I went out to the mail box, ok? Simple enuf activity for late afternoon here on the mountain. Right? WRONG!
Found one bill and a gazillion ants in the box… sheesh… Ants, this is a sign we are going to have a lot more rain. Ok, so I brush the ants and eggs off the envelope and start back down the drive to the house.
I hear and see a couple of my BBSB’s up there in the clear blue between the clouds… Woo hoooo! I gots flashed! Been a while.. thot maybe I’d lost my sex appeal when I cut my hair. But no, them flyguys remembered or else them winged beauties remembered. Either way, I laffed and waved and threw kisses… and hugs… and and and…lolol
Well, I amble down the drive… looking for more flyguys… I see smoke above me. The old new neighbors place. Hmmm… I watch for a few… yup, sure enuf. I am seeing real smoke and not the mists rising.
Ratz. As I am down wind of this smoke/fire, I am a little concerned. Even tho we have had plenty of rain, I have a line of trees and a 10 acre field of drying weeds between the fire and my home.
I call the local fire dept to have some one check. I don’t have a fire department! The wife of one of the fire fighters passed away and tonite was the visitation. OK… I call the number for the Forestry people… No answer. Well, ratz again. I call 911 at Richmond KY. Explain the situation… They’ll send somebody.. Maybe Vincent Volunteer FD. A good ten miles away over some very bad roads.
I grab phone, necessities of diary, cigars and camera. I sit on side porch to wait.
Out of the silence, I hear 9 to 11 rounds being fired from a hand gun. From the hill… Right behind the house. Hmmmm! I go back to the apartment and grab the .38 and call 911 to give them a heads up about shots fired.
Go back to side porch and hear another round being fired. I am SO tempted…. Anyhow here comes the fire company… one guy… I explain the situation… ask if he’s armed…no…do you want to borrow mine? Well, anyway… he takes my .38 with him.
I wait and watch. I see a male coming up thru the field going toward the engine. He leaves and walks back down to smoke location. Engine company backs up to my drive… Firefighter gives me back the .38 and tells me that it is family members up there camping.
OK… Now, I am not nosy nor do I care what the neighbors do unless I perceive it to be a threat to my dogs or my property. It would have been nice tho had somebody told me they would be camping/burning up there.
Oh, I mentioned cutting my hair… I did! Cut 4 to 6†off. How come it is that it looked straggly on my head and then had the most beautiful sheen after I cut it? Did you ever notice that? Always seems to happen to me. Anyway, it is now shoulder length and has a mind of its own. Lolol I have waves all over the place but not necessarily where I would like to have them… Well, ratz again!
And then before the smoke fire thing, I was looking at the latest fashions from Spanish designers. OMG! Now, I may have no taste and little class, but I DO know that I wouldn’t want to be mummified in those (I hesitate to use the term) outfits…
The last time I checked, my body wasn’t constructed to fit into right angles, swirls and cracker box shaped creations. Course, it’s been a while since I’ve really looked but I don’t think it ( the body) has changed in that direction…. More padding maybe, more curves but I don’t seem to have any straight lines or right angles to contend with yet. I certainly am not going to wear something that makes me look like an animated hamburger except for the colors. Wonder how much them things cost ? and who would be foolish enuf to spend good money, or bad, on such weird looking clothes?
My idea of color co-ordination is oil paints on blue jeans and t-shirts… lolol
Here’s sumfin for you. The 36 inch high chair is there just to give a sense of scale. The yellow daisies are ten to twelve feet high… and No, I don’t know enuf to manipulate the pictures. I can resize the whole shot but that is it!
HEADS UP – CHECK OUT TC’S warning about prescription scam! view link
Well, kids, come on in. You guys and gals have been here often enuf to know where everything is…There’s toast, them mini donuts and biscuits… anything else and you can fix it for yourself… lolol meems is getting lazy. But I do enjoy setting out here on the porch in the mornings.
The grocery list is hanging there on the fridge… If you notice I am getting low on a basic, just add it to the list, will you please? Thanx
Lots of fog the last week or so. And I can see very plainly how the Smoky Mountains got their name.
Late afternoons, the mists start to rise from the mountains. Yes, rise. An oldtimer here told me that the mist was smoke from the groundhog’s coffee makin’s. lolol It’s kinda eerie to be standing outside all alone and suddenly see this gray hazy looking stuff starting to rise all around you. To me it almost looks like haints (local for ghosts) taking off for a round of spookings…
The whispy mists start to thicken and then turns into outright fog! The far mountains disappear and it almost looks like a tide washing up the holler.
