CONNIE PICTURE THAT

The view

2011-09-24T03:17:00.000-04:00

We went for a drive up to Lake Tahoe. Going up the mountain was making my ears pop and it was getting harder and harder to breathe. I don't like going up high in altitude. It is close to 9,000 feet high. We pulled over to look over the edge of the mountain by the road. This is another lake at the bottom of the mountain on the way to Carson City, NV.

As we were sitting there, a couple of trucks pulled up. They had gliders on top of their trucks. One guy got out of his car and tied something (ribbons) on a pole like the one in the corner of my picture. It started blowing in the wind. They were testing the wind direction. We asked them if they were going to glide by jumping off the mountain right here. They said "Yes we are, but we are going to talk awhile and then get the glider ready and glide away." I wanted to watch them but it sounded like it would be awhile.
The sky was getting pretty grey from the clouds. When I got home the news said it was really raining up on the mountain and even flooding. I wonder if they got to glide that day.

My son and my painting of him.

2011-02-01T16:23:00.000-05:00

I finished my painting of my son. First I did it in oil pastels, they look like a crayon. I took a picture of it and it does not come out well when you take a picture of it. I tried redoing it on the paint program on the computer. That came out a mess. I have to give people much credit that can make a picture come out looking great on microsoft Paint.
Then I got out my paints and painted the picture over the oil pastels. That came out a lot better. Anyway, this is the best I could do.

The shadowing on the face comes out darker on digital from my camera, than in real life.
Here is what I tried to draw from. I didn't do the hands, so I left them off my painting.

Anyway Wanda, I tried.

Wanda's Art challenge

2011-01-29T15:45:00.000-05:00

Wanda's at Wanda's Art Blog, challenged people to draw a person.

So on day 28, I drew a woman, holding an apple. This is not anybody I know, I just made her up. I just kind of had in mind the witch that gave Snow White the apple, but a nicer looking woman.

I also started drawing a picture of my son. Right now it is in pencil and it is not finished, but I did start it.

When I finish it, I will post it. It might be a while, painting someone you know is a little challenging.
Connie T.

Calendar pictures days 25, 26, 27

2011-01-29T15:35:00.000-05:00

This is what I drew and painted on my calendar for days 25, 26, and 27

I did this in color pencils.

This is a swan, with it's reflection in the water.

An apple painted with acrylic paint.

2011-01-25T16:14:00.001-05:00

I drew this Kingfisher bird for a January art Challenge over on Paint my Photo. I drew it on the calendar for day 24.

Art on a calendar

2011-01-24T02:12:00.002-05:00

For the month of January I have been drawing a picture on a desk calendar everyday. The challenge is to find something I want to draw.

My son wanted me to draw pictures on the calendar. At first I drew really lazy, just one step up from a stick figure.

Then I started drawing better pictures when I drew the owl on there, from Wanda's blog. (Previous post.)

I will post some of the drawings.

I have been watching bull riding, so I drew a cowboy for day 11.

I checked out the book Brisingr so I drew the dragon. Then I drew Wonder Woman

Then I saw a picture of a bird on a blog, so I drew it.

This picture was on a shampoo bottle.

A tiger watching.

This is a Pokeman for the new Pokemon white game.

Abstract art.

This is something I tried to paint from a vamous artist. He painted a really fat Mona Lisa. It didn't come out as fat and the original artist.

I did a Mickey, because the ad popped up when I was looking at the computer.

I saw a pink flamingo bird on the internet, so I drew it.

My son got a new Lego magazine, so I drew a Lego guy.
and today, Jan. 23, I drew a Darth Maul.

I don't know what I will draw tomorrow.

Owl

2011-01-10T23:46:00.000-05:00

I saw something I wanted to draw today. I saw it at Wanda's Art Blog.

She put up some owl pictures. I draw a picture a day on a calendar box. Today I drew the owl.

I used colored pencil, markers, puff paint and paint pens. The black turned out purple on my camera, but it is black.

Friday Flash 55 Fall in Arizona

2010-10-29T03:22:00.001-04:00

The sky turned dark grey. Then it started raining big dropplets of water.

Big round ice chunks pelted the ground. Everything wet and icy.

A new day emerged. I went for a walk. Deep blue sky was all around. White

puffy clouds floating. Grass, deep green, growing tall.

Beautiful orange bunches of flowers reaching skyward.

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Skywatch Friday...... Cloud Rabbit

2010-08-26T19:48:00.000-04:00

I was looking at clouds and thought this one looked like a rabbit. We were traveling so I took it out the car window. I found all kinds of cloud shapes, but I like the rabbit cloud the best.

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Some of my flower pictures.

2010-04-25T23:39:00.004-04:00

Springtime Flowers from Connie Thatcher on Vimeo.
This is a short video of pictures I took when the flowers were on the trees. The flowers on my Bradford Pear have gone away and all the pink flowers on my cherry tree have blown off. I love flowers.
The video is 50 seconds long.

Saturday Wordzzle Challenge week 101

2010-03-05T23:43:00.000-05:00

From CONNIE PICTURE THAT

This week's words were: smoothness, sugar daddy, page, Copernicus, liquid, craggy, trapezoid, milquetoast, blizzard, food cream, dental problems For the mini: Hershey kisses, pregnant, scarring, cadet, grist mill

<<<<<<<<<<< I am just doing the 11 word wordzzle this week.>>>>>>>>>>>

Joe McDuck just poured himself a Jack and Coke. The smoothness of the whiskey was just what he needed. The gold liquid shimmered in the fire light. His girlfriend thought he was her "sugar daddy". He would always say "Who's your Daddy, who's your Daddy"? She liked that. His girl was always having dental problems. He was getting tired of her now, they just never seemed to be on the same "page".
Just the other day she brought him his coffee and said "You want some food cream with your coffee and milquetoast?"

"What the hell are you talking about Copernicus"....that was her name. The name just drove him nuts because it was hard to say. Her mind was like a blizzard, she would just spew out crazy words for everyday things.

"Oh, never mind my little Ducky, lets go upstairs and swing on our trapezoid."

"Ahhhhh! You drive me crazy, go swing by yourself on your "trapezoid"! Who knows what she was talking about. It was definitely time to send her packing.
"Your so craggy!", she said as she left the room.
"He yelled after her, "It's not CRAGGY, the word is CRABBY!"

“ I'll just sit here and enjoy my drink.”, he said.
He clicked on his computer found a dating site, Match. He started filling out the form.....Single (I will be, he thought.)

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Saturday Wordzzle Challenge #101

2010-02-28T23:34:00.001-05:00

From CONNIE PICTURE THAT

This weeks words:
smoothness, crafty, purchase, brief, chirping, forever, shift, moonrise, lampshade, stereotype For the mini: remembrance, Dr. John, Agent 012, dragons, Fortress

Princess Cindiella lay in her tower on the new sheets. The smoothness of the sheets brought back memories of her brief encounter with Agent 012 the night before. She was laying on the thick mossy ground next to a bubbling brook. Dr. John told her to go to the brook at moonrise to look for dragons. She heard a chirping noise in the direction of the forest. That was when she saw Agent 012 running in her direction. He had this crafty look about him, so she stayed real still. He saw her anyway and came in her direction.

“Excuse me miss, I am looking for the Fortress, I know it is around here somewhere.” She had to shift her weight to stand up to look at him.

"And whom might you be?” she asked. Agent 012, saw a beautiful woman, long golden hair, fine clothes that looked fit for a queen, “probably never had to purchase her own clothes”, he thought.

“I am Agent 012 and I am on a mission to find dragons.”
She was thinking that she didn’t want to stereotype him, but he looked the type of person to be on a mission to find dragons. He had a way about him, that was mysterious.

“Yes I know the direction of the Fortress, go across the bubbling brook and you will come to a crooked old house. It is the house of a troll. He will ask you for a password to go across his bridge, but first he will make you put a lampshade on your head and then make you guess the password.”

“Well, that is a silly thing to do!” Agent 012 said.

“Do you know the password?” he asked.

“As a matter of fact, I do…….it is remembrance”,
She said. “Oh and be sure to run fast, as the Troll will be mad that you know the password.”

“Thank You,” he said as he started walking away toward the bubbling brook.

She would forever remember this brief encounter with Agent 012 on this moonlit night.

From CONNIE PICTURE THAT

This is in memory of Dr. John Linna who has passed on. He wrote the most wonderful stories on his blog. You can join in, although it might be late, on this wordzzle. Go to Views from Raven's Nest and read the rules. I am one day late on this. It is a Saturday Wordzzle.

Saturday Wordzzle Challenge #100

2010-02-20T11:48:00.000-05:00

Ravin has created the words for todays Wordzzle Challenge.
This week's words were: transfixed, treachery, basics, fragrance, sampler, pregnant, cartoons, lark, spartan and for the mini: rapid, camping, blandishments, transitory, plug-ins

I am just doing the 10 word one today. The mini is a challenge. I could not think of blandishments in a sentence today.

