Snowstorm?

I think I heard it mention that we might get a little snow later today.
YEAH, YEAH, YEAH.......heard it before and will hear it again and we never seem to get any accumulation.
Whatever.
I will believe it when I see it.

And you will see it here when I see it because I will take pictures!

WHY?


Because I just love the SNOW! Didn't I ever say that before?

"B's" New Lady

He's Still Got It!!!

I can remember going Mall shopping in the first few months I met Shank and finding that lots of women at those Malls would flirt with him like I was invisible. And our kids were invisible too. Some women just have no conscience I guess. Some women just have no shame and will try to get any man, any how, any where. Anyhow, he has told me from the beginning not to worry, and I can say for the most part I haven't. I said for the most part. I had a not so trustworthy husband the first time around and so I tried to keep my eyes wide open.





Which brings me to the past few months. Shankie does a lot of walking. Good exercise, Good for the heart and good for the mind. I do my best to keep up with him, but for the past year haven't gotten to do as much as I would have liked, for a lot of reasons. I have to say though that if I want to keep him I had better get my butt in gear as for a while now, when he is walking there is a certain divorcee' in town that keeps trying to pick him up. Now I am sure this is good for his ego, I mean who wouldn't want the opposite sex trying to pick them up. Its nice to know we still have it even after years of marriage. As long as we tell our partners all about it! And the only way Shankie would ever take a ride from another woman was if it were Kimmie. :)


Now the "Husband Stealer" is a bit older I believe as I have known her for quite some time as she knew my mother and my mother told me a lot about her. She is however not a bad looking woman either. She has come to every yard sale my mother and I ever had here and walks by our house every day and will wave and sometimes stop and inquire how my dad is doing.



So I guess I am just going to have to make it a point to walk with Frank to see if Ole Lady S----e will try to pick us both up...Like that would happen. I am not the smartest person on this earth but not the stupidest either. (is stupidest a word?) All I can say she better be watching out for me as I am on to her and I think I need to quote from my late mother-in-law, Phyllis and say that Ole Lady S----e better never meet up with me in a dark alley.......





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although I think she could take me. :(

Brrrrrrrrrrrr.................

I was forced into taking a walk in below zero temperatures




GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.........

Current Mood......Still Steamed

ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.
1.
steamed - cooked in steam; "steamed clams"
cooked - having been prepared for eating by the application of heat
2.
steamed - aroused to impatience or anger; "made an irritated gesture"; "feeling nettled from the constant teasing"; "peeved about being left out"; "felt really pissed at her snootiness"; "riled no end by his lies"; "roiled by the delay"
annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, stung
displeased - not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure

Steamed.....As in #2. And, Any of the above will work but I wanted to use a word less vulgar.....................................this time.

Deer Update

As usual there is more to the Lost Pet Deer Story.

Late last night a lady came to our back door. Saying she had heard that we "found" a deer.

(I guess my blog gets out to more than I thought?) :)

Anyhoo, she went on to tell a story of Ramsey.

Ramsey was third born of a doe that had wandered onto her property and died, just after giving birth. The other 2 died quickly and "Ramsey" had a bad hind leg. Evidently she took the deer to the vet and he said it could be a deformity but it may also drop as he got older. She said they set up a pen for him and figured if he ever got big enough to jump the fence and leave..maybe that was the best. But she also said she had tried to contact several places to see if it was legal for her to keep him, like maybe get a permit/license, but had not had much luck. She said Ramsey was 7 months old and was so worried about him being on his own, she wanted to find him.

We watched yesterday and the deer did stay in the field across from us most of the day. We told her that, but she was none too happy that he wasn't still there. Of course it was too dark to see anything so she was planning to come back today and look around the fields.

We left our outside lights on for a bit last night just in case as we were telling her that every time we turned on our lights Ramsey would show up. She smiled as she said he knows when the lights come on its feeding time.

We knew it.

Oh Deer!

Yesterday was a sort of usual day until we went to let the dogs out to find this.




Yes this is what it looks like.....
a Deer with a Red Collar!


We took a few pics (quickly and not the greatest) but enough to show this is a Deer and it is wearing a collar!



