Happy New Year

So how did YOU spend your New Year's Eve? Hmmmmmmm?

I spent mine right at the stroke of midnite, chasing my Damn dog up and down a dark dark street.

The evening started out just fine. Bob brought T-bone steaks and Lobster tails over, and We grilled them out side. (no it is not that warm, but if we dont grill in the dark, the rain, and the wind, we don't get to grill at all.) We ate a nice slow leisurly meal, talking about Iraq and how to win the peace over there. (We concluded that since there have been tribal wars in that region since the beginning of time, that it is impossible to do so, and that the only one who CAN bring peace to that region is the creator!) Whom ever you feel that may be! We moved on in to the living room and turned on PBS which had the new OKLAHOMA! musical on, so I watched that while Bob read his BREW magazines. (remember, he is brewing beer for a year)

It actually was a very nice evening, me watching the show and crocheting his afghan, (the one I started 18 years ago, until he came over one night with a snoot full, and said "GOD THAT IS THE UGLIEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN!" It got put away for 18 years and discovered a few weeks ago in the bottom of a box.) I am going to finish it anyway. He has a birthday coming up, it would serve him right if he got it for a gift huh?

Just before midnight around 11:40, I put Sadie in her pen in my bathroom. She was ready for nite-nite. SHe was snuggling in and making her bed when I closed the bedroom door. About 3 minutes to midnite, Sadie started barking hysterically, so Bob and I went in to see what was wrong, and she had jumped out of her pen and was barking her head off at the fireworks on the corner. I, Like a bloody FOOL, opened the front door to see what was going on, just as Bob came over to give me my 1 and only kiss for this year, and WHOOSH--Sadie ran right out the door into the night.

Bob stood there puckered up and I was running in my slippers down the road trying to get her back. Sadie, thank God, is Buff colored so I could see her against the dark night. Sure enough down on the corner, across from the wolves, the people were shooting off lots of really cool fireworks. THese are the same people that put on a great show on the beach on the fourth of July. Sadie would not be caught. She ran helter-skelter, from one yard to the next, through the hedges, over the driveways onto the porches, with her nose to the ground scenting something. Soon she was over to the WOlves, and stirred them up, They did not howl though but they woofed.

RIght across the Cul-de-Sac are two of Janice and Dans dogs, and I did not want to stir them up either, so where did Sadie head? yep right back toward the dogs. I am by this time almost out of breath when Sadie runs right between my legs and over to the fireworks barking like a fool. I thought someone would grab her, but NOOOOO, No one was ALLOWED to catch her. Little BITCH!!

Bob by this time was in his truck with his lights on bright trying to light the road, but all he was doing was blinding me so I could not see at all. I sat right down in the middle of the road, hoping that he would not run over me, and that Sadie would come to me then. But NOOOOOOO I was not allowed to catch her either. SO Bob stops the truck in the middle of the road, opens both doors and is yelling lets go BYe-BYE at the dark street, hoping that she would jump in. Sadie came right up to him, jumped in to the truck and right out the other side and then ran between his legs and back into Janice's yard and on to her front porch. I could see Janice peering around the curtain, but she did not have a clue who I was, out at midnight, sitting sober in the middle of the damned road yelling for my freaking dog! (I woulda said Fuck, but Esther and NJ read this. and they are ladies!) I then thought, Hey, she loves to lay on my back, so I layed down on my stomach in the middle of the dark wet road, and called to her and she cames running, and jumped right over me using my back as a spring board, and takes off again, into the dark.

By this time I am about to cry and cussing a storm and beating on the asphalt and Sadie looks across the road at me like I am nuts, SO I start to sing, and SHe starts to sing, and just as Bob reaches for her.....OFF she trots again!! She is gone to the wolves again, with Bob in hot pursuit!

I sit up and I am trying to get myself off the pavement when Sadie runs out of the trees and into the culvert, then out of the culvert and stops. I yell SIT YOU LITTLE BITCH SIT!! and she does, as still as a mouse. and Bob slowly walks over to her picks her up and looks at me and says, NOW WHY DIDNT YOU DO THAT 20 MINUTES AGO? I just grabbed Sadie from him and headed home totally out of breath while he backs the truck all the way down the road to my house. I make it up the steps, and take Sadie and put her Back into her pen, telling her what a good girl she was, (cant discipline her for sitting!) and then went into the living room totally gasping for breath and my pulse about 140.

Bob chooses this time to come over and try to give me my one and only kiss. I just looked at him and he backed off until I was through weezing,and gulping for air, gave me a quick kiss, said happy new year and ran out the door for home.

ANd how was your night???

Happy New Year!!

Whoo-hoo!! I just learned how to upload pictures on blogger!! Who KNEW!!! I thought you had to use Hello and bloggerbot!!! hehehehehehehehehehehehe I am getting smarter and smarter on this thing. Now if I can just figure out where i screwed up my old template I'll be fine!

Bob came over and we went into Anacortes which is about 30 miles North and on the next Island over. He heard that Anheiser/Busch was raising their prices on Jan 1, so he paniced. He went into the Northwest Brewers Store, and bought a years worth of Beer making supplies. He was afraid that the price was going to go up on hops and barley and malt also. Now mind you, this man has enough money every month to be able to buy a YEARS WORTH of brewing supplies, so he can afford the higher price on BEER!! And, oh by the way, HE DOESNT DRINK BUD!!!! He drinks micro brews, Fat Tire, Moose Drool, and others I cant remember. (Yes, Moose Drool IS a real beer!! ) He is soooooo strange. After we got the supplies, we went on down the island to a hole in the wall Mexican restaurant for dinner. Burp!!