Here is my 10 word wordzzle.
     On a lark, Joe slapped on a helmet and picked up his plastic sword. Raising his arm in the air, shouting "I am Spartan!"
     His wife was sitting on the lounge chair, going through her frangrance sampler packs from Avon. "Joe, it is not Spartan, it's Sparta."
     Joe turned and pointed the sword at her, "Oh, the treachery of it all!"
     Sighing, she got up and said "Let's get down to basics here, I am pregnant and all I feel like doing is sitting in front of the TV and watching cartoons all day long."
     Joe didn't answer her. He was transfixed by his plastic sword, dreaming about Sparta and gladiators.
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Saturday Wordzzle Challenge 99

2010-02-14T11:15:00.000-05:00

I wrote this up on Saturday and just now typed it. Sorry it is late, but here it is.

From CONNIE PICTURE THAT

This week's words were: thermometer, Pandora, vivid, langourous, Saturday, pancreas, apple dumplings, watch tower, lichen, sparrow and for the mini: rigid, spiritual, ribbon, web cam, vitamins
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I am doing the mega, all words today.

Pandora was a witch with vivid red hair. She lived in this giant old watch tower/ She felt langourous today. She took out the thermometer from her medicine bag. She checked her temperature and it read 99.6 degrees. She got up and made herself a steaming cup of lichen tea. Her sparrow was pacing it's bird cage, hoping to be fed. He especially liked those baby toads she threw him, or a nice juicy worm.

"I'm going to make me some apple dumplings today", she said out loud, to no-one. She talked to herself all the time.
She remembered it was Saturday.
"Now where did I put that dried mummy pancreas? It is a key ingredient in my love potion spell. I will be needing that for Valentine's Day."

She forgot to take her vitamins yesterday, so she took 2 today.
She walked over to her black witch hat, it was tall and rigid. She put a ribbon in her thick, heavy hair and put the hat on her head.
She was going to talk to the Grand Wizard on her web cam. Talking to him, always gave her a spiritual experience.

Maybe that love potion will work on him, she hoped.
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Words for next week's 10-word challenge are: transfixed, treachery, basics, fragrance, sampler, pregnant, cartoons, lark, spartan

For the mini: rapid, camping, blandishments, transitory, plug-ins

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Snow

2010-01-31T01:07:00.000-05:00

It snowed last night. It would snow and then rain and then snow. When I woke up this morning, snow was covering the driveway.

The snow was making my pine trees point down from the weight of the ice and snow. Birds were flying around and walking on the snow. They eat the red berries that are covering the Holly bushes. They stand at the bottom and jump to grab a berry and eat it. They look funny walking all over the blanket of white snow.

My hubby told my son that he would pay him to shovel the snow on our driveway. He was shoveling the snow and I went outside to help him. My son had a big snow shovel, it made it easy to scoop up the snow. I had a regular shovel, it takes forever to scoop up the snow with that thing. Every time I picked up a scoop and threw it to the side, it came out all rusty, from the shovel. The neighbors were outside building big snowmen. My son asked if he could shovel their driveway for $10. They said "Sure", so he left me and went to do their driveway. I got half the driveway done. It is a lot of hard work. The snow is heavy. I had never shoveled snow before, because I lived in Las Vegas for 30 years, it hardly ever snowed there. It does not snow that much in Knoxville either, but it did today, probably about 6 inches. My hubby came out and finished the other half of the driveway. I came in and was so cold. It was 27 degrees outside at that time. My muscles were sore for shoveling snow for a couple of hours too. It was good exercise.

It is now midnight and it is 19 degrees outside. The street is snowy and icy. The snow glistens and looks beautiful.
When ever a car goes by, the tires crackle on the snow and ice. Two quads go flying by, up and down the street. They are loud, they must have gone by 10 times.

Saturday Wordzzle Challenge week 96

2010-01-23T15:03:00.000-05:00

From CONNIE PICTURE THAT

This week's words were: Badger, roll out the barrel, amazing, a lovely cup of tea, pressure, frozen, Gandalf, pixies, top gear
And for the mini: smelly, politician, favourite, token gesture, garden

I only did the 10 word challenge, although it is only 9 plus a long prase this time.
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Bucky Badger was the towns law here in the hollow. He was an amazing person. I remember the time the pixies were climbing all over the top gear of this contraption he invented. It was full of gears, bells and whistles. When he walked in and saw they were up to no good, he blew his magic whistle and they stopped, didn't move, looking like they were frozen to the thing. He called to Gandalf, "Roll out the barrel over in that corner." So Gandalf lumbered over to this old whiskey barrel and proceeded to roll it across the floor. Bucky instructed Gandalf to pick up each pixie, being careful not to use any pressure when handling them, as they are fragile, and to put them in the barrel.
When Gandalf lumbered over to the pixies, they came to life and scattered as quick as you could blink an eye. It was an amazing sight to see.
Sighing, Bucky sat down to drink a lovely cup of tea that was brought to him from Miss Petuna. She made the best tea, a sweet sassafras tea.
"Roll that barrel back in the corner and get out" he shouted. Gandalf jumped and did what he was told. He was just mad that he couldn't catch those darned pixies.
He left in a hurry that day. He never could catch pixies.

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Saturday Wordzzle Challenge #95 (but not 95 for me.)

2010-01-15T19:48:00.005-05:00

This week's words were: alternate reality, shadows, frantic, tomatoes, field, lilies, DVD, snow mobile, aggravation, music

I am only doing the 10 word story using these words.

The 10 word.

Jenny had a fitful sleep. Tossing and turning. She was dreaming. She was somehow in an alternate reality. Shadows were green, which was a little disconcerting. She looked around and noticed she was standing in a field of lilies. She looked down and saw tomatoes growing on some of the lilies. She thought "How strange this place is." She started walking when she heard music coming from a tree house, way up in a tree. She went to the tree and tried to climb up to the tree house. She would put her foot on a branch and the branch would disappear. This caused her great aggravation. She looked up and saw something dangling from a branch, on a long string, just spinning around in circles. The string grew longer and longer until she could reach it. Attached to the string was a DVD with a picture of a snow mobile on it.

The string started wrapping around her, binding down her arms and legs. She was frantic to get loose.

Just then she woke up and discovered she was all twisted in the sheets.

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Saturday's Wordzzle Challenge week 94

2010-01-08T23:53:00.007-05:00

This week's words were: space cadet, silver lining, wood, turtle soup, minaret, ice, grease, sales, mandala, mug .

I haven't does this Wordzzle for a while, but I decided to try it today. I am just doing the 10 words and making a little story with them.
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Kaylee was in the space program. She was now officially a Space Cadet.

She thought she looked like a dork in her cape that she wore. It was gold with a silver lining. The Program Director said the class had to wear them for the class photo.

Kaylee was looking at the pictures on the wall. One was a picture of an old tall building with the Director standing in front of it. Just then the Director walked over and told her about the time he visited that minaret in the picture. He was attending a sales convention right across the street from the minaret.

She semi listened to him. She then heard him tell everyone "I have a surprise in the lounge."

Everyone went in and sat down. There was a cook in a chef hat, standing by a big pot of something bubbling rapidly.

The chef had on an apron all spotted with grease. He was stirring the bubbling substance with a big wood spoon.

There was a beautiful cloth with a mandala print, draped over a table.

He placed a mug in the center and filled the mug with a soup.

He pointed at her. "Do you want a mug of my soup"? He handed it to her. It was hot so she asked for a piece ice to cool it down.

"Excuse me, but what kind of soup is this?"

She looked at it closely. It didn't look too appetizing.

"Try it, it is turtle soup!" he said. Standing there, clanging the pot loudly with the spoon in his hand.

"Turtle soup", she said in a high pitched voice. Her stomach started to get queasy. How was she going to eat this stuff.

She put it down, saying "I suddenly don't feel well".

The Director was giving her evil eyes.

"Um.....I am just not hungry", she said. She tried to ignore the hole he was burning in the back of her head as she was walking away.

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Cold

2010-01-03T16:35:00.002-05:00

It was 8 degrees F this morning. So Ccccoooold! I looked out the window and saw the neighbor's dog standing there on their porch. It legs were shivering a lot from the cold. My neighbor, who usually comes out of his house to get his news paper in just shorts, no shoes or shirt, actually was dressed in pants and a long sleeve shirt this morning, dashing out in the cold to collect the paper.
We went out today, to the store. We drove by the little lake and there was ice forming all over it.

There were a lot of Canadian geese all around it on the grass. I wonder why they are here, in the cold. Why not continue to Florida where it is nice and warm. Well warmer than here. It is supposed to snow 3 inches on Thursday. The weather always predicts snow, but then it changes and does not snow. I hope it does. I love to watch the snow come down out of the sky and coat the ground in the soft snow. It does not last long around here.
And to think, over a week ago, I was in warm, sunny Florida, sitting on the beach, watching the waves in the ocean.

FALLEN LEAVES AND A GIANT LEAF

2009-10-05T00:23:00.002-04:00

I went camping this weekend to the South Fork National Recreation River. Most of the trees are still green, but there were a lot of rust color leaves on the ground.

One yellow leave, among all the brown ones. The brown ones saying "Turn brown with us."

Some are green, with the green going away fast.

I did see a tree with GIANT leaves,

Just to give you an ideal about the size of the leaf, here is my son holding one of them.