To try and make a long story short......we just thought at first the deer was scared of the dogs, as we do see quite a few deer cross the road from the farm across the road through our yard, but then noticed it was hurt on its hind leg. We assumed it may have gotten hit and was just trying to find a place to curl up to die. We watched it through the window for a while and it never seemed to move. We quit watching until it was time again to let the dogs out. I let the dogs out and tried to walk in front of them just in case it was still around....much to my surprise there it was right under my bedroom window up against the house and staring at me....nearly scared the poo outta me! I rustled the dogs back in and called my brother (the deer hunter) to see what was best to do..little then did I know it had a collar on. My brother called the Conservation Officer dispatch for us and Shank decided to wait on the front porch for them. Oh my goodness it was not expected then to have the deer come up to Shankie who was awaiting on the porch and dang near put its head on Shankies hand. Shank being a bit apprehensive stayed back for a bit until every time I came to the door it tried to come towards me too! This of course is when we noticed the collar. That's when I decided to take the pictures as I was telling my brother this and he did not believe me....I think he was surely thinking I may have lost my mind. But, this has been someones pet and it had gotten big enough to jump over the fence obviously and hurt itself. When the officer came he didn't have the heart to shoot it as it didn't seem too bad off just limping around...it really seemed quite harmless and just wanted to eat.


After coaxing it over into the field we thought it would be ok...or we hoped it would. We later decided to go out to check again and much to our surprise it was hopping down the road to the neighbors house! We had turned off our outside lights and it was all dark here and over there it was very light...I think it was going to find somewhere else to find food! Shank being such the animal lover he is, was worried that a car was going to hit it again and so he shined his light over to see that it was ok and that was all the deer needed to turn around and come charging towards us! Like we had rang a bell or something that said "COME ON HOME FOR DINNER!"
Not knowing exactly what was going to happen...we ran like crazy getting into the house!
It was sure an unusual site and one we won't forget soon...as she is still here waiting for something to eat I believe. Got any ideas?

Dang Lucky

For several years I fell every day and sometimes several times a day. I haven't done that for a while, since having ankle surgery and taking some medication that combats my dizziness.
Thank God for that.
I was having a good time recently helping "B" (definition of "helping" = supervising) remodel his bathroom. Being he was remodeling.....the toilet was not in and being the only bathroom in the house when it was my time to go....I had to do just that, GO. Somewhere else that is. I got into the car and went to the nearest Micky D's. I was careful where I parked, took my keys locked my doors and had cell phone in hand. Shank would have been proud. Since this was the second time to go there to use their facilities, I felt compelled to buy something. I got French fries and a Coke. I deserved a break that day.
As I approached my car I realized I forgot to get my keys out of my pocket and so changed hands with the food and drink and with my left hand used the remote to unlock my doors. That's the last thing I remember before feeling like I had been beaten to death and found myself laying on the concrete with my arms stretched out and halfway under my car laying on top of my fries and coke! Realizing I had fell and being the weirdo I am, was hoping not to have caught the eye of anyone to see my misfortune, all I could think of was to jump up quickly...although I realized then I had hit both of my knees and was regretting that I may have in a quick second undone the surgery I just had done on them both. I honestly didn't know where I was going to muster up the strength to move...let alone get up. But I did. And I quickly looked around and noticed a couple in a truck two over from my car. I then reached into the car to lay down what was still in my hands. I was then going to just get in and leave but my Coke and Fries were all over and I just could not for the life of me leave them.
Yes..weirdo.

As I bent over to clean up the mess I noticed in the window of my car that my fall had been such that my ponytail had came out also. I grabbed my rubber band and pulled it back up and threw away the trash and got into the car as quick as I possibly could, all the while giving a "look" to the couple who were still sitting in their truck watching me. I mean why not just holler out if nothing else..HEY ARE YOU OK OVER THERE?
Anyhow, I wanted to just leave as fast as possible as this is just the sort of thing Shankie worries about when ever I go anywhere alone. And I was going to get myself together if it killed me before I got back to "B's".
Yeah right.


Where were my keys? NOWHERE I tell you. I looked everywhere in the car and they were nowhere to be found. I had them...I used them just before all hell broke loose and I decided to black out, I used them to open the doors. I thought I had put them in the car just before picking up my fries and coke. Yeah they had to be in there. But they were not. OK so they were in my hand so they have to be under the car. That's where my hands were. They weren't. I looked and looked until I was getting fuzzy. It seemed like I had been there for an hour. I already had to pee again. I even thought I may have inadvertently threw them into the trash can and even went over and looked into it and dug out each sack in there...LUCKY for me there was a new bag in and only a few items in it...The people in the drive thru didn't know that tho and I am sure they were thinking all kinds of things...and I just wanted to grab my sack of fries and put one in my mouth just to give them something to talk about.........but I didn't.


