He's Here !

2 Weeks Early

Our first grandchild = GC1

Can't wait to go see him this weekend !!!!

38 YEARS OF TAG-TEAMING LIFE!

The Mrs and I have been tag-teaming Life for quite a while now and it ain't easy when your opponent's partner is Time!

Missing in Action.

So ya thought I had died. Not yet. This year work has really picked up for me, so the time I spend here is all about staulking all my pretend friends. The West is in the middle of wildfire season, and we haven't escaped the carnage.

Luckly we don't have all the homes to burn that Calif and Colo do. This fire lasted over a week, one just west of our shangrala lasted a couple of weeks and filled the valley with smoke a few days. It's been one of the hottest summers on record here, and hardly a trace of rain since May. The gardens have done well and soon the tomatoes will overwhelm us. Will post more when work slacks off.

PARTY TIME !!

Party at S1’s house.

His betta-half had the Family over to Celebrate.

Seems he got his Masters of Engineering from

The University of Idaho.

Way to go S1, you make us proud parents !

BUMMER

S1 and better-half lost their baby at 11 wks.  Guess we'll have to wait a little longer to be Grands.

Her sister went through the same thing and now has two toddlers, hopefully they will be just as lucky.

On another note it's been freezing rain all day, so holed up to do some end of year paperwork.

COLDER THAN A WITCH'S TIT !

Yeah, that what it's been in these parts since 2013 reared its head.


It's a favorite winter saying where I grew up.

Second most used "It's Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass
monkey"

It's been below zero for the last four days and last year it was record warm 50*.


And this guy makes it look so fun !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mw-1ehsuJM

It wouldn't be so miserable if they hadn't said we need to shut down our wood stove for the inversion.

Any whooo this year is already better than last when this happened.

Snuggling up to somebody woolly and warm, till the tulips pop.

CHRISTMAS SUPRISE

S1 and his better half put this under our tree.

This  will be or first Grand child.

Hey we're in our 60's now, bout time things like this were happening !

FAR RIGHT TAKE NOTICE !

Just came across this link on Twitter.


http://www.thecynicalatheist.com/archives/126

This is what needs to happen, but then again I doubt if it will as the way the Far Right thinks is just what  makes them Sooo Special in their own minds.    

LONG OVERDUE

Well it’s been a while, guess I’ll start with a month ago.

The Mrs. And I flew back East to visit some kin.

We flew into upstate NY to see my 93 year young Aunt. She is the last blood kin I have left from my Parents generation.

She is doin great. Made us grilled cheese and soup for lunch both days we were there.
Cooked a big supper one day and took us out the other night. She even had us go along to her Thursday morning Breakfast Club at the local greasy spoon.

I had never been there before. I think it was 1957 when they moved to this house.

Then we drove a rental car to the southern point of Maine. The Mrs has a sister, niece, and families there. They all live in the country in the Trees. I had never seen so many Trees, from upstate NY we drove due East for 400 miles and it was Trees the whole way. We were just a little early to see the leaves as they were just barely starting to turn.

I’d never been to the Atlantic Ocean , my first time WOO HOO !

We rode Amtrak to Boston one day and took a Tour Bus excursion. I'm not a history, or big city person.

Had a seafood feast put on by the In-laws

Shrimp on the Barbe, Steamers, Corn on the cobb, and Lobtsa. The shrimp was my favorite.

Anyway back home safe and sound.

SHOULD HAVE DONE THIS YEARS AGO !

ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES

Oh yeah that was a Movie that S1 loved as a youngin.

It's hitting home this year.

The Mrs is overwhelmed with everything coming out of the Gardens this year!




We netted the grapes as last year the birds got every concord the minute it started to change colors.
They never touched the green grapes, Birds must not see the color Green as being food.

Anyway the first batch of juice came out so SWEET and without adding any sugar, WE're not sharing with anyone !

BULLWINKLE

This week while doing some work on a cabin for a client Bullwinkle came by for a visit.

The radio was blareing a station of Pop music and he didn't seem to be bothered by the noise I was making, he probably couldn't even hear me because of it.





He sat down just a few feet away under a tree and chewed his cud all morning.

After lunch I was tired of the station and tuned in a Country one for the afternoon.
This didn't set well with Bullwinkle as he got up and left, but before he did, he gave this face to show me what he thinks of Country Music.

MITT do you really need My help?

So last evening I got a call, it was from a Republican Party fund raiser.  He said that Mit needed My Money to help in 3 Swing States, all they wanted from me was $3 a day for the 90 days till the election.  That would guarantee his success in these Swing States, What the What!  They ought to do their homework first; We’re the 99%ers just barely keeping things together since Wall Street stole all our money and mortgages.  Why don’t they just hit up the 1%ers, they’ve most of the money anyway.  Just think how much time they would save making calls!

"SOILED DOVES"

So the Mrs went to Idaho to visit her sister this weekend.
They get along pretty well, can really tear up the garage sale and thrift store scene !
The SIL did "Rendezvous" for many years and has carried it to the point of yard decor.

There is an Outside bedroom and bath.

The Pioneers would be Proud !

GOOD SAINTS THEY AINT !

SCREAMING LIKE A LITTLE GIRL

Well the other evening I was layin on the bed watching Leno while the Mrs was getting ready for bed, AND out of nowhere there is a BAT circling the room, COOL.

Only it didn't  fly back out, it just kept going in a circle and after a few minutes it must have been getting tired as the circles started spiraling lower.  Well it was  diving low enough that I had to roll out of bed to get out of it's way. About then I was screaming like a little girl. There are 3 things I don't like closeup Bats, Rats, and Snakes.

Anyways it finally went back out into the kitchen so we closed all the doors and propped open the front and back doors. It finally landed on top of a bookcase in the living room to take a nap, so we just went to bed and haven't seen it since. It was a lot like this clip I found on U-tube, cept with more screaming !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5jsTRn9td0&feature=related

Our house is over a century old so it does have a few holes, strange it doesn't happen more often. We have been here for almost 40 years and I can only remember it happening one other time long ago.

Bambi's Dad

We've had to chase this guy out of our garden the last two days, peas seem to be his favorite.

We may need to borrow a dog to keep him away, or does anyone like venison, I don't.

BONDED BY GREASE

Well Fathers Day came and went.

S3 and I bonded over repairing the Mrs' car.  Her throw out bearing was bad and she wouldn't drive it till it was fixed. Pulled the engine on Sunday and put it all back together on Monday.  He called in with car problems to get the day off, didn't tell them it was his Mom's car.
Anyway it's an OLD car but gets 40MPG, would have cost more to hire it done than car is worth.
Was only a 100 deadpres to do it ourselves and put in a new clutch and rear main while we had it apart. 

Like this but with more clothes !

Any way the Mrs is back in business, watch out DI she's on her way.


Oh yeah Fathers Day, S1/DIL stopped by with some special cupcakes.
S2 took us to the White Owl for lunch on the rooftop patio.
And we checked out the booths at SummerFest.

AIR SHOW !

Saw it on Sunday.

AWESOME !

Mothers Day - SUCCESS

A hike with all the furry grand kids, picnic, and laughs!

S1,S3,S2 and Mrs

+ GrandDog

Postal FAIL

Well last weekend it was the letter-carriers food drive.
At S2's house that didn't happen.
Seemed to be a problem, Bee swarms, guess that wasn't covered in their oath.
Monday we called the animal control to ask for advice.
He sent over a bee keeper to get em, also was another swarm in the tree above.

Anyway the mailman returned but not in time to get the goods!

SUPER MOON

I tried to get a good picture, but I need to get an SLR if I want enough control.

Loved there were clouds for accent.