He moved a bit, but the leaf is in focus.

My other Blog

2009-08-27T15:10:00.001-04:00

I mostly do pictures on this Blog. If you want to read my other blog, I blog about my life,
I just put up a post about my new socks and hummingbirds.
http://connieemeraldeyes.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/new-socks-and-cute-hummingbirds/

Skywatch Friday #58

2009-08-20T22:18:00.002-04:00

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It rained really hard. Then the sun came out and there was the rainbow. I actually saw the end of the rainbow, and no pot of gold. Actually there are two rainbows.

Ruby Tuesday 8-11-08

2009-08-12T00:26:00.002-04:00

This is in Michigan at a state park featuring a lumber company in the olden days.

I just had to take this for Ruby Tuesday.

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Another Camping trip : Higgins Lake, Michigan

2009-08-11T00:46:00.003-04:00

I went to Michigan last week. We went to Higgins Lake. There is a huge campground there. My husband’s family all live in Michigan so we went there to go camping with them. It is a pretty lake.

The temperature was cool all week. High of 75, low of around 59 F degrees. I didn’t go swimming. All the relatives went swimming. They would all walk over to our camper and ask if we were going swimming. “Hey, were going swimming, come on, lets go.” I said “No, it is too cold for me.” I went for a walk and saw a sign by the water. “Warning, swimming in this water can give you swimmers itch.” They talked my son into going. My husband’s cousin has a boat and he was going to take the children out on the boat. I walk to the water to watch. “Bill” was there at the shore in his boat. The boat would not start. A few of the brothers were working on the boat, trying to get it to start. My son was in the water, up to his knees. He was searching for rocks and little shells. The boat started, but then died again, so there was no boat rides. My son came back to our camper to dry off. He was scratching and scratching his legs. He wanted to itch off his skin. We took him to the shower and he washed off, but still itched. He said it was so itchy and would not stop. I poured calamine lotion all over his legs and the itching stopped. The next day, the whole crowd wanted to go swimming again. My son did not want to go but his aunt begged him to go. He went and they forced him to go into the water. He went in a little while. He was not happy about going in the water after the itching incident. When he came home, I took him to the shower and he washed really good. He didn’t get itchy that time. He did have a little rash on his stomach and top of his feet. His aunt, who is a nurse said it was not the swimmers itch. She didn’t think his itching was from that. Yeah, sure, he got in the water and got out and his skin itched like crazy. They all went swimming and didn’t itch though. My son has very sensitive skin though.

The same cousin, with the boat, invited us over to his cabin for a bar-b-Que. We all went. The wife said it was time to cook the hamburgers. She got out frozen burgers. They were in two boxes, all stacked up. She told me to go out and cook them on the grill. There were all these men standing around and I got stuck cooking the hamburgers. I asked how many people wanted a burger. They said to cook 16 of them. The burgers were frozen so hard, I could not break them apart. I called one of the guys over and made him break apart the burgers. He slammed them down and got them loose. They were thick burgers, it took me 30 minutes to cook them. I also had to cook hot dogs too. The hot dogs cooked fast. They got eaten right away. By the time the burgers were done cooking, nobody wanted to eat them. They were full from the hot dogs. I sat down by the fire, they had a fire going. I had my book. I was reading a Stephen King book called Duma Key. I was really into my book, it is so good. I sat there reading. I wanted to go but we had given my husband’s sister a ride and she had brought her laundry and was doing her laundry in the cousin’s washing machine. We had to wait till she was done. That was OK, I liked reading my book.

I also draw and paint pictures. My sister-in-law came up to me with a sketch book. She had a bag of pencils. She handed them to me. “I brought these up here to have you draw me a picture.” She pointed at the trees. “Draw me trees.” I didn’t really want to draw trees. She didn’t take no for an answer. I sat in a chair and looked at the trees. I looked in the bag of pencils. It was all just lead pencils, no color pencils. I drew some trees but it was not all that inspiring to draw trees with lead pencils. I gave them back to her and said, I don’t really draw pictures with just pencils. She liked the picture, but I didn’t. Black trees, black leaves, black bark, white sky. Yuck.

We went to the camp store and took 4 of the kids. My son got a bug ring and this flashing eyeball ring and the yellow thingy in the picture, that is squishy and is a thing you put on your arm. My husband told the kids they could each by $5 worth of stuff. They were running around trying to pick out what they wanted. My niece picked out a blue squishy bracelet and then after we bought it, she decided she wanted a pink one instead, even though her favorite color, in the whole wide world, is blue. I said “Oh, the pink one is pretty, it goes with your clothes.” She wore it all day.

My son did not know how to ride a bike. All the kids had bikes and were riding all the time. By the time we were ready to go home, they taught my son how to ride a bike. The morning we were to leave, my son rode the bike with his aunt around the park for about an hour. He said he loved doing it. It is so hot here, that he haa not rode his bike. I told him to ride the other evening, but he was afraid of the traffic on our street. I have to take the bike to a parking lot that is vacant and let him ride. It is 95 in the daytime and I think he would get too hot. Next year, I am taking his bike camping with us.

I would go sit by the fire and roast marshmallows. I like them light tan color. That is the best.

Well that is my camping trip in a condensed form. I will talk about the fishing another time. Also we went to Kings Island in Ohio.

The creek adventure.

2009-07-29T02:27:00.003-04:00

Right by our camp ground, right behind our camper, ran a creek. It wasn’t very big. It ran along, going around the big rocks and trees. The trees had giant roots hanging down into the water, hanging on in giant clumps to hold up the giant, heavy tree. My son wanted to go look for craw-fish. I walked down the steep bank and stood right beside the water, looking in to see if I could see anything. I looked by a tree and there in the water was a craw-fish, laying there, blending in with the colors around it. It lay really still. I told my son to go get his net and put on his flip-flops and get into the water and see if he could catch it. I went back inside my camper to read my book that I had started. I was reading Inkheart and it was a good story. My son came into the camper and said the creek was cold and his feet were so cold. He didn’t want to go back into it.

The next day I put on my thongs (flip-flops) and grabbed the net. “I am going to go look for craw-fish.” My son just looked at me. “Is it too cold to go do that. You are going to freeze your feet.” he said. It was pretty warm outside. I went to the water and walked in. The water was cold, but not deep. I started turning over rocks to look under them. My son came up to watch. I saw a craw-fish in the water but it swam off really fast when I tried to catch it. After a while the cold didn’t even bother my feet. I did catch a nice size craw-fish. I had a water bottle, I cut the top off and filled the rest of it up with creek water and dumped in the craw-fish. Out of the creek water it looked brown and red.

It didn’t like being in my bottle. My son ran and put on his water shoes. He got in the water and helped me look for more. He forgot all about the water being cold.

We found a couple of more craw-fish. We caught them too. We put them in more cups.

These two boys came over to the creek where we were. The decided to get into the water and help us. I gave them the net. They were putting rocks across the creek to dam the water and then they would chase the fish into the net. They caught a lot of little fish.

Pretty soon they were catching a lot of craw-fish and kept putting them into our cups. By this time I had 4 cups along the bank, full of craw-fish. They ran and got a bottle to put their fish into. They wanted the fish to go fishing with.

I let all of the craw-fish , but 2, back into the water. My son wanted to look at the two we had longer. The boys wanted to keep following the stream to look for more fish. We walked all the way along the stream. It came to the road and we walked under the road through the tunnel under the road. The stream came out into a lot bigger creek. It was a bit deeper. In the deeper water the boys caught bigger fish in the net. I noticed that it was starting to rain. I told them it was starting to rain and took my net back. The sun was still out but the rain was coming down. We started to go back to our camp. We went up the bank and crossed the road. The rain started coming down a lot harder. I looked up and the sky was deep grey. Then it started pouring, like you were in a shower. We were getting soaked. I saw the restrooms and said we should run for that. It was coming down in buckets and we were totally wet. My husband drove up in our vehicle. He came to get us because he figured we would need a ride. It rained for a while. My son had a great time looking for life in the creek. After the rain stopped he went to the water and let the craw-fish go. The boys had also gave him a fish and he let that go too.

River talk

2009-06-20T23:58:00.003-04:00

After we went to the Dam, no they didn't have a dam tour either, we drove to launching places to see where to launch a canoe. There were a couple of places. But 1 mile from the big dam is a smaller dam and it looks scary because you could be sucked in and go over it and then our boat would tip over and I would DIE! I won't be putting my canoe in there. There are signs though, but the thought that there is a little dam and turbulent water and a drop, makes me scared. Here is a picture of the river. On the other side of those trees, in the middle, I think it is an island, is the dam.

I think those are warning signs that you should stop or you will die if you proceed.
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This is where I was standing when I took the first picture. It was a walkway by the river. A guy was fishing. The water looks so pretty and clear. I touched the water. It was very cold. You could not jump in that water and swim.
You could put a sack of cola in it to make them cold.

Which reminds me of a time I did jump into a river, right by a dam in Laughlin, NV. It was over 120 degrees. I bought a brand new boat. We took the boat to the river to get a demo on it. It was so hot. I said "Let me jump into the water to cool off real quick." I jumped in.....and got out very fast. The water was cold....really cold. It was a major shock to jump into the water that cold on a very hot, hot day. The sales man said the water was 55 degrees, coming from the dam. I didn't jump into the water anymore that day. I don't like water that cold.