But I wanted to.
So I had to call B and Shankie. I could not find those dang keys.
It took a bit but finally Shankie found them. There was a LARGE Truck (I think a Ford F650) next to my car and LUCKY for me too it never left the whole time I was there. Shankie knows how I fall and knew to look up, down and all around. LUCKY for me again. He found them up in the Windshield Wipers of that Truck.


What a nightmare. Just to pee.
I was LUCKY and didn't hurt myself too bad, But my knees are bruised up and cut and my right arm is still killing me. Don't know what I did to make it hurt this bad. Hurts so bad I haven't used the computer much. I really do not know what happened...but that's how it goes when I fall.
I mostly have a bruised ego.
I guess that will be ok too in a few days. I think I deserve another break though......I never did get to eat those French Fries.

Weather Forecast for This Evening....

A bit of snow I think........

Worth Every Penny

Lil Bit is having such a hard time this year...trying to find just the right place to lay down that is comfortable enough for her. I have tried just about everything I could think of, that I could afford that is. Nothing seemed to work. I found this one day of all places, at Menard's. We found that they had dog treats there last summer when we were shopping around for doors. We were there recently with "B" while he was getting some plumbing fixtures and I decided to go back and check out the doggie treats....there it was and only $9.98, kinda ugly but it looked soft enough and almost big enough and I just decided to go for it.....I am so glad I did. We put it down and she immediately got into it and does each time she sees it. Its a bit snug, but evidently that's just what she was looking for.

It's Officially a New Year when..........

I put my new "ELVIS" calendar up!

Thank God I finally found one I liked....and didn't have!

I Am a HYPHEN-ATOR

A hyphen ( ‐ ) is a punctuation mark. It is used both to join words and to separate syllables. It is often confused with the dashes ( –, —, ― ), which are longer and have different functions, and with the minus sign ( − ) which is also longer. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation.


Which brings me to today's post.
Recently Shank had to register in at the hospital for a test. As we have both done too many times to mention. Sometimes you get the nastiest person the hospital could find to fill that job. Other times you get the nicest. This particular day we got a real nice lady who not only laughed at our jokes as we often do when having to fulfill an awful task like getting some test done to see if you can possibly have something you really don't want, need or have the time for, much less having to sit and go through all the questions that are the same and the answers are the same and you are so nervous about the test so you sit and make stupid jokes hoping you get a person who knows this is a rough time and actually gets it. This was such a lady, I will call her "Nickie."
As we were going through the usual, name, address, age, insurance card crap, Nickie finishes with most of the questions she had for Shank and began to inquire on his "wife's" information. As she spoke my name and looked at me with a question mark look, but laughing at the same time as if she knew I was the wife, Shank being the never ending jokester came back with..."Oh oh, excuse me, no you mean my wife..no this is my girlfriend..oh how awkward!" Of course this got a big laugh. She explained how she tries not to assume anything when it comes to that information, so not to embarrass anyone, and we just joked with her a while as she tried to finish up her paperwork. As she did she could not quite come up with my information as quickly as she would have liked....she started to get frustrated and I decided to offer a suggestion as I knew why this may be happening.
My last name has a hyphen included as I kept my last name prior to marrying the Shankster. More often than not, this seems to be an ever confusing thing for most when it comes to any kind of paperwork or computers. But my name is such for a good reason and it is that way on my records and you have to include it correctly. But before I could say anything she notices my name but does not include the hyphen but also does not give me any room to jump in to help her enter it in correctly. Instead she starts in talking about the women who use both maiden names and married names like this and how some are just ran together and some are simply spaced apart. She goes on to talk about how she can have a problem with it all and....WALLA... all of a sudden she realizes that she had to include the hyphen....she kept talking for what seem like an hour and it looked like she maybe starting to run herself underground and to keep her from saying anything that would make it too uncomfortable for both of us I just jumped up from my chair and said.."Hello, I am Dona Blankity-Blank and I am a HYPHEN-AT OR!! And I am proud of it." And with that the Shankster jumped up too and said "And I fully support her." I thought Nickie would pee her pants with laughter. I then got to explain why I hyphenate and she being a divorcee with child understood and confessed she was an illegal hyphenator during her child's school days. It sure was more relaxing going into the testing area laughing instead of worrying.


Now I tried to look it up before posting to not look too stoop id on my spelling..but I am guessing hyphenator is not a real word...Ok, so I made it up, sue me. But if you were in my mind hearing how I say it....its funny.
If you have ever seen a movie called FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR/1986....just say Hyphenator that way.
Its funny....I crack myself up

Did Somebody Say.....................

SNOW?

YAHOOOOEEYY!!!!!!!!!!