Fairy tale again, again….

     “Mavelle?”

     She heard her younger sister’s voice but her eyes refused to open. 

     “Mavelle?  Mavelle, it’s me Lovena.”

     “Oh, for pity’s sake.  Quit it.  I’m sick of hearing you calling her name.”

     That voice could only be Sarah’s, Mavelle thought as she tried to move.  A sharp pain sliced through her side.  She moaned and opened her eyes only to have them stabbed with a bright light.  She slammed them shut.

     A cold cloth, covered her eyes and a gentle hand smoothed her hair.  “You’re alive, dear sister.  Rest now.”

     Mavelle drifted off to sleep.

     The voice grated through her veil of sleep like a farrier’s rasp.  “We’ll never get out of here.  She was our last hope.”

     “Shut up, Sarah.”  Mavelle sat up.  “I wasn’t out there alone.  I had help.”  If Cragger and McDougal are still alive, that is.  She didn’t dare voice that aloud.

     Lovena ran to her side.  “Are you okay?”

     “I’ll live.”

     “Not for long if our rocky friend has anything to say about it,” said Sarah.

     “Always the pessimist.”  Mavelle tipped an imaginary hat to Sarah.  “Lovena, what do we have?”

     “I’ve made three slingshots exactly the way you taught me to do.  Even though Sarah had no petticoats to spare for the job, I managed by using all of mine and part of yours.  We have a fire pit and every scrap of wood I could find I stacked near it.  I couldn’t get one started.  I hope you have more skill.  There’s no food, but we have water.”

New printer…again

     Target had an all in one printer on sale cheap.  I bought one.  I am so tired of the battle with the old one since the change from one wireless box to another put the old printer into a complete snit.

     The new one is not wireless and is working very well.  I even managed to scan a couple of pictures and post them on my FB page.

     Yay!

     You all have a good one.

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Joke for today…The Dress.

A mother-in-law stopped by unannounced at her
son’s house. She knocked on the door then immediately walked in and she
was shocked to see her daughter-in-law lying on the couch totally naked.
Soft music was playing and the aroma of perfume filled the room.

“What are you doing?” she asked.

“I’m waiting for Mike to come home from work,” the daughter-in-law answered.

“But you’re naked!” the mother-in-law exclaimed.

“This is my love dress,” the daughter-in-law explained.

“Love dress? But you’re naked!”

“Mike loves me and wants me to wear this dress,” she explained. It
excites him to no end. Every time he sees me in this dress he instantly
becomes romantic and ravages me for hours on end. He can’t get enough of
me”

The mother-in-law left. When she got home she undressed,
showered, put on her best perfume, dimmed the lights, put on a romantic
CD, and lay on the couch waiting for her husband to arrive.

Finally her husband came home. He walked in and saw her lying there so provocatively. “What are you doing?” he asked.

“This is my love dress,” she whispered sensually.

“Needs ironing,” he said. “What’s for dinner?

He never heard the gunshot.

 

You all have a good one and keep on laughing!

 

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English: “My Wife and my Mother-in-Law”, a famous optical illusion. Appears in Puck, v. 78, no. 2018 (1915 Nov. 6), p. 11. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

Common sense, what happened to it?

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     Will someone please tell me what happened to common sense.  Where did it go?

     Yesterday, another energy group sent a passel of minions through our neighborhood to recruit sales.  I hate people coming to our door to try to change our electric service, tell me about their nut of the day religion, and/or sell me stuff I don’t need.

     Anyway, the young man who came to our door and rang the doorbell also opened my storm door.  Immediately, he rankled me by that action, I didn’t even wait for him to open his mouth before I told him we weren’t interested.

     After a few seconds inside I realized I was still very angry at the young man and the reason why hit me like a bolt from the blue.  He had endangered my dogs.  Lucky for him that both were in their crates napping at the time.  Had they been loose when I opened the door, they probably would’ve bolted through the storm door he held open and run him over. 

