If I could relive just one day

If I had just one day in my life that I could relive it would be October 11, 2010. Our youngest daughter Destiny had just left for her honeymoon and all of of us that traveled to Texas took a day to enjoy ourselves. Randy, Rob J. & Sue took a boat out on Lake Travis, and Sharon Rob B. & Sonnet went to San Antonio to take pictures of the house my parents lived in when they were stationed there when my Dad was in the Army. Ed and I decided to stay back at the hotel and just spend a sweet day at the hotel swimming and being together. It is such a wonderful memory and even more special because at that time I did not know I would only have Ed in my life till the following March. I love and miss him so much. RIP Ed I will never forget this day.

how Not To Solve a Murder

Police:  Ms Anthony, "Why did you take 31 day to report your 2 and 1/2 year old daughter missing?............ Casey: "Oh well I ran around everywhere I thought she might be trying to find her. I (sniffle, sniffle) went to every bar I could think of she might have been to.. I went to ALL my old boyfriends' houses. I even made the sacrifice of stealing Grandma's, Mom, and my best friend Amy's credit cards and checkbooks so we could be sure to have enough beer, chips,  and lingerie."  Police: "O.K. can you take us to where you dropped her off?"  Casey: "Sure Sawgrass Apts" Police:"Ah noone has lived here for 5 months" Casey: "Really?, Well darn maybe I dropped her off at work. Let's go to my office at Universal"  Police: "O.K. we're here" Casey: "Damn I forgot I don't work here after all." Police: "Now Ms. Anthony there really is no nanny is there/" Casey: Yes my friend Jeffrey takes his son Zach there too." Police: "Jeffrey does your son go to the same nanny as Caylee Anthony/" Jeffrey::"I don't even have a son!"

Trina Schart Hyman

As I was sitting here pondering why reading to a child seems to be a lost art. I must have read eleventy billion books to my children and countless other children over the years and it just reminded me of one of my favorite illustrators od children's books. Her name is Trina Schart Hyman and man could she bring a book alive with her artristry. I wish she was still alive so she could illustrate many more. Here are a couple of my favs.

A picture speaks a thousand words

This picture hangs on the wall by my recliner and has since Tori was in second grade. She drew this picture for us on "Grandparent's Day" at her school. I've studied it over the years and noticed that she really got us captured as if her mind was a camera. Look at my curly hair (which is no longer curly) Our glasses, Ed's beard and the way we have flowers, trees, & leaves floating above our heads. (and maybe a few butterflies) lol

Joseph "Joe" Carter

I shed my first tear for Joe this morning after his passing on Friday. We used to be really close to Joe and his wife Jodie and with the way of life we had gone our seperate ways. It was no big falling out or anything, just a  growing apart thing. I just quit going over and then Ed and Randy kept going over and even they finally quit going over to their house. Joe was an avid fisherman and he loved the river with a passion. He loved camping, fishing,boating, biking, & skateboarding. He also loved rock music. Especially Metallica and Disturbed. He passed so quickly at the age of 32 that quite a few of us never got to say a proper goodbye. So to Joe RIP you will be sadly missed and to the rest of us hold your friends and family a little closer and longer each time you say goodbye.

If you like wild game

Another restaurant we visited while in Texas offered some unusual food to an old Indiana gal like me. It was called Fuddrukkers and they served wild boar, elk, buffalo, & ostrich among other things.

Chuy"s

When in Texas for the wedding of our youngest daughter we had the pleasure of eating the most awesome authentic Mexcian food at a place called Chuy's. We liked it so much we actually went there twice. I don't think it had anything to do with the margarittas.

Cat crossing

Our grandaughter Tori as you all know has many pets. The one I want to talk about today is her cat Oscar. Randy brought this kitten home from an old barn cat and he instantly became a part of three families. Theirs, ours,  and Grandma & Grandpa Cobbs'. He walks over to Grandma & Grandpa Cobbs' every morning and meows until they go out on the porch and say Good Morning to him and give him a hot dog. (even though Tori feeds him cat chow every morning and evening) His day is just not right till he has a hot dog so Grandma and Grandpa Cobbs make sure to keep a package on hand. He comes over here and occassionally forgets to go home so he spends the night on our porch and wakes us up at the crack of dawn so he can go out and go potty (since we do not have a catbox over here) because our crazy little dog would try to eat his deposits. Gross!,  and then he saunters over to see the Cobbs' then makes his way home so they can make all over him and say where were you all night.(even though they have caught on to his little trick of sleeping  here some nights. He is a very beautiful , furry black and white cat and is so fast he actually catches squirrels. Even though we try to break him of that habit because we feed our squirrels over here and it seems a little unfair to the critters to lure them to out tree with an ear of corn  and then to their death. I guess we will have to put a bell on his collar so they can hear him coming.

Red Sky In The Morning

Red sky in the morning sailor take warnig, red sky at night sailors delight. I took this in the morning by the way and it  made me wonder about all the sailors that day and if they really had rough seas that day.

