EMOM'S MOUNTAIN NEWS

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2009/6/25 1428 hrs

Well, ratz! Wayne, Little Jake, sent sent me the funniest email today… Tried to c/p it here but no dice! The pictures (the most important parts) would not transfer and locked up my puter….

But I gotta tell you about the pictures anyway.. lolol Wayne said I should have one in my back yard. One of what? LOLOL A yeller dog clipped to mimic a male lion. Lolol

Well, I got to pondering on this ‘look’ for the Newbie himself! I cracked up!

The Newbie is the right color… big enuf…charming enuf.. Scary enuf especially when he grins. Nose might be a little too pointy to pass muster but otherwise, he’s got it all!

Can’t you just see me outside the groomer’s..? Trying with all my might to drag this monster of a dog (all 185 pounds of him) into the groomer’s? Trying to hold the door open and at the same time trying to drag his sorry butt into the waiting room… Him with all 4 legs in the ‘reverse’ position. Me praising him to the sky for every forward step we manage to take? “Good boy!… Good Newbie! All right Newb’s …!” Not nary a soul stepping forward to help me…Can’t imagine why!

After going thru the above scenario mentally, I was exhausted physically! Lolol

Another problem I might have would be with the USDA or the DEA…Yup, my low flying guys… How, you ask? Well let me tell you about the mountain telegraph system.

Start a rumor here today and the whole territory will know about it yesterday!

Big rumors start at the beginning of pot growing season… lolol Two years ago, we had rumors of the Gov on the Q.T, seeding our area with TREE Rattlesnakes….10 footers!
And then one time we had black painters (puma’s) running the mountain sides… Then there’s the new law that the state passed 4 years ago…It is now illegal to keep alligators in your pond. ( this is true)

Well now, this Alligator Law threw a monkey wrench in my works! I had it all worked out… If Mr.A gave me too much trouble, I was gonna ‘demise’ him and throw him in the pond…Let the gators deal with the evidence.

Then I thought about piranhas.. that would work except I’d have left over bones… Hmmm! Well, I could buy a bone grinder and sprinkle the dust over the house plants.

I decided that it would be “cheaper and more efficient to shoot the no count guy… throw his buns over the drop off out back when the creek was running high! Bad guy would wash down stream and end up as somebody else’s problem.”

Truth is, when I was discussing this neighbor or one just like him with the County Prosecutor, I said the above to the C.P.

Pogo had gone with me to the C.P.’s office… Pogo almost fainted… ! “PAULA! He’s the prosecutor”!

Well, I knew that! Sheesh!

LOLOL Any complaints about today’s news, aim them at Little Jake… Today’s ramblings were all his fault! Lolol

Can you tell I’m having the best time? Oh yeah, I am…

Take care all of mine… go in safety always… Remember, try to steer clear of the USDA, the DEA and UNITE! LOLOL if possible!

Many hugs and much love… meems

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2009/5/23/24 1400hrs

I did it! I did it! I DID IT!  YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!  What did I do?  I managed without even half trying to stay out of trouble.  Well, maybe, unless you want to count the….. hmmm… never mind… Let’s not go there!  Lolol

Been sort of a weird day… altogether too quiet?  I rounded up the elec weed eater… made sure I had some line in it… and it works.  Out in the morning early to do some clean up…

When the odd couple were here yesterday… some areas were too wet and it also did some raining while they were trying to get the job done.

And, I must get to the mimosa and cut it back some… trying to train it away from the house and yet still shade the west side of the back porch. 

Well, I went into the ‘work’ room as opposed to the studio room to look for the saws-all.  I keep all my tools in there.  I have a heavy duty metal desk sitting in the middle of the floor and I nail paintings into frames… put corners together.  Beat the stuffing out of some things with my fave hammer..sling paint… do antiquing… You know all that handy person stuff that needs to be done around here…

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Remember the ladder on the bed?  Lolol  Just so I could put up a sky hook!  I also have a hammock and its frame down in the basement that I need to put together… Not that I can use it right now… lolol  Hammocks don’t look good with elderly flesh melting over the sides from the heat… Yuck!  That conjures up a terrible picture in my mind.  However ugly, it is still a truism in this hot humid weather! 

