Just got my new Chucks and I am stoked.

We used to have a ground hog called Chuck. He lived in our hedge.

We have one living under our shed. She had a baby this year... cutest thing everrrrr.

Until they decimate your garden...

Ground hog Chuck wouldn't do that.

*sigh* the parents are always the last to know...

u crazy ghoul

2 As, 2 Bs

The jet ski works after sitting for nearly a year and having no real maintenance other than a new battery a month ago.

I was outside throwing knives and a big deer walked right behind the target.

"outside throwing knives" all casual-like, like you were hanging laundry. :lol:

I'm happy because tomorrow I am going to see The Family of the Opera. That's what the 4 year old niece calls it...she's seen the movie I guess, but is a bit young to sit still in a theater for that long. The almost 10 year old doesn't want to go, she thinks it's scary. The 8 year old is going, as is my brother and mom. It's going to be so fun!

Make sure you get pictures.

qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq === My sweet kittycat (Spiderman) is sweet. She sat on the Q button on my keyboard and made all those q's up there.

and toast. I like the toast today. It's magical. Some days the toast is merely adequate so today is a Red Letter Day for the toast chef.

I have painted all my nails, toes and fingers without a smudge! Yay!

My band was just asked to play a house party in Jersey today... for $1000! It's really late notice but we're gonna get it together.

Some people still have money in this economy.

Awesomes, UT! Congrats!

Aw hell, just as quickly it's off! I don't even know what happened, just got a text saying gig's off today... fawk that was good money on the table..

Ouch, grab the cash quicker next time.

Father's Day - Pete did the chores. Mountain biking today, I was fast. My fellows said some very nice things about my kids and I reflected on that on my drive home. Now I'll get those paint brushes out.

Add on- Two Dispatch albums from the girls, nice.

Found this one today and it made me smile:

Descartes announced, "I think 2 + 2 = 5; therefore it does."

new Sunrise Earth DVD coming out in August, and a really cool one, too! yay--they're my absolute faves.

I just got my chip resetter and now my 27 half full ink cartridges will work and I got a refiller kit. Damn Epson printer is now under my control!!!

Also Free to a good home: HP 45 (black) ink cartridge, new never installed. no box.

we could use that.

Sold to the stalking butler. PM me w/ address

oops. I thought we could use it, but I just checked our printer, and it's not one we can use. Thanks, though!

Well if somebody can, I've got several.

My mom is this close >< to being accepted into an assisted living spot.

I have got my fingers and toes crossed and the toes crossing hurts a bit.

hi skyshidhe!

*i just wanted to say HI*

I'm glad for you and your mom.

Hello Brianna

Thank you.

Have a great weekend, k?

Hello Brianna and it is said like city ( if you can't remember SHEE), sky-city( or sky shee) not shitty and if you keep teasing me I am going to call you brianna binanna which is actually a lot cuter. lol

Thank you.

Have a great weekend, k?

I'm happy today because brother-in-law just left after a 3-day visit...

Not because he's gone, but because he finally found employment after a 24+ yr stint in the (JAG core) Army. He and his wife (also a 20 yr vet) retired and they both have had a hard time finding work in their field. But things are looking up now. Yea !

Lil Lookout showed up for his 8AM game to find the other team didn't show up. Not a single one of them. Bastards.

However, on an adjacent field there were a field of 14 year old girls that had the same problem. The coaches talked and decided the 9 and 10 year old boys would play the 14 year old girls. The girls went easy on them for the 18 seconds it took for S****** to score then they started playing the boys hard. Lil Lookout had 3 goals and 1 assist in their 6-3 victory. The girls and their parents were good sports about it and congratulated the boys.

I am happy for them Lamplighter! Good news!

haha lookout,...great story! :)

Getting dirty with my hori-hori.

Is that a kind of frog?

ah...... no.

no, it's a toad.

an under - toad?
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww


JUST KIDDING

School and the children are making my happy today.
We've been learning pirate songs to sing after school - we're selling Treasure Hunt Maps for a real treasure hunt, although the correct entries go into a draw, rather than treasure being buried! This is to raise funds for a Pirate Party at the end of term.

Also, the children know it is my birthday this week as I am going in Monday and Wednesday rather than my usual Friday. They can't quite grasp the Wednesday things (my birthday's on Friday, but the class is taken by a different teacher and TA on those days) but they are excited anyway.

Attached, my first card.

Translated (except for my name):

That's very sweet, Sundae!

My lead singer has accepted a position as manager of Eclipse, a quite good Pink Floyd tribute band. I think this will mean good things for him, and in turn, good things for our band too.

yay UT, good times for you all!

congrats to all then.

Googling an old college friend some time ago I noticed that he plays sax (as he always did) in a Floyd tribute band, in Cleveland.

http://www.floydtribute.com/

That ain't no easy music to play.
Yeah, the guy I had a Bacon Beagle Burger with! One of my best (and purely platonic) friends from college. We and 4 others spent a fun weekend at Lake Cumberland the year he (and the two other guy friends) graduated. The other two were my roommate and our friend from Buffalo. What a great time!

I can't wait to someday see your band, UT.

I just finished doing some minor re-adjustment to the landscape in our front yard.
Feels good to get something done now that the rains have let up a bit.

I ended up doing it all by hand + shovel and rake, not the rototiller

Over the past several days our Lab, Vicky, started barking at every little noise, especially late at night when it was quiet outside.
Come Friday, the 2nd, she was getting to be a real mess with people starting with fireworks and we were dreading the 4th.

So Saturday morning we made a new game.
My wife and I would randomly yell "Bang" or "Pop" or drop a pan, slam a door, etc. Each time Vicky would get a small piece of dog biscuit treat and a lot of reassurance. For Labs, food takes priority over every other activity in the brain.

Well, she made it all the way thru the 4th as a calm and collected dog.
She even slept right thru the random fireworks that went off after midnight.

Yea Vicky ! Yea us... we got some sleep too.

We just got back from Santa Fe, NM. It was a nice weekend.

It was inexpensive, too, until we walked in to Momeni's Gallery on Don Gaspar street and walked out with two rugs that some guys in Afghanistan spent eight months sweating over.

Our vacation starts early in the am. 10 days in the Caribbean.

You lucky dog, you! :)

so does ours ;)

New hair colour.
Not perfect but not the one I was unhappy with earlier this week.

Midday picnic tomorrow. I'll be bringing the champagne.

Coincidence? or neo-con conspiracy? :eyebrow: or something even more disturbing? :doit:


:) ;) :D

Ya Cock, Zen! lol
I meant the cellar's ... as in he'll be on vacation and not posting.

A shiney gold medal for me. Go me!

Congratulations!:D

wtg!!

'grats griff!

Thanks dudes, but it turns out not to really be gold just some base metal. ;)