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Happy Thanksgiving!

November 26, 2009 Leave a comment

In the year 1621, the Pilgrims held their first Thanksgiving feast. They invited the great Indian chief Massasoit, who brought ninety of his brave Indians and a great abundance of food. Governor William Bradford and Captain Miles Standish were honored guests. Elder William Brewster, who was a minister, said a prayer that went something like this: ‘We thank God for our homes and our food and our safety in a new land. We thank God for the opportunity to create a new world for freedom and justice.” Linus van Pelt

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Happy Absurdity Day…?

November 20, 2009 2 comments

How delightfully appropriate, lol.   Yes, November 20th is Absurdity Day…a day that no one in all of cyberspace can seem to find the origin of.  How absurd!

In honor of such a day as this, and given it’s close proximity to Thanksgiving Day, it seems only fitting to introduce you to the awe-inspiring and absurd Turkey Hat:

You will quite simply be the hostess with the mostest!! The envy of all your family and friends, for NOTHING says regal quite the way a knit-Turkey hat does!

ETA: The more I look at this, the more I know deep down in my soul, I MUST have one! ;D

Christmas decorating on a budget…

November 3, 2009 1 comment

Heh.

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Happy Constitution Day!

September 17, 2009 2 comments

Remember that house in Sunriver I sometimes mention?

August 19, 2009 Leave a comment

(Well, maybe not here on my blog…but in that other reality – the actual one, REAL reality)  Here it is…

(PSSST!  Sekrit Mesedge to my Video Girlies:  You know…I can probably swing a discount for us if we ever wanted to do a movie marathon weekend out there…you’ll notice there are exactly 8 “butt shaker” theater seats, coincidence?  I think not!)

Ahhh…Sunriver.  So peaceful, so scenic…all that’s missing is a lone piper walking in the misty distance (wait a minute, wrong continent – apologies)…

Clearly it is time for another visit.

All that glitters…

July 4, 2009 Leave a comment

It’s the 4th again…and while I may be caustically pessimistic about how independently “free” this nation actually is given the purposeful growth of government and the control it is exerting all the way down to the Cap & Trade bill specifically telling me how long I can shower, I still adore fireworks and picnics and getting together with family and friends to commemorate how our nation won it’s freedom in the first place.  Never mind that our Constitutional freedoms continue to fall under attack…LET’S GO BLOW STUFF UP AND PARTY!

This year my mom and dad have come down for a visit and we are having a great time!  Mr. Blu has our pyromaniac stash all ready to go, and the block party is about to get started.  This should be a great night.  :D

Actually, the way we “do” the 4th now is a lot like how my family did it when I was growing up.  Everyone would get together at gram and gramps house by the lake and we’d have the traditional fried chicken, potato salad, and cherry pie all spread out on gram’s red and white checked table cloth in the yard.  Lots of sparkler’s being lit off which led to the obligatory writing of one’s name in the air trick.  Everyone was swimming or sunning on the dock and everyone would be having a great time just being together (we had a rather large family now that I think about it).

As the sun would set, we’d all hop onto our private barge and head out to the middle of the lake with the rest of the community to watch the spectacular show over the water.  There is nothing like watching those showers of gold, silver, red, blue, and green as they reflect brilliantly off the rippling surface of the dark water  (and since I don’t have any decent pictures to show you, I will be relying on Flickr – all are from the lake I grew up on though).

Isn’t that gorgeous?  Those sparks shower almost down to the water…sometimes they DO touch the water, so close to us we could hear the “hiss” as it’s light was extinguished.

Occasionally, one would shoot off and not go as high as it was supposed to…then we’d wind up with something like this:

That would make for a whole lotta hissin’! :D

And THEN, there was the one time that one went up…*thump*…we watched a light trail of sparks climb, climb, climb…then it slowed down…then it turned and started to fall, straight down to the launch site…the pyrotechnicians started bailing off all sides of the barge and just as the last one leaped, it hit and exploded into the most amazing show any of us had ever seen or ever will see again!