Tomorrow is New Year's Eve and the 22nd year that we have been dating. I will collect my 22nd New Year's kiss from Bob, and it will be my 25th kiss total!! Tonight would have been my 39th anniversary if I had stayed married to Donna's Father. I can barely remember what he looked like, I was so young. That seems like a Life time ago. Well I guess it was wasn't it Donna? LOLOLOL

It has been raining all day long, and I was chilled to the bone most of the day. When I got home, I built a fire in the woodstove, and now I am toasty clear through. 4 cats and 1 dog are all spread out on the 5X8 rug in front of the fire. I opened the stove and picked up a log and whoosh, there they all were looking at me as if to say "it's about time!"

I do not know if I will have time tomorrow to post, as Bob wants to come over and look some things up. (oh JOY!!) :( now I really WILL have to dump all my temp files, clean out my history and defrag! He gets about 20 windows open and then cant figure out how to make it go faster, and he cant spell, so we get some really interesting hits from google!!

You all have a very Happy New Year, and Drive Safe!! I will tip toe in on N ew Years Day so I wont wake you up.

Still waiting....

I called my server Isomedia today, and the tech person was very interested, I told him the whole long story, and what all I have done, and he said he would talk to some one in Admin who might know the answer, and he would get back to me tomorrow. We shall see. Meanwhile I am here and it seems to be working just fine. I just still can not see your comments on your blog Wanda, Blogeois, David, Kat and Becky, and any one else who has Haloscan.

We have had storm after storm march in from the pacific. California and Oregon are getting pounded with big waves and high winds and rain. We are getting the high winds and rain also, but it is every other day or so. We keep getting told that there is a high wind watch in Admiralty Inlet, expect winds up to 60 MPH. So far we have been dodging those bullets. I was expecting the power to go out on Christmas Day, because I had that honking big roast to cook, but all went well.

Harry and Harriet, the Hairy Woodpeckers, and Mort and Morticia the Downy woodpeckers (tee hee) have been busy little peckers! I have gone through 8 suet blocks in 10 days!! I also think the squirrels have been back gnawing at them too. Must be good stuff! I just put the last ones out this evening, so unless I can find more suet, I will have to break down and buy the blocks. They really are not that expensive, but when you pinch pennies like I do, every little bit helps.

I am going to take my Christmas decorations down on Sunday, and get the house ready for spring. I have always thought that Spring should start as soon as the new year comes. It should not be winter! It should be getting ready for the turning of the seasons to spring. The birds should be pairing up and nesting, and the bulbs should be bursting through the ground, and it should warm up and the sun should shine. I have never understood why the seasons are so messed up. Out with the old and in with the New. That would be my perfect world. But then I am not the Goddess, Michelle is, so I shall have to talk to her about that.

(Oh My GOD I am watching Letterman rerun tonight and he is decorating the studio tree with a meatball and pizza sauce. That guy is twisted!)

I got an email fron Leslie (USA) and she said to tell all her blog friends Hello, and Happy New Year! She just had a birthday, on the 23rd. And for all of you who are keeping count...CJ is Jan 1, Losts is Dec 30, Joe's is Jan 3, Elliott was Dec 27.

Well, I am getting bleary eyed, looking at this screen, so I need to get my bath and go to bed. I will see you in the Morning! Please have the coffee ready will ya? And French Toast!! That sounds really good.

Starting over...

COMMENTS ON THIS BLOG ARE OPEN TO ALL. I Fixed It Bill, and Rusty!
Man what a headache this has been. As soon as I get my income tax back, I am going to have this 'Puter optimized and cleaned up and the partition moved, and the superfluous crap deleted off, and then I should Sail along here.

This is the first posting of a new blog, as it appears that my old one was screwed up. Haloscan was who hosted my comments, and I seem to be blocked from them. I can not see my comments, nor can I see any of yours if you use Haloscan for your comments also. I tried to switch to blogger comments, but for some reason, It will not update. SInce I know NOTHING about creating CSS or RSS and just a SMIDGEON of HTML, I thought I would go right back to the very beginning, That's a very fine place to start...

I will be getting pictures put up as soon as I get Hello configured for this blog. Now the challenge will be to see how many people show up on this site!!

I spent the better part of today fighting with this damn machine. I finally got a call that my laptop is ready. Bob fixed my Laptop for me for Christmas. SO I came home and scrounged up a telephone line and hooked up my laptop. Yep works just fine. Slow, but works. SO I tried to open my blog and the same thing happens. I can see the blog, not the comments, and no comments on your blogs either.

Since the two machines are not connected in any way whatsoever, I assumed that it was the only 3 common denominators...ISOMEDIA my service provider; Haloscan itself, or my phone line.

It cant be my phone line. scratch that. SO then I call ISOMEDIA, and the guy on the help desk could not get to haloscan.com either. AHA!!!! So I think it has to be haloscan that has blocked ISOMEDIA's IP for some reason or another. anyway, I can not contact haloscan to ask them because I am BLOCKED. so until I get fixed, I will be over here. Maybe...

If I can get this to work.

I did read most of you tonight though.