29 thoughts on “Rants and Raves 4-13-13”

  2. 😦 Neighborhood is going down hill. The Kid got int a fight yesterday with the little brother of the guy who stole his bike. Wish we could move but selling the house in this economy would be difficult. The house down the street has been for sale for years.

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  3. 🙂 Making good progress on all the work. (One completely finished as of last night, one nearly finished, one half finished, and two awaiting their turn.)

    🙂 Got a fun shipment of craft supplies yesterday I can’t wait to start using. (Mostly some gorgeous patterns and some new colors of paper.)

    🙂 A busy but good week.

    🙂 A husband who is good at “coming alongside” when I’m swamped in terms of letting meals be simple. (This was formerly the kind of week in which I ate a sandwich at my keyboard when I was too hungry to wait any longer to eat.) We got pizza early in the week, and that lasted three meals, and otherwise we’ve managed not to starve.

    🙂 Spring is coming.

    😦 Winter isn’t letting it come without another tussle or two.

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  4. 🙂 I’ll ditto Cheryl about having a husband who is great about adapting our meals when it is needed. He also helps cook at times and usually makes breakfast, like he did this morning.

    😦 The great washing machine search has been somewhat hampered by too much snow. Still questioning the best way for us to go on a new machine.

    😦 One of my uncles died this week. He wasn’t much older than my husband and was one of the younger ones. He had a rough life starting with a stint in Vietnam. Hopefully, he is now at peace.

    🙂 Grandson did very well at the Science Olympiad.

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  5. 🙂 Saturday. And Christmas is coming.

    😦 Memorial service today for our associate pastor who died after a long battle with cancer.

    🙂 Income taxes done and mailed. Now on to getting my car smog-checked so I can pay the registration. After that, I need to send in my homeowners’ insurance payment. After that, I need to mail in my AAA membership for the year. After that, I need to buy dog food. 😦 After that, I be broke.

    🙂 The cat seems to have discovered she really likes me. She’s been purring and kneading and trilling and nuzzling at the back of my head on the sofa all morning.

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  9. 🙂 After a roller coaster ride of opportunities appearing & then disappearing, my hubby finally is in the process of buying a bread route!

    🙂 It’s a very good route!

    🙂 AND the truck was thrown into the deal!

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  10. 😥
    Gator’s are leading Gamecocks 14-5 in the seventh. I’m beginning to lose interest.
    Cheryl’s baseball comment reminded me of Elvera.
    The South Carolina beat Michigan in the final minutes of the Outback Bowl. A great game. Elvera’s comment: “They run right into each other.”

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  11. Tomorrow, after church, we are having a deputy and his dog come out. The dog will sniff our car, searching for meth leavings. We don’t want our children riding in the car if it is going to be a health problem.

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  12. 😦 Lots and lots of coughing here most of this week (and last, and the week before…)

    🙂 Everyone who had it seems to now be past the worst of it. Today there was actually little coughing.

    🙂 I never got it! (Hoping I’m not speaking too soon!)

    🙂 We started back into the school routine today after taking the whole week off. That’s a smile for me, and even the kids seemed to enjoy getting back to routine rather than sitting around hacking all day.

    🙂 Hubby is working days now, 1:00 p.m. to approximately midnight. YES!

    🙂 Sixth Arrow isn’t used to her dad being up earlier in the day now. One morning this week when he was up before she was, she woke up, saw him awake, and said, “Shouldn’t you be sleeping?” 😉

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  16. 🙂 Saw “42” tonight, an excellent film though hard to watch in some spots. This film was set in the decade before I was born, but it just wasn’t all that long ago when racism was so virulent. 😦 Horrible reminder of part of our not-so-admirable past.

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  17. Cheryl, when the fourteen year old girl had the accident and broke her head, we loaned the car to the mom so she could drive up and say good bye to the daughter. We had met the daughter but not the mom or her boyfriend. The daughter did not die. We let her continue to use the car for several months as she was making monthly trips up there. Turned out they were also using it for their purchases and deliveries. They put fifteen thousand miles on it, wore out the tires, and drove it without watching the oil. She is the woman I have been trying to support and encourage into a shelter. She is there and trying to get into a two year dry out and recovery program. Meanwhile, the car……

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  19. 🙂 Part of “42” was filmed at Rickwood Field down here in Birmingham. It is the oldest surviving professional baseball park in the United States.It has been in several movie about baseball.

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  20. 🙂 Yesterday The Kid and I went to the Oak Mt. State park to do research on a school report on Alabama Wildlife. While there we went to the petting zoo and saw a baby goat, took a hike on the tree top trail, had a picnic, he talked me into letting him go swimming, though we didn’t have a towel and found all we needed for the report. Fun day.
    😦 Wish Hubby had been here. He’s in South Carolina working.

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  23. 😯
    Elvera’s in there watching the Masters.
    She’s never had a golf club in her hand. Not in all her life.
    She thinks the purpose of the game is to hit the little ball and chase it.
    She has it mostly right.

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  25. 🙂 Relaxing, cool afternoon at the dog park (it’s looked like it’s going to rain all day here, in the 50s).

    There was a battle of the titans, though, when two Great Danes — Shak and Hiccup (because he had the hiccups when they brought him home as a puppy) — were going at it, play wrestling on their hind legs. Both dogs are the size of ponies, of course. And Cowboy, who came up to maybe their hips, kept trying to get into the act and hump Hiccup. Bad idea.

    😦 Annie the cat seems to be under the weather for the past couple days. She’s not eating her wet food (not sure how much of her dry food in the other room she’s consumed) and she’s just lying around a lot — she vanished all afternoon but was back in her crate on the front porch when I got home from the dog park. Usually she pops down the front steps to escort us in, but not today.

    But last time she did this (when she was still a fairly “new” cat to me), I panicked and, in an over-abundance of caution, took her in to the vet. After $500 worth of tests that showed everything was fine, she snapped right out of it. So I’m going to wait a while this time, hoping she’s back to herself in the next day or two.

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  27. Yeah, that’s what I figure … She’s just not “herself” — she’s usually so interactive, meowing and rubbing up against me and the dogs, never missing mealtime.

    But she’s just been kind of curled up lately, completely ignoring feeding times and her meow is very weak. 😦 But she looks (and moves), OK. I gave her a cursory once-over last night, didn’t see any wounds or injuries or other problems under her fur from a possible fight.

    For now she still is on the front porch, hoping to coax her inside before bedtime at least.

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  29. Thanks, Karen! Yeah, Cowboy likes to hump some dogs; I don’t know if it’s because he was neutered rather “late” in life (when I got him at probably 18 mos?) or what. But it’s a favorite “game.”

    🙂 Ran into a recent colleague at the dog park, who’s joined the more financially secure “Khaki” Brigade of the post-journalism PR set. He misses the newsroom, as depressing as it’s become.

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