Niki Sue's Day at the Park

Marisa, Willy and Cole came to Tampa for a quick visit. At 9am Marisa calls and says

"Oh Daddy. Would you please go to the park with us and please bring little Niki Sue"
As I was running out the door, Niki decided that she wanted to wear her dress. I told her that she shouldn't wear it to the park, she insisted. I caved in because you girls always get what you want. We all had a great time and went out for a fantastic lunch.

oops, I forgot to mention that Willy helped me straighten my crooked fern and it looks lot better now

Written by a English Friend

Dear Greenwich Observatory,

I am writing to you as a concerned customer, what you are doing with time is all wrong. In fact, I think your actions are highly unethical and that for once you should be taking account for them.Your monopoly on my time is having dire consequences; I would like a full apology and a refund of around 20 years. Sometimes I find that I have no time at all, it all drains away so fast when I need it so. Couldn't you have given me warning, when I thought that hour or day or year would reach their full duration... whereas you had other plans, you would suddenly decide a the last minute that maybe, I didn't need those minutes hours or days. Such cuts to my time can take a toll, don't you know? I've ended up with half a minute's output for several hours, or maybe a day. You think that doing this to a person is acceptable? I don't, and I'm sure many like me would agree.
As for 'spare time', what you are doing with mine is driving me nuts. So many things I want and wish to do, but they keep getting taken away from me. I set aside an evening for this, and another for that, but in the end it’s like they're never really come or gone. You've taken everything I never had away from me, everything I should have done and never got the chance. It seems now more then ever like these moments I keep hoping for will not come. Its such a waste of my time, I just don't know what's being done with it, but I'm pretty sure its all down to you. Give me back my time that you have stolen.
Now we touch on another matter, there are those moments that seem to last forever. Yet you are putting them in all the wrong places, I don't need to be sitting in waiting rooms for hours and hours on end when I am supposed to be there a meager few minutes. I don't need to spend all that time listening to a bore, going on and on and on about their dull and drab interest. What about all that time, when I lay there trying to drift off into sleep... can't something be done to use that time how its meant to be, why won't you just let me rest. Enough of the tossing and turning, let me dream a pleasant dream; let me feel peaceful, for once.
You've misused my time all throughout my life, so give it back to me and next time don't waste it. I want it all back, repaid in full. Make it a good life this time, don't leave it with so many static moment, don't leave me frozen in fear or uninspired. Just let me be the me I am supposed to be, anything but what you're doing with me now... This time, can you litter my time with people who love me, people who mean the world to me? Take away the people I can't stand whether they're close to my heart, or a nagging suspicion in my mind. Give me a life that I can cherish, let me be born again, and this time make it mean something.
Diane

have we really evolved?

This is something that I heard many years ago and would play it to death. I wish things would have changed in the last 40 years but I'm not so sure it has. RIP my brave Americans who fought for justice, integrity, world tranquility and decency.

May your effort not be in vain.

just be nice!

Kitty

minor adjustment

I'm over the music. I deleted it. I'll bring it back if the demand is high enough.

Bruneau Dunes State Park

This is actually one of my better pictures. I guess cameras make allowances these days for people that only know how to point and shoot. I was messing with Marisa's fly pole (or whatever the friggin' thing is called) and enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Fly fishing is very different from the other kind of fishing. (that is the kind I hate)

All you have to do is stand still while someone puts the pole together and ties the fly on. Then you get to unroll a pile of the fish string on the ground.

After that's done, you whip the pole around, watch everybody take cover and fly the fly into water.

Halloween

I think it's about time that we move on to something besides the fine picture sent to me by Marci.

One of my children got a new outfit. The other one is just too fat, so I gave her a cookie.

Another Proud Moment

Well, I just don't know how to begin this one.

Let me start by reminding you of my surprise picture. (Jan.16,2009) I thought it was a little strange, but I guess you never know what your kids will send your way.

Anyway, the idiots topped the 'Pot O Piss' picture with another fine photo...

yes, I think you guessed.