Well, anyway… While I was in the work room, I started putting my tools away in the old desk… lolol  after I found the saws-all.  Straightened up the desk top..closed all the drawers… restacked some of the empty frames thereby opening up the area around the A/C duct. (One thing I wish I had learned from my dad was to sweat copper pipes… Don’t know how to do that… )

All of a sudden I heard Lilah complaining mightily… Did I trap her in the stacks of frames?… nope… moved and looked… look under the desk… in the closet even tho the doors had remained closed. (Ya never know)…Did I close up anything.. a box… a container?  Where in the heck is she? 

Aha!  All of a sudden I feel tiny sharp claws raking my arm.  Lilah…!  Her was in the deep desk drawer… squalling and reaching thru the missing handle spot on the drawer.  Well, she got my attention…  I opened the drawer, dragged her fuzzy body out of the desk and carried her out to the hall… Shut the door firmly behind me after checking to see if all the dogs were out of there.  Lol  I never travel alone… 

Oh and I must tell you that I received a gift from OrchidLover… well, two gifts really.  Both are orchids… One has a beautiful deep red/deep green leaf… the other was just a lumpy type of stick with white hairy looking things at the bottom.  The white hairies are roots, I think! 

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The lumpy stick is now developing a bud… and the red/green is showing new leaves.  They each have their own little pots and they sit in an elongated oval shallow dish right in front of the kitchen window. 

OL asked me how they were doing… were they behaving themselves..?  Oh yes!  I let her know they were well behaved and thriving… I warned them, the orchids, early on that if they did not behave, I would cut their roots off!  They turned deathly pale but recovered quite rapidly from that suggested trauma.  … started growing too!  Lolol

1400, the 24^th.  Well, I best get moving… I wrote most of this last nite.. Got to bed about 0230 hrs… Think I have my days and nites mixed up again… I really am a nite person…Slept eleven hours… But I feel good and I know I have turned another corner in my life.  It really feels good to let go of the past.  Not the fun and good stuff…Just the bad and the hurtful.   Now I’ve really must get to work…

Guess who didn’t get outside early this am to do the weed-eating stuff?  Aw… you guessed!   I ain’t dependable at all anymore… I’ll blame this on my age… (I can get away with that too)

Take care all of mine… go in safety always..  Remember, as hard as it may seem, you CAN let go of the bad in time. 

Many hugs and much love… meems  

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EMOM' MOUNTAIN NEWS

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2009/6/23 0958 hrs

Hey everybody! Welcome home, dear hearts, welcome home. Grab a cuppa or sumfin…Back porch setting is still good…for a while anyway. It’s 80 out there already but the humids have dropped a bit!

Oh yeah, do go out on the porch for at least a minute. MIMOSA IS BLOOMING! First time! Has 3 little powder puff blooms wide open… Smells so good. I’ve waited 3 years for this event and I am celebrating! Woooo Hooooo ! Lolol

There are two more growing on the back side of the pond… Not near big enuf to bloom yet… but they are coming along… 2007 & 2008 were hard on all the trees and shrubs… Drought conditions all over this territory damaged almost everything.…My beautiful butterfly bush didn’t survive. None of my baby blue spruce’s made it… Ground conditions up here must not be right for the spruces…

The good news tho…Tiger lilies are blooming like crazy right now… The Agave bloomed and the ivy is growing like crazy…

The bad news? Viv has made a bed right in the middle of one of my Hosta’s out front! Yup, can you say smashed flat? Lolol

That poor little girl is such a klutz right now… All arms and legs (the teen-age ganglies) lolol … She was chasing Max yesterday and tripped over her own feet… She ended up sprawled under the quince bush out front after doing some kind of semi summersault... plowing up about 6’ of ground with her nose (small exaggeration here)! I fell off the porch laffing… lolol Especially when she sat up and looked around with that ‘just what the heck happened?’ expression on her face!

Would have missed that trick except Jessie and the sainted Gary came over to mow… Oh dear! Those two are a pair! Of what, I’m not sure, but they do crack me up! Anyway, I sat out on the front porch for a while…Ran my mouth with whomever was, at the moment, the non-mower. Mower got rained on…rained just long enuf to soak Jessie who happened to be the mower of the moment. Lolol Can you say drowned rat look? Lolol Poor Jessie.

Got to wave at my flyguys the other day… lolol When I could see them between small breaks in the cloud layers… Got flashed too… lolol Waved at a small heldoctor and it circled the house twice on the way back up the holler…I ended up with the giggles… lolol

Can you imagine being a pilot looking down and seeing a little old white haired lady waving and throwing kisses your direction? I wonder what goes thru their minds.. lolol.. Could be they are scouting for the guys with the butterfly nets who just might be heading my way… Anna says ‘they’ ARE gonna come get me!

