Breakfast And Baits

This morning while cooking breakfast for my Dad, Zack Clark and Randy Haines came in and needed a pot of boiling water... After they assure me that no one is having a baby in the parking lot , I tell them to come on back....everyone knows I cannot multi task when cooking...It takes every ounce of concentration on my part to prepare food....ok...here I am..daddy's pancakes in a skillet which I find out later should be cooked on a griddle and a pot of boiling water....I am still on my first cup of coffee and in my pajamas...

Zack is dipping swim baits in the pot of boiling water because the tails are curved and they will not swim right....

Yes, I haven't been on the main road in a long time...I am always on a detour....always...But I Love It!

I see crazy people...

A few weeks ago when I took Mom to visit Aunt Chrick at " The Home" I checked in....saw several people....found Aunt chrick...set her and Mom up at a cozy little table so they could visit and decided I was early enough to go visit my daughter who lives only a few miles away.  I look around for someone to tell that I'm leaving for an hour or so and a delightful woman comes up and offers to help.  I explain, she tells me she's been working here at "The Home" now for about 2 years.  I've never met her, she is very nice and helpful and I comment that I am so glad to meet her and will be seeing her again in the fall. She explains that she only works in the summer as she still works at the Department of Human Services during the fall and winter. We had a wonderful conversation...I feel really good about leaving.  She is so attentive to Mom and Aunt Chrick offering to get them tea and a snack while I'm gone. Wow..talk about one on one service...how great is that!

I leave, am gone for about 2 hours, come back and the residents are having dinner. Mom and Aunt Chrick are hooping it up, having a good time and I notice that the caregiver I was so fond of is at another table .  Why ..  she is eating with some other ladies, what dedication, she really loves her job to stay overtime and eat unseasoned food.  I walk up to her table, she jumps up, introduces herself, and now she tells me she was a school teacher and is visiting her sister.  I find that odd ... maybe she has a twin.  No, I go to get a cup of coffee and here she comes again.."Aren't you new here? I am Covia, and I can't find my car....will you help me?". Here comes a real caregiver who takes Ms Covia back to her table.....time for her meds. 
Oh my goodness...I left Mom and Aunt Chrick in the care of a crazy person.

Grand Loonie!!

What a great suprise!

What's Your Story?????????

What have you done Kathi???
Fell off the porch and broke your arm???
There's got to be more to your story.....

Here's mine,,,,Imagine....School Yard...Old Nell Thomas School....4th grade...Summer..School's out and I have a brand new bike......Has a bell, a basket and streamers from the handle bars....Here comes the boys in our club...Billy Johnson, Barry Hart, Michael Whitby, Gary Haggard, and Barry's cousin from Chicago (taps on his shoes, comb in his pocket, and the best duck tail you've ever seen)....I of course am the only girl in the club cause I get more allowance than anyone on the block and have access to more bottles to return to Mr. Pritchard's Grocery for 2 cents each...I am the treasurer....Ofcourse they rule the club and I have to do what they say...you know..like give up my brand new bike for Barry's sister's bike so the visiting cousin will have a bike....I do....Then we get a contest going....Who can get the closest to the deep ditch at the back of the school....You can imagine that I won...did I mention the ditch was concrete?..I went right over the top, flew to the bottom and broke both arms.....

That's my story...Now do you want to tell all us Loons what you and Dwight were doing on the porch when you broke your arm? It better be good!

Mountain Mama

O.K. Loons...You know we all like to save money...I do my own hair color...Not only does it save money but it actually saves me time too...No appointments, my schedule, can be late can be early...don't have to get dressed and go anywhere...It's just convenient...I'm just a brunette...for goodness sakes, how hard can that be....Well, I've done it for years....Today I decide to color my hair..I watch a lot of Fox News..Especially while I have color on..can't wait on customers, can't talk on phone, can't do anything for 45 minutes ..right....I got an extra bonus time today...I started my hair color on Central time but took it off on Mountain Time....You do the math...My color stayed on l hr. and 45 minutes...I kept thinking it was taking longer...I got a lot of rest in, I did my nails....made a few notes...looked up some old recipes....Maybe I'll just stay on Mountain Time...I like it...

