Never missed "Meaghan The Mover" so much. About three years ago she showed up just in time to stack three cords of split oak. To let history repeat itself she later that same year arrived in Wisconsin Rapids just in time to eat turkey, celebrate her birthday and do it again! Well let the chain be broken. Yesterday I had three cords of split oak delivered. It is all stacked! Four rows! Each five feet high. Do you know why each stack is only five feet high? Becuz wood can't fly!
My new best friend is Mr. TwoWheel Wheelbarrow. Argued with my man cuz he didn't see why such a "Cadillac" was necessary. Ron said, "It is over the top...all I need is a one wheeler." Oh, how wrong he was. Didn't tip once. My new best friend. I nicknamed it "Big Balls." Can you tell I am at the cabin and truly experiencing my real life version of "Castaway." Mr. Ron is canoeing the Ketico. I sent him with gel pocket warmers. Hope he remembers to use em. I had a dialog about my lack of desire to be cold, wet and in a canoe. I said, I don't think I could portage enuf "firewater"...My BFF replied, "Yah, and I don,think anyone has learned to dehydrate alcohol."... Love my creature comforts. Coffee, Lopi fireplace, and Baileys.
Only one store I like to shop at besides TJMAXX. When in Duluth must do a field trip. Best kept secret in Duluth is USA FOX+FURS. WWW.USAFOXX.COM
I needed a catalog. Got an invitation to someones "39th" with the P.S. "No Gifts Please." Perfect time to give the gift of..."Buy your own dam beaver coat."
So I get to chat with the owner and also get to go through all the coolers where they hang pelts. Everything ready to be tailored to your specs.(I reminded myself I was not there for me.) I found out a fox, beaver, mink, or even bobcat are sold by quality and priced accordingly each starting at about $35.00/pelt. To make a long story even longer I volunteered this born Duluthian moved five years ago to Wisconsin. Wayne, the owner; asks me if I had ever been to Wisconsin Rapids. Not Madison, not Milwaukee, not Green Bay, but Wisconsin Rapids (Population 18,634.)? Seems the nations number one premier Raccooneer lives in Rapids. (Cut to the case...) I called up Jack T.
My raccoons are going into "Witness Protection". Well I can't call it "Winter" Protection.
Ooh Contrare..contrare!
I have had six wryly raccoons live trapped and removed. I asked Jack if he wants them. As this is May they aren't harvestable till winter. Something about "shed in spring..dread in the winter" if you are a wryly raccoon. Mr.'T' has land and I have live raccoons. 'I just love it when a plan comes together!' And Jack also "Picks Up and Delivers."
In 1971 Ron and Jack graduated from Assumption.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Indigo Bunting
Today I awoke to (look above) this! I broke in to song! Now the dogs not only know I am "nuts" but so does Mr. Ron. (I am off to do breakfast ...an attempt at redemption)
It isn't Glee...It's better...'click here'
I am impressed with a package I got in the mail yesterday. This was my first from Germany. This was from the girls and it had...Well I think I'll post another pic.....
It is the three jeweled birds right and left which the girls sent from Germany for me. I am told they are hand made. I happen to know the "hand made" part wasn't something my offspring did. But this was so sweet and I had spent the day removing stairway carpeting with my bare hands. Toughest job in all of the land. I swear carpet installers get paid by the tack strip and the amount of metal spikes they can get in to each tread.
I am off the pull more carpet today and get Gretchen's room back to "unremodeled." But I just saw a
Baltimore Oriole...They make their nest in hanging baskets if you remember your first grade teacher. I do. Her name was Mrs Kanerva Anderson. She got all five of the King kids I think. She should be Canonized!
I remember mom telling Martha to please not talk about their "cocktail parties" at "Show N Tell". Mrs. Anderson would say, "Barbara does that chair have your name on it? I would look. She was always "right...it didn't and I moved on to an empty one for "reading circle".
I got my first "I" from Mrs. Anderson. She wrote, "Barbara is unsure of her phonics."
It was devastating. All "S's" and one bigger than life "I" for "Improvement" needed. Those "I's of life stay with you for a lifetime...
What is it Deb says...."Well, you can't fix stupid."