Let em see here… have to tell you how I got started waving at my flyguys up here on the mountain. Lolol

Many of the ‘low flyers’ up here are looking for illegal pot fields… Can you imagine?

Well anyway, I became part of their flight path right after I had the pond dug! Lolol I lined the sides and top of the bank with black plastic sheeting… The idea being to keep the weeds down. Worked too, until the wind got ahold of some of the edges… But that part is a diff story.

I’ve been told that all these lowflyers are looking for the heat signature put out by pot plants… Warmer than the natural vegetation and surrounds. Makes sense to me.

I’ve seen heldoctors, miles to the east of me, divert from a direct north/south to come up the holler, circle the house then go back to their original flight path. Lolol Now, the explanation for this strange behavior. I can’t help but giggle here… Black plastic in the sun gets very hot… much hotter than the surrounds… lololol They thot I had a pot patch out back! Maybe they use my pond location as a training tool…

These guys are impressive when they repel out of one of them BIG heldoctors into the mountain pot fields…Scare the heck out of the wild life too. Oh yeah… Wonder how they get them, the guys, out of those isolated spots?

Oh gosh, the Newbie is still shedding… I can’t wait til the Viva starts going thru this shedding business next year. I’ll be ankle deep in rafts of dog fur in no time. The hot muggies are keeping us all inside right now.

I have been getting some painting work done… Finally finished The Lady l and worked on Lady ll until midnite or so.



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Guess that’s it for now… Gonna try, magic word being try, to stay out of trouble today. Lolol

Take care all of mine.. go in safety always… Remember the bigger the dog, the longer it takes for them to grow up…and, like in children, some never do…

Many hugs and much love… meems

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EMOM'S MOUNTAIN NEWS

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2009-6-22 0555 hrs

ATTN M&M’S If you find any of this blog unacceptable, please feel free to delete all or part of the following. Thanx, Paula

emom,

Please stop posting your daily emom news in the news article section of P********k. That area is specifically for stories related to the L*******y and not for personal daily thoughts or musings. I would like to suggest that you start a thread in the "General Discussions" area where you can update your postings daily and not clog up other areas of the site.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter!

R*******)

My reply

My dear *** I will be happy to stop posting the News and taking up your valuable space. My only thought in posting my 'musing' was to bring a little humor to a very serious and somber group. I do apologize if I offended anyone... it was not my intent...

I have been posting the News for several months now... It would have saved me a great deal of embarrassment had you advised me much earlier of my offense.

To all my friends here... I do apologize... Take care all and go in safety. hugs and much love .. the leaving you now meems...Paula Rice/emom

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The above was the original part of a continuing conversation between me and a moderator for another social group. I joined this group and started posting the News for the same reasons I have been posting the News on Eons… A letter from home for mine and to maybe cause a smile to appear on the reader’s face.

Well, for this social group, I apparently was posting the News in the wrong location.

I’ve pondered on this for several days… I have made some friends in this group. Have rec’d some nice comments… etc. I was having a good time and telling some work tales.
This group also had some military locations… I felt like I was doing something good.

The moderator advised me, nicely this time, I was free to post the news in a general discussion (public access) area or in a section entitled LOCKER ROOM, public access.
Well now, my feelings had been hurt. Yes, I do have feelings… and yes, they do get hurt on occasion. I consider the source and overlook most put-downs especially from mine. This man (moderator) is not suffering PTSD or a mental problem however.

I worked with these people for years… took care of them…never knowingly sent one into danger. Never lost one while I was on duty. Took care of my injured, bruised and battered in a TA while on duty… Received calls from mine waking me during the nite when mine were upset and needed to talk. babysat with abused children… wiped a child’s vomit off my uniform…I cared and I worked…I worked 10 midnites in a row with a rib that was freshly broken in two places so that the territory would not be short a man. I worked storms, blizzards, explosions (oh yeah, by myself too), terrible fires… “my baby is dead’ calls… and now, my blog is not considered worthy to be printed inside the group?

Maybe I’m on an ego trip… but I still have hurt feelings… I have dropped out of the group and will not go back.

I am sorry this happened and I am embarrassed for myself. Tripped over my own ego, I did…

Anyway, I think that is out of my system for a while… and as I said at the beginning, if any Mgr or Mod finds this news letter inadmissible, delete it… I have no problem with honesty or following the rules…as long as I know what they are at the beginning. Please don’t EVER let me continue to do something unacceptable for months and then tell me to correct the situation. Tell me right up front… I have no problem with that at all… I DO learn.