Skywatch Friday #49

2009-06-19T18:15:00.002-04:00

It has been raining a lot the last few days. After the big rain yesterday, we drove to Norris Dam because we saw on the news that water was going over the spillway. There was fog over the water. A little bit of water was coming over the dam. It had stopped raining for the day.

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Watery Wednesday #40

2009-06-17T23:43:00.004-04:00

This is the picture of the marsh wetlands. Tide was in. There was also this building with things in it, things that live in sea water. This seahorse was interesting. I took a video of the seahorses. Watch how they were moving around. It is a very short video, only seconds long. They look beautiful.

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The big Spider and using my Canoe

2009-06-16T00:43:00.004-04:00

This is a picture of our trailer and vehicle with the canoe on top of it. There were lot of trees all around.

We went camping at Grove Recreation Area. It is a Federal camp ground. There is a big lake there to put your boat in the water.
The campgrounds are the nicest I have ever seen. The camp spaces are paved with a tent area. There is a separate huge area that you also use all for you with a picnic table and fire pit.
The bathroom always had spiders in it. This big Daddy long leg spider was always sitting on the wall right by the door, all the time. It did not move. It did move at night but during the day it was always there, right under the mirror. I blew on it and it did wiggle a leg and reach up and touch the mirror.

There was this big brown spider on the floor that scared me. It was as big as my hand with thicker legs than this one. I stomped my foot by it and it ran at me. I ran out of the bathroom.

We took the canoe to the water and put it in the water. Hubby slid it off the vehicle and we held it and lowered it to the ground. Then he flipped it over and my son banged it into my leg. The boat is heavy and it hurt my leg to hit it. It made a huge bruise on my leg and it has been a week since it happened and it is still bruised and still hurts.
We paddled around the lake. It was a lot of fun, but it was hot. We paddled into this cove. Rocks jut out around the edge. I noticed this huge rock was under the water, jutting out and then was deep right under and around it. We slowly paddled up to it and I got out and tied the canoe up to a bush. I then walked out on the rock, it was under water. There were a lot of fish swimming around in the shallow part. The water was warm. As I walked, it was a little slippery and muck was stirring up in the water. The fish were darting off in all directions.

I jumped into the water and went under. I swam around in the water and my son jumped in to. We kept going back onto the rock and jumping into the water. It was a lot of fun just splashing around. No other noise, no other people. My husband was still sitting in the canoe. We said “Come on, jump in.” He finally did get in. I float on the water and my son was wearing his life jacket. My husband does not float and didn’t want to tread water. He got back into the boat. He was sitting down and moving stuff around and the next thing I know is the boat tipped over and he fell into the water. The canoe filled up with water and our shoes were floating beside the canoe. It was really heavy to try to turn over and get the water out. We finally got the water poured out and we all got back in and paddled around the lake some more.

The sky was getting dark, clouds were covering the sky. We got the canoe back on our vehicle and went back to camp and found the shower house and got a shower. When we got back to the trailer, the sky was turning really dark. It was thundering and lightening. Thunder was booming really loud. The lightening was close. It started raining and poured rain. It rained the next day too. We packed up the next day because of the rain. We came home a day early.

Cumberland Gap National Park

2009-06-14T23:28:00.002-04:00

We went to Grove Recreation Area near Corbin, KY. There is a huge lake made by a dam. We had to leave one day early because it rained a lot. The sky got so dark at 3 in the afternoon, you would think it was night time. Then it thundered and lightening flashed. It poured down a lot of rain. Earlier that day, we knew it was going to rain so we took a drive, for about one hour, and went to the Cumberland Gap National Park. The trail where all the pioneers went over to cross over the mountains. We stopped at the visitors center and found some picnic tables and made lunch. Just as we sat down, it started to rain. We ate fast and got back into the vehicle. Then we went back to our trailer right before the rain poured and poured. We wanted to use the canoe the next day but we woke up to rain too. It stopped after a while, so we packed up and drove home. We got home and about an hour later it poured down rain here. My neighbor said it had rained 3 inches the day before. Probably the same rain storm that got us the day before.

Off again

2009-06-06T23:15:00.003-04:00

Whenever I go to the grocery store I check the used DVD movies that are for sale. If they look good or are marked down to $5, I buy them and save them for when we go camping. We have a small TV and at night we sit down and watch a movie. I am running out of movies to watch. Yesterday I scoured the movies at Dollar General. I already have the movies that I was interested in, so I didn't get any. At the grocery store, I did find a movie for $7.99. It is called Aeonflux with Charlize Theron. I also found one on my shelf at home that I bought and forgot about. The Wicker Man with Nicolas Cage. That one was $5. On the back it says "Profoundly disturbing, blood chilling suspenser, fantastically creepy performances." by the New York Post.

Now that I read that......I don't know if I want to watch it. I think I have to go find, see a trailer on that movie on the Internet.

The other day I bought a big 5 pound package of mozzarella cheese. (It was $8 at Sam's Club). I spent some time this morning cutting it up and vacuum packing it. I measured out 5 oz sizes for making pizza. I am going to make a pizza in my Nesco roaster when we are camping. We are taking our canoe and try it out on a lake. We are going near Corbin, KY to a Federal park. It is a really nice park. I will take pictures.

Now, to find that trailer on that movie......Bye.

Skywatch Friday #47

2009-06-04T22:51:00.002-04:00

This is a fresh water swamp area in S.C. There were at least 10 alligators in that water, at least the ones I saw.

This one was out of the water on this little patch of ground.
This one was swimming right in front of me. I was ready to run, away, fast.

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At the beach and waves.

2009-06-02T00:15:00.001-04:00

We just got back from Myrtle Beach, well actually Huntington Beach, South Carolina, it is 15 miles from Myrtle Beach. The water was so warm. It was a little wavy. One day I got up enough courage to go stand in the waves. These people were using these body boards to ride the waves. I went out far enough and just floated and got the big idea to float in on the wave on my stomach. Wrong thing to do. I jumped into the wave and it pushed me down, went over the top of me and just rolled me around. It was strong and it just kind of pushed me down for a while. I decided not to do that again. We then went a bought a body board. After getting dragged around by the waves, I didn’t really want to go back into the water. I was standing in the water, letting the waves go by. They are really strong. You have to stand sideways to keep your balance. I saw this really heavy woman standing in the water, letting the waves hit her. She was a little further out than I was. A really big wave came by and it hit her. I bet she weighed around 300 pounds, maybe more. The wave knocked her over and she fell into the water. The wave washed over her. She then could not get up and the waves just kept going over her. She would try to get up, but each wave just kept knocking her down. She would look and hold her nose as each wave washed over her. She was floundering around on her belly, trying to get up but she couldn’t. Then her friend that was with her, came out to her and grabbed her arm, trying to help her up. She could not pull her up because she was so heavy. It took a few tries but the woman finally stood up as her friend pulled and pulled on her. She then went back to her beach chair and just sat there and did not go back into the water.

My husband and son did the body board pretty good. My husband made me use it. I did not want to. He drug me out to where the waves were breaking. I was scared. I just kept thinking that a shark could eat me. When a big wave came, he let go and there I was going across the water. Then it stopped and then another wave hit me and I was in the shallow water and my knee was scraping the sand. It was like rubbing my knee with sand paper. I didn’t do it again.

I just stood there and watched them use the board.

Skywatch Friday #45

2009-05-22T08:42:00.003-04:00

The clouds were blanketing the sky.

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Ruby Tuesday May 19th, 2009

2009-05-18T23:46:00.003-04:00

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Today we decided to go eat at this restaurant that we have never been to. This guy that we know said to go eat there because they have the best food ever. He said it is just like home cooking. It was good but it was a lot of fried food and I don't usually eat that much fried food.

On the way out, I saw these flowers. I just had to tak a picture of them. They are red on top.

After putting it on my computer, I thought it would be great for Ruby Tuesday.

Mellow Yellow Monday #19

2009-05-18T00:15:00.003-04:00

I planted a cucumber pickle plant. It now has tiny cucumbers growing on it and today the yellow flower opened up on it. See the green below the flower, that is a tiny pickle growing.

I also planted some Yellow squash and some Zuchinni plants and I now have a lot of yellow flowers on them. I don't know which one this is. I didn't label it when I planted it. I will know when they grow their veggie. I planted this from seeds. I am just happy it is growing.

This is another one.

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Skywatch Friday #44

2009-05-15T11:11:00.003-04:00

Sometimes I see a beautiful sky in the morning, just as the sun comes up.

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Watery Wednesday #35

2009-05-13T11:31:00.002-04:00

We went to this oriental restaurant yesterday and it had the most beautiful pond with fish in it. I took a picture for this Watery Wednesday.
We went inside. It was this Sushi steakhouse. You walk past this counter with a glass case and it was full of this weird stuff, octopus and fish and unknown items. The guy brought the menu and all I saw was sushi and squid ink stuff. My husband said "What are you going to get?" I said "Nothing". He said "OK, lets go." I said "OK." We got up and left. It just didn't appeal to me.

