Saturday, April 23, 2011

Wondering,,,about DD

WHERE IS DD????  I go thru my routine every day, to get to this, and,,,HES NOT HERE.  Think hes out at the end of his drive,,,broke down? lol,,,physically.   Maybe wandering around at one of those flea markets,,,getting lost?  OR,,,HORRORS,,, an alligator in his swamp got him.  Now, me,,u just never know about, but,,,NOT DD.

Sis n C r having a bar b q today,,,later.  He came home yesterday with this something in a box,,told her ,,brought u a surprise,,,(this box with holes cut in it).  Was this little hen,,and when the thang they call a dog started sniffing around, she went berserk.   hahahahaha  First thing i ever saw that was afraid of "that dog".  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtSCAl-Vk64  <<< not the snakes one. lol ok,,,back to the hen.  He works over in MF, and all day, they had watched this hen sitting on about a dozen eggs in the back of a truck, up under a tool box.  Then she was out on the parking lot running around, and they were afraid she would get run over.  So he had 2 kids run her down n catch her, loaded her up n brought her home...added her to the others in the pen.  Didnt bring the eggs, might have been rotten. Yall ever just watched chickens?  they r sooo funny.  The rooster left the others and went over and introduced himself, looking her over, twisting n turning his head.  Then 1 of the hens went over n let her know who was boss.  (Poor thing,,but she wont take that long, shes part game).  They kinda left her alone, but every once in a while, one would peck, not hard, just to keep her in the right ,,pecking,,order. lololol

Reminds me about this bar in Austin,,had a hen in a small pen, sitting on the bar.  The floor was painted with squares, and numbered.  U put ur money on a number,,,and watched her.  Where she pooped,,,that number won the pot.  hahahahaa  Dont know who had to do the cleaning.  lololol  Sure attracted a lot of rednecks,,,Think i still have the piece, cut out of the paper.

Was driving over in S Austin 1 time,,and this, looked like, a homeless man, was carrying a tv...Hed take a few steps, his pants would fall down,,No underwear,, and then hed set the tv down,,,lean over BUTT nekkid, and pull his pants up...nearly wrecked dont know how many times, lmaooo.  Finally found a place to turn around, had to see more,,,hahahahaha,,,,and take a picture.  By then this friend with me, got to feeling sorry for him n didnt c the humor in the situation.  lololol,,He finally made it to the bus stop, but going up the steps,,hahahaha, had to pull those pants up again!!! My pictures were so far away,,back then no zoom on my 35 mm,  u had to know what it was, to see the tiny spots of him.  Dont know how that connected to chickens,,,

Friday, April 22, 2011

TGIF!!!

hahahaha,,, used to matter,,,Now i have to look to c what day im on.  I love my gadgets, have a clock and a calendar on this screen.  Also, lots of little yellow sticky notes.  Soooo easy to keep up with things.  O yeah, also have my calculator for doing checkbook.  I was a bookkeeper for so many years, i ran those things sight unseen.  Like typing.  Probably about 90 #s a min, r more, lol..   Helped do an audit one time, for a bank, ran numbers for hours!!!  That was back when i worked for a CPA.  And that was my first job.

Gotta tell u the story how that came about.  After  all my 3 kids were in school, had lots of time, and was doing volunteer work at the library.  The librarian always told everybody i could do the work of 2 people in 1/2 the time. Well, one day, this woman came in, said they were new in town, and her hubby was a cpa.  In the process of talking to her, the librarian mentioned me, and later this lady came back and asked if i would come work for them!!  I told HIM i had never done any bookkeeping, but he said GOOD, that way it would be easier to teach me the double entry type, that i used from then on.  This was all back before computers.  And later, i also did it using a puter.  I was applying for that job, and the man asked me if i had ever used one, i said yes, just got thru with 5 months of classes,,then he asked how i got along with old people, (had 1 there in her 80s, thot she knew all), told him i had worked years in home health care with seniors.  Then he asked did i know anything about filing insurance claims,,yep, had worked in that 8 years too. hahahahaha,,,next ?,,,when could i come to work? hahahaha

