Saturday, February 29, 2020

Pool Paramedics Re-Run from 2014




This is a repost from 2014....

I found this Zebra Long Wing butterfly floating in the pool the day after Christmas.

Pointing at the butterfly I said "Bob get that out for me" . he said "why, it’s dead."

 "Because I want it"  (can you guess why I wanted it?)



Bob can bend from the waist and scoop it out,  when he touched it it tried to fly, it was so cold, the water is 62 degrees right now. I was screaming IT'S ALIVE...

Bob  sat him gently on the wall in the sun and after about 10 minutes he beat his wings a few times and   lifted up and soared over the pool with me yelling "NO not over the pool", 

then he lifted up, up up to the pine tree and we were both saying flap harder. he made it to the needles and sat for a while and flew away. 

Below is just a few of the hundreds of drowning swimmers we have pulled from the pool.... 



beetle, toad, tiny frog, bee, lizard, ring neck snake, tree frog and dragon fly... all of these lived....

this makes both of us officially "POOL PARAMEDICS... "

Friday, February 28, 2020

The Girl on The Train..Final Friday Fiction


Mid-Summer, 1943, WWII rages on. The Seaboard Champion train, is leaving Savannah, Georgia, with a long track ending in Bradenton, Florida, 10 hours of clacking and rocking wheels along the track.

17 year old Lucille, sits huddled in the seat beside her stone-faced, angry mother.  Her sobs keep time with the clackety clack of the rails as she sobs quietly. Her eyes do not register on any of the  handsome young sailors, in their bright white uniforms and sailor hats.

Her mother, Alva, hisses in her ear, Stop Crying! you are 17 years old, Charlie is 29, you are not going to marry Charlie.

The train finally reaches the train depot in Bradenton, and grabbing Lucille by the hand her mother drags her off the train and  marches her down the street to their home in Palmetto.

Summer passes slowly for Lucille, her heart is breaking for love of  Charlie.

The date is Sept 21, 1943, tomorrow Cille will be 18. She waits as the train from Savannah pulls into the Bradenton Depot and a handsome man, with black Irish curls, steps down into the railway station. She leaps into his arms and he assures her we will be married tomorrow. You will be 18 and she can't stop us.

Charlie gives Cille's mother the ultimatum. We are getting married at the courthouse tomorrow, you can be there or not, its your choice.

The next day, September 22, 1943, Charlie and Cille walk into the courthouse to be married. Cille is wearing a pale blue suit, Charlie a Navy blue suit. Alva watches as her 18 year old daughter pledges the rest of her life to the man who will be 30 in 3 weeks, and as they walk to the train to leave for Savannah, her parting words are  This Will NEVER work!

Charlie and Ceil wave out the window as they sway to the rocking Seaboard Champion taking them to Savannah and the rest of their lives. They did live happily ever after until death did they part.

The End

Lucille was my mother, and Charlie my Dad. It did work, they lived happily together until my mother died in 1990. Daddy loved her until he died in 2006.

 Over the years of my life, my Grandmother Alva, continued to say the marriage will never work. After a few years it became the family joke.

My Grandmother always regretted she let my mother ride the train to Savannah to stay in the boarding house where my Grandfather was staying while worked in the CCC camps. Charlie stayed in that same boarding house. The two of them met on the steps, while sitting outside enduring the hot Sept heat. It Worked! My brother and I are living proof!

Joining FFF- Final Friday Fiction with Yam, join the fun, FFF rules HERE




Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Tongue out Tuesday


NOT the tongues you thought by the title. I found these on my walking route this week.. I typed Tongue Trivia in google... here you go
I found this sight with 20 interesting tongue facts... READ here if you care to

the ones that caught my attention..
1. there are 10,000 tastebuds in our mouth, 8000 of those are on the tongue.
2. Tongue prints are like fingerprints. Unique to each person
3. The tongue can sense taste of sour, sweet, bitter, salty, but not if the mouth is dry, without saliva the tastes is not there....


Monday, February 24, 2020

Sunshine and Wind Lightshow


I sat in my rocker, glancing up watching the lightshow in the kitchen. Bright sun and 45 degrees with gusting wind outside were creating something I had to show you.....


I walked closer and admired the lightshow on the valance



turning towards the wall, I watched and in a quick moment the sun had moved on and I wait for tomorrow to bring another show.


On the table...


Sunday, February 23, 2020

Butterfly Magic, Don't quit


This butterfly fell in our pool, Bob scooped him out, and I put him in the sun. We waited, no movement,  I poked it gently and  He fluttered. I poked gently  over and over making it flutter its wings in the sun. Suddenly it lifted into the air and it was Butterfly Magic.