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Rain storm

2009-05-08T22:20:00.003-04:00

My son woke up sick. "Mom, my throat hurts, it is really sore." I took his temperature, he didn't have a fever yet. I gave him some Nyquil and filled up the humidifier in his room with water and a splash of Vicks. I told him to go back to sleep, I would call him in sick at school. He gets out of school in two weeks. Why did he have to get sick now. Oh I know why, the school had a field trip to Wonder Works two days ago. A place where a lot of people go, and touch everything. I called the school and told them he was sick. He got worse later. He feels awful and is starting to get a fever. I got him that stuff that you spray in your mouth to numb your throat. That stuff tastes awful. I squirted it in his mouth and he threw up. I put him to bed early. I have to go up and check his temp to see if he is getting hotter. I don't like seeing him sick. I also don't want to get sick either. Whenever he gets sick, it seems we all get sick.

This morning the sky turned dark. That is the picture I took. It was so dark and cloudy. The sky was covered in clouds and the air smelled thick of rain. The rain smell before you get a big storm. It started thundering, big booms ringing in the air. Lightening flashing all around. Then all of the sudden it started to rain, a lot. It covered my garden in water. The power went off. It was not off for very long.

Watery Wednesday #34

2009-05-06T15:44:00.004-04:00

I just took this picture. It has been raining all day long and it is coming down hard right now.

The top picture is a pickle plant. I am going to grow pickles and jar them. I have never done that before. I just bought that plant at the plant nursery. Actually I bought 3 big ones like that and some little ones too. I liked the looks of the bigger plants. I will plant it as soon as it stops raining, probably tomorrow.
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PS: Yes Dr. John, it is a pickling cucumber plant. I just liked saying it was a pickle plant.

Easy Pizza

2009-05-04T08:44:00.002-04:00

I made a video on making easy pizza. I rarely make pizza dough because it takes too long. I have perfected the pizza mix from Kroger. This pizza is really good.

I have tried a lot of different brands and all the store sauces. The Kroger pizza sauce, the restaurant style kind is the best. I have bought all kinds and made pizza with them so I think it tastes the closest to the pizza parlor taste.
The sause costs 89 cents or maybe 99 cents, sometimes it is on sale. The pizza mix is 49 cents. I got the cheese on sale, 10 packs for $10, so it was $1 a pack. I use 1 cup of cheese so it costs 50 cents. I pack of pepperoni costs anywhere from $2 to $3 but you can use it several times. It is cheap to make a pizza this way.

Watery Wednesday #33

2009-04-29T07:43:00.002-04:00

I just took this picture (this morning) of a Canadian Geese pair with new babies. I didn't get to close to scare them, I also wanted the water in the picture.
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Mellow Yellow Monday #16

2009-04-27T15:02:00.002-04:00

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I have two pictures today.
The first one, I took in the morning before the sun came up.

The next picture was taken while I was at Ace hardware. I was buying some top soil, like over 100 bags and right by the cash register was this display. Monkey Butt powder. It is real. It was almost $6. I thought it was a joke, but it is not, it is real. Some company really named it that and they even have a web page. I would think baby powder would do the same thing.

Skywatch Friday #41

2009-04-24T07:56:00.001-04:00

Skywatch Friday.
Good Morning.

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Friday Flash 55

2009-04-24T00:00:00.000-04:00

THE BEANS.

“Lady, I am in need of some money but I won’t beg. I happen to have some magic beans.” She turned and looked.
He had some beans in his hand. He put his finger up to his lips. “Shhhhh, don’t tell anybody they are magic.” She gave him a $5, he gave her the beans.

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Watery Wednesday #32

2009-04-22T09:02:00.003-04:00

I took this yesterday. The sun was just coming up and reflecting beautiful colors on the water.
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Mellow Yellow Monday #15

2009-04-19T23:09:00.002-04:00

This guy down the street has these really pretty tulips planted pretty close to the road. He is an older guy and he has his yard all planted with flowers. I grabbed my camera and started walking around, taking pictures of wild flowers. I then walked over to the house with the tulips.

I stood in the road and snapped a couple of pictures and then went over closer and took a picture. It was only like 2 feet from the road. The tulips were so beautiful. There were red ones and yellow ones and some that were orange and yellow.
I took them quick and turned to go back home. It was only 4 houses away from my house. All of the sudden this giant black dog ran around the corner. The guy has a side garage. The dog ran at me and was standing in the road barking at me. Then the man who lived there came out of his garage and started calling his dog. The dog kept getting closer and closer. He was barking and growing and pulling back his gums showing all his teeth. His teeth looked huge. His hair was standing up on his back and he was getting closer and closer and growling. (I wish I had gotten a picture of him, but I was to afraid.) I kept looking at the guy and he kept yelling at his dog but the dog kept getting closer. I said “I was looking at your pretty flowers and your dog is barking at me.” He said “Oh he won’t
hurt you.” I looked at the dog. He was looking like he was going to lunge at me. The man finally came and got his dog. The dog barked as he was pulling him away. My heart was pounding, I was scared. I am just glad the dog didn’t bite me. I turned and went back down the street. I can’t believe the guy didn’t have his mean dog on a leash. He has a fenced in yard, why did he let his dog run around out of the fence. Anyway I got my beautiful flower pictures. I noticed that he has since planted some beautiful purple tulips, but I am not going near that house again.

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Dogwood flowers

2009-04-16T23:56:00.003-04:00

These are growing in the trees behind my house. Some are white and these are a greenish yellow color. I love Dogwood flowers.

Sky Watch Friday #40

2009-04-16T14:20:00.000-04:00

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Mellow Yellow Monday #14

2009-04-13T23:07:00.003-04:00

My son was making a video "Lego vs Easter eggs." I colored Easter Eggs and drew faces on them. He made me hide them 4 times in the yard so he could find them.
They were hard to see in the grass. We stepped on two of them and broke them.

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Skywatch Friday #39

2009-04-09T14:47:00.002-04:00

This is the morning sky 2 days ago.

This is the sky today, all blue. I took a walk and took my camera and saw this crooked tree, so I took a picture of the blue sky.

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Watery Wednesday #30

2009-04-08T16:40:00.002-04:00

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Mellow Yellow Monday #13

2009-04-06T10:25:00.002-04:00

In my search for yellow this is what I have today.

My son got this Lego in the mail. He is in the brickmaster club. They send a Lego every two months.

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Skywatch #38

2009-04-02T15:48:00.002-04:00

The sky is grey today. Not much color. It is supposed to rain later.

But the cherry blossom just opened up today and it is so pretty.
A closer view of the flowers.

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WATERY WEDNESDAY #29

2009-04-01T09:25:00.002-04:00

How do they stand on one leg without falling over?

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Ruby Tuesday March 31, 09

2009-03-31T13:31:00.001-04:00

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Mellow Yellow Monday #12

2009-03-29T22:42:00.003-04:00

I saw this lone flower growing in the dirt behind my yard. It was so bright and colorful on a rainy day. It cheered me up to see it. I braved the mud and the rain and walked out and took this picture for Mellow Yellow Monday. It is probably a weed, or a flower seed that was carried by a bird, but a pretty one.
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Vandalism

2009-03-29T17:20:00.004-04:00

Last night, it was raining. Thundering loud. I even took a picture outside of the street. See those lights. They are on mailbox brick posts. Each house has one. I don't really like them because they are so bright at night, but we have them. It stopped raining. I was sitting at my computer do the the Twitter thing.

I hear this noise outside of something breaking and then hitting the road. I go to the window and there is this red truck going down the road. People in the back laughing and yelling really loud. They turn around the corner. I look in the street, there is something in the street. I run out in my socks to pick it up. It is the light from my mailbox. Someone , the red truck drove buy and hit it and broke it. They thought it was very funny.

I woke up my husband and he got in the car and drove around the corner. He saw a lot more lights that were broken, but did not see the red truck.
This morning hubby went out and covered the broken light, the bulb was all broken. As he was standing there, a red truck drove up the street real slow and when he saw my husband he sped up. My husband got in the car and went up the street. The guy was just parked around the corner just sitting there. His right side of his truck was all wrecked. My husband saw the truck parked a few blocks down the street from us. I drove over and took pictures. I bet he was the one who drove around breaking lights. There is a block wall where the blocks are all knocked down. I bet he hit that wall with his truck. His whole side of his truck is damaged. He broke 12 lights up and down the street. I called the police and they said there is nothing that can be done.

I can't prove that the guy did it. I asked them to find out when he damaged his truck. The cop lady said she can't really do that.

I called and the cost of the light is $400. I am going to search around and find a cheaper one. I am not going to pay a lot of money for a light in case they decide to break it again.

Skywatch #37

2009-03-27T09:40:00.003-04:00

It was raining, the sky was grey. I saw this tree with these beautiful violet colored flowers. I took the picture with the grey sky peaking though.

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Watery Wednesday #28

2009-03-24T23:52:00.002-04:00

It is Wednesday, Watery Wednesday so post your watery pictures and click here to join in.

