breno knits

Gwilliams

2011-01-29T11:32:00.003-05:00

I read COMA when I first saw that! LOL! I needed that. Should be. but, takes you there. Go figure! Mine is so basic. Not always up-to-date either. I started it more as a diary that I was writing to keep "you" informed. That's whom I'm talking to when I refer to the third person! I intend to eventually print the pages and do something with them that way. That all takes time and I don't have extra to spare for that right now. Besides it's safe and not too personal, like talking to a friend. Start one! You can always quit! brenda The other day I got a message from a good gal on Swap-bot. All right! Now you know where I've been. So sue me! Not really. I'm broke. Social security, you know! Anyway I digress, the thing was entitled comma and I, in my haste, read COMA, hence this was my reply to her because she's thinking about starting a blog.

Week too short!

2011-01-22T18:01:00.003-05:00

There is just way too much to do!! I'm not feeling it!! Haircut and doctor's appointment both coming up this week. Plus you don't realize how many swaps I have to finish! I need to find my Velveeta box for my spoon, too. Unless of course I already gave it away!! Possible! Not likely, but still always an off chance! Now where did I put my mind? I had it!!

Too much! Way too much!

2010-12-18T21:58:00.001-05:00

All right! I found way too much sewing stuff on the net!! Way too much! The shwinn site is loaded with Jill stuff!

So I missed another

2010-11-28T21:06:00.002-05:00

Ther was a time when I would not miss one. Seems long ago! It's not that I am or was ill at the time but.........It makes me sick to think how lightly I take this now, 40 years later.

Today is a day

2010-11-13T18:44:00.005-05:00

That was a line from a Mickey Mouse Club song. I have been looking all day for a pattern suitable for a purse so that I could use a suit coat. Found this one. Not sure! But maybe! Matt wants to watch BUZZ on youtube so I'm getting thrown off!! Two! He could have been, you know! More fun!!

Swimming

2010-11-02T22:06:00.001-04:00

Matt took his first class at the FUNTIME Scuba. He loved it. So much fun! Nola. Michael, and Aunja came in from Marios.

I spend

2010-11-02T22:01:00.001-04:00

Oh yes I do! Now I have a new site for a wristlet!! If only there were more time!! Sigh! Wait your turn javajem!

so much for that

2010-10-02T19:59:00.003-04:00

Well! Cody came to help on the closets. So when Nola and I got back from Crawfordsville,(We bought the paint at ACE there!)I made brownies. Treat! Gone!! Then Cody says that I should try again because I can do better!! Yeah! Right! I put chili powder in those!

new HAT

2010-10-01T21:23:00.003-04:00

It's not that I need one but badamy has one that she posted in May 2010 and I want to make it!! Right after I get everything else in my life done. Well at least the things already OTN. Well at least the Mustard scarf because I need that needle size for the hat. So theoretically I could get it started tomorrow IF i quit this and knit.

Sorry, but I've been

2010-09-27T14:02:00.003-04:00

This is not even a whole year of posts Harder than I thought. I think the hardest part is not finding something to write about, but rather just logging in. Seems I get sidetracked. Then there's the stupid sticky keyboard. ARGH! I do like to type ARGH though. Kind of a universal frustration word! Now as to what I did while you were waiting--I knitted. There's a yarn shop in Evansville. And I did order from LOOPS in Tulsa. Martha, River Wools, misses me, I'm sure. Right now I am goin to go check Ravelry for a vertical shaw!!

7 percent

2010-09-14T20:42:00.002-04:00

Tonight I heard, on NBC Nightly News that only 93% of women wash their hands after using the bathroom. This compared with 77%, I think, of men! I want to know what the 7% are thinking. Got It! That the sink is more germy than the toilet. Let's clean up those sinks and provide soap! While that's interesting, I can't help but be reminded of the tenth of an inch of snow Herndon, Va. received! Their first measurable snow! Come on! Give me a break!! Who draws those assignments anyway?

otn socks

2010-09-14T14:16:00.003-04:00

For all my knitting projects I find I still have socks otn. Weird! Especially since it's my personal toe-up plain pattern. I just let the yarn do the talking. Works for me. I lay those things down and work on something else and still know where I am. I feel proud! I needed that!

RYAN

2010-09-10T17:34:00.002-04:00

Cody brought Ryan from Evansville today for his psych appointment in Terre Haute. There are no psychiatrists in Evansville taking new patients. Go figure. Well, come to think of it there are no dentists either. Third largest city in the state is sadly lacking! Cost me to get out of Terre Haute!

Today is Thursday

2010-09-09T08:39:00.002-04:00

Maybe if this keyboard weren't so sticky, I'd be back more. Cody said that he could see ketchup in the space bar! Ugh! Not me! However Matt did do a lot of computing when he was here. Ate a lot of fries, too. Hmmm! I wonder if the 2 could be connected. Everybody misses that Cito! I'd give the whole ketchup bottle on the space bar just to have him back. October is coming!!

