Hey Tillie,

That's so cool!!!!! :D

If you did something like that where I live you would probably get arrested though. The cops are awful where I live.

They will pull you over and harass you for no reason at all.

It has never happened to me before; but when my half brother was my age, he would get harassed by cops all the time for no reason at all.

A cop did threaten to arrest me once when I was 9 years old though.

It was the day that my half brother's father died.

I remember when we pulled up to my half brother's dad's house there were police cars, a fire truck, and an ambulance at his house. And when we got out of the car and asked what was going on, a cop came up to us and told us that my half brother's father died. After he told us that, the cop said that he thought it would be a good idea if my half brother and I waited in the car while he talked to my mom. So we went back to the car and waited for him to get done talking with my mom. A couple of minutes after we got back in the car, the cop and my mom went inside the house. After I saw that they went inside the house, I decided to get out of the car and follow them into the house. After I got out of the car and started walking towards the house, another cop yelled at me and told me that if I didn't get back in the car, then he was going to arrest me.

He totally scared the crap out of me when he yelled at me and threatened to arrest me. I remember after he said that, I started balling my eyes out; and one of the firefighters came up to me and asked me what was wrong. After I told him what happened he walked me back to the car and then walked over to the cop that threatened to arrest me and then he punched him and then started yelling at him. It was pretty cool to see that happen. :)

That was the day that I started liking firefighters and paramedics more than cops. :)

He is feeling much better today.
Was able to sleep last night without much breathing difficulty.

Now he is complaining that his butt hurts.
Dr. gave him a shot in it. hahahaha :)

It is a cold dark wet day today so it looks like I won't be going outside to play.

I don't have any plans.

He did a LOT of decluttering in his bedroom!
He even found half of the floor and vacuumed it.
He even did some dusting but still hasn't removed the cobwebs. Maybe he will get those today.
I can always hope. :D

Maybe today I will finish fixing the beads on my blouse. They look like they might fall off.

Hope everyone has some fun today. :)

MayMay

If you listen to a "scanner" in Houston you could hear all the strange things that police, fire & ambulance get calls for.
It is very busy and interesting there.

I had a run in with a Houston cop.
I just finished gassing up my car & was slowly pulling away from the pumps.
Cop pulls up and flings his door open right into the side of my moving car.
I gave him an earful! Called him an idiot. lol

I hope your husband feels better soon Tillie. :)

Hey Tillie,

Really? Stuff like that happens a lot here in Houston?

That actually makes me want to move here to Houston. :D

Because nothing weird or crazy ever happens where I live. My town is very boring. :(

I'm actually kind of shocked that I didn't get arrested while they were trying to catch her. Lol. ;)

Because at one point while they were trying to catch her, they kind of had her trapped; and on one side of her there was a firefighter and a paramedic ready to catch her and wrap her up in a blanket. And on the other side of her there were 2 police officers ready to catch her and put her in handcuffs. So she was about to get caught no matter what; but they kind of let her make her own decision about who she wanted to grab her. I could see her head moving back and fourth trying to figure out who she wanted to run to; so I decided to roll down my window and help her out with her decision by yelling at her and telling her to run to the firefighter and the paramedic. After I did that she looked at me; so I yelled at her again and told her to run to the firefighter and the paramedic because they know how to treat a girl right. Lol. After I did that, one of the cops that was near my car gave me the meanest glare I've ever seen. Lol. I totally thought that I was going to get arrested right there on the spot. Lol.

Hi Dianne :D

I am taking a lunch break right now.
It is very important that we schedule regular breaks into our cleaning/decluttering To-Do lists.

We have been fortunate to have lovely Spring weather days mixed in with Wintery cold days this month.

Hoping your Spring will get there soon (((hugs)))
Warm sunny days do so much to lift our spirits.

This morning two of the cats started a wrestling match in my garden right on top of my Daffodils.
We just can't win! ;)

OK...
He went to the Dr.
Has some viral lung thing that is going around in this area but now he has secondary complications from it.
He has lots of new meds now.
I talked to him about the condition of his bedroom.
He is a LOT worse at night and I know that the long standing dirt, dust and general rubbish is what makes him worse in there.
Right now he is doing some cleaning in there! :D

TTYL, back to work, Tillie :)

He is still sick. I think he may have pneumonia by now or maybe just the plague. He is going to the dr. today.

