The Lake

About a block away from our home.  The water is peaceful again, today.  I love standing by peaceful waters.  Oh geez - where did I get that from? 

 

Beautiful Fall weather we are having.  I do wish we could have had these warm temperatures in June - my tomatoes would have turned out near like some folks in Iowa - major giggle.

 

 

Long Monday ~ Seven Deadly Sins

Yesterday, I was listening to John Prine - In Person & On Stage...oh teehee, I saw him there in person and on stage.  Geez, I must check and see if I posted here on meeting John Prine - lol. 

On the cd, is Long Monday - near the end of the song - are two lines John sings...

...seven deadly sins sleepin' at the bottom of the deep blue sea
objects in the mirror may appear nearer than they seem to be...

So I google up the seven deadly sins - my word...I am a sinner!

The seven deadly sins are Wrath, Greed, Sloth, Pride, Lust, Envy and Gluttony.

That Pride one - I had to look twice, I quite often get Prine mixed up with otherwords, Prince, Prime, Price.  Yes, I once lived in Prince George - sometimes the mail I send has the address Prine George. 

Now back to the seven deadly sins.  It is a religion thingy, yikers, yinkers, yonkers - I am not going there. 

I like to live on the sinner side of life.  I like to walk on the wild side but only as much as my height can maintain - that extension is 5'.

Beautiful day on the mountain side, off to enjoy my 5' extension!

John Prine Black/White Can Holder...

My Prine beer can holder is not this, it is the black and white...

 

My word, it went missing between singing Johnny Horton and Johnny Prine while I was out on the porch singing with my seasonal neighborette.

 

Do you think I could find it?  I looked for two days, to no avail.  I checked with my seasonal neighborette...do you have it...she replies no. 

 

This morning I find, on my porch - a little plastic bag - contained my Prine black and white. 

 

If you are meant to have something and Miss Place it.  If it comes back to you ~ it is sincerely yours.

 

...that Prine is mine...

 

 

Sunflower

My favorite Sunflower, I love this.

 

I have had a whirlwind of an activity week.  I simply want to rest, sit a spell, and hope everyone is calm. 

 

My word, when seasonal folks come to stay at their homes, they come not prepared.  Oh, us - us, us - to the rescue.  Can I borrow your telephone, can I take shower...sorry folks - why do you not take the motto of a girl guide and 'Be Prepared'.  How do you wear flip flops here - get a grip.

 

When my seasonal neighbor arrived with her son, all was well.  Next morning all hell broke loose.  She cannot find her car, her son - he is gone.  Yeppers - that immature boy wrapped the vehicle around a telephone pole.  Age of the 'boy' 38.

 

I and Noisemaker do assist her with using our telephone; comforting as best we can - but truly folks - all I want to do is listen to Johnny Horton ~ Johnny Freedom, Johnny Prine...oh, for good measure Bruce!  giggle, giggle

 

Her son lived.

 

 

Lydia

Oh my word, Lydia is a fright without her hat...the wind blew it off - tossed down the way, can you see it?  That is not a rock, it is Lydia's hat.

 

She has been sad this summer, Donald is nowhere in sight.  Lydia is so strong now, her weight gain has enabled her to remain in the upright position all summer. 

 

I hug her from time to time and tell her, Donald may not be here - but Lydia - do not fret, I am.  I'll take care of you.

 

...but dreamin' just comes natural

like the first breath from a baby

like sunshine feedin' daisies

like the love hidden deep in your heart...

John Prine

The Eagle

Near taking flight.

Lift Off.

 

Photos - thanks, brother.

 

 

 

eh, eh ~ How Does Your Garden Grow

Stupice Tomato - looks like a snowman to me, but if you turn it the other way, well just use your imagination on that one.  Small in size, but very tasty - full of flavor.

 

First frost of the year, last night - major frost - holy smucksville.  I will have to cover everything up tonight and hope for the best. 

 

Best, too I will hope for my friend - Chad.  He, possibly may attend John Prine in North Carolina - October 20th.  Fingers crossed -- legs too.

 

Beautiful day on the mountain side today.  It is peaceful - at the moment.  Well, I can hear the faint music of Chain Saw.  Bet you folks are not too acquainted with that musician...let me tell ya - he ain't no John Prine - major giggle. 

