Conehead's Crapfest

Merry Christmas

2011-12-25T17:23:00.002-06:00

Well today is sunday...christmas sunday and there is no football...no stores open. Fun. We spent the afternoon out at moms and opened up presents and such. It was a good day, we laughed and watched John Wayne on tv. It was 60 degrees here today and it was nice to walk outside with out a coat on. One day it is 40 and the next day it is 60...i wish it would make up it's mind and decide what temperature it would be.

I am off work until the 3rd of january...the store closes for a week at the end of the year always so we get vacation...plus i am back working in the kitchen 6 days a week because on of the workers got sick and went into the hospital...he won't be back for a while. So i will be working a lot more for a minute or two.

Well this is all I know today...more tomorrow I am venturing out to shop for after xmas specials.

it snowed a little last night

2011-12-07T14:21:00.001-06:00

This is mom's office door at her work. We decorated it for christmas the other day....santa is all jazzed up!

I have yet to start my shopping yet...I have a few things but nothing too major.

I have been working alot lately so no real time to do much...lots of xmas parties to take care of.

These are some winter onions that I found growing in my garden...I hope they turn out to be good.

It snowed here yesterday and last night...nothing major just a little dust on the leaves. And speaking of leaves...I burned some of the leaves in the yard the other day...there will be more to burn later. well enough for now...til we meet again!

Black Friday fun.....Not.

2011-11-28T12:53:00.002-06:00

Well we went to wal mart thursday night just to get a vaccuum. And it was crazy. People trying to grab stuff that is of immaterial things. Cookware sets, vaccuums, plastic ware....everything. If I didn't need the vaccuum, I would not of went and got it.

This lady here kept cutting open the plastic before 10pm...like the 3 crockpot thing is a hot item....ya right. And when we could get the items she only took 4 of them....wonder what she is cooking for xmas?

This was the line for the Paula Deene cookware sets....like she is going to come and cook the food for you...And the sad part was I had to get a few things from the other part of wal mart and do you think poeple would move? Even after you said "excuse me please" Or "pardon me" no...they just looked at you like you were going to steal their stuff. I saw people with carts full of stuff and people just running over people...is this what's xmas is about....come on people!

well, I will xmas shop when all the madness dies down a little...and then i will go to little rock or somewhere. I like the stores in little rock a lot better than here.

I went and got my application for a tax id number....thinking about the craft show in october...mom and i are going to try to hook some people up with some goodies. alright...I have nothing more to say...I am going shopping with rose later...tah tah.

It's turkey-poolza!!!

2011-11-23T12:31:00.002-06:00

Well here we are another year almost gone by....and it's turkey poolza at work again. I have never seen so many people so fidgety about their turkeys....my goodness people..you are going to eat the darn bird get over it! They can bring in their bird, we will smoke it and they gobble it up....but what people don't understand is that we only have so much room in our smoker...and it does not take 20 mins to smoke the turkey...or even an hour. I hope I can get thru this night....if not they will gobble me up!

And tomorrow I am going out to mom's and cooking some Thanksgiving dinner...and of course look at all the good ads in the paper. Rose and I are going to Best buy and get in line for some good buys. She wants a new tv and they have one inthe ad so we will sit with our blankets and chairs and somewhat entertain ourselves and wait for the store to open. Then I am hoping to go to wal mart and get a vacuum on sale...ours has taken crap...thanks to a Mr. Gordon and his shedding of his hair...it is getting cold now so you would think that he would keep all his hair...but no, he is losing it. I always thought he was a little backwards.

And the cats...I have this one cat that I named Big Balls...just for that reason. Well he likes to sit inbetween the birdfeeders thinking that he will catch a bird...and of course he knows his name and turns toward you when you call him...he thinks he is the mighty hunter..and of course he has caught a few birds and proudly brought them to me...gee thanks big balls! So here he is the other day sitting by the bird feeders.....and he is catching bugs....he is jumping from bug hole to bug hole trying to catch a bug and they are out smarting him of course. And that was my entertainment for the day....

So now I am watching Conan..the new movie, I will go tan in a little while and off to work I go.
I will take lots of pictures tomorrow and post them....Happy Thanksgiving.

Gordon's Oath.

2011-11-16T21:47:00.003-06:00

This is Gordon and the cats on the front porch of the house....when Gordon is on the porch with the cats he likes them...lets them crawl all over him and what not, but when a dog or another person comes around he quickly puts space between the cats and him...he will move his leg like his is kicking them away"shoo away...i can't be seen with you!" then when they are gone, he is all about the cats again. Only my dog.

The other morning it was raining alittle so we went outside. We got to the middle of the road and someone turned on the faucet...I don't know who ran faster back to the house him or me! It was funny, and then of course I had to dry him off with a towell. What a baby.

Nothing too exciting happened today...it rained, and I worked....what a combo. I am fighting a head cold..and my shoulder is killing me....you should retire me and put me out to pasture like a cow....moo moo!

Well grandpa..i know you are reading this and I will update more I promise. Love you lots.

Pictures and more...

2011-10-21T10:35:00.003-05:00

This is Special...she looks it doesn't she....she like to spin around in the yard after her tail. Alot. She is always doing something to make her namesake tru.

These are some of my beadwork that I have just completed. These are for dancer outfits and have matching earrings that I have done also.

This is mom and nick's house...I like the grass...so easy to take care of.

and this is the cat checking out gordy....can you just imagine what this cat is thinking????

Special and gordon n the yard....enough said.

Fall days...

2011-10-04T21:57:00.002-05:00

Here is old man Gordon...lots of grey now all over his coat. He was outside enjoying the nice day chewing on a stick of all things.

Here is Mighty Mouse....he got that name because he took a mighty mouse leap off my car one day as i was trying to leave...I also like to call him my cat...he likes to play with me.

this is one of the sunflowers that is growing down the street from me...i am hoping to grow these next year...I am having a garden designing moment on what I want to do..

Here is another sunflower.

It has been nice here during the day...and chilly in the morning. reminds me of home when i was little. Nothing else much going on today....

Where o Where have I been?

2011-09-30T09:29:00.002-05:00

Well, I see where my last post was in may. Wow. I have been on vacation or something. It has been a busy summer for me. I was busy working my tail off at the store...then I was busy doing some beadwork orders. And it doesn't seem to look like it is going to stop.

I am getting ready for the winter with my garden and the doctor down the street has got some beautiful sunflowers that i want to try for next year. I am also planning on expanding the garden for some more variety.

Gordon has had a spill off the bed somehow and has hurt his hips and it is hard for him to get up and down. He no longer sleeps on the bed...which he doesn't like very well. And of course the meds we get for him he totally does not like. so this nice cool weather is just what the doctor ordered....he does like to lay on the porch with the cats and when a dog comes along he gets up and kicks the cats away...he doesnt want anyone to know that the cats and he are buddies....what a dog!

Well that is pretty much it...i have not done anything real interesting lately...just work. Later guys.

Update!!!

2011-05-23T23:56:00.002-05:00

Okay, I have not blogged since the storms we had last month. I have been a little bit busy. I am just getting over a yuck of a cold that I have had. I swear I have coughed everything up known to a person, and blown my nose so much that I had to reattach it. I have been busy working, and the store has been busy. Then I got a call the other day and I now have a beadwork order to put together....so I am busy working at home....and working at the store. Work Work Work. And the garden, I can not forget the garden. It is doing very well. My 2nd round of green onions may not make it because of the cats digging them up and spreading them around for their pleasure. But the tomatoes and peppers are doing very well. The hail storm at 6am the other morning thru some tomatoes off onto the ground...oh well.

Let's see what else is going on...not much. Between working in the garden, work and doing some beadwork that is about it. ...oh yeah...the car wouldn't start today....the theft deterent passlock anti theft sensor went out in my car....okay...so that set me back an arm and a leg...but at least the car will run now. and at least i got stuck at home and not on the side of the road anywhere...

The cats are keeping me occupied. Mighty Mouse is my cat you could say. He follows me around everywhere....and of course he follows his brother, Gordon. He helps me in the garden and when we are picking up things in the yard, and of course he helps the flowers lay flat by laying on them in my flower beds. At night after I get home from work, Gordon and I go outside and sit on the porch and play with the cats. They play with their fish cat toys and we have a good time. Buttons, Junioretta, Peanut, Yellow and Rickety, all like to play and gordon just sits and watches them have fun. As you can see they all have names....thanks to Rose. She likes them all, and they like her...probably cuz she feeds them. But they kinda have the run of the mill...they chase the birds and the insects and rodents....so thanks kitties.

okay....it is getting ready to storm....gotta calm gordy down....be back later.

Storm pictures....

2011-04-27T20:26:00.007-05:00

Spring Pictures...

2011-04-21T12:56:00.003-05:00

Here is the garden in the early stages...

Here is mighty mouse...he likes the basket that mom brought over...it is now his cat condo....

Gordy and I relaxing...no wait...gordon leaning on me while we are on the porch.

Do you think they know that their butts are in each others faces???

tomato plants.

5am turkey leg....

2011-03-28T21:14:00.002-05:00

It's 5am, and I hear this "what have you done? whack whack....what have you done?" I fly out of bed and find gordon in the living room with R getting his butt whacked....he had gotten into the turkey leg out of the garbage....with a slice of watermelon, and the paper towell that the turkey leg was wrapped up in...i guess he used this to wipe his mouth. Then when she tried to get him to the kitchen, of course he would not go...so...i helped him out. Then his head went into the trash can and "No! No!No!, whack whack..." "Bad boy, no!" He then ran over to the washer and dryer, and I told him to get on his couch....he became a sheet of paper thin and stuck to the door by the dryer...finally i got him to get out of there and of course he ran(sprinted) to the bed and laid down..."No Gordon, go get on your couch" he then laid on me as I was trying to get him off the bed...so I pulled all the covers off the bed and "bump bump" he was off...."Get on your couch"...he ran and laid down. I think he was part of the cousion....At 7am or so I heard him come in the room...like he was asking me "are you still mad at me?" I told him to lay down and I heard a sigh of relief, like "you do still love me" So all day we have been in and out...dentist, hair, tanning, back doctor...etc. etc. He has had that "I won't do it again look" in his eye. My garden has weathered the cold temperatures...I have lost 1 jalapeno plant only because it somehow was not planted well. So I will pick up another plant and stick it in the ground. Otherwise I am hoping everything else will go good. I am still thinking about a stawberry plant...but I do not know much about them. So we will see what is what. Otherwise, not much is going on....I will try to get some pictures of the garden soon! Later.

I have tomatoes flowers already!!!!

2011-03-24T14:55:00.002-05:00

I have flowers on my tomato plant already!!!! More to come I am sure!

Pictures of the garden.

2011-03-21T13:48:00.004-05:00

Here are the flowers we planted....cats stay away!!!

We got spunky and decided to plant our garden and our flowers....please no freeze...

We even bought new solar lights...

Long shot....nice view?

Here are the onions....

Here are the tomatoes....grow baby grow!

Here are my peppers..and my new watchdog....

What should I name my new watchdog? He lights up at night....

my snapdragons..

Okay so we planted everything...and now we are sore like we worked outside for 3 months.

I am so glad the warm weather is here....i was not liking the cold one day and hot the next day weather...and work is going good...we are just waiting on the bank process...bid, counterbid, bid....but i am so ready to work....

Gordon has been his usual self and bark at everything...and then realizes that nothing is there....and he weighs 200 lbs. The vet says he is a healthy boy...guess I would be too if i just ate sleep and went to the bathroom....oh to be a dog. Well it is late and i need to get some more stuff done...more pics soon.....