I gots ta tell y’all about the Spudley this morning. Lolol Silly dog! He was outside all nite. When I let him in, he started doing the ‘dancy dancy’ thing.
So we danced around the kitchen and down the hall way… lolol There were doggy snorts, coughs, sneezes and play growls. I would tweek the end of his nose… he would take off … make some dancy circles and come roaring back.
The coughing sounds, around here at least, are doggy laffter. Of course, I am making the same sounds back and adding a tweek tweek occasionally. What a way to start the day! I am so glad that he is, after all this time, starting to play. Spudley is a very serious little dog. He takes his guard doggy duties to heart. The emom is safe with him… view link
Gotta tell ya that when I wake up in the mornings, he is sleeping right next to me.. head on the other pillow and under the blankies. I don’t know what it is to sleep alone! Lolol Or to take a bath by myself for that matter… sheesh…
Once upon a time ago, I had a Siamese cat who would climb in the tub with me… lolol but that’s another story.
Later…
Take care all of mine. Go in safety always. Remember to appreciate the quiet that descends at sunset…
Many hugs, much love and lots of lafter… meems
Bet ya forgot I had this wanted poster! Lolol I never throw anything away! Gotcha, Brat! CAROL, COME GET HIM! LOLOLOL
And this seems to be an appropriate place to post this one from Therman (a member of another SocNetSite… lolol
“Do you live in some bizarre parallel universe? Are these people real, or is it because you can spin a good yarn?â€Â
I tried to explain that yes, these are real people and that NO, I didn’t make all of this stuff up. Lololol
HEADS UP ON THIS ONE!
Yesterday I rec’d an email notice of an Eons PM. When I clicked on the link in the email, I rec’d a ‘you CANNOT read’ message on my PM page.
If I went direct to the incoming pm messages, nothing showed. Tried both ways several times. Nothing!
Now, me being the NON-trusting soul that I have become lately, I threw a hissy fit of the first order. I TRUST Eons, I no longer trust …. Well, I’m sure you understand whom I don’t trust. I am trying to be politically correct here. It sets my teeth on edge when I am told “you cannotâ€Â.
I was really grumpy about the situation and was rude and unkind to a gentleman who was only trying to help me. I apologized last nite and I do apologize to him again.
I feel bad that I mistreated him and I have no excuse for behaving that way.
Anyway, This whole situation came about because a person did not know that an Eons private message between two individuals cannot be forwarded to a third party. (Wish we could, but rules is rules!)
Lets see… what else… OH, anybody want a dog… He’s bigger than a pony but not quite as big as a Clydesdale. Yeller in color and is getting his beautiful winter coat. LOLOL OMG! He ate a sour cream container. Didn’t quite finish it off tho…
The Newbie now has all those rough chewed leftover edges tangled in his tail feathers! Goofy dog! Lolol view link
Guess that’s it for today…
Take care all of mine. Go in safety always. Remember that your pets are a reflection of what you are? Oh dear, that was profound but true… except for cats!
2009-9-17 1440 hours REMEMBER OUR TROOPS-WEAR RED TOMORROW!
Welcome home, dear hearts, welcome home!
Oh dear, last nite I got a phone call from the Marvin! He was being held at an undisclosed location. Possibly the airport…
Seems like security caught him wandering around the terminal with a 6 pack and a mask! Lolol Did you know that some places don’t have a sense of humor?
Any way, he was on a cel phone.. and he tells me I “am now on speaker phone. The people around him can hear me laffin and they are starting to laff at me laffing.†OMG! I’m gonna beat him to death!
The whole point of the phone call was to ask me if I would let everybody know he’s ok (I seriously doubt that) and that he will be back on line tomorrow! (you have been warned)
All this occurred because The Marv decided to take a short vacation. With Marv, vacation = get into trouble! He asked me to help out in Ask Marvin while he was gone… Me, being the kind hearted soul that I am, said sure!
Now, I have raised boys… and we all survived. I hesitate to mention names, but Hipsy, Dodger and Nuggie are brats… I just sat back, read the screens and shook my head! (I did get the giggles tho) (ps… Mimi is an instigator!)