Yes, OF COURSE I took a quick pic and rushed it to ER Lunapic for emergency surgery and you know the rest of the story.



Saturday, February 22, 2020

Breaking News


Breaking NEWS!!! I had no post on auto, did not feel like thinking or even like breathing, that's even if I could breathe..

Bob and I have been Ill with something not a cold, not the flu. We are pretty sure he brought it home from the surgeons office since it happened on the 3rd day after we visited the office.  On Bob's 3rd day I developed the same thing.
Symptoms were 1st day dry cough, scratchy throat, 2nd day someone turned a spigot on that ran clear liquids CONSTANLY out the nose and down the throat. No fever, and a headache.

The only way to sleep at night was Nyquil... God bless that bottle of whatever that knocked us out for a few hours.

On the 3rd day I sat in the rocker with water streaming from my eyes, down my cheeks, from my nose and down the throat.

I said.. I feel like I am being waterboarded by Niagara Falls!

 Bob said EXACTLY!    


we are both better but not 100 % but I feel lost if I don't have contact with all of you. and now I am adding more breaking news as an UPDATE!
Bob's Melanoma surgery showed all margins clear and that the cancer was in the SKIN ONLY and all was removed. Thank You Lord!




Friday, February 21, 2020

Where was I, the answer


Yesterday I showed a selfie in a waterfall and asked where was I when I took the photo.
I was at the Doctors office for my annual check up. I stepped into the office and WHOA!
New paint, new colors, new furniture and the sun was shining and calling for my cell phone. Lucky me and Lucky You, I always take the FIRST appt of the day and was alone, no one saw me take the photos. I wish I could move it all to my living room.

But not the waterfall. the running water made me crazy


my favorite decoration in the room.. there were more, but someone came in

Thursday, February 20, 2020

Hi, I am HERE


 I am taking this selfie in a waterfall.
Where was I?
Come back Friday for the answer!

For those of you who follow me, you know I don't post on Thursday because  I go to TOPS meeting. I stayed home from the YMCA this am and will miss the meeting. Hubby caught a dripping nose bug at the doc office and then he gave it to me...  a dripping nose cannot stop MadSnapper.

fat me in doc office five years ago
It seems I have a fetish for photos in doctor offices. click HERE for more or NOT ha ha
Of course I took TWO and POSTED both


Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Orange Peel Cell Phone Madness


I handed Bob a Halo orange and got on the computer. He yelled down the hall, Come see what I did.
He had peeled the orange all in one piece. Neither of us have ever done that. You know the rest of this story.
He actually said to me "what are you doing?"  Really? He had to ask?


Orange you glad you glad we are friends? I had to really concentrate to come up with that one! Now, squeeze the day and make a comment.



Monday, February 17, 2020

Peppers and Cukes OH MY


NOTE: I will be taking Tuesday off, we have two doctor appts on that day and a few odd things I have to do.. see you on Wed.

For the past 3 years, veggies have become a big dill to me. Red peppers and mini cucumbers have become my favorites for snacks. I am sharing this info with you because I love you from my head tomatoes.....

There are just 16 calories in a cup of cucumber with its peel (15 without). You will get about 4 percent of your daily potassium, 3 percent of your daily fiber and 4 percent of your daily vitamin C. They also "provide small amounts of vitamin K, vitamin C, magnesium, potassium, manganese and vitamin A,

Sunday, February 16, 2020

5 Bloviators and counting

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BLOVIATORS!!!!

This past Thursday there were 5 bloviators in the lobby of the Surgical Clinic. Bob and I waited for his name to be called. A man came in the door, wandered around, started back out the door, spied Bob and froze, staring at him for long seconds, he pushed the door open, backed up letting it close, and stood staring at Bob.
He stepped over to where we sat and said  "I'm sorry for staring but you look so much like my friend Harry, I thought you were him."
I laughed and said he has many look a-likes here...and shared the story of the woman who jumped in Bob's face as we walked into Wal-Mart one morning. She shook her finger at him and raked him over the coals for delivering her washer and dryer and not taking the old ones with him. She ranted and carried on even when Bob said he did not know her and The Bloviator Set Her Straight.

Anyhoo… that was the first bloviator that we met that day. He sat down and we talked until the air was blue with words. He stood up and said I have to go walk around, can't sit for long and as he walked out, Bob said to me  "he talks more than you do".