Pictures.....

2011-03-18T09:08:00.004-05:00

It's snowing again.....

2011-02-08T22:42:00.003-06:00

Well not much is going on here in the snowy south. I wish it would make up it's mind and snow and be cold or warm up and the sun shine. Tomorrow they are expecting snow and they all act like it is 50 feet they are getting. Oh well. At least I missed out on the snow up home...I remember when I was little playing in the snow...sledding, riding the 3-wheeler and pulling the sled around. That's when times were simplier and one certain sibling in the family was not quite who she is today...hmmmm. But, I go outside and play with Gordon in the snow and we run around the yard and he barks at it. I throw snowballs at him and get him to bark at nothing. (I am so nice now!)

We were outside the other day and he was barking at his kennel outside. I couldn't figure out why until I looked over and saw the reason why. The baby kittens were playing in his kennel, underneath his platform and all around in his area. I told Gordon that he should share and let the kitties play, but he didn't see things that way. He barked and barked at the kittens to get out of his kennel. And they just looked at him like ya right, are you going to come out here and stay...NOT!

They finally came by the house today and fixed the ductwork for our furnace. It had stopped working and we were back on electric heaters again....then I figured out that maybe there was a filter I was not seeing...and of course there was. New filter, the furnace worked...and that was a month ago. So he came today and reworked the ductwork, and fixed the airflow....hopefully this will help heat/cool the house better. What else....hmmmm not much. Just work and then work at home. Talk soon!

Back to the grindstone...

2011-01-30T20:55:00.002-06:00

Well, I am officially employed again. I went back to work about 2 weeks ago, at the bbq restaurant. That is until the store in Byrant gets up and running. I am going to be the manager of a new bbq restaurant in Byrant. I am totally excited. And the biggest thing of all is we are going to move up there or somewhere close to the store so I don't have to drive back and forth. R will of course be going along and the big puppy too. So that is what is on the horizon for me.
It is storming here right now...thunder lightning and everything. It was almost 80 here Friday and by Wednesday it might only be in the 30's....welcome to arkansas. The horse racing season has begun here in hot springs and I am ripping the boys up at work! We all put in a dollar and bet on a horse...and the horse who wins if you picked him you win the pool...sometimes only 3 or 4 dollars but it is fun....sometimes we go 2 hours without a winner cuz different horses win...not the favorites or what not. We have a good time.
Well that is about all that is going on...just work and home...walking the puppy....until later..

snowed in....

2011-01-13T20:10:00.004-06:00

I had toe ice-cubes!

2011-01-01T20:30:00.002-06:00

Here I am hanging out with the cat...Yoda...we just got done playing a game of I chew up your hand.

So we get up home and the little ones opened up their presents and of course they were all a hit...especially the princess tent I got Bailey. Everytime that it was opened up...Braxton made a b-line for the tent to try to figure out what it was and how it worked...then he loved going in and out of it...and of course Bailey loved her house...

I guess I needed a bib...and I was color coordinated...thanx mom.

So we hang out in the big town of Fairfield. I forgot just how small it was. We did walmart and hy vee in 1/2 hour. I don't know how I thought it was so interesting when I was little.

I also started to notice the ice cycles starting to form on my toes and feet. Now it was cold when we first got there...and cold to me is now 5o...so i am a wimp now. So...I have these huge frozen toes and feet...and no amount of blankets or shoes could bring back the warmth. I am sitting here now with cold feet still..

And speaking of sitting here...I got up this morning at 3...and i am like something is not right. the furnace is running and not blowing warm air. At thanksgiving we had the same problem and of course nothing was open due to the holiday...so we waited a week to get the part. So here we are again...the same part is not working...did the part fail...is there something else wrong..who knows...so i am sitting here with electric heaters in all the rooms. At least it is not as cold as it was on Thanksgiving.

But we had a good time, ate too much, did some shopping and of course laughed alot. The babies are big and soft and of course comical.

And on the way home someone did have their trunk open and I think they did know it...lol.

BRRRRRR .....it's cold

2010-12-28T21:37:00.002-06:00

Okay...here I am....sitting in Iowa...freezing my butt off! I guess i didn't know just how much i liked the warm weather in arkansas...my feet have been cold off and on. I am starting to fight a cold...fun huh.

The car ride was eventful...the mother wanted to know answers to all sorts of questions...stacked rocks, how stuff was made and the big one was "do you think those people know that their trunk is open?" and of course it was open for a reason.

Then we got pulled over...i was speeding a little...maybe...the car's speedometer if off supposedly 5mph...but i was speeding just a bit. So i thought i was going to get a ticket....but he was nice and let me off with a warning. So i didn't speed as fast after that.

We ate at Lambert's the home of the throwing rolls...i have pictures i will post later.
When we got into Iowa, i was instructed by my navigational expert that we are to "take any road that goes left" and of course that was true. We saw an amish buggy and the dark night with no forward lights but flashers on the back..."How to do think they see...the horse does the seeing for them"

Then we saw the babies....and of course they had to open the presents first...they made out like bandits...and the biggest hit of all was the princess tent that bailey got...her and "ronald" like to get in the tent and giggle and knock it over and giggle some more. And the tractore that "ronald" got is a big hit too...Brian got a helicopter that flies in the house and Craig played with it just as much as brian did. Oh what fun it was. I will have some pictures to post for ya!

Okay...the hawkeyes are on...later

Where O where has my little blog gone?

2010-12-17T22:13:00.003-06:00

Gordon is looking out the window to see where the blog has gone...."I wonder if the cats have taken it somewhere"

Anyway...i have been absent as of lately...sorry bout that...i have had a lot going on and have had to be the manager i am and fix some things.

As many of you know...my store closed in november, it's along story. As of right now i am on a vacation for a minute or two...things on the horizon are coming to light as i type. My bills will be paid, my insurance will continue and my dog will get phatter and phatter. Hopefully i will lose my "taco truck" pouch that i have put on my stomach. Thank god for the taco truck! I miss my employees, i miss my job. I have made some very good friends in little rock and am very proud to call them my friends. You know they say you are only 5 people away from knowing someone famous...i am 2 people away. Anyway, I am still alive, and kicking.

Well today is the mother's birthday...she is all of 25 again. Tomorrow we are doing some xmas shopping...and carpet cleaner shopping...fun. Then we are making some xmas cookies next week and doing the noisy toy from the aunt for xmas present thing next week also.

It has been crazy here at the house and i think i finally have got some of it under control...Lost the furnace for a week at thanksgiving...lost electricity for a day..and that was back to back...gotta love it right!

So here i am back in blog land...so keep checking back...

2010-10-17T18:27:00.005-05:00

Hey there dad, I hope you are listening. Things have been a little different since you are not around. The hawkeyes are playing alot better though. It seems just like yesterday that we were loading up to go somewhere for a tractor pull. You would have me polish the headers, wipe off the tires and color in the writing on the tires. "Hey Jo, wipe off the butterflies and the blowers for me" I love to watch you go down the track, out the end...full pull.

Well dad, I miss you terribly. I know that you are with grandma and grandpa...and I know that you are watching today. I hope you are smiling at all that we have accomplished since you have been gone...even though you could tell us how to do it the right way...(somehow I have inheirted this same trait!). Here it is fall...and it is your favorite time of the year...i remember when I was little driving you and grandpa around to the fields...riding with you in the combine...so these pictures are for you...i know that the combine is the wrong kind...and color...but i think you would like the spirit that it presents...I love you dad, Jo

balloons glow

2010-09-26T09:39:00.002-05:00

R and I went to the airport last night for the balloon glow and infamous people watch. Free events always bring out the best dress people on the planet. I saw some people that should not be allowed to dress themselves let alone their children...and of course teenagers that should of been covered up with redneck duck tape! If I could of only gotten pictures...there would be too many to take!

But these pictures were taken with my cell phone...i think they turned out pretty decent.

I stopped by and talked to my buds at the barbeque trailer...it was good to see them again. Miss them so much.

So we went to the balloon glow, saw, felt the hot air and went home before the redneck trampled us over because there was a free charlie daniels concert.

I have been working alot and alot more. Not alot more to say other than the heat has hopefully broken and I can rip up my garden and do some work around my house...man my life is boring i don't even have a good customer story to tell... and how bout them hawkeyes!!!! I was glad the tide won...roll tide roll!!! later !

Hello there everyone!!!

2010-09-14T19:17:00.002-05:00

Just a few highlights of the ol trip up north to visit the yankees!!! What I wouldn't give to be there once again for some rest and relaxation.

I just wanted to say hello to my grandparents....i forgot to call ya on grandparents day so i am letting the whole world know that i love ya and miss you terribly. It was wonderfull to see you and spend time with you. You both look as good as you did the day i was born. Thank you so much for being part of my life. I love you both!

Well back off to work...don't worry grandpa..i will blog more even if it is silly things...i am going to be with the radio station on friday morning downtown little rock...more later and hopefully pics!!!! love me.

I laughed so hard I cried....

2010-09-09T08:39:00.004-05:00

This was the master fisherman...he caught the winning fish in the tournament...a whopping 4.1 pounds...way to go brian. He knew where the fish were all day long!!!

This was my only fish of the day....and smoooooch it was!!!

This fish fought the hardest and did not want to come out of the water....

Boy we had a hard day fishing....wiped out!!!!

Doesn't he look comfy?

I think i need a nap.

Doesn't he pose well???

I know that this is my cake and i just want a little taste....

give me just one kiss....please??

and we are off like a herd of turtles...

is something on your tongue???

What a wonderful morning!!!

2010-08-26T07:37:00.002-05:00

It is below 80 degrees and the sun is out!!!! It was so nice when i left for work this morning at 4am. I wanted to go back inside and take gordy out for a morning stroll...he didn't even want to come inside after a morning tinkle. Reminded me of the fall at home in Iowa...those nice mornings...mmmm i miss the smell of freshly turned over black dirt....

Well, where do I start? I have been working alot lately...everyday. Gotta make the store go round. I am hoping to get a few days off soon...hopefully. What else has been happening? Nothing...Nada...zip i got nothing. It has been so hot that my garden has taken a turn for the worse. The bugs got the cucumbers, then walked over to the watermelon and had something to eat....so those got pulled up ....and then I feared that they would love up on my tomatoes...nope. Thank you very much. But my tomatoes are burnt up from the sun and the tomatoes are small even with miracle grow...so i am officially writing them off. BUT, my jalapenos are rockin'!!!!! Yesterday I picked some that had officially turned red....they should be HOT HOT HOT!!! I am giving them to my girls at work...I have 2 mexican girls who work for me and I gave them jalapenos the last time. Plus I get to sample my own product inside my favorite food....I will try to get some pics today with my phone.

What else hmmm....been eating off the taco truck....the one parked down by sam's and wal-mart. The truck is one of my employees family...and boy they are some good tacos, quesadillas and burritos...yum yum yum. No mas taco bell para mi!!! (no more taco bell for me)

Otherwise I have totally got nothing. Just work and sleep, walk the dog, eat sleep and walk the dog...or he walks me...but not far cuz phatboy doesn't want to be out in the heat too long...Now is he an air conditioned dog or what.

Well i better get back to work...tah tah

A dog can say it all...

2010-08-02T19:23:00.003-05:00

"Look into my eyes...you are getting very sleepy...you will pet me all day long...you are getting very sleepy..."

"I have worked hard all day long..."

"How far do you think we will get before they notice we are gone"

"How late were you out last night and why didn't you call?"

