You Are My Sunshine

It's been a long time since I have participated in the Saturday Centus,
I get to use any 50 words plus the prompt You Are My Sunshine and a picture.

You Are My Sunshine

When my world is dark you make it bright 

When I feel the shadows have crept in and are holding me tight

You smile or laugh and I am alright

You are smart and funny the sweetest love of my life

I love you my granddaughter Haley

You are my sunshine.

 

I'm Poutine it in My Mouth!!

Today is a good day, thanks to all my bloggedy friends who check in and show me love.

A few weeks ago my sister and I did the Savor Seattle Food Tour, it’s a two hour walking tour of Pike Place Market, and we tried about 16 different tastes of the market. If you ever get to Seattle, it’s totally worth your time and money. Not only do you get to taste yummy foods, but you get to learn market history, it’s something that unless you take the time to smell the roses you’d miss.

Here’s some pix from the day…

I’m no longer a poutine virgin, this was one of the most amazing things I have put in my mouth. The cheese curds were fresh from Beecher’s Cheese in the market, home of Oprah’s favorite Mac n Cheese. The gravy wasn’t greezy, and I think it was turkey, or maybe pork, either way. I’m in love. Thank you Steelhead Diner for the amazing poutine experience!! (this wasn’t part of the tour)

 

We didn’t eat this, but I thought it was funny

This is the market Gum Wall, yes, it’s all gum

More Gum Wall

We saw this cool cat, he was workin’ it.

I’m pretty sure he shops here…

Cool Downspouts

Cute Dried Pepper Hangy Thingys

Fish Throwing Action

Our cute little tour guide, I wish he lived closer so he could be my gay boyfriend.

A One Man Band... Sorry it's sideways

I Ham Emotional

In a quest to find the face of Jesus or phallic symbols in my food or my dog's pee, I have started paying attention to the subtle color changes in different things that I'm going to eat or the things that Riley has peed. But this my friends, is not so subtle my ham has some serious issues, it's all full of angst and disgust and I can't explain it. Here take a look for yourself

The beans seem to be happy though.

Where Have I Been?

Well, it appears that in all my running around I haven’t posted in a really really long time. I’m super sorry about that.

We had planned a two week vacation at South Lake Tahoe, the car was packed, the reservations were made and we were on the road. We took off at 6:15 a.m. on Friday the 24^th and drove for 12 hours to our first stop. Alturas, CA cute little one horse town that used to be a busy stop on the way to Reno or parts south, but now due to the economy you can lay down in the middle of the road at 8 p.m. and take a nap. The only pictures we got there were these cool old vintage bikes.

The next day, Saturday the 25^th we got up at a reasonable hour had some breakfast and hit the road again, just about 5 hours to the lake, we pulled in at around 2:00 checked into the hotel and headed to the beach.

Just a side note about the hotel, we stayed at the Blue Lake Inn, in South Lake Tahoe. It was clean, had a nice pool and it was only two blocks to the public beach, they give you a pass to get in, otherwise it’s $5 per person per day. It’s also only about a block to the main drag with all the shops and restaurants. The daily rate during the week is $44, easily (as Linda would put it, a “hot pillow joint”) but it doesn’t fee like it.

Where was I… Oh ok so se checked in at 2, and at 5:45 we got a call that our son had been in an accident and we need to come home. (I’m not really in a place to talk about it right now, he’ll be fine) We ran back to the hotel and checked out, they were so gracious and only charged us for the one night/day we had been there even though they have a 24 hour cancellation policy and we had paid for two weeks in advance. Just as the car was all packed we got another call that it wasn’t as bad as we first heard, so we decided we would stay, so we checked back in, we laid around until about 9:00 counting our blessings and waiting for the next word, we decided we couldn’t stay so we packed up the car at 9:00 I checked back out of the hotel, (who again were awesome and very understanding. ) And headed for home, we drove until 2:00 a.m. and made it back to Alturas where we slept until 6 and got up and finished the drive home, we made it to our own beds by 7:00 p.m. on Sunday night. So if you’re counting… it’s Friday, Saturday, Sunday 30+/-hours of driving, we were exhausted.

We made arrangements to go see The Boy, and took him to a few doctors appointments. (Again I will write on another day as to why medical insurance is so expensive and how the system is broken) Once we decided we had done all we can do from a close distance, we scheduled some time out of town. We flew to Spokane, which is about a 1 hour flight and had some fun at Lake Coeur D’Alene. I love Coeur D’Alene, the town is so fun, the lake and the beach is so clean we could easily retire there. Here’s a few pix that I took over the weekend.

Oh and we saw Elvis

Everybody Crap!!

I bought Steve's wedding ring at the Shane Company, and it was time to take it in for a check-up. While it was back with the jeweler I got to talking to this cute little Asian guy Kevin, it started dumping down buckets of rain outside, and Kevin told me this story.

One day lin I las a rittre boy, my mom went to the sto, and it stalted to lain leally leally hald outside just rike it is light now. Befo she come home I put a whore bunch of soap on the sidewark, and when she come home she srip on the soap and she far down. Arr the glocelies fry errywhaile!! And errybody raff and craappp!!