This happened very early into the show so there were about 30 minutes worth of morters all set to go.  Well it went all right! *laugh* A full show, ALL at once, on the surface of the lake, in the time span of about 2 minutes.  It was SPECTACULAR!!!  It looked something like this (The Singapore incident from 2008):

With a dash of this:

It was amazing!!!  And no one was seriously hurt, although I think I remember one of the techs did get some minor burns.

Yep…the next year, they made all the boats stay about a few thousand feet away from the barge! LOL!  Even with such a precaution in place, the last time I was there (2003ish), one of the canisters tipped over during the show and actually shot a mortar at the beach where the spectators were!

Pretty scary…but beautiful still.  Be careful everyone!  And have a great time tonight!!!  HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!! (enjoy it while you can!)

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Remembering those who serve.

May 25, 2009 Leave a comment

Thank you.  Your sacrifice will not be forgotten.

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Happy “Blow Yer Top” Day!

May 18, 2009 Leave a comment

Cinco de Mayo!

May 5, 2009 Leave a comment

Para una margarita sabor particularmente bueno en el Cinco de Mayo. Esta es una verdad conocida.

¿Y qué mejor manera de celebrarlo que con una 80′s retró vídeo?

(Palabra de advertencia … si no son propensos a las incautaciones de ahora, usted podría ser después de ver este video. Especialmente en 2:33 y :39 – wow! Es como recibir bofetadas en la cara! Repetidamente! LOL!)

De todos modos … espero que haya un maravilloso del Cinco de Mayo!

P.S.  Today is also National Hoagie Day, and isn’t it just crazy how good a hoagie goes with a lime margarita. :D

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

March 17, 2009 Leave a comment

Pass the Whiskey…

We need all the luck we can get.

You might be Irish if…15 or more of these is true of you:

1)You will never play professional basketball.

2) You swear very well.

3) At least one of your cousins is a fireman, cop, bar owner, funeral home owner or holds political office. And you have at least one aunt who is a nun or uncle who’s a priest.

4) You think you sing very well.

5) You have no idea how to make a long story short!

6) There isn’t a big difference between you losing your temper or killing someone…

7) Much of your childhood meals were boiled. Instant potatoes were a mortal sin.

8) You have never hit your head on a ceiling.

9) You spent a good portion of your childhood kneeling in prayer.

10) You’re strangely poetic after a few beers.

11) You are, therefore, poetic a lot.

12) You will be punched for no good reason…a lot. (mostly for men…though, not entirely)

13) Some punches directed at you are from legacies of past generations.

14) Many of your sisters and/or cousins are named Colleen, Shannon or Laurie … and there is at least one member of your family with the full name of Colleen Shannon Laurie.

15) Someone in your family is very generous. It is more than likely you.

16) You may not know the words, but that doesn’t stop you from singing.

17) You can’t wait for the other guy to stop talking before you start talking.

18) You’re not nearly as funny as you think you are … but what you lack in talent, you make up for in frequency.

19) There wasn’t a huge difference between your last wake and your last keg party.

20) You are, or know someone, named Murphy. (heh)

21) If you don’t know Murphy then you know Mac. If you don’t know Murphy or Mac then you know Sully . If you don’t know Sully…you’ll definetly know McMurphy.

22) You are genetically incapable of keeping a secret.

23) You have Irish Alzheimer’s… you forget every thing but the grudges!

24) ‘Irish Stew’ is a euphemism for ‘boiled leftovers.’

25) All of your losses are alcohol-related (loss of driver’s license, loss of money, loss of job, loss of significant other, loss of teeth from a punch…) but it never stops you from drinking.

26) Your skin’s ability to tan…. not so much.   (Freckle, yes…tan…definently challenged)

27) You met your husband/wife/significant other/accountant/lawyer/landscaper/etc. in a bar/pub.

28) Childhood remedies for the common cold often included some form of whiskey.  (Hey SHELL!!!  Remember them hot toddies!!! *grin*)

29) There’s no leaving a family party without saying goodbye for at least 45 minutes.

30) At this very moment, you have at least two relatives who are not speaking to each other (not fighting, mind you), just not speaking to each other.

31) The only reason you behave yourself is “what will people say/think” if you don’t.

Let’s see…my personal tally? 26. You go ahead and figure out which ones don’t apply, heh.

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