Sunday, July 24, 2011

Few Days Off

There's been a death in my family, my niece.  So i will be gone til whenever.  Wasn't unexpected, but still horrible.  She had bulimia and anorexia since she was 13 and i don't know how she had lasted this long.  She was 43.

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Local Fire This Morning

J=42 M=27 L=3

Making one of those cold salads with noodles thingys.  Should mix up some jello too.  Anything cold with a meal, and i can't do lettuce, so has to be something else.  I still have about 1/2 of that last cantaloupe. 

Woke up about 5 this morning and heard a cop looking for the source of smoke.  When she found it, was the local cabinet shop, and in a minute was fully engulfed.  I had gone to the bathroom and looked out and saw my bro G leaving.  He's one of the volunteer firefighters.  Doesn't go to very many any more, kinda semi retired.

OOOO,,, Got that pasta salad made, not getting up for a long time!!! I will NEVER buy cheap paper towels any more, either.  I put one in the bottom of my strainer and the darned thing came apart, so i will probably be eating towel too.  Yummmm.  As long as i don't see it, won't hurt me, lol.  Says rinse with cold water. HA  Water from the faucet is HOT.  And i mean HOT. 

Went out and drove by the burnt building, total loss.  It was fully engulfed before the fire dept was toned out, tho.  Huge building.  Also stopped at a couple of garage sales.  Got my g/dotter some rocks, lololol, she's the only person i ever saw that bought rocks.  And found a big plastic thing to put water in outside.  About 5" deep, perfect.  Threw in some wood blocks so birds could get to it too.  I had looked for a kiddie pool yesterday and the $ store was sold out.  No one had better tell me i can't water animals and birds.

Have some stuffed green peppers just getting done.  ohhhhh, smells so good.  Hope my salad is at least cool by now.  I think i told you, i quit eating breakfast so i'm really getting hungry now.  Guess i'll catch yall tomorrow.  HAGD

Friday, July 22, 2011

River Flow NOT Good Today

When it gets to 10 AM, my TV goes OFF!!,,,This silence is so much better than anything on any of the channels on that thing.  Local news comes on at 11, so that i will have on, but right now,,,quiet.

Our river flow is just not good today, J=43 M=28 L=3.  Mercy!!  Gonna quit running here.  I'm not watering anything (horrible) but the little i can do once a week, is gonna end anyway, so i'm just letting nature take it's course.  What makes it, makes it.  Can't understand, tho, why this one huge hackberry tree in the front, is 1/2 gone.  None of the others even look stressed.  I have them all around, and it's the only one not looking good.  Have one small chinaberry back behind my storage shed, never has had a drop of water added to it, and it's thriving.  Just no explanation.  What really burns everybody up, is the school is still watering the athletic fields, GRASS!!!, and here we are having to let trees die.  Also the gold course,,GRASS!!!  Have to admit tho, it's just the greens.  The school says they're using well water, but when the wells dry up, they expect to use city water.  Might have to play football on dead grass. OOOO poor boys.  Or play in other towns.  WTH cares????  NOT ME.  I'm losing TREES.  That's the way people feel that i talk to.

OK, off that subject. 

I've quit eating breakfast.  Not hungry anyway, and when i get that way, about lunch time, i eat lunch.  Brunch, whatever.  Have leftovers today, the beef tips.  And some potato salad.  lololol,,,can u tell i'm getting hungry?  Also, i take my hand full of pills after i eat, and that way i don't feel so stopped up.  I had to change to things i can chew, dissolve in water, or cut smaller.  NO capsules.  About half are vitamins.  Like a daily vitamin, calcium, B-12, D3.  My bones were excellent, and i wanna keep em that way.  Never had a broken one, have had dislocations, but no broken ones.  Worst dislocation was my elbow.  OUCH.  Fell doing a turn playing softball.  Had to wait hours to get it set back.  So it took a lot longer to heal.  Had a black arm from the shoulder to end of my fingers. lololol.  Was told that was worse than a break, and i think so. 

