Stormy Weather,,,,,

Just a note today.  Was awake all nite, would get up, read a while, go back to bed, and do it all over again.  It was around 5:30 i finally went to sleep, then woke up about 8 and got up, sooo,,,guess what i'm gonna do?,,,Going back to bed.

With all the racket last nite, i thot we had a good rain,,But like DD, maybe a 1/4".  When it all first started the lightening started a small grass fire just below the bridge, but they had it out quick.  My power blinked once, but that's all.  AND, i did remember to check my coffee pot!!!,,,Can't have that clock messed up. lololol.  And my VCR kept on recording.  I have found out that if i miss a tv show, like last week, i can watch the entire thing the next day online.  AND, without all the commercials, maybe just one.  So with that knowledge i didn't get overly excited about the VCR.  lollolol,,,

Little Jude,,just don't know about him.  He was acting like he had never heard a storm before!!  He was kinda hiding,  like, under the table, and never did come and get on my lap.  He did go out about 10, very cautiously, but around 3 i heard him wanting back in, and he acted like he was starving ,,,Guess he'd been so upset over all the noise, he didn't ever eat.  When siamese get upset, the hair on their tails will stand straight out, and it looks like a bottle brush. lololol.  Well, not just their tails.

Been researching scanner radios.  The police dept here is fixing to change over to narrow band digital and i needed to find out what all that meant.  My older ones won't be able to pick up the frequencies, but i can still buy the ones like i'll need for around a 100.00.  It's not like the trunk system.  I do have 2 that will work.  I have picked them up at garage sales over the years, so it's not like i have a big investment.  Have had 2 stolen out of my car, so the one in there is fairly new.  New enough.  Used to carry one in the car, because i was drinking and driving, wanted to know where the cops were.  That hasn't been neccessary for a lot of years but i still like one in there.  Got up one day and just could NOT down another beer.  Drank rum a couple of years, but then same thing happened.  SOOOO,,,no drinking,,,no smoking,,,no,,,,uh,,,umm,,,fun?,, anymore, but what a good time i had!! hahahahaha.Can't throw washers any more, tho.  There's a really good R&R band playing out at the lake, that i love, but, i just can't make it past 10!!!

I called the man that's gonna replace my front doors, and he is gonna let me know if he can do it tomorrow.  I'm in no hurry, had to wait 'til i could do without the AC.

Eyes closing,,,gonna go back to bed.  Yall HAGD

New Neighbors,,,Everywhere

Had to take a shower after visiting BB,,,,hahahahaha,,,and i didn't even get any fish!

Gosh, where has the time gone today?,,,what have i done?,,,(besides the shower) ,,,did do some investigating on my laptop memory here, ran the test, found out it's fine.  That took a few, and i ate lunch,,,, that took a few,,,watched the rest of X Factor i had to record last nite,,,that took a few,,,spied on my new neighbors,,,that took a few,,,told my sis i thot it was a 1/2 way house,,those 3 people just don't match up,,,got 3 vehicles too.  I'm NOT going over and introduce myself, i MIGHT NOT want to know them.  I nearly did that with one that bought the place catercorner from me, and TG! i didn't,,,figured out who it was, and sure didn't want to have anything to do with her.  So,,i'm using caution.  They are quiet,,major point,, no kids,,major point #2,,and i THINK there might be a little dog, but if so, it's so quiet i haven't even heard it, seen it once being walked on a leash.  Major point #3.  Hey Jude is ok with them, he's the same ol, same ol.  Not running and hiding anyway.  I kinda trust his judgement.  hahahaha,,,don't know why he runs and hides when sis or son come by.  lmaoooo.

OOO mercy!,,,what a day. 