"I want my color to be pink...hot pink"

"Where is my oatmeal and banana at?"

i think i am in need of an air mattress....

2010-07-30T19:32:00.002-05:00

Here i sit....at work....it's 7:30 pm and I have been here 13 hours already....help!!!????!!!! I am the lucky one at the moment that has to open and close the store for the nexy 6 days. My boss is out of town and the girl who i have closing the store at night is gone out of town...so who does that leave to do the duty? UGHHHH. But i do have it good that i can sit down for a while and get on the net...the perks for being a manager.

Business is getting better. I have had a catering everyday for the past 2 weeks...important high holy roller catering. and some radio, and tv stations....i guess my bsing ability is finally being put to good use. what else...hmmmm i work all the time...have little time for my home life and my garden, my dog and my significant other....life is good huh?

I was going to go to the drag races in september...but now that has changed and we(bev, jeff, R and I)are going to go the nascar race next august in bristol with candace....i can not wait....maybe all this time i am working will be cashed in cuz i am certainly banking all of it.

I have to get new glasses soon...i am debating what kind to get...the peabody kind that make you look smart or the nerdy ones like my mother picked out when i was little...this is such a hard choice.

Well i better go..i have to do some sort of work...then go home sleep 5 hours and do it all over again...later gators

Boy you smell....

2010-07-28T08:47:00.002-05:00

Well here i sit in little rock, waiting to do some work...i feel like i sleep at the store and only visit my house and see the people i care for. UGGGH. So anyway, last wednesday i got a call at 436am and it was R she was like why are you up...oh crap i over slept. I was staying in little rock because i had a delivery very early in the morning. so anyway i get up in a hurry and she then says to me "you wouldn't believe what happened" so i immediately think the worst...she is hurt, the dog is hurt, you know the worst. "gordy got sprayed by a skunk".....oh crap. &%$%#^#^#^ you have got to be kidding me. "no, both him and I thought it was a black cat so he started to chase the cat across the field. His tail was going a mile a minute and the next thing i know he is snorting and spitting ....a skunk sprayed him." So i know now he is just a stinking mess and probably her too..."get some tomato juice on him and give him a bath right away"

I am thinking my house is a walking skunk pad....ugggh all over the house. So here i am at work worrying about my stinky house...worrying about my dog and worrying if R is stinky too.

I call the mother and ask here to go check on the muttly and see just how stinky the house is. Low and behold the house is not that stinky...

R later told me that night that when her and gordon got back into the house she had no problem getting him into the bathtub....well i guess not cuz he knew he was stinky.
So i did a little research and found out that white vinegar will help cut that skunk smell...so he got wiped down with vinegar and now our house smells like white vinegar...its better than skunk!!! Then when i got home gordon gave me that look that said"help me i know i am stinky" with his big puppy dog eyes...i feel for him.

So here it is 1 week later and wouldn't you know it rained and stink boy is stinky again...just when he was getting better...it will be awhile a guess. poor puppy.

My work is going good...i have been on the radio and been giving free concert tickets...and my store is getting a little business...but i have a long way to go. I have some very high dollar clients....one company makes all the labels on the store shelves for the bar code scan part. And another has to do with all the electricity in the south....can you please pass the chapstick? my lips are a little chapped here. HA HA. but it is going good.

I will be getting new glasses soon...my script is long over due and when i put them onthe other day the lense fell out...help i am a one eye bandit!

hmmmm what else...nothing much. just work and more work. I have to work the next 6 days open to close at the store...all my key employees are gone for something or the other...fun for me huh?
well back to work..tah tah

watermelons...

2010-07-11T11:16:00.004-05:00

Here are some juicy home grown tomatoes.

How you can tell you are in Arkansas....

2010-06-25T08:14:00.002-05:00

I was driving home last night just listening to the radio...it was storming in little rock and the surrounding areas. So the lady on the radio comes on and says..."there is a severe thunderstorm warning for hillcrest...such and such and beaver forks, and pickles gap" I have to laugh out loud and say...only in arkansas is there a beaver forks and pickles gap. So as i am stuck in traffic that is only going 50 mph...i am thinking what in the heck were people thinking when they come up with these names so long ago? C'mon...pickles gap? Maybe i could understand beaver forks....Somewhere along the line someone's intelligience went off the beaten path quite a long ways.

So i thought i would look up some other arkansas weird city names....here it goes.

Bald Knob....Use your imagination
Biggers....hmmmmmmm.
Experiment.....That went wrong?
Gassville.....got any bean-o?
Greasy Corner....
Hooker....no explanation needed here.
Okay...Really?
Possum Grape....this sounds like a arkansas based soda
Smackover.....someone got a smackover or two.
Toadsuck...my toads sucks does yours too?
Turkey Scratch...what else does the turkey scratch?
Weiner....not the oscar mayer kind!
Yellville....no one in quiet in this place.

And this is probably just the surface of what is really out there....they seem to have a strange way of naming things in the south....and i am not a converted redneck yet either....

hope you have a good day!!!!

2010-06-18T14:37:00.002-05:00

This is my tomato tree...not plant. Tree.

only 25 tomatoes so far...i know more to come.

Durty mouth...clean it with orbitz!!!

oh what fun...

2010-06-06T19:46:00.004-05:00

Things have been a little crazy around here...enough to drive the cats up the tree!

This is spots...she is another cat that like to hang out on the front porch and hiss at us all the time like she owns the joint. who knows what and why she is up in the tree for.

Now for the longest time we thought the cats took a long walk about....they were no where to been seen. Well it seems that our landlord caught them and fixed them all so we have no more sudden population explosion...(thank you). And now we realize we have a max jr....the grey cat has duplicated....and is just as tempermental too.

As you can see the big(and I mean big) boy is trying to act like a dog. "Let me see if my bark still works"

Now when he does go outside he barks for about 5 minutes to let everyone in the neighborhood know that Gordon has come outside and is ready to watch cars go by.

this is my garden.

As you can tell i have 1 red cherry tomato. and hopefully a few more by the end of the week.

this pic is after i watered the garden this afternoon.

doesn't my cucumber look cute.

I think we have maybe 6 or 8 of them...i am putting miracle grow on them tomorrow. That will help my tomatoes and jalapenos out.

My one tomato plant looks like a tree. and i didn't hardly put any miracle grow on this one.

These are the plants i got at home depot and the tall one is the single plant pot...maybe i will have to get some more of those next year.

looks yummy!

well other than the garden...i have been working alot of hours and trying to sleep some. We did the chamber event inlittle rock...the taste of the rock..and that went well. then we did the chamber event in hot springs the flavor in the park. and we ran out of food and had to go make some more. and that was very successful. The mother was table decorator executor and it was very beautiful. She was a great help and i hope she had a lot of fun....thanks alot. it will be fun to do it again next year.

Well this is really about it. i lead such an exciting life. BORING!!!!

i will chat at ya later

taste of the rock

2010-05-25T17:01:00.001-05:00

Guess i am getting old(er)!!!

2010-05-06T20:10:00.002-05:00

Okay, here i sit at home...it is after supper, the garden is watered, the dog is walked and put to bed on the floor. So what am I to do? I sit down to watch the kabillion channels that i pay to watch(and not all at the same time) and what do i end up watching???? An old clint eastwood western...you know all the same ones that i watched umpteen million times with my dad, and at my grandparents when we went to eat....you know the ones that since they were older than you all the grown up watched the old westerns...john wayne, clint eastwood, jimmy stewart...and now i am watching them myself!!!! oh wow i am getting old!!!! and to think also that i have a dvd collection of them started. What have i turned into?!?!?

Oh well, guess i will just plug away and watch some more old westerns and movies!!! later

sorry i have been a little busy!!!!

2010-05-04T07:30:00.005-05:00

"Which way do I go, which way do I go?!?"
As you can see, the big phatboy is standing around watching us try to do work. This was his favorite pass time when the garden and flowers were being planted.

This is the flower section on the side of the house inthe front...the mother had good placement of the vegetation...you go girl!!!

and here i thought that i bought too many flowers!

We are checking out the lazy day...of course i just have to pet and rub him...

All the animals got into the action...max the cat helped out with the planting and of course the fertilizing!!!

Here is the front of the house in front of the porch...thanks to mom for the flower pots...they look great don't they?

well i have been working my butt off lately...employees have been not doing their job etc...and of course getting someone hired to fill the job. it's funny how them unemployment rate is so high but yet i can not get an person to walk in here that wants to work. it's frustrating...this is not hard work but everyone just wants a paycheck these days and no one takes pride intheir work anymore.ughhghghghghghghghhgh!!!!

I did survive the last round of tornados that hit the state...there was some just south of little rock over by the airport but nothing at home or at work...but some much needed rain for the garden and flowers...

other than that i have been a working alot...hopefully more soon and some more pics too

How do you sell ice to an eskimo?

2010-04-04T09:56:00.002-05:00

here is the big boy...after a bath and such..the dumb bunny wanted to go outside and lay in the grass...he never lays in the grass...what has just come over him??? and then while he was laying there he watches the cars go by like a person is watching a tennis match...and just think this is the dog that runs from you when you mention that he is going outside all day in his dog suite...
oh what do we do with him now???

And this is an update...we bought him a dog-loo. and of course it looks like it is not big enough to fit he size 22 body in ....well i come home from work early one day and low and bedhold his big butt is in it!!!! And the neighbor lady brings gordy over a easter bone and tells me that he has been in it several times...what a stinker. And to think he doesn't like to be outside to see what's going on....

On tuesday i am talking to a photographer about taking some pictures of the dog and I...and possibly some others...we will see how much it is going to cost..she is one of my customers in the store in Little Rock.

speaking of work, it is going great. I have fired some, some have quit and some need some fine tuning. but what do you expect when a manager comes in and finally runs the store like it is supposed to be run. Sales have increased, people are saying the food is better...the bread is being baked better. I love it because i had a lady tell me the other day that i could sell ice to an eskimo...she had come in for a sandwhich...which i got her to order that put a flavored iced tea and a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie...then she came back for a piece of brown cow cheese cake. it must be some sort of family trait cuz i have several people tell me that. and rose always tells me that i a full of you know what. Plus it helps my employees with their tips...we are pooling what tips they get. I now found a way to track my sales for the month and now i have more goals. I am trying to set up an employee incentive program..a wal mart card, or baskin robbins ice cream...something inexpensive and a little reward to let them know they are doing a good job. so if you have any ideas please comment and let me know...

what else do i know...abosolutely nothing. we went to the movie last night..why did i get married 2. It was funny and very good and shocking ending...i laughed my butt off. i like tyler perry movies...i love the maeda movies..if you havent watched them you should...you will laught until you cry.

I have built my garden box. it is 16' x 8' 8" tall. i am trying to locate some dirt to put into it and my flowers..but of course there is no black dirt in this state except for what wal mart like to call potting soil...where is my iowa dirt when i need it. Anyway we are going to plant tomatoes, cucmbers, jalepenos, and maybe a watermelon if possible. Then we are going to get a birdbath and treat the birds...and redo the flower beds and have them looking good...and of course some more solar lights so gordy can knock them over! i will get some pictures up in the long run...it will be an adventure that's for sure.

well i am off to do just about nothing before going back to work.

Pictures to make you laugh

2010-03-25T17:28:00.002-05:00

Will the easter bunny come and visit me and leave me an basket full of bones????

Okay....is everyone here...let's have roll call...moe, larry, curly, oh my...there is more than i thought!

Do you know where i can get some ballerina shoes in XXL???