Anyways......
The house needs cleaning.
I will do what I can with him underfoot around here.

There's some dishes that need washing.
Should do a load of laundry, just to keep up with it.
Sweeping and vacuuming would really help improve things too.

Maybe I will just wash my hair and take a nap. ;)

I need to find some motivation. Mondays suck :D

MayMay
A huge city like Houston always has something "interesting" going on there. ;)

I hated Houston so much that I turned down a dream job with the fire department there back in 1978.

I did like the highway that went all around the city like a giant wagon wheel. Made it easy to find places.

OMG! I saw the CRAZIEST thing happen today!

Today while I've been out and about in Houston, I saw some women running around naked! LOL.

It was hilarious! I have no idea why she was running around naked; she might have been drunk or something. but they made a HUGE deal out of it. They literally had everyone chasing after her. They had the police, the paramedics, and firefighters all chasing after her. When I first saw the fire trucks and ambulances, I thought that there might have been an accident or something. But it turns out that the fire department was just there to help catch the naked women.

Take a guess as to which department was finally able to catch her.

I'll give you a hint as to which one it was.

Here's your hint:

When they were finally able to catch her, they didn't put her in handcuffs, but instead they wrapped her up in a blanket. :)

Thanks Tillie. :D
Happy St. Patrick's Day! :D

Happy St. Patty's Day!!! :D

MayMay, nice posters!
Hope things go well for you in Houston tomorrow.

Dianne,
Planning to wear my lucky green blouse and my lucky green socks today. :D
My Father's paternal Grandparents emigrated from Ireland and he never let us forget it.


My plans for today....
Make corned beef & cabbage.

Today we are going to put up a new ceiling fan in the livingroom area.
We do not work well together on projects.
Plus he is angry because I got this new fan out of his collection of ceiling fans in his hoard.
He has many many new still in the boxes of ceiling fans but does not want to "waste" any of them.
He feels it is wasting items if we use them in our home.
I see they are wasted sitting out there getting ruined especially when we need to replace items in the home and he has new ones just sitting there.

Wish me luck ;)

Thanks Tillie. :)

The cool thing about keepcalmandposters.com is that after you make a poster, you can buy the poster that you made. :)

And earlier today my boss called me and told me that he bought 2 posters that the hoarder and I made last night for the bar. :)

One of them says, "Cory Chalmers is always welcome here."

And the other one says, "Matt Paxton is always welcome here."

Here are the links to the posters:

http://www.keepcalmandposters.com/poster/cory-chalmers-is-always-welcome-here-18

http://www.keepcalmandposters.com/poster/matt-paxton-is-always-welcome-here-9

So far I have no plans for today.

Fed the cats breakfast.

Wondering if "he" has any plans.

Right now I am still sitting in bed drinking tea and playing on the computer :D

Hi MayMay :)

Glad to see that you have found some fun activities to do while waiting on APS. :D

Take care.

Hi Beverly :D

Paulie sounds so sweet and happy!

The thing I like best about the quail is when a momma comes walking out with her newly hatched brood swirling around her feet.
Looks like a little dust cloud. The babies are so very tiny.
Quail are a lot like chickens. Lay lots of eggs that hatch at the same time and the chicks peck up their own food.

They nest under all my hoarders old vehicles and other stuff piled up all around.

Happy that you are getting lots of hours at work and the income. :)

Take care and please keep in touch when you can.

(((hugs)))

Believe it or not; but we are still making more posters on keepcalmandposters.com :)

Here are 2 more links to go to if you want to check out our posters:

http://www.keepcalmandposters.com/poster/call-me-cory-chalmers-heres-my-number-937-684-6095-1

http://www.keepcalmandposters.com/poster/keep-calm-and-try-to-stop-hoarding-2

Hi Tillie,

That's great that you have been able to pretty up your garden. That sounds so nice to have all those quail running around taking dirt baths except that they keep messing up your tree wells. Those silly quail, don't they know all the work it takes to dig those?...haha

Sorry to hear your Hubby has been sick with a cold.

My little Paulie has laid 4 eggs and she is such a good Mama sitting on her nest only coming out of her Apple box to greet me with kisses, eat, drink and poop. Her box sits on my bed with her food on top although I do have some Zupreem food inside so she can keep eating. It's so cute to watch her sitting on her eggs. Of course they won't hatch so when she gets bored with the eggs I'll take them away and hide the box again like last year.