Take care all of mine… go in safety always. Be at peace.. Remember honesty is always the best policy (most of the time lol) I hope to be in a better mood soonly..maybe tomorrow.

Many hugs and much love… the still learning Meems

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EMOM'S MOUNTAIN NEWS

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2009/6/20 1348hrs

Been up since all of noon today… Had some coffee… fresh ground/fresh made. My shriveled mushroom appearance has not improved nor has my disposition! Lolol Be warned!

I’m just hoping the electric and the phone keep working. There were 6,000 without electric the other day. I was one of them… Got the electric back and then the phone system went down! Can you say RATZ?!? Sheesh….

No electric! I bet I went to the microwave a dozen or more times… to warm up my very cold coffee. Hmm… that don’t work…

Went out to feed the chickyducks… saw that the waterfall wasn’t running… Another RATZ! Maybe pump plugged up? drag pump out and check it… nope… Hmmm… Circuit breaker blown? I trudge up the grassy slope to the back porch (rain runoff covering my shoes) heading for the breaker box… Then it dawns on me… Duh, Paula, the elec is off…

Put candles in the bathtub with mirror behind them… still reached for the lit switch..Got hungry… Stove electric. No fans …No well pump… no water…

Dead silence… no hum of the A/C…no drone of the fans… no background music or tv. No hum of the fridge…No nothing in the house.

Yet outside…I could hear the creek tumbling and roaring… I could hear the thunder rumbling on the far side of the mountain.. I could hear the drops of water falling from and through the leaves.

[Have you any idea how desperately bored I am if I spend the day doing laundry? Oh yeah! Had elec yesterday but No phone…no puter… ] I am now a very unhappy camper.

Well, grumbling and fussing did me no good at all! In between loads of laundry, I worked on and mostly finished My Lady of the Flag l. Started another painting of My Lady (ll) wrapped in a red and white banner. This one is an 18x 36 oil on panel. Ok, I got that much done.. cleaned up my brushes…

Last load of laundry went in the machine about 2200 hours… Thank goodness!

I woke up at 0400 and couldn’t get back to sleep… I read the mail… went into the studio and added on stroke to My Lady 1…a black band on her arm… went back to bed!



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Is this boring or what? The 6 pack + wanted in and out of the heat and humids. I have wall to wall dogs here in the apartment! Newbie had to have his ears rubbed… Spudley want his chest scratched… Oh yeah… Lilyputz has learned a new trick…

Yup yup, she has and she is driving me crazy! Lolol I have an old shutter blocking the door way to the studio… Allows air to circulate and keeps the critters out of there. You have no idea how far oil paints can travel once attached to a dog or a cat or to me for that matter!

Well, anyway, Lily has learned to push the shutter forward and to the side just enuf to wriggle her bod into the studio… She curls up under the easel and zonks out. No problem so far, right? Right!

However, she has not figured out how to escape from her own brand of mischief. The Lily wakes up… can’t get back thru the opening she’s made…starts to fuss! Oh dear! Meems must quit what I am doing and go rescue ‘chubby buns’. She sits up in the begging position and gives me to know that she wants out of there… PLUS, she also lets me know that her present problem is all my fault!

Best quit for now… skies are getting a lot darker…

Oh, gotta tell you about the lightning in the storm the other day… Ground to cloud; cloud to cloud. Thunder deafening. I went to the back door to let Spud and Max inside. I opened the door and just as I did, I saw a bolt of lightning go crashing down the holler following the creek. My brain knew there would be an immediate sound of thunder but I was not prepared for the volume nor the force of the air displacement… Thunder cracked and sizzled and roared… Startled, I bet I jumped a foot! Decided to close the door and stay inside until the storm gods got tired.

OK everybody… try to stay out of trouble today will you?

Take care all of mine… go in safety always… Remember, I am still selling used arks…bring your own oars!

Many hugs and much love… meems

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EMOM'S MOUNTAIN NEWS

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2009/6/17 Noon

I think I am beginning to turn into a moldy mushroom! The temp and the humids are both outrageously high! Iced tea, lemonade, cold drinks are the only way to go right now! Sheesh, we have flash flood warnings and severe storm warnings already. Poor old Owsley County is right in the middle of all this messy weather.

