Thursday, October 30, 2008

unfortunately

I have not blogged a million fabulously interesting things I've done BUT I am READY for the party Friday.

I have a totally different costume than what I'd said. The cobwebs are all down although they may have been ambience. The poker table is in the living room. The pulled pork is ready. A pumpkin is carved. LET'S PARTY!!!!

See you Friday after 7.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Life goes on and on and on and on

I did not post about the Welders which was good fun. Buford played but Tony did not and Fred did the bass as Fiely did not show up. To the consternation of some.

Linda Kidd was handing out tickets to the Alicia's Voice benefit so now many of us are going. Dress is more casual than I had previously thought I could get away with. Then there's Polka Floyd at Howard's that night. And Eddie Shaw Saturday night at Hines Farm.

Plus I will be on the radio 1-3 this Saturday.

Also I have done more massive gardening on Saturday. I planted that beauty berry bush in the back corner of the back bed. Deciding it was imperiled by that ground cover stuff in that corner, I dug all that out, roots, bulbs, whatever. I'm sure I didn't get it all but I will persevere as weather permits.

I picked all the tomatoes I could find to bring in to ripen. And I brought in that hibiscus. We'll see how that goes. I need more light. If you have a place this plant could winter over, let me know.

Ginger says she will bring over her fire pit thing this weekend for the Halloween party on the 31st. If I have not invited you, please feel free to come. It is costume-optional. We will be playing cards. I am making a crockpot of sandwich filling but otherwise snacks are also optional. Don't make such a big deal.

Sunday night we went out to Chip's for his birthday and that of his daughter's dog Lilly. When they picked the cake up from Kroger's that said Happy Birthday Lilly & Chip, the cashier asked if they were twins. He built a fire in the yard and we had pasta delight and corn casserole and deviled eggs and those delightful sausages Doug makes and cheesy dip and shrimps.

My Tigger costume auction on eBay ends within the hour with a high bid of $63. I'm good with that.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Join the circus

Well you missed a helluva show at Grounds Thursday night when Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams played. I bought 3 of their CDs. I will not miss them the next time they are at the Ark, where they have played several times and I didn't know who they were.

Here are some "facts" I got off Wikipedia. Very interesting, if true. No other corroboration.

Tink and Joziah are married to each other and have 5 children.
Chen and Orien are twins, and are Tink and Joziah's sons.

This would help clear up about how old Tink and Joziah are. I guessed mid 40s and that would be about right with their history.

More later. Gotta do some yard work.

Wait didn't go out yet. Here's something I found about Tom's girlfriend from Googling her name and New Orleans, a presentation on protein folding for some Tulane academic research group:

Using combinatorial chemistry and high-throughput screening to find cell penetrating peptides

Yeah, like I know what THAT means.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

apparently too much fun

It's been quite a while since the last post. So here goes...

You can watch Boston Legal online now so while I almost never catch it on TV, I can view it at my leisure. Speaking of viewing I've had a South Park movie from Netflix for at least a week and haven't had time to schedule it in.

Last week, I went on Monday with Jim Kiernan to see Rodney Crowell and Will Kimbrough and Jennie Sheinman at the Ark. It was a fabulous show. They played for over 3 hours with no break. That woman can really play the electric fiddle and sing harmony. I need to get a CD by her. Tuesday was a presidential debate which I did not watch but had to put news and video on 13abc.com after it was over, so once again got to bed at 1 a.m. Then Wednesday was GNO where frankly I was burned out. Sorry, girls. Here are some pics:









Friday the wimmens came over for cribbage and cards and way too much wine on some of our parts.

So a beautiful weekend starts out and I am slow moving. But I went to the farmer's market and got some squash and corn (Pilgrim food) and then I went to Elder Beerman and bought 2 pairs of pajamas, summer and winter, and a down alternative comforter thing for my bed that is plain green. It seems like it will be just the thing. And only $25! Originally $140!! If you can believe that. So obviously I was off kilter because SHOPPING. I don't do that. Karen Schaller called to thank me for her birthday present which was some Cool Brew, that coffee from New Orleans I'm addicted to. Later I did a radio show and then read sporadically, Best Short Stories of 2007, and then went out to dinner with Connie and Amy to Easy Street where we all agree our food was lackluster at best. We then just went to our separate homes and zoned out.

Today, though. I have worked in the yard for 5 hours, clearing all the derbis out of the far back and moving some plants around and putting yet another couple out front. I have tons of pictures, from North Dakota and of the yard and the Harvest party, so I don't blog because posting all of them is a daunting task.

Oh yeah the Harvest Party. It was a beautiful night and the fire was big but the music was in the garage so it was like there were two parties. Ginger didn't even know there was a big fire. I had several beers and some scotch but I was not driving. Thank you Sherry.



The night before the Harvest Party, we went to see JBD+2 at Grumpy Dave's where we ate out at Call of the Canyon beforehand. WAY too much restaurant eating lately.



The weekend of the Harvest Party is when I did all this planting out front. I had torn out the old green bushes the weekend BEFORE as it was brush pickup so last weekend I planted many things. Of which I have pictures.









Although they look different now but I'll get a pic of that up later.

I took many pictures of Grandpa on the trip to ND. Here's one:



Here's a pic of some birds in ND:



Plus we have seen Little Cow at GFT which was really good. Better than I remember them from the Swamp.

Upcoming music:
Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams, Oct. 16, GFT
Eddie Shaw at Hines Farm Oct. 25
Stacy Mitchhart at Waldo Pepper's in Findlay, Nov. 7

Radio shows:
Oct. 18 NO
Oct. 25 one hour
Nov. 8, 15 YES
Nov. 22, 29, Dec. 6 NO
Dec. 13, 20, 27 YES

I am ambivalent about the Halloween Party. I guess I will just make it clear that it's really a CARD party on Halloween.

Plus I still need to sell that Tigger costume on eBay.
Will do that now.