I Got Friends in ,,,,PARKS

They know me, hear my car and come running or swimming to check me out.  FOOD? lol

We have overflow!  Been a long time.  This is the dam at the city park, 2 miles W. 

It’s not just me that feeds them, tho, I see a lot of ppl doing it.  They surrounded me, then did all their cleaning, went to sleep, just like a cat would.  I love to just go out there and watch the wildlife, and read.  Lots of squirrels too.  There were 3 different kinds of ducks yesterday, but the others were too far to get a good pic.
When I do the blog on this, windows live writer, it corrects all spelling, puts caps where needed,  and does lots I don’t do.  Like that cap I,,, I didn’t do that. lololol
Tonite there’s a new 48 hours mystery about a murder that took place in Austin, more than 20 years ago.  I remember it.  I will either watch it or record it for later.  OMG,, a few years ago, this man over in Burnet and his wife, faked his death by digging up a body out of a cemetery, putting it in his car, wrecking and burning it.  The worst thing, it would have worked if she hadn’t started going to Austin to see him.  hahahaha,,,This was on one of those shows last year I think, too.  They both got time for that!
OOO Boy!! By next Tuesday, gonna need heat around here.  Got a real cold front headed this way.  Guess I’ll dig out a quilt to add on.
Catch yall later, brunch time.
HAGD

Critters Everywhere

For some ungodly reason, i decided to make TWO scrambled eggs for brunch today, and 2 pieces of toast.  Welll,,,i've gotten about one down, and the rest is sitting here staring at me, saying "eat me, eat me, even tho i'm cold".  The other is like a lump in the middle of my chest.  When this happens, i just have to wait it out.  It'll go away eventually.

WOOOHOOO, for BB!!! He made it back, and his "yard" looks good to me.  I know he doesn't have any fish to eat, but,,,, Hey BB, how bout a can of tuna?

Good gosh, i keep hearing about skunk problems. lolol.  Now it's one under someone's house.  I went out one morn bright and early to get the paper and nearly ran over one, he took off and i did too.  I'm a little more careful now. lololol.  Besides, that's where i found the rattlesnake,,back there.  Did i ever tell ya, one day i was out there and saw this long coral snake and thot, gosh, i'm gonna catch that thang, it was so pretty, and about 3 feet long.  I planned on giving it to my bro.   They can't bite except on a itty bitty place,,can they?   So here i went, chasing that thang,  finally caught up enough to step on it, but sure didn't stay in THAT position with it trying to bite me, THEN when i moved my foot it went under some stuff there behind my store room, lost it.  Well,. later that same day, i saw on the news about these kids catching one and playing with it, and got bitten of the side of the finger.  THEY CAN BITE ANYWHERE!!!  That's a myth i've heard always.  And it's NOT TRUE.  They really can bite anywhere, just like any other snake.  Red n yellow, kills a fellow.  All u have to remember.  But it is really really rare for one to be that long.  That thang coulda bit my whole foot off, if i hadn't been so fast.

Did i tell ya, got almost all my Christmas shopping done?  Don't do much any more, just close family.  And, i shop online,have it brought right to my door.  Just don't know how i ever did without the internet.  Lol, been using it since 96, and i think i've mentioned it before, but here is in the sticks.  So when i got my first pc i had ONE choice for service, and was limited to,,,get this,,40 hours a MONTH. Yep, u heard me.  If i remember right, which is rare, i had a compaq 286.  and thot i was in heaven.  I had taken 5 months of classes, could even take one apart and replace things, add things, etc.  Nothing to it.  Well, my modem wouldn't work, so for the next 4 months, here we all went, back and forth to Best Buy, which was a trip to Austin, repairmen sent to the house,,,the whole thing, nobody could fix it.  Finally, compaq in Houston picked it up, spent 3 days with it and brought it back.  Me, and one of the repairmen, wanted to know HTH they fixed it.  And all it was, after all these months, was, the modem was plugged in wrong!!!!. I called that repairman and told him that, and he said he had looked at that, but didn't change it.  He had spent hours sitting in my floor trying to make it work.  The others never knew.

Got some chili con queso made, been keeping it to snack on, and sometimes it makes me a meal. lol.

Yall HAGD

New Front Doors

 

Don’t know when I’ll get the frame painted, but here’s the pics.    I love them, and I did get the magnetic blinds up, even tho u can’t see them much.. I like seeing out.

Just got back from the $ Store.  Decided I didn’t know when I could make it to Walmart, so shopped there this morning. lolol,,, HAD TO.  Used my last coffee ground for this mornings coffee.  I mean, I turned that container upside down,,,took every one of em. lololol.

I’m gonna have to eat something, so, maybe bbl.

HAGD

Cattle Bawling,,,

Well, i did make it back on,,,today, lol.  Been tired, taking it easy.  Didn't get back from Austin til 7 last nite.   Just in time for the Biggest Losers, love that show for some ungodly reason.  One of the nurses at the clinic i just went to this morning, told me she and her daughter applied and were gonna send in videos now.  That would be soooo cooollll!!.  They went and did an interview already.