TWO YEARS OLD

2010-04-11T08:50:00.002-04:00

Matt was 2 yesterday! He measured in a little over 36 inches. My boys were all about 34 and 35 inches with Cody being the one a squinch over 35! I do know that squinch is not in the dictionary but it should be! If you double a boy's height onthe day he turns 2 that will tell you how tall he will be as a man! Works, too!

something to do

2010-04-11T08:31:00.003-04:00

Seems as if there must always be something to do out here with the kids. Yesterday we walked all over the National Zoo and still didn't see it all. Matt loved the ducks and the ride on the Metro! I missed seeing any hippos. Walking back we/I took elevators whenever possible to get to the Metro. I kept thinking of that Hugh Jackman, Meg Ryan movie where he invents the elevator because building height will out strip our legs one day. Probably an age thing!! Then we went to Golden Corral. Finished the day up with a stop at CVS and were home a little before 10 pm. See I told you! Jerry and Alicia went with us. She's from Peru. Not Indiana! The country! Boy do you look silly!

TRIP< no vacation

2010-03-16T12:46:00.003-04:00

Came to Evansville for twofold reason! One to help Brad put in a new hot water heater and two, to check out a place for Ryan. Matt slept all the way from Terre Haute down. Made it really hard on Papa's bladder. But he knew it was a tricky assignment when we started.He made it in little pain. It's good to know. Just don't give him anything to drink on the way and make sure he goes before we go.Make sense? At his age? Yes, 60 this year!!

Now to Ryan! I love it and I hope he will,too. Country! Nature trail! Animals! Roommates!

Heel! Yes!!

2010-02-21T20:11:00.001-05:00

Ok! so I found another sock heel! Where do all these ideas come from? Try rhitsqueaky.blogspot.com! See what I mean!

cutest baby sweater

2010-02-19T21:55:00.002-05:00

Look at fpea.blogspot.com. Looks like tulip sweater minus all of those stripes. I got to do it!! Not tomorrow, but soon. Maybe sometime next year. Hey, soon is open ended word. Right!?

New York/Chicago

2010-02-07T10:20:00.002-05:00

When Brad was a little boy, he always wanted a restaurant named New York/ Chicago! Well I had some New York pizza here that I loved. Why? I don't know! It was tomato and artichoke! I know. I know! Your stomach! But there was no tomato sauce. Just the cheese and artichoke went through the oven and then the diced tomato added. Kind of like an afterthought. It was different and tasty.

Oh and Brad is the big guy in the picture! Glad I jogged your memory?

One month or so later

2010-02-07T10:05:00.002-05:00

Hey I have found some really cool knitting patterns in the home section of Ravelry. But I'm not near my stash. So I have to remember where they were. Try page 141! No, I did not go page by page. I started at the end after I saw the first 10 pages. I'm looking for a bath scrubbie thing. It's for a trade. I found the yarn to use for the BONBON one in LooPs in Tulsa. It'll be here next week. Let you know how that one turns out. It calls for a nylon cord to scrunch it together. But, hey, I think a chain stitch from the yarn would work just as well. Don't you?

Collecting

2010-01-05T16:07:00.002-05:00

For some reason, known only to himself, Todd is acquiring,through the GOODWILL auction online, several different brass instruments. Matt thinks it is truly wonderful. I took pictures with my phone. Come over and I'll show you! Next week!

PIZZA

2010-01-05T15:44:00.001-05:00

Hey How are you anyway? We're going to try Domino's new pizza! We never had one in Brazil so I'm not quite sure what all the fuss was for, but I can tell I really relate to their honesty⁄!

Learning and.....

2009-12-28T20:13:00.002-05:00

Well I learned something new about computer site linking tonight. Yeah for me! At this rate I may just be able to post pictures using the APPLE sooner than I thought.

Half off

2009-12-28T14:18:00.003-05:00

After Christmas sales are 1/2 off, not me. Although certain ones would loudly disagree! Standing joke around here!! All in all, as long as I don't look at the living room, I have done very well cleaning these last few days.Am almost caught up on my mailings. Picked up $64 worth of goodies at Walmart yesterday! Kenny paid for them,after all he has the money. That's what he gets for telling me to retire. Bless his heart!!

Little light touches

2009-12-27T18:36:00.003-05:00

Well here I am again! Firstly let me tell you how really glad I am to see you here and then let me tell you that my fingers are too heavy for this keyboard. Alas! Tis true!!
Mildred Penman taught me typing at dear old BHS and you are to have a firm key stroke. Yeah right!! On this board a firm key stroke will give you far too many letters in any given word. Miss Penman always smelled like the perfume counter at MEIS. Like Miss Penman, MEIS is gone too. Oh I forgot to tell you Miss Penman became Mrs. Paul Turner after she retired. Ah! Truth!