Tried to eat leftovers, yuk,,got the rest of the canned potato soup down, but that frozen dinner,,meat loaf thang,,got trashed.  I'm outa that good potato salad,,guess i'll stop by the store later.  It's really good, and goes with everything.  It's a shame i don't cook any more, cause i did make the best potato salad, and,,,the best meat loaf ever.  I eat so little now, and i can't stay up on my feet very long, so it's just not to my advantage to do my own cooking.  In other words,,,AIN'T GONNA!!!  lol,,Told my second hubby i didn't cook, he said he didn't care. lololol. And he never did.

Have i named this yet?,,better look n see.  Nope, but now it's there.

Yall HAGD

I'm My Own Grandpa

Thot yall might like this, and have probably seen it before. Sounds kinda like my my family,,,,lololol

　

I’m My Own Grandpa

Many many years ago when I was 23

I got married to a widow who was pretty as can be

This widow had a grown up daughter

Who had hair of red

My father fell in love with her

And soon they were wed

This made my dad my son in law

And changed my very life

My daughter was my mother

For she was my father’s wife

To complicate the matters worse

Although it brought me joy

I soon became the father

Of a bouncing baby boy

My little baby then became

A brother in law to dad

And so became my uncle

Then that also made him brother

To the widow’s grown up daughter

Who, of course, was my step mother

Father’s wife then had a son
Who kept them on the run

And he became my grandson

For he was my daughter’s son

My wife is now my mother’s mother

And it makes me blue

Because although she is my wife

She’s my grandmother too

If my wife is my grandmother

Then I am her grandchild

And every time I think of it

It simply drives me wild

For now I have become

The strangest case you ever saw

As the husband of my grandmother

I AM MY OWN GRANDPA!!!!

Still playing around with this, soo,,,
HAGD again,,,

Will I Be Able to Post,,,,Or Not?

This is a test.

Ok guess i got my problem fixed.  Was getting:  Input error, values null for form restoration.  Anybody know what that is?,,,I sure didn't, had to google it.   Found out it has to do with cookies, and i'm really not sure how i fixed it, but,,,it is.

To all u bloggers i follow, i couldn't comment to u, and that's when i got into all this.  Couldn't even comment on my own.

DON"T eat any cantaloupes!!! Deadly.  Another person has died now.  I nearly bought one last week, but TG i didn't.  Then today, a ground beef recall.  What is safe?  Guess my spaghetti frozen dinner was, not sick yet.

N just came by, so had to postpone a bit. 

Gonna put this out,,,go see if i can post to some of ya i tried to, earlier.

Might get back, but,,,if not, HAGD

Did make it back, at least for a bit,,,,

Ol Jules sure writes up some good blogs, yall.  He's over there,,under So Far From Heaven.  His title,,Cat Houses, had me jumping over there couple of days ago.  LOLOLOL,,,he was talking houses for his cats.  hahahahaha,,,And that So far from heaven,,,not true, he's in God's country over there.  Can't be that far off.

Saw where OFM is back In God's country too.  On the South Llano river, over at Junction.  That's one of the head waters that gets here, combined with the North fork of it.  South is the one with the springs.  He sure has a great picture of the milkweed with a butterfly on it.  That weed is ready!!  Bring em on.

I keep putting off getting out there and cleaning out my water container, got green stuff all in it.  Need to get that done before the rain later, ha ha.  I don't have any bleach, found my big jug, that had leaked and crystallized, and empty now.  Forgot to put it on my list, so, no bleach.  Like,,no velveeta for queso,,wasn't on my list.  Got the darn chips,,but,,,now, no queso.  You'd think my brain would connect the dots, wouldn't ya?,,,welllll,,,I reread my list twice, to be sure i had everything,,,and i did.  So,,,No cheese, no bleach,,,let's see,,,do i have em on a new list?,,,,better check right now!  On there NOW.

Ok temp's just 100, maybe i won't die from heat stroke,,,gonna go wash out that big pan. 

Yall TC, have another good day.

LATE,,i Know,,,,Was my Niece's Fault

Don't have much, but since we have caught just the edge of a storm, and knocked the tv out, well, the cable, thot i would just jot a few things down.