Got my antibiotic renewed, need another round.  With that new 1cc fill taken out, i didn't wake up coughing last nite.  Was an instant thing.  He said to get over this, then we would go slower on the fills to get back to where it would be the best place.
Was down 3 lbs,,,, can't afford to have the pneumonia tho.

OK know i've bored everybody to death with this, should have just not done the blogs.   Heck, i'm sick of them too.

BB has FINALLY  shown back up, and about time.  While i was commenting on his blog, heard a heifer mooing, and that sound is so welcome.  From the time we moved here, when i was 6, you heard the sounds from the cattle stock pens at the auction barn.  The sales were on Tuesdays, and on Monday nites, there were 100s of cattle lowing and bawling.  On Monday you would see the big cattle trucks taking them there, then on Tues and Wed, they would be loaded leaving.  There were always some there, tho.  And no matter where i lived here, we could hear them.. When the owner shut it down a year or so ago, it was terrible.  Like something running in the background always there, then all of a sudden NOT.  So now,,ranchers are bringing in cattle and leaving them there for pick ups, and i'm back in my groove,,,I live just over the hill from it now, and love the sounds.  Ranchers not able to feed are being forced to sell, and in the paper today, a lot are being trucked North. On rvsue's blog, which i can't comment on, by the way!, she was talking about coyotes,,,,well, around here the ranchers asso. hires a trapper, hunter, and pays bounties on them.  Can't have them eating their stock, which runs from cattle, goats, barbado sheep, whatever.  They aren't tolerated.  Years ago, they put a donkey out with the herds, now they use those dogs, those big white ones.  Lol, my nephew has one,  but they made it a pet, so it doesn't stay out with the stock. lololol.  When those dogs were first imported they cost like 5000 each, and you got on a long waiting list.  A friend ordered a pair and bred them for years.  Now they are common.  Everywhere.  He did say he heard it one nite tearing something up and the dog came out on the top.  (my nephew).

Lol Hobo, didn't have the flat top then, but never lost the "personality",,,,loloololol.  By the time i was 14, i had decided you either worried about what other people thot, and never had any fun, OR,, you didn't,,,I took the latter.  I never did anything bad, but i sure had lots of fun.  Gosh,,we went out on Halloween nite and threw sacks of talc, later water balloons, til we were around 30.  Running all over town, hidden stashes, til the wee hours.  One woman told me,,she wished she had the guts to do that,,wellll DO IT.   There was a talc plant here, and we would "lift" a few bags,,laying outside, and spend weeks sacking that stuff, those itty bitty sacks.  When they hit something they burst, talc allll over ya.  Drove race cars, rode trails on motorcycles, i was NOT your typical woman.  And here i was, short and petite, about 115 lbs.  M hubby called one day and just kept insisting i come up there to the shop,,,so i finally did, and he told me to get on that great big bike out there and ride it.  I just looked at him like he was crazy and all i asked were how many gears, and how they shifted, and off i went.  Rode around the block and then found out the new employee did NOT believe i could ride that thing,,,well, i showed him!!  I skateboarded, roller skated, played football with the guys, til i got 2 toes stepped on and broke.  I never sat around with women wanting to talk kids, cooking,,etc.  Boringgggg.  Ok,,,gotta git.

HAGD

What Will Be, Will Be

River flow today>>>>>> get this,,,,84 cfs!!!  Then, i read that we can expect this drought to last at least another year.  I don't believe we have caused this climate change.  It's a cycle that has repeated thru out history.  I've read a lot of the pros and cons, and i do my part conserving, but what will be, will be.  

Been waiting on a call back from the dietitian in Austin all morning.  Why do they wait so long to return a call?  Guess it doesn't matter, i left my cell phone #, so i can get it anywhere, anytime.  My Doc here, called me yesterday very concerned about getting the pneumonia that way, and said it can't keep happening, lol, which i fully agree with.  She called it asphyxciated pneumonia.  (Spelled like it sounds)  For the first time, i'm feeling almost normal.  

The man that keeps my yard work done, is here today, trimming dead stuff.  Wow, it's a LOT.  Now i need to call the city to pick it up.  It's 2 huge piles.

Darn it.  Have to go to Austin and get some of this fill out,, TODAY.  Bro B gonna take me.  Just when i've got it right.  Guess it's better than pneumonia tho. 

I need to make a trip to Walmart, long list.  Groceries, lol.  

I'll try to get back on here tonite, but, most likely tomorrow.

Yall HAGD

I Stand Up, U Sit Down

Finally!!!, Got the sheets off my bed, now i have to make it before nite.  That has been the worst part of being down.  It was time to change them before i got sick.  Woke up at 5:30, started coughing and couldn't quit until i got up, so i did, had one cup of coffee and got in my lounger and dozed til about 8:30. 