She must be angry

2009-12-10T16:50:00.003-05:00

Okay! Losing here is not an option. HOWEVER when you don't have the rules of engagement it's really hard to know who's leading! So I have this cousin, whom I truly loved as a sister. Now the relationship is gone to the sewer. Not my fault! Talk to my brother. Ah, what a book this would make. Probably 2 though, because we obviously don't have the same opinions. To think there are no $$ involved, just power! Again talk to my brother-the only child!

She needs duct tape

2009-12-10T16:49:00.001-05:00

For some reason this got deleted and only the title posted. So here we go!! Matt loves to be half naked and watch television. Makes no sense to me but at least his shirt is staying on! Do you think duct tape would help??

One a day is not a vitamin

2009-12-09T15:34:00.001-05:00

I read that I have 307 posts. I must have slept through part of them as I have no memory of being that close to one a day for the year.Of course numbers don't lie or do they??

Before I forget

2009-12-05T11:19:00.003-05:00

We watched the season finales last night until 1 AM. Nuts I know! But John called during one and you couldn't get the grin off Todd's face for an hour and a half-the call lasted that long!!!

It's snowing here this morning! Huge FLAKES! Aunt Sally called from Florida! Not snowing there!! Anola called. Not snowing at home either. Cold though!! 27 degrees says she! Boy I sure hope all that porcelain in the shed is okay until I get back the 19th.

shopping

2009-12-05T11:13:00.002-05:00

We went shopping last night. A mall like Keystone at the Crossing only not in Indy. Matt cried when they wanted to try new shoes on him and wouldn't even look at shoes until they put his old ones back on him! What can I say, the kid likes his lights. I got a couple pair at Stride Rite myself. YES! I know it's a kid's store. There that should tell you something about me! Hope it's good!

the OK corral

2009-11-25T21:21:00.003-05:00

Remember that movie? John Wayne and other! Well this evening that's where I am-figuratively speaking. Matt is having some major decision making problems. Funny how good communication could render them all solved. SIgh! Someday! But then you never would have had that movie!

Just one of those crazy things

2009-11-24T12:38:00.002-05:00

I hope you're looking at the links I put up on the side. They're really good and projects I intend to try. My hall tree is full of purses right now. Some to trade and some that I just can't Maybe. Someday.

Why? or Y

2009-11-23T21:12:00.002-05:00

Somebody had better tell me why I'm so thirsty? They told me that no salt was used on the tenderloin! Liar! Did you know that Indiana is the only state that makes a decent tenderloin sandwich. There's another why!!

Pace yourself!!

2009-11-21T21:50:00.002-05:00

I must remember to time myself! Yeah right! As if I need something else to do. Bad enough that I started a project the other day so now that makes 3 ont that I can remember and oh yes there's the socks for somebody really small that never quite made it past the toe. now I wonder what else I could find if I only took time to look! I put the NORO up so I wouldn't be tempted. So far it's working. Someone told me that I should teach Matt to knit! Look at the wallpaper on my cell. I'm so glad that I know him!!

Cowl won't moo!

2009-11-17T14:38:00.002-05:00

I finished knitting my cowl for class yesterday after we got back from Bloomington. Now all I have to do is write the instructions and take it over to JoAnnes. Time!! . Either use an 11 or a 13 for it. O yes Question! There's a 10 1/2, but why not a 12?? Good question! Right?!

Soup's on

2009-11-17T14:17:00.003-05:00

Seriously!!! It's potato!! Now let me tell you how!

A 3x3 piece of ham. I bought all that ham when Nanny was here. Remember?
4 potatoes, too small for bakers
Wash them! Matt wanted to really wash them, think machine,but just scrub and peel off the ugly.
Cut up and boil in water until tender along with the ham.
Meanwhile cut up half a white onion and add that to water.
Boil as long as you want but 10 minutes max.
Now add Coffemate. Yes that's right. It's the powder kind and the whole idea is to make it creamy. Remember Dad/Pappy couldn't have milk. Any way I bought all that creamer stuff. So let's use it up. And, yes, I am aware that Coffeemate has milk in it. But Dad wasn't allergic;and Mom didn't use that much as evident by what's left.

Pepper it. Really pepper it. Add a bay leaf if you have any.
When it is nice and bubbly turn off heat and add half a package of chopped, frozen spinach.

It's good! Excuse me, I think I'll go add those candied carrots from the restaurant.

Whoops! Thinking again!

2009-11-05T13:53:00.004-05:00

Hey!! I am just wondering, as I watch the FOOD NETWORK. Is it possible to get an IDAHO potato in England? China? Peru? Australia? South Africa? I don't know why but sometimes I just have to wonder! The boys would say that I mustn't let my mind wander too far. It may get lost!! Can't afford that!!

