Day 29

A Song From My Childhood:
My Home is in Montana

I am skipping ahead. I am too lazy today to search for what I am supposed to be posting. As nobody really comes here anymore it really does not matter at all. I can do what I like. That is the story of my life now. I am not sure that is a good thing.

I am not sure why but this song has stuck in my brain and when I think of all the songs that I did learn when I was a child this seems to come to the forefront on my mind first. I learned it in school when we were learning cowboy songs.

Day Five

30 Day Song Challenge

A Song That Reminds You Of Somebody:
When The Saints go Marching In
Louis Armstrong and Danny Kaye

This song reminds me of my dad. He used to play violin, very badly. He would play this song and we would sing. He had to stop often. He would grin and say that he needed more rosin on the bow, play on, more rosin and then play. My mom would try to get us to quit.

I love this clip. Danny Kaye was supposed to be my future husband back in those days along with:

Tony Curtis

and Kirk Douglas

So... I had not heard that multiple marriage was frowned upon, was called polygamy and was illegal. All I knew was that I wanted all three of these guys. You have to admit, they are pretty cute.

Pathetic

On the last day of November, I find myself happy that the month is over. It is not that I want Christmas to hurry and get here, it is more because I am tired of wracking my brain and trying to figure out something interesting to post. I feel that I have done a very poor job this year. I seem to have lost any of the little creative edge that I have had in the past. Maybe the posts will be better now that the pressure to produce is off and I can wait to post when I have something blog worthy.

It is still nice outside today but I am having trouble motivating myself to do anything. I was going to try to do some outdoor decorating. I would just like to sit and watch television but my satellite is acting wonky and I can't get it to work. I don't know what happened to it. I was going to go and change the channel and then everything went fuzzy and it says that there is no signal. I tried pushing all kinds of buttons. Nothing. I would watch a movie but somebody that I won't name took the DVD player into the basement and I don't know how to hook it up plus I don't think I can get it to work because I don't know what buttons to push or which remote to push them on. I used to know. I am going to have to write it all down. Mike has gone to work so I can't call for him to fix it. On my own, I am pathetic. I will have to go into the basement and see if that TV works. I guess if I watch down there, I can start to clean the basement and get it ready for Christmas, you know, haul out all the decorations and stuff. I should just go and have a nap. Frankie and Roscoe are. Sometimes animals are smart.

Grey Cup Sunday

It was nice to go away but it is always nice to be home. Frankie was a very happy dog to be home. She missed Roscoe. Tonight I heard her bay for the first time. She was so excited to play with Roscoe, she bayed. She was kind of a bad girl this evening and had trouble calming down. I have learned to simply put her into her crate until she settles herself down. It does no good to fight with her. When she winds like that she does not even listen to Roscoe even when he barks in her face. She just barks back.

Mike and I are choked about the Riders loosing the Grey Cup. For you Americans, that is the Canadian version of the Super Bowl. We lost because of an illegal substitution or in other words to many guys on the field in the last seconds of the game. Of course it should have never come down to that seeing as how they blew a big lead. Oh well, at least we made it to the Grey Cup and they had us going for pretty much the whole game.

How many more days in November? This is getting painful, NaBloPoMo that is.

Santa Parade

This evening I attended the Yorkton Santa Claus parade with the grand kids, Becky, Glen and Angela. The highlight was to touch the Olympic torch. Yup...I touched it. Then I held a candle that the torch group was handing out. Stood out there on the street holding my torch candle thingy slowly turning into a Popsicle. Where are the hot flashes when a person needs them.

Now I am back at Becky's and Glens waiting for Angela and Becky to get back from the store and make supper. It is 7:00pm. I think they are planning to make some kind of spicy Vietnamese soup. I think I will have toast and cereal. It is too late for spicy. I will not feel sorry for them when they are troubled with bad dreams and acid indigestion in the middle of the night although I am sure that they are long past coming to me to make it better so I should be safe, just in case you were worried.

The kids are all pumped up on candy they got from the parade. They gave me all their rejects but even some of those I had to reject so I passed them on to Glen. He gets all the Pete's Pucks candy. Seriously, who in the world would name their candy: Pete's Pucks? They taste like fruit flavored soap. Glen says that they are not too bad. It is an acquired taste. He must have ate a lot of Thrills when he was a kid. For those of you who don't know, that is soap flavored gum. Nasty stuff.

I love you El Nino

I love shopping on line. It takes a lot of stress out of Christmas shopping. What fun it is simply to wait for the postman. It is fun to go to the various on line stores and shop drinking a nice cup of java or hot chocolate. (snow soup as Ben and Sam call it) Hot chocolate helps put me in the Christmas mood. I can put my feet up. I don't have to worry about sore feet or sore hips. I can play my own Christmas music. I can sing along and not bother anybody.

