Category Archives: Misc
Nice day
Yay! 65° yesterday!!! All the snow is gone! Even the dogs are pleased.
Other than that, it was a quiet day here at Casa Doggonnedmysteries. The Curmudgeon had a restless night, couldn’t sleep in the afternoon, and I hope that doesn’t make his walking bad tomorrow.
I, on the other hand, slept like a baby with my new CD player playing my sleep CD all night. Color me happy.
You all have a good one!
Aw, you can’t find your car?
Well, maybe next time you won’t block a driveway. I had places to go and things to do and you kept me from all of it. Lucky for you I didn’t have an emergency during the night. I wonder what this is going to cost her. 🙂
Yeah, we think it was a female that parked there. Usually it is men who are that rude and will actually argue with me when I tell them they can’t park there, but this time we think we saw the culprit when we left to go to the farmers market.
G and I were walking to the car when we saw a young, I-am-entitled woman talking on her phone, walking back and forth, waving her free arm about, staring at the place from where the car, just a few minutes before, was towed.
We looked at each other and grinned. Once we got in the car and pulled out we both cracked up.
“Want to bet that’s the idiot who parked in front of the driveway all night?”
“Naw, that’s too easy.”
You all have a good one and remember if it’s my driveway you’re thinking of parking in front of, you will be ticketed and towed. 😉
Maybe I need a sign:
Calgon take me away!
I need a vacation. I mean it, don’t laugh, I really do need one. I need someone to babysit The Curmudgeon and dogs while I go find a nice warm beach somewhere. I need a break, a change in routine, a chance to recharge.
Just give me a nice, quiet shack on the beach with plumbing, electric where I can plug my lap top in, and a great place to eat nearby. A place where I don’t have to cook or clean, or worry about anything except did I remember the sun block?
You have no idea how much I’d love to disappear for a few weeks and do nothing but relax and not have to think or remember to ask The Curmudgeon if he took his medication while forgetting mine completely. Oh yes, I have done that often.
To not have to worry if that noise I heard was him falling again…yes, a peaceful vacation where I don’t hear him moan and groan all day long.
Maybe I just need to get out of the house for a few hours and go out to lunch with G. This snow has me stir crazy.
You all have a good one and if you are on a beach somewhere, please refrain from telling me about it. 😀
English: Ginowan Tropical Beach 日本語: 宜野湾トロピカルビーチ (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Lullaby and goodnight?
For years I’ve had trouble falling asleep. Then I discovered several ‘sleep’ CDs that helped me fall asleep like never before. I would even stay asleep for hours.
Last night my CD player died. Do you have any idea how tough it is to find a new one? Everything is MP3 players. I finally found a couple of them. I bought one at Radio Shack.
No, with the street as bad as it is I didn’t drive there. I ordered it online. 😀
It may take a few days before I get a good sleep again.
You all have a good one!
Are you a bully?
As a youngster I could never understand it when people were nasty to each other. I couldn’t see the point in it. That’s probably why even one of my own sisters had a habit of bullying me for a long time.
One day, in junior high, I had enough of being bullied by a couple of girls in school and stood up to them with great success. It felt good. The next time my sister tried to bully me, I stood up to her. Success! She quit bullying me and tried to go after the baby sister. I wouldn’t allow that.
I do not tolerate bullying. I understand it even less now than I did as a child. How and why do certain adults think that bullying is acceptable?
Bullying comes in all forms. If you are reading this and wondering if I am writing about you, you may just be a bully.
Summer road trip anyone?
I found out today while taking a survey on Facebook that I am four states short of hitting all fifty states. Those four are probably not the ones you think they are.
I missed Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine. My Mother missed Rhode Island. If I manage to hit those four states this summer I’ll break my mother’s record.
Wish she could be with me. She would have been thrilled to make her final state. We had planned to make that trip one day but that day never did get here. That’s why I made a promise to myself last night.
I am going to see my four remaining states.
You all have a good one!
I think Hecuba would enjoy a road trip. Don’t you?
They say bad things come in threes…Maybe I’ll stay in bed tomorrow.
Whenever things get going too smoothly around here, I know the other shoe is gonna drop, hard.
The Curmudgeon has had a bad couple of days. Yesterday being the worse he’s had in a while. Bad enough that he had to resort to using his walker in the afternoon. Not fun for him or for the rest of us.
The vet called and said that Patty’s kidneys are not looking great. Her BUN and Creatinine levels are off. We are going to try to get her levels better with diet. If that doesn’t work then we have to go to medication.
We lost two of our Bullys to renal failure years ago and we’re hoping we can give Patty a few more good years yet.
You all have a good one!
RIP to both Paul Walker and Roger Rodas
My opinion may not be popular, but I feel so sorry for the family and friends left behind to grieve, and angry that they, yes I said they, pulled such stunt that endangered others. Two grown men were in the car and had to be in agreement to the reckless act for it to happen.
I find it very sad that Paul Walker and Roger Rodas, men old enough to know better, are dead because they thought that a car was a toy to be played with and were speeding on a public street.
Nope, I am planting my butt on the couch.
I will not be leaving the house today. I refuse to go anywhere near a store on Black Friday.
I had to work many a Black Friday when I was a retail manager. I hated it then and I hate it even more now. I don’t know how many of you hard-core bargain hunters are aware that most of the people working in those stores you throng to are there not from choice but because it is ‘work the day or get fired.’
Oh yes, while you get to enjoy your time off retail workers don’t get the time off. Keep this in mind when you are dragging your feet at closing time on Christmas eve too. They can’t leave until you get the heck out of the freaking store. Are the bargains really worth it?
English: DC USA, Target, Black Friday (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Have I run out of wall space yet?
Not on your life.
I put the third picture up on the wall and I still have room for more. 
If you can’t see it well enough…
Here it is.
This one is my absolute favorite picture…a water color by Maggie Burns. What a fabulous talent she is.
Busy day yesterday…
Starting to box and set aside items for our spring yard sale.
This toy fire truck, a Vintage Smith Miller SMFD No. 3 Aerial Ladder Fire Truck, B Mack Cab/L Mack Rear, from the 1950’s will not go out unless I find a person willing to pay a premium price for the toy. It is quite large and metal. Best offer over $400.00 gets it. The Curmudgeon was never allowed to play with it so it is in mint condition. 
Shawnee Tom the Piper’s Son and S&P Shakers–$160.00 OBO.… will go out.
As will this guitar.
This crock
And this 1952 1953 1954 Hudson Wasp Medallion Ornament OEM parts RARE vintage part!
Not finished?
I never realized how many pictures I had to hang on the walls. Some are new and some have been down for a while.
Yesterday I climbed up and down the ladder so many times I know I’m going to feel it when I wake up. LOL! However, it was worth it, it’s so nice to see pictures on my walls.
I still have a few to hang, but the majority of them are up and I am one happy camper. When I paint, I will take down one wall’s worth at a time and hang them right back up as soon as the paint is dry.
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