No plans, as usual, for the weekend.  Like things spur of the moment.  Like when i travel, do it in no hurry, take side roads, just whatever hits ur  fancy.  My older bro leaves in the wee hours (for some ungodly reason) goes straight to destination in a hurry to get there.  lol, gotta tell ya about a family reunion going on, way back when they lived in Austin.  We were all going, up by Paris, but didn't have any set time to leave.  We got up near Waco on I35, and o wow, guess who we drove up behind? hahahahaha ,,,We had not discussed it with them at all.  We honked as we passed. hahahahaha.

 One time, had BF and g/dotter with me, going to Sherman for one, and he was supposed to tell me how to get thru Dallas,  WELLLLL, i could've made it fine on my own, but he wasn't paying attention and we missed the turn.  So, he's taking us all the way around on the loop to get back to going N, and when i realized how dam far that was, i threw the map back to my 10 year old g/dotter and told her to find me a short cut.  AND, she did!!, Found where we were, told me where to turn ahead, and where to go back to the place i needed to be.  My son had taught her how to drive, how to read maps, how to do all kinds of things by then.  Held my breath one time when i looked out and she was driving his 3 wheeler all alone on it, when she was 6!!!  He was right there, but,,,,,

Hey, it's TGIF, so yall HAGD

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Rambling On Again

DD, u must owe someone big time, to work on ur vacation.  Then again, what kind of person would ask u to?  Never did get that video to load, about the damage at the park ur in.  HJ keeps rubbing it in, about the rain he's getting down there!!  So maybe u got it too.  Maybe ur swamp is flooding, hahahaha.

Our lakes here have just about quit getting any inflow.  We haven't gotten any of that flow from upriver either.  Today's readings are J=43 M=34 L=4. http://hydromet.lcra.org/full.aspx  This is the website i use for river flow, just in case some of u want to look at the central Tx area.

lol, You can't believe how fast i can change channels if a soap comes on.  Just had to do that.  Me, for one, will be SOOO glad when those 2 are taken off.  Anything,, and i mean anything, is better.  Working in the homes of the disabled was never a problem.  They would always turn their TVs off when i was there. 

Got my hair cut when i was in Marble Falls and it stills scares me when i look in a mirror. hahahahaha,,,really really short.  Almost shaved on sides, spiked on top.  She cut it a little too much on the top, but it grows fast. 

I was telling N yesterday, about when the river dried up, back in the 50s, how 2 of the neighbor boys kept bringing home huge catfish they got out of the few pools left.  She said SHE wasn't gonna go look under those rocks,,,so snake infested now. lololol,,,Even the snakes are hunting water.  Lots and lots more than normal now.  At the river, i mean.  AND, she went down to her garden 2 days ago, and coming back, saw some huge cat prints.  Cougar prints.  Then she saw more yesterday morning, coming up from the river direction and around her house.  The 2 big dogs are in a pen at the back, and i'm sure they were throwing a fit.  She's seen them around before.  You just never know what u will see, on the river.  Even things that are not normal for here.  We saw a half grown black one one time, and the game warden said they passed thru at certain times.  My hubby told the hunters they better NOT shoot it.  It hung around for a few days, then was gone.  Out there where the ranch was, there was a colony of ground squirrels.  I had never seen any.  Also, we saw swamp rabbits, partridges. and drunk gophers.  hahahahaha,,,See an earlier blog about that.  Love things like that.  I'm a total nature lover.  And i still miss the 2 roadrunners that lived around here for the first 5 years i was here.  Crazy birds. lol  Probably one of those mountain lions found them.  They nested in a neighbor's yard. (tree) 

Have yall ever realized how much info the companies like Google collect about you, just from one click?  Big Bro always watching u.  There is an article in the paper today.  Way back, Hank Jr had a song about that.  lol, i looked up something i was thinking about ordering, and wow, now i see ads everywhere about this thing.  More power to em, if they get anything from watching me. hahahahah  I'm an open book, nothing to hide. 