Impossible I said. And explained at length I am a Chatty Cathy and he was a Chatty Carl and I will spare you that story.
they called Bob back and in walked another Chatty Cathy and a Chatty Carl together. The chose to sit facing me, and our knees almost touched.
Talk about Blue Air from words flying. The 3 of us talked over and under and on top of each other.

I LOVED EVERY MINUTE... I could go on and tell you what we talked about but, since it was over an hour, I will spare you. Bob was NOT sad he missed it. Of course I gave him the Run Down on every word he missed. He was a captive audience and I was driving. What could he do?

Are you a chatty person? Do you LOVE to talk to strangers? do you repeat conversations you had to other people?


I did an image google search for bloviators and OH WOW! Look WHAT I FOUND HERE I searched for my photo and could not find it... but we all KNOW I should be there.

Saturday, February 15, 2020

Off The Wall


This framed photo of daddy, has hung in our hall, next to the door, since 1993. Below it hung this Gold Four Leaf Clover. A gift from our neighbor Bridgette, fresh from Ireland, with the sweetest lilt in her voice. A wedding gift in 1985, when I came to live in Bob's Home.
           These words are engraved on the back of it.
One leaf is for hope,
And one is for Faith.
And one is for love, you know,
And God put another in for luck.

Last Saturday, I heard a CRASH! Bob was mopping the ceramic tiled hall, and after 1560 times of mopping that hall, the mop handle hit Daddy's frame and OFF THE WALL it went and into 87 million tiny slivers of glass.  (capital letters means loud)

I said "ARE YOU OK? WHAT WAS THAT?" and came running to see him standing barefoot in glass.

He said "STAY BACK, I CAN GET IT! And starts to walk. 

I scream NO, don't move, let me get your shoes, I HAVE TO GET MY SHOES ON FIRST?

He said "I am FINE. I CAN GET IT!  

by this time I am back with his shoes in my hand and mine on my feet, with broom and tiny handheld Vac.
He say "YOU DON"T NEED THAT! I can pick it up!

   I said "YOU DON"T WANT ME TO GET GLASS IN MY FEET" WE NEED THE VAC! What if Big Boy gets glass in his paw?

He says "ITS ONLY UNDER THE FRAME!"

I say "ARE YOU CRAZY?" there are tiny slivers all over the hall, I can see then shining in the light.  
There may have been more SAID, and there may have been fire coming out of our eyes, we are both KNOWN for Drama, when Drama happens.

No feet were harmed by glass, furry or skinned.

The Question is How could this happen with a Lucky Four Leaf Clover on the wall? And after one thousand, five hundred and sixty mopping's?

He has no clue how he did it. Did the Luck where off? Should I hang the photo back up? 
Does it look funny with just the clover there alone?  
So much to ponder. Does 18 carat gold plated mean it is worth something? 
If so would it be bad luck to sell it on ebay?
 For Now the Lucky Clover Hangs out in the hall Alone!



Friday, February 14, 2020

Thankful Thursday a day late



I am late posting today.. Yesterday was Bob's Melanoma surgery. I will try to document our day in short sentences. I tend to Bloviate. har har
First and Best First
The man who doesn't like doctors, Loved the surgeron, 
Loved the Nurse and the Nurse Anesthetist.
Loved the fact we were in and out and home in 2 hrs 15 minutes.
Loved the threatened Anesthesia, turned to twilight and local.
Loved that is was glue not stitches
Loved that he has had zero pain.
We are waiting until 2 pm to remove bandage.
I am so thankful that it went so well, unlike the last surgery which was quite the nightmare.
Manatee Surgical Clinic is a well run clinic and was the best surgical experience we have ever had.
He is scheduled for this coming Tuesday for dermatologist to remove 2 squamous carcinoma in her office. no big deal.
All is well... thanks for all your caring comments and emails.
I get so much support from my E-Friends.
My Valentine is well.
I talked to my son in TN today, today is his 55th birthday. Happy Valentine to David and Happy Anniversary to David and his wife Deanna.
and to all of YOU



Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Strawberry Season is HERE in FL


I say, I say! Oh Yum, oh YAY!

Have you ever in your life seen a strawberry this big? The size of a cup, the size of a tomato. I sliced them in a container with fresh pineapple slices. OH YUM! Oh Yay!

$2.46 for the berries, $2.00 for the pineapple and we have fresh fruit for the week!
PLUS BLOG FODDER


Monday, February 10, 2020

What She Wore to Breakfast

OOPS One
 We came home from our breakfast out on our 35th Wedding anniversary and you know the rest of the story.
OOPS 2
All this to show you my New Smokin Hot Leggins! Another 4 dollar Walmart Spur of the Moment Purchase, even though I said I would never buy another pair. Meet Number 18 leggins of neon snakeskin pattern. How could I say NO?