This is a ship (a re-creation) like the one pilgrims came over the ocean to Jamestown, Virginia. You can visit it at the Jamestown settlement.

This is water, salt water and things that live in tide pools. It was a display at this research place in FL. You can pick up everything that is there.

March 24th Ruby Tuesday

2009-03-24T10:04:00.003-04:00

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I have two pictures today.
The Easy button.

And a picture of Christina Aguilera singing in concert. This concert was in Australia. She had a circus act. It was in Jan. 2008. She did the circus show before Britney. I wonder if that is where Britney got her idea.

Birthday

2009-03-20T01:15:00.002-04:00

My son's birthday was yesterday. For wrapping paper, I bought a big heavy roll of brown paper that is about the thickness of a brown paper sack. The color too. I got it at Wal-Mart back in the paint section. When I need some wrapping paper, I just use that. I got him a big Lego toy so I cut a big piece off the roll and wrapped up the package. I then got his Lego magazine that comes in the mail and looked at it. They had this Lego guy inside that I liked, so I drew it (see picture above.) I drew it pretty big and put an S on it. My son loved it. He didn't want to rip it so he unwrapped it carefully. He wants to save it. I like to draw, so I will just use that paper to wrap up presents and then draw something on it.

He wanted pizza as a birthday meal, so we ordered pizza. I played him the Beatles birthday song. I love that song. I miss the Beatles. I wish they never broke up.

My husband baked him (my son) a giant sugar cookie on a pizza pan. We watched the movie Space Buddies. That is one stupid movie. My son even said it was dumb.

It was a pretty good day.

Sky Watch #36

2009-03-19T14:44:00.005-04:00

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The sky was dramatic. Clouds all over the place, so I took pictures. Sorry about the power lines. They show in that direction. The sky was changing so fast that I didn't want to miss it.

Chicken Pot Pie

2009-03-19T00:45:00.003-04:00

I love to make chicken pot pies. They are so easy too. I did fill it a little too much, but my crust was breaking up so I put it on a pan. You can buy those foil pans for the pot pie at the grocery store. I just buy the pie crust in a box at Kroger. Let it get room temperature before you unroll it. Take one chicken breast and cut it into bite size pieces and cook it in a skillet. Take one can of canned vegetables, I use the Kroger brand because it has potato, carrots, peas and other veggies in it. I just use the 15 ounce can. It would be good if you want to use frozen veggies too. I just like the canned one and it is easy. Take one can of cream of chicken soup. Put it in a bowl with the veggies. 1/2 cup of milk and put in your cooked chicken. Cut your pie dough in a circle and place in the foil pan. Spoon in your mixture of veggies and chicken to the top. Cut out a piece of dough to cover it. Put it on top and make some slits in the top.
Try to press into the bottom dough to seal it. Bush the top with some egg. Bake in the oven at 350 F for 45 minutes.
I also buy that frozen loaf bread and cut it in half and put it in a small pan and let it rise and then bake it. It is good for about 4 or 5 slices.

Watery Wednesday #27

2009-03-18T00:27:00.002-04:00

Time to show your watery pictures. I have two of them today.

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Ruby Tuesday & HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY

2009-03-17T00:41:00.006-04:00

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Well it is St. Patrick's Day so I am posting two pictures. I have to include the green.

This is my Bradford Pear tree. It bloomed beautiful white flowers and I noticed a couple of new leaves that just opened up.

Yesterday I was looking out the window at my tree with all the pretty flowers on it. I just bought it last year, it is a small tree right now. I noticed a bird land on it and then 3 more birds landed on it. Then petals started flying up in the air. The birds were plucking the flowers with their beaks and they were eating the flower petals. There are lots of big trees around here with thousands of flowers on them. There they were plucking away with great glee. I thought "No, don't eat my flowers." I opened the front door and they flew away. They didn't do much damage.

Here is a new bloom on a tree that I found also. A bit of red.

This is a Red Maple tree.

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Wordless Chicken Tuesday

2009-03-17T00:12:00.002-04:00

My son went on a field trip once at school. I went along too and saw this chicken. I thought it was a pretty chicken. Plus this is the only chicken picture I have.

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Mellow Yellow Monday #10

2009-03-16T11:23:00.003-04:00

These bushes around here grow beautiful yellow flowers.
The name of the buses is border Forsythia.

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MUSIC MONDAY DRESDEN DOLLS

2009-03-16T11:10:00.002-04:00

COIN OPERATED BOY.

I really like this song because they have their own sound. They stand out from the same old sound.
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Kitchen makeover.

2009-03-15T01:01:00.006-04:00

My husband's birthday was two days ago. He wanted me to make him a cake. I bought a marble cake. You make the batter and then reserve a cup of batter and mix it with chocolate and then take a knife and swirl it into the batter. It turned out good. I put on a milk chocolate icing. He didn't want a present. He has been buying tools. He is redoing my kitchen. My house is two years old. All the cabinets are up high. I have only one that holds my plates and glasses. The cabinets are dark brown color. I had a house in Las Vegas that had really dark brown cabinets and I so hated a dark cabinet. My husband is building a bigger pantry and moving the sink and dishwasher. He will then build an island and then add new cabinets countertop and upper cabinets on another wall. We are going to go with honey oak cabinets. They are solid wood and really nice. I have a stove top and a built in oven, but we are going to get a convection oven later. I called Habitat for Humanity and I can donate all my cherry cabinets and stove and oven to them. The cabinets I have are all tall and when I need to use them, I need a little step ladder. They are also not solid wood. The front is wood but the rest is particle board. They look nice, but they are not really nice. They have nicks in them. They came that way. My husband wanted to buy two stoves and put them in. It would be nice, but I think I will get just one. Stoves are expensive.

SEEDS

2009-03-13T10:19:00.002-04:00

My son has to learn all this stuff in Science about plants and seeds. I have been going over all his chapers on this. When we walked around the lake the other day, I was showing him stuff in real life what his book was talking about.
Seeds that blow in the wind.....

Moss

Monocots and Dicots
Parts of a Flower.

I don't remember doing all this stuff in the 5th grade.

Skywatch Friday #35

2009-03-12T14:30:00.000-04:00

Time for a new sky. Click on the picture link to join in.

Also a picture of the sky reflecting on the water.

Watery Wednesday #26

2009-03-10T21:16:00.004-04:00

Today I went for a walk around the lake. I got some good pictures. I saw a few turtles sunning themselves on a log.

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Ruby Tuesday March 10, 2009

2009-03-10T00:01:00.001-04:00

This is my first time doing Ruby Tuesday. The other day I made some home made play dough. My son wanted red. We went to the store and bought a little container of red play doh but I thought I would try for a really deep red. I used Rit dye to get it a deep red.

I made my son a Lego video using this dough in the video.
It is just 18 seconds long. It was for this contest called Lego Ouch.

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Mellow Yellow Monday #9

2009-03-09T10:26:00.003-04:00

I was driving home from the bus stop and saw this yellow porta john. They are still building new houses where I live so they have those for the workers. I thought "Wow, that is yellow". I stopped the car and got out and took a picture. If anyone saw me, they probably thought I was nuts. I also took pictures of the sky in case they were looking.
I put it on my computer and it was not a knockout picture, but it is yellow, my whole point in taking the picture was for Mellow Yellow Monday. I brought it to life in Photobucket Edit. I like it now.

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Haircut day

2009-03-08T00:04:00.002-05:00

I got in the car with my son and husband. He was looking for a vacuum cleaner place to get a part for a vacuum cleaner we have. My son needed a haircut, has been needing one for a while. He didn't want one, but it was getting long, covering his ears and hanging down in his eyes. I cut his hair sometimes but it is a battle because he does not like to sit there and let me cut it. I told my husband "Let's find a barber to cut his hair." He said to do it on Tuesday, it would be too busy today. We found the little vacuum shop and right beside it was this barber shop, I had never noticed it before. There were no cars in front of it but it had an "Open" sign. I went inside and asked if they take Visa. The guy said "No, only cash." I said "Thanks." and went to the vacuum shop. I told my husband that they only took cash, that no one was in there getting a haircut. He said to check the car to see if we had the cash. I looked in my wallet. I found 5 $1 bills and I found a $5 bill in the car. I went back to the barber and told him I had exactly $10. I placed the wad of bills on the counter and my son sat in the chair. He cut my son's hair. My husband came into the door and sat down. I told the barber he was with me. He thought my husband was another customer. There was a TV on with a fuzzy picture of a western show on. The barber said "I love westerns." Hubby said "Yup." Soon he was done cutting my son's hair. When he got up, he said "Go to the box and get a sucker." My son went over and checked out the boxes of suckers. He got a bubblegum sucker.
We went back to the car and went shopping. When we got home, I told him to take a shower to wash all the loose hair off of him. I dried his hair and he went in to look in the mirror. "I hate my hair!" he said. I said "I love your hair, you got a nice haircut." I said "Sit down and let me take a picture of your new hair cut." He sat down and glared at me. I took the picture.