Still busy?

2009-11-04T14:14:00.003-05:00

Matt and I went to dance/tumbling class last night! He did wonderful!! I, however,did not realize how sore my arms and legs would be today! He's been up since about 7:30 and fully intended to go again! Got to love the kid!! BenGay is now a friend to me again!! Bless his heart, I mean heat! You never realize how sweet youth is. Really!!

Time and time again

2009-10-28T11:10:00.002-04:00

We'll change time this weekend. At 1am Saturday to be precise. So many things to remember. I really look forward to December 21. The pagans worshipped the return of the SUN that day because the days got longer. Funny thing! Put 2 and 2 together and you have son. Sure cut down on a lot of fighting!

Another one

2009-10-28T11:07:00.002-04:00

So far so good. Except the nose part! Did you know Neosporin is better than Vicks for a stuffy nose? True story! Got it straight from the ped, Dr. Moss, last month. Sorry I took so long to pass it on.

Matt

2009-10-27T22:20:00.002-04:00

Office play! He is so much fun! Busy all the time!! He now opens the frig and gets whatever. Leaves the eggs alone. Mac and cheese is fair game.

Springmaker

2009-10-27T22:09:00.003-04:00

Enclosed is your Springmaker you requested. Please be assured that time and great effort were taken in the design of this model. We have working models tested by our company and the general public for 10 years. This is a new format. So we are anxious for your feedback.
Regardless of shipped date all models are programed to start on January 1 of the upcoming year. 90 days afterwards you should see signs of Spring. Please be patient. You need do nothing with this model.

This is fun! I had trouble getting the hair to stick. I love shabby chic! Hope you do too.Knitmom7 unseasonal spoon doll Swapbot

Not ever enough time/space

2009-08-12T08:34:00.002-04:00

You do realize that in 2008, before I got diverted, by what I haven't the foggiest, I did write to you every day or at least tried to. I must have tried really hard because I only missed 10 days and that was a leap year so it was 11! Math is always good to use, isn't it!

SwapBot mail!!

2009-08-12T08:26:00.003-04:00

Well I got to be an officer on swapbot!! Pretty cool, huh! It was kind of desired! I have forever liked getting mail.!! All of the family can vouch for that. So I have about 6 swaps going. Oh! It isn't as tough as it sounds! Check it out! Nothing to it!

Where have all the pictures gone

2009-08-02T11:13:00.003-04:00

It's not that I haven't taken any. I have. Give me a break! With new babies and growth spurts, well you know. Anyway I just am not able to figure out how to get them from the camera to the computer. Think I'll post some Ken has already got on the computer! Yeah! That I can do!!

Reception

2009-08-02T11:06:00.003-04:00

We went to Traditions last night for Candi and Denny Whitecamp"s reception. That's not the way the name is spelled but rather the way it's said. Don't have me write the German spelling if you know what's good for you! I'm not able. Cute couple!
I took a saucepan as a gift from Todd+,Kenny+, Mom, and Anola+. Figured with 4 kids between them and 2 houses they can always use an unscratched saucepan. Get my drift??

socks

2009-08-01T20:53:00.002-04:00

Next time I do a pair of socks on size 11 needless, I promise to post the instructions. Truly! Right now I'm busy sewing green and knitting hats. Don't ask me what the 2 have in common. Have no idea!

TODAY is

2009-08-01T20:48:00.002-04:00

Yes and all day long I've thought of this at the strangest times. Not in the bathroom,but strange nonetheless. Today is 8+1=09! Isn't that way cool! Take another hundred years before that happens again! Wow! Cool, huh! Just thought you'd like to know!

Cake and eat it too

2009-07-23T12:39:00.002-04:00

Hey before I forget I want to tell you something. I don't care if you tell but use discernment. OKAY! I substituted spaghetti sauce, the kind with the VODKA in it..............(shshshsh! discernment!) for an egg and some of the water in a Duncan Hines spice cake mix!! Good stuff! Nobody knew what was in those cupcakes! Am I good or what!!??!!

Time=space

2009-07-20T21:51:00.002-04:00

This is going to take more time than I thought considering that Cody is leaving for Virginia in the AM and I get to take him. Now as for this taking time... well !WELL!! since the last time Ken fixed the 'puter the keyboard has been on multi lettering in certain words. Weird!? Yes! But then again I ask who fixed the keyboard?? I resst my case!

So many hats!

2009-07-10T18:07:00.002-04:00

Well I recently joined a hat swap. All right 2 hat swaps! And might I say that I never realized how many hat patterns were out there and how many no one will wear--ever. Now if I could just remember where I saw that rag knitted one.

NOT ever enough

2009-07-06T22:35:00.002-04:00

Sometimes there is not enough time to do what you have to do, let alone what you want. So this has suffered although not always in silence. Well NUTS! I can't be all things to everyone and write at the same time!!