Woo hooooooo! I got into all kinds of trouble yesterday… Jessie is a bad influence! Trust me, she is! I really don’t need somebody who aids and abets… I can get into all kinds of trouble all by myself… Don’t need any help there at all!

We stopped at two junk stores in Beattyville before we went to the groc store!

Ah yes, junk outlet stores… lolol

First stop … I found pairs of louver bifold doors, hinges and all for $6 a set! Got 3 sets of them babies… Use ‘em for semi perm dividers to the living room… I found some medium sized frames for next to nuffin’…Oh, and a big clay pot w/tray for $5….All this junk is setting in the living room right now… lolol

Question! How come it is that you do one thing, to clean say, and the rest of the house turns into a disaster area? Anybody else have that problem? Lolol Or is it just me?

Well, anyway, I went into the grocery store when we got there… Hurried thru but did take time to torment the manager, Chris. Poor man… Rules say he has to be ‘nice’ to the customers… Can you say: I try his patience? Cracking up here!

Seem like one of the freezer units was stopped up or sumfin… I offered my assistance… Chris said no… I offered again… He said no again and explained that if I couldn’t handle a coffee pot/maker, I wasn’t getting anywhere near his freezer! OMG! I fell on the floor laffing. That brat did a gotcha on me!

I forgot that he gets a copy of the News! Remember the other day and the coffee maker thingy? Lolol

I would have left in a huff, but I couldn’t find one! Chris didn’t exactly throw me out, he just kinda/sorta escorted me to the doors! Lolol Told ya I’d get ya Chris… Gotcha big time! Hugs Brat!

Guess I’d better quit before the storms get here…Thunder is rumbling out there right now!

Later all of mine… go in safety always.. Remember to keep your waders handy… Never know when you might need them.

Many hugs and much love…meems

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EMOM'S MOUNTAIN NEWS

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2009/6/15 0909hrs

Yes, I know… the world is coming to an end… I’m up early…Bright eyed and bushy-tailed. (read blood shot and limp) lolol

Welcome home, dear hearts… Welcome home to all of mine.

Get your buns in here! Dry out a bit.. Ain’t the humidity just awful? Rain yesterday and ‘they’ are saying we are gonna have more rain today. I’m beginning to feel like a soggy mushroom… look like one too…

What a week this last one has been! Sheesh! Cyberspace has been eating the News…The server hates me, I’m sure. So does the coffee maker. Need I mention the Storm gods?

Coffee maker! That goofy thing made a mess all over the nice, clean, well scrubbed section of the kitchen. You should see the floor and the counter again.

I fussed! I cussed but other than re-arranging the sequence, I don’t think I invented any new ones…cuss words, that is! Lolol

After a cooling off period, for me AND the coffee pot, I decided to remove some body parts from the coffee maker. Oh yeah! I got a hold of that little springy thing and removed it’s little self from the works. Whether the coffee maker will still work, I didn’t know and didn’t much care right at that moment… I have a two cup maker as a back up.

Guess what! Removing that little springy thing didn’t hurt a thing. The coffee maker still works. I have lovely hot coffee, fresh ground and fresh made… a mug full sitting right in front of me…Oh yes! I think today is gonna be a good day! Or not… lolol

I think the spring thingy problem was caused by sumfin called the Law of Unintended Results (LAUR)…which states…If it ain’t broke to begin with and you fix it, sumfin sure as hell will go wrong with the ‘fix’. In this case, a coffee flood!

I know what happened in the case of this ‘fix’. Somebody complained about the slight drip from above when they first grabbed the pot for their first cup.

“AHA” said the manufacturer! “That’s simple…just retool a little bit…add the spring thingy and the situation is corrected! Make the customers happy!” Boy, were they wrong…

Then there is the problem of cyber-space Eons gobbling up the News…LAUR was at it again!

Had the News already to c/p from WORD. Started my routine of pasting the News in the different groups…VNV, then WHVV and Whoa! Sumfin didn’t look right in WHVV. Well RATZ!

It wasn’t the News showing in WHVV but a private message (PM) that I had sent a day or two before… (No, I didn’t C/P the PM by accident.)

I removed the two posts and went looking for the News to redo the c/p. News was gone.

Did I mention the Crazy/super glue incident from yesterday?

Oh gee! I really need to stay away from that stuff! I opened a new tube… poked a hole in the end… and found my fingers glued to a block of wood and the tube itself!