I haven't made any progress on my house but have been working a lot. So it's OK because I sure can use the money.

Take care

Right now I'm still in Houston. :)

Right now me and the hoarder that I am helping, are goofing around on my iPad. :)

Check out these posters that we made...

Go to these 2 links to look at our posters:

http://www.keepcalmandposters.com/poster/keep-calm-and-clean-with-cory-chalmers-7

http://www.keepcalmandposters.com/poster/keep-calm-and-clean-with-matt-paxton

Good morning :)

Day three of him being home from work sick with some sort of cold virus.

Yesterday I walked over to the neighbor's house and we had a nice visit & got all caught up on the latest news.

Today I will get caught up on some inside housework.
With him home all these days the bathroom needs more than a swish & swipe.
The floors and porches need sweeping.
The carpet needs vacuuming.
He brought out some dirty dishes from his room so now I need to do some kitchen tidying up.
There is a load of laundry waiting to be washed.

Now I just need to get my motivation to get up & turn off the computer. :D

Hi Dianne :)

Glad you got some good rest last night.

Yes, emotional energy.

Great plan starting with sorting out the easier from the harder decisions.
That will make a smaller pile to spend emotional energy on.

Going to finish drinking my tea & waking up now. :)

Hi Dianne :)

Hope you get a good night's sleep tonight.

Way To Go! on passing along the decorations to your daughter.

Getting older does seem to have some advantages. ;)

Good morning :)

Have no real plans for the day.

Few things that I may or may not get to.
First I will do my usual daily tasks.

Today is cloudy & cool but yesterday it got all the way up to 70 degrees! :D

What are you doing today?

I was able to finish all the hard work getting the yard/garden ready for Spring.

There are a few things that I was/am planning to do today out there.

Spray the baby Ash trees to try to prevent the caterpillers that make their leaves curl.

Set up the wasp traps. There are already wasps flying all around! :O

My allergies are really acting up today and my back is stiff.

But my little yard/garden area looks beautiful! :D

Too bad that it is all surrounded by old vehicles, weeds and general "stuff" and can't be seen from the road. lol ;)

Mary :)

Hope you were able to chat last night :D

My goal is trying to stay online for the group meeting tonight. Sunday I was dropped and then poof electric went out.

Good morning :)

What are YOU doing today???

I know what I plan to do.
More out in my garden area.
Accomplished a lot yesterday but still have a lot more to do.

I am getting old :(
Used to be able to get a lot more done in a day than I can do now.

The weather is nice and it feels good to be outside after being inside all winter.

Good morning :)

Today I plan to go outside and do some gardening.

I need to re-make the wells around the trees and bushes.
The ground here is sand. Nice fine sand, great for drainage.
The quail love to roll around in this sand and take their little dirt baths.
They especially like to do this in my tree wells and that flattens the sides out so they would not hold water.

Sometimes I have had as many as 100 quail run through my yard at one time!

All summer long I maintain the tree wells but after a long winter I always need to rebuild them.lol

Have some fun today! :D

Hi Dianne :)

BIG "WAY TO GO!" on tackeling that area! :D

It sounds easier for you now that the other Granma is helping out.
You have so much pet care to do daily. Right now all my cats are taking turns getting snuggles from me while I am trying to post. :D lol

Good luck with your To-Do list today.

Now off to post my list.

Hi Beverly :)

Glad you still have your sense of humor! :D

It is almost impossible to get any projects done at home when you have such a busy work schedule.

When we get physically and mentally exhausted the little annoyances in life seem to get under our skin more so than usual.

That radio is expensive! :O
I find it rediculous how much they charge for new car parts these days.

Take care of yourself and check in here when you get a chance.

TTYL, Tillie :)

Hey Tillie! I'm glad to see you are back. I was starting to get worried.

I haven't been here in a couple of weeks. I've been working a lot doing cookie/cracker resets at Albertsons and a few times I was the only team member to show up so I had a few 18 hour days. At least that will be good for my paycheck. Tomorrow they are sending me over 100 miles away to Buellton. I hope the others show up.
I haven't been able to do anything to clean up my mess at the house. just come home, sleep for a few hours and back to work.

