This and That

I'm having difficulty in my life. What I mean is that I have something on my mind that I can't quite get rid of and this something is bad. I don't want to mention this here because I'm hoping that it will go away and I don't want to see it again here. Yet I think it would be good to get this off my chest. I just typed the whole thing out on here and deleted it because it did help but I just don't want it staring at me in the future. I know that I'm not making any sense but that's me in a nutshell. I never make sense.

I'll write again when I'm in a better frame of mind.

Take care.

Answers

Someone asked me where the picture on my post is from. It's a picture I took when I was in Germany a few years ago. It's taken on the balcany of the hotel I stayed at and I was out there drinking my tasse kaffe (cup of coffee) and reading my book and I thought "what a beautiful scene" so I snapped a picture with my ultra cheap throw away camera. I had fun in Germany but was a little affraid to use my German. Learning the language and speaking it are very different animals. I hope this answers some questions.

Take care.

Fuzzy Little Creatures

I'm terribly afraid of anything that has more than four legs.
With that being said, I found a centipede on my bedroom wall! Ick!
Those things travel fast (I think that's because they have, like, a zillion legs!) I remember the first time I saw a centipede. I was nine years old and I was laying on the living room floor about four feet from the TV watching some show when a two incher (trust me, I'm not exaggerating) came running right in front of me. Not only did I move quickly, but I never, ever watched TV in that position again.

The next time I saw a centipede was when my sister and I went to an open house. We were walking around in the basement and Sister opened up a door to a small room. She turned on the light switch and there on the wall was a massive one. I kid you not, at least four inches long and hairy, very hairy. We both screamed and the realtor asked if we had just seen a spider. My reply was, "I wish". I didn't buy that house. I like to think that it was because the kitchen was small and the windows needed replacing and there was no dryer hookup but I know the real reason. I didn't want to share my house with that mondo centipede!

Take care,
Pamela

Delayed

Hi,

It has been a busy summer. Now comes the time to dig up the plants that need dividing and give them away - hopefully. I have iris's galore that I started to divide last night and let me tell you, they are the most difficult things to dividie. I had my garden fork (bigger than a house fork), my pruning shears and a serrated knife. In the end I used all three and still had problems. Those darn iris's do not want to divide! I need to dig up more iris's (which I'm really looking forward to) and replant some poorly placed hosta's. There's more that needs to be done but I don't want to tire you out.

Have you been to the Wednesday night farmer's market? We went about a month ago and had a blast. How can you go wrong with good produce, good food, wine and live music.

I will write again soon.

I Have a Mega-Sister

While I was away last weekend, my Sister decided to do alot of work around my house. Here's a list of what she did:
Took out sod and weeded my flower garden
Took out sod and weeded my hosta garden
Weeded my vegetable garden
She mulched my hosta & flower garden
She replaced almost all of my window well covers
She trimmed my front bushes
She took care of the dogs
She bought a new rug for the area by the back door
She bought new stove drip covers

Yeah, I owe her big time. Maybe a nice bottle of wine? You don't think that's enough? I agree. I'll have to use my brain power (such as it is) to come up with something nice.

Weekend Adventure

Well, I just spent the weekend (Friday afternoon included) at my Mom's. It was fun and low key. I made Pacific Rim Salmon for Friday night's dinner. I found the recipe in the new "Taste of Home" magazine. We also had cucumber's, tomatoes & onions in a sauce (the cuke's & tomato's were from my own garden) and we had sliced potatoes & onions in foil made on the grill. Yum. We also had smore's for dessert. Saturday was a day for rummage sales. Sometimes I cannot believe what people try to sell. I purchased a lazy susan and a garden hose reel. I need a hose reel for the side of my house by the driveway. We went to Perkins for lunch on Saturday and Mom made dinner Saturday night. Here was the menu: Lettuce salad with hot bacon dressing, slipper lobster which was breaded and deep fried (with butter on the side), corn on the cob (with butter of course) and dessert was a trip to Culver's at 9:45pm. Needless to say, my Sunday morning was not fun because I did not feel good. But I'm a good girl so we went to my Mom's church (catholic) and then out to breakfast at Schloegels. If you have ever been to Schloegel's in Menominee you know what is on their menu. Let's just say that my stomach did not get a repreive. My Dad use to work there back in the 1990's so I've been there alot. I left Mom at about 12:30pm and made my way home to quite a few surprises. I'll write about those later.