Hey,how be ya?

2009-04-27T12:36:00.002-04:00

Not an original title but nonetheless it stands!! Todd was sick every other day last week. All in all he felt so bad that when he felt better the next day he wanted to- strike that-had to do something. So then the whole thing pounced on him the next day and so went the week. Maidy had been sick the week before and Matt was puny when I got here. Amazing how teeth can be blamed until they all get in then other stuff.

They're moving more out

2009-04-11T19:44:00.002-04:00

You know that's the one thing we said-that we were going to take time with the move to 706. WOW! Were we ever naive! Nothing in this family can take its time. That especially goes for moving, I feel again as I did in those dreams- you know where you're in school and you look down and there's not a stitch of clothes anywhere on your body.I'm leaving for Todd's tomorrow and maybe that's good, at least I won't have to hear about my shortcomings! Well maybe later! It's hard to escape! It's kinda like when the referee says "Flag on the field!" and the announcer says, "Now that's a flagrant violation!"

Matt left Thursday

2009-04-10T17:45:00.003-04:00

Yes 'tis true that Matt flew out that morning with his dad. He called later, when they got in, to say everything went better than expected. See I told you that Matt was a good traveller,on the plane that is. He was going for shots today. Todd joked that was a terrible way to turn one. Doesn't seem as if it has been that long. But he got his hair cut yesterday, too, so maybe he looks one now. They're going to send me a curl! AH!

More OTN

2009-03-25T18:34:00.003-04:00

Well, I started knitting a sweater today. Actually more of a shrug, from side to side in pinks to purple and I've still got the "monkey bag" to finish. Okay so the stash is going down. Now my next question when do I get to shop??Let's face it that's the fun. Well so is finishing something, Now to find a soaker pattern for that little peanut coming to a house near you.

Now where did I put that

2009-03-17T10:27:00.001-04:00

We've lost an hour someplace and I still can't find it!!!

Let's not take turns anymore

2009-03-17T10:23:00.003-04:00

This has been a looonnggg month!! You gotta hate that stupid flu!! Thing I didn't know was that little kids get the flu from this virus in their mouth!! ARGH! Good thing and there has to always be something good. Right? Matt no longer wants a bottle!!

Why am I up?

2009-02-22T06:33:00.003-05:00

Well HE's been up for about an hour and is quite contented to play with Pa. That's fine by me, but it really plays havoc with the rest of the day. Pa calls him EeHe, Why? Well that's the sound he makes as he hides and races along the carpet in get away fashion. He gets so excited!! Now Pa is promising to teach him how to use toilet paper the right way!! It's a joke between the 2 of them. Remember the old Northern commercial where the paper is all over? That's a very real possibility! The thing is nobody will be paid for that! The good thing, I suppose, is that rehearsals are not necessary.

Riddle me this

2009-02-20T23:14:00.002-05:00

I have to do this before I have something else take its place! This morning DH ( and you know who that is) couldn't find his cell phone. Wanting to be a good Pa and let Matt sleep, he used his flashlight to look in, around, and under the bed for his phone.He had his work shoes on, you know the kind with the heavy soles. On these hardwood floors, well need I say more. I finally said "Just call it!" and I did. Three times, because oh I don't know why but I try to do what I'm asked at 6AM.. Dh said he remembered having it in his hand when he got in bed because he set the alarm. Matt had to tell him bye and then the 2 of us went back to be for 2 hours. I'm still laughing inside when I think how that whole conversation must have sounded. Kinda like Abbott and Costello!

Doughnut SWAP

2009-02-19T22:12:00.002-05:00

I'm going to knit more doughnuts within the week. I sure would like to swap sweets with someone. Hey that just might work for a RAVELRY group. Now I better figure out the guidelines! Think I'll brush my teeth first. All that doughnut thinking made me hungry and I heard if you brush your teeth you may be able to stave off a pound or two. Worth a try anyway!!

Cooking or not!

2009-02-19T22:06:00.003-05:00

Well I did it again. Banquet frozen dinner! Let me ask--Is it just me or is the directions for the macaroni dinner "screwy"?How can you slit the film then put it back on the macaroni? Hmmm! Think I'll return to KRAFT! Boiling water is easier!

Eat again and again

2009-02-18T18:05:00.003-05:00

I'm still eating way too much. Be real glad when Matt learns to talk well so I can know what exactly it is that he wants to put in his belly, not merely guess work. Hey I'm getting good at it but I'm not so sure that my wardrobe can stand it!!He is a good eater though. A cottage cheese kick is working itself through the midweek now!!

Before I forget

2009-02-18T12:19:00.002-05:00

About the same time that OBAMA made fun of the Washington residents for closing school (Ah come on!! It was like your dad saying he walked uphill 5 miles both ways to get to school!) well that same week, before we left so it would have been the very end of January, Herndon, Virginia got a tenth of an inch of snow. No joke! It was on the news. Now- question. Who measured it and then called it in?