I need a hairdresser...anyone you reccomend????

Hey man...i am the new joe cool....can't you tell???

GETT UR BUTT OFF OF ME!!!!!!!!

2010-03-24T14:33:00.002-05:00

i wonder what is going thru these dog's brains??? is it i will sit on you and let one rip cuz you chased me around the yard? or is it what did i do to deserve this treatment???

this is how gordy would sit on me if i let him...and believe me he trys.

today he is in his dog suite...it is a nice day..75 degrees...sun is shining...he needs to get the house stink blown off of him. and of course he is physically exhausted because he was outside.

well not much else is going on ....just working alot...that's all...more to come later...

Hello there peeps!!!!

2010-03-17T15:49:00.003-05:00

This was the wall cloud that was down the street from me the other night while i was at work...exciting huh??? not really.

well the other day the mother took me to the doctor, so we had to venture to wal mart to get medicine....she was kind enough to wait for me while i was waiting in line to drop off the script. I found out that this was an adventure for the mother......

Do you think she is asking him for the best deals at wal mart or where the panty hose is????

oh no...she caught me asking him for the best hanes her way panty hose deal.......

Now...if i buy this knob....and i stick it somewhere....will it be the right size???? hmmmmm i will have to come back and do some more research at lowe's in the hardware aisle...

this is the mother who has never been down this aisle at lowe's...low and behold she found something to be inquisitive about....and remember...this woman does not like going to lowes.....i just might of changed that...(hopefully)

well that is the update from this department...stay tuned for more blue light specials....

It was a good day!

2010-03-14T09:09:00.003-05:00

Yesterday, I got to spend a wonderful day with my daughter. Jody called me and asked me to go to lunch with her. I had spent the entire week by myself and was starting to feel pretty sad. I also had had a very bad sinus infection, so I was ready for something fun. We ate Chinese, which just having started a diet, I immediately asked for a carry out and scraped 3/4 of the food into it, to eat at a later time. We talked and laughed and had such a good time. Then she asked me if I wanted to go to Lowes with her. Now, it is a fairly known fact that I don't do Lowes. But I thought, what the heck. We went to look for tent stakes for the dog suite. It blew over the other day in a wind gust. Thankfully, the dog was not in it. Anyway, we bought chain and a handle for the front screen door. NO stakes. We laughed that Nick would think it was funny if he knew I was at Lowes and had gone willingly. I even called him. He was in shock. I think the child took my picture. I was looking a new knobs for my kitchen cupboards, or cabinets, as they call them here in the south.
Then she asked me if I wanted to go to Walmart. Who the heck likes to go to Walmart on the weekend. Once again, I thought why not? We separated at the door and went our own ways. I thought maybe she was waiting on me, so I called her on the cell phone. Just about then, I looked up and she was coming my way. She hadn't seen me, but she was trying to find her cell phone. When she saw it was me, she looked up and I was about 20 feet from her. We both laughed. We checked out, another agony and then as we were walking to the car, her phone rang and as we walking we had no idea where the car was. I spotted it a row over and grabbed her by the arm and steered her over. She finished her call and said, do you want to go to the Dollar Tree? Sure! I am always up to going to look at the cheap crap. Sometimes, I really find cute stuff there...not today.
She took me home and I spent a boring evening thinking about how fun my grown daughter is. What a good friend she is. It was the kind of feeling I have when I spend time with my own mother. I didn't know that one day, it would be like that with us. We laughed and had such a good time.
She works hard and I am proud of her. She laughs that she will pick out a good nursing home for me. I hope so.
Thanks for the great day, Jody.

Love MOM

where have you been?????

2010-02-27T12:47:00.002-06:00

A lot of you are wondering where have i been....why have i not posted anything on my blog lately???? well....i have been extemely busy working both jobs and running around with my head cut off it seems like. that sounds like fun now doesn't it?!?! well here is the good news... i am no longer going to work 2 jobs, 7 days a week. I am going to start working in little rock at the san francisco bread co. up there. I was not too interested in the job at all and all of a sudden here came an offer that i just could not refuse. Plus I am going to be the manager of the store. I am very excited to start working. So all my friends at the bbq job are bummed out and such so they made me a cake last night and we drank some beers after work to hae a send off party!!! It wa fun and heartbreaking all at the same time, i made some really good friends at that job...but i can always go back and see them!!

I will be trying to take some pictures of the store so you guys can see them. I have had to go and buy gordy a dog kennel, a tarp, a dog house(that is hopefully big enough), a carpet, and a blanket. pretty soon he will have a couch, tv, and a full size bed out there to have all the comforts of home...and if that's the case i am moving out to the kennel!!! this is so the little boy does not have to be inside all day long and go to the bathroom in the house!!! to be cont.

Is this the winter olympics????

2010-02-03T21:51:00.002-06:00

Well for a moment in time i woke up and thought we were back home in Iowa...yes it iced up the power lines and it snowed a little bit...and of course the whole state shut down like 3 days before it all happened. The way people drive down here is abosolutely insane. But i did get 2 days off of work and a little rest for my body. now it is back to the grind and i am working my rear end off.

Now the pooch has been having a ball!!! This is gordon and I on the floor thinking he wants to lay on my head...literally. I don't know if he thought i was his new pillow or what he thought...or if he just did that cuz I was laying on his blanket and he wanted me off of it!

And now we are back to our regularly scheduled programming.....mmm mmm mmm i love this bone. I am sure glad that i have one to chew everyday. I have finally cut up his big huge bone into 3 pieces and he has chewed one up already and has thrown the knuckle end all around the house and we actually run thru the house chasing each other cuz one of use has the bone and is trying to keep it away from the other...i know it's pathetic that i am running around with the dog...but hey what else is there to do?

Well there is my totally boring life right now. I am so tired and sleepy right now... i just want to lay down and not go to work for a whole week. but who will walk gordy???? let alone feed him...cuz i am not waking up when he nudges me!!!! okay peeps later tah tah!!!

How many times can a person get stuck with a needle????

2010-01-25T20:59:00.002-06:00

well i have been a little off base...awol...out to lunch!!!! I have been working alot(like normal) and of course taking care of the big baby gordy.

I went to the doctor today to get my chrolesterol check along with a diabetes test. Here i got my blood drawn not once or twice but 4 different times....plus some sort of goober drink that i had to chug and choke down. and of course each time she drew blood...she had to move the needle a little more and poke some more. and of course i sat there for 3 hours and heard every sick story there was and how ruth and larry got married and such....it was so eventful let me tell ya! but anyway i am okay...i have low chrolesterol and no to diabetes....hopefully that sticks until next year!!!!

My neighbor is putting in a fence and little does he know that it is going to take away all the sun for his garden...ha ha more for me!!!! and now i am going to put one on my side of the fence and watch it grow....hopefully i will get some pics to show you....

it is supposed to snow and freeze rain here by friday...the whole town will shut down on wednesday cuz they all panic down here!!!! welcome to the south.

well i am off to bed...i am lame when i want to go to bed at 9 pm!!!

Lazy days, blankets and snow days???

2010-01-17T08:57:00.002-06:00

Ever since we went on our trip this is all gordy has been doing...catching up on the sleep time he missed on the couch, and the bed, and the floor...

Now he has his own embroided blanket with his name on it and he makes the most of it. He laid on the one blanket that was an xmas gift on it that the lady embroided one for him. What a big baby.

and now that it is not 10 degrees outside gordy want to go outside and play with all 75 cats outside.

I am so glad that it doesn't snow down here like this.....i woke up to this one morning on my trip up north. Boy iam glad that it doesn't do that here.

well peeps...i am off to work. again. later

BRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-01-07T21:34:00.002-06:00

Well well well....it is cold. Not as brutally cold as it is up home...but cold for here. And of course everyone is panicing....and more so when they said rain sleet and snow... but it was fun to watch everyone make sillys out of themselves.

Gordon on the other hand is liking this weather...he played in the snow and scooped it up with his nose. And with a little cool air all of the sudden this puppy comes alive and wham...i want to play outside and run around...but big boy stubbed his toe or leg or something and now is gimpy gilroy and is limping all over...limp one minute, i am fine the next...what a pooch!

I am also figuring out how well my house is not insulated....they don't believe in the that concept here in the south. Just add that to the list that i am compiling...it is getting longer by the minute!!!

Well i am getting ready for bed...i have some pictures of gordy i will try to get posted soon!!! later

The Trip....

2010-01-01T16:45:00.002-06:00

Okay, here we are ready set go....drop the dog off at the vet for boarding. Had to go downstairs with him...such a baby, and quickly run upstairs so he didn't see me. Now the dog is settled on the road we go.

Just outside of Benton...35 miles away this is what we see. All the cars have stopped ...is there an accident? what is happening. We found out the road was flooded over. After 2 hours of sitting there i finally made it thru...we had to go thru water that was almost over our car tires to get thru...otherwise we would of been sitting there until 3pm..now this all happened at 830am...

Once we were finally on the road this is basically what was going on...ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

We got to the hotel around 9 that night. It rained the whole entire way and both of my windshield wipers bit the dust.

We spent xmas day with Bev and played the Wii all day. It was a blast.

Had the kids come in for a swim and ate some pizza for like the 20th day in a row. YUM YUM!

Doesn't samantha look so excited???!!?!?!?

I forgot how wonderful it is to drive in the Iowa winter...At least there is a path...in arkansas this road would of be so curvy you couldn't get down it on a good day.

Don't worry gordy...i only have eyes for you...and i didn't trade you in..not in a million years.

We had a good trip...saw the little munchkins and have some really good pictures of them...

Saw family that i haven't seen since moving down here...miss you all.

Hoping soon that Bev & family will come see me soon...

So we get home...now the dreaded unpacking begins. It took 2 days to unpack cuz you have to figure out where everything is going to go...you want to rearrange things and then you are so tired from traveling that you just want to rest....HELP!!!!!!!!! But we got that done and got gordy out of doggy jail...he got a bath and a new bone right away and was stuck to me like super glue, and he still is.

We had to do the dreaded grocery shopping and man did it suck...i forgot how much out of eveything we were...ugh. but the good thing is i am settled now until new week when something else will happen....oh wait it already did!!! R's car won't start this morning...ran fine yesterday....great....i have narrowed it down to the fuel pump. how much of an ouchy is that going to be??? it's the labor that will kill ya alone!!!

so he i am ready and willing to go back to work. Did i say willing...maybe i am ill after all. ha! but it is back to the grindstone tomorrow. Back to working 7 days a week and 50,000 hours a day.... isn't life grand...

happy new year everyone

Grandma saves the day!!

2009-12-26T16:38:00.002-06:00

I bought Gordon a huge rawhide bone this morning and took it to him at dog camp. The front desk girl said he was doing fine and was quite fascinated by all the barking dogs around him. He may find out that he is a dog after all.
I was hoping to take the bone to him myself, but no such luck. I wonder if I would have to go thru the dog biscuit detector? Maybe I could slip him a snack...or file for a break out.
Called Jody and she was happy to hear about him and told R all about it. They are like two old ladies fussing after a baby.
Can't figure out how to post a picture on here, so that's all for now.

MOM

Does anyone have a boat to float?

2009-12-24T22:31:00.002-06:00

well here i finally sit in iowa...after 12 hours of driving(or should i say floating) down the highway. We did drop off the pooch today at the vet...hey gave me those don't leave me eyes and i scooted on out. We are making good time to little rock and then bam...we get stuck in traffic and sit there for an hour...i somehow find the back roads and 2 hours later and a stream of water almost over my car tires later we were on our way on the other side of little rock. 6 or 8 inches of rain over night can put a damper on things now can't it?

