Friday December 17th 2010

Well it’s Friday and it is cloudy and still warm at 6AM.  I think it is supposed to cool off today and be cloudy. About 7AM Sparky and I went outside to play and the wind is picking up from the North and it is cooling off quite a bit but the sun tries to peak through.  Sparky is getting to the point he really doesn’t mind the cold.

We decided we needed to go to Wal Mart again and do a little shopping. I wanted to pick up a printer, $32, not to bad, when the ink runs out I can get a new one about a cheap as the two ink cartridges it takes. I got the one with the scanner on it.  I have the same one at home and the scanner comes in handy for emailing documents that need to be filled out.

We were invited over to Rick and Connie’s for Rick’s birthday.. Happy Birthday Rick…62 and looking good!

Rick is recovering from his knee surgery quite well.  Looking forward to playing golf again.

Destiny, Matt, Emma Kate and Ethan surprised them with a visit. Those two kids really have the energy.  They supplied us with a fashion show and skits and whatever else they could think of.  We had some really good laughs, guess that is what kept them going…

This was Rick’s birthday cake(s)

Matt says the owner bought this shop for his wife so she could keep busy while he went to the casinos.  I didn’t try one, I was just to full. Connie had a great supper, roast beef, meat balls, shell macaroni salad, mashed potatoes, etc.  Excellent supper!

We took Sparky along with us and when we went in the house, both Ethan and Emma Kate asked if we brought Sparky.  Glad we did, he got a lot of exercise even though their dog Zoë, doesn’t like Sparky things went quite well until I put him back in his cage.  Wasn’t real happy.  He would like to have had the run of the house but his cage is where he belonged, he is way to young and immature to be running loose.

We got home about 9:30PM and watched some TV before going to bed.  Had to let the dinner settle a little.

I want to go to the farmer’s market in the morning.  Linda says she wants to go to so that means Sparky will have to get her up early I know she will like that….Night Y’all…

Thursday December 16th 2010

Nice and warm this morning.  It is damp out but I can handle that.

We don’t have a lot planned for today, I think we may go into town.  Fred’s is supposed to have jeans on sale for a good price so we will probably go in there.

Sparky and I spent a lot of time outside today, to nice to stay inside. We did go into town and to Fred’s.  I wasn’t impressed.  Linda bought a couple things but I looked at everything  and didn’t see anything that I wanted.  It only took me about 20 minutes!

I was kind of hungry for Chinese and wouldn’t you know it there was a Chinese restaurant right across the parking lot and the lunch buffet was only $4.99.  We tried it and liked it!!  It was good.

Linda wanted to stop at a dress place called Stage.  OK, I figured I could go look through “Dirt Cheap” while she did that.  Took me about 22 minutes to look through here.  Did look at a bolt that I could have used and a coffee server but it was to expensive so I didn’t buy anything.

Linda found a blouse or two for Virgie.  She was going to wait though until she talked to Connie to get her opinion on them.  We did stop to see Virgie for a little while.  She is doing well, she was sleeping when we got there and the TV was so loud you couldn’t talk or hear.  I had to turn it down. We took her out into the main room and visited for a little while then they came to take her to lunch.

We came on home and tried to get comfortable after the Chinese lunch. We watched some TV and I played with Sparky for awhile, until he bit my toe and got his tooth stuck in my sock.  I kind of lost it and got a little angry with him.  I didn’t hit him though, wasn’t really his fault, I just wasn’t in the mood for playing I guess.

No pictures today so I am going to get ready for bed.  Night Y’all…

Wednesday December 15th 2010

This morning was a bunch warmer!!!  I think it was 60 degrees this morning at 6AM.  I could be wrong but it was pretty nice. Sparky and I did our morning thing (exercise, eat, etc.).  I got to work on the computer after he went to sleep….

He does get comfortable after all that exercise!!

We went over to Rick and Connie’s this afternoon to make some “Holiday Bread”.  We don’t have a recipe so we are going to wing it.  After we got it mixed up Rick got his truck and hooked up to my tow dolly, which he had stored in back of his shed and we brought it back to the campground.  When we got back to their place we mixed up, well, not mixed but added the fruit to the bread and rolled it up.  After we were all done Connie thought that maybe we added to much of the fruit. After baking it we were positive we added to much fruit.  The inside was kind of moist but it tasted good.  On the way home I thought that maybe I should (we should) have used the rolling pin and rolled the fruit into the dough, may have helped… This is what it looks like…

Actually this loaf looks better than the other two we cut open.  I may try this again to see what happens.

I went to church at West Union tonight.  Pastor Bud usually brings a pretty good sermon, or bible study.  Tonight was on the “exaltation of Jesus” in the Scripture at His birth and just before His birth and after His death.  Very interesting.

