Zero post since 2012.. Wow..

World just keeps turning, and time is flying on by...

After a quick stop at the Thompson's I hit the open road! I knew I had a twelve hour ride ahead of me so I just settled in for mindless driving task!

Update on Yesterday's Post

The fourth of July was hot again in Sac town, Isabelle and Karl and kids were up for a visit, and the plan for the day was to got to the lake, and have a BBQ at Bob and Karen's afterwards with fireworks. Well Justin came down with a sickness and couldn't go to the lake, bummer, but Logan decided to come along so up the highway we went. 
The lake was awesome, but there was a cool breeze that chilled you as soon as you stepped out of the water.  At one point I look up and see a Bald Eagle flying around, I pointed it out to everybody, but didn't get a picture of it.  I swam for over an hour and thoroughly enjoyed it.  
We all stopped in Truckee on the way home and bought some Marble Corn, the yummiest treat ever.  We got back to Bob and Karen's and Karen was already working on a wonderful dinner of BBQ chicken.  She had chips and that seven layer dip that everybody loves.  I picked up a cherry pie a Machado's in Auburn to add to the holiday dinner.  
Justin was feeling better, and dinner was on.  I had indulged a bit and wasn't feeling well so I left for home before the fireworks began.  
When I got home there was craziness in my neighborhood, my insane next door neighbors had 25-30 drunk adults out on their lawn. They were shooting off every kind of illegal firework known to man.  It was insane, I can't believe that my house didn't catch on fire.  I did grab the hose and spray down the roof. I have never seen fireworks that did what those fireworks were doing, and it reminded me of Harry Potter and how the fireworks would do interesting little turns and such.  Did I mention that they were holding up these fireworks and shooting them off with their bare hands.  Oh, and the police didn't bother to answer the phone.  So, Sacramento was experiencing the sounds and craziness of a war zone, a war zone of illegal fireworks shot off by idiots.
I guess I am getting old, but worrying about my house catching fire was my chief concern.


Yes, Pearl had a baby girl donkey born on this day, a cute little white and gray colored donkey. That makes three little girl donkey so far this summer, and hopefully two more on the way.

July 4 with Family

 okay,  Logan was slow to jump in, but eventually he jumped in this

raft and has himself some fun.


I took a picture of myself before I finally jumped in the lake..

I took this picture below of Mom and her two kids on a walk, love the contrast with the trees.

 A family that boats together, gets a great workout!!!!!

I forgot to mention the Bald Eagle, the dinner at Bob and Karen's house, the Flu bug, my crazy neighbors and their illegal/Harry Potter type of fireworks, and of course, the Baby donkey born on this day to Pearl. Guess I better come back tomorrow and start writing.

Greedy Girl

I have a funny story from yesterday at the ranch. I had an egg carton filled with 17 eggs, and I only needed one more egg to complete the carton.  I set this carton on the stove and went out to see if the chicken laid any more eggs. I was so excited to see 2 more eggs.  I headed back into the little rental house and found a huge mess to clean up. I must have used 1/4 a roll of paper towels to clean up this huge mess.  I don't know how those eggs fell off the stove. Isabelle said I should have cleaned up the mess with a dustpan, which would have been smart.

Random Musings

I remember being off track in the past and I was lucky to pick up the phone and call one of my sisters and they would always answer their phones, but now they have jobs, and are always working it seems.  This stinkin' working from home keeps my peeps busy. So now can't really call them, and I have to keep myself busy, but I don't want to do the work that I need to do. I feel guilty when I go off and have a day of fun, because I didn't work on the things that I need to complete.  I guess that problem is as old as time! I am off work and I want to have fun, and not do work that I never want to do.

I did manage to go to Yosemite for the first time ever last week.  Yellowstone is better, I can say without a doubt in every sense of the way of a national park.

I had a birthday last week and I decided to get myself a little something special.  I pooled all my birthday money and I bought a lovely turqouise, actually the color is adriatic, Kate Spade purse. This is my second major indulgence in the fancy purse area, and I don't know what has taken over my common sense. Last summer I bought a red purse designed by Michael Kors.  My desire is to have several purses to rotate through the typical year.  I have my brown western purse, my red purse, and now my summer fun new purse, perhaps I will add one more to my collection before I am done.

RAIN

This is the view out of my bedroom window, yes, finally rain here. We haven't had rain since November I think. Maybe the weather forecasters will stop griping about a possible drought!
It's finally raining here, yippy!