Trying just doesn't cut it

2009-02-18T12:11:00.003-05:00

All right! I will admit that I have been trying for days, if not weeks to write something. I've had some really good thoughts too. Then I saw this guy talking about writing 30 minutes a day. Just keep the pencil going! Yeah, right. Somehow that just made me feel guilty and I'm not even using a pencil! Go Figure!

talking or trying to anyway

2009-01-17T04:10:00.002-05:00

Earlier today, like way before noon, Maidy cut up a strawberry and gave Matt some. He promptly shoved it in his mouth and said "GOOD!" as plain as could be, one time only. Just thought you'd like to know!

OH! Puke!!

2009-01-17T04:01:00.005-05:00

Thursday the kids stayed home from school-vomiting,although I never saw any evidence of being sick on their part, until now. They were told to stay away from Matt. Obviously to no avail, because why else do you think I'd be up at this hour. It is all over our bed. I woke Todd up on the third one. Matt is not feverish or fussy, just kinda dumbfounded when it happens. Thing is he can't lay down or he'll choke on it. If there's anything left in that little stomach, that is. Maidy has him now. I love turns!

Totally afraid of WHAT

2009-01-08T18:43:00.003-05:00

Hey! Now I'm not one to sound alarm but............. There's a weatherman out here that announced on his weather cast that the days are getting longer. This with the same intensity in his voice that global warming mandates.!! I don't think so! However if the days are getting as long as he says what will happen when the daylight last until...........and the night shrinks to say 8 hours? Soon will the nightshift cease to exist.?? Ah! Come on! It happens every year. I wonder if they flattened those mountains could they stave off the long night? More urgently should someone tell the weatherman that it's all right.

Again

2009-01-07T21:37:00.002-05:00

So I am doing this in the darks! Only because Matt is sleeping dad's arms.

MONDAY gone

2009-01-06T12:09:00.004-05:00

Remember that Monday song? You know the line that says "Can't help that day". Well Matt was getting back in the swing of things yesterday and he wore both of us out. Literally!!He's back to napping this morning so hopefully this day will work so much better. Trouble is gone. Mr mouth just walked in.

suddenly

2009-01-04T12:40:00.002-05:00

It occurred to me that I'm still behind. The count doesn't start anew on January 1. RATZ! That means that I was really behind last year. DOUBLE RATZ!!So now I have to get really wordy on this keyboard.TRIPLE RATZ!

How to know it's Saturday

2009-01-03T21:43:00.001-05:00

Saturday is a very predictable day in Virginia. Read whatever in that. Routine! Heaven knows I'm not too much into routines.

Second

2009-01-02T10:24:00.002-05:00

Well here it is, the second. I thought of some super stuff to dazzle you with last night, but then I went to sleep. Unbelievably tired. REASON? Just me and flying. Oh, and the view of DC at dusk was awe-inspiring. Looked like gold necklaces layed out on the ground. West Virginia looked like chocolate icing, the cooked kind that gets dull when it dries.We flew at 35,000 feet so I didn't get to see too much of the mid flight. Did, however, see other planes below us! A first for me! Since Matt slept from St. Louis in, he missed them. I was not about to wake him!!

To begin again

2009-01-01T20:39:00.003-05:00

AH! January!!Cold! I've been in the air all day! OH. I know! But this was literally-flying back to Matt's house.

Behind

2008-12-31T19:45:00.002-05:00

You know that I could have spent the last 2 days viciously typing the needed posts to reach 366. But sometimes you just got to let go. Good thing we don't live in Berlin, they are all ready in '09. That would really put me behind.

Well I'm off

2008-12-29T14:55:00.003-05:00

I Know! I've been off most of my life but if Cody doesn't leave to get Tina soon I WILL have to wear this mop back to Virginia. Challenged?? Yes I am! And before I forget if you leave the "E" out of leave, how come spellcheck doesn't get it?? What kind of a word is 'LAVE" anyway. Use lave in a sentence. I certainly have never. Maybe that's a good thing. Hmm, maybe I better look it up. You think.?

Sonogram

2008-12-29T14:48:00.002-05:00

Seriously I have seen the new baby's picture. Looks like a keeper at 10 weeks. Todd and Maidy brought stuff home for it. Funny saying "it", but the only name they have picked out that they're telling is--ready??

YUKON CORNELIUS

JUST REALIZED

2008-12-29T14:42:00.002-05:00

Yes! I did just realize that I missed the whole month of November. How I have no idea! I mean it's not that I was really busy certainly. Though I was somewhat preoccupied. But still to miss a whole month somehow seems wrong. Like forgetting your underwear.