Linda and I watched some TV tonight (as usual) and I played with Sparky. He wasn’t in his usual place on the seat beside me, he was on the floor and I laughed so hard at him I almost choked.  He is one weird little dog. I think he should sleep tonight, me too!  Guess I will sign off for now and pick this up again in the morning….Night Y’all…

Tuesday December 14th 2010

When I went outside this morning it wasn’t nearly as cold as I thought it would be.  The wind wasn’t blowing so I checked the temp in the car and it was 28 so it did get below freezing but I don’t think it made it to the 22 they were predicting.

Sparky and I took a walk and I took a picture of the little Chinese electric car that the lady in the laundry was telling me about yesterday…

I’m not sure what color this is but my guess would be green. It is kind of cute but I sure wouldn’t want to get in a wreck with it.  I don’t know where they put the batteries!  I guess it is good for about forty miles on a charge.

I had to take a picture of Sparky waking Linda…

You can’t see Linda but Sparky is on her head going wild.  He loves to wake her up in the morning!

The Christmas party at Virgie’s place is this afternoon at 5PM so we will go over to Rick and Connie’s and I am going to make some cinnamon rolls to take over.  We actually got there about 2:30PM, I wanted to get there about 2PM.  Still had enough time.  I didn’t take a picture of the rolls but got them in the oven about 4PM and they actually turned out pretty good except some of the sugar burnt and that wasn’t very good.

Well, I just erased a paragraph, what a bummer, now I am going to have to try and write it again… We arrived at the party in plenty of time and I thought it was just going to be finger food but WOW they had a great dinner!!  I think that it was better than Ryan’s especially taste wise!  There wasn’t any salad bar though just good food.  I think one of my favorite things was the potato salad.  It was actually mashed potato salad I think. Very good and very tasty!

Santa Claus came tonight also….

There were a few kids there and I think everyone had a good time. I think I have a picture of Virgie here somewhere..

I think she had a good time.  All of her children were there except for one from Florida.  I think he is coming for Christmas though.

We left about 7:30PM and went back to Rick and Connie’s to pick up Sparky.  We were going to take him but thought it best to leave him there in his cage. He was good.

We got home about 8PM and took it easy the rest of the night.  Watched a little TV or course and went to bed about 1030PM.   I unhooked the water again just to be sure.  Don’t want it to freeze even though it isn’t supposed to get below 32.  Just want to be sure.

One more thing, if there are a lot of mistakes in this, I am having trouble with Live Writer.  I can’t get back to the top to check it for errors.  Sorry Y’all…

Monday December 13th 2010

Since this is Tuesday I can’t remember how cold it was yesterday.  I don’t think it got as cold as they said it was supposed to.  I don’t think the water froze but to be sure it was a good thing I disconnected the water as I will do again tonight.  Supposed to be colder tonight than last night.

Linda made some banana bread today.  I didn’t take a picture of it but it tasted good but I think maybe there were to many bananas in it so it was kind of moist.  I am sure it will get eaten.

As the morning rolled on, it got windier and it seemed like it got colder. I would take Sparky out but the wind was almost to much for me.

I decided to do a load of wash and change the sheets.  There were a couple of ladies down there doing their wash, they didn’t make fun of me for doing it but they sure had a weird conversation going on. It was about their ex husbands.  Funny what people will talk about.  They had their clothes in the dryer when I started my washing and I finished washing and drying mine before they were done.  I won’t go into what I heard.  The one lady though had a car that I thought was a Smart Car.  It was a Chinese electric car.  Wish I had taken a picture of it.  She says they like it but haven’t gotten it licensed yet. They are also leasing their camper with option to buy.

Linda tried to get a picture of Sparky sitting up but he doesn’t sit very long  but he sits longer than any of our other dogs did.  Our other dogs didn’t do it at all..

Some people think I may be spoiling him but in the morning I take him out and when he comes in he will take a couple bites of food then want up on the seat so I feed him up on the seat, he doesn’t want to eat out of the bowl, I take it and set it on the seat for him and then when he starts getting full I feed him by hand a bite at a time.  Don’t tell me I’m spoiling him!  His place now is right where he is in the above picture.  He spends most of the day there except when we are outside playing.

Linda fixed some goulash tonight. Very good but she put cayenne pepper in it and while it was cooking it was choking me and Sparky. That cayenne must be potent.  After a couple of bites it was pretty good but pretty spicy..

Oh, I almost forgot, she got the hamburger out and let it thaw and then when she started supper she found out that it was ground pork and not hamburger, “go for it” I told her, we like our pork patties this should be good too.  It was.  Pork is a little solider than hamburger but I think I like it just as well.

