A Pyramid! or The Famous Horned Toad! or Multi-Tasking!

Today has been great, but it was also a little bit strange. And late this morning, Tony and I actually had a few hours of unexpected fun, because we ate lunch with our good friends Eileen & Wayne. While our friends/awesome mechanics, at Balser's Northside Automotive, next door to Acapulco, gave Silver, Tony's truck, its yearly inspection.

This morning while Tony was working next door, at Escondida Resort & Spa, I was home washing some dishes while listening and chanting to my most favorite Deva Premal & Miten beautiful chant—Om Namo Bhagavate/Oneness. 

Anyway, something distracted me, so I turned around from the kitchen sink and saw this perfect pyramid glowing from across the room, on the wall. So I immediately quit chanting and I just stared at it, while asking myself, "How come this kind of weird stuff always happens to me when Tony is never around?" Henry, Beau, Little Debbie & Big Al(ice) said nothing, as they too stared at the shining pyramid.

So I grabbed my camera and took aim at this about one-foot-tall pyramid that seemed to be perfectly centered at the top of my beautiful George Boutwell 2020 calendar, that Kris & The Mineral Man had given to us last Christmas. Here is that picture. And in this picture the clock, above the calendar, shows 9:38 or 9:39.

Then I took this picture of the calendar, close up and at a different angle, so I could prove to Tony that this actually happened while he was gone. And please note the sun does not directly shine through this window, above the kitchen sink and I made sure that nothing was reflecting off of the glass of the kitchen window.

Anyway, when I got up close to the calendar I took this side angled picture and as you can see—no pyramid. 

And a minute later, just as the chant had ended—the pyramid vanished completely into thin air, so to speak and it was no longer visible on the calendar. And the time on the kitchen clock shows that it is either 9:40 or 9:41.

So all I know is this morning there was a beautiful, glowing pyramid on the George Boutwell calendar and then it simply went away. And that is my weird pyramid story.

Next Topic

During our fun lunch with Eileen & Wayne we got to talking about growing up with Horned Toads and how much we had loved them. So I said, "Well, I still feel sorry for Ol' Rip. I can't believe they put him inside a jar and sealed him inside that new courthouse cornerstone...."

And because of the look on Eileen's face after I had said this I suggested that she Google this famous Horned Toad that had some how survived 31 years in hibernation, inside a glass jar.

Well, Eileen Googled it and then she read the story to us of Ol' Rip's famous life. Here is a picture of Ol' Rip and please click here for the famous story about his life and times.

And as I finish writing this tonight I want to share another one of Mari's funny quotes that she found on the Internet.

Y'all have a great evening and keep on laughing!

100 Pounds!

Today has been a quiet day and I have nothing exciting to tell you, except that Tony had a strange dream about me.

Late this afternoon Tony took a short nap and when he came into the kitchen he told me that he had the weirdest dream about me and it didn't make any sense. So I asked him to tell me about it.

"For some reason four nice guys, from Kentucky, came to see you, because you had baked them 100 pounds of cookies. They had come to pick them up, so they could take the cookies back to Kentucky. And that's it." 

"What kind of cookies?" I asked, as I tried to image baking 100 pounds of cookies—using my small, counter top, convection oven. 

"I don't remember," he said, then he went back to his man-cave to watch TV.

And that is about it for today, because I am going to binge-watch more episodes of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, on Pluto TV. 

FYI: Pluto is free to watch and they have great classic tv shows, etc.

Y'all have a great evening and keep on laughing!

They Aren't Coming Back!

Today has been great, considering everything that is going wrong on Earth. The reason my day has been so great is because our dear friends Wolfgang & Angel, next door, gave me the most perfect present ever. And I am still laughing about it, because I think it is so true or at least it helps explains things a little better.

I don't know if to frame it and hang it in The Last Resort (my writing cabin) or to display it proudly, in the kitchen and vow to never use it, because I love it so much. 

As I am writing this I just had one of those lightbulb moments and I have solved my dilemma as what to do with their perfect present.

I am going to have a sign made of the quote and also frame the gift. That way I can display them inside The Last Resort and inside The Cabin, so every time that I see it—I will laugh out loud. And now I think I will have two signs made, so I can hang one outside, too.

So as I finish writing this I want to thank Angel & Wolfgang for thinking of me when they were shopping in Fred-Town and for buying this perfect gift for me. "Thank you, Wolfgang & Angel. I love y'all!" 

Here is a picture of my perfect gift that I totally love. And if it doesn't make you laugh too—you just might be one of those people mentioned in the quote.

Y'all have a great day and keep on laughing!

 Tony and I are doing fine thank goodness and I hope all of y'all are, too. We are still working non-stop, sleeping, eating, etc. and I hope all of y'all are, too.

I still don't have much to write about, because it is the same as it was yesterday, last week, last month, etc. So all I have to share is this cute cartoon that Mari sent to me and I am still laughing.

 My good friend Mari sent me this and I am still laughing! "Thank you, Mari! Where can I buy it?"

I could give this to my friends and family as early Christmas gifts. It beats making them pot holders—thumbs down! 

Number 3! or Rinse & Repeat!

 The only thing exciting that's happened to me since I last blogged is I made my third pot holder, about an hour ago. And that is about it. 

Because it is so hot here and with everything going on it seems that all Tony and I do now is work, sleep, eat, watch tv and get groceries once a week. Then we rinse and repeat. So Life Is Okay.

Y'all have a great Sunday and keep on laughing!

Home On The Range!

This morning when I checked my e-mail, sweet Jean sent me this e-mail with a tutorial on how to make loom potholders. Jean wrote:

"Saw your blog tonight and commented but not sure it went through and then remembered this tutorial from a knitting person that I like to watch. Keep up the good work! Miss seeing y'all. Hugs, Jean"

So I watched the video and I really enjoyed watching it. Plus the instructor's tips were so helpful. So I wrote Jean back and told her that I loved watching the video and to also let her know that her comment did not make it to my blog.

This afternoon after Tony left to go to Medina, I was so inspired by that loom potholder tutorial I decided to make another potholder—like the one she used in the tutorial. And I finished making the potholder five minutes before Tony came back home. His words when he saw it, "Nance, it looks great! I love it!" 

Then I put away my supplies and took a short, sleepless nap with our four-leggers. And Henry Standing Bear snored for the very first time.

After my wannabe nap, I decided to go ahead and bake Tony a birthday cake. Because this week I will not have the time or energy to bake one for him one or to shop for a birthday present before August 6th, because of our heavy work schedules this week. (Plus I do admit that I was craving something really sweet to eat.) 

But I am so glad that I did take that noisy nap, because I came up with a name for my potholder Christmas project—Cousin Nancy's Home On The Range Potholders!

Anyway, while my/his birthday cake baked, I checked my e-mail and then I checked my blog to see if Jean's comment might have come through. And it did and so did Anon's! (And you can read both of them at the bottom of last night's post if you want to.)

I love my new pretty potholder so much that I've decided to go ahead and give Cindy the first potholder that I successfully made. The one that didn't unravel itself, before I could finish tying off the loops. 

And to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak, even though that is a stupid expression, I already know what Tony is going to get from me for his birthday present—Cousin Nancy's Home On The Range Potholder #2! Because when he saw it he did say, "I love it!"

Y'all have a great evening and keep on laughing!