The weather outside is delightful
The fire is not so frightful
Since we have no place to go
Don't let it snow, don't let it snow, I said no to snow.....

Hee hee...see...not bothering a soul.

Next week I am going to decorate the yard snow or no snow. Truthfully, I am hoping for the no snow. I am loving this weather. It was fun going out with Ben and Sam and the puppy and running through the leaves. I shall put up the tree as well. Bah...who needs snow! I love the no snow thing. Chris does not have to shovel! Yes! I love it. No to wet dog feet tracking into the house and no to winter boots blocking the doorway. No to getting stuck in the back alley and no to having to sweep the car off with my bare hands because I forgot to bring my gloves along.

It may look strange out there but I think I can get past that. Most probably, there will be snow. It is a rare thing not to have snow. I am thinking it will snow before Christmas. Sigh....

This evening, we are going to cook hot dogs outside and barbecue chicken. That wood smoke is going to smell fantastic. Like I said, I love this weather! With that said, I am heading out to enjoy some more sunshine. I am going to pour a cup of coffee and sip at that and read my book and listen to the neighborhood children play hockey on the street. You don't need snow for that. Floor hockey is fun. See! A no snow winter would be just fine.

Hmmm...not my best written composition. Oh well...to nice out to worry about that. Bye, going outside and am wearing only my sweater and again, loving it.

Frank And Beans

Not too sure of each other yet, claw covers and all. Poor Frankie looks terrified. She gives Libby Beans lots of room. Ni ether would cooperate and pose nice for the picture.

Frank is having a great time on our mini holiday. She has received lots of presents. The boys love to give her things. She even got a Christmas outfit. She will look very special visiting at the care home in it. I think she is missing Roscoe though. She loves to play with him the most.

How many more sleeps until November is over? This is getting harder everyday.

Sunshine, Children and Dogs

We are having another glorious bright fall day in Saskatchewan. I am loving it especially seeing as how it is usually winter in Saskatchewan at this time of the year. It is so nice to be able to put my rambunctious puppy outside and let her run her energy off playing with Roscoe. The kids are disappointed and want me to chase Roscoe into the house because Frankie would rather wrestle with him than play with them plus when they are playing Roscoe needs room the maneuver and he tends to bowl the children over if they don't get out of his way fast enough. In all fairness to Roscoe, room to maneuver is necessary as Frankie's idea of play involves chewing on everything including Roscoe. Benjamin loves to play with Frankie and is looking forward to me coming out to his place tomorrow and bringing Frankie along. He will have her to himself for a few days and not have to compete for her affections with a dog.

This morning I just about died laughing. Frankie loves to get hold of the luxurious fluff that surrounds Roscoe's hind end. She gets a pretty good hold on him and he can't dislodge her easily. He has tried walking along but she hangs on and and drags along. He has found a solution. He sits on her. About all that sticks out is her tail. It was not just a fluke because every time she gets a grip on him he sort of backs up to relieve the tension and then he sits. I find this hilarious. It doesn't seem to hurt her. His butt is pretty padded. We still have not got the cameras out and captured the puppy play. We have to do that before we leave tomorrow. I refuse to go until this is accomplished.

No Relief In Sight

I am feeling my age plus throw an extra ten or twenty years to that. I have been too busy the last few days gallivanting about. It is seven thirty and bed looks very attractive. Becky and I have about another hour of house work to do before I can start to think about it. Gadding about does not equal a clean house. I have a truck load of laundry. I don't understand how one person and one puppy can generate the amount that is piled up in the laundry room. Becky and I and Sammy and Ben and Hannah took Grandma Newson for lunch and shopping. She bought two new outfits and stocked up on Gold Bond. My feet hurt and my shoulders ache from putting the wheelchair in and out of the trunk but it was worth it. She has so few opportunities to have a day spent on whatever she wants to do.

Just in case you think I am exaggerating about how exhausting that all was, on the way home from dropping my mom off , Ben told me that he was very tired from all that walking about and he sure hopes that we don't plan to do that again anytime soon. I told him he was a very good boy today and helped us a lot. He said that was because he was wanted to get his prize. Haha! I guess his mother had bribed him.

The one thing that I had intended to get done today was not done. Tomorrow is another day but it is not looking much better as far as going full throttle is concerned.

He's So Cute

That is what Sammy says but in reality let me ask who is the cute one in this picture? Sammy was so happy because Libby Beans decided that she wanted to sit with him on his chair. I think in reality, Beans just wanted to see what Sam was having for lunch. I told Sammy that Libby Beans was a girl. In Sam's brain all animals are HE and in Sam's brain almost all of them are cute.