Post Script..After the Oriole hit the window and did survive.. I install "Stealth" Bat Wings. Now I only attract small beaded birds from Germany.
Post Post Script. . . and raccoon hair on the feeders too. Equal Opportunity Bon Appetite!
Post Post Post Script: Got the bedroom done and Gretchen said, "I can't wait to sleep in my bed this summer." And there is a rumor Josh will be home (in Germany) by my and Ron's 36th Wedding Anniversary. Best gift ever! Meg's is also loving her new computer...Best gift ever 2!
I remember mom telling Martha to please not talk about their "cocktail parties" at "Show N Tell". Mrs. Anderson would say, "Barbara does that chair have your name on it? I would look. She was always "right...it didn't and I moved on to an empty one for "reading circle".
I got my first "I" from Mrs. Anderson. She wrote, "Barbara is unsure of her phonics."
It was devastating. All "S's" and one bigger than life "I" for "Improvement" needed. Those "I's of life stay with you for a lifetime...
What is it Deb says...."Well, you can't fix stupid."
Post Post Script. . . and raccoon hair on the feeders too. Equal Opportunity Bon Appetite!
Post Post Post Script: Got the bedroom done and Gretchen said, "I can't wait to sleep in my bed this summer." And there is a rumor Josh will be home (in Germany) by my and Ron's 36th Wedding Anniversary. Best gift ever! Meg's is also loving her new computer...Best gift ever 2!
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Sweet Cheeks
You Have MY Heart
Everyone needs a little singing and dancing now and again and leave it to me to deliver. If singin' in the Rain didn't grab you then perhaps this will or will not.
Forget You
And I am 'Blogging In" today to tell you and PETA the raccoons are all alive and thrivin on sunflower seeds and peanuts...and..
My advice is never clean your kitchen cupboard.
I have spent hours...literally hours just trying to find things. I made the mistake of asking Ron to help me but the score was tied with only four minutes left in the televised basketball game. This gave me another thirty minutes to locate the cheesecake pan. I was so sure cleaning the pantry was a task in need of "DO diligence" and the results have been a lot of time spent frustrated and second guessing myself as to if I kept the parchment paper or threw it away? I have organized my last pantry. I have no more time for such foolishness. I have created Chapter 2 "Senile Pantry Moments" in my never to be published "F____ THE GOLDEN YEARS...Chapter One "Life's A Trap."
(Actually that book was Mother Mary's joke. Mom always spoke about a plan to pen such a book. Makes me laugh just remembering.)
So besides not being able to find anything I did cut a hole in the deck this week and put in a hinged door to end the ladder climb when the curcuit breaks itself. May sound pretty useless to the masses but I am married to Mr. Can't Fix-It and Mr. Don't Want To: Affair with two men...and never the two shall meet! I am so naughty!
Hanging...
A Mother's Day meltdown For Josh And Grr
Everyone needs a little singing and dancing now and again and leave it to me to deliver. If singin' in the Rain didn't grab you then perhaps this will or will not.
Forget You
And I am 'Blogging In" today to tell you and PETA the raccoons are all alive and thrivin on sunflower seeds and peanuts...and..
My advice is never clean your kitchen cupboard.
I have spent hours...literally hours just trying to find things. I made the mistake of asking Ron to help me but the score was tied with only four minutes left in the televised basketball game. This gave me another thirty minutes to locate the cheesecake pan. I was so sure cleaning the pantry was a task in need of "DO diligence" and the results have been a lot of time spent frustrated and second guessing myself as to if I kept the parchment paper or threw it away? I have organized my last pantry. I have no more time for such foolishness. I have created Chapter 2 "Senile Pantry Moments" in my never to be published "F____ THE GOLDEN YEARS...Chapter One "Life's A Trap."
(Actually that book was Mother Mary's joke. Mom always spoke about a plan to pen such a book. Makes me laugh just remembering.)
So besides not being able to find anything I did cut a hole in the deck this week and put in a hinged door to end the ladder climb when the curcuit breaks itself. May sound pretty useless to the masses but I am married to Mr. Can't Fix-It and Mr. Don't Want To: Affair with two men...and never the two shall meet! I am so naughty!
Hanging...
A Mother's Day meltdown For Josh And Grr
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