Hey, I Didn't do It

Irene coulda been us!! Get that high pressure dome outa here!!!!  Could have cured this whole state of drought.  Well, i'm doing the next best thing, watching it on tv. 

"Wondering" if BB has chiggers.  Thot it was way too dry, but,,,,,sure sounds like em.  That thicket he's in is just right.  One time, my bro B and a cousin, up in Sherman, were wrestling around on the grass. AND,,,WOW Never have i seen so many on a human being in my life!!! He was in total misery for days.  You couldn't touch a spot on him without hitting one.  We don't have them here, like that, so he just didn't think about it.  (I laughed)

Boy o Boy, that BD party was sooo fun.  Lost track of time,,(again) and it was almost 9 when i left.  Have to turn on my bedroom AC by then to cool it off.   She and her hubby had gotten new mountain bikes, and he was saying how hard one of the trails were, that he had riden.  Told my son that, thinking he wouldn't be able to keep up. lmaooo,,, I asked my son,, how far do you ride?,,He laughed and said, ooo, about 25 miles.  On a hard trail.  I think it would be the other way around, keeping up with HIM.  He never runs outa wind, doing that, or running, whatever.  I never knew why until a few years ago, when he told me his lungs were longer than normal.  I was telling him about one of the high school kids that had those, and the trouble he was having playing football, don't remember the reason, but that's when i found out.  My son had never had that problem when he was young, but could have.

There's a Show World in my paper today!!,,,That had stopped way back.  Now i like what i have online, so too late for that. 

Hey, i did NOT change my font.  Leaving it alone for today, but i'll redo later.  Kinda like it, tho.  What do yall think?

Got woke up this morning, my sis calling, about 9.  Sure needed it.  Still haven't made it to the shower, or dressed yet.  No hurry, not going anywhere today. 

Might bbl,,,but just in case, HAGD

Made it back.  heyyy,,font back like it supposed to be,  i swear i didn't do it.  Had to tall ya,, heard it thunder about 5 pm.  Several times.  Finally looked on computer, and it went skirting right around the city limits,,,like always.  Still cloudy tho, cooled off a little.  Was 109.8.  Got my 2 hoses going, getting in my Sunday watering.  Just trying to make it til cooler weather,,,OR RAIN.   

Got out a bit ago and went to store.  Don't get much here, they like to gouge us.  But,, have to get ice cream.  So,, i did.  Was even on sale for .99 using their coupon.  Limit ONE.  Have to go back tomorrow and get another.  It's the store brand but pretty good.  For .99, mighty good.  Forgot eggs anyway so,,have to go back.  WOW,,,just got 2 yogurts tho, at .69.  Can just do without those til i get to the other place.  Told ya they gouge us. 

About time for me to run a movie.  Almost 8.  That takes me to bed time.

Just thot i'd put a few notes on here.

Cya tomorrow...TC, and all that stuff.

Week Closing In, Almost Gone

Ya know, there's just some people that have to live in misery.  Not me!  I like to find humor in just about everything.  Even those buzzards sitting there waiting on ol BB. hahahahaha  (Sry, BB, just thot that was tooo funny).

Today is my one and only grandchild's bd.  She's having a get together later.  I am gonna have to have a nap first.  Woke up around 2, and was about 6 before i went back to sleep.  No upchucking tho. Don't know why that happens so much lately.  O,,,i wasn't sick, just couldn't sleep.  Age related?, lol, probably.  A pain here, a pain there,  turn, toss.  Get up for a while.  Do i take something, or not?  Will for sure, tonight.  Have Unisom, seems to help sometimes.   Or Aleve.

That East Coast thing is horrible.  I wonder about the people in NY,  and other cities, that have no way to leave.  And the homeless?  Let's all keep them in our prayers.  I sure will.

Don't know what's going on with Jude.  Yesterday, he stayed in nearly all day.  Then today, he ate a few bites, wanted right back out.  Know it's not a girl friend, can't do that.  Keeping a watch on those possums?  Then, last 2 days, when he comes in late in the day, he has dirt all over his head!  hmmm,,just how is that happening?  He's white, with yellow trim,,,lol,,siamese markings.  Blue eyes.  A red point siamese.  Looks like a pure bred, but don't know.  He was given to me by a lady in Lampasas, after he had showed up at her house and stayed.  He was about a year old when i got him. 

Hunger telling me it's brunch time.  Guess this is it, for today.  Don't seem to have anything to bellyache about.  Or anyone to hate. 