HJs talking about trains with no bathrooms,, just a plastic bag if necessary.   When we went somewhere with the boys, when they were little, i always took a jar.  Beat stopping all the time.  One had to go every little bit, it seemed.  When they got older, you could stop on the side of the road and let them stand between the doors.  Only time i ever did that,,,telling on myself now, was once,,after i had left a club, and had to really really go, so,,,i pulled over, went to the other side of the car,,,,and,,guess who just happened to pass by.  Yep, a darn cop.  Here they came,,i was pulling my pants up fast as i could when they stopped.  They made me stay there in my car ( i pulled over to a building) the rest of the nite.  I told them nothing better happen to me, they had better watch!  Then i slept, woke up with them banging on my window saying i could go now.  We used to always honk at guys doing that.  But women just have a bad time with it.  My son and my sister went running into the bathroom one time, when they were about 2 or 3, racing to see who could go first, and i heard him say, i'm a boy and ur a girl, know why?  I made sure i could hear this, so after she said no, he said,,i stand up to pp, u have to sit down.  hahahahaha,,Words out of the mouths,,,huh.
 
Been wasting time this morning putting flashblock on firefox, but ie doesn't handle them the same, so,,that was my time spent.  Think i might get rid of firefox and put chrome on.  I looked at the comparisons, and firefox has just lost it.  IE has lots more now, than firefox.  Do any of you use chrome? 

Weather just showed we had 5. 62 or 60something here.  YEAAAAAAA.  What do u think of that? hahahaha,,,

Sheets in dryer, gonna just put the same ones back. lolol, used to always do that with the kings.  Hated to fold em.  These are queens, not bad.   I'll just put on one, go back later, do the other,,,etc.  That's my plan anyway.

Guess i better check my tv guide.  Have one online.  See what i have to record tonite.  Pretty sure i have to do that on Mondays.

Yall stay safe, and well!!!, HAGD

12:45
LOVE chrome!! Been fooling around with it, getting settings like i want, etc.  Transferred all my bookmarks over, drag and drop.  Goodbye firefox.

What is That Stuff?

Rain, Rain, and more Rain!!! All nite long.  And more coming.  How can the cable have just one channel?  Makes no sense! 

OK back to rain!!!,,,River's up, creeks flooding, low water crossings closed.  Heard on scanner down at Kingsland slab, has 2 feet of water over it, closed.   And it was totally dry.  Saw where we might get as much as 2.65" overall.  That was on the one channel i can get this morning.  When i look to see what we got, it just shows since midnite.  O well, we got rain!!!

Electricity just now came back on.  Now i don't have even one channel.  O well, nothing i wanted to watch anyway,, fixing to take a nap.  Not sure that antibiotic is working.  I am so cold, i put on warm ups, lots better now.  Have a little heat on in here too.  I slept GOOD last nite so that's a big plus.  I've eaten a boiled egg, 1 pc of wheat toast.  My blood oxygen i'm watching, was 88-87 at first, then went up to 95, which is good.  After that bad bout of pneumonia, i bought one of the things that clip on ur finger and gives u a reading, just like the  docs.  lol  So i'm taking lots of deep breaths.  AND, i can move around enough to do a few things.  Just the chills and my eye sockets r sore.  Explain THAT!  Ok,,enough.  If i get to feeling worse, i'll go to the ER.  O yeah, i coughed for quite a while after i got up.

Maybe bl, nap time.

6:30 pm
Cable came back on, and then i had to set both the tv and vcr.  Haven't done a thing today, been in survival mode.  Napped a few times too. lol.  Watched a few episodes of Hoarders.  My Mom was one.  She filled every room in the house, all the outside buildings, everything, with mostly JUNK.  There was a trail to her bed and just one side to sleep on.  She kept buying freezers, had one even sitting out on the front porch.  Run out of room, buy another one. After she passed, took all 5 of us about 6 months to get rid of everything, and empty the house enough to put it on the market.  We just let it go, let her do it.  We knew it was a disease, but it seemed to make her happy.  She went thru the Great Depression, and i think that had a lot to do with it.  She'd buy things at garage sales, or other places, broke things, because they could be fixed.  Then they never were.  There was an old freezer out in one of the storage buildings that had been buried for about 20 years, not running.  Heck, couldn't even open the door to look in, let alone get to it.  No one wanted to open it and look, but bro B did, then shut it real quick, lololol.  I had picked up a pile of magazines and stuff off a shelf after we had worked out way over weeks, and put them in the wheel barrow to go to the HUGE dumpster, and he picked up one, and OMG, under it was about 10 of the newsletters i had worked on way back in high school!!  They covered all the happenings, news, etc, and were monthly.  To me, they were priceless.  It meant a lot to be mentioned in them.  In one, someone wrote about me, that when i got a new haircut, i got a new personality, lololol.  i had all kinds of wild ones.  A flat top with duck tails,,once.  I worked in the art dept. of it.  Back them, u cut stensils.

Enough for today, might be something coming on tv.  It's 7 pm.

HAGN











HAGD