HAGD







 

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Rain, Rain, Come This Way

Wooohooo, showers all around,,,and i mean around here.  None here.  But above us got good rains, so river flow today is better, hasn't had time to get here yet, but, here are the readings.  J=42 M=25 L=4.   Small chance to get a few more today.  Maybe one will hit us.  But what makes the river get up, are the rains up in Junction and Mason.  There was one in Marble falls, just as i was leaving Walmart, then there had been a good one in Kingsland, water was still running in the gutters.  So,,,TYTYTY HJ,,,lolololol,,,You DID send some this way.

Talking about fish today, a few years ago, this man caught one over there in Inks or LBJ, can't remember the one for sure, doesn't really matter.  He had fished all his life, and didn't know what this one was, so he took it around various places there in Granite Shoals, and finally found out it was a barracuda. Now, the question is,,,are there more?  Or was this one raised in an aquarium and then turned loose?  Haven't heard of any more being caught, so maybe this was the only one.  Not getting ME out on that lake.  lololol  Alligators are kinda common, and a big one was just taken out of one of the lakes a few weeks ago.

Gotta tell u this story about the baseball coaching nephew,,,while they were living over in Lampasas.  They had gone to the coast and when they came back, he had talked my niece into bringing this 4 ft gator back with them.  (Thot she had a little sense).  They taped up it's mouth and got it back and put it in this little space in the fenced back yard, with the kiddie pool and all.  I was horrified!!!  Here are these 2 little girls of theirs, and you could lean over this deck thingy and look at the gator.  Then it found out it could climb the vines all over the fence and get out.  Yep, u already know, don't ya.  It came up missing.  My niece was in the grocery store, checking out, when she glanced over and saw the headlines in the local paper,,,Alligator Found!!!  She just about passed out,,,hahahahaha, grabbed a paper on the way out and read all about this gator scaring this young couple to death when they went home the nite before.  It was in their drive way, wouldn't let em get by.  (What the paper said).  They called 911 and sat in their car til help arrived.  Then the round up began.  hahahahaha.  Took just about every officer, game warden, and official to get this itsy bitsy gator caught, but they did.  Then someone drove it back to the coast and released it.  OMG.  ZIP the LIPS.  Never ever tell WHO did this!!  This baseball coach that had just been named the Coach of the Year in the whole SE Texas division?  No way.  Nah, he wouldn't do that.  That gator musta tied his own mouth up, jumped in their  vehicle, and hitchhiked back with them. 

This same guy is so totally useless when it comes to anything but coaching.  I was there one time when they moved into another house.  We all were working like crazy, loading, unloading,,etc.  Guess who decided the yard needed mowing?  hahahahaha  He had no idea what to do, so that's what he did.  (Didn't need it) I can make fun of him cause i luv him too.  When there's anything like painting, remodeling, or something, best thing he can do, is stay out of the way. lolololol  A whole trailer needed unloading, and he was carrying one little thing in at a time. 

Tried to eat one of the big M's $ double meat, cheese burger yesterday.  Took the top bun off, and all i could get down was a few bites, not even half.  A few bites of FF too.  Don't know how, but that hurt the rest of the day.  Later, tried to eat the other part, couldn't do it, and then kept hurting almost til i went to bed.  I've eaten one like that, since i had the port replaced, so i don't know why that affected me so bad. No more.  Walmart had lots of precooked foods that i loaded up on.  Today i had a bar b q and mashed potato meal i found in the refrigerated section.  Good, too.  lol,  The one will make me about 3 meals.  Also got one with beef tips in a wine sauce.  I rarely cook, too much trouble for just me.  So that's why i eat way too much fast foods.  This will help, and there were so many choices now, more than ever.  Can't do frozen dinners, burned out on them years ago.