Yall HAGD

August About Gone. WOOOHOOOO

Wellll, Friday again.  Where does the time go???  I'm not busy, so how does time fly so fast? 

DD, i so agree with you, about it being a small world.  I've run across people way off somewhere else, from here.  Guess everybody has done that.  Still is amazing tho.

Somehow, since yesterday, i've come up with a different format on IE.  Wish it wouldn't do that to me, lol.  It must update, and maybe it's Windows Live.  Who knows?  My bars were different this morning up there on top, like to never have found my favs. hahahaha.  Got em back where i want em now.  I subscribed to a feed for DD, thinking that might let me post to his blog, but,,nope.  Not gonna give up, DD.  There has to be an answer, and i'm hard headed enough to want to know how it just quit one day.

That Irene is HUGE.  Sure would like one to come into TX, but NOT like that one.  DD, what did the rain do to ur swamp?,,Got any pics?  Or water? lol

BB sure has found a great place, down there.  Almost as good as Inks. lol,,,Had to say that, u know.  But, he's saying he caught a couple of fish, but,,,,,lol, need pics to make me a believer.  I think those wasps chased him away too soon.  Got a cure for those, BB?  What i'm seeing around here now, are those yellowjacket looking things, big as red wasps.  I don't have a digital camera or i would put pics on here.  Never was into cameras, but,,,have my flip.  Guess i could film them.  I'm still planning on getting a lot of film all around the county, showing what the drought has done, if,,,it ever is over.  Every time i'm out, i'm horrified. 

I know everybody is tired of hearing about weather, Lord knows i'm sick of talking about it.  Somehow our river flow has increased.  It's 40-21-8.  That 8 has come up from 3,  meaning that little bit of showers has hit in just the right places.  I guess. 

Gotta shut down here, and eat brunch.  It's after noon already. 

Yall tc, HAGD

This and That, and did i hear RAIN?

Gosh, i'm soooo far behind today.  Spent the morning getting a renewal app filled out, making copies, etc, after i slept til 9.  Don't say anything!!! I was awake til about 4.  There will definitely be a nap.

DD, and BB talking rain?  WOW.  What a thot.  Even the news said it was raining in Austin.   They broke all kinds of heat records yesterday.  And they're still saying it will be over the 100 mark today, too.

Read about this x-TX student, Giannetti, dropped out of school in 2nd year, to play poker.  Said he could make more money doing that, than becoming an engineer and paying back student loans.  AND, right now he's in 3rd place in the World Series of Poker.  If he wins, he will pocket over 8 mil in cash.  Sounds to me like he knows what he's doing.  Got a nephew that could do that.  My bro told me that he paid his way thru college, winning pool and poker games.  He played in the online poker, prob still does.  Another nephew, when in TN a month or so ago, needed extra cash, so he started doing massages for $1.00 a min.  Made over 400 right quick.  They were at some kind of music festival, 1000s of ppl there.  Didn't hurt that he is tall, great looking.  Think his girl friend got kinda upset, all the girls he attracted.  He didn't care tho.  She had given him the arm bracelet pass, used her car to get them there, and then he traded the bracelet for free flyer miles, and left. hahahaha, Went the long way around tho, thru Chicago, to get back to Austin.  Got home none the worse, with the 400. in his pocket. 

Nap time, goodbye time,,for today.
 HAGD

Wish I Had Something to Write About

I bet Inks Lake feels totally empty now, without those 2 fellow bloggers.  What a good life, just start up your home, travel on down the road, stop just whenever.  The little bit of traveling i got to do, we were never in a hurry, and stopped if there was something to see or do, but this was so small compared to them.

 That was how we stopped up around Stephenville, wayyyyy back, to see the dinosaur tracks.  It was before they were so big, in fact, had just been started as a park.  I was so amazed, they were all over that creek bed.  I had thot it wouldn't be much of anything of interest, we just needed a break on driving.  And one other time, was off with bro G, and we needed a potty break, and there was this HUGE gravel pit closed for weekend, so we drove off down into that, wayyyy down, tell ya, this was HUGE, and he went one way, i went another.  We then drove on around down in there, and came upon this place with stagmalites, of whatever u call them, the things in caves, on one whole wall.  There was one big rock in front of the wall with a perfect dinosaur print on it, the 3 toed one.  There were also fossils of these round things, don't know what they were, but we threw in a lot of em in the bed of his truck.  They were about 3 or 4" long, with joints.  Like one of our fingers.  G and B went back the next day and tried to load that rock with the one print on it, but was just too heavy.  And to think, all that got blasted away.  Someone must have talked, tho, the place closed down later.  Then had guards so you couldn't go down into it any more.  We went back once, and just stopped on the road, and one came over and told us to leave.  Of course, we had wandered down off it a little. lololol