So here we are going down I40 towards memphis and one after another there are car in the median...some of them just sitting there with this dumb bunny look on their faces like did anyone see me do that??? What is it with people in arkansas...obviously they do not know how to drive at all...the more i travel northward bound the more faster i drove. and no one was in the ditch. and the roads are so much better up here...they are marked better and flat with no pot holes.....gosh i have missed iowa!!!

So i am going to get some pictures up soon....i have some good ones from the car. later tah tah

i am going to doggy camp!!!

2009-12-23T22:21:00.002-06:00

This is jody's new blanket she got as an xmas present...i really like it...it is so soft....i even have a pillow to lay on .

here i am with my christmas bone...i am so tired...i can almost put the whole thing in my mouth.

Don't even think of asking me to move....i am so comfy.

Can't you tell????

well i am off to doggy camp while jody goes up home...tah tah!!!

have you dressed you dog up today???

2009-12-09T22:07:00.002-06:00

Do you think gordy would look good in green????with some ears on???

What abouth this??

i am going to buy him a pair...just you wait.

Can you blog for me?

2009-12-06T17:19:00.004-06:00

Ring Ring...I get the call "Can you blog for me? I just got off work and have to go to the Christmas party" Oh, but of course I can.
Here goes...

Jody has a new nephew this past week. He was born 26 days early and had to go by helicopter to another bigger hospital and stay until his breathing and lungs are ok. He is a handsome boy and I am not saying that just because I am the grandma.
We have been getting pictures and it helps to know that is going on. There is a picture of the proud daddy with a mask on...doesn't he know that Halloween is over? Or he is trying to hide a big zit on his face? Sorry about that.
The mom is a super hero! She was discharged about 6 hours after she had him to go to the other hospital. I have never seen her cape, but she must have one, because she is awesome! She is the best mother for my grandchildren. Thanks to both mom and dad for being such great parents!!

Jody is counting the days until she can go north and see this little man herself. Gordon is going to foster care while she is gone. I don't know who to feel more sorry for...the foster parents or Jody. Gordon will probably take over their house.

Jody received a package from G and G in Florida this week. Shorts!!! Who wears shorts in the winter? Jody does! She really has chicken legs....
She called me the other day to tell me that a pair of jeans that I shortened for her were now knickers on her. Oops! I must have thought she was shorter than she is. I told her to bring them back in the summer and I will make walking shorts out of them. I think I flunked home ec in school...or was just having a senior moment when I shortened them. Oh well.

The grandpa and I went out to celebrate the new baby and we went to Jody's night job to eat and we ordered a bucket of beer. Her co-workers just about went hysterical. Do we look like we are fuddy duddies? Grandpa drank most of them, as I was driving for the night. Little do they know how much we can drink..I would like to have that Miller Lite bucket they served us the beer in.

I can't figure out how to put a picture on this blog, so I guess this is it. Thanks for all the prayers and kind thoughts from everyone on the baby.

proud mother and grandmother

nothing...i have nothing.

2009-11-21T10:19:00.002-06:00

i have really nothing to let you in on. I have been working alot lately. work in the morning...nap and work at night. I am even working on my day off. I can't say that it isn't helping in the finance dept. cuz it is....maybe i will be able to retire some year...ya right.

I am counting down the days until my trip up home. I can't wait to just not work for more than 1 day in a row. I am hoping to have lots of pictures and stories to tell.

i am boring aren't i? i know i am. even the dog knows it now. uggh.
well hope i will have something soon!!!!

Finally the sun has come out!!!

2009-11-02T12:08:00.004-06:00

As you can see...they dressed me up to go outside in the rain because i am such a sissy dog and DO NOT WANT TO GET WET....it will mess up my hair. And of course i will tippy toe like fred flintstone across the yard to hurry back inside....

Maybe the sun will come out and maybe the sun will not....let me check out this window to see.

HA HA HA!!!! The cat is outside in the rain and i am not! I have a nice warm couch and you get the chair....don't worry i will play with you later and warm you up when i chase you off my porch!!

Well finally my day is over with, i got dressed up, looked outside, played with the cat...snuggled with my bear and now i am out for the count!!!! See ya!!!

2009-10-29T11:29:00.002-05:00

Can't you just picture gordon in this raincoat looking this pathetic??? It comes in pink or blue and even camo pink and green...which one will i choose? My big baby will not go out in the rain to do his duty and will hold anything just so he doesn't have to go outside.

I am seriously considering buying one of these for him so he will go outside when it is raining...and that seems to be all the time around here..and there is no sign of stopping.

Then the big baby was outside last night and evidently twisted wrong and hurt his hip/leg...he can walk on it but can not get up too swift and can not get on the bed...but he can get on the couch....so last night i put some ice on it and rubbed it for him...now is asleep on the couch snoring so loud...speaking of snoring...i fell asleep with him on the floor last night and i was told he moved away from me cuz i was snoring too loud!!!!now isn't that funny. well i am off to take a nap....or try to. later tater!!!

Just a lazy day on the porch

2009-10-26T18:31:00.002-05:00

This is our neighborhood cat that we call max. He likes to come up on the porch and chill out...and of course gordy loves to mess with the cat...

This is just gordy chillin out before the real fun begins....

Here i have got you cornered on the porch...i know that you want to play c'mon...

and later max got him with a quick swat on the noise with his paw...and of course gordy went back for more...bonehead.

Well we finally seem to be on the road to recovery in the electrical department...all the outlets are changed now and no surges have happened. Now all that is left is the fixing of the insulation and that might happen by next year. It is only 2 months until we go on our trip. so now starts the lets make sure the car is up to par....well the brakes are getting checked...and now i am feeling a different shift in the transmission...i am hoping it is only a solenoid...so i am living like a poor girl to save up the extra money to get the car checked/fixed.....hate to have that happen on the road. And the trip can not come soon enough....we are planning to go up home to iowa...see some family and friends and then take our time coming home...r has never been to the arch in st. louis...so we might stop there and of course graceland in memphis...only have one vacation a year right.

I am going to start baking at least 4 or 5 days a week...gotta save up for the repairs...plus the backup baker is quitting..so i will be extremely busy...and hopefully saving up most of it...

well this is all i really know...alot huh????

Houston...we finally have power.

2009-10-19T20:36:00.002-05:00

well here i am...it seems like an eternity and finally i have electricity and internet back on. we have been having some problems with our electric and finally it took a crap. well come to find out it was in the breaker box and some plug-ins are bad...in the mean time a surge of power from the kitchen light took out the bedroom tv, dvd player, sound system, the internet modem, the alarm clock and the jeff gordon neon clock. i know you are all bummed out about the gordon clock....but anyway...it was stuff that was going to be replaced anyway...now just a little sooner.

So i now sit in a living room that all the sudden is brighter than it was last week and i can actually see myself...ha ha so where else do i start...it basically sucked cuz the power zapped those things...and i don't think the landlord will compensate us for any of it...

well this is all my excitement for the week...later gators

I have fallen down and I can't get internet

2009-10-19T18:31:00.002-05:00

The child has no internet, so I am guest blogging. She works a lot, laughs a lot and talks a lot....sorry! She loves that darn dog like her child and is always worrying about him.

She is coming over so I can hem a pair of pants for her. She told me that she took care of the pants without the button, and I so wanted to sew a button on for her. She gave me some tips about copying some pictures at Sam's Club, cheaper than Walmart!

She is getting a vacation this year and will finally get to meet her cute little niece. Hopefully, her new nephew will arrive while she is in the North land.

This is all I got. Watch for the real thing when she gets the internet back.
I don't know why she doesn't have internet....I forgot to ask.

MOM

Does anyone have an electrician???

2009-10-12T21:27:00.003-05:00

This is like when gordy gets into the garbage or something he is not suppose to...."did i do that?"

Well i have been chasing an electrical issue in the house still and still it is not fixed!!! today it got worse and come to find out the silly guy on a ford tractor was mowing grass in the rain(who mows grass in the rain) and mowed over a guide line full of electricity...now I am not one to judge too much here but aren't those the lines that come down at an angle from the electrical pole???and if so how in the world do you not see the line so you don't hit it???? But i forgot...this is arkansas. But anyway, we bought a new microwave cuz we think that the old one was fried...with a little help from the electric...it just finished it off. and this was great cuz we ordered it online at sam's last night late, and it was here by 2pm today...that's lightnening fast now isn't it?? so we will wait and see what happens with the electric...i hope they get it fixed soon. I am busy doing the winterizing the house thing....insulated the water heater...now i am getting ready to insulate the pipes...and pops is coming over so we can get the back door sealed off correctly. and it's crazy cuz it's not chilly enough to keep the furnace on but then it get too hot when you keep it on.

Work is going okay...things are slow around town and the weather doesn't help matters any. I have found a guy to paint a picture of dad and some other things that remind me of him so i am hoping that it turns out good...might take a while but it will be work the wait. Other than that my life if pretty boring....work home sleep and work again. gotta love it!!!

Winter has arrived....maybe

2009-10-10T11:35:00.002-05:00

It's Saturday...and i am running my furnace and just 2 days ago i was running my ac....is this really arkansas. And then i am thinking i am going to have to rent a boat to get around from all the rain we have been getting. I am thinking that I am not in kansas anymore toto.

Well lets see...my silly gas cap was bad and i had to replace it...cuz it keeps making my check engine light come on...and so i thought i fixed it and it still comes on every once in a while. luckily a parts store will clear the light if i need it. then our lights keep flickering and clicking off the electricity in the house. it has happened more and more ever since they fixed the light fixtures in the kitchen and bathrooms....this is not good.....so hopefully they will fix that soon. And then this morning i couldnt get the silly furnace to work and then it got a mind of its own and started working......isn't life grand.

well gordon has jelly rolls....major jelly rolls. And come to find out that he was eating like double the amount of food he was suppose to eat...so he is on a diet...and of course he doesn't like it. And of course walking him extra long is out of the question cuz he gets tired...and then yesterday when i did take him outside it was pouring down rain and of course he did not go far in the yard....then he did his best fred flinstone and tippy toed his way back to the porch....it was funny...a big baby dog who doesn't want to get wet and be out in the rain. and of course he had to stand in the living room to be wiped off. and if you don't do it in time he looks at you and gives you those eyes like hurry up and wipe me off..

well i am going to go...have to work today...later gators

Please grandma...no more!!!

2009-10-05T06:58:00.002-05:00

Help!!! Grandma came over and stuck me in this hat and with this bear. What can I do to get out of this mess...I know I will just lay here and pout some more...that will get her to leave me alone.

Well it did not work she is still here trying to get me to hug my bear some more. hmmmm. I will fix that....i chewed the eyes off the bear so he could not look at me anymore when i chew on him!!! Ya..i fixed that.

Well i think fall is officially here....it is raining and 5o some degrees...love it. and of course gordy loves it too....he wants to play outside all the time. its definitley better than being hot outside. Nothing else is really going on ...just work and more work. until later!!!

can you sew on my button please???

2009-09-29T21:34:00.002-05:00

well here i am tonight working away slinging some bbq...and low and behold i think my button is coming off my pants!!! so i go to the bathroom and check it out and yep...it is barely hanging on by a thread...literally. so what do i do...i call the trusty mother to come help me out....and she brought me a safety pin...cuz we all know that i do not have one in my house...nope....

what else is going on...not a darn thing. work. work work. my back is feeling better....gordy thinks he should be outside all the times because it is not hot out there. today he wanted to go out 50 thousand times...and then when were trying to sleep some nimrod was running what i thought was a chainsaw and it was a weed wacker...i really wanted to tell him where to put that wacker...i really did.

the mother is suppose to be trying to guest blog...we'll see how that goes. otherwise that is it. later.