Had that same thing happen back when i applied for a bk job.  There had been an ad in the paper for 3 weeks, wanting a bk for the 2nd largest employer here in town.   I had just quit the insurance one, so i finally called and asked if they had hired one yet,,,he said they thot so.  Well, in 2 minutes, my phone rang and he said could i come over?  I did, talked to him a minute, and he asked the same,,,,when could i start? lololol,,,the woman that was leaving knew i had worked with the CPA.  Learned everything about granite, in the years i worked there.  The son took over and lost the company in 5 years, and thats when i got into home health care,,,learned i loved it.  No more sitting in the same chair, same room, 40 hours a week.  Learned i hated that. lololol  Took a long paid vacation tho,,,unemployment, for 11 months.  Worked for cash as a bar tender for a while during that, loved that too.  Found out i could BS with the best. hahahahaha

Think ill get into the shower and get dressed early for a change.

byeeee

Back,,forgot about telling about using a penny on stings.  Worked for me, after a paper wasp sting.  U hold a penny on it for 10 minutes, no pain, no swelling,,its gone.  Keeping a penny handy now.   Sure would like to hear from somebody else about doing that.

Thot i heard thunder last nite when i went to bed,, but went on to sleep.  Woke up about midnite, and YEP,,,it was,,,popping like crazy.  Got enough rain to wet the top of the ground, didnt even register in the gauge.  Have noooo idea where it came from.  Wasnt anything to make u even think that could happen.  WANT MORE.




 

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Fish Tales

My dad would call n say, "lets go fishing" up until he died.  I still miss that, n always will.  Not that we ever caught anything, lol, and not that it mattered.  We just enjoyed it.

Took my 2 young boys, and B, out to 1 of the slabs 1 time to fish, and they got tired of it, wandered down the river, and i wandered up, trying to find a better hole.  Looked back later, and saw them back on the slab, looking at some swimmers that had shown up,,,TOPLESS!!!!  Was i ever mad!!! I took off back down there n told those women off, loaded up the boys and left.  B still laughs about it, little me, 5-2, 115, telling those big women off.   They had boobs hanging down to their waists at that,,,gosh, why did they want to show that???  Guess it was 1 of those things,,,u laugh about later.  Years later.  B was about 12, n snickered all the way back to town.  He had my back tho..hahahahaha

DD asked what was B-brush, and i tried to explain it.  Might be called something else scientifically, but thats what its always been called around here. (gosh, i spelled that right).  Its everywhere, like rocks, cactus, n mesquite.  8-10 ft tall, brushy, cant stick ur hand in, no thorns but little growths that prick.  Blooms out every once in a while, little white flowers down the ends of the branches, smell almost overpowering.  Sickly sweet.   Bees love it.  and butterflies, hummingbirds.



Ranchers clear if off as much as they can, but its here to stay. DD, i think urs is called kidneywood.   While looking for the above, i found 1 that looked like urs too.  

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=picture+of+tx+b-brush&qpvt=picture+of+tx+b-brush&FORM=IGRE#x0y9586   Lots of good pics there.

Late lunch time, maybe later.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

How do u get a follower, then lose one??? Anybody know?  Well, if u know me, u also know i dont bother about such things.  Bye,,,u know who.

In the paper today, has a map of all the fires, realllly, realllly,,,bad.  Theres more than 20 active ones going now.  If i were Ben,,,, think i might get a little concerned.  Not just u,, Ben, we r all concerned right now.  Theres a lot right behind me, hasnt been mowed in a couple of years.  It also has an abandoned trailer house.  That get on fire, ill probably go with it.  Well, my house, i can get out the front, holler at my bro,,,GO GET THE FIRE TRUCKS!!!  lol  My other bro, B, put a new metal roof on a couple of years ago, so i might make it if G gets the trucks here real fast.

