What's New Saturday?
Ah the elusive agates. I have no idea when the tides are today and know nothing about those beaches. I'll ask some locals for suggestions. In Oregon Mike and I love to search for agates just as the sun is setting. Something about the sun's reflection makes them easy to find. I hope to at least find a few nice rocks or driftwood to bring home for the yard.
Cheryl, I'm finding that at the gym I really manage to work up a sweat. When I'm out walking in the neighborhood I tend to "stroll" and that just doesn't do it. I always want life to be fair too. Darn it isn't is it?? Hang in there!
Karen C
Julia
My mom tells me that I was a very "melancholy" child and I remembering being sad as a kid. I mean I had fun things to do and a loving family but I remember just feeling sad much of the time.
Yes, I feel lucky that we have meds that can help now.
Thanks, Julia,
Cheryl
We never touch people so lightly we do not leave a trace.
Peggy Tabor Millin
I LOVE the Pacific Ocean from the west coast. My experience of it was a lot in Oregon where my favorite times were during storms. Mother Nature would create spectacular scenes, and I had a favorite motel in Rockaway Beach, Oregon I would stay in that had a fireplace, was right on the beach, and was so cozy while it was raging outside. I would get a take out of the local crab salad, hot french bread and a bottle of wine, and was happy as a little clam curled up on the coach watching the waves crash, reading and being alone. When it quieted down, I would walk the beach and find treasures that were washed up.......lovely time.
Have fun with those babies!! Chubby cheeks just beg to be kissed, don't they!!
Aloha nui loa
Maui Karen
Aloha OFF family........I'm late, I know....but just got up from a delicious nap and decided to come in and spend some time with this wonderful group. Reading about all your lives makes me feel a part of something much bigger than myself and my little Maui family.
Karen, after reading some of the responses to your posts, I am flashing back to growing up in Oregon, and going on those wonderful overnight trips to Long Beach, WA to dig for razor clams! Are those even still available, or have we ruined yet another wonder species? My memories include getting up before dawn and being snugged down in the backseat of my father's big car for the long ride. Then when we arrived a a little cabin we rented with many friends....there was the fun of breakfast smells and the laughter of my parent's friends' children.
For two days we would dig for clams!! I didn't understand the whole ritual of it....but mostly remember seeing holes in the sand and then someone digging like crazy with this long, narrow, bent shovel! I loved just being on the ocean and watching the seagulls and the magnificence of the ocean.
The payoff on these days of "clamming" was a FEAST after all the men cleaned the clams and then my mother dredged them in bisquick (I think)....and fired them up for many many friends. I can almost taste the delicious clams...and feel sorry that we contributed to the destruction of our planet yet again.
Today on Maui is very calm........no wind but a nice south swell that is giving the surfers a fun time out there. I did my erranding early and sent off my birthday box for my darling little Brocky who will be FIVE on July 30th! Wow....I remember coming into the OFF and telling you that I was going to be a grandmother (rejoicing!) and now that "baby" is FIVE and there are two more......Brady, 3, and Zane, 1.
I found an amazing special at Foodland........two cornish game hens for $3.00!! I am going to stuff and bake those soon. I will take one over to my neighbor who isn't doing good.
Always happy to be a part of this family!!
Aloha nuiloa,
Maui Karen
long day at work as expected but a good day...came home and jumped into cleaning mode..wow- we accomplished alot last nite=i crashed at about 915-michael was up just a bit longer-even the dogs were whipped tired last nite and i really didn't see either of them "clean" anything!!!!
so this morning i need to brush up on some "house sale stuff" then get back to cleaning...not really alot left for today's showing...the young man from the other nite's visit...please-swing those chickens, say those prayers, whatever works for the good is really appreciated here in my home and heart today!!!!
as we are counting down-86 days til target--i am finally feeling like it will happen...and i woke right up this morning realizing that i need to empty and close out the safe deposit box at the bank where i used to work! our wills and a few savings bonds of the grandkids are in there....so does this mean that our list making capabilities still are listing while we sleep????gosh...
anyhow- happy saturday everyone-not sure what we are going to have weather wise here- they say maybe rain...
hugs and prayers...........