2009-03-07T00:03:00.002-05:00

Well lookie here........Spam Turkey. Oven Roasted. We saw this at the grocery store. I have never seen Spam turkey. I have seen the Spam mystery meat, oh I mean ham stuff. But look at that picture of the turkey looking like deli meat. In a can, so convenient, anytime you want it. Well we put it in the cart and paid for it and put it in the cabinet.
Today I was hungry so I looked around and saw that tempting can of Spam, just sitting there shouting "Eat me!" Well, OK it was not shouting at me, just winking at me, begging me to try it. I grabbed it and opened it. It has this gel stuff around it and it is in that can good. I read the can and it said "Squeeze ME." So I did and nothing happened. Then I slapped it around a little and it finally plopped out of the can. Let me tell you, the visual.....not so good. Didn't look like the picture on the can. That picture is creative photography, real creative and probably photo shopped. But I thought well it does say it is oven roasted so I made a turkey salad for a sandwich. I made a video of it and I even put my thoughts on how I like it after I show you how I prepared it. I talk in it but I didn't put my face in it, my hair was a mess......probably had Spam in it or what ever, just watch the video if you want to check out the Spam Turkey.

Skywatch Friday #34

2009-03-05T14:30:00.000-05:00

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Sunrise Pink and Blue sky.

Watery Wednesday #25

2009-03-04T10:58:00.002-05:00

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I was in a big parking garage. It was raining outside and the water was dripping onto the concrete floor and reflecting the light. It looked golden.

Filling up a glass with water.

MELLOW YELLOW MONDAY #8

2009-03-02T08:35:00.002-05:00

It is Mellow Yellow Monday. You take a picture of something yellow and then do sign up here.

This is my yellow picture.

I just bought these bananas yesterday, and they are yellow, so I took a picture of them.

Doodling

2009-02-28T16:06:00.004-05:00

I just read that doodling is good for you. They did a study on doodling. You have better memory recall if you doodle while listening to stuff. Link to article. Maybe that is why, whenever I would go to those all day seminars, that I would just doodle. Some of those people just go on and on and I guess it keeps your mind more active. I read the article and told my son about it, so we got out some paper I said, lets just doodle and see what we come up with. He grabbed his pencil, head down, just drawing away. I started with just a little swirl and it evolved into a face. I then added like petals to it and it was turning into a box. I then added lips and a mouth below the petals and drew a chin with a little bit of beard line down the chin, which turned into a pot for my strange flower. I then noticed that the face had a hidden face hidden to the left of the face, like a face in a face. On the side I put a sun and wave with a fish jumping out of the wave and an octopus creating crawling out of the top. I then went to photobucket played with the edit and I discovered a sparkling sun I could put over my sun. Fun. I love playing with edit. I curved and swirled some of the octopus legs. Yes a box of horrors from my doodle.

This is my son's doodle.

Now get out you pencil and paper and doodle. I want to see what you come up with.

Skywatch Friday #33

2009-02-27T08:30:00.003-05:00

I call this sky Orange Sherbert.

As always, this is right behind my house. When I see pretty colors in the sky, I grab my camera and shoot. The sky changes fast, so you have to capture it quickly. One minute it is beautiful and the next minute the sun moves and changes the sky.

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Watery Wednesday #24

2009-02-25T10:04:00.003-05:00

It is Watery Wednesday again.

Yesterday the sky was beautiful over the lake. It looked pink and the reflections on the water was beautiful.
I call this Pink Reflections.

I also wanted to be creative, so I took a picture of a drop of water.

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Skywatch Friday #32

2009-02-19T12:35:00.003-05:00

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The sun was coming up. I stood there watching the sky. The tree line sky burst with yellow, just a line of golden yellow. The clouds were grey but then burst into shades of pink.

I also was standing beside a tree and it was still dark, just starting to get light out. I happened to look up and there was this bird just sitting there in the tree. I usually never see birds this close to me. A fluffed up plump looking bird. A winter tree, bare of leaves, lots of naked branches.

Watery Wednesday #23

2009-02-18T00:08:00.002-05:00

Dark water.

The sun was just coming up, and the lights were reflecting on the water, like a giant mirror.
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Mellow yellow Monday #6

2009-02-16T22:39:00.002-05:00

It is Monday. Mellow Yellow Monday. I know, it is almost over but I wanted to put up something yellow.
This is a picture I painted using oil paints. I love sun pictures, so I painted this.

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Skywatch Friday #31

2009-02-12T15:00:00.002-05:00

I have a wonderful sky to share today. It stormed yesterday. It blew stuff around and the sky opened up and water fell with great force. It rained for a while then stopped and the sun came out. I looked out and it looked beautiful. The trees were all lit up and there was a rainbow.

I then noticed it was a double rainbow.

For a little while I could even see the other side of the rainbow, but by the time I tried to take a picture, it disappeared. The light was constantly changing.

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The Honest Scrap Award

2009-02-12T09:13:00.004-05:00

The first rule is to “list 10 honest things about yourself — make it interesting, even if it means digging deep”. I read this on Senior Moments and decided to do it. George, your list was wonderful.

1. My parents would not let me drive their car. I took Drivers Educations in high school and I did not pass because my Mom would not let me drive her car and let me get a drivers license. When I graduated high school, my boyfriend taught me how to drive his car so I got a drivers license with his car.

2. My first car was a Volkswagen Bug. I bought it new for $2,400 in 1973. It was red. I had a lot of problems with that car, it would always vapor lock and die on the road. For a new car, it was crap. I hated that car.

3. I got married at age 19. We lived in Las Vegas, so my boyfriend and I just went and got a marriage license and went to the Little White Chapel on the Las Vegas Strip and got married. We went to a movie afterwards. I didn't tell my mom until after we got married. I was married to him for 12 years. He came home one day and said he wanted a divorce, he fell in love with some woman on the bus he went on to go to work out at the Nevada Test Site. We were divorced a week later. I was devastated and depressed. It hurt my heart and sole for years. It still makes me sad to think about it.

4. I worked at Grants, a department store right out of high school in the credit department and then in the Candy department. I made popcorn and cheese corn and caramel corn all the time. I ordered candy and stocked the shelves and sometimes helped out in the camera department. They would not give me a nickle raise so I found another job.

5. I then got a job at the police department. I worked there 30 years and retired from there. I was not a cop, I just was a non commissioned person, typing, helping in Records. I worked a lot of different jobs there. You could transfer to different bureaus.

6. I worked in the work card dept. I would fingerprint people all day long. I did not like fingerprinting the people from prison. They would bring them in by the bus load and we had to do full FBI fingerprints on them. You had to roll the ink all over their hands and do full hand prints and then fingerprints too. They would lear at you while you stood so close to them to print them.

7. I am a widow. My last husband died. He committed suicide. He shot himself in the head with his gun. He was a police Sgt. We had been married for just 6 months. I don't know why he did it. He didn't tell me or leave a note. He drove out in the desert and shot himself in his pickup. I was worried when he didn't come home that night. The cops came to my door and told me about it.

8. I used to go diving and I once went diving in the ocean in Cancun, Mexico.

9. I paint oil paintings and I have sold some of my paintings. I have not painted a picture in a couple of years now.

10. I want to go to Lego land this summer because my son loves anything Lego.

This is my newest animation Lego video my son and I made. I put clay on Luigi to make him look like Luigi.

You can do this if you want to.

A Wal-Mart complaint.

2009-02-11T22:43:00.004-05:00

I got another sports bottle at Wally world. It is pink. I am into collecting these bottles. I love having one beside me all the time to remind myself to drink water. I am mad at Wally world (Wal-Mart). The other day we went to Wally store and got some ice cream. When we went to check out, there were long lines. This was Saturday. They didn't have many checkers. I think there were 5 checkers and all the lines were really long. We waited there for about 15 minutes and my husband got all mad that there was no checkers so we just left the store. In another Wally store, we asked the checker how things are at Wal-world. She said that it was not great, that they are cutting all the workers hours. Now my gripe is that they are reporting record profits. They have sold more than they ever have and they don't want to cover the registers. I remember they used to advertise that every checkout would be open on the weekends. Today my husband asked a store manager what the deal was. They never seem to have checkers. Today the store had 2 checkers. The manager said they are cutting back people and they have a hiring freeze. They can get away with it, people are shopping there, even though they don't have many checkers working. My husband said "You are making record profits, times are tuff for people and you should be helping people out by hiring them and putting them to work." The manager said "Nope, we don't need to." See the thing is, they are so greedy, that they don't care if you have to wait in line a long time. I am going to start cutting back shopping there. They will miss me. I spend a lot of money in there. My son needed some new jeans. I went there to buy them, because lately, nobody else has them in stock. I went to Target, they were out. Forget K-Mart, they just quit ordering any boys clothes. Their stock is really down. I will get my son some jeans, but I am going to cut out buying food there.
I bought a 3 gallon fish tank there today. My beta fish has one eye popping out. I have had him 2 years and last night I noticed his eye looked funny. I think he might die. I went and bought another beta fish and a bigger tank with a small heater. My son loves his fish and he is upset that they fish does not look good today. The fish was almost $7. The last fish I bought was almost $4. You really have to watch what you buy at Wal-Mart on a lot of things. They are starting to mark up their stuff.
I did buy 10 pairs of Levi jeans and none of them fit my son. I took them back to the store. They always have this really old guy scanning each item when you walk in the store for a return. I am waiting and waiting for him to pick up each blue jean and scan it. He told me that the manager was always ordering everybody around. He said "That guy came over and tried to get in my way, trying to tell me how to do my job." He said "I told him to go away, leave me alone, if you keep bugging me, I will walk right out that door and just keep walking!" He said the manager never bothered him again. I said "Good for you."

