almost Halloween

Friday, Miss Jenks and I damaged a bottle of Jack Daniel's. Saturday, radio show and then to the Sockman party where I could not bring myself to wear the Batgirl costume and JUST AS WELL because nobody else was costumed. I wore the devil horns and tail with my regular clothes and guys were saying "Hey, I always wanted a piece of that tail." Ha ha.

Sunday I worked in the yard to exhaustion and cooked: chicken for chicken salad and enchiladas and a roast. And I put in most of the storm windows but I have still not put the heat on at night. Hmmm, winterishness.

So me and Annie are going to Mexico Dec. 13-18. Staying at the Colibri. We both had vacation left and it seemed like a good idea, without even a lot of alcohol.

Making sweet potato corn chowder now and drinking Yellow Tail. Tomorrow night, we are going to the Revolver in Findlay.

Rod's Collision at Nate and Wally's this Friday. Charlotte gets picked up Wednesday so maybe I can resume going to the gym.

watching charlotte

I am sitting Gus and Annette's dog while they are in Mexico for the Kern-Doster nuptials. Actually I heard the nuptials were already performed in the US for legal reasons and then there's this wedding thing in Mejico and then there's a party on Nov. 10.

Gus brought her and her luggage over Tuesday evening and there was some whimpering and general cat fear but we all got to sleep somewhere. Charlotte came in about 3 a.m. just to see if I was still there, I guess, and I gave her a pat on the head and told her to go back to bed and she did.


Wednesday, everything went smoothly in the morning and I fed Miss Jenks's cat. Wednesday evening, I walked Charlotte over to feed the Jenks cat. She was very good walking on the leash. Then there was some business with the squeaky dog toy she has when we got back. She just pokes its belly with her nose so it will squeak. No pulling, no biting.

Then I went over to Amy's for some health beverage. When I got back, everybody went out and when they came in, the cats decided they would sleep on the bed and everybody was cool. The Big slept on my head like I hope he will after I've been drinking wine.

Today, Thursday, everybody is passing each other warily in the upstairs rooms but overall, it's a giant success. She is the best pet guest one could hope for.

Here's a cartoon Connie Z sent in email:


I emailed Tom about whether he had experienced any flooding in the rains Tuesday but of course, we only get the exaggerated picture here and he had no pictures to send me.

Tomorrow night, Annie and I are going to drink whiskey after I go to the Home Depot and get my final estimate on the cabinets which I think I will have Wayne Welling install. Although I am not signing up for anything tomorrow night. Just getting the prices. Because I should get another price from Lowe's or someplace. This is the countertop I like.

Listening to the new Mark Knopfler CD, Kill to Get Crimson which is great. Radio show Saturday and I have some new stuff.

Friday, Joe Bob Duda at Cucina but I may have to pass. Saturday, three Halloween parties. We'll see which one(s) I get to. Kind of crappy weather coming but at least the wind will switch back around to the southwest.

here's what I think

Beer not only makes you fat, it makes you crabby. I haven't been drinking much beer and this weekend I did and today I am fat and crabby. Or it could be this weather thing moving in.

It was a big weekend. Friday night, was the Joe Bob Duda at GFT which was heavily attended. Then we went to Beckett's for a bev. Saturday I went to the gym and did a radio show and to the Halloween party from which I have no pictures. Please send me some to debweiser@email.com. I wore my Batgirl costume. Amy was a witch. Sherry was Charlie Chaplin, complete with cane and derby.

Then we went to the Welders in our costumes. Fred, who was dressed as a pirate (a very popular motif this year), said we should go to Howard's every Saturday night in costumes.

Sunday was beautiful, if a little windier than I thought it would be. I was going to wash house windows but the first one I started on needed to be caulked so that's all I got done but I had been meaning to do that for a long time.

Plus I cleaned out the garage. I just need to get that grapevine out of the driveway to see if my car will fit in there.

Tomorrow, Gus is bringing Charlotte over to stay with me for a week while they're in Mexico.

So, Friday, Joe Bob Duda at Cucina de Betta or whatever. Saturday, three Halloween parties. And my first of a long string of regular radio shows.

Annie and I want to go to this restaurant in Findlay, Revolver. It has great reviews. Scroll down on that page to see the comments.

Also I have been looking for a cross stitch that says God loveth a cheerful giver. But most of them are this Precious Moments crap.

ramblings

So it's 10:20 and I realize Boston Legal is on. Man, I am not the viewer advertisers are looking for.

I was telling Sherry or somebody that I don't blog as often because I get all angsted up that I have so much to recount and pictures to post and upcoming events to notify people of that I don't blog.

About this weekend, specifically Saturday, I'm going to the Halloween party about 9 so I can maintain for the Welders which might not start til 11. Plus in case you don't know, Saturday is Miss Jenks's birthday.

exciting updates!

