Minutiae Musings Vol. 4

To the guy in the yellowish Gremlin:  Dude, do you really need to go that slowly over the railroad tracks?  Is it to prevent parts of your car from falling off?  Please let me go around you without sign language.  Thanks.

After all these years, I've pinned down names to go with the four weeks of my months.  There is period week, skinny week, PMS week, and fat week.  Probably TMI, but I'm midway between PMS and fat weeks.  Just sayin' -

Finally getting to watch Westminster after the years with no cable.  This is their 135th year!  Retrievers are on tomorrow night, but the hounds were on tonight, then toy dogs, and non-sporting next. In toy dog group, I see no genuing fluffy fur, just cotton looking hair.  It doesn't even look real the way it's styled.  The dog I thought was the ugliest dog wins the round--the long-haired Pekingnese.  It looked like a shoebox on wheels with a two-tone wig on it.  Just awful.  At about 10:15, I saw that the Shar-Pei had won its group!  Of course that makes me think of Chubby-Smacks.  Woohoo!

College PSA:  When your professor says your reading assignment is dense, he's not kidding.

I think the planets must be in retrograde, lol.  I know a lot of people who are having challenging times right now.  I am thinking of everyone and sending love & prayers and positive thoughts.

Here's another six word story.  I think maybe I should say six word poem, as this one doesn't seem much like a story....

Distant
plane
close
bird
same
size.

I'm hoping to get back on the picture posting.  In the meantime, hope you have a good Monday night.  xo xo

Good to Go

Sam had a truck maintenance task, and he asked John Sam if he wanted to watch and maybe help so he could learn about what Dad was doing.

Dad: "You know, like a learning experience?"

JS:  "No, I'm good."

New Pix and Belated Cake

We took some grandchildren pictures over the weekend.  I took roughly 193 (give or take, lol), so there were plenty of chances to get some good ones.  It was a lot of fun even though we could have lived without the wind.

First, the cake I meant to post for Nana's birthday yesterday.

Pictures at the park

 

 

Sleepy

My wild, interesting, and hectic life is catching up with me.  Ha!  Last night I fell asleep with the remote and the phone right next to me.  I was listening to a show with my eyes closed, just for a minute -- well, you know the rest.

It's chilling off here because of the rain, which means the electric blankie is back on the bed :)

Chuckle

I haven't had one of these days lately--but this card was danged funny.  And I know almost every mother has to have thought this at least ONE time  . . .

(Card is "Saturdays" brand, Expressions by Hallmark)

To clarify

I wondered the other day when I was dissing Ralph Waldo Emerson's writing if anybody noticed that I've had a quote of his on the front page of my blog for quite a long time.  They have a word for that - ironic.  lmao!

I love the quote because it's encouraging and reminds me to focus on positive thoughts.  Plus I can read it all the way through without falling asleep. 

xo xo xo

Groundhog Day

Groundhog P. Phil did not see the shadow, so that means an early spring.

Seems backward to me.  We should have an early spring if he sees his shadow, because it would mean the spring sun has arrived early to shine on Phil and create his shadow.

At least a lot of people I talk to get it mixed up too. 

Beat it, Bart Connor

And while we're at it:  move over, Kurt Thomas!  John Sam practiced and practiced his front flip on the bed until he learned to land on his feet.  These are just flippin' fun.  Pun hated but intended, lmao.

On deck

Down

Takeoff

Airborne

Wrapping It Up

Solid Landing

Time for the Next One!

I am so tickled for John Sam that he taught himself to do something he really wanted to learn.  He is proud of himself and we are proud of him.  :)

Still have 16 pages of Henry David Thoreau reading to do (yes, Walden) but when I started reading this past weekend, I had about 68 or so?  Thoreau is way better than Ralph Waldo Emerson . . . I fell ASLEEP not once, but twice while reading Nature.  I know what to grab when my next bout of insomnia hits, geez.  Thoreau is a rambler, which is how my brain works too, so I'm following that one better.  It's puzzling, though, how some of these American Literature Classics become designated as such, when people are falling asleep reading them.  

Memorials

It has been 25 years.  "Colonel Grandaddy" passed on this day in history--the same day as the Challenger explosion.  My mom said he was the most patient person she ever knew.  I sure do wish THAT had skipped a generation, hehe.  We remember him today with love.  :)

My boss's wife brought a small TV into the office the day of the launch. We planned on watching the liftoff on the screen, then going outside to see the shuttle when it was high enough in the sky.  For a few minutes we were confused and really couldn't believe our eyes.  It took quite a while to accept the grim reality that our eyes did see the shocking truth.

It seems unreal that these events happened at all, much less on the same day. Thinking of those who are no longer with us and sending support and love to family and friends who remain.

This cartoon by Dana Summers was published in the Orlando Sentinel on January 28, 1986 (give or take).  Did you know that the airplane is shedding a tear?  I have never noticed that until today.  It's a little blurry due to being a copy of a copy.  Still, another exceptional example of a picture being worth a thousand words.

Thursday Funnies

Caroline has a funny sense of humor.  Examples follow:

Recently I've been having a hard time getting her up in the morning.  I asked her to let me know if there was anything that might help her. She said, "Yes, you know when you come in and shove me?"  All I could say to keep from laughing is tell her I just shake her leg a little.  Anyway, it translates to her asking me not to make a lot of noise when I go into her room to say it's wakeup time. "And don't turn on the light," she said.  I asked her if it was okay if I still shoved her, and we both laughed.

Tonight she asked me to move her bed because her little owl box fell behind the headboard.  When I got it far away from the wall, she started climbing right over said headboard.  I told her I wasn't sure it would hold her.  She told me she was okay because she had bed smarts.

*haha*