The Gift That Keeps on Giving

Everytime I buy an early Christmas Present I can hardly wait to give it....I've almost gone broke in the past buying presents in October and November and giving them away and then having to make a mad dash in December to buy again..There are no words for the early present I gave today...
On the way home from the Methodist Bazaar I stopped in the PromiseLand Book Store...Brother Dwight and I were messing around with each other as always ...I even left my purse in the car, told him to leave me alone, I was not buying, I was only window shopping...He asked about Daddy and told me of the Super Giant Print Bible..I told him he was making that up ..that I had never seen such a Bible and he was just tricking me trying to get me on the last aisle of the store with him....
What do you think? There it was ... A super Giant Jumbo Print Bible...I purchased it for my "going blind father" and had his name engraved, while I waited, and brought it home...As I was coming in the back door, Daddy was coming through the front door.....I of course gave it to him early..I mean really,,,,You gonna make a 93 year old man wait for a present????
I opened the box, showed him the beautiful engraved cover...He opened it and said..
"I can read this...every word...it's so clear and large...I love it....He turned around with his Bible and said..."I'm going to go right now and start making notes in the margin...I'll give it back to you some day"
There's my point...you should burn candles that people give you for gifts and you should give early presents...My Christmas is already the Best Ever...

Treasures

MeMe.....It's the most wonderful news...Guess What???? I found a coupon for a free Zip Line Ride, Bubble Gum that smells like strawberries but doesn't taste like strawberries and a Keychain light that says "Let there be Light." What treasures...Wonder what I'll find today???
My mind was wondering, what simple things it takes to make her happy...All of a sudden I realized that I would like to have that key chain...it would be perfect for my purse in the dark, and I haven't had a peice of bubble gum in ages..I would really like to have that gum, you know how you suck the sugar off and the gum gets real soft and then you chew it....And if I ever get to Arkansas, I would like to ride the zip line, ..I think it would be fun......

Tommorrow I think I will drink from the water hose, wear high heels and costume jewelry with shorts, ride a bike, eat some cracker jacks, catch lightning bugs in a fruit jar...just for kicks...Then Wednesday I will be a grown up again...I really don't want to be a child again....You have to take shots until you're 8.....

A Famous Boxing Promoter in My Bathroom

Oh My!!!

Don King was in my bathroom this morning....I was scared to death...

I waited on a few customers, you know how cute I am when I get up in the morning...I have really pretty pajamas just for those occasions and always put on that 24 hour lipstick before I go to bed at night, knowing that at 6:30 before I've had time to dress or put on makeup, that someone will be at the front desk to check out...Well , sure enough..I waited on a few customers, was quite charming, went to get my coffee and go back to bed to catch a little Fox News...Made a pass through the bathroom....OMG...Don King in Bright Red Lipstick and Pink Pajamas....I am so mortified....It must stop raining or I must remember that if my hair gets wet it must be re ironed.....

There Is No Excuse For Rude Behavior!

There just is no excuse for rude behavior!!!
Today, I am in Lowe's ...looking for chair cushions and paint samples...I spy a rug in a barrel with several others...It beckons me from a great distance...My reward for going to look and following my gut...it is beautiful....An outdoor rug, perfect for the patio..brown background with a slight design of tree limbs and artsy looking birds in just the color of my cushions...Not too busy, casual enough for me and the price...unbelievable...In this barrel every rug is at least $68.00 up to $213.00...This rug..clearance..big yellow tag...$17.98.........Not $178.98....$17.98....Of course I snatch it, load it in my buggy and check the barrel to make sure there's not another one....I am motoring around the Lowe's pleased as punch with my rug sticking out 3 feet in front of the buggy, being careful not to knock down any displays or hit people...I'm thinking wow..I'm going in search of more yellow tags.....Along comes a spider..she's not much older than I am with her daughter behind her looking like a deer caught in head lights....I and the rest of the store overhear That's my rug..there it is....She starts out pleasant enough.."Excuse me...I saw that rug first...When I came in I saw it and told my daughter I would pick it up on the way out..I didn't have a buggy"....I look around thinking OK...It's one of those tv things...they have a camera on me and they want to see a fight.....I said.."Well, I'm sad you didn't get the rug and there is not another one" She proceeds to lay her hands on my rug....I saw this rug first..Once again , I look around thinking there's a tv camera somewhere...I hope my lipstick still looks fresh, I am glad I colored my hair last night and thank goodness my sandals match my shirt...I am starting to pose for the unseen tv camera...I am sure this woman thinks I am on some good drugs, cause I am smiling, looking around and being very kind....I tell her that her loss is my gain...sorry but the rug has a new home on my patio....she then proceeds to tell me that she hopes I am happy...I tell her I am very happy, I have a new bargain rug for the cost of a good bath towel....She spins and walks off...I stand there, just a while longer waiting on the tv crew....No one shows up...I guess I wasn't on tv afterall...Now I wish I had slapped her..I think I would have felt better...There just is no excuse for rude behavior.....

Yogi Photo

We really must include this photo.  I think ya'll look too cute.

Let's see - touching, fragrance and inverted boobs.  Do we really want to go there???