Matt went to INDY

2008-12-29T14:39:00.002-05:00

True! His mom and dad took him to see some Indiana. So I get to get a PERMANENT or something similar done to this mop on my head. I do use the term mop loosely in this case!

Strong start

2008-12-29T14:37:00.001-05:00

Well I did have a plan when I started but what is said about the best laid plans of mice and men holds true for me also. Ah! You say that I'm not a man. True!

Paid or not

2008-12-15T18:41:00.004-05:00

You know it sure helps in my line of work, or un-work, to be a little nutty. That's a good thing, considering that I'm 50 some posts behind on the year! O yes and the keyboard is DERANGED. Wonder just where that line went anyway? O and did I mention -the POP UPS??! Not the tasty ones. I believe those are pop TARTS.

Still in VA

2008-12-15T18:19:00.003-05:00

Hey that's not the hospital, it's the state. It's not all that bad for a state either. By that I mean it's not home. I guess some would consider it that, just not me. Not now or later for that matter. It's not that there's not things to do, but rather that it just is not layed out in a way conducive for me to do them. I don't think straight describes any road out here. And thankfully, the house faces the morning sun, so my directions are in tact when I arise. O, and did I mention that the keyboard is a DERANGED LAPTOP. Understandably not the fault of the state! Now how did that line get under this part.?? Could be the LINE FAIRY!

Phone call

2008-10-31T21:13:00.002-04:00

You know it's funny to me that my dad lives in a phone. I hear him every night. Mom, too.It's really weird. I've pushed a lot of buttons,once I even called Florida while dad was talking, but he's still in that phone. Guess I'm going to have to take action soon. I bet that his little legs are tired.

No chicken yet!

2008-10-31T21:09:00.002-04:00

Magoo told me that she saw a hawk eating the road. Now I am not sure what a hawk is, but if it eats roads I'm pretty sure I've seen some of its teeth marks. She found a bunch of chickens, so she said. BUT I did not get to see them.

Leaving on a jet plane

2008-10-31T21:07:00.002-04:00

But I do know when I'll be back again--12/24, barring weather related airport delays. I think that I am ready. I know that I will forget something. OH! Nuts! Go for it!

Workin' for Pa

2008-10-13T23:08:00.003-04:00

I forgot to tell you about Indiana. It's fun, but there's a lot of stuff to do. And pa needs a lot of help like working on his old truck. Uncle Brad used to help, but he got too big. So now I get to. It's good to know these things. I just hope I remember everything, like looking behind before I back up. I sure could use a back up beep thing. That big red truck had one.

Forest Park

2008-10-13T22:40:00.005-04:00

These are of me and some friends at the Park. Hey I didn't name it that! All I know is I got in the car again , Uncle Brad's Jeep, something about the van, I forget. Anyway it was kinda far away but closer that that. Pa parked the Jeep and we started doing all kinds of stuff. First though I saw a squirrel. Not big, but kinda short.I still can't find any chicken, I'll keep trying and tell you when,

PLAYDATE

2008-10-13T22:30:00.004-04:00

There was a ton of things I could have should have done while Matt and Nanny had a playdate at her house. She came after him about 10. Didn't call because she said that she was afraid to wake him up. Yeah, right! She knows that the phones are shut off. Anyway I took him up and went back around 2 to get him. They were in the kitchen. She was pushing him back and forth in his stroller and he was talking to her. She taught him more "raspberries". Okay. He probably didn't need to learn that but he was laughing so hard as the 2 of them practiced, what could I say.Oh Yes! Matt and Maxine are on speaking terms again.

Me, Matt

2008-10-06T22:14:00.006-04:00

Let's try again. Sometimes I go to bed with the chickens here in Indiana. Nanny does too. In fact she's the one who told me that. Now I got to say I haven't seen a chicken since, come to think of it the last chicken I saw was fried, I think at that restaurant Sunday. I got to get someone to show me some chickens way before they get fried. Sometimes I get up way before the birdies. Magoo told me that. So I lay there and listen for them to wake up. Sometimes they take too long.I'm always busy. Sometimes, Parker has my back. Sometimes I get too busy to help him fill his plate (cat food is NOT good, Do Not Eat it ever) and he leaves. He always comes back with his friends though. That's good.

Now this is eatin'

2008-10-06T13:20:00.003-04:00

I just wanted everyone to know that these biter biscuit have the best flavor! So good! Just a cold bottle of whatever makes a good snack. I am totally impressed with this growing up stuff. This just beats a lot of stuff I've tasted so far. Not OREOS though! They are my all time favorite cookie! Hey why do they call them cookies anyway? I'd call them all good, just plain good! I always will say that a fine cookie is worth the wait. Notice the smell!! Good stuff! People I insist raise your pinkie and go eat a cookie,! Not mine though!