Sunday, February 9, 2020

The New Glasses are home


My eyes were examined on Nov. 25th, 2019. My new featherlight, trifocal, glare free lens, are in the titanium frames and ON MY FACE. I finally picked them up on Feb 5th.  Two Optical Shops, Two lens factories, 4 errors... ahhhhh Capitalism… NO WORRIES! I have them and I can see.

I did NOT have to make a spectacle of myself, I waited with out having a hizzy fit. And now if stopped for speeding, I can say, Officer, I have been framed. Heh Heh Heh

My friend Madeline did not forget our anniversary, she sent this card to us on the 7th, followed by a call. After discussing the 35th anniversary is on the 8th, I told her I would post this on the blog on the 8th. Well now, today is the 9th.... this means we got 3 days in a row of Anniversary.....
Isn't this card perfect? and we must remember, my memory is a lot older than our Anniversary date.
Just so you know, Bob chose to go out for breakfast and we both had sausage gravy and biscuits, eggs and bacon.

Saturday, February 8, 2020

We have a Mystery!


I pointed my key Fob at the Kia and nothing. 
I stood at the back of the Kia, with a basket full of groceries, NOTHING.
 I finally found the hidden keyhole, and opened it the old fashioned way. 
I Walked to drivers side, found the key hole, and home I came.

I whined as I came in the door

"The Fob want work, you just put a new battery in it last week, it has worked fine for a whole week, I had to USE THE KEY HOLE, on all the doors. It worked yesterday when we went to the Y, it worked at the doctors office. ITS DEAD, nothing."  

he says  "what did you do to it??"   fighting words they are... 
I said loudly, NOTHING, I just told you it worked fine. the battery must have died. 

he says "it was brand new" it did not die, did you do it the right way?"
I saw red..... how many ways are there to use a fob?????? 

He got the screw driver, and pried it open. IT"S EMPTY he yells 
WHAT? she yells, How can it be empty? 

There was more, he of the accusations of me opening it and losing it when he knows I could not open it with a screw driver because I had to beg him to do it and replace the battery.

SOOO! how could I open it, even if I could, and lose the battery and close it again and NOT KNOW IT?
The mystery remains, the battery is gone, neither of us did it, and we have no idea where that battery is.   Ghosts? Poltergeist?  
Yes, we had another battery and it works fine and has for the past few days.

Friday, February 7, 2020

Sunshine Shadows on....

what is this?



Pothos Plant hanging in kitchen.

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

I Forgot to do a post


I am so used to having a week of posts on auto post, that I did not realize there was no post today until I had no comments from my blog in my email. Shocked I checked to see if I put the wrong date/time and there was no post and not even one in drafts. I always have a week in drafts and a week on auto post.
See the pile of limbs above. this is why I forgot to check for a post.

I fought through automated phone systems from 8:30 to 10:15 . INSURANCE nuff said
I missed The Man.
Walking outside to hunt for the 83 year old man, 
I found him ON THE ROOF.
He leaned a ladder, he climbed the ladder
He was walking around using a PITCH FORK to shovel off pine needles.
A broom and a rake were also in use.
I yelled what are you doing????? 
Are you crazy? Why didn't you tell me? (fill in the blanks)
He says hand me the chain saw, I am taking off the limbs.
With words flowing I try, i can't lift it up high enough because i have enough sense to refuse to climb a ladder with a chainsaw.
Get the rope, he yells.
Where is it?
I loop the rope around the chainsaw and pretend I am a cowboy, trying 6 times before
I get the end of the rope up to him.
He stands on the edge, my heart races while he bends over to pick up the rope and hauls the saw up..
He yells Get the orange extension cord, plug it in by the kitchen and throw the cord up to me.
Said Chainsaw is electric.
I am more than happy you did not see me trying to toss a coiled cord up on the roof.
I watched for an hour while the barefoot 83 year old man
Sawed and dragged and tosses over edges of roof onto the ground, the big green branches.
my heart stopped a few tmes, as his foot almost got under the cord,
as he held a chainsaw out and up over his head, as he dragged limbs and dropped limbs.
The worse part of all was the dismount from the roof, down the ladder the old lady clung to, praying his foot would find a rung and another and another.
The limbs are gone, my heart has slowed down, he is on firm ground.
until the next time.