Day 278 - Lisa

Some of my favorite "after the debate" pictures and cartoons.  The whole Big Bird PBS statement and aftermath by cartoonist and comedians has me rolling.

Day 277 - Sis

Rough day or failed water system for one.

Day 277 - Lisa

First holiday in four years that we get to dig into our totes and bring out the decorations.  Autumn and Thanksgiving favorite time of year!

Day 276 - Sis

Well I know one living creature who's enjoying the new Fall season!  Have to beg her to come in.

Day 276 - Lisa

oneeya loves to pick all the stuffing out of her toys.  Her Panda aka Pedro Sandoval has lasted her a long time but Monday night she finally completely emptied him of his innards!  As you can see it was exhausting for her and quite the mess for us. 

Day 275 - Sis

Things last night's heavy rainfall brought for us today: 1- Easy clean-up or a strong wind.  2- In the basement, a lizard, leave it alone or cat has a new toy?  3- Also in basement, water and soggy boxes, sigh.  What's so great about living in the South?

Day 275 - Lisa

My mom texted me at work about the water in the basement and told me we now have lizards in our office area due to the storm.  The dog and cat were intent on finding one of them.  They waited so long that oneeya finally had to lay down and sunii moved to a warmer location.  Notice oneeya wasn't giving up though, she knew that lizard was in the box.  LOL

Day 274 - Lisa

I was going to call her my assistant but she doesn't really do anything but lay around and watch with evil looking eyes so I called her my supervisor.  Bwahahaha!  Calm down, calm down just a little work type humor.

Day 274 - Sis

Thank you Lisa for spending three quarters of the early football games yesterday putting my headboard together.  Now football is a tough game with injuries and lots of cussing, from players and fans.  All I can say about Lisa during those three quarters is she was upstairs doing a lot of swearing, pounding and hitting walls.  Meanwhile I was downstairs praying and making the enchiladas, potato salad and ham she wanted for dinner.  The prayers were a plea that when it was all over she and the headboard would be in one piece!

Day 273 - Sis

This is what happens when you don't do a good job of resealing the package the tortillas come in. Since it was only the outer edge on one side that was dried out I did salvage them and it also mean you can fit the enchiladas in a smaller pan. Does that make cheese enchiladas count as a diet food?

Day 273 - Lisa

So the slow process of making the yard ours has some new visuals....

Where's Alice?  My mom gets all the credit for the psychedelic tree stumps!  My tennis shoe has a new home now.  And my mom's pots and pans are now surrounded by growing ground cover.

Day 272 - Sis

Last night we heard a sound we thought was the fridge's ice maker, but on opening the cabinet door I quickly realized, when broken brackets came flying out, and I stopped four Pyrex baking dishes from falling off the top shelf, that there was a problem.  So apparently there's a weight limit and we exceeded it, phfttt, not the first time!

Day 272 - Lisa

I had these in my bed-room but am now moving them up to the family-room.  

I did not realize what I had done.

When I had stacked them on my rack.

Until I laughed at the coupling that would to most stun.  

Oh the smack that would be talked about the stack on my rack.

Yes, an odd coupling some would say?  

However, I think my subconscious realized these two masters of rhyme belonged together any day. :>

Day 271 - Sis

Finally a few books on the book shelves that store more records, CDs and DVDs on them.  We only kept a few of our very favorite books and donated many.  Of course there isn't room here for my 50 something Reader's Digest Condensed books!  Since we both own a Nook, the way we buy and read new book selections is quite different, but holding a book and smelling it is still a tactile sense I enjoy. Sorry to say we have minimal children's section since the children population is also minimal here.

Day 271 - Lisa

I'm becoming obsessed with Hipstamatic & Instagram.  I love the filters!  And seeing peoples pictures from all over world.  Just random pics of every day life.

Day 270 - Sis

I know I'm not the only one who wonders what to do with old contracts, cancelled credit cards statements, checks and taxes.  Today I went to Publications.USA.gov  and asked the question.  Are you kidding?  The IRS usually audits someone in the last three years of their taxes filed but could come looking for them up to six years. This led me to think eight years should be prudent, not stopping to think how many years of paper I must destroy.  So this bag full of what's considered worthless, is what I have so far, with many hours of plugging through plenty more.  It's amazing the really foolish ways some of us spend money and man if you think the tax rate is bad now, a few decades ago it was ridiculous! And yet many of these receipts, loans, charges, donations, house and cars bought, could provide a whole lifetime of stories.  Tsk, tsk.

Day 270 - Lisa

Anybody else getting worried? I think I might install a webcam for when I'm at work.

Day 269 - Lisa

Noooooooo!  Wah!  Not another piece of furniture I have to put together.  My mom needed a headboard so she ordered this one.  Alrighty, I'll give it a go.  Good thing I do not have a cuss-a-meter on me.

Day 269 - Sis

This is the high school yearbook from my Freshman year.  It was my first and last yearbook and my first and last year at Arroyo High in San Lorenzo, California. Since we lived in Hayward, 8 miles away, and only had one high school at the time we had to ride the school bus everyday to Arroyo.  Knowing we would  would start our Sophomore year at the newly built Tennyson High, which was the second high school in our town of Hayward, for a lot of us loyalty wasn't big for Arroyo.  I have no explanation why this yearbook is the only one I ever purchased, ( besides lack of funds ), since I spent the remainder of my limited education in the city of Hayward at Tennyson and the Hayward High. My name in the Arroyo yearbook student directory, notice there's no page number?  Because  I wasn't even there for picture day!  It must have been an omen for my future of many missed school days.

Day 268 - Sis

It was a bath for oneeya today, look how proud she is.  Meanwhile as oneeya put up with the trials of the bath, sunii made herself comfortable on our bed.  If it seems the pets are in more blogs lately, it's because they entertain me almost as much as listening to NFL players, coaches, fans coming unglued from all the sub refs in the games this season.  Boy some of those pro refs calls that ruined their mood for a week  last year, would be welcomed now! LOL

Day 268 - Lisa

While unpacking I ran across some old random pics I must have used for something at some point.  This one cracks me up.  It's my cousin Ruben and I at Christmas.  I had a Dorothy Hamil before Dorothy!  I can't believe it was that straight!  And Ruben with that bowtie!  LOL 

Day 267 - Sis

Okay there they are all stamped, ready to go, until I realized I can't find the address for the very important one.  Of course I have it somewhere, I just don't know if it's some or where.

Day 267 - Lisa

Wow, playoffs again!  Go Giants.  Not sure how far they'll get but anytime your team is still playing in October it's a good thing!!!  Course this means I'll go another month hopefully serious sleep deprived. ;>

Day 266 - Sis

Sore knees, many trips up and down the basement steps this weekend drove me to set up this little fridge.  Next I need to buy a chamber pot!  If you're too young to know what a chamber pot is, cross your legs!

Day 266 - Lisa

We got a lot done this weekend.  Two nice little gems was cutting my first bouquet of knock out roses from our yard and finding a set of drawings of Donald Duck we did on one of the many trips to Disneyland with my Mom and Godkids.  Lula was ten and Jacob was six.  LOL!  Starting to get to do more pleasure things around the house now.  My week vacation at home paid off.  Course I type that and then remembered I need to patch some holes in my mom's bathroom, rehang the towel rack, put up shelves in the 2nd guest room, add more shelves in the Disney room, repaint the stand in the family room, add bookcases/shelves to the basement spare room, figure out when we are going to go look at blinds for the WHOLE house and still hunting for my Shag prints. Wah!!!!!!