Opening Day for Deer Season

(Disclaimer: Read no further on this post if you're a vegetarian or wear or use leather products.)

My friend Rachel put on her FB page this morning: "The sign is on the door -- We interrupt this marriage to bring you the hunting season."

My friend Janey put on her FB page: "RUN, Bambi, RUN!"

This reminds me of a couple I knew years ago. While the daddy went off deer hunting, the mommy took the girls to a movie in a theatre. What was playing? You guessed it: Bambi.

Go to sleep, little baby!

Many of you know that this summer I became a grandmother. I have my grandbaby's photo as my desktop background. Each night before I put the computer into hybernation, I say to the screen, "Go to sleep, little baby." Then I press the "sleep" key and the light go out.

My First Attempt at Knitting a Toddler Mitten

It looks more like a duck-hood, as my DH so gently put it.

Texting While Driving

And THIS is what happens when you drive a tractor while texting!

Arrrgh. It be de 9th Talk Like A Pirate Day!

I be talkin' all de day long, like a pirate, see? All me pirate jokes be used last year. But this year, I be readin' a Louis L'Amour book called THE WARRIOR'S PATH. It be told in the 1620's along t'east coast of new America like. I be readin' it, thinkin' it be all about frontier men and Indians like. Den dis mornin' while readin' de story, guess where de hero done sails off to? Port Royal, Pirate Capital! ARRRRGH. It be a fittin' surprise fer dis day, me buckles . Yes, it be.

Hopin' ye have smooth sailin' fer de rest of dis here day like.

Arrrrrgh.

Talk Like A Pirate Day Be Tomorrow!

Argh, me hearties! Tomarrow it be Talk Like A Pirate Day.

Argh. Be ye rememberin’ it all t’day long, like.

The Lighter Side of Catastrophe, cont.

I'm standing next to my husband, explaining to a friend how stressful it is on us from the long-taking work on our house from May's storm.

"We constantly make word substitutions, or revert to pointing at something in order to communicate," I said. "Our brains are mush."

"Yes," agreed my husband. "And forgetful, too. Just this morning, I forgot my binoculars."

We looked at each other and cracked up laughing. We both KNEW he'd meant to say glasses. We're praying our friends and acquaintances will understand, and hopefully, whenever our house gets fixed, we'll go back to a new normal.