Jun 17 2009
Baby steps
Just like summer is ever so slowly tottering to the Rocky mountains. My quest for financial stability is making progress. I found an ad in the paper this morning for not only I job I can do but for a person I actually know! How cool is that? It’s part time temporary and that’s fine. I’m filling in the monetary gaps and that’s what’s important during this trying time. Stay afloat, that’s the goal. Our economy will turn around, better days are surely ahead, it’s just a matter of staying afloat until they do.
Well, my poor, poor cat Rose survived her “when cats go nuts” episode. I was almost afraid to find her dead when I came home tonight. But there she was fit and fine as if nothing happened. The nut job followed me down to the garden last night. Lilly is usually the cat that follows me and she’s fine. My only issue with her is trying to teach her that the 10 gardens in the enclosure are not litter boxes! Last night Rose decided to join us on our jaunt to the garden. I didn’t think anything about it. Rose was checking out the various gardens and everything was fine. Then all of a sudden something must have spooked her and she ran full tilt, head first into the fence. If we’d had a camera down there, you would not believe that she could have survived such an impact…not once but 5 or 6 times. We couldn’t figure out how to calm her and show her where the gate was so she could escape. When she finally did figure it out she was just gone in a flash. I couldn’t find her for over an hour and thought that she had broken her neck in her panic and had simply run into the meadow and died. I have never in all my life seen anything more frightening. My poor Rose. After an hour or so, she wandered back into the house. Not a scratch on her. She’s absolutely fine. I swear she should be dead…I guess she’s just down to 8 lives. Note to self…NEVER take the cats to the garden again!
Speaking of which, time for me to wander down there to check on the progress (or lack thereof) of my little seedlings. I’m experiencing severe garden envy with Jennifer, whose garden is just as productive this year as last. I just don’t know how she does it!!
Here are a few more one liners I found. Hopefully, I’m not repeating myself…I’m sorry but I’m just too lazy tonight to go back and check.
Some people are like Slinkies … not really good for anything, but you can’t help smiling when you see one tumble down the stairs.
How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Laugh at your problems, everybody else does.
The shinbone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room. (boy isn’t that the truth?!)
I discovered I scream the same way whether I’m about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot. (I learned this the summer that Jaws was released.)
Whenever I fill out an application, in the part that says “If an emergency, notify:” I put “DOCTOR”. What’s my mother going to do?
It’s not the fall that kills you; it’s the sudden stop at the end.
Hospitality: making your guests feel like they’re at home, even if you wish they were.
Have a great day…or afternoon…or evening. I never know when you’re here so I’m not sure which part of the day you have yet to enjoy.