AWOL!!!!!

2009-09-21T15:11:00.003-05:00

okay, i have been awol....out wondering around lost like a little puppy. Kinda. I have been working and then i was laying flat on my back with a hurt back. Insert image into your head of my back bent over backwards the opposite direction.

this is me in 5 years. help!!!!!

anyway i am doped up on pain meds and such...so i am walking around with this glass look in my eye!!

and to top it off i have had warts removed from the bottom of my foot..when it rains it pours!!!

I have also an adventure with my car aready!! a $.05 piece of plastic clamp broke on my car the holds the gas line up to the fuel filter busted....wouldn't you know it costs more to tow the car to the mechanic than to fix the silly thing!!! and of course you can not buy just the clamp to fix the part...you have to buy the whole new fuel line assembly....no wonder gm went broke...

Gordon went to the salon today to get his shampoo and clip. He loves it...the lady says that he lays on her when she is scrubbing him up. I am on facebook now peeps so look me up!!!!

I am really boring now aren't I? all i do is work and sleep and spend my hard earn money at wal mart. BORING.

well i must go i am dying my hair and cooking chicken for gordy later

Lounging around

2009-09-10T21:12:00.002-05:00

what have we been doing lately??? just this....lounging around.

I have been trying to get gordy's pic but he knows when the camera comes out and he is figuring out the phone cam too. So anyways he turns the other way and i can not get a good picture.

Today all gordy did was bark at the door and the wind outside...then when we went outside he would just bark at the trees...what a bone head.

I have been working lately alot. And I am busy trying to plan my vacation. I am excited to go because i will see some great peeps and such. I will let it out more towards the time!!!

Hopefully we are going to get our house re-wired. The lights have been flickering and such ever since they fixed the light fixtures and now they have figured out that there is too much load on one circuit...duhh!!! so that is supposed to happen soon. and of course that will probably take forever and a day!!

well football is on and i must watch later

I know i smell something here.

2009-09-06T19:23:00.002-05:00

Here we are...sniffing at the neighbor's house because he spotted a raccoon eating the birdseed on the ground. I was dragged at lightning speed down the embankment and thought i was tumbling into the lake just to chase the coon and smell where he had been!!! I have a feeling that gordy is feeling better.

I have come to the conculsion that he is just an old man. and he lives a really cushy life. No work, just eat sleep and go outside...what a life.

well this week i have been extremely wore out. I have worked 60 some hours, and felt like i have had 2 hours of sleep. i have bags underneath my eyes that could hold your groceries in. So tomorrow i have a million errands to run and no time to rest....oh well. I am planning a vacation and i will let you guys know where i am going soon. well i am going to go....will post more tomorrow.

Here i am to save the day!!!!

2009-08-31T12:19:00.004-05:00

Well here i am finally. I have ran my errands, spent my hard earned money on absolutely nothing at wal mart.

This past week has been crazy...i have been working very early hours and late nights...plus trying to take care of gordy who still has a touch of something. So i went and got more medicine, and a different kind of dog food that costs more than my monthly car insurance bill. but if it makes him feel better than thats that. Who knows what is going on with his gut...he is an old man now.

What else...hmmmm i was going to go get my motorcycle license today cuz i was told that i did not have to take a driving test...WRONG!!!! I was wanting to get it incase i want to buy a scooter...and some of them take motorcycle license. so i guess eventually i will get one...

well this is really about it...boring huh? just work work work for me....

sorry...i have been lost for a while!!!

2009-08-30T22:06:00.003-05:00

I haven't forgotten about posting...i haven't forgotten about telling ya things. I have been working early early mornings and late nights...then gordy is still a little sick...so tomorrow i will be writing some more...oh ps....i am on face book now look me up!

We are definetly feeling better these days...

2009-08-20T09:48:00.002-05:00

As you can see gordy is feeling so much better that he got dressed up and went in cognito....that way no one would know he secrectly likes the color pink and feathers!!!

Actually the big puppy is feeling better and hopefully back on the track to being normal. So this is a big plus and i can get some refreshing rest now.

what else is new...nothing..boring boring. I am just working and working more and more. We went and looked thru the new sam's club here in hot springs and i love it. I found a few bargins and a few things i thought were okay...but it's all good!

Well i am off to take a nap so i can work tonight...later gators

well...here we go.

2009-08-17T21:23:00.002-05:00

This tape is pretty much self explanatory...except which cowtown exactly are the big ball in????

Now on a somewhat lighter note....the puppy has been extremely sick lately...sick as in i can't stop going to the bathroom sick...and it is every 20 minutes. So i finally took him to the vet and a million dollars later he has an infection and some bacteria in his colon....so he has stop up medicine and antibiotics to help him back to normal...whatever that is.

So here we are with a pic of what gordy would be doing if he went on vacation...oh wait he is already on permanent vacation!!!

This was given to us by some guy in the drive thru at the bbq store.... makes me want to enter the hog callin contest at the state fair!!!!

Gordy waiting at the vet...

Can you just fix my butt and get it over with...i am so missing out on my nap.

New Wheels

2009-08-10T17:03:00.002-05:00

Well, here is my new car...chevy impala....2005. It was looking to get expensive to fix the buick, so R made a suggestion to possible trade off...and this is what i found. It is nice and clean....still has the new car smell in it....only 37,000 miles on it. Today we went to little rock on a trip to see how it rides on the interstate and i have to say that it rides really smooth.

I have been a little awol lately...i have been working alot again, and then i finally mowed the yard because it was like 10 feet high, plus playing catch up on house duties. The only real excitement this week in the car and the turtle i almost ran over in the road. I picked him up and put him in our yard and he must of crawled away...and gordy loved the turtle...he smelled it all over...and the turtle's head was stuck way back inside his shell. maybe someday i will have a video of it..if i can figure it out!

well this is all i know today...later gators

It's the tidy bowl man!!!!!!

2009-08-03T22:18:00.002-05:00

Just what exactly is she looking at???

"the same thing I am looking at"

more to come.....

Pirates Cove

2009-08-01T10:53:00.002-05:00

Well it has been a rainy, crappy, week here in the land of the razorback. It has rained pretty much everyday....at least it cooled everything off. We went miniture golfing last week. We went to pirates cove and only golfed the captain's course...we are going back to do the challangers course.

We had some good luck mascots wish us well on our golfing experience....then they swam away from us.

This is the view from one of the golfing holes....just before it started to rain. and of course i totally bite at golfing...i was way bad on the score...way bad.

more later peeps!!!

fighting the gordy blues....and the nightly visits outside

2009-07-25T22:46:00.002-05:00

well here we are downtown in the fountain taking a drink of water...we went downtown for the spa city rib cookoff..which smokin in style won 1st in the resturarant and 2nd in the pro division...anyway gordy was thirsty...and a hit with all the people that walked by him...of course he took up half of the side walk when he laid down!!

Other wise i have been working alot and taking the big boy outside with the bad case of the "I gotta go right now" he ate some grass of the neighbors that likes to spray something on their grass...well now all the grass is dead and he has an upset stomach....for 4 days now....and the pepto tablets are helping a little...who knows what they sprayed on it...he got sick the last time he ate their grass.....now if he was smart he would eat the grass we don't mow in the front yard...but noooo.

other wise this is all i know...it's a whole lot. see you later.

couldn't get off the couch....helppppp!!!!!

2009-07-16T22:18:00.003-05:00

This was me for all of tuesday and wednesday morning until 930 am. This is how I felt...this is NOT how I looked. I did had a pillow over my eyes and head to block out anything that would come my way...like a cold nose and tongue to wake me up at 3 am. Thanks gordy.

My mouth hurts, I can not eat my favorite cheeseburger and the soup selection at wal mart bites. Isn't life grand. Gordon has actually been a great watch dog. He slept by me the whole time on the floor when i was couching it. We even had something in common cuz i know what it feels like when he drools....no fun!

Well it finally rained here tonight...maybe my tomato plants with flurish now...i hope i have 13 tomatoes on them. Well...i am so exciting today....i hope you like the pic...gordon was this big once...and then looked what happened!

Open up and say ahhhhhhhh

2009-07-14T15:09:00.002-05:00

HELPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!

okay...here is how i am on monday morning...just dropped the car off at the detail shop...now i am patiently waiting to get my wisdom teeth pulled. okay...they are running a little late....about anhour later i finally get into the dentist chair. I had all the time in the world to run out the door and say "you'll never pull my teeth!" but how would i get away when my car is not here?

So they shoot me up with the numming stuff and then ask me if i want the gas...heck ya...zoom me up and make it as painless as possible. so i am feeling pretty good...the detail shop calls and i think my car is done. so my teeth are out...my mouth and lips are numb and can not talk to clearly....guess what...my car is clean but it will not start. what they heck did they do to it???

So i get over there and start looking at it. I am trying to talk to them and of course they all look at me like i have got a bag of marbles in my mouth..."mmmmmdidmmmyoummmfffmmfmfgetmffmfmanythingmemgmgmfmfwet??" Then they realise that i have had some dental work done...don't you hate that when you can't talk or let alone have someone look at you like what the hell did you just say?

So nothing is happening with the car...all the fuses check out good...everything. So R calls the trusty mechanic Alex...and he comes over and looks at it and jump starts it at the starter and i take it over to his shop. By 4:30 monday he has traced every wire and checked everything out...no luck. He will look at it tomorrow.

So here it is tuesday...i have went to the place i bought the car to see if they had another set of keys...I got it and thought we should try the new key...the key has an electronic chip in it and maybe the old one got zapped...No such luck. So Alex couldn't fix it and he was extremely puzzled by it...so i took it to the dealership....(my mind starts thinking I am going in debt by the thousands and thousands)....they did call me around noon today and told me that i had an aftermarket car alarm on the car and that was causing the problem....now did i know that when i bought the car???NO WAY JOSE` so approximately $200 bucks later i now have a working car again!!!!

Meanwhile i lay here on the couch...with a drool rag,a raging headache and mouthache...can't eat the big cheeseburger that i am craving so bad...I do not recommend that anyone drop their car off for detail and then go get your wisdom teeth pulled....something just might happen and you can't stop it.

And i want to give a shout out to pops...thanks for taking me around town today...appreciated...i guess i am good for having some extra activity in you parents everyday life!!!

Boring week

2009-07-11T09:11:00.003-05:00

well as one can see not much has really been going on cuz i have not updated the blog. My aunt and uncle came down and visited with them for a quick arkansas minute... It has been hot and hot. 100 here yesterday. and that bites when you have to walk the dog. Speaking of the dog....has is officially on a diet. He has man boobies....and they are ugly. So he is officially on a no snack eat properly diet...and becuz of it being hot the walking has curbed off...so now i am rearranging his walking times...so pudge patrol is officially commencing.

Other than that nothing exciting...oh yeah...across the bay from me there was a murder the other night....it was a bad deal...right on the lake. what else...hmmmmmmm I am getting my wisdom teeth pulled on monday...so i will probably be a little out of it for a couple of days...3 teeth pulled...maybe they will put me out. And I am getting my car detailed on monday too...$10 is all it is going to cost. It pays to work at the bbq joint...you know....they know people who know people....so i am getting it done. Maybe they know someone who can fix the rip in the back seat from gordy...maybe.