Gosh, i keep putting off going back to doc in Austin, to get band tightened, but just gonna have to do it.  It takes a while to get it right.  Still just kills me, that i lost a whole year.  Would have been thru with the whole business by now.  I guess that's why i just want to give up on it sometimes.  Just how much will i gain by losing all the weight?  At my age?  Who knows? lololol

Had a gooood nite's sleep last nite.  Don't know why, wish i did.  Then i could do it every nite.

DD, at least ur not thinking that skunk has rabies just cause it's around now.  U must have things to feed on there.  If u need to run it off, get a water hose with a sprayer on it, they'll tuck that tail and take off.  Saw my neighbor do that one time.  Didn't spray either.  My sis had them under her house too, and they would spray under there, driving her out.  They finally trapped them and fixed the place they got in to end it.   They don't have any left for a bit.  I had one as a pet when i was a young teen.  Back then, the vets would "fix" them.  My dad really liked it, because when it would follow him to the door, the person there would back off every time.   He loved his practical jokes.  We had a young one take up residence one time in our garage.  Well, my son and his friend were gonna run it out, so he built this tunnel it had to go down, and got in there on one end making all this noise, while the friend peeked around the corner at the other.  I knew this would be good, so i had the movie camera out there, filming.  It worked like a charm, but when that little skunk met up with great big friend at the other door, he went one way, friend went the other ,,,for a whole block!!  Got it all on film.  While i was lmaoooo.  Guess it's not too funny, tho, the skunk got shot way out in the pasture.

Ok folks, sry about not having anything to write about.  lol,,HAGD

Great Time With 2 Fellow Bloggers

Darn it DD!!!, Had just sat down with my oatmeal when i read ur blog.  Yours sounded lots better.  Like a trial mix, which i really like.  When we were growing up, lots of times we had homemade biscuits and gravy for breakfast.  I never got the hang of making biscuits like that, and Mom always said,,all u do is,,,use self rising flour, and water.  Somehow hers were just the best!  I don't eat breakfast any more, it's brunch.  And, it's different every day.

WELLL, i made it out to Inks Lake yesterday.  Enjoyed it so much, totally lost track of time.  That BB is one cool dude, yall.  And OFM,,i learned a lot, so enjoyed the visit with the both of you.  When he said he was leaving today, headed West, i made the mistake of asking to, where? hahahahah,,,His answer,,West.  LMAO.  See?,,, I now know what that means.  Little Sadie,,,just stayed in the shade, keeping cool.  Don't know if BB has said anything about another neighbor there, in a small rig, with 3 huge great danes in tow.  Like him, i sure don't know where they had room.  Someone brought them out to walk.  Would hate to have to carry that bag around after they did their thang.

When Jude went out last nite, i turned the lite on to look, and there was this possum there, eating on the watermelon rind i had thrown out.   Jude didn't even pay it any mind, so i guess it's a regular around here.  Sometimes he's really jumpy, so i wonder,,,lol DD, what's out there causing that.  He's such a coward, he would never get caught.  One time, when i still had Fancy, i had opened the door to let her in, and as soon as it started opening, she ran in with this thing.  A gopher or a mole.  Sure enough, she let it get away playing with it.  So, for days i had a loose gopher? in here.  Well, Jude would look around, and the 3rd day, he was looking under the sofa.  I went over and moved it, well, he was GONE.  But ,,,there was that gopher!  Finally got Fancy in there, and she caught it again, and out they both went, no choice in the matter.  She was 2 years old before she ever got to go outside, so she really didn't know what to do with anything, was just her instinct to catch them.  Over the years, she had seen other cats eat them, i guess, because she finally did it too.  I had moved to a safe place for her to go out.  She hunted inside my house every day, before that, and i had no bugs or flys.  She was the one that alerted to the rattlesnake in my house later.  She died about 2 years ago, so i just have the one, now.  Not gonna get any more either.  Don't want to have pets to leave when i go.

