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Random Photos of the Weekend

SeVeN — Tue, 18 May 2010 02:51:42 +0000

This is no ordinary exercise ball; we call it “The Orb”. It has been in our yard for well over four years, completely inflated. Every now and then it gets untangled from the willows and floats around in the creek.

The creek was quite high as it had snowed heavily during Friday night and Saturday morning. This Dandelion was caught up in the flood waters.

It’s next to impossible to get this dog to pose for the camera. This is one of the rare times when she decided to oblige.

These Daffodils looked so sad with their heads bowed over looking at the snow wondering when it would ever be Spring.

Mother Nature is a Fracking B*tch!!

SeVeN — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:27:47 +0000

I hope everyone enjoyed their summer. Yes, I said enjoyed. Did you miss it? It was last week; beautiful temperatures, sunny skies, and the snow almost melted completely away. Alas, it is over and winter is here once again. It is currently dumping snow. The wind is howling and it is friggin’ cold outside. Al Gore can take his Global Warming and shove it up his sizeable ass!

Update:
It is now 7:30PM and the wind has picked up. The house actually shudders with some of the gusts. And it is a complete blizzard. Perhaps this is the beginning of the next Ice Age. There is one week left in April and if this keeps up, I may have to shovel snow tomorrow. We might have two months of summer this year. I am not happy.

Spring Fever

SeVeN — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:17:00 +0000

There’s two types of Spring Fever. One type is an affliction that begins to take hold sometime in March. The days get longer, the temperatures warmer, snow begins to melt. Birds that have been gone all winter return to stake out their summer roosts. The list of projects to be completed once the ‘weather is better’ gets longer and longer. You can’t wait to throw open all of the windows to purge the house of its stale winter air. Shake out the rugs and chase the dust out of the corners. Any day now the trees will start to bud. Any-day-now. One morning you will wake up, look out the window and the hillside will show the slightest tint of green. We won’t even get into the gardening. Waiting for those first tulips to pop up can make you go mad. That my friends is Spring Fever.

This Spring I have discovered a new type of fever; Spring Fever. It seems that I have managed to catch every nasty virus that has been lurking around the area all at the same time. I spent most of March sneezing, coughing and hacking. Drifting through my nights in a Nyquil haze curled around a heating pad to try to ease the aches. I was finally beginning to think it was over. Except for a slight cough, nothing some Halls couldn’t take care of, I was feeling myself again. And then came the Easter egg. The Easter egg that must have been just a wee bit past its expiration date. It tasted perfectly fine. Around 6:30 the next morning I woke up to that ugly sensation in my stomach. That little warning sensation. The one that tells you that getting to the bathroom now would be a very good idea. And you know what is coming next; its a purging of a whole ‘nother kind. Food poisoning. I had it all, chills, fever, stomach cramps, heaving. There isn’t much you can do but ride it out and what a ride it was. Something akin to being on Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride while experiencing a bad acid trip. At one point I could actually feel the ceiling crushing me. This too has nearly passed. The worst is over. My poor stomach is sore from being wrenched for hours and I am in need of a good night’s sleep. Food is a bit of an issue. So far I have manged an apple and a can of Ginger Ale.

Screw Spring – bring on Summer!