I am watching this movie called miracle at st. anna. It is really long but really good movie...it makes you cry in the end...but very good.

well thats all i know...not much right...see you later!!!!

Happy 5th of july

2009-07-05T16:15:00.002-05:00

well just a note to let you know....happy 5th of july. Plan on going over to the mothers in a little while to hopefully watch some fireworks and visit with the relatives.

I will get some pictures and what not for ya'll later...And I am thinking bout ya Craig-o...sorry bout cooper.

Wild Kingdom

2009-06-29T20:08:00.002-05:00

Does anyone remember the tv show wild kingdom...well we went to the zoo and had some entertainment! These particular monkeys were terribly loud!!

I think this guy was expecting a bath...

And he lost the game of hide and seek.

And this bad boy gorrilla was in time out for throwing bananas at the other gorillas!

As you can see we went to the little rock zoo on sunday and ate at the mother house that night...

Not much excitment!!!

Where is my monkey???

2009-06-25T21:39:00.002-05:00

I wonder who made this mess? I wonder who is going to clean it up? Certainly not the one who made the mess.

What do we have here???...an arm...off of the monkey...hmmmm how did that happen?

Ah Ha...here is the culprit...I caught him in action. Notice the fuzz on the floor behind him! And do you think he will let me throw away this monkey...no it must be his favorite.

Just a quick post for you guys...later!

Some like it HOT!

2009-06-22T20:49:00.002-05:00

Well, it is hot here....100 plus degrees today...at least. And to top that all off....the air in the car is getting worse...so that is getting fixed on monday...hopefully. and then i am putting the window down...and that quits working.....the motor is shot...so i finally took that all apart and got the window put back up...now the car place is ordering me another window part...this is only the 3 rd go around with the window. Maybe this time will actually work.

So it is hot here...oh yeah i said that once already. Even gordy knows it's hot. when we go outside he does his business and practically runs back to the air conditioning. what a sissy dog he is....now is a hurt sissy dog. At the salon he got his nails clipped a little too short...so now he is bleeding at the nail....so we are putting some flour and corn starch on it to stop the bleeding and i bought some vet wrap to wrap his foot up with...blue and red....i will try to get some pics of he with it on....it is a site.

well i have to go....bed is calling me out...later.

2009-06-20T10:57:00.002-05:00

Where o where has the conehead been...where o where can she be???? where else but at work and more work!!! It has been extremely hot here and it looks like it is not going to get any better. Every time we take gordy outside he almost runs back to the house so he can get into the air...what a spoiled brat. It is always an adventure with him around.

This great dane in the pic came thru the drive thru at work the other night and she kinda looks like gordy. Anyway i guess she showed up at this guys house and he was trying to find someone to take her.....you know who would kill me if i brought another dog home...I gave her 2 ribs to snack on...she was a pretty dog.

Well this is all i know...not much huh? you probably know more than me...and that's a whole lot!!!!

Duck Hunt anyone??

2009-06-09T11:08:00.002-05:00

This is the big baby pouting on the kitchen rug cuz we were eating some steak and he was not getting any of it. Little do i know just what happens when i am not home and he gets to have a few "no-no snacks". What a guy huh???

I took the big baby out for his daily walk and duty...and we walked down to the lake so he could get some fresh water...we walk the shore line and i am yakking on the phone and i pull him out of the shore line and say lets go...we walk some more and all the sudden wham i am on the ground almost in the lake and big boy is standing there looking at the duck he flushed out of the brush and then looking down at me and i know he is thinking "what are you doing down there...get up let's go...i have a duck to catch" Mean while this duck is quacking his butt off probably saying that you couldn't catch me...come get me now. I am laying on the ground thinking i am almost in the lake...crap...crap...crap. We get up..my leg is all grassy and scraped up...the damn duck is still quacking...and gordon still wants to get it! All of the sudden my hand starts to hurt..i look down and my pinky is covered with ants and they are biting the heck out of my finger and hand....yikes!!!! What now? So we finally get our duty down and get back to the house. What an excursion. And of course the dog wants to go again...I wonder if he jumped in the lake he would know how to swim...i can just see it now...i would have to jump in the lake to save his big butt. okay i have to go catch a nap...

Tomato Pics

2009-06-06T10:47:00.001-05:00

Bath time.

2009-06-05T23:50:00.002-05:00

Today I woke up at 836...oh crap...gordy has to go outside. We get up(notice i said 'we'..he was in the bed with me)and go for a walk. I figure ok since this is a little off his regular schedule programming, we would walk the long way thru happy valley. OK...anyday now big boy....anyday...and i smell this smell...i think okay he is going to due his duty..nope...but i still smell something. I get back into the house and I smell this same smell...i think he farted. great...you will have to wait until i take you again later. Well we fiddle around the house and don't really do anything and all of the sudden "I gotta go" so we walk again. Nada..nothing he just tricked me into going outside again. I get back inside and i still smell it...i scrub his food bowl..his buckets the bowl sits on, i change the garbage bag, pour pine sol in the can, i do the dishes, wipe everything down and still i smell it. Then finally i get a big whiff of it when he turns around...DUH!!!!!!!! It's him that stinks. I sniff his hips area and whew!!! what a smell...So i tell him he has to take a bath...he runs(yes he really did run and try to hide) I finally get him in the tub and i end up taking a bath with him of course...but he did love it..he had to use my shampoo and now he is squeaky clean...but he did give me that face with bubbles all around it and you could tell he was saying"do you have to do that" "can you rub that spot some more" "how much longer" If i was thinking I would of gotten my camera...but then he would of gotten out of the tub....But he does smell better and no smell...thank you!!!

As you can probably tell i am feeling a little better, I still have aheadache and my ears hurt a little but it is looking promising. I did have to change meds cuz the one that costs only an arm and big toe was making me break out and itching all over....so i wasted a bunch of money on nothing...If i would of known that i would just of thrown it out the window instead. So now i am trying to catch up on my chores and stuff...too bad the maid didn't do them...oh yeah, gordon doesn't do much!

I am trying to figure out my low coolant light on my car still...i might have a bad sensor still...i am going to check out the plug again and see if it is wet again..might have a sensor leak...good thing it has warranty. And i have to put a blend motor in my car for the climate control...air cold on one side hot on the other...and it has to be my side that is hot.

I have 2 tomatoes on my plants...i will try to get some pics of them tomorrow for you all.!! I can not wait for the other blooms to start!! What else...hmmm i think i covered just about all of it...Don't think i am betting on the horse race tomorrow...don't think the favorite will win...I won some money at the preakness...but i have to watch the coverage to see what's what.

Well i will try to have some more interesting tales and pics for you from this weekend...later gators!!!!!

Can you hear me now?!?

2009-06-02T20:46:00.002-05:00

Where do I start? I went to the doctor today and had my ears checked out because I was beginning not to hear anything...am I really getting old or what? I have been fighting an earache for over a week and finally decided to do something about it. I got the normal you are just plugged up and have a little ear infection blah blah blah....then just on a whim I ask the doc about my foot...the one that a 1000 lb. lawnmower fell on and broke about 3 or 4 years ago. Well that doesn't look right now does it??? then he touches the spot that is swelled and i about kick him into next week. Hurts huh? Na....i just had a leg cramp and I am trying to work it out a little. I am going to send you to the ortho surgeon to have him look at it...looks like a tendon has come unattached and he might have to go in and reattach it. Why don't you just cut it off and stick a mannequin foot on me...at least my foot will feel better. So for now my foot needs cut off and i am in need of miracle ear...can it get any better than this???

Update on the puppy department...gordon is a big blob. enough said.

more later peeps!

Is this my day off???

2009-05-25T19:32:00.003-05:00

Hi y'all. What's up??? Not much here. I had a day off today and all I did today was run around and get groceries, and everything else known to man. We got some things off layaway at tj maxx and spend the afternoon hanging pictures and frames and situating things around the house. We have figured out that we need a new burner kit for our barbeque grill(the one we bought at the garage sale) and now i need to find a universal burner...good luck. We even got some plants in the house now so we can recycle the air and give gordy some good sleeping air.

There were fifty million boats out on the lake this weekend...and hopefully the fireworks are tonight...hopefully. and we did our part in celebrating memorial day by grilling out some hot dogs and hamburgers..and now we feel as big as blimps..the goodyear ones you know...

I will try to get some pictures on the blog tomorrow or the next day...i am trying to see about getting some deleted pictures off the memory card of my camera...wish me luck. Later Gators!

Care for a dip in the pool???

2009-05-22T23:18:00.002-05:00

Well, here i am a little behind on my posting on the good ol' blog. I have been working and then sleeping and then working some more. I guess i am lucky to have 1 job with good insurance let alone 2 jobs now. I know alot of people who would love to have the extra job i have. By Friday I am just so tired that a wet noodle could whip my butt. Wouldn't that be a site!!

I just looked at my tomato plants and I have several blooms on the ones in the buckets on the ground...only 1 bloom on the ones hanging in the bucket...maybe i will have to get some miracle grow and start putting on them...or just plant some more.

As you can see gordon has been taking some dips in the lake...he has figured out that if he gets into the lake and opens his mouth and walks the water will just go into his mouth and he doesn't have to do much work to get a drink. I have such a special dog don't I?

well I have lost some pictures on my computer again...great concept isn't it? And I kinda wanted those pictures...bummer. and I can't seem to find them anywhere on my computer...this sucks big time. I thought thses things were so advanced that you couldn't lose anything...ya right.

Well i am going to go...i will try to update more..sorry about that folks!!

Our morning walk...

2009-05-15T09:10:00.002-05:00

Here is Gordon with one of our neighbors and his dog, charlie. Charlie is one of gordy's buddies and loves to hang out with gordon. On this particular morning Charlie did not listen too well and got into some trouble.

Well it has been a while since I updated. I have been extremely tired and trying to get some extra rest. But to no avail...Gordon gets up in the middle of the night to bark at the thunder...then at the door like someone is on the front porch. All I can figure out is he is barking at the cats that think they can get a one up on the birds that eat at our bird feeders...things that make you go hmmmm.

Work is going good...just busy and don't get much accomplished tuesday thru friday. So I have a mirror to hang this weekend, a new bird feeder to hang and of course mow the yard...and some how weed eat without a weed eater...and of course look forward for that one day off--monday. Which i am thinking of going to see the angels and demons movie with tom hanks. Other wise i am a boring slug...exciting huh???

Is that a tree up there??

2009-05-06T21:41:00.002-05:00

Well it stormed really bad here last night. All i remember is the thunder, lightnening and gordon barking at the ceiling all night long. It seems that the thunder is so much louder here than when i lived in Iowa. Maybe because we are in a higher elevation down here. And boy did it rain...I have heard totals of 6-7 inches of rain. WOW! And R said that the wind roared like she thought it was a tornado. And there were lots of power outages around town. and water across the road and everything. Almost as bad as the hurricane....except we actually have power.

Then the sun came out and go ungodly hot....I mean hot. And it is supposed to be that way tomorrow then some more rain....i think i live in south america during the rainy season...or should i say monsoon season.

So today I took gordon outside...bark bark bark...at the trees at the car, at the telephone poles. What are you barking at?? He growls, he barks, he looks at the sky and barks some more....what is going on here. Then I take him outside tonight...he does the same thing...except he barks more...and at the neighbors house...what is really going on here. I think the thunder really messed up he brain...scrambled it a little too much. Remember, big body little brain. And i think gordon's just got a little smaller.

Well i must go to bed and get some rest to work a little tomorrow...bye!

Sleep, eat, and mess with your man purse???