Got a short note from the Hipsy! Wowser, says he is taking the day off (yeah right) that he exhausted himself on Tuesday and Wednesday. Lololol Well, I guess… HE’S exhausted? Try being the poor unsuspecting, innocent, mild mannered meems! (I just might be understating here) lololol I also might be telling a whopper! Lolol
Best get going… Looks like bad weather moving in…
Take care all of mine… Go in safety always. Remember to be vewy cautious if Marv asks for a favor… the fall out might be extreme…
Many hugs, much love and lots of laffter… meems
2009-9-17 1440 hours REMEMBER OUR TROOPS-WEAR RED TOMORROW!
Welcome home, dear hearts, welcome home!
Oh dear, last nite I got a phone call from the Marvin! He was being held at an undisclosed location. Possibly the airport…
Seems like security caught him wandering around the terminal with a 6 pack and a mask! Lolol Did you know that some places don’t have a sense of humor?
Any way, he was on a cel phone.. and he tells me I “am now on speaker phone. The people around him can hear me laffin and they are starting to laff at me laffing.†OMG! I’m gonna beat him to death!
The whole point of the phone call was to ask me if I would let everybody know he’s ok (I seriously doubt that) and that he will be back on line tomorrow! (you have been warned)
All this occurred because The Marv decided to take a short vacation. With Marv, vacation = get into trouble! He asked me to help out in Ask Marvin while he was gone… Me, being the kind hearted soul that I am, said sure!
Now, I have raised boys… and we all survived. I hesitate to mention names, but Hipsy, Dodger and Nuggie are brats… I just sat back, read the screens and shook my head! (I did get the giggles tho) (ps… Mimi is an instigator!)
Got a short note from the Hipsy! Wowser, says he is taking the day off (yeah right) that he exhausted himself on Tuesday and Wednesday. Lololol Well, I guess… HE’S exhausted? Try being the poor unsuspecting, innocent, mild mannered meems! (I just might be understating here) lololol I also might be telling a whopper! Lolol
Best get going… Looks like bad weather moving in…
Take care all of mine… Go in safety always. Remember to be vewy cautious if Marv asks for a favor… the fall out might be extreme…
Many hugs, much love and lots of laffter… meems
Come on in while I try to wake up!Sheesh, sorry about the sleepy spells.All the meds I take come with the warning ‘drowsy or sleepy’…not counting the benadryl.Well now, that’s one side of the problem.The other side is the weather.
Most people suffer from spring fever.Not this kid… Uhuh…nope.I suffer from fall fever.Cool weather sets in and I just want to hibernate.Crawl under them covers, pull them up over my head, snuggle into the pillows and off I go to sleepy bye land.Then, heaven help me, if it should be a cold rainy day… I burrow deeper and give thanx for the roof, the feather bed and pillows, the four legged hot water bottles who snuggle with me.
I am asleep on the hoof so to speak until really cold weather arrives… I love the snow, the howling winds…even the sleet and freezing rains. There is nothing more beautiful on a cold winter morning than the sun sparkling off ice covered trees.Talk about your fairy lands and castles…
Let’s see here… Weeds came out yesterday afternoon and cut the grass.Then the phone rang off the wall and the table tops.
I saw my flyguys playing upstairs…lots of contrails and I was circled several times by a heldoctor… this one looked like the ATF.I waved and he waggled his bottom when he went around the house… I cracked up… there is sumfin just a little more than undignified about a heldoctor waggling its bottom at ya!I almost fell off the tail gate laffin… Me and my red robe again.
The Marv has been out of town again… Took one of his vacation trips… left the Hipsy and me in charge until Silver got back… Oh dear!He expected us to keep the Ask Marvin bunch under control until he gets back.Ain’t possible… Nope, no way!Especially when the Hipster defects to the rowdier side of life!Gotcha Hips… lololol
Anyway, I’m hoping the Marv gets back soonly… I am getting a little (read a whole lot) too old to do extra duty!Lolol Everybody knows I can resist everything but temptation… lol.Trying to behave for three or four days is really pushing the boundaries for me.Lolol
I am outa here for the time being… might just work another nap in to my schedule today.
Take care all of mine.Go in safety always… Remember to not follow my example… lolol
Many hugs, much love and lots of loffter… meems
Well Kids, come on in!Set a spell… Help yourselves to my favorite breakfast, Reese’s peanut butter cups and tater chips.Yes, yes, I know but nobody ever said I was sensible!In fact, I could probably get by with doing the bad neighbor in by reason of insanity.(I know this is a serious subject but I also know myself)
Anyhow, everybody who knows me should be more than willing to testify that I am nutz.. Relatives, friends and even enemies!
Look over to the east… The mist is hanging heavy in the air… Such a beautiful sun-up.
