[My] Life in Wisconsin

Cousin Buttercup- (And all Else)!




This picture- a bird in the Gulf...
How freakin' sad is that? (I couldn't even tell what it was at first)-


Good Morning All;

I'd better start off wth Saturday's sunrise in Flintville, or you will never get the above image out of your mind-

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Now that's a better picture!
"Red sky at morning, sailors take warning; Red sky at night, sailors delight"


A busy one today- I am catching up on laundry, then have to run down the road and get some gas for the mower. Time to mow again.  My back doesn't like it much, just no options. It would be much worse if I was pushing the mower though.

It rained real good yesterday and Saturday.
My lawns and my weeds appreciate that. As do I.

There is something so right about smelling the rains, and hearing them on the tin roof. 
I think Saturday's soaker was the first steady rain we have gotten in about 2 years.  We've been depending upon the on~and~off rains we have gotten... Gully washers, storms, and the like. (Nice too, to have precipitation come down all day and not have to shovel it). hehehe

Sputty wanted to go out in the worst way...

Sputty wants out!
-He had to settle for his litter-box in the basement. (Poor abused cat)!


My garden this year... 

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Part of it anyway; and so very abandoned...


A few more roses for you...
Can you stand it?

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I love them! (As does Punk)!
hehehe 
Suffice to say the back window STAYS open for the duration!


In reference to Miss Punk's blog from yesterday, she says to tell you all that licking paper plates just isn't the same...

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Sorry, my flash wasn't set to go off. & that's only part of the destruction!


Punk licked two holes in this one.

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I'd used it to cover a bowl of chowder- Must have been really GOOD!


Cousin Buttercup was here last weekend, on her way home to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.
So good to see her! 
She teaches in Colorado, and gets to spend a few months back home every year.

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Having some fun with the camera before she left-
Tiffany, if you are reading this I am wondering if you got my message on Yahoo? I didn't hear back from you yet...


A few weeks back I bought a butternut squash, (I can only go so long without having one).
I saved the seeds.
Casey and I planted them out in the field...

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Such little rain, so I had to carry some water out for them-
Not too fat anyway? hehehe


Not sure if those seeds will mature or not- But Casey's irises sure did...

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Never mind the dang weeds mixed in-



I am still blogging on my laptop- Not a good one for my pictures, but it will do. Greg and Casey will be coming out later. (Thank you Greg)!

Must close for now- Almost time to be outside...
Have a Monday!  ;-)

XOXO
Me


PS
Also in reference to the top picture (bird in the Gulf)...
I'd received it in an email. In it was stated that Kuwait owns 27% of BP.
I can't seem to find it anywhere, but don't know my way around a lot of sites.
Any truth to that 27% ?!?

Challenged Senior...

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I thought about the 30 year business I ran with 1800 employees
, all without a Blackberry that played music, took videos, pictures and communicated with Facebook and Twitter.

I signed up, under duress, for Twitter and Facebook, so my seven kids, their spouses, 13 grandkids, and 2 great grandkids could communicate with me in the modern way. (I figured I could handle something as simple as Twitter with only 140 characters of space).

That was before one of my grandkids hooked me up for Tweeter, Tweetree, Twhirl, Twitterfon, Tweetie and Twittererific Tweetdeck, Twitpix, and something that sends every message to my cell phone and every other program within the texting world.

My phone was beeping every three minutes with the details of everything except the bowel movements of the entire next generation. 

I am not ready to live like this! (I now keep my cell phone in the garage in my golf bag).

The kids bought me a GPS for my last birthday because they say I get lost every now and then going over to the grocery store or library.
I keep that in a box under my tool bench with the bluetooth
phone (it's red), that I am supposed to use when I drive.
I wore it once and was standing in line at Barnes and Noble talking to my wife as everyone in the nearest 50 yards was glaring at me. (Seems I have to take my hearing aid out to use it and I got a little loud).
I mean, the GPS looked pretty smart on my dashboard, but the lady inside was the most annoying, and rudest, person I had run into in a long time! Every 10 minutes, she would sarcastically say, "Re-calc-ul-ating!"  (You would think that she could be nicer). It was like she could barely tolerate me! She would let go with a deep sigh and then tell me to make a U-turn at the next light. (Then when I would make a right turn instead, it was not good).

When I get really lost now, I call my wife and tell her the name of the cross streets- (While she is starting to develop the same tone as the GSP lady, at least she loves me).

To be perfectly frank, I am still trying to learn how to use the cordless phones
in our house. We have had them for 4 years, but I still haven't figured out how I can lose three phones all at once and run around digging under chair cushions and checking bathrooms and dirty laundry baskets when the phone rings. Sound familiar?  Oh, please let it keep ringing until I find it- (Don't laugh, I'm serious).

The world is just getting too complex for me. They even mess me up every time I go to the grocery store.  You would think they could settle on something themselves but this 'paper or plastic?'
every time I check out just knocks me for a loop.

I bought some of those cloth reusable bags to avoid looking confused- but I never remember to take them with me.
Now I just toss it back to them.
When they ask me,
'paper or plastic?' I just say, "Doesn't matter to me, I'm bi-sack-sual!"
Then it's their turn to stare at me with a blank look.


hehehe    Have a wunnaful day!

XOXO
Me


Thank you Auntie!

image from here