2009-05-04T14:13:00.002-05:00

This is what I have felt like since I am working 2 jobs. Now we just have to get gordy back on regularly scheduling programming. Work is actually going great...bake some bread...go home and then nap for 2 hours...go make some BBQ. Who knows..maybe my millions will come in sooner than later.

This is my grandfather's "man purse". He is very proud of his "man purse"....just ask him. I wonder how long it will take him to fish out all the pills that are in the bottom of it. It is a very interesting color and choice of style now isn't it?? I was glad that they choose to detour this way on the way home...it was good to see you!!

Now this is what we do when it is raining outside and the bonehead dog will not walk underneath the umbrella with me. rub me rub me rub me that's all he wants.

It has rained the past 3 days here...2 days of no rain and back to rain. Am I in the rainy season or what?? My tomato plants are getting bigger and bigger...i will try to get some pics later this afternoon to blog about. hmmm what else is really going on...not much. I am totally boring now...all i do is work and work some more.

We are slowly getting our house spruced up and looking good. We bought some picture frames and put some really cool pics in the frames. I am finding things at wal mart, big lots and every where else. there goes my millions. I have to get my car into the shop next week...silly sensor won't stop flashing the low coolant light....a little thing the size of a match box $50. No wonder cars costs so much...then onto putting some freon in it...and then fixing the blend door motor...one thing after another.

Today i hung my new hanger for my hummingbird feeder, hung up a squirrel feeder that Nick made for me...now i have to get some ear corn and put on it...and i am trying to fix the rip in my car seat gordy put there. Well peeps...this is all i know for today...see ya!!!

Dip in the lake...

2009-04-27T15:17:00.002-05:00

Last night we took the big pooch for his nightly stroll. We walked down to the boat ramp and little park down the road from us. We saw other dogs and he sniffed and everything else a dog does. Then he got into the water up to his knees/bottom of his stomach. He figured out that he could just open his mouth and move around to drink the water. Then he got brave and started sniffing around...and fell face first into the lake. He quickly jumped back and got me wet too...but he got his first swimming lesson...head first. You know the kind where your dad throws you into the water and says sink or swim...I guess gordy swam.

Today it is raining and humid outside. Couldn't really do much like mow that yard. Oh well. Nothing much else is going on here....just work and sleep, then work and sleep. Chat more later...

Tomato Plants...

2009-04-22T21:30:00.002-05:00

Here is one of my tomato buckets....this one has 3 in it...and the other one has 2 in it. I ended up planting 4 more in more buckets the usual way and we will see which ones do the best.

The plants have turned upward already and are doing very well. The heat this week should help them grow even better.

Well I have been working with R the past couple of days...She is in need of a baker to be reliable..so i am baking 4 days a week. A little extra money doesn't hurt now does it? So i get up and work at 5am and come home around 10...take a nap at noon until 2 and then get up and go back to work at the BBQ joint. R is worried that i will get burned out...but I don't work saturday...and i still have my Mondays off. Just rearrange my sleeping schedule that's all.

And to top that all off...my dish went out and i have no tv at the moment. Supposedly the smart card has went out...well i have an internal smart card and can not take out the card. So after a billion tests and still not fixing the problem of a black screen...it comes on ...we hang up and bam...the black screen comes back again. So i return the call...please send me out another box. Sorry ma'm...we can not do that ..we have to have engineering look at it and reprogram it should be okay within 12 hours. I wanted to reach in the phone and throttle this guy...at one point he told me to pull out the smart card in the front...duhhhhh i don't have a exterior card. Here i had been on the phone over an hour..and still had nothing. i am getting credit for having no tv...but they will probably tax me more to make up what they lost. So I get home today and i got nothing. So I call back...and got some really nice lady...she did some more tests which did not fix the problem...and hopefully she is going to do what she said...send out another box. So i am watching the nasa channel or movies....bites huh?

Well it's 10 and i need to go to bed...enjoy the pics of my tomato plants...

Our little flowers...

2009-04-19T20:49:00.002-05:00

This is what all of our(the mothers) hard work blossomed into. Today after I got off work we went to the wal mart and got some flowers and soil and other goodies. Someone at work gave me a rose bush and some peonies and canin lily and we planted them also. We laughed and yip yapped and had a good time.

R did some digging...the mother planted some flowers...and I did the maintenance....pounding some nails into the wood...hanging up the tomato buckets...i will be putting up some pics later of them. This picture here is the mother trying to saw off a little thorny bush next to the tree with the tomato bucket...she handles that saw so well doesn't she???

This is R and I getting ready to put up the hanger to hold the tomato bucket. Had to stand on a bucket to reach the heigth I wanted the bucket at. Here we are trying to get the hanger out of the wrapper. And look who has to be helping at all times....

And this was our supervisor...He kept a very close eye on us and made sure that our tasks were done correctly.
I think he was watching us real closely here...too bad we were working in the opposite direction.

And this is just sums it all up!!

My Blob..

2009-04-13T19:55:00.002-05:00

Well this is what i basically did all day yesterday...i was so tired and i really don't know why...maybe the weather. It did rain all day and into this morning. That will make anyone want to sleep and be lazy.

But I made up for it today...I did all the laundry, drilled holes in my tomato buckets, and looked some more on how my dirt is washing away from my flower garden. I hung up my hummingbird feeder and am patiently waiting for warm weather to arrive...the birds have ate up all the seed I put in there and i had to refill it this afternoon and they went to town eating it all up again. I think i have a few more than 5 birds...i am working on getting a squirrel feeder..I found this tractor one i like but might have to get it later...

What else has been going on ...nothing. We watched some movies this weekend and that's about it. Did the wal mart need to get some dog food thing. I have figured out that he eats better than us...spoiled brat.

that is about all...later peeps

Yikes!!!

2009-04-09T23:00:00.002-05:00

Well...it's april. This storm went north of us..but the other storm kinda got us a little wet. So I went outside and took down the bird feeder...made sure everything was put up so it couldn't blow all over....but they was some hail...and this storm flattened a town to the west of us...and the reports at 11pm are pretty bad...I am just glad we are out of that trailer...makes me feel a little safer. just a little. Give me a blizzard any day...I can handle the snow...I can see it.

Tonight was band night at work...the bluegrass band comes in everyother thursday...they hoot and holler and drink beer and probably forget the words to the songs...i don't know cuz we can't hear them in the kitchen...cuz we are listening to our own music! The "nice"neighbor lady gave us some lettuce she grew in her garden...she is getting ready to plant her tomatoes and pepper plants.....this is the same lady who thought gordon was crapping in her yard...it was some other dog instead...now that we "moved up in the world" she will talk to us...oh and i forgot to mention that she is from romania...thick thick accent...but anyway....I feel a bunny wrabbit moment coming on...eating the lettuce.

I want to give a shout out to my cousin Candace....It's her birthday today....she turns 24 again...young isn't she??? Have a good time at nashville at the race this weekend...get some good pictures for me!!! Won't be too much longer and I might just go with ya to the race!

Well i must take out the big baby gordy so I can go to bed just to get up and do it all over again....isn't life grand!!!!!

Gordy and his gang....

2009-04-07T22:25:00.002-05:00

Gordy has a daily ritual...get up....go outside and do his duty...sleep some more...get up go for a walk...again. Then at noon we go up the road and he makes his rounds...first to the house with his buddies the labs. He likes all those puppies...he hangs out with Joe dog, charlie dog and the girl kodi dog. Their owner Roy says that they all like their walks and of course gordon leans on him to get some attention. Then it on up the road to Max dog's house. And Max's owner calls gordy "killer" and on special days gordon is "tiny". And on certain days gordon gets a bone and Max dog goes nuts with jealousy. After all that excitement...we go back home and sleep some more. If my life was this exciting I would love to be a dog!!!!!

Let's see what's really going on....hmmmmm not much. I am thinking about putting some new brakes on my car...they are starting to make some noise....if it isn't one thing it's another. We were not too busy tonight at work....nothing we couldn't handle. and that is about all i know in this day and age...a whole lot isn't it??

Anyone up for some bird watching??

2009-04-03T22:52:00.002-05:00

Okay...here is the first bird to visit our new bird feeder since we moved it from the tree. They did not seem to be seeing it and I moved it to be more visible. Now I just need to get a little more sturdier shepard's hook...I found that one at the dollar tree for only a buck....I want to get a hummingbird feeder and watch the little dive bombers go at it.

Well i was going to plant my tomatoes this weekend...but there is a freeze advisor out for this monday/tuesday. I have figured out how to beat the tomatoe thingy on the tv for growing tomatoes upside down....you only need a 5 gallon bucket...and I hear a certain family member is trying her hand at growing some upside down tomatoes...i will give you an update with some pics and let you know how mine do....you have to send pics of yours also!! So maybe by summer the tomatoes will be planted and the flower be bloomin'.

So work is getting busy and there are lots of catering parties that we are getting together...horse racing comes to an end just before easter and i guess we will be busier. Nothing much else is really going on this week...pretty boring.

Chicken anyone???

2009-03-30T15:48:00.002-05:00

"please oh please let me have some of that wonderful chicken!!! I promise to be good...just let me have a bite"

"Thank you thank you....just let me give you a kiss while I get this chicken.....smooooochhhhh"

As anyone can see gordy got his chicken today...and he got to spend some quality "dog" time outside today. He watched as I raked the yard and he peed everywhere. And he got to spend some quality time with his girlfriend today, abbey. She actually let him get nose to nose with her instead of just barking at him like normal. What a soap opera these dogs lead!

Today I just worked in the yard, put some stuff away in the house, and moved some shelves. It was nice here today...71 degrees...I can't wait to plant some tomatoes and flowers....I have figured out just where i am going to hang my tomatoe plants...would grandpa H be proud....no garden to grow anything in so i am resorting to buckets and trees!!!! I also put out my birdfeeder today and have had no visitors...might have to put it somewhere more visible. And I am also putting up a squirrel chair for some corn....i am going to tortue gordy..he stands at the door and watches the squirrels run.HA! Well i am going to go...later gators.

Where have you been???

2009-03-29T21:17:00.002-05:00

Well, alot of you are wondering just where have I been latley? Why haven't I posted anything...well...I have been working 12 hour days filling in for a day shift guy and have one more day left...tuesday. I have been so out of it cuz of work I forgot to pick my nascar fantasy race pics...bummer!

So I have not fell off the face of the earth...I am still in the living world...barely. Tommorow I am getting my eyeballs checked...make sure that they are still attached!!! Then I am working on some things around the house...hanging some bird feeders...hanging this really cool sun thingy for the porch...and putting away stuff in the basement...you know normal stuff.

On a lighter note...gordy has been keeping grandma busy...she has been so great on helping me out with the walk the dog-a-thon..she said once she caught him on the new couch...and then he got a bone from a neighbor and he wouldn't take it until another dog came up...then he took it and buried it...i am sure we will find it later...and probably bring it home.

I am wanting to plant my tomatoe plants but i am going to wait and plant them next weekend...and i am going to try the upside down bucket thing...except...i am going to put a spin on it...once i get it done and planted i will take some picture and show you all. And we are going to grow some the normal way in a bucket...we'll see which one works better...watch have tomatoes growing out of our you know what!!!

Well i am going to get to bed...later peeps!!!!

Pictures....

2009-03-23T22:00:00.002-05:00

Here is a pic of our living room...not everything is placed exactly where i want it yet...working on it though. Notice the dog is quite comfy.

"would you just quit taking my picture...I am really not ready to smile at the camera half the time you take the pictures anyway!"