I didn't do it

2008-10-01T22:20:00.002-04:00

I just found out that I don't get to swap with Starbucks. I guess that's all right and I know that I will live, but I really don't remember signing up and not completing a swap ever. I have been forgotten in some swaps and lived through it. But never have I forgotten anyone in a swap. That is until now I just found out tonight. Sometimes you feel like you have to look up to see the belly of a snake. Right now that's how low I feel. The sun will shine tomorrow.

a different restaurant

2008-09-29T21:10:00.002-04:00

Well I got to tell you that my Pa sure likes to eat at restaurants. So we all went far away to get Uncle John and Aunt Joany and then we went farther to another place. And then they ate. Nanny said it was too salty and Uncle John put some brown stuff on his finger to let me taste. But I wasn't born yesterday. I don't know where that came from cause I sure didn't do it, and there was no way I was going to taste it. They had yucky mashed potatoes,too. I did taste them. Pa said that we won't be going back there. He said that my Pap would drive 3 hours to eat at a restaurant. I would have to take a lunch for that!

goin in to Sunrise

2008-09-29T21:03:00.002-04:00

No body can remember the name of this place since it has been here since before Magoo and Pa and Magoo ate their wedding supper with my great great grandmother Mam-maw here when it was Flicks,And don't ask me how many names. Maybe if I drove I would be able to tell you! But how many people my height could have a license? Just think about it!

Uncle Brad and me

2008-09-29T20:54:00.003-04:00

Well Uncle Brad was at Nanny's house when I got there. Magoo never tells me these things. Sometimes I feel like I'm flying by the seat of Pampers. Hey what does that mean anyway? I heard that someplace the other day only they said seat of their pants. Same thing! I just feel more honest not to say pants yet, Okay? Anyway I want to show you this picture of me at the restaurant with Uncle Brad. I even danced on the table and listened to them talk about nothing. Well nothing I knew about anyway.

Just drop it!

2008-09-29T20:47:00.002-04:00

Hi,It's me, Matt! There other day I helped PA with a twisty thing. I did a good job too. That's important, you know. I told Pa anytime I could help I would but he would have to drop that big wheely box himself! It's heavy! I know.

Gumdrop lunch

2008-09-29T20:36:00.004-04:00

Yes indeed! My new diet for today at least consisted of 2 pieces of peanut butter and cherry preserves toast.(It really should be labeled JELLY after you get down half way as there is no fruit below the first inch of goodness. I didn't make it though, Kroger did. So ....) There I go again-OFF TOPIC. I did have 12 spice drops and two cups of Twining tea for lunch. Hey don't knock it! I've lost 5 pounds this month, however in all honesty this was my first gumdrop lunch. Oh, yes! Around 3 I had a Bagel Dog with mustard and more tea and then 12 pieces of candy corn. I got to throw the bags away and eat dessert. Oh the perils of staying home! I love it!

swap again?

2008-09-27T20:54:00.003-04:00

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The day the van died-again

2008-09-23T14:39:00.006-04:00

Hey yesterday we went to Terre Haute. Just wanted some ink cartridges for the printer. First though we went to River Wool. Matt thought the yarn in there was just right, hate to see what he'd do at Stitches and Scones. He was nice, but very tempted. The clerk,Val, carried him around and let him touch anything and be touched by everything fuzzy. They giggled together. He did pick out a really great sock color. All I have to do is knit them. We then drove to OFFICE MAX,walked next door to Books-a-Million, then walked back to the van, got in the carseat,put the key in and nothing. So we walked to Old Navy and bought a hat and two pair of pajamas, then back to the van, key in, nothing. So we went back to Books A Million and had a strawberry kiwi smoothie. It was very good. Should have been because the bottle had curdled. Back out to the van-nothing. Called Anola to come get Matt and Pa to get the tow truck number. Called the tow. Nola and Michael showed up and took Matt to Brazil. Me? I rode in the big truck! Better luck next time,Matt! Five hours after we left for Terre Haute,the van was deposited in our drive and the driver left. I opened the van door and put the key in the ignition and viola! it started right up. Oh! and the tow was $100.00. Matt put his new jays on and went to bed. I have numbered the days of the van.

I got my second 3

2008-09-23T14:23:00.002-04:00

Yeah! It's true I got my second three on swapbot today. Seems as if some judge a swapper on their own strengths. To me that's so sad, because there are a lot of non professional type people out there. Handicapped temporarily of permanently, these people have a lot to give everyplace.I don't swap to judge another. Oh sure everyone likes to get nice. But nice to me isn't nice to you let alone to my neighbor.(You'll have to trust me on that!) My dad always said that it wouldn't do for everyone to like the same thing. The thing is this has become a global community and being that no one knows everyone. Taste differ. I refuse to eat calamari, while peanut butter is so good. There are no IEPs anyplace. I can't know you or your circumstances. So thanks for the mail and thinking of me.