Week 16 - Lisa

My sister sent us these flower bulbs that are capable of growing and blooming indoors.  They are amazing, it's like watching asparagus grow.  Every time I look over at the pots they've popped up a bit more.  We do not know what will be blossoming. Suppose to be a surprise.  Guessing tulips, freesias or daffodils.  Won't matter love them all.

I've been practicing my scone making for the Royal Wedding next Friday.  ;>  These are lemon-ginger.  My mom is calling the English cow patties.  There's a name game going round on Facebook - get your English name for the wedding.  Use Lord or Lady.  Add one of your grandmothers first names, hyphen with name of first pet and use the name of the street you grew up on as your last name.  I'm such a sucker;  Lady Emily-Ajax Mandarin.  ;>  I need a life.

I read a couple books this week.  Enjoyed the fun stories about the "Championship Season."  ;>  Yep still riding the World Series euphoria.

So yeah, were you looking to read something funny, snappy, clever?  Well look elsewhere.  Like drop down to Sis' Week 16.  I got nothing for you this week.  The well is dry people.  The demands of scoring a paycheck has sucked the life out of me.  My mom's retired she's got time to be funny.  I mean think about I got the cat, she's got the dog.  Does that not say anything?  I'll leave you with this quote:  "People used to explore the dimensions of reality by taking LSD to make the world look weird.  Now the world is weird and they take Prozac to make it normal." - Bangstrom   I'm thinking I could use a dose of both these days.  ;>

Week 16 - Sis

Received art work done by my 5 1/2 year old great-niece, Autumn, last week, which we have displayed on one of our bare walls, (ah, just to let you know, they are all bare). Autumn is her given name and I understand that lately she wants to be called "Glitter." Ahem, my thinking it's one of those pseudonyms that means now you pay more for the work.

As you see in her early 5 year period she delved in the Fantasy era. Then toward the second quarter phase of that period, her work became more personal and she either showcased her jewel of a family or the family jewels, not sure?    

 

No matter, as she has now advanced to her last half of the 5 year period, she has turned a more cynical eye toward the world and seems to be telling every politician running to keep THEIR jobs, "go fly a kite!"

(Disclaimer) - Not used here, the more adult version of this latter sentence is not appropriate for some taste, nor the opinion of the artist named ). 

A, by appointment only, private viewing of Glitter's work will be scheduled in the future!

Week 15 - Lisa

Lions and Tigers and Hawks and Dogs, oh my!  Okay, so two outta four this week.  Cannot remember which day of the week I was leaving work when I saw an eagle near the entry of our offices.  I stopped my truck and stared with my mouth open.  An eagle at my job?!  He or she was very irritated.  I looked out in front of my truck and there was the most beautiful and huge red tail hawk.  Poor baby was injured.  I realized quickly it was the eagles doing.  He was gone in a half wobble and weak attempt at flying before I could decide what to do to help him or her.  The eagle also took off.  Next day I return to work and we find the red-tail hawk on our vehicles.  I snapped the picture below.  Long story short; very carefully I was able to make friends with this wonderful bird enough to capture her and get her to a bird sanctuary that will care for her till she can be put back into the wild.  Red-tail hawks have a significant role in my tribes history and belief system so I believe we found each other on purpose.  I am normally petrified of birds so this was no small hurdle for me to overcome to be able to help my sister with feathers.

oneeya has been a pleasure to have in our family.  My role in her training and adapting is getting her to enjoy being in my truck and going places.  She is doing quite well.  I see many trips in her future.  In related news sunii, the Warrior Kitty is on a mission to capture oneeya's tail.  She is fascinated with it.  They keep their distance from each other but sunii is very nosy and keeps tabs on oneeya's every move.  They've come nose to nose a few times but otherwise it's been a peaceful coexistance.

Lastly my mom found a new recipe in the Food Network magazine that was DELICIOUS.  Flank steak with tapenade.  We had it with asparagus.  So good!

Week 15 - Sis

Had this picture of the coffee cup and thought I could use it to talk about the week's reflections.

Okay the coffee was strong the reflections slant pretty weak. I mean I could have put up a lot of shots of my new road dog but figured that would get old quick. Then I thought I could say that this business name probably would make you think of a car repair business but makes me think of some of my family's gatherings. Ummmm, no. Then I was going to say I discovered, while out walking, these beautiful little roses growing wild on a fence and thought yellow roses were suppose to be reflective of Texas not Georgia. And then I just decided to contemplate another week and skip this one.

Week 14 - Lisa

TMI alert!  This is going to be gross people.  The week started out all about snot and ended all about our new doggie!   As you can see on the Atlanta Allergy & Pollen site 1500 is considered extreme.  Look at Monday, April 4th? And all the other "red" days.  <sigh>  I had to come home and do the cucumber/tea bag treatment each night to survive the week!  On the positive side of life; my mama got a dog.  oneeya is just the sweetest little girl.  sunii is adjusting about as well as I could have ever imagined.  She is just stalking her every move and plotting to overtake oneeya's tail.  A bit of growling and spitting but overall the curiosity of this new creature overcomes any anxiety or well, in her case anger.  She was a pretty big puff ball the first 15 or so minutes as you can see below but now they are capable of standing within a foot of each other.

