THINGS I SEE ON MY ROUTE

Hello Nice People,

A few weeks ago, Rachel from Life 'N Stuff had a good post on the things she sees on her way to work. She always gives me a good chuckle with her stories. HER morning scene includes a pooping donkey. Well, she got me to thinking about some of the things I pass day after day. Sunrise on the East Coast is at 7:15, so my early mornings on the road are spent pretty much in the dark at this time of the year. Just about the time the sun is coming up, I pass these little guys

Now I don't know much about pigs, but they are the cutest little things. Early, just when its getting light they are sleeping in a pile. there are six of them. I guess they keep each other warm. After about an hour, I come back the same route and now they are up and routing around. If I stop and open the door, they come running over to the fence. I know not to get to attached to them because one day I will come by and they won't be there.

Here's another odd sight.

I have never seen a mushroom like this before.

Maybe this is a common mushroom but its sure a new one to me.

About two weeks ago, on my usual route, a two lane highway, there was a dog laying on the yellow line. He must have been hit by a car not long before I came by. Up ahead, a trash truck and 2 or 3 trash men emptying cans. I kind of had a feeling they would be the good guys and move him out of the middle of the road. Well, they did.....and every day for the past two weeks, the poor little thing lays there in the grass silently waiting for someone to come along and claim his lifeless body. He has lain there through four days of rain last week and one or two this week. Its supposed to rain tonite and all day tomorrow, and I can't help thinking of him. I think I secretly wish that the rain would reconstitute his little stiff body and he would just get up, stretch and continue on with his adventure. I guess I think too much!

Mysterious No More

Hello nice people,

Here is a picture of me and Hubby taken last week at a family party. Its a fairly good one of us, so I thought I would post it. Has anyone noticed how all the mystery is gone on the internet? In the beginning, everyone used screenames only, never a real name. I think we were all afraid of stalkers. We never posted a picture of our face or let anyone know where we lived. I have read blogs recently where people actually give out there town and street, and say come to my yard sale. I think much of this openess is due to FACEBOOK or maybe MYSPACE, although I have never logged into the latter. Yeah, there is my picture and with Hubby too. He is not computer savvy (sp) , and he still worries about every little thing. He put a disk in 6 years ago with poker and solitaire and thats as far as he ever got. He has no clue of how to get on the internet. I asked him recently if Ronnie (his friend) is a computer person and his answer....."Oh yeah, he even looks up the weather." Really? !

Wordless Wednesday

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

Hello Nice People,
I always check this little guy out on the comics page in the Atlantic City Press. For some reason, the delivery gentleman puts the Sunday comics page and all the ads for Sunday into the Saturday paper. I guess it makes it easier on him. But I get to see the Sunday comics before you do. How lucky can I get! But here is Lio for today, Sunday. And how much more appropriate can you get. Lio's world is full of monsters under the bed and bizzare little happenings from his science fiction life. And todays Cartoon is the best. Here's cute but nasty little Lio ringing someones door bell and running away. But there he is hiding in the bushes with the remote to a big mean Robodog that says WELCOME TO PHILADELPHIA. And whose front door is it but MICHAEL (DOG KILLER) VICK. Hee hee, I love it.

Gone too long

Hello Nice People,

Here's a new picture of me just to prove that I am not dead. Just missing in action for a while. I HAVE noticed that the longer time I stay MIA, the harder it is to get back. I don't know why. It's not like I have a lot of readers who are losing sleep worrying about my whereabouts. I think I am an "avoider."

If I'm not keeping up with what is expected of me, I will avoid the whole scene. So that means, I haven't even clicked in here for almost a month. I haven't even kept up with other blogs. But I DID checkout FACEBOOK. I said I wouldn't do it. Said I wouldn't get involved in something so dumb. But I did. How did that happen? I guess it was a moment of weakness. And I'm still not convinced its "all that."

I have been back to work for 3 weeks. Somehow, I acquired a loooong run again this year. Three hours of driving in the AM and another 3 in the PM. With just a short sprint inbetween. June is coming!!!! And I have two and a half years and I am outathere!!!!

Grandson, Nick had a birthday on Thursday. Somehow, he has turned 14 years old.

These pictures are from Wednesday night when we visited his classroom. Nick goes to a school for the handicapped. Nick has Apraxia of Speech, Family Start Guide - Apraxia-KIDS Which causes him to have almost no communication skills. He signs, uses a talker device, and also a younger brother who is his interprteter, sometimes not voluntarily. In all, he gets his point across.

The past few weeks also contained 2 yard sales. With 1 more to go at a friends house next weekend. I have been tripping over 42 years of crapola that we drug down from the attic. I DID learn one thing at these yard sale events. And that is that what I thought was fantastic stuff. Stuff that I thought I would never part with, stuff that I had been holding onto for years, other people couldn't care less for it. So no matter how much it means to us, to other people it is only junk and not worth $2.00.

I feel like I am rambling in this post, so I think I will say

Talkatchalater

Hello Nice People,

Goodbye to Sugars Sweet Pee. I think Sugars journal was one of the very first that I came across a few years ago when we were back at JLand on AOL. Sugar loves her doggies so much, and they are such a huge part of her life. I will never forget when Monkee was lost. I think he got out of the yard when the gate was left open. Thankfully he was found after being gone for such a long time. This Summer, Angel and Sweet Pee have gone to the Rainbow Bridge. I know Sugars heart is breaking and I feel so bad for her. I will say a prayer for all the little doggies who will not make it til tomorrow. For all the doggies who are lost. For all the doggies who are mistreated. For all the doggies who are hungry. Sweet Pee, you will be missed.