This will be 'Pot O Poop'

On the outside chance that you want to know, the little turd belongs to Alexis

Timeout for a Little Joke

A driver is stuck in a traffic jam going into downtown Chicago. Nothing is moving north or south. Suddenly a man knocks on his window.
The driver rolls down his window and asks, 'What happened, what's the hold up?'
'Terrorists have kidnapped Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Rosie O'Donnell, Jesse Jackson, George Mitchell, Minister Farrakhan and Al Sharpton. They are asking for a $10 million ransom. Otherwise, they are going to douse them with gasoline and set them on fire. We are going from car to car, taking up a collection.'
The driver asks, 'On average, how much is everyone giving?'
'About a gallon.'

Thanks Dee

Fiddle About

No, I'm not talking about Uncle Ernie. I'm talking about the fiddle festival in Idaho. After watching the jams on "The Daily Dallas", I went off and listened to more fiddle music than I thought existed. I was truely impressed. I even picked one that I liked (just to annoy those of you that hate my choice of music)

Hopefully (I'm a little dumb) you'll be able to hear the bloody thing while you are on my page.

First Aid Station

Everyone knows the importance of having a well stocked first aid station near your work area. For those of you that are concerned about my limbs, (you know to whom I'm talking to) I now have a fully stocked medical emergency kit that will be kept in close proximity to all of my favorite toys.

Niki Sue's New Dress

Is my baby a diva or what?

The Perfect Diet

If you people would like your children to grow up healthy,

please follow this example.

Plants and Things

Will someone please help me straighten my monster fern?

Gardening Hint

When humming birds think that they are too good for your feeder, just import your own

New Teeth

Mr. Deere went to the dentist and had to get a new set of choppers.

I know everyone is thrilled to be part of this experience.

My Birthday Gifts

My children remembered me with very nice cards.

Keithie's card was delivered on the 11th. (wow)

Marisa's came to me on the 12th

(that's ok too)

Kitty's sister's card found my mailbox on the 8th and one from Buffalo come today.

Kitty said "Happy birthday" and we went to Busch Gardens.

Keith's card was (oops) a Fathers Day Card

I'll get a birthday card on Fathers Day

and

Marisa card is pictured

I got myself Busch Garden Fudge.

Picnic Table

I would like you people to know that I'm doing this post before I sucked my quota of morning coffee...so you better appreciate it! I had some pressure treated wood laying around the house that was getting in my way and wondered what I could do with it. Keithie sent me plans the other day (give or take six months) for, yes you guessed it, a picnic table. At first building the thing was a little spooky because Kitty decided to help. You see Kitty is famous for doing things upside down and backwards. She's also afraid of most of my tools.
I was pleasantly surprised when Kitty (now a master carpenter) turned out to be a great help.

Two Kittys

Kitty and I went to Busch Gardens for a couple of hours today. The water rides were refreshing after working in the yard all day. I was surprised to see that they show cartoons to the tigers.
Does anybody else have, umm, I don't want to use names or I'll hear about it for the rest of my life, a first born daughter with a good heart, that nags the living dog crap out of her daddy?

My Grandson is Perfect

Kids keep us young

New Taste Sensation

Cole's First "People Food"
Let's all have scrambled egg yolks with formula instead of milk.
I'm going to whip up that fine breakfast this weekend.
Cole's first experience with 'real food' (he made icky face)
Willy and Ally loved it!

Norfolk, VA

Here we have Keithie riding in a

Little Yellow Bus

and

Alexis as an

Apprentice Engineer

The Neighbors in SC

Holy Crap

Conway, South Carolina.

Kim and mom decided to hook up and get a mobile home (trailer). I drove mom to SC and will stay a few days to help settle them in. The ride up to South Carolina was pleasant and uneventful. (unless I blotted all of the crap from my memory but whatever, I don't remember anyway) I can't think of anything that excites me more than unloading a truck full of furniture that's too big for the trailer as soon as you finish your 11 hour drive. Well I believe that covers the road trip.
Let us continue...

Keithie's first potty pee

What a nice surprise it was when I opened my phone
only to see a pot 'o' piss