     I walked back outside hoping to catch him.  I did.  I told him I had some advice for him, and explained how he had endangered himself by opening the outside door.   Glad he didn’t learn that lesson the hard way.

     You all have a good one!

More friggin snow

     Oh, for Pete’s sake.  As if the snow we had the other day wasn’t enough, Mother Nature decided we needed an even heavier jolt, topped off with sleet, freezing rain, and rain. 

     We had planned to go out to dinner for my birthday yesterday.  However, after leaving an afternoon appointment with The Curmudgeon not feeling all that great, seeing the snow begin to fall, we decided maybe we ought to put it off for a day or two.  Good thing we did.

     It didn’t take long for the snow to start to come down fast and furious.  How happy I was to be safe at home…sort of… I hate cooking and doing dishes on my birthday. 

     You all have a good one!

 

No post today…

It’s my birthday so I’m taking the day off.

You all have a good one!

We had snow today…yeah, not thrilled.

 

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Too tired to write tonight…

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     We’re so tired after running around our yard that we won’t even give Mommy any room to sit. 

     A rare occasion when both of them are on the couch together.  🙂

     You all have a good one!

It is Fenced!!

     Before eight yesterday morning our fence was halfway down.  Before four in the afternoon the new fence was up.  By four-fifteen two dogs had tested their new boundaries and were pleased.

     Gavin promptly lifted his leg on the front corner of the yard and then in the back.  He kicked dirt about with his back feet and claimed the new fence suitable.

     Patty nosed along the entire length of the fence and after being told to get out of the gardens didn’t bother with it again.

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     You all have a good one!

 

More entertaining than TV

     We’d finished dinner and the pups were mooching gummy cherries from The Curmudgeon.  As soon as he told them the candy was ‘all gone’ Patty decided it was time to play with Gavin.

     She likes to swoop in and grab a leg or his collar to get things started.  There’s chasing, there’s wrestling, and there are hucklebutts on and off the couch.

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   On our part, there is a great deal of laughter.

     You all have a good one!

One step back…

   So the appointment at the neurologist didn’t go as hoped.  On the bright side, the MRI of his spine didn’t show any new lesions.  On the dark side, his EEG has them worried.

     Now they want an MRI of his brain with contrast.  He has to have blood work done beforehand because the hospital won’t do the MRI without the blood work.

     His nurse practitioner (with whom he had the appointment) and his neurologist were both in the room at the end of the appointment.  Not something that happens often and something I find a tad disconcerting. 

     There big concern was his one medication, Ampyra.  It can cause seizures.  What they found on his EEGs had them concerned. 

     He is showing more muscle weakness as of late.  His balance is poor and he needs to use the walker and rollator more. 

     I can see the day coming where I will need to get help in for him, and I have no idea how we will manage to pay for that.

     What scares me the most, is that the time to do this, is coming closer at a faster rate.

     Well, we’ll deal with it when it gets here.  For now, as usual, it’s one day at a time.

You all have a good one.

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A quick funny for you today.

                                A Fairy Tale for the Assertive Woman

     Once upon a time, in a land far away, a beautiful princess happened upon a frog, as she sat contemplating ecological issues, on the shores of an unpolluted pond in a verdant meadow near her castle.

      The frog hopped into the Princess’ lap and said, “Elegant Lady, I was once a handsome Prince until an evil witch cast a spell upon me. One kiss from you, however, and I will turn back Into the dapper, handsome, charming, young Prince that I was and then, my sweet, we can marry and set up housekeeping in yon castle with my mother. There, you can prepare my meals, clean my clothes, bear my children, and forever feel grateful and happy doing so.

      That night, on a repast of lightly sautéed frog legs seasoned in a white wine and onion cream sauce, she chuckled to herself and thought, “I don’t fucking think so.”

Goliath the bullfrog

Goliath the bullfrog

Screaming frog

Screaming frog