I don’t know if this is better or worse than the time I accidentally glued the seat of my pants to the cushion of the swing chair. I know that it was a heck of a lot easier to get out of those britches than it is getting a block of wood off your fingers…

I know you guys think I am kidding when I say I ‘rake and curry’ the apartment’s rug but I ain’t!



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Well, I raked the floor yesterday… Oh man! The Newbie is shedding and he’s not half done yet. Newbie decided that he was going to supervise the raking and plopped himself right in the middle of the floor…

I am raking up wads of yellow dog shed… just a fussing again..me, not the Newbie..lolol Hmmmm! There on the floor, all stretched out … at ease… resting comfortably…not a worry in the world … taking up space… breathing my air…the still growing Newbie (Do they ever stop growing?)

I pause to consider the problem at hand… Dog is here.. fall out still on dog…Another AHA! I proceed to rake the dog! Oh yeah! I believe this is called ‘primary’ raking! Lolol Goofy dog loved it and I cracked up… He even rolled over so I could get his belly!

Problem is ya can’t get all this excess hair all gone at one time… lolol

Later… Take care all of mine. Go in safety always. Remember to carry a rake with you at all times… Ya never know when you might run into a Newbie type critter!

Many hugs and much love… the out of her mind, still giggling meems

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EMOM'S MOUNTAIN NEWS

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April 2009...

2009/6/11 1230hrs

Trip to town…Me been bad girl again!

OMG! I have the giggles just thinking about yesterday…

An aside here first! The Boss Man’s been at it again! I’m trying to dig up about 30 second’s worth of “nice” to say about the Garymeister… Give me a minute… hmmm… ahhhh…. Welllll…. Ponder, ponder… Wait! … I’m still thinking… AHA! Nope, that won’t do either!

I give up! Can’t think of a single unit of ‘nice’ to throw the Boss’s way! Gotcha Brat! ROFLMAO!

Seriously, this rotten kid whomped up a beautiful banner for the News in the IOWA group. It’s beautiful and well thought out… The boy’s been playing with Gimp and learning a lot… also developing a good eye for all things artistic. Take a look and visit this neat home style group. Thank you, Boss…

And Caredoe, thank YOU for inviting me to the group…. I think! lololol

Is that it? Can I quit now? The stress of being nice is causing me to break out in hives again! Now where did I put the benadryl?

Back to the trip to town… Oh my goodness… I laffed till I cried…Went to the Action Team and met with the USDA rep…Lordy Pete, that woman is patient…and quite bright! She poked at the calculater, read the reports, asked some questions… made out a new form… Seems like the good people in St. L forgot to credit my account with a few items…one of which was a part of my med expenses.

Anyhow, new figures show that my payments should be reduced by another $15 +/-. You all know I am terrible with numbers but a part of my brain kept saying ‘sumfin not right here’… My brain was right! Rueful here laff…Lolol

More coffee and feed the kitty… brb

Wow, I think I made the coffee a little too strong! Coffee mug is all charged up and ready to run!

Back to the trip to town… I saw a lot of rain/water damage. Mud slumps and slides all along the road way. Trees down… The mud slumps are the ones that worry me. The horizontal slices on the high side are visible from the road. Will they hold until I can get back home? How big are the boulders buried under the dirt?...This is part of the daily adventure when living in the mountains of KY. Don’t this sound like fun? Lolol

Was almost to Booneville when I passed a house with a big sign…FREE YARDSALE …? … As I was running a little early I did a sort of U turn and went back to look. Never want to over look a good free aka leftovers yardsale!
Didn’t stay long but I did find a couple of goodies…. A 24x36 canvas I can re-use after a few coats of primer. Two small gilded oval frames with canvas inserts… ditto on the re-using. A heart shaped trinket box (with lid) made by Pfalzcraft…not a scratch nor chip on it. A maple twin sized headboard (with which to make a flower bed…lol) I’m sure I’m forgetting sumfin.

I must mention that I checked everything I had with the lady… free? Yup, free. I still felt guilty… A nice young man helped me load stuff into the truck and off I went.

Next stop, the Action Team! YES! Lordy pete… lots of ppl running around in there and more laptops than you can count. Have no idea what that was about. None of my business but I did chat with several of the ppl in there… Then I ran into a cop!

Ladies, I’m here to tell you that feller was cute! Really purty! I kept trying to get him to agree to appear in my Christmas stocking or Easter basket or pumpkin or turkey or sumfin.