Now ,,,,lets talk turkey.... uh,,,liver i mean.  Like ol Ben, couldnt stand the smell, let alone the thot of eating it.  Then one day,,(i was in my 30s by then),,was with 2 friends in Austin, and we went to a Lubys to eat.  One ordered smothered liver n onions.. GOSH, that sounded sooo good!!!  I had already ordered shrimp, but got the craving for that liver n onions that day.  From then on, was 1 of my favs,,,love fried chicken livers too.  Had a server tell me one time, they didnt have fried shrimp.  I told her they always had, that i had gotten it a lot of times.  She just about called me a liar, i was furious!!!  She said they had NEVER had it.  I argued about it, but didnt get it.   You had to know they had it, but they DO!!!,,,the same friend had also shown me that.   Great big butterflied fried shrimp.   I never went back to that one.  We went to Lubys a lot, had a choice for everybody.  Had B and 1 of his friends with us 1 time, (thank God they sat at another table),,,and i looked over, and there was a mountain of used sugar packets on their table,,,then he got up n went to another table n got all of those,,,kept putting all that in his tea!!!  Said he couldnt make it taste sweet!!! hahahahaha,,,that was the day he decided to just drink unsweet tea, n did from then on.  Another place we liked was Ponchos,,,all u could eat mexican food.  This was way back when we always had our kids, plus,,,. We took them almost every week end to do something.  Went to lots of races, cars n motorcycles, hard track n dirt.  Boats too.  Always had B, (he was  just 4 years older than my oldest son)  n my kids adored him.  When they went off with him, I would tell them,,keep up with B,,,and they did.  He would forget n leave them if it was up to him...lmaooo,,, He did that with my 10 yr old nephew,,,left him at the stadium after a  UT football  game, had to go back n find him after B asked where he was. hahahahaha,,,didnt even bother the nephew.  When i forget something now,,,he says,,not to worry, hes always done that...and i believe it.

Time for lunch.  Crackers, ritz whole wheat, with pimiento cheese, a deviled egg, and a can of V8,,,never eat veges.  Cant eat salads now,,,lettuce sticks n stops me up.  Kinda just snack for lunch.  cya later,,,maybe,,,

 Just had supper, nearly time for Idol.  Thot we were gonna get storms, but they just sat there in Menard  n a few other counties.  Heard there was some baseball size hail, so they can have those.
Really havent done much of anything since i logged off earlier.  Back a few years ago, 10? r so,  heard there was a bad tornado out close to Castel, next day, drove out there and when i went over a hill,,,OMG,,,never ever saw anything like that.  Had been an F5.  Sucked the pavement off, even sucked the green out of the grass, what was left!!!  Was a never never land.  A news station out of Austin was there and went in right after it happened, and when they saw this man with a 2x4 stuck in his side, they put the cameras down n helped!!!  The man lived 2 weeks, but just was too bad.  And they had been in a good protected place.  That was the same year Jarrell got hit too. I think. 
That thing even took the hair off the cattle!  Hope i never c anything like that again.  OK...goneee,,,wasnt watching the time!!

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Tooo Tired for Words

Not in the mood to be laughing today, but just couldnt help myself, after reading BBs blog.  hahahahaha  Know how easy those canoe type thingys flip over.  My x and bro, G, used a canoe to go down the river to the slab one time.  The river was up 2 r 3 feet, (they thot just right), so here they went.  A friend and another guy rented one in Austin and brought it up here to go with them.  They had never been in a canoe,,,took a while to get going in a straight line, and turning it back upright.  Told me to meet them in about 3 hours at that slab.  16 mile trip.  Well,,, i was there, but they werent.  I waited, n waited, n waited some more, 3 more hours went by.  By then it was getting dark, and i didnt know what to do.  I couldnt cross the slab, water was too deep for a vehicle.  About the time i had decided to go for help,,thot i saw something way up there coming around the bend.  Sure enough,,,was 2 canoes!  But instead of coming to the side i was on, they went to the other.  They sat there for a while, then finally loaded them on theirs heads and carried them across to the truck i was in.  My bro was barefooted and i asked why after i had said to keep his shoes on,,,and he said he HAD!...Lost them in an huge whirlpool getting flipped out.  They had gone around an huge rock too late to c it, got caught and nosedived down.  Also lost an oar.  The other 2 somehow got wrapped around another rock, ripping out rivets all over that rented one.  They had quite an adventure!!,,,we sold that canoe after that trip!,,,The two from Austin, worked all the next day to repair that canoe to take back.  Needless to say, they never rented another one either.  lololol  Theres lots of canoeists now, but they come here from UP the river, lots safer.  Also lots of kayaks and always intertubes.

