DogSitting My FourFooted Brother

Mom asked me to dogsit Riley this Saturday. I arranged to have one of my co-workers bring their dog, Sophie (the super mellow boxer) over. After some extreme butt-sniffing greeting and some wrestling to determine the alpha dog (who turned out to be Sophie, no surprise there!), the playdate went wonderfully. I will let the pictures speak for themselves.

This is one happy dog! And a kick-ass picture!

The Doors are Finally Finito!

Here are my new fantabulous doors!

The side door with deadbolt and really lock. See how it totally matches my windows.

The new screen door out to my deck. One side is stationary and the other opens all the way (the door will go to the stationary part) with a sliding screen. Awesome and again, matches my windows.

Not to mention, very weather proof and resistant. So going to need for winter!

The Moomer at Play

An afternoon of Mr. Moomiepants playing til dinner.

You better watch out, I'm gonna pounce!

I'm trying my dangdest to choke on this here plastic thing. Either that or bite a chunk off it.

How do you like my dreadlocks?

The mysterious paw beckons, er snatches, the helpless bunnyfur octopus!

Check out his back paw on this one. He's such a gaum.

Some Recent Photo Experiments

I decided to mess around with some puddles in my driveway. I like the effect of reflection-me trying to grab something from this side of the puddle or trying to break thru. It's interesting and I'm gonna play with this idea some more.

I have to say the middle one is my favorite so far. It's rather surreal.

My HomeGrown Crop O' Pumpkins

I managed to grow 8 pumpkins this year. One huge one, 4 medium sized one, 2 little ones, and one itty bitty one. The 4 orange ones and the lopsided greeny-orange one were expected, the others were surprises that I found when I ripped out the dead/dying pumpkin vines. Yeah me, or rather, Yeah my kick-ass compost!

My decorating this season is on the restrained side. This is all I'm doing until I carve my pumpkins.

Hot Time In The Old Town Tonite!

Pictures are tribute to the squirrels who didn't make it through this week!

I off early from work, did some errands, got home, and my mom called me. The power was off on her street and she couldn't get into the house and needed my key.

Hey, totally funny thing just now happened. Doodle the wonder cat just brought me the plastic cat food can cover. Brought it to me and dropped it at my feet and then headbutted my knee to get my attention. She is sooo smart but soooo not so smart as I'm not feeding them furry critters two dinners. Apparently my homecoming, no matter the time or how many times, is a signal for eating. So are my showers no matter what time of day I take them.

I got to mom's and she said she heard that a squirrel played and lost against electricity. Yup. Transformer a la fried squirrel. Poor thing. Same thing happened on my street earlier this week. I came home and couldn't figure out why the garage door wouldn't open.

Long Time, No Bloggin'

Sorry about the hiatus. Here's a wonderfully funny picture that is circling my work's email...

Drunken Pumpkin

Love it!

I've been making some changes around the home. Had two new doors (replaced the 20 yr old sliding glass door with French paned door and replaced acrylic windowed side door with thermally smart door) installed. Major major improvement. Not only do they match my windows making my house look "finished" and home-y and no more skeleton keys now that I have real locks and deadbolts, but I haven't had to put the heat on yet and the basement dehumidifier hasn't had to be emptied since Friday. Amazing!

A "thing" I've been working on is stopping and thinking when someone asks me to join them, try something, or do something and say "yes" instead of knee-jerk reaction "no"-ing. I've yessed myself into taking a knitting class with co-worker C. This is a good way to spend time in her gigglicious company one evening a week for 6 weeks and when someone asks if I like knitting I can give an honest answer as I will have tried it. We'll be starting the end of Oct and beginning with a dishtowel. I'd rather make a scarf. C pointed out today that a scarf is a dishtowel that didn't end when it should. Then she said there was some basic math involved but not to worry as it's not physics formulas or calculus. Great. Math is incomprehensible to me regardless of it's level.

Some observations:
If you ride a Harley, shouldn't your arms be thicker than your handle bars?

Don't you think the Prius looks like a Penis, or is it just me?

Why is it 50 year old men think I'm the greatest thing?

My car is averaging 40-43 miles per gallon. Whoo hoo!!!

Is there anybody left to read me?