It's A Celebration

It is my last night on my own, Noisemaker returns home tomorrow.  Tonight, I celebrate - I built the night fire, now I sit ~ peacefully with music in my ears and music on the television.  The television music is excellent.  I am having a party here, I love it.

I have great music rinking up in my headphones; Woodstock CSN&Y - currently.  I took time today to arrange the cds in some sort of order - well my order.  John Prine, Bruce Springsteen and the others.  Neil Young cannot be included up there on the ledge; there is too many.  He has his own shelf in the cabinet. 

Hope you and yours had a great long weekend.  I have had a great five day vacation filled with music and an inversion.  You gotta love it!

My Red Potatoes

At least I got some!

 

This year I decided to plant some red potatoes in the pot shown.  I really did not expect to receive a so called 'harvest'. 

 

This morning I looked out the window and saw the container was visited by some animal.  Could be too that Donald was prowling around looking for Lydia and knocked it over.  There is my container on the ground, the top of the potato plant broken.  I decided, well - I will see what I have in there - I laughed.  My red potatoes will make a fine stew along with the great harvest of carrots I received this year.  I have one more container of carrots to harvest.  My peppers and tomatoes are on the side of slow - we had no heat in June.  However, when I checked in on the weather forecast seems like we are going to have a beautiful fall with above average temperatures.  I hope so.  I am not looking forward to an early winter - heck, I do not look forward to a late winter - I do not look forward to winter period!    

How I Spent My Saturday Night. . .

I do not know if I have mentioned on here how much I detest having to make a fire.  Last night I thought I should make one otherwise it will be too cool in the early morning.  I went outside and hauled in some wood; began preparing for making a fire.  For the love of god, I had an inversion.  I ran and opened up all the windows, smoke is billowing from the woodstove - panic is setting in.  The smoke alarm goes off, panic mode is exploding.  I am thinking I should call my neighbor - he works with the fire department - I do, he is not home.  I can't shut that (many curse words) smoke alarm up.  I am overcome with panic and anxiety.  I run outside with the thought I will go and get my seasonal neighbor (he does not have a telephone).  It is dark outside, but I proceed thinking god, I hope there is no cougar around.  I see no lights on at my neighbors, I run back home.  The smoke has subsided, the alarm has shut up. 

I sit down, talk to myself.  You can do this, don't panic, you can do this.  I start to build the damn fire.  It goes smoothly, I feel better.  This is why I need Noisemaker around, it is his jurisdiction to build fire, etc. 

I awoke this morning; thought oh - it is cool - I will have to do the (again, many curse words) fire.  I trot to get the wood, bring it near to the stove.  I sat down by the stove...and I told it; look you *)$%i* stove you work with me this morning not against me...is there some part of that you don't understand?  I start to build the fire, I keep lip flappin' to it - it is listening...fire abounds!  I am going to idle it today; that way I do not have to rebuild. 

My Noisemaker does not arrive home until Tuesday well, maybe he will be home Monday.  You never know but my guess is he probably misses the old fire building woman ;)

The fire building woman misses the Noisemaker - not his noise, only his fire building capabilities.

Happy Labor/Labour Day

 

Last night I took the opportunity to watch Le Noise - Neil Young.  It was good, I enjoyed it; especially the song Love and War. 

 

Noisemaker had given me written instructions to operate the remote controls and I did well until the end.  I hit the wrong button and I could not return to the tv screen.  I thought to myself, holy smucksville, Noisemaker goes away and I break the tv.  This morning I went over to my seasonal neighbor and told him of my dilema.  He came over and in seconds the tv screen returns.  Appears like my input was outputting and naturally when I was doing that I did not have my magnifiers on; hence I could not see what the heck I was pressing.  I am just glad to have it back to normal.

 

Now I am off to CMT to see if I can catch a glimpse of Luke Bryan.  I would love to see that Shake It For Me video, oh my goodness...that might not even be the name of the song...I'm guessing. 

 

Happy Labor/Labour Day to all, enjoy your weekend.  Remember the workers that were before and how they strived to get us to where we are at today.  I truly hope we do not start going backwards.