Hope you had a great weekend and I'll write again soon.

How about that

The weekend is just around the corner and I'm looking forward to it. I can, hopefully, continue reading the book "The store on Blossom Street" by Debbie Macomber. I like the book so far. One of my friends mentioned this book to me and that she liked it. It's about a yarn shop on Blossom Street that is attracting an eclectic group of women. Have you ever read the book "The Mulberry Tree" by Jude Deveraux? While reading it I got the greatest sensation to start canning because that's what the leading character does in the book. I may start knitting with this book. I used to knit, then crochet, then crossstitch, then . . . . I don't know why but I dive head into doing something that looks so cool and different and then, it fades. I lose interest. I no longer want to do something that was terribly interesting for me only days ago. I wonder if there are other people out there who have this issue?

Take care.

Green is In

I'm trying to be green. Not a sick green but a more eco friendly green. I bought three canvas bags (gave one to Mom) and have been using them at the grocery store . . . or at least when I remember to bring them with me :) I'm thinking about getting those refillable water bottles from LL Bean. They look cool and I think about how many plastic bottles this will save.

I just got done reading "The English American". I liked it especially the part about Jack. Alison did a good job of voicing Pippa's feelings (and opinions). I recommend this book if you want to learn about the English (and about how to make a good cup of tea) and see the many differences there are between the Americans and the English.

Artstreet is coming! August 22 - 24. I don't know why, but I like Artstreet.

I'm thinking of going to the farmer's market on Broadway. Paula and I went to the Saturday morning farmer's market and boy was that busy! I went the weekend before and it was fine but what an explosion this weekend. This is good for all the local farmers and creative people. My favorite stand? I enjoy the fromage stand and the cement leaves stand. I don't know why. Maybe next Wednesday we can take Duncan with us to the farmer's market. A picture of Duncan on Mom's couch is above. He's so cute. Take care.

Back from vacation

I just got back from vacation and it's hard to get into the groove of things again. I wish I could be sitting on the beach listening to the water lapping up onto the sand with a great mystery novel in my hands. Oh well. I finished the book "Angels Fall" by Nora Roberts. I almost didn't pick it out of the Library book sale because I didn't like the title but I soon discovered that the title is the name of the town its set in. I'm currently reading a new Nora Roberts novel but I can't remember the name. I rented the movie for "Angels Fall" and didn't really like it. The casting of Heather Locklear was not good. She did not fit the role and didn't the town have a lake? I guess the movie people couldn't afford the lake.

I'll write again, God willing.
Pam

Am I crazy?

Yeah, I like the title too.
But I sometimes think I'm crazy or that I have crazy thinking. People in my life can drive me crazy as I'm sure people in your life drive you crazy. Now this post is about how many times I can use the word "crazy". No seriously, I think I'm reasonably intelligent but no one listens to my advice. I can tell people not to do something and they will just do it anyway. Even at work. I mention a problem that is heading in our direction and no one listens. Then, a month later, sure enough that problem is right there and everyone is saying "why didn't we think about this?" It's one thing to have your advice ignored but it's really bad that no one even remembers that you gave the advice. UGH! Oh well. Life does go on. Peace to you.

Why are we going backwords?

Why is it that you cannot take your dog to parks or to events, yet you are expected to have a well behaved dog. I wish I could take my dogs everywhere that a seeing eye dog gets to go. Then, maybe they would be trained completely. Is it just me or do others think that we are going backwards?