The Chris Shutters Band won the BSBS Battle of the Bands and is going to Memphis. Rod's played their hearts out. The winning band plays at Mulvaney's Bunker on Dorr St. right down the road from my work. They're from Sylvania. The shindig at the Maumee Indoor was well attended including the BG contingent: Kim and Jim, Michelle and Don, Kay and Rick, Dylan, Doug and the usual band groopies.

Today, I went to the Pharm because they had these signs out: CHEAP! FINAL SALE! LIQUIDATION! So there's hardly anything left in there but vitamins and makeup. I bought some stuff that would have totaled about $35 for $12. These white trash people were at the register with a big wad of cash they were making change out of and just assigning prices as they saw fit. Somebody asked when they were closing their doors and some guy said "As soon as we can get all these people out of here." Someone else asked what was going in there and the register guy said Hooters.

Listening to No Song, No Supper.

This weekend, I tore that grapevine off the fence between my yard and Mrs. Eilert's. When I told her about this, several times, she was vague even though she had told me numerous times that the guy who mows her lawn told her that should be cut down. Sheesh. Then I weeded copiously, planted a bunch of perennials I got from the departing Miss Jenks, measured my yard for future bed planning. And took stuff to the yard waste and stuff to Goodwill and returned stuff I had had for two months from Elder Beerman where they had these nightgown robe sets on sale that my mom likes so I guess I've started Christmas shopping. I think now my immediate plans are a privacy fence along the back, new kitchen stuff and this partial landscape remodel.

Plus it's back to cooking school. Today, I made beef stew in the crockpot which I have not sampled yet and I have a quiche in the oven (broccoli, ham, onion, cheese).

Plus I've started keeping lists of stuff to do. And I do it! I think this going to the gym is fab for my energy. I went yesterday and did Turbo Kick which is kickboxing with these 90-second intervals of unbelievable hopping around toward the end.

Gotta watch last week's Desperate Housewives on the internet before tonight's show comes on at 9. Reading Blaze by Richard Bachman (who is really Stephen King). So so.

Better go try and figure out a Halloween costume.

how could I be so far behind???

Plus I have just been worthless for the pictures. Maybe now that it's cooler weather and I have pockets, I'll carry that camera around more.

Here are the few pictures from the Harvest Party. Chip caught this mouse at his house and felt compelled to carry it around in the back of his truck


Some shoes being tossed.

The fire which, although totally unnecessary, was nice.


It was a swell party. It was unbelievably warm. We had on tank tops.

So since my last post, Donna had a birthday party at Missy's. That is one beautiful porch. It was kind of an odd guest list: Norm Heineman and woman, Vic and woman, Nick Subic and woman, Gus, Chip later, Myles cooking his "famous" chicken, Sherry, Fred, Amy, Jenks and man, Jo Sears, Ontha and cleavage.

And then there was the second round of the BSBS blues finals at Mickey Finn's on Sept. 30 Wherein four bands advanced. The finals are tomorrow night at the Maumee Indoor. Rod's needs to zip it up, which was discussed with the band members later. Go boys.

Went to see my mom on Sept. 30 as well. Things are going OK down there. Marginally. But I cannot insert myself into this except to send them some money to buy Halloween candy as they apparently can expect hordes of trick or treaters.

I went to Home Depot and had them come measure my kitchen for new cabinets and have a price from them of around $4,500. I'm getting a couple more quotes before I jump into anything. Who knows who can put a privacy fence up along the back of my yard?

So really that's about it except of course continuous partying around.

After I got back from New York on Sept. 21, my daughter came to town Sept. 26-29 just to get out of the city, as she says. Coincidentally, my old boyfriend Barker was in town Sept. 22-30 and on Sat. night we were all in Nate and Wally's at the same time. "Uncle Steve," Anne said in her facetious way. Bad picture, cell phone, in the bar, but they look lovely. I also went out with Barker on Weds. night to 149 North where we took advantage of the dangerous Wine Night specials. First glass, $3, subsequent glasses $1. Too many subsequent glasses. I had to call in sick at work the next day, which I have done about 3 times in 7 years.



And here is a camel, which was in the parking lot of the small mall the other night when I came out of the gym. Oh right, I joined the gym at the mall.


So coming up we have the Doug and Connie party on Oct. 20 followed by the Welders that night at Howard's, the same day Miss Jenks turns 54, the last time she'll turn anything in Ohio as she is moving to North Dakota in January. Prior to that, there is Bucktown Kickback at Nate and Wally's on the 18th and JoeBobDuda at GFT on the 19th. And Kim Sockman has invited me (and other spirited partyers, she says) to her house on Oct. 27, the night of Kay and Jacqui's party.

And here is video on YouTube of Millie, the island deer up at Put-in-Bay.