She has managed to master so many things in her life. She is smart. She is driven. She is very patient. I would have had the entire mess turned into wallpaper in the dining room...I do love her. She even showed me how to post pictures.

Too bad it was the one with the bandit poop bigger than Sadie in it!! Sheesh

yay. it worked.
now to get her to understand how to create a webpage that isn't 28 Mb in size.

sadie, petunias and poop

Well, after much haranguing, I have put a pic of sadie (sadist?) up on mom's webserver space so she can link to it on her blogger. I suppose it's the least I can do...since I can't reach and see my left buttock to dress my own damnable stitches.

Sunday Morning sunshine

It is an absolutely beeeuuuuutifull day. It must be 80 degrees + out there. Notice I said out there, I was Out there, too hot, so now I'm in here. Looking out there. needing to be out there, but I also need for it to cool off a scosh. I put the umbrella up and took my script out there, sat down and decided I needed to come in and get something really cold to drink, and got sidetracked.

I still have roses blooming!! and the zucchini is still setting blossoms, and the grass is still growing, so it must still be summer. Should be the last spurt before the frosts hit though. At least I hope so. I have mentioned before that I am one of those rare individuals that LIKES the cold weather. I LOVE the smell of really cold air, the feeling when you breathe it deep down into your lungs, and it cools you from the inside out. I sleep with my head stuck out the window most nights just to get cool air.

My sister called and begged off painting this weekend, which is just as well, because I really need a day of NOTHING. I know I had one yesterday, but Since Brenda never seems to be able to get one, I am taking one for her. She deserves it.

Wanda, how did you get haloscan to work on my blog? My daughter says she has been trying for ages and cant get it up. But then she hardly blogs anymore. I think she is afraid that I might yell at her about her politics. I wouldn't. She laughs at me about mine though. Don't understand that. Hmmmmm.

Oh I found something else that is really hard to do with blown knees. and big belly...paint your toenails!! I asked Bob if he would do it for me, he just looked shocked and said no! (I think he is sooo homophobic that if he even touches girlie things his dick would fall off. ) I sat there on my bed with those toenail foamy thingies stuck between my toes, (no easy feat that) trying to bend my knee enough to be able to reach down and paint the nail. Nope aint gonna work. SO I just bend as far as I can and aim. If you put enough polish on the brush, and hold it JUST RIGHT over the toe in question, it will drip off the brush and fall on said toenail. works too. Of course I am not gonna tell you what the rest of my foot or the newspaper on the rug looks like....

Lazy Day....

I did absolutely NOTHING today. At least nothing really worthwhile, like Leslie I got up late as I mentioned earlier and then I took Sadie out and we sat on the deck in the shade and I read my Script along with the CD of GODSPELL. Loudly too. So now the neighbors either think that I have found religion, or are losing it one or the other. Sadie did not know what to think of the black box making noise on the deck. Kept going over to it and cocking her head and barking little puppy barks. Yap Yap YAp.

Bob came over right as I was ending act I and brought over a big burlap bag of oysters. SO tonite we had grilled oysters, grilled steak and grilled Zucchini right from the garden. YUMMY. Slice them length wise, rub them with olive oil and sprinkle kosher salt on them a little basil and some garlic powder then throw them on the shelf in the grill until tender. Really good. The oysters were not the best. He got them on sale at the Commissary on base, and they were not fresh, and when the shells popped open, they were really rubbery and small. what a disappointment. If you put them on a hot grill right out of the sea, wait until they steam a little, pm off, open the shell, dash of tobasco, and a little lemon, and OH MY!! Heaven.

Sadie had her first piece of raw cow tonite. I would not let her have it entirely but I let her chew on it. Oh she loved it.
I was afraid she wouldnt chew it up enough and she would choke, so i just let her chew the flavor out. She still does not have all of her little teeth although the ones she does have are really sharp! My toes are full of holes.

HAve any of you ever tried Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap? seriously this is great stuff. Chemystery gets it at a health food store. He makes several kind, Lemon, Peppermint, Eucalyptus, lavender, and castile. in bars and liquid. Now you have to understand this guy was very ate up about religion and showed it on his label, but the product is fantastic. It actually is great fun to sit in the tub and read the back of the bottle. I just laugh, there is no part of the label that is not written on. Even on the inside of the bar label. You really need to try the liquid lavender soap. It along with Epsom salts in a really hot bath, takes all your cares away. Totally. I LOve it. If they don't have it in Canada, let me know, I'll send you some.


Do any of you have ICQ? if so let me know and maybe we can connect.

Well Sadie is now resting on my feet under the desk. THe daughter started up the vaccum cleaner, and she does not like it. she has her tail tucked between her legs and is hiding. Sadie, not Donna...

The problem with having a comment line is WHAT DO I WRITE ABOUT? WHY DO I HAVE TO WRITE ABOUT ONE SUBJECT? ok, I just will not put a title in until I have one theme to write about. SO THERE!

Sadie woke up at 530 this morning. Just barely turning daylight out. The nice thing about having a buff colored dog, is you can find her in the dark. She is wandering farther and farther away from me when she goes out. My knee is soo bad right now, that I have to brace myself on something in order to stand. I cant sit on the lawn chair, it is too short, and it hurts to get up. (Try the toilet with this :-( ) Anyway, I was in real pain, so once she did her THING, I called her over and we went inside. Well now she thinks it is time to play, "I slept, I peed, I pooped, I ate, NOW it's PLAYTIME" Nuh-uh!!! Mommie is still really tired and hurting really bad. (I don't think I took my Motrin last night) So I picked hwer up and put her in bed with me. If I make a wall out of the pillows, she will stay corraled and MIGHT go back to sleep. Not today. She did stay corraled but she kept chewing on my nose, and my ear, and pulling on my hair clip and biting my knuckles. I managed to get SOME sleep, and when I am laying on my tummy, my knee doesnt hurt. So we stayed this way for a few hours until she got really tired, and wanted to cuddle inside my nightgown. I have scratches on my neck from her trying to crawl into it. I got up and put her in her bed, and out she went. AHHHHHHHHH

The birds and the LOLAS (squirrels) have not been around much lately. I usually have plenty of finches, but not now. I hope they haven't found a better restaurant!! I hope the Owls didn't get Lola!! I have two females that have babies, At least I think they do, they have really big bare titties. I was hoping they would bring out the babies. I still have the flock of doves, but not much else. Most of the goldfinches have shed their bright yellow feathers and have headed south. THe hummingbirds are all gone now, safely back in Costa Rica, and the Black-headed Grosbeaks are gone too. I hear the Pileated woodpecker, (how can you miss that) but the Downey and the Hairy woodpeckers are no where to be found. I can only think that the bugs are really thick in the woods now, and that is where everyone has gone. I will be putting out the suet feeders and pinecones as soon as the first frost hits. If I put them out now they will melt.

I have one of those Audubon clocks that have a different bird song for every hour. (given to me for Christmas by Bob's MOM) and the Owl just hooted three times, so It must be noon or midnight. The sun is shining brightly, so I can only assume it is not midnight, which means I need to get my 'SELF' busy doing something productive. Like paint, or cleaning the house, or picking up Bandit Poop, or sitting in the sun on the deck and just think about all I have to do. Yeah, that's it!!!

whoo-hoo!!!! Comments

OK Wanda, I'm gonna try this now....You are soooo good, and Brenda, Thanks to you too. I LOVE having new friends!!!! It's like going to a new school in the 2nd grade and actually having FRIENDS.