We were talking about DDT a couple of days ago.  My bro B lived in a trailer a few years ago, and got overrun with roaches.  The exterminator sprayed, but didn't last no time.  Well,,,this other niece's hubby had found some old stuff in his grandmother's garage and gave it to B, and he soaked that MH down.  hahahaha Hasn't been another roach there since.  And never will be.  Despite what is said about it, i know how well it worked compared to NOT,,,now.  Had my house treated for termites, once.  Way back when they could use the good stuff.  Still to this day, no more.  I know, cause that's the one my bro B has now.  I told HJ there was a DDT plant 2 blocks from us, when i was growing up.  In later years, they tore it all down, then they bulldozed all the soil up, put it in containers, fenced off the whole area,  and took the containers off somewhere.  Both there and at the other chemical plant.  Don't see how that was any worse that the granite plant that operated here, with the granite dust blowing around.  Most of those old timers came up with lung diseases later.  We loved the talc plant, we would get hundreds of small paper bags, bag it up, and on Halloween, Look OUT.  Made great bombs.  Also, way back, there was a graphite mine on the South end of town.  Don't remember what happened to that, either.

OK ,,,didn't know i was gonna write a book today.,,,Making up for others, lol,
HAGD

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Day Off

No  blog today, made a Walmart trip.  Loaded up on groceries, still don't have em all in.
laters, yall

Monday, July 18, 2011

What to do For Breakfast

Guess i'm gonna have to quit trying to eat a scrambled egg for breakfast.  It sits there after the 2nd bite, like a lump that won't go down.  S told me the whites will do that.  So it takes me a LONG time to get just 1 down.  I'll just go back to the bars.  Trouble is, i haven't been able to find the ones i like, why i was eating the egg.  Maybe when i go back to Walmart, they won't be out, HA HA.  That store in Marble Falls has never been able to keep stocked up, even with common things.  Thot after the remodel last year, it would finally be good, but NOOOO.

My son was complaining about them not having the hubcaps he's been buying for years, in sets of 4, for under 20.00.  He put them on used cars when they were short.  And the new ones now, you have to put that and wheel on at the same time!!!,,,So the Kia he's got now, and needing 1, he was gonna replace with those.  Said that's why he sees so many lacking the one, people won't go to the trouble to put it all back on.  I told him i would look online and i did find them, but it wouldn't let you order online.  hmmmmm,,, don't know what to think about that.  I finally just looked at the ones around Austin, and they have em, but i think they're gonna quit carrying them too, in the future.  I've read that a lot of the new ones now, are made without a spare.  You get a can of fix-a-flat, or something similiar.  More space that way.  And it's not just foreign ones, it's a lot of GM ones too.

Called about my prescription that they didn't have on Sat. and their truck just got in, will bring it mid-afternoon.  They said.  huh  Hope all these mistakes don't continue after they get moved and settled in.  So, that left me able to get out and mail back some stuff i didn't like, and go to the library and get 4 more of the books in this series i'm reading.  There's just 2 more, darn it.  Love to read series, don't have to hunt for a book to read that way.

See some showers kinda, heading this way,,,,take a stretch to get here.  Maybe tomorrow.  Told a lady at the library just a few more weeks til Sept.  And i knew it was still hot, but there's hope. lol.  Possible for a blue norther to come in.  lololol,,,this man in there said he hadn't heard that expression for years!  He wasn't who i thot he was at first, but was one i knew from way back.  He had all the kids some time or another,for swimming lessons and was a life guard for years.

Wellllll, after that egg gets settled, don't know what i'm having.  Maybe oatmeal.  Finished off all the beans and cornbread yesterday, yummmmm.  I can always go to Cooper's and get some beans, but if i go there, gonna want some ribs.  Rib, rather.  Would just take one.  I should cook a pot of beans, and put most in freezer.  I DO know how to do it too.  But best way now would be to use my crock pot.  Did you know there are some brands that are NOT good, won't EVER cook good, no matter what?  I've gotten some of those. 

Spell checker won't work.  hahahahah Maybe i didn't misspell anything. yall HAGD