A Multivortex?

My google account wouldn't let me post a comment on DDs blog. Would on the others, strange. Not sure it will publish this, lol. Messed with it a while, then just gave up. So, DD, sry, but can't do it today. Time might cure it. Anyway, the comment i tried to make is this. Gonna copy it right out of the Austin paper today. The tornado that hit Joplin ,,,was a rare destructive phenomenon known as a multivortex, hiding 2 or more cyclones within the wider wind funnel!!!. WOW, never heard of this, have u? Hope i never ever c one. Still get tears for all of the destruction and lives.

Just was hearing about a chase for a man on foot in Kingsland. Had jumped out of his car, left it running and took off when the cop tried to stop him. Just now caught him, and now they need EMS. hahahahaha Teach him to run!!! Don't mess with Texas could mean lots more than throwing out trash. lmaooo. Rumor has it, that when they found the man that had shot to death a young deputy here, just for stopping him, the sheriff said shoot to kill, don't take him alive. The man knew he would go back to prison and had a gun, so when the deputy leaned over to look at the serial # thru the windshield, he shot him. He was found later camping out at the lake, and he WAS shot, but didn't kill him. There were too many witnesses to finish him off. The sheriff took it really hard, and didn't run the next election. The deputy was just a young kid fixing to get married. The man was an exchange parolee from up North. WE DONT WANT UR TRASH HERE!!!

Won't post tomorrow, will be in Austin having this port replaced. Will bb late afternoon. They told me yesterday i had to be there by 9;30!!!, an hour earlier than previously. I am NOT the early bird. Will stumble around n get dressed, brush my teeth, n go. I even called n asked em why, was told the anesthesiologist needed an hour!,,,How can that be? Not gonna worry about being a little late. Doesn't bother N, she's up early anyway. That's a heck of a long time without my morning coffee. Gonna do it anyway, just no creamer. Surgery's not til 12;30.

Ok, lunch time, little late, lol.

What is Today?

Hey thx Bob, i remember that too, the train brought water here. I think 1 of my earlier blogs talked about this. Only time our river dried up. My neighbors across the street, were bringing home these huge catfish they found in the holes left. My mom took pictures, one time there were 2. These were the Jehovah Witnesses neighbors. There were 2 girls, 1 a year older, the other a year younger, were best friends. I even went to,,services,,with them, but always told em,,can't convince me about ur beliefs. I was a die hard Baptist even then. lol. One thing i gotta say, they lived their beliefs like none other. I had to admire them for that. 2 of the boys went to prison rather than serve in the service. Saluting the flag was like worshipping another God. The younger girl died of a heart problem that could have been fixed with surgery, but that meant blood transfusions, so she wouldn't do it. But really gooood people.

Tears all morning, seeing the news, the tornadoes in MO. Lot more killed. I did tell yall my nieces were ok,,didn't i? Geezzz, we could have some bad weather pop up today,,weatherman just said.

Loved that ol Hermit's blog today,,,lololol,,,had to teach a canadian some of the Texas talk 1 time. I sure didn't ask to learn canadian. hahahahaha. What true Texan would??? Most i ever learned is some Tex-Mex. hahahahaha,,,Now,,u do know,,that's NOT spanish. It's like true mexican food, not near the same as tex-mex, which i prefer. Gosh, how did i get to that, from Texas talk? Sometimes, my mind just wanders, randomly. hehehehe Might be my upper age, r something.

Yall ever seen that movie, Hachi? Was on last nite, a real tear jerker. Bet YOU would even shed a few. For the ones that haven't, it's about a dog. lol,,,The dog whisperer is on, saw 1 like him. Not gonna tell u another word either, but it's worth watching.

Is today Monday?,,,gosh, think so. Ok,,yeah it is. bbl

Do Nothing Day

Did anybody watch the video? I was hoping to hear some input about it. It will make u laugh no matter how u feel, lol.

Wish i had something to write about. Yesterday was a do nothing day, and so far, this one is too. My sis, N, called late yesterday and told me she had caught a 40 pound catfish, in the river out there!! I got all excited, then she told me wasn't true. DARN IT. After all that talk about catfish, too. Dug thru my freezer yesterday, didn't find any fish. But there's sure a lot of stuff i need to start eating. Soooo, today for lunch i had buffalo wings, and ff, baked. Sure was good. I even drank tea with it. Not supposed to do that with a lap band, buttttt,,,,. Was told it makes the food pass thru faster, so ur supposed to wait an hour before liquid. That way, u feel full longer.