Not much going on tonight again.  Think I will play some games on the computer and then go to bed.  Tomorrow I will make cinnamon rolls over at Rick and Connie’s to take to Virgie’s place for their Christmas get together. That should be fun.  I think on Wednesday Connie wants to make holiday bread. I made it a couple years ago and it turned out pretty good so I will try it again.  I don’t have a recipe and Virgie, for some reason can’t find hers.  I make it my way anyway, hope it turns out!!

Going to get some sleep tonight, I am tired for some reason, sure isn’t from working to hard…..Night Y’alll…

Sunday December 12th 2010

OK it’s Sunday and I decided to check out the little chapel here in the park..

The little chapel was very nice!  The pastor, Dave Claybaugh, had a good sermon on Christmas and what it means.  The people seemed very nice also.

I also went to church at West Union.  I like the way Pastor Bud is doing his Christmas sermons.  Today his sermon was “Herod is Dead”  nice title for a Christmas sermon right?  When Joseph and Mary took Jesus to Egypt to escape the wrath of Herod.  He also had some points about Herod that I didn’t know like he kind of liked to kill people if they did anything to jeopardize his position as king.  Guess he killed a couple of his kids because they were going to be heirs to his thrown.

We went over to Rick and Connie’s this afternoon.  Had a nice visit then we stopped at Virgie’s for a visit.  We took Sparky.  They really like Sparky there.  He is a little frisky for most of them but he is still cute.

Went to West Union for their Christmas Cantata tonight.  It was good, got a few pictures….

This is Landon, not a good picture but he is a good looking kid and does a great job acting and he has made two movies that were great especially for a high school guy without much money to put into a movie,

This is the choir and they did a good job on the cantata!  Pastor Bud did a good job directing it.

There was a fellowship after the cantata but I decided not to stay. Now is a good time to do a couple phone calls and this blog!  Now after this it will be bed time.  Well, I will unhook the water hose first then go to bed.  Night Y’all….

Saturday December 11th 2010

This is Saturday and I didn’t unhook the water last night I don’t think??? I think it stayed warm last night, don’t think it was to bad out this morning.  I remember I got up!!  It was 6:15AM and Sparky heard me and it was time for him to get up too.  He is really doing good but then he sleeps in his cage and I really like it that way.

I got Linda up, well, actually she got up on her own at 7:30AM  I was surprised!!  We need to get ready and head over to Rick and Connie’s.  We are going to Biloxi or some where in that vicinity.  After we got to Rick and Connie’s we found out that Steve is having trouble with his car so we went and picked them up.  We took Sparky over to Rick and Connie’s and they took him to Biloxi and we picked up Steve, Pam and Anna Grace. We had a  good trip down there and really didn’t get lost.  We didn’t get to see a parade either.  We thought about stopping at Menge Flea Market for a couple of things but decided we didn’t have time.

We went to a BBQ place for lunch.  It was called “The Shed”  Guess it had been on different shows…

One thing about this place is we didn’t have to dress up to go there. The food was good (not like home cooked).  I guess it wasn’t real expensive either.

I had a hard time finding the entrance!  Good thing there were other people going in, we just followed.  The accessories for the place was something else!!  The owner was a dumpster diver and he collected junk.  The place looks like it was made from used “stuff”.  The place where we ate was adorned with forks stuck in the wall with things from paper towels to dollar bills stuck to the wall.  The wall was foil covered pieces of insulation that forks would stick into very well.  Steve put a couple of things up, Linda and I didn’t even though I think Lind would have.

We walked around the place and I took a few pictures….

Above is a couple of ducks preening and doing their jobs on the tables.

The guy in the kayak had paddled 9.5 miles getting ready for a big meet.

This must be the wood pile for the smoker.  Kids loved climbing all over it.

Steve liked the Jeep in the background.  I think he would liked to have had it.  We are about ready to take off back to Destiny’s place.  We went to a thrift store to look around.  I saw a recliner I would liked to have had but no way to carry it and I would like to have a new one.

We finally got on the road about 3:45PM and I wanted to stop and get gas at Wal Mart’s Murphy Oil but this was Murphy Express and they didn’t take the Wal Mart card so I had to pay full price which is the cheapest we have seen. $2.72 per gallon.  Getting back to Steve and Pam’s takes over an hour and we decided to take Sparky with us.  This will  be a first.  He usually rides in his cage and we didn’t have room for him so Linda got to hold him.  He was really pretty good as long as no one looked at him. 

Tonight we will take it easy, it’s supposed to rain, storm, blow, and get cold.  Not looking forward to tomorrow but by Wednesday it’s supposed to be in the middle seventies.  I can handle that but the 50 degree temps are really hard…

Taking it easy tonight and I am going to post this tonight instead of tomorrow.  Have different things to do tomorrow so guess I will say good night Y’all….