Happy Saturday!

Good morning – it’s Saturday – one of my favorite days of the week. I got up around 7am and have spent most of the morning out here on the deck with the dogs watching the birds, perusing the paper, on the laptop, etc. It’s starting to really warm up now so my time out here is limited – besides, we need to go buy dog food.

I played with my little camera this morning. It had been cutting off in the middle of taking videos, so I reviewed the owner’s manual and it suggested reformatting the card. I did and it has seemed to do the trick.

The picture for today is one of Boxer and Sydney from this morning – we had some nice quality time sitting on the desk and watching nature around us.

I think Mir’s in the shower – and as soon as she’s done we’ll take off to do some errands.

Later. gator.

Feeling Better


I’m finally starting to feel better. Took a high powered cough medicine last night and it really helped me to get a good night’s rest.

Boxer had a rough week, too. Took him in to get his teeth cleaned and he ended up with two fewer teeth – two were loose and needed to be removed. We’re thinking one of them might be related to when he was shot with BBs as a pup – one hit his mouth (he lost part of his tongue).

In addition to the teeth, we had a skin tag removed and another little thing removed – it’s being biopsied – hopefully, that will come back normal.

It’s been a long week for all of us. Tomorrow, I’m off. Thank goodness.

Under the Weather

I’m sick today. Haven’t been sick in almost two years (well, except for my frozen shoulder – but I don’t consider that “sick”). Am blogging until the meds kick in and I’m off to bed to see if I can nip this thing before it goes any further.

Remember that the land line gets cut today.

Okay, I’m tired – going to bed.

Vote Obama

Ahhh, our lovely home, and yes, the Obama sign is there – listen, folks, unless you want more of the same, you gotta vote Obama. If you care about the war in Iraq, about global warming (and yes, it’s really happening and yes, mankind, is to blame for the rapidity at which it is happening), health care, social security – well, then your bests interests are best represented in electing Obama. However, if you like things just the way they are – and/or worse – well, then McCain’s your man. I, for one, am ready for a change.

This country needs a change!

I took this picture of one of our hummingbirds this morning – we love to watch them.
I was also called into service this morning. Genny wasn’t up to going to church, so I sat with her for a few hours this am while Buddy went to church. My guitar accompanied me and I played nearly non stop all that time. I must not have hit too many bad notes, because Genny said it relaxed her. She was kind of funny – she woke up and said, “Well, I slept through that one.” And in my mind I’m thinking, actually, Genny, you slept through the last five – it just seemed like one to you. Anyway, I got in some good practice and played a bunch of music I hadn’t seen for months. And Genny is really good for my ego – she loves all my playing and never seems to hear my mistakes!

Another Saturday Evening


It’s Saturday. I’m sitting here playing on the computer while Miriam irons her clothes for work. Yes, she will go in tomorrow morning for a few hours. While she’s away, I will play. Not sure yet what I’ll do.

It’s been a nice weekend so far. It was overcast and a little rainy today – but it was great for working in the yard – so we mowed and edged and trimmed – now it looks real nice. We like to have curb appeal.

I need to get out and take some pictures and post them here.

Oh yes, we have killed our land line – yes, we’re stepping out on the edge and going to cell phone only. We’ll see how they hold up if we have a hurricane this year.

Just for fun, I thought I’d post a picture of Peanut at the beach.

Ciao.

Week Three of 4/10

It’s now week three of working 4/10 schedule. I’m looking forward to having tomorrow off – I do feel a bit tired – part of that is because I didn’t sleep well the other night and haven’t caught up. So far, the last two Fridays have been very busy ones – both days I had to stay home in the morning because we had the garage door people here. I’m looking forward to getting an earlier start on errands tomorrow – maybe I’ll have time for a nap later in the day.

No guitar lessons again until September – we’re on summer hiatus now. Actually, it works out fine for me. I think I needed a break.

Since I hadn’t posted one before, I decided to post a picture of our fence.

The Fence is Up

For those of you in the know, our new fence is up – tomorrow they come to finish up and work on a short punch list we have put together.

It is such a relief to know that we can let the dogs out and not worry that they have to contend with the little terrors next door or that Peanut is going to climb the fence. We spent the entire weekend cleaning things up and putting down some new mulch. We hope to have a “fence party” sometime soon to celebrate the fortress!

I want to get more into this blogging thing – but, man, it’s sometimes hard to find something interesting to talk about. So, I need to take a page out of Carrie Bradshaw’s work – find a theme and write about it. So, I will think about a theme and when I come up with one I will write about it.

That’s all for now. Bye.

We’re in pre-vacation mode. Created a long list of things we need to do before June 7 – we spent most of the day running around and only really completed one item on the list. But, we did get Father’s Day cards – at least we’re ready for that. Had lunch at Outback – burger and beer! Yummo!

This evening we spend several hours watching Sex and the City – into season 3 – but the darn dvd player started acting up – I’m thinking that after about 3 hours of running it gets hot and starts to malfunction. The player cost about $40 – sometimes buying cheap isn’t a good idea. So, no more tonight.

In the meantime, Peanut crawled into Mir’s lap. Ain’t she precious?