Well, anyway, here’s another ‘go to confession day.’I actually did some WORK (nasty 4 letter word that)
I was up early.An amazing fete in itself. Then, will wonders never cease, I started the laundry.As if this weren’t enuf self punishment, I decide to go shopping!
Yes, I went grocery shopping all by myself…I drove… no problem with the driving but gee whiz, is the lil truck noisy.Especially in low gear.I certainly couldn’t sneak up on any body. Rumble rumble rumble…burp! Lolol
Knowing full well if there were any officers anywhere within ten miles of me, they could hear me a roaring and stop me for loud pipes… They wouldn’t like the noise, my license plate being in the rear window and no updated sticker on the plate.
I decides to put the sticker on before I get to the main road.Good going Paula!I’ve only been carrying that sticker in my billfold since I got it in May.Now now… I can hear you all from here!Paaaaaa uuuuu lllllllllaaaaaah!!!!!!! Sheesh, I have good intentions… short memory.
I must say that prices have gone WAY up.You know I am bad with figures but I can tell when prices increase.My question here is how can the cost of living not gone up (according to the gov) if necessities are more expensive?I DO know the difference between a dime and a dollar.According to all I’ve been reading, Social Security recipients will not get an increase this coming year.Does any one else see a problem here?Just asking….
So, I drove the big circle to Beattyville on back roads… went to the Tobacco Shed… the dollar store and Save a Lot.
I am rattling around in Save a Lot…when I hear my name called.Oh lordy pete!It’s the Becky.I started hollering help right away… lolololHow did she know I was here?We stood in the middle of the frozen food section… and carried on… giggling and laffing.She was just checking to see if I was ok.Somebody had seen my truck and told her I was in the shopping center.She only lives about 5 miles from the store.
Said to stop at her place on the way home..I did.And I told her about telling ON her… First words out of her mouth… ‘getting lost’… Yup, that was it!She just started shaking her head.Then we got hysterical…
Well, I came on home… put the groceries away then took a nap. Meems had run out of energy. Whew…
I brought the pop in after I took my nap.
I found that it is a lot simpler and easier to back up to the front porch to bring the groceries in.No ramp and only one step that way.
Lets see here… Oh, Mr A is on a rampage again…he’s right on schedule..every two weeks he goes off the deep end.Roaring up and down a gravel road on his ATV…bellowing and yelling things.I usually come on inside but I did have a chance to see my flyguys up there…
I did my usual wave, hug , throw kisses but they were way past me when I spotted them.No wind, no sound…Well, ratz!
Gots ta tell ya today is red robe day…I just woke back up.. 1300 hrs.I just may do it again… Nap that is.
It’s turned into a gorgeous day.
Take care all of mine.Go in safety always.Remember to take care of yourself.YOU basically are all you have.Love your self.
Hugs, much love and loads of laffter to you all.Meems
2009-9-12 1117 hoursWelcome home dear hearts, welcome home.
Come on in and make yourselves to home… Plenty of coffee ready… Yes, I did manage to make the coffee this morning without creating a disaster.Wonders will never cease!
More than a little woozy this morning… Yup, I’m back on the Benadryl.Daggone ticks… found a deer tick embedded a couple of days ago… and I am REALLY itching.Overlook any typos or missing words or phrases cause I am a little drunk again! Oh dear!
JC sent me the following photos from the Civil War…Lots of them… click on each pic to get more info…Thanx Brat… hugs
There was no “I don’t want to goâ€Â“I’m too tiredâ€Â“too sickâ€Â“too old†…!The people needed… called.
They went!In uniform or out, they went!They rescued those they could and continued to try even though all hope was finally lost.
They gave their lives during the attack on our country.
I speak all of the time about our military and their sacrifices.I don’t say much about the guys and gals I worked with in the criminal justice system… Most/many people do not care for cops.
I did and still DO.Oh, I know that some are bad apples… wish there weren’t but the honesty in me says cops are human too.
Bad apples or not, they gave their lives that day in September.Fire personnel did the same.There are not many civilians who were willing to go into battle in the city that day but many did.
The dispatchers did fantastic job of keeping track of theirs.Dispatchers did not/could not see the extent of the damage… the injuries… They did not know if their family membersand friends who worked in the area had survived.They stayed and did their jobs.
I am so proud to be a member of that dedicated group.I mourn their loss.
To all of mine, rest, be at peace… shift is over.To those who survive, my deepest and sincerest respect… Love you all… Paula Rice (Disp ret.)