I have a monkey on my back and it is called Sudafed.

My name is Carla and I have been off Sudafed for 3 days and cannot breathe at all. It started last spring when the farmer next door planted his corn. I was so plugged up that I went to CVS and well really I sent Ed in. I may as well tell the truth here, to get me a box of Sudafed. Well since you can't have common allergy problems these days without the world thinking that you are concocting a batch of the recipe I did not want to go in and get my name on some watch list. (Ed doesn't care how man watch lists he is on since he so HATES the government and is innocent of any wrongdoing so bring on your lists idiots. So anyway Ed walks to the back of the store and says I'd like a box of Sudafed. The real stuff that you have to sign for. The pharmacy tech and everyone around stopped talking and stared. So finally a woman walks over and says you can only have so many grams of this a week. So Ed says well I have not ever bought any since this started so I'm good. Well someone must look like him that HAS been buying it because man she grabbed his license and started pecking away at her keyboard and after some considerable time she must have realized that he was telling the truth. So he finally got it. So anyway we had a dry summer and I was ok. Then this fall when the farmer started picking his corn I was back in the same stuffed up boat. So anyway Ed goes in to get me another box and they put him through the same shenanigans. Even though he had not bought any since last spring.  He finally got it and brought it out to the car and looks at me and says he is tired of being racially profiled. Poor white man with long hair and beard equals a maker of the recipe.

Captchas

I now what captchas are and what they are for but my question is who makes them up, what are the qualifications for the job, do you have any other duties besides making up captchas,  who knows the meanings of the captchas, & what is the pay? I have a few for you. Stmpgoo: noun, the residue left over when you remove your stamp from your envelope for your stamp collection. Goldrnpurty: adjective, something beautiful to an old timer. Slpsldr: verb, what you do when you fall on ice. Do I get the job???

The Bats of Austin and Round Rock, Texas

While in Texas we had the pleasure of seeing 1.5 million Mexican free tailed bats come out to feed on mosquitos and other insects.  People come from miles around and bring lawn chairs and beach blankets to sit out and watch as we do sunsets. Two great places to watch are at the Congressional Bridge in Austin and the I-35 underpass in Round Rock. Local business let you pull up a blanket or chair and watch at sunset. They do this from March to November before they migrate on. It is so cool I snapped a pic but it just doesn't do it justice.

Chance is alive.

Well I am finally up to the middle of September in watching the Y&R and to my wondering eyes what appeared? Chance is alive and in the witness protection program. I am so happy I have been waiting to see if he was alive forever. I am still waiting for Drucilla to reappear as she fell off a cliff into the lake and her body has never been found  for about 5 years now. I have visions of her living on an island eating coconuts and inventing neccessities from seashells, rocks, and the occassional box that floats up to the island. Dead never really means dead on the Y&R.

It's all in the eye of the beholder.

I was just remembering a funny story from back in the time when Ed & I were running an in home daycare business and thought I'd write it down. When we first opened the daycare, Ed was building a play area for the smaller children that had a fence around it and easy access to the bathroom and drinking fountain. One of the older boys came up and said  and I quote, "I just don't think it is right how some people can build cages to keep other people's kids in" So while we were just trying to make a safe play area he felt we were caging them in. We have had many laughs with this story and think of Dylan often and wonder if he ever got over his fear of being caged in.

Christmas cards

Well after careful consideration we have decided that we are going to continue sending Christmas cards at least another year. With all the things we have cut out of the Christmas season it just seemed like cards mean so much to me. I love sending and receiving them. So off to Walmart and the post office we went yesterday for a box of cards and some Christmas stamps. We are really trying to ignore all the commercialism and enjoy the season for the season. I know we are not the only ones that won't have a big pile of presents under the tree but that doesn't matter as much this year. I have been taking stock and I have so much to be grateful for. So what if I don't get that perfect pancake maker or chia pet. I have a wonderful family, great dogs, and the best friends in the world. So we are going to put up a small tree, do some decorating, listen to some Christmas music, watch some Christmas movies, go see some Christmas lights and bake some goodies. That surely will give us plenty of Christmas overload along with our annual Christmas Eve bash at Sonnet's and Christmas Day at Mom & Dad's. Tis the season to show some love on a limited budget.

I guess I will have to follow myself

Hmmm. I got up, flew to my computer to see if I had anyone read my blog and zip, zero, nada. I guess I will have to follow myself. That is kind of a bummer because I am not quite forgetful enough for my blog to be "new and exciting" to me.

diagramming sentences

Well, I'm afraid I'm going to "date" myself here but...here goes. Does anyone remember diagramming sentences? I can remember taking up pages of notebook paper diagramming sentences. I think teaching this in school has gone the way of long division. Remember how much paper that took up? It is just amazing to me when I look at my grandaughter's homework and think man our homework was nothing compared to what they learn today. The work she is doing in 8th grade was what we learned as juniors. I guess that is how we have gotten such grand inventions as computers,cell phones, ipods, and wii's. Each generation just gets smarter and smarter. Well just my thought for the day.