The Class

I arrive at Yoga Class....Kathi has on layered black ..tank top, with cute little cap sleeve shirt under and black yoga pants, precious little ballet slippers..pony tail, black band in hair...I arrive with all black and glittery flip flops, she passes me a band for my forehead and here we are..about to enter the class....Cute, cute, cute as can be....We walk in and immediately fall apart..We are the new kids in class...looking and acting like 2 cheerleaders walking into a home ec class of which we have no intentions of learning to sew....Our mats are still in the box...we both have our $5.00 in our hand and stumble around for a few minutes while the instructor shows us where to put our money and sign in.....Finally...We get our mats out of the boxes, place on the floor, the lights dim, and our instructor says "Does anyone have a problem with touching or fragrances?" Alarm bells are ringing in my head...one of our class mates turned to tell me the instructor comes around and touches us when we close our eyes....Should I get up and run, where did I leave my purse, I can't go without my flip flops, they are my favorites..Looked over at Kathi who is talking with her neighbor who explains that the instructor comes around and touches but it's ok...I decide to stay....
We get into several positions..some hard, some not, some feel good, some made me wish that I had taken Aleive instead of Musinex (When I left home for class I thought it might be a good idea to take 2 Aleive, you know, so I could move and bend) I didn't have my glasses and realized after swallowing that I had taken 2 Musinex instead...Oh well, that's another whole story...Then we find ourselves laying flat on our stomachs...Kathi and I are nose to nose struggling to reach our left ankle with our left hand and pushing the heel of our foot into our buttocks when she shares with me that Dwight has been gone 6 weeks....I get tickled, she gets tickled, the more we try to be quiet, the more giggly we get...The instructor comes to sit with us....Now we are not the teacher's pet so I flip Kathi a Bird and she sticks her tongue out at me and it starts again....We settle down.....Then we roll over, up on our knees and do back bends which I did pretty good..I'm feeling good about this..start to show out a little by staying longer than I had to...I'm feeling pretty good about this...Then, I look down and it's the Summer of my Freshman year all over again...From laying flat on my stomach on the hard floor my cups have inverted...For my 3 busty loonies you will find this hard to believe..Some of us don't fill out our padded bras..The cups can invert...O.K..So how long were they inverted? Maybe I wasn't as cute as I thought....Well I tell Kathi, thanks for telling me...she gets tickled again....I'm not sure we are welcome at this class again...Maybe we can get into a Karate Class, start all over again and behave this time....NO.
Maybe we will carry Anne and Lee so we can boost our credibility......
Looney Loose Lady..sharon

Too Tall Sharon

Can't talk now....................I am on my way to YOGA.....................

I figure why not..Kathi called today, asked me to go with her.....I say sure..Of course I think she was calling my bluff just to see how tuff I am...I don't think she really has or had any intentions of doing this class at all....I believe she just wanted to know if I would....I have called her bluff..I did tell her that I didn't think I could but I would be willing to try........She said sure I could..I complained that I was stiff, she told me about her knee.........I told her I couldn't even touch my toes....SHE SAYS " I DIDN'T THINK ABOUT THAT, YOU ARE TALL" I mean really...being tall doesn't have anything to do with touching your toes...........Does It????????????
Love to all the Loonies!!!!

I DO NOT CUSS

To make a long story short...My son,daughter in law, husband and several other out siders got into a little Facebook Spat last night...It all started when my son (Cale) posted on Tracy's(daughter in law) Facebook cause she left it up...That's fair game around here..You leave it logged in, it's your fault.. Well, I'm just having too much fun posting comments on what he said on hers. I in turn forget and leave it logged in, so he hits mine...After several playful rounds, a truce is called then...Cale started to play really dirty...He posted..."MeMe...I must please ask you to stop cussing around Ella"...All the entire world is reading this....I found myself threatening my own flesh and blood, threatening to hurt him and if I could have gotten my hands on him I would have.....How do I tell the entire world now that I DO NOT CUSS......Maybe I'll just start cussing...that will fix them...Did I mention that when Cale posted this, it appeared right after Carlton Gerrell was pleading with the community to offer prayers for the Easter Week End...I mean really ...timing......Carlton messaged me that his entire church would be praying for my problems with cussing.....I think I will just start cussing....@#%^*(+!#%$

Random Information

I should be a genius....Dr. Phil has an expert on today who tells us that if we drink coffee we should have exceptional brain power!!! Woo Hoo....My brain will never grow old.....Yeah....

There were a few other things we should consume
Whole grains..oatmeal and rice
Green vegetable...broccoli..spinach..cauliflower(counts as green)
Nuts & Seeds & Avocados
Berries..raspberries, strawberries, blueberries
Fatty Fish...or fish oil with DHA
Dark Chocolate
Water
Wine
COFFEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!