I was awake til after 3 last nite, so tired today, can barely type.  Maybe after a shower i can get some go up.  Afraid to take those sleeping pills i have.  You can do things like ur awake, without even remembering it.  IM not taking something like THAT.  Took an aleve about 2.

It got up to 97 here yesterday, and more of the same coming up.  AND, no rain in forecast.  I was reading DDs blog today about his wildflowers, sooo beautiful, and this is a year we have none.  Ive seen maybe a dozen bluebonnets, and even less indian blankets.   No paint brushes.  The seeds will lay there for years, sometimes, til the right weather conditions come along, then wham,,,will be seas of blue, then red,,,then yellows.  Out of this world beautiful.  They show a background on the Ellen show that has to be this hill country, in a pretty good year.  I emailed n asked, but never got a reply.

Shower didnt help.  Tuesday, nothing i have to do today except get trash out.  Thats because they come way too early tomorrow.  Ive got a trail of red ants running down the length of my car port i need to block.  I leave them alone as long as they dont sting me, but need to reroute this trail.  Ill just use 7 dust to cut it off.  The bed is on out near the curb, np.  Dont want to find out if the penny works on one of those stings.  I studied those as a kid.  Even had a gallon jar full of dirt, with them in it.  Got to watch how they worked underground.  Read a lot about bees too, but never was a bee keeper, my dad was tho.  He didnt even use the protection and never got stung. lol, dont remember ever having honey out of them tho.  Think they went like the rabbits.  He quit raising those for eating, after nobody would eat their pets. hahahaha.  Raising fryers,(chickens) was different.  We did that, and would have a day for butchering, where we all pitched in.  Also had to have a big garden too.  He never quit that garden.  One time, my 5 year old son was there, and got in trouble for something, so he just went out and pulled up all the newly planted onions!!  Dad stood over him and made him plant every one back. lololol  He took a can of worms in one time, and mom told him to get those back outside.  The next morning, my bro, B, still a kid, got up in the dark and reached into his underwear drawer and,,,,,,,u guessed it...got a hand full of worms!!!  Rude awakening,,,,hahahahahaha  Maybe thats when he started going without!! hahahahahaha 

ooooo geeezzz,,,maybe bl

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Bad, (Good?) Memories

SS, folks,,,meant to bbl, but just didnt make it.  I did go to Coopers, no parking close by, too long a line, so i waited a bit, went back,  was a parking space but,,,still too long a line.  I cant stand there in smoke (wood smoke is really bad for me),,so,,,thot,, well,,ill go to Inmans just up the street.  Drove by there and changed my mind ,,  GUESS WHERE I WENT THEN?????  SONIC!!! hahahahaha ,,,yep, horrible.  Got one of their new dogs, the New York one,  small tots, n managed to gag it down at home.  By then, i had decided to go back out to Ns.  Didnt get home til about 9, and that was that. 

My lap band isnt working like it did at first.  Its like its loosened up r something.  For the first week r so, i couldnt eat much of anything, and now its back kinda like it was.  I know i need more of the fill, but gonna ask why it doesnt last.  Is that normal?,,,lol,,,My friend has hers filled all the way, n can just take a bite r 2.  If she does more, she gags n kinda throws up.  Gonna have to get mine there.  She just kinda snacks all day, shes not starving.  Shes the one thats lost over 200 lbs.  When we weighed in, she had lost 25 in 3 months.  Ill get there, yet.

My toe is about well.  What else?,,,lets c.  No news on that ems thing from yesterday, yet.  No fires around.,,,,,YET.  The bros didnt catch any fish (normal), yet.  Some dude fell out of a tree about midnite, head first, out there at the going ons.  Dont think ems transported him tho.  lol,,,now that brought up a memory. 