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
- E. B. White
Good morning to you, Karen and my OFF family. I find it hard to believe that it is Saturday already. The week seems to have went fairly quickly for me and I contribute that to working in the office. Time goes by faster when you are doing something for others...or sometimes just doing something.
Last night I had a call from Bill while he was coming home from work and told me that his nephews wanted him to go fishing. I told him that was fine with me...he is happiest when he is out there fishing. The love to go to Lake George and fish. None of them keep what they catch...and fishing at Lake George they couldn't anyway. ha ha I went to bed and started reading and have no idea when he got home. In fact I don't even remember seeing him when he left to go fishing...but when I woke up this morning my book was on my bedside table and so were my glasses. In fact he was on the other side of the bed so I know that he got home. Which I am glad about. ha ha
I know that I have to go to Wal Mart today and get Bill another package of nicotine patches. He used his last one last night. So that means that he hasn't smoked for 2 weeks now....I am so proud of him. He is doing so good. Better than I thought he would. If I had a dollar for every time he said he was stop smoking or tried to stop I wouldn't be sitting here that is for darn sure. I would be out on a Alaskan cruise...that is something that I have put on my bucket list to do...but that is another story!
Misty is laying at my feet staring at me for some reason. She wanted me to hold her this morning and give her some of our loving time but I just wasn't in the mood. I think that is what the stares are for. She wants what she wants when she wants it and if she doesn't get it is NOT alright. But she must be a typical kitty. ha ha I wouldn't trade her for anything in the world...she is my baby and I love her so much. She must feel the same about me since she is at my feet or in my lap most of the time. When we got her she wouldn't sit in someones lap or even get up on a lap for any amount of time. She wouldn't get on the bed either. She is such a different kitty...it is amazing what love will do to someone or something.
The complex is having their rummage sale yesterday and today. I didn't go to any but we might go to some today. I was going to participate but then I got to thinking...which is sometimes dangerous....and I wouldn't be able to bring the tables or even the stuff back in by myself at the end. Bill would have been working yesterday and then what would I have done...so I am giving all the stuff away on Freecycle. I have a lot of clothes and I posted them last night. I have to check that today and get them all out of here. They are folded and stacked on the sofa and driving me nuts too. I have to go through my purses too..they are all over the bedroom floor by my closet. I am a purse collector and my sister saw them and said "You really do have a lot of purses." and I told her that I got rid of a lot of them already..she laughed. My BFF use to call me the Emelda Marcos of purses. I have never been a shoe person. ha ha Well...we all need something to collect...and I choose just about everything. ha ha
I am going now...I have babbled on long enough...so everyone wake up now. I am sending love and hugs to all and prayers are being said for everyone too. Spread the happiness and joy...and look at my new signature....I found it in a e-mail from my Pastor last night. Just what I have been thinking. Have a great day and smile pretty!
It's not what you gather, but what you scatter
that tells what kind of life you have lived.
Well, I've stressed myself. Met some friends for lunch yesterday and it involved margaritas and got put on Facebook. I hate it. I know most of you are on it and I've seen your pictures and added you but honestly, I'm getting stuff I don't want, people I don't know, and it's stressing me terribly. I don't need another addiction or a reason to be on the computer, I'm trying to get a life AWAY from home. How do I stop the madness? I don't want the world to find me and I could care less about finding Aunt Fanny's long lost cousin Mattie Jane in BFE. Rant over.
Grandgirl came over yesterday to help put up shoes and fold clothes....:) Then we went to Rita's Ice so we could get a granita where the Jonas Brothers go to get their Italian Ice. Woop, woop. But, their sugar free's are WONDERFUL.
Nothing much planned today. I'll do a little work from home for work as I left yesterday.. but first.. as always.... $4.... then my son has asked me over for waffles... which I don't eat anymore.... and then we are doing Sprouts, Central Market, and Costco. Keeping the kids for him tomorrow since wifey-poo is at a PTA convention. He works on Sundays.
That's it for me.. the scale is basically staying the same.
Janet