Watching Moneymaker on tv. He's in the championship play in poker. Guess i kinda like him because he's a rag to riches story. And,,, i love poker. We play a lot of games, it's always dealer's choice. Probably most unheard of, except around here. Had a few quit saying those games aren't poker, but,,,just cause it's not 5 card draw, or 7 card stud, if there's a way to bet, we do it. Not any fun if u can't make a bet in games. Even if it's just nickel, dime, quarter poker. It's not the money.

Heard on my scanner this morning, someone had shot a coyote just outside of town. Wanted it to be picked up, checked for rabies. There have been several cases around here, so everyone's over caucious. I don't think anything about seeing wild things around here, up from the river. I love it. Even the half grown possum that keeled over like dead when i opened my back door. lololo,,,i just waited a few minutes and it got up and ran off. This was in the day time, and i sure didn't panic and think rabies. Right now, everything is hunting food and water. Animals and insects. Think it was DD this morning talking about this being the worst drought he's seen, but back in the 50s,,was worse. Even our river went dry. DD, was before ur time,,,lolol,,,in Texas anyway.

BBL, if,,,

BB Made my Day,,,saying no birds,,,hahahaha

Just told ol Hermit that i had to have fried cat fish for supper last nite. ummmm ummm good. Had all the trimmings, even peach cobbler/ice cream. And that is the child's plate. lol Well, after next Wed. won't be able to eat like that. I hope. Getting the port replaced on my lap band, in case u missed it, or in case I didn't post it. Gosh, now i'm hungry again. hahahaha. No left overs,,, guess i'll do oatmeal with raisins, applesauce on the side. This dietitian at that seminar last week, said throw away everything you've ever heard about how to eat, even the pyramid. Said we have been taught wrong for well over 50 years and that's why there's this obesity epidemic. Just got started, so don't know anything else, lol. But you do eat mostly protein, mix bad carbs with the good ones, to balance out. Grains are NOT good. Blew our minds. All this info.

My son changed the oil and filter on my car last nite, even vacuumed out the driver's side, (only place that needs it). Checked all the fluids, tires, etc, and now i'm good to go. When i worked, i would get this feeling of,,need to do that. And would hit it on the nail. Now----get it wayyy too late. Like,, it had been a year, about 7500 miles. He told me it was a good thing it is a Taurus,,and that he always puts in motorcraft oil that lasts. Sooo, now i have an extra sticky note on this LT, and i had always put it down in the owner's manual, but who takes those out to look? HE put it in the manual, i put my sticky note up. Now i have the car, and the mower done,,for another year?,,,hahahaha

brb, gotta look at tv schedule. Might be a few movies to record. Back,,,guess i'll just skip today. Saw that Planet of the Apes was coming on. Gosh, loved that movie when it came out. Special effects were just starting to get good around that time. Star Wars took my breath away.

Saw this video yesterday, and it's on youtube. Can't find the link, but look it up as baby dancing to bon jovi. Will make ur day,,,I sent it to so many in email, it wouldn't let me do any more for a while!! Was trying to send myself one.

bbl

Fishing Around

Gotta tell ya, Bob from AThens,,we have those fire ants, don't have the cutter ants much, but i do everything i can to get rid of them. A professor at UT has been working with a knat that kills fire ants, but so far, i haven't seen them here. He said they had gotten as far as Burnet County, and told me how to check. You rub the hill with your foot, get them upset, then go back about 15 or 20 mins later, and if you see ants laying there like they are dead, the knats are here. Would take gazillions to work, tho. One knat per ant.

The Hermit was talking about cat fishing today. wooohoooo,,,got this river, and that's our thing. One of my sons made some grappling hooks, and one day, I looked out and here is my younger son walking up the road from the river, carrying a hook, and some fish!!! We just had forgotten to tell him those hooks were illegal. We lived less than a block from the river, so they kinda grew up on it. One time, he and a friend came dragging in an huge soft shell turtle, cause he wanted turtle soup. Geezzz,,,hth do u take that shell off? lololol,,called my mom and between us, we finally managed to do that, and ,,omg,,there's nothing but white meat under it!! Had no idea how to cook it,,now, (was before internet) so i called around and found one that told me how to make the soup, but then another told me the best way, was to fry it like fish. All i've ever used to do that, is just plain ol salt and corn meal. So, that's what i did, and ooooo mercy,,,was that some good eating. To this day, that's the only time i've ever had turtle. Now, i do occasionally order frog legs, tried cooking them one time, but too much trouble. lol, And yeah, they did move around. hahahahaha Hubby wouldn't help clean them, nor would he eat them. hahahahaha