I had an eventful day that ended with girls night out at the theater to watch New Moon. I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. There is something about being in a room with so much estrogen hooting and giggling and clapping and swooning that just cracks me up. Now I am just plumb tuckered out and I am ready to go to bed. I have lots to do tomorrow so in a nutshell this is all you get folks. If you want to be entertained hop on over to Becky's. She had an eventful evening and has just about enough energy left to do a great post. You sure won't want to miss out hearing about the HEX and all and to hear about her take on the movie adventure. Hop on over to Mellisa's for another fab movie review. I am too tired to do it justice or to make sense. Oh, Thanks Jen for getting the tickets and for making them so special. It was a blast.

HaHaHa

I blew it! Yes. Hang your head in shame Chris. No prizes for you. I Noticed today that I missed posting yesterday. Bet you all didn't notice either. Oh well...that means that I don't have to try so hard now. I guess I was out gallivanting too much yesterday plus the grand kids came and it was too distracting. I would rather play with them. I even had something to post yesterday so I will post it today. For tomorrow maybe I will post and maybe I won't. Hee hee.

On further investigation somehow my computer has two posts as for Wednesday!!!! What in the world???? BECKY BECKY help. I thought I had published a post yesterday morning. I had it sitting as a draft and got up in the morning and published it. Can you not write something and save it as draft and have it published the next day and have it have that be that days date? I could have cut and pasted to post into the next days date if I knew that. This is not fair!

In my mind I am still in NaBloPoMo. In their mind I am not. What say you?

This picture was took just about three weeks ago. It looked like winter was here. The guys came to put the siding on the garage. They managed to pick the only day it snowed.

I took these pictures yesterday. I can't remember ever having flowers on November 20! The grass in the front of my house is still somewhat green. You British Columbia people I am LOL!

Door To Make Believe

Today is day three of Jientje's Open Doors challenge. So far so good. I have managed to find three doors that are somewhat respectable. I think that things may go downhill form here on. Be very glad that our dog doesn't have a dog house cause I probably would have resorted to taking a shot of that out of desperation. You can be sure that I will be frantically checking through my photos and hopefully come up with something. Check out Jientje's doors and check out the other participants by going through her Mr. Linky.

The Red Carpet

The young starlet gracefully exited her limousine and her beautiful diamond studded dainty heeled feet touched the red carpet. Hey this is my fantasy so not only can I be beautiful, I can be young as well! She shook out her long well coiffed tresses as flash bulbs went off all around her amid the cries of her fans pleading with her to stop and sign autographs. There were gasps of admiration over the dress she had designed herself and sighs of bliss as the fans caught whiffs of her perfume. It was an entirely new scent that she had created. From the looks of it she believed that her bank account was about to expand some more, not that it needed to. She quivered with excitement. Today she was attending the premiere of the first film that she not only acted in but had written, directed and wrote the musical score for. She was sure to get an Oscar for one of those categories. For her there was not better place in the world to be than at...

Grauman's Chinese Theater.

HONEY! Hello! WAKE UP! What is for supper? Why is the dog sleeping on the couch and are you planning on soaking those dishes until tomorrow? Sigh...it was fun while it lasted. Oh...do double click to get a better view.

Door to Misery

Continuing with Jientje's Door Challenge... make sure to go over and have a look. You can still join if you like. It is not too late. You don't have to play every day if you don't want to. If you have a picture of a door that is itching to get posted, hop on over. Just sign her Mr. Linky and you are in. The rules are simple. The photos that you use must belong to you. No filching from Mr. Goggle.

There are some doors are not nice. There are some doors you will never want to go through. This is probably one of the most freaky doors I ever went through. I don't think that I even stayed long enough for Becky to take a picture of me. Becky was not as freaked out as me. I really wanted her to get out of that cell. "GET OUT OF THERE BECKY!" I still don't like it. When I look at the picture, I wonder how many men had to stay in there, how many years and what did they do to get there? Can you feel the hopelessness, violence, anger, horror, depression, isolation, insanity and utter bleakness? Can you feel the goosebumps rise on your flesh caused from the ghosts of the place called...

ALCATRAZ!

Door To Frustration


Ding dang spinner quit again! I need some real pity here people. My work pants are trapped in there. I don't want to stock shelves naked. Well...I suppose that is a slight exageration.

Door To Nowhere

This week I have decided to participate in Jientje's photo challenge to post pictures of doors. I have enjoyed visiting her blog site: Heaven In Belgium. Go and check out her doors. You won't be disappointed. She is a photographer extraordinaire. We are allowed to use new and old photos just as long as they are are own. Without further adieu...what is behind door number one? Can you guess? Would you step out into the void? Can you hear the thunderous roar? Can you feel the cold mist spray your face. I think you should stay back here where it is safe! Because....

This is the backside of Niagara Falls