Went out to Kingsland this morning, took my g/dotter, and her hubby to lunch.  Then i went on the HEB, got a few things.  Supper anyway, lol.

There is a BADASS storm on the NE of us, and one on the SW, but,,guess what??? We are right slap dab in the middle!!!  WOW , Kingsland's getting golf ball size hail, just heard on scanner.  Like i said above, we caught the edge of that one, and a little one too.  These just built up in the last hour or so, and got bad.

OOOO YEAH!!! River flow up to 20!.  Means we can water 2 times a week with a hose.  Certain hours. 

Niece called from Lake Worth, and we talked for 1 1/2 hours,,,lol.  Soo,,this will be shorter.  Just one more thing.  Read in the paper today, about a kid catching a piranha out of Tom Bass Park lake,  i guess, over the week end.  When the adults saw the teeth they turned it over to the authorities, then they are saying it's just the second one in Texas, and the other was in 82.  NOT TRUE.  Before i quit working, a man i worked with out at Granite Shoals caught one, this about 10 years ago,,and since he didn't know what it was, he took it around showing others, 'til someone identified it.  It was in the Highlander paper at the time, and i think it was a game warden that did it.  My son sure wouldn't have gotten back in the river or lake,,(bad enough about the gars) if he had ever known that. lolololol.  Hey BB, this was in Lake LBJ, just down from Inks.  There are piranhas in the lakes!!!!

Ok,,gone,,tv was out til 7, so,,,,biggest loser, here i come..

HAG,,,N

Tinder Box

These all taken on a road just outside town.  The dead looking stuff is the b brush.  It was like this, everywhere.

This one is showing the milkweed needed for the monarch butterflies.  I didn’t know if it would be here or not, but I see it everywhere.


Wow, i've found a new way to do my blogs, in Window's Live Photo.  Love it.  The monarchs travel thru this part of TX on their way to Mexico.  The milkweed is what they feed on.  I'm seeing it everywhere blooming now, so,,,wonderful!!!  Hope the butterflies are as well.

Yall HAGD

Just a Shortie, today

Well, gotta do a short post today.  Ol Jules brought up his story about a lost gold mine, so had to tell about one here.  A classmate of mine spent years looking for one here, and same as ol Jules, had oltimer stories, maps, etc.  Never found it, but there is gold here.  I know i've covered this in another blog.  Then there is the story passed down thru the generations about the lost Spanish shipment of silver.  The story goes,,,they hid it in a cave around here, but, again, it's never been found.  My x father n law, 2nd time, had lots of stories he told, and i wish i had recorded them.  That was one of them.

Not sure if i've told this one or not, but out there where that property is, was the first settlement in this county.  It still has an old log cabin, cemetery, and out all by itself, in a pasture, 2 flat markers, one with a german name on it.  Around here,, back then, were Comanche Indians, and they would set up a camp on a big creek there.  He said up 'til a few years ago, u could still see the bare places where their tents had been.  They left during the winter, went South.  Took the whole camp and all.  During the summer, they helped themselves to the new settlers crops when they felt like it, took what they  wanted.  Well, one year, was a drought ,,,like this one,,, and there were no crops.  That meant starving during the winter.  The Comanche packed up and left, like always,,and the settlers were having a really hard time,  they didn't know how they could survive.  One day, here they came back, the Comanches, and with them, bringing food for them all, to last thru the winter. 

Later still, another settlement was made a few miles up the river, and that's still here, the little spot called Castell.  My hubby and i had talked about buying the old Castell Store, was for sale, but didn't.  I would have loved it, an old country store, big porch, everybody gathering there to talk, play dominoes, or whatever.  Castell has gotten really popular in the last few years, lololol, might be because of that "Castell Rooser",,,look that up on youtube,,,lots of goings on out there now.

OK,, mind's gone blank, time to say,,,,adios.  HAGD