Week 14 - Sis

Indulge me. Found a sweet mutt at the Atlanta Pet Rescue on Saturday and adopted her. She is a Corgi mix. We named her "oneeya", pronounced - Oh-nay-ya- in our mutsun tribal language and means female friend. Yep, she's my new girl friend! I know MasterCard has that commercial about charging items, for different events, making the moment priceless and that's great for a once stray dog but it may make the card holder penniless! One day items purchased at PetSmart; a bath, phew she needed it, a collapsible water bowl to carry in the truck for her when we're out riding around, food bowl, water pitcher that releases the water as needed, a soft stuffed toy, a can of treats, and new id tag. Still have the registration micro chip charge to go. My daughter is willing to pay the apartment pet deposit. That is all important but the biggest worry was how well would she adjust to our environment. Think we can relax, might say she's a Giant in that field!

Message from Dos Dames #8 ~

We had a WILD storm last night.  Apartment building was shaking.  Materials were hitting the outside wall of my bedroom keeping me up all night.  Lightening was illuminating the room.  The winds were howling.  Electricity flicking off and on.  Once again, our ATL weather girl Megan McGlover nails the scene!!  LOL

Check out her update from last night!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Du1NsSTgGI

Week 13 - Sis

Hills and valleys with seasons changes can at times make us start feeling melancholy. Definition of melancholy.....sadness and mental depression. Some of us remember the old joke about melancholy, "My girl is melancholy; she has the body of a melon and the face of a collie." Cringe, I know! Attention please, the word does not make me think of depression. It reminds me of my father and his beautiful baritone singing voice. On the other hand that could be a really LOUD and scary baritone voice if he was mad at you. Okay, okay, back to melancholy. The word reminds me of my dad when at family parties or Sunday drives he would sing the old song, "Melancholy Baby". Two others he sang and favorites of mine were, "Mexicali Rose" and "Harbor Lights". Since my mother also had a good singing voice it would double the pleasure hearing them sing together. You might say today, he was my Portuguese/Mexican/ Mutsun indian, AMERICAN IDOL!

 

Week 13 - Lisa

I was so excited to find hard salami in the grocery store this week.  I resisted testing it for two days.  Finally cut into it and by looks was down right giddy.  Only to taste it and realize, nope it's not even close to my beloved Gallo Dry Salami from home.  Wah!

Baseball season started!  It's tough being a fan when you are living half way across the country.  Luckily, with new technology we can see the games via cable and internet.  So we just move the furniture around and watched Saturday nights game against the Dodgers on the laptop.  Nothing gets between us and our boys, the Gigantes!

Um, is she saluting me?

That looks says about a million things, most of them not publishable!

Week 12 - Lisa

It was a stormy week for a lot of reasons but mainly the weather.  Yikes, what happen to the beautiful sunshine the week before?  March had no lamb this year.  In with the lion, out with the lion.  I was actually grateful for the rain cause the pollen was a killer this past week.  By the time Saturday rolled around my March Madness bracket had exploded so I was left to root on my mom and sister.  Oh Elizabeth, how we will miss you!  Growing up I wanted to be Natalie Wood.  Her death was such a shocker.  I loved Elizabeth Taylor but I knew even as a 10 year old girl she was more "broad" than I was ever capable of being.  ;>  Giant, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf were my favorite movies of hers.  Woke Sunday morning to read about Geraldine Ferraro.  Growing up in the 60's and 70's I was right smack in the middle of the women's movement so when Geraldine ran for VP, I was so proud and excited.  She was truly a trailblazer.  A fiesty, smart lady.

Here's some pictures I took this week with an iPhone app I downloaded called Hipstamatic.  Kind of cool.

Week 12 - Sis

Going from a beautiful week of sunny weather to one that is the opposite is not working for me.. Most of us know life can be a carnival, rocky at times or even a puzzle and think my week has covered all three parts. March Madness can represent more than a basketball tournament, although this year's event truly was madness with some surprising upsets. My own upset came when Ohio State lost! The most exciting part of the week was Saturday night's storm which sounded like a direct hit over our apartment. The news of Elizabeth Taylor and Geraldine Ferraro's deaths was a loss of strong, stand out representatives in the arts, politics and human rights. Hoping the new week will lift us all up, brighten our days and give me a couple of payoffs from the pools I'm playing in.

 

Week 11 - Lisa

Sad week.  Our cousin, Carol, or as she is known in our family, Sis, passed away.  So not a lot to report as my attention was mainly focused on her, her family and our entire family.  Other than that we are consumed by March Madness.  I gleefully rode through all of Thursday in first place but my underdog picks late in the night sent me spiraling to the bottom of the pack.  By Sunday night I had a severe case of  "potty mouth." We experienced the Super Moon on Saturday.  As my mom wrote it was kind of disappointing.  I did try the different color modes on my camera for some interesting results.  The last picture below is my favorite.