There was a coupon in the bag with the paper Sunday, giving u a free bottle of Advil.  All u had to do was go to their web site, enter the code and u would be sent a coupon for it.  HA,  said the offer had expired already, would give u 2.00 off.  I emailed the company, told them what i thot about it, and i would complain to the BBB.  Gosh, i need to do that.  I'm on the no-call list, too, but i get these computerized calls now, so i play along long enough to get more info, then i turn them in.  I don't donate, well, to my son for his care of needy kids.  I KNOW where that money goes.  If someone wants money handed out, what work will u do for me?

Gosh, finished up the next to last book about Joe Pickett in the series, last nite.  It was the one i had read first, but skimmed thru it, refreshing my memory.  Ready to start the last one today. 

Here it is,,already nap time.  Need one for sure. 

HAGD

Better Watch Out, if You're Laughing at Me

Now yall got me ready to go fishing.  lololol.  Learned at a very early age, about 6, that if i fished, i had to do my own baiting, handling, etc.  So, one time i was just below the dam, and there were a line of men sitting on the dam, all of us fishing outa the same hole.  Well, hells bells, i catch a gar!,  which is rare to start with, they almost always break the line, but,,,i land that thang.  All those men sitting up there, pointing and  laughing at me, like,,now what will she do?,,,You know, like when they think we're all stupid or something.  I just did what i do, got my needle nose pliers out, broke the line trying to get that hook out, and tossed that gar back behind me.  Wasn't but about 18" long.  (My youngest son quit swimming in the river after he saw Jaws).  And again, i did what i do, put another hook on, baited it, cast back out.  Shut those men up, i tell ya. LMAOOOO.   I might look small and petite, but watch out.  Well, small back then.  hahahaha  They didn't laugh no more!  I grew up with 2 brothers, and all the neighbor boys, i was as good or better in whatever was going on.  My Dad encouraged me, lol, much to Mother's chagrin.  Just never was one for dress up, dolls, girlie things.  I was really heartbroken one year when the boys got bb guns, and i got a DOLL!!!  for Xmas.  She just never saw the light.

I felt so bad yesterday, i just didn't get back out to water late in the day, so, i ran my hours this morning.  I didn't water at all last weekend, cause we got that little shower.  So, i don't feel like i'm too much a law breaker.  Of course, you can always rationalize anything. lol.  My bro G called about 5;30 and asked if i wanted to ride out to Ns, they were cooking doves, and YES,,,i did.  Gosh, they were sooo good.  C said it was the first time he had ever cooked them.  Did fantastic.  His Dad and some others had gone into Mexico to hunt, brought back 100s.  (A company had paid for the whole thing) As many as was legal.  So C brought home about 200 from his Dad's.  Just cooked about 20, and there were several left.  Guess what he's having for lunch today? lololol.  Was funny, each one had one wing on it. hahahaha, That made it legal.  His Dad and he do roping up there in Cleburne.  Well, i think his Dad still does.  He was coming down here to buy a water truck from one of the hunters, that lives here.  Said construction crews up there were renting them for an ungodly amount, IF they could even find them.  Another event caused by the drought.

OOO YEAH,,,keep forgetting.  Glad i put the site on here, but the river flow today is,,,,39-24-4.  We keep hanging in there.  After the river dried up in the 50s, is when they built another dam, about 2 miles upriver, at our city park.  One time, a bunch of us were out there, just hanging out, (yeah we did that too) and all these huge colored lights showed up in the North.  They were moving around too.  Think that didn't make us hightail it home?   hahahaha, Martians landing, we just knew it!  Next day, someone heard it was a rare showing of the northern lights.  Well, it was rare, cause i sure never saw em again.  Here.  Seen them on tv, but NOT here. 

Way back maybe in the late 60s, or so, there was a movie,,,The Russians are Coming.  Don't know why i thot of that, but that was one hilarious movie.  Heck, i lived thru the Cuban crisis.  My friend J,,said she didn't know whether to get real religious, or go out and do everything she had always wanted to.  We all just kinda sat and waited, thinking it could happen, THE END.  For 3 days!!!  Then afterwards, everybody started building bomb shelters.  Even our new high school was built as one.  We all got letters, telling us where to go, in case of,,u know.  The school was ours, but a lot said Long Horn Caverns.  For years and years, there were barrels of food stuff in there, don't know if it still is.

Ok,,time for that nap.  Still need to catch up.  HAGD

PS, years later, we were told those gar were the best of all, to eat, u cut the back strap out.  We sure wasted a lot, throwing them away, and i still haven't tried it.