At first, he wasn’t too sure about the idea… But apparently he must have pondered on the idea… Came back … said he had reconsidered and wanted to know if I gardened! Took my breath away, it did! Gave me the vapors just thinking about working in his garden… lololol Bad Paula!

Any way, honest as always, I told him my sad tale of being allergic to the sun… Well, that took care of THAT! Shucky darns! Gots the giggles here but it’s the truth so help me! At least I didn’t get arrested…and Pogo hightailed it back to her office… lolol I think I shock her sometimes. She gets that “doe caught in the headlites” look every once in a while. Or I hear Paaaaauuuu - LAAAAAH!

The ppl working with their lap tops cracked up. I also did the ‘stripper’ for them. Remember Joe Namath and the shaving commercial? Wooooweeee…. Talk about giving one the vapors…Joe Namath, that is!

Had bad storms again early this morning…Trip to vet was cancelled… will tell you about that and the rest of the trip to town tomorrow…

BTW, I did finally get thrown out of the Action Team… A unanimous decision made by all as they picked me up, carried me outside and deposited me on the sidewalk! Lololol Locked the door behind me, they did! Lololol

Take care all of mine… go in safety always. Remember to look for the free yard sales of life… ya never know what you might find!

Many hugs and much love… The always into sumfin meems

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EMOM'S MOUNTAIN NEWS

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April 2009...

2009/6/9 1030 hrs

Mornin’ everybody… Get in here where it’s cool… Gonna be another hot and humid day!

I went out for a few this mornin’ to feed and water the dogs… Checked the flowers… Tiger lilies are starting to bloom… Put bunches of them along the property line…Now have the lilies and redbud trees and Russian olives growing there in the midst of the weeds.

I have a patch of some kind of flowers… from a distance, they look like red clover but these sure ain’t clover… I must have thrown a packet of perennials seeds out there last year. Might be the wildflower ‘Catchfly” Lolol I do that all the time and I have no idea what or where anything is. Could I be the Johnny Appleseed of the wildflowers and shrubs? I’m gonna take some pix of them later today.

The lower field is full of all kinds of seeds…Spread some Black Hollyhock seeds in there. Black cherry… Mimosa… What else…? Have no idea… lolol Is that organization or what? Lolol.. Each day is always a new adventure around here.

Remember what I said about my flyguys yesterday… Oh, you weren’t supposed to read the part about the ‘starkers’ but I bet you did anyway. Dintcha? Lolol

Well, when I went out this morning I had on shorts! A couple of my flyguys caught me… lolol (Do bare legs count?) Legs don’t look too bad on this lil old lady! Would I lie to you? Would these lovely green eyes LIE? (Wink, wink, Blink, flutter, batt) I sure would if I thot I could get by with it! Lolol Nah, I wouldn’t! Takes your choice on those last two remarks.

I think I am getting confused here. Also forgetful… I forgot to take out the trash last nite… Yeah, yeah, Boss, I know… now hush! I got carried away working on the Lady of the Flag. Starting to flow and work finally.. lolol I think I worked almost 3 hours non-stop. When I was cleaning the brushes and everything, I discovered it was almost one AM.

I felt good! There’s nothing like the exhilaration of a work going well! YES! Have to let it dry for a while before I do the finish work..maybe two days worth. Have all kinds of ideas falling out of my brain right now… just need to find the time to get them started.

Need to go into town tomorrow and meet with the USDA rep. I still don’t think the dollar amounts are correct even tho the payments have been lowered… Never hurts to check.

Well, the floor needs to be raked again! I’ve already cleaned up at least two dogs worth of hair from the Apartment Floor. Have another whole dog’s worth running around in here. When the Newbie sheds, he sheds!
I’ve given up on a backhoe for the kitchen… I’ve decided I need a road scraper…nothing less will do!

Guess that’s it for today.. I forgot to mention cleaning the puter table tops… lolol Papers all over the place…books waiting to be read…a telephone buried under the aforementioned…various and assorted goodies and munchies…and and and… Lolol

If I EVER manage to get organized, go to Confession! Catholic or not… Cause surely the world is coming to an end! (Don’t fret anybody; organization is not in my ‘book’ either)



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Take care all of mine.. Go in safety always. Remember to enjoy your clutter; it’s homey!

Many hugs and much love… The full of good intentions meems lolol

PS... Hey Easy!  Welcome back... glad to see you survived the wilds and the critters... Where's them pix?  lolol

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