During my 2nd marriage, he had a ranch out W of town on the river, and for 2 years, we hosted biker meets.  They  were on Labor day weekend, a 3 day party.  Wont get into what this town did to them the first year, (sheriff came out n apologized after they had found out who some of the members were. hahahaha),,,They wouldnt let the merchants sell kegs to them, r even let one do catering to them.  They had to go 70 miles away, and bring in kegs in an 18 wheeler, then made another run on Sunday.  Think these merchants werent furious????  But,,,back to my story.  The first year they had these wet t-shirt contests,,,which ended up nekkid contests. lol,,,I fussed enough to the president about why the men didnt do anything like it....so the next year, they had the teenie weenie dick contest!!! HAHAHAHAHAH,,,Just 3 were brave (drunk?) enough to get up on that stage, (N they sure didnt have teenie weenies either) and one leaned over to kiss his honey and fell off head first, knocking himself totally out.  Their ems checked him out n he was ok,,,but this just left 2.  hahahahah,,,,Mercy,,,too early to laugh like this.  lmaooooo Mighta been the same thing out there last nite!!!  More tales on this subject later....

OMG!!!! stilll,,,,lmaoooo.  Any of yall ever been to a biker meet?  If not, u need to ,,,at least once in ur life!

Think ill get up n get dressed, Wait,,,i AM in a robe,,,,maybe do a little house cleaning.  Will try to bbl,,,

Fooled u, didnt i?,,,Got a little cleaning done,,,for some reason ive always hated to dust, even with those thingys on a stick.,,,so,,i didnt do that.  Tried to take Kaspersky off the desktop, and it kept giving errors and not doing it, so i left it and put in a call to puterman.  Went back about an hour later, and ??? it worked like a charm!!!,,,now, just explain THAT.  After i got that done, right now im putting the free AVG on, but gonna take a while.  Somehow,,,i put on an ARO too, got confused.  Wish theyd just keep things simple.  That ARO runs and fixes a few things, then tells u, u have to pay to get the other 2000 things done.  Gonna take that off, too, when AVG gets thru.

Ok yall, cya Tuesday, know i wont make it tomorrow.  Respite day. byeeeee

Saturday, April 16, 2011

I Know, I Know,,,late again

WOW, could NOT believe i slept til nearly 11.  I WAS up til 2;30, and when i woke up at 7;30, i thot,,,wayyy tooo early, n went back to sleep  My feet hurt after i went to bed, and i finally got up n took an aleve.  I have neuropathy and if i go right to sleep, theyre ok, but if i just lay there for an hour r so, then they get started.  Its like walking on nails, on a bed of fire. lololol,,,really!  I stick them out from under the cover to cool em off.  I take a medication and it works good, unless the above happens.  It started way back, before i gained all this weight, and before i was diabetic.

When i was awake around 7;30,, heard an ems call out to the park where the actions going on this week end.  Think a man fell off a horse, but anyway, was having horrible back pain.  One of our VFD men was making the call.  In a few minutes, he called back, said to hurry, man had passed out.  Still no response from ems.  After another few mins, the ems finally answered, then still more waiting.  Fireman called back,,,told ems to get a move on,,,they were doing cpr on him!!!.  Whats really pissing me off, is the response time from that ems!!!!  Just now called my bro, G, and hes gonna find out.  Hes a VFD man too.

Gotta change channels on this tv,,lol,,on a cooking show and now im starving.  Its the grilling one... Now i might have to go to Coopers and load up. Pork ribs,,,oooooo,,,Does that sound better than my left over 1/2 of a grilled cheese? hahahahaha  1 rib will make me a meal. 

Anybody upset over 2 soaps getting cut???,,,,Im sure not.  I wont even stay in a room with 1 of those things on!  The  ladies i worked with in home health all had the courtesy to turn off their tvs when i was there.  OOO NOOOO now im seeing an avocado burger!!!   Its mexican food now.  

BBL!!!