yard work


Doesn't everyone use a cell phone to pull weeds?

the lone cypress

I've sent this file to be printed into a 5x7 with every intention of hanging it. The original color version is so pretty but the bw matches better. The plan is a beige mat with a black frame. It makes me miss California.

lunch in galveston

Eric and I took Dodo to meet up with Lauren and Chris for lunch in Galveston. We tried the Mosquito Cafe and it was pretty good. Afterwards we strolled down the strand to grab some candy.







bourbon praline sauce


This recipe turned out a lot better than Paula Deen's gooey mess I had going on.

i was never good at math

I need some help with this:
Melanie took her son and three of his friends to the rec. center to swim (two of which are spending the night). Two of the boys got kicked out so everyone needed to be picked up (4.5 hours early). Melanie is at home and in addition to the four boys, she is listening to music from the kitchen computer, a guitar being played at a decent level on the amp and Guitar Hero 2. If a=a glass of ice and b=a can of Classic Coke, find x to the following equation:
a+b+x=ahh, much better
update: To make it worse, two boys are singing Journey (out of the blue because it's not like it's playing in my house). Eric tells them, "Dude, Def Leppard sucks." Now the two break into a soulful sing-along..."pour some sugar on me..." (yeah, I hope you know the rest because I'm stopping there!)

one more of asta

You'd think I told Asta to "work it".

new look


Don't let the picture fool you. It's not the glasses causing that sour look, it's the camera.

i'm home

I saw this while I was gone. It's a gate in Waxahachie. I'd personally want something other than an old truck on my gate but I really love what they've done with the metal and the details to it. (It's next to a really neat antique shop that had chains made of bottle caps.)

asta



He HATED the camera. I was determined to get some pics of Asta and I did get a few cute ones but he was terrified of the camera. I think it made him nervous. He acted weird whenever I held it to my face and as soon as he heard the clicks, he jumped and ran. Such a funny dog.





lauren


We should have known Rainbow Brite was a bad influence.

SRV


So we finally made it to Stevie Ray Vaughan's grave (somewhere Eric's been wanting to go for a while now). It was pretty neat (but then I've always liked cemeteries). Most people leave guitar picks or purple flowers at the gravesite. Eric doesn't normally use a pick but we did have strings in the car so he left a guitar string.
I always assumed this cemetery was going to be hard to find and in some unfamiliar and hard-to-get-to area of Dallas. Wrong! It's right off the highway and we've driven by it numerous times!

mpd sucks



So, I'm driving through the major metropolis of Maypearl in what I believe is a 45mph zone. Wrong. Barney Fife pulls me over to let me know it's a 30mph zone. (I was actually about 10 feet from the 45 mph sign.) I live 5 hours away, totally honest with him and haven't had a ticket in about 10 years but guess what...the scumbag changed that. That's right, I've fallen victim to mpd. I wanted to call the jerk all sorts of names, but his business card reading that he is the Sargeant of Maypearl PD tops any cut-down I could come up with. Wouldn't you agree?

So, today I need to take Grandma to have something notarized. I am considering taking her to another town just to avoid giving this place any extra money...even if it is only $4.00