My Hummer!

 

 

Bucky, Bobby and Albuquerquerequereeeeeeee

1. A man named “Bucky” on the FBI’s most wanted list just strikes me as funny.
They caught him yesterday. Apparently he has quite a loyal following.

2. I am listening to Bob Dylan’s Modern Times. Can you say “GENIUS”? I dare anyone to listen to "Spirit on the Water" and not a) tap her foot, and b) well up with tears. Maybe it’s my hormones. I looked on His website (I capitalize “his” because Dylan is God) trying to find the printed lyrics to Modern Times and they’re not up yet. I want Congress to pass a law making lyrics in CDs mandatory. I bought the “LIMITED EDITION” version with a bonus CD. I’m special don’t you know.
His voice is so powerful and melodic (shaddup Kath, I don’t need you saying “I like Dylan’s music but his voice sux.”) Keep your mean anti-Dylan comments off my blog. OR ELSE! ; )

3. Not much happening in the Writes household: BP’s in Albuquerquerequereeeeeeee, and LP stayed the night with Eric. They supposedly went to a football game. He should be home at noon and then he gets to mow the lawn and clean his room. We’ll see how that goes. Me? I’m doing errands today and washing clothes.

The moon looked absolutely gorgeous this morning!

I have been cheating on BP.
For the last three evenings around 7pm I sit out on my front porch and wait for Mister Hummingbird to come by. Again, last night, he did not disappoint. There is a butterfly bush right near my front porch and hummers must love them too because this guy flew from long flower to long flower sucking nectar. Insatiable. At one point, it got about three inches away from my face and just hovered. I love looking at hummingbirds.
Although my garden looks pretty tired, it’s really alive with butterflies, moths, hummers and yellow finches. Yesterday evening a huge ass raven—it was as big as a cat!-- was bathing in the bird bath.
Oh, and the one-eared black cat that my neighbor Bill feeds and waters left me a present on my back porch. A dead mouse. I asked LP to get a shovel out of the shed so I could scoop it up. I saw Bill out on his deck so I told him that his cat accidentally left a gift for him on my porch. He laughed and said, “That’s okay….you can have it!”

Kath sent me a wonderful interview with Angela Kinsey who plays Angela on The Office. It's terrific so I thought I'd share. Thanks Kath!
Uptight Angela

suri with the fringed top


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BP's 86-year old uncle is coming to visit and "stay awhile."
Don't ask me what that means. He lives in California
and wants to move to Indiana because it's cheaper to live here.
The man has his four daughters in California who
have offered assistance, both monetary and otherwise,
but he's being stubborn I guess. So he's coming out here
to see how the cold weather affects his asthma.
(It's not cold here yet so I'm thinking he'll stay thru
Thanksgiving at least.)
He'll probably stay most of the time with my mother-in-law.
He wants to buy a house here and that's what he'll spend
his time on--house hunting. It's got to have plenty of room
and a garage. He has more tools than BP--if that's possible.
He has a veritable library of engineering and technical books
(He's a retired engineer.) He said he wants to join a dance club.
Quite the lady's man. My m-i-l thinks the reason he wants
to move out here is to get away from one of his
girlfriends. He's the uncle we visited on our
California trip two years ago.

Nobody Move!!!!
Janelle's about to evict Will's ass!!
I hope Boogie goes ballistic.

Chicks before pricks

Monday: A Day off work

We had a nice time with my sister yesterday. We let LP pick the restaurant and of course he picked PF Chang’s. He loves that place—loves their steamed dumplings and orange peel chicken. I like their flavored iced tea (I think it’s mango.) Anyway I had the shrimp lo mein, and Lexus had some kind of spicy chicken.

Then she took LP shopping. Nowadays his favorite stores are Finish Line (for the sneakers—he got four pairs) and Man Alive for the shirts, jackets and jeans (which he got a boatload.)
I sat in the mall with a cup of Costa Rican coffee from Barney’s while they went into a record store. I saw three teenaged girls, obviously together, walking down the mall and they all had their cell phones glued to their ears. Walking with their friends yet talking to other friends (?) at the same time. Sigh. I don’t get it. This generation will all be deaf before they’re sixty. Mark my words on that.

Anyway I got a cool black Cole Haan purse and my sissy bought me Bob Dylan’s new CD Modern Times which I’m going to listen to today while house cleaning.

Yesterday when we got home I dug up two gigantic overgrown lavender plants that had grown into bushes and planted some Shasta Daisies, coneflowers, an iceberg rose, and Veronica that I’d dug up from various other places around the garden. Afterwards I was sweaty and hotter than a fresh fucked fox in a forest fire. (NotFan can steal that line for her next book.)

Today, if the weather cooperates, I need to dig up this overgrown sedum that flops in the middle and some bronze fennel and get rid of it. I have three potted scabiosa pincushion plants that I need to find homes for before weather gets cold, and I think they’ll go nicely in that spot.

Ok, a lot of butterfly pictures

Yesterday was simply gorgeous here. 70's, blue skies, no humidity. I was outside a lot and at one time there were a few dozen butterflies on my butterfly bush. I love it! All different kinds, monarchs, swallow tails, this black one with blue lines, those small yellowish ones, so I took pictures. The clear blue thingy hanging in the first pipcture is the bottom of my favorite windchime. Today LP and I are off to my sister's for lunch and shopping. Will she give me another cast off purse? Here's hoping!!