I raffed so hard when he told me that story, and it's fun to tell people. My friend Patty was with me, and she has the kind of raff that fills the  room, we told each other that story all the way home. She's a trainer at a local credit union, and every time I find out that somebody is going to work there I ask them to tell her "Madge says errybody crap" 

We Have A Winner!!!!

Thank you all for playing "Comment on the Dog Pee for Coffee"
After serious deliberation, I have chosen.............

Cheryl: with "Hey, look Mrs. Calabash, the mutt has created a Master-pee-se,...... ha cha cha chaaaa"
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

If you haven't been over to Cheryl's place click the link, she's a great writer, you'll enjoy your stay over there.

So Cheryl, email me your address and I'll get your $5 Starbucks gift card out in two shakes of a puppies tail.

I'm Really Frustrated!!!!

I’ll be taking off for vacation, and I have let Henry’s family know when I’ll be gone. My only concern is that he gets to take a shower, I have filled his freezer with yummy food, I have talked to his family and friends to make sure that he’s being checked in on. And today I left a message for his daughter in law to make sure that someone is giving him a shower every week while I’m gone. I have been taking care of him for 16 years, he is family to me, and I care.

Her response was this

"You don’t know what we do for him, you should check in with us. Jim gives him a shower or a bath every two weeks. You are pissing me off to assume that we are not going to be taking care of him while you’re gone, and next time instead of leaving me a message you should talk to me face to face."

Well the reason (obviously) why I left a message is because I knew that this would be the response. They neglect to make sure his basic needs like showering often are met, and then they get pissed off when I tell them to make sure that they take care of him.

I had to make him a doctors appointment and call Cheryl and tell her he needed a ride. I asked if Jim could do it or if I had to find somebody else, she asked why, I told her  he had diarrhea every day for a month. (surprised that all I heard was crickets? It was one of the longest pauses I had heard in a long time) She said that Jim Could take him. Jim was there every week, you can't tell me that loving attentive family doesn't know when there's a medical problem, and you can't be around him for more than about twenty minutes without knowing about his bowel movements.

They also didn't know that the chore worker that they hired through the service had been stealing his meds, or that all the other one did was sit around and eat his food. I stopped cleaning when they hired the service, the girl who stole the meds was fired as soon as I found out that she stole from him, the guy that ate the food didn't clean at all, after a month the inside of the toilet was black. They fired him too, but if I hadn't been around to check and make sure everything was good, they would never had known.

By the time I pay for my gas to drive there and take care of him for 3 hours, I'm only making about $5 an hour. I obviously don't do it for the money. They'll probably try to fire me, they can't and they aren’t going to scare me away.

I really want to put lots of information about his family here, so that when people are searching for them they will find out how shitty they treat him. She is sort of somebody in town, people know who she is. I don't want it to come back on me, so I won't, but I sure would like too.

Dog Pee Picasso – The Series – Praying Angel of Jimmy Durante

I thought it was just a fluke, but now I know it’s not. Riley is officially an artist. I don’t know how he knows what the Praying Angel of Jimmy Durante looks like, to my knowledge we’ve never watched a Durante movie, but the boy has done it again.

Look at the great detail, the weak chin, the nose, the hair just so. It’s totally amazing.

There’s even dots that imply that there should be a caption bubble up there.

I have a $5 Starbucks gift card to award to the person with the best caption.

I’ll give you some time, I’ll pick a winner on June 17^th. Have fun!!

OH! The Things You Will See!!!

Last Sunday we went to the Folk Life Festival in Seattle, I love the FLF mostly because it's one of the only times of the year that I get to go to "The City" and I love the energy of the city so much, but mostly I love the freaks. Steve says that I'm a "freak magnet" I'm not sure how true that is, but I'm pretty sure that it's not a bad thing.

The following is a pictorial of our day at FLF.

This is the cool plaid SUV we saw on the way, the bumper sticker says Scottish Pride

This puppet was singing You Should Be Swinging on a Star



This chick has issues, she loves squirrels so much she had one tattooed on her leg






What a cool group, they reminded me of a bunch of singing pirates, except for the drummer, he reminded me of a homeless person or a caveman and Mary Kay Latourno there in the dress played the bamboo pipes with flip flops

  

Space Needle



This is the mirror man, I know it looks like a statue, but he's a performer




Look closely you'll see that's not his beard in the pony, it's his hair tied under his chin



 

Another street performer, look how skinny he is

He was wearing an old UW Huskies cheer leading skirt.... SO HOT

It wasn't especially warm, probably about 60, I think the kid in the rain coat has the right idea





I bought this cool wine rack at the Packwood Flea Market on Saturday for $4.50







Monday we bought a bunch of flowers to plant in hanging baskets, I always over-buy and wound up having to make some new flower beds too.





Jacque is Going to Save the World

I've got posts in the hopper, but I'm too busy right now to put anything up.

Jacque has a great idea for world peace, hit this link, go read it now, go, just go!