Sunday Sunrise

Hip Waders and Ear Muffs

Well, it seems as though the weather this year is going for the "shock and awe" effect.

After record snowfall in December we now have torrential rainfall, flooding AND snow.

Our county has been declared a state of emergency and it looks like the road below our house is going to wash out.

You know the neighbors  that I hate so much for what I kindly refer to as screwing the old and impaired...

The ones who practically stole the nine acres and ponds from my Grampy after my Grammy died and he himself was suffering from advanced prostate cancer.

Well, I told my sister this morning that I have decided Jesus is a lot like Santa Claus.

He knows if you've been naughty or nice and apparently he keeps a list.

The neighbors live in the "ditch" between two steep hills.

Just their house, two ponds and LOTS of water.

Mudslide amounts of water.

Flood your basement amounts of water.

Wash out your driveway and leave you stranded  amounts of water.

We live on the hill and can see and hear all the water.

Checks and balances people... Jesus pays attention.

Anyway, besides all the water, this is what I woke up to this morning.

Beautiful huh....

I'll try and get some video of the "washout" later today.

Stay tuned ;)

Happy New Year Everyone!

See you in a few more days.

Christmas Time Is Here

Ok everybody....This is it.

Mike drove to get my Sister and her boys in Seattle today as they were unable to get here any other way due to weather.

They will be here in an hour or so and then it's off to the holiday races for us!

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas!!

Peace, joy, happiness and plenty of good food : )

Close Call

Mike hauls grocery's for Safeway.

He has always driven truck.

He started out driving log truck many years ago and now works for a company that offers good retirement and benefits.

He is the best truck driver in the whole world.

Seriously, he is.

Thursady night he left the yard around midnight and headed to Central Oregon in this terrible weather, but he is smart and safety minded, so I don't worry to much about him.

The only trouble he has is when other drivers don't bother to use the brains Jesus so generously gave them.

Like Friday morning.

He was driving down a two lane highway in blizzard like conditions just as it was turnung daylight.

He looked in his rear view mirror to see a small truck passing him half way up the length of his trailer.

He looked forward just in time to see another semi coming straight at them from the opposite direction.

Mike took one ditch and the other semi driver took the other ditch as the truck in the middle slammed on his brakes and went careening between them and down an embankment.

If it hadn't been for split second thinking on behalf of Mike and the other semi driver all three of them would have likely been dead.

The other driver called 911 as Mike ran down the embankment to help the man who had tried to pass. As he was helping him out of his beaten and battered pick-up, Mike asked the guy what the hell was he thinking.

His response.....

He couldn't see, so he thought it was safe to pass.

u n b e l i e v a b l e

Good Bye Port Charles....

Your not gonna believe this.

We don't get ABC anymore.

ABC and Dish Network couldn't come to an agreement cost wise, so we no longer get the network.

I am not even kidding.

Do you know what this means?

I can't watch my stories, that's what it means.

This is beyond an outrage, I'm an American citizen deprived of my right to watch daytime television and I don't even have a job!

Between the hours of 1:00 and 3:00pm yesterday one of the things I did to occupy my time was to make a batch of trailerpark toffee.

It's sort of like the prissy "english toffee" my sister makes, but not really.

You lay out a cookie sheet of saltines and pour the butter and brown sugar mix over them with some melted chocolate chips spread on top. Cool it in the garage for a few hours and WaLa... trailerpark toffee!

It's pretty tasty.

It snowed on and off all day yesterday with another "arctic front" forcasted for tomorrow.

Mike had another layover last night and should be home late tonight.

No news from Texas which is good news in Oregon.

Ciao'

He Said She Said

Well, it seems as though the "arctic front" has blown over. We have temperatures in the 30's again and everything is slowly thawing out.

That's all fine and well with me, although I didn't really mind the snow.

My sister from Montana arrived in Seattle today and after spending the weekend up there she and her boys will be here for the holiday. Her husband flys in Afghanistan and won't be able to make it home for Christmas this year. I'm sure it will be hard for her boys, but being entertained by crazy Aunt Marilyn and the critters hopefully won't be to bad.

It has been our (mike and I) mission this year to get Jack, Wyatt's Dad here for Christmas. He lives in Texas and is a real jerk-off, non child support paying, drunk'n, smokin', yellow eyed, foul mouthed jack-ass, but he is Wyatt's Dad and he hasn't seen him in over four years.

So, we invited him for the holiday.

Everything was all systems go until he called on Monday and said "they" would be leaving Friday.

"They" I said...

"We" he said.

Who is "we" I said.

His neighbor he said.

He's "golden" he said.

I said, I don't give a #*@%

Guests can't bring guests I said, especially not at Christmas.

He started crying and said he was calling Mike.

Go ahead I said.

He did.

Mike said what I said.

I don't think Jacks coming for Christmas.

This is a picture of Jack on our Last Christmas morning together in 2001.

Need I say more...

Do I really want to wake up to that again?

I think not.

We had the child's best interest at heart, but what the child doesn't know won't hurt him.

Mike has been working quite a bit this week thank Gawd.

We have to pay for that new m'r-f'n bulb for the t.v.

Turns out the life span of the bulb is calculated at four hours use per day.

Whatever, that t.v has been on pretty much fourteen plus hours a day since the day we got it.

I'm like a junkie on the crack when it comes to a 65' t.v. and now I have to cut back and watch all the unimportant stuff like infomercials and the news on regular t.v and save the big one for the good stuff like SpongeBob and soap operas.

I kind of feel bad when he's out working and I'm home watching t.v and eating snacks on the couch, but it times like that I just need to remember.....

If Mamma's happy, everybodys happy!