I took my car to the dealership and found out my radio is toast after my neighbor clanked the jumper cables together and blew it out. $700.00 for a new one. :( So I looked at new cars/SUVs. A new one would have a factory warranty and be safer sitting up high so I can see better...but I also need 2 roofs and probably shouldn't take on a car payment. I'm getting overwhelmed with silly problems. Maybe I should tell my neighbor that he blew out my radio but he was just trying to help me so I didn't say anything.

Why are simple nothing things so hard for me? I remember when I had REAL problems. Maybe the nonstop working got to me...can't think anymore.

Then there's my old saying... "When things get really bad or crazy, go out and buy a new car...it makes you feel much better"... lol.. at least I still have my sense of humor.

Hi Dianne :)

Good luck with the goat trails today!

Remember that slow & steady gets it done.
Start with the goal of clearing a small area about one foot square.
This way you will be able to see good results quickly.

Seeing good results will be motivating for you to do another square. And so on. :D

You can even sit in a chair and get to whatever you can reach. This is a good way to rest a bit while you work.

I am here cheering you on! :D

It is later than I thought! :(

Daylight savings time is the pits.

Remember that tonight's chat is at 5pm PST.

Springing forward is always worst than Falling back.
Wish they would stop this silly nonsense.

Good morning :)

Saturday!
I have no plans for today.
Hoping my Hoarder will tackle the project we discussed.

The front yard up close to the house is my area where I have my garden & lawn.
Between this area and the road is another area.
The area that you first see when approaching our property.
He has three trucks parked & abandoned there.
Weeds and nasty little trees all growing up around them. Some trees are actually growing up through the engine compartments.
The wind has blown tumbleweeds into all this mess too. The wasps love to nest in the vehicles and dry rotting foliage.

He said he would clean it up. He has been saying that for years now.

Maybe this weekend he will actually do it.

Why am I always such an optimist?

TTYL :)

Bye Bye MayMay :D

Right now I'm getting ready to head to the airport. :)

Watch out Houston! MayMay's coming to town! :D

Bye everyone. :)

So far the only thing that I have been eating today is tootsie pops. :)

So far today I have had 20 tootsie pops; and right now I'm eating my 21st one. :)

I have no idea why, but for some reason I have been really obsessed with tootsie pops lately. :)

Thanks MayMay :D


Public Service Announcement...

Daylight savings time is a great time to put a fresh battery into your smoke alarms.

If you do not have a smoke alarm
PLEASE make it a priority to get one and install it this month.

The life you save may be your own. :)

Good luck Tillie! :)
And will do. ;)

Good morning :)

Still dark, cloudy, snowy type of day here.

My plan for today...
There is this small area in "The Garage" where I keep things that belong stored in a garage.

The hoarder in my life has piled things up in front of this area making it impossible to get to my stuff.

I am going to be needing this stuff I have stored out there. Things that I need to work around the garden with.

Today I am going to suit up and go in there and try to free my things from this area.
There is nowhere else to keep yard and garden things.

This is the best time of year to enter "The Garage" because the snakes are still hibernating and the black widow spiders are not active and the only critters I will have to face are the deer mice.

I will wear a face mask and strip down and shower right afterward.

Wish me luck & send out a search party if you don't hear back from me by sun down. :D

Today I have to pack for my trip to Houston. I am leaving tomorrow afternoon. :)

Then later on today I am going to take Matt and Cory to my boyfriend's house; where we will be spending the night. And then Matt and Cory are going to stay there while I'm in Houston. :)

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?

Because I have no idea...

I tried to find out by licking a tootsie pop while my boyfriend counted how many times I have licked it; but then my boyfriend lost count. So I just decided to go ahead and bite into it. :)

Plus my tongue was starting to get tired. Lol. :)

Good morning :)

Cold dark and cloudy snow day here today.

I have been taking it easy.
Fed the cats.
Been surfing the interwebs, reading articles & watching animal videos.

Need to do a quick tidy up...
swish & swipe the bathroom
sweep the floor & porches
scoop litter boxes
wash a few dishes

Talk To Ya'll later :)

Good Morning! :D

Woke up so early that I got to watch the sun rise.

Been doing a million little things, all fun & relaxing.

The wind is blowing very hard, bringing in the next snow storm.

Wishing everyone some fun today. :)

Thanks Dianne. :)