Watery Wednesday #22

2009-02-10T23:29:00.002-05:00

It is Watery Wednesday time. This time I took this vase that I have, it is a crystal swan vase. I filled it with water and ice and took a picture of it.

I then took some food coloring and put a drop into the water. I like the way the food colors swirled around the water.

I then put blue food color in the water and poured it out.

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Valentine Thoughts.

2009-02-09T21:31:00.005-05:00

On the way to the store, I noticed a sign at a restaurant. It said get a steak dinner for two on Valentine's day for $35. It got me to thinking. What was I going to do for Valentine's day. I have been married for 11 years, almost 12. Valentine's day is not that big of a deal to me. When I was single and working, I would feel blue when some girls got huge vases of flowers delivered. They would gush and just go on about the flowers. I didn't get flowers. I once dated this Fire Captain and it was Valentines day. I wanted to do something special for him, so I went to a florist and asked them to deliver him a manly vase of flowers, they were so nice, flowers from Hawaii. He called and said they were so nice when he got them. We went out on a date that night. He showed up and in his hands, he had one rose that was hanging limply over. The stem was broken. It must have been the last rose they had at a 7-11 Convenience store. Yeah that was the example of what I always got on Valentine's day. Needless to say that relationship went nowhere. I should have sent those fantastic flowers to myself.
Today:
We went to the store and my husband walked by these heart shaped boxes of candy. He stopped and asked my son, "Should we get Mom one of these for Valentine Day?" I said, "No, I don't really like Valentine Day candy." I really don't. The only candy that I love is Turtles. I told him that, so he got a box of Turtles in a Valentine box. I got him a big chocolate Hershey's Kiss. It is $2 at Wally world. I got that for him today. My son said to me, at bedtime, "Mom, where did you put Dad's candy?" I said "I put it in the pantry." "Did you hide it"? he asked me. "Yeah, I hid it, he won't look for it. "
Anyway, I got to thinking about that steak dinner, so I bought two Tenderloin steaks at Kroger. They are on sale for $9.99 a pound so the two steaks cost $10.95. I am going to make a Bearnaise sauce and a baked potato. Oh and a red velvet cake for desert. Sounds so good, I can't wait to eat that.

Sport bottles

2009-02-07T14:52:00.003-05:00

For years, I saved those bottles from bottled water and washed them and refilled them. I then heard that they are unsafe to use over and over. I checked the internet and found data that the water bottles that you buy in the stores are unsafe to re-use. I am never going to buy them again. I bought these sport bottles to use. They are safe. I use filtered water. The filter is on my refridgerator. The bottles do not have any smell of plastic and they are easier to wash out. I like the colors too. I have taken a picture of the yellow one in the snow and the purple with the water bubbling over the top. Here are all of them. I got them at Wally world. I read that if the bottle smells like plastic, then you are getting the chemicals in your water. There are numbers on the bottom of bottles so check out the numbers on the bottom and do a search to see if they are safe to drink from.
All In a Row.....

SKYWATCH FRIDAY #30

2009-02-06T08:54:00.002-05:00

I think I captured some nice colored sky this week. It snowed, so I captured the sky with snow falling.

My son called and said school was getting out early so I had to go wait for the bus. This is where I wait for the bus. I waited 30 minutes and the bus didn't come, so I drove to the school and picked him up. They said it would be another hour before the bus would come to the school. I am glad I did not wait at the bus stop.

The sun was starting to set and it lit up the sky in beautiful colors.

Then the sky turned shades of red. I captured a portion of it, right before it turned dark.

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Watery Wednesday #21

2009-02-03T22:41:00.002-05:00

It snowed and it was so much fun trying to capture the beautiful white snow.

Making a snowman.

The alien snowman.

Oranges down the front, gum mouth, pepperoni eyes.

Snow on the fence and trees and bushes.
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Mellow Yellow Monday #4

2009-02-02T12:28:00.004-05:00

It is snowing here. I got some great pictures. I put a yellow sports bottle out on the table and took a picture of it for the Mellow Yellow Monday.
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Scenic Sunday 29

2009-02-01T10:26:00.002-05:00

I love the Florida Keys. We once took our RV to the Keys and stayed a week. I used to own a big travel trailer. I have since sold it. I now own a tent trailer.
I didn't want to leave the Keys. In fact I loved it so much that we started checking out prices of houses to live there. Unfortunately, it was so expensive, so unless I win the lotto, I will never be able to afford a house to live there. We are talking around a million dollars. Too bad, it is so beautiful there.

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Saturday Wordzzle Challenge: Week 48 The doctor visit.

2009-01-31T16:29:00.004-05:00

The words for this week's ten word challenge were: snow and ice, vegetarian chili, pampered kitty, anthropology, do you own a home, coronation, you can change the world, hideous curtains, stammering, premonitions

Mini Challenge: Is there a doctor in the house, blowing in the breeze, shadows, comedian, sleeping disorder

The challenge is to write a story using these words.

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Corina woke up and shivered from the cold. A quick glance outside confirmed why she was cold. Outside was covered with snow and ice. She ran back to bed and turned up the electric blanket to get warm. Her cat got up and stretched and plopped right on top of that warm blanket He was such a pampered kitty. She wanted a royal name for her cat because he acted like a king sometimes, so she gave him the name Coronation. Yeah it was different, but she liked it. Nobody else had that name for their cat. She would giggle whenever she took her cat to the vet and they said “What?” whenever she said her cat’s name. Actually his full name was Coronation the Black Cat, but she didn’t tell anybody the full name. She was a little tired because she didn’t get much sleep. She must have a sleeping disorder. She had just went to the clinic and had to wait there for 2 hours to see a doctor. They never called her name so she went to the window and tapped on it. The girl finally looked up and slip open the window. “Is there a doctor in the house?” she asked. “I have been here 2 hours and I am not getting called. The girl said that he was busy and that she had to wait longer. It was always a mini challenge to have patience when she went to visit the doctor. They always have you fill out this stupid form and one of the questions was Do you own a home? She decided to leave that one blank. What did that have to do with going to see the doctor. Did they want to attach your house in case you have a heart attach and die while waiting to see the doctor and they want to get paid? When she finally did get called she was led back to this room with a lot of exam tables and was told to sit on one. The nurse then pulled these hideous curtains across the room to section it off. She glanced at the wall and there was this big poster with the word ANTHROPOLOGY with this picture of muscles of your body.

She glanced up at the ceiling and there was this hand written note “Smile, your on Candid Camera.” Was the doctor a comedian? She was starting to have premonitions that this was not going to be a good doctor visit. The doctor finally came in and turned on a fan. The curtains started blowing in the breeze. She said “Could you turn that fan off, I am cold!” The doctor said “Vvverrry Well, aaaass yayayaou wish!” She though “OMG, he was stammering!” She looked at him and he had these huge shadows under his eyes. She asked him why he took so long to come into the room. He replied “Oh…my wife brought by her vegetarian chili, so I sat down and ate it. It did not take that long.” Oddly he didn't stammer when he said that. She just looked at him. A thought formed in her mind, “You can change the world, your world.” She told the doctor, “I am leaving right now, you are an idiot, do not charge me!” With that she walked out of the office. As she did she pointed to his sign on the ceiling and said “Smile, you are on Candid Camera!”

Skywatch Friday No. 29

2009-01-29T23:19:00.002-05:00

The grass has all turned brown. The sky was clear and I could see the moon in the sky.

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Watery Wednesday #20

2009-01-27T23:29:00.002-05:00

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My son loves to freeze water with his Lego toys. I took a picture of the frozen water. He likes to thaw them out, he thinks it is neat.

Here is another shot of the lake(or pond) that was frozen last week. They call it a lake but it is not deep. It is pretty to look at.

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It rained all day today. We went shopping and I got wet walking to the car from the store. My husband parks really far from the door, so buy the time I get to the car, I am a little wet. I don't use an umbrella much. It is a pain to carry around the store when I go in. We needed to stock up on some food. I got some wheat flour to make some bread. You use bread flour and some wheat flour. I am making the no-knead bread. You just mix it up and let it sit for 18 hours. Then you put it on a pan and let it rise 2 more hours and bake it. I got the recipe online. The one I am going to make is Ciabatta bread. Here is the video on it. I buy those ham slices, they go for about $4 at the grocery store. I cut all the fat off of it and cut out the bone in the center of it. I then sprinkle it with some brown sugar and I take one orange and juice it and pour the orange juice all over the top of the ham with the brown sugar. I bake it at 350F for 40 minutes. It tastes so good. I think I will make that tomorrow to go with my fresh baked bread. I will take a picture of the bread tomorrow.

A story about a fuzzy bug.

2009-01-26T11:48:00.002-05:00

The challenge is to write a 500 word, no more than 500 words about this picture.

I wrote a story about it.

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