I grew up mostly in the 50s, and we didn't know, either, how poor we were. Everybody else (mostly) was the same. We started off on a farm up around Paris Tx, but you sure couldn't depend on the weather to make a living, so when i was 6, we moved down here. Dad had jobs with regular work hours, but we were still poor. On the farm, we had beef, pork, poultry, to eat, but after moving here, all we had were the fryers he got every year, like a 100 of them. So once a year, we spent the day killing and dressing them, to put in the freezer. That was the limit on meat. We had it once a week on Sunday. Mother always had a pot of beans, and corn bread for us. Had our own veges, from our garden too. Biscuits, eggs, bacon were breakfasts. Sometimes, just biscuits and gravy. She did buy bacon. Now,,we find out that was sooo healthy. Dad also taught us all the games, and we grew up on dominos, card games, all outside games. He had horseshoes set up in the back yard wayyy back before Bush made it national. He used a heavy wire to make a picker up thing, that we called his lazy stick. There were always other kids around to enjoy this too, Dad loved that. He was pretty special. Still miss him and always will.

yall tc now

All Critters, Great and Small

All critters, animals and insects, are looking for water now. So you will see abnormal things, does NOT mean rabid. Saw my next door neighbor run off a skunk one time, with her water hose, it put it's tail down and took off. All it was doing was hunting food in the wet ground where she had some barrels of water. Lack of water means lack of food for lots of things. I have my mother to thank for teaching us to love all critters. She didn't teach us to be scared, she taught us to care. That's why I have my red ant hills left alone, in my yard. They are part of our ecosystem, here for a reason. O,,,by the way, they don't have a trail going by my car any more. I have 3 cocoons of eggs hanging on the outside of my house, that that huge ladder spider left there, last year. I loved to feed her a grasshopper, (when i could catch one, lolol),,,and watch how fast she wrapped that thing up. Got N doing it one day, then she found 2 or 3 at her house too. When she laid and hung her last egg pouch, she just fell off her web and died!!!! I cried. I put her up on a table so the fire ants wouldn't get her. We had watched her doing that last pouch. The pouches are still there, conditions have to be right for them to open.

I quit working for a woman and a company, in home health one time, after she sat there telling my supervisor how they poured kerosene on baby rabbits and set them on fire when they were kids, then my super told her how she put out antifreeze in her drive way for the neighbor's cat!!! Still MAKES ME SICK!!! I raised baby rabbits when my german sheppard brought them in.

N invited me out for supper yesterday, DEER MEAT again, didn't take me long to say when,,,lol. We got the last 4 hens named, hahahaha, eenie meenie minee mo,,,can't tell them apart, so doesn't matter which is which.

Bout lunch time, well, I'm hungry, so bbl? always maybe

People and Places

After blogger went down, i now have my old one back, yeaaaaaa. I tried the setting before, and it didnt work, but somehow its fixed now.

Wow, yesterday was a lonnnngggg day!!,,N saw the eye doc, then a couple of hours later, saw another doc about her arms and hands going numb, then had to have an xray. Took alll day,,,
I managed to warm up leftovers for supper, and thats it. Well, no, did get my trash out, before i got in that lazyboy chair and kicked back. Not doing doodlely today either.,,,i can do that, im retired!! N was cleaning house, cause she missed doing it yesterday,,,i told her she needed to learn to let that go sometimes, house wasnt gonna fall down. Told her to go out and watch the birds, or let the chickens out and watch them. There was a woman in the waiting room i talked to, had 40 someodd chickens, and loved them too!!! Also had a big garden and spent almost all her time outside, watching her chickens and working her garden. Had already canned green beans. Planted them in Jan, taking a chance on weather, and made it. Had to cover them a couple of times, she said. Right now, swamped in yellow squash. lolol,,, Getting that craving for those green beans, again. Wish i had gotten her name, would drive over there and get some of her garden stuff. In that waiting room, at the eye docs,,i dont think there was anyone there from Fredericksburg. There were others from Mason too. One i knew, had grown up here, went to school with us.

Just saw someone getting cpr on tv. Did yall know theyve changed that? U dont do the mouth thing any more. Also, yesterdays paper said for someone choking, just do 5 hard slaps on the back with the person bent over. Add the stomach thrusts if that doesnt work, alternately. 5 and 5. Ive taken those classes a few times, and they always change something. I was working in an insurance office right in the center of town, long ago, and a man going thru passed out and hit cars parked in front of the drug store across the street. No one helped him and he died. I was so horrified, i took the next cpr class offered, and i think everybody should. U never know when someone will need it, might be a loved one. After taking another one, years later, that same day nearly had to use it on my baby nephew. He was choking. Just before i grabbed him, he coughed it up. So, u just never know.

Well, lunch time and im sure ready. Dont know why im so hungry today. bbl