Life May Be Trying To Tell Me Something

Our furry babies have been sick & often the aftermath is left to be dealt with in the house. To put it bluntly, life has been a bit crappy lately. Hm, I better try to atone for whatever the heck I did, it's been puppy-pukey too.

I have a photo of my 6 yr old son with about 1/3 of his foot in his mouth!!! He sucks on his toes from time to time, which I find very odd, however, his sister did it also as a child. I guess sticking our foot in our mouth runs in the family. I am apparently doing it more often than not lately even when usually completely unaware of the fact. Good thing I'm double jointed everywhere huh? Getting that foot back out can be treacherous work! Hoof in mouth disease? hm, more to ponder & worry about.

My husband is spending approximately $400.00 on a salmon fishing trip he goes on annually with his father & brothers. I guess that frozen fish filet's just don't cut it for his appetite. Just joking, honestly I'm so glad he has a father & brothers to do this sort of male-bonding stuff with. Plus it clears the air here at home of a little over-abundance of testosterone at least for a few days. Ah, breathe deep & enjoy the lack of machismo! ha ha. Although I did utter just yesterday to my niece & her fiance, "What estrogen-caked-crap are you watching on TV anyway? My God!" I'm not exactly a "chick-flick" type of gal. My idea of a chick flick is a good action movie with some hunky lead guy actors! The niece & her fiance ended up retreating to their room with hard rock n roll blasting, guess I managed to get the foot up in the mouth again huh? Whoops, my bad.

I now have a beautiful front porch & steps thanks to the hard work of my husband & my son helping cement in some support posts. We live near a very large lake in an area of the Pacific North West which has been noted for nesting bald eagles and many varieties of water fowl and migratory birds as well. This is due to the lake having algae. The food chain also, therefore consists of bugs! There is a specific bug in our area called a "midge" which is like a gnat sort of. A teeny-tiny green thing attracted to light that only lives about 24 hours then dies. This brings me back to the front porch. My light-free porch (porch lights not yet installed) now is a burial ground for midge-carcases! They cake the walls & windows of the house as well. It must be because we painted in a light color of yellow with white trim. I'm getting set to repaint the house black just because of the stinkin' bugs! Gr. I guess if I'm going to enjoy the birds & a doe in my back yard I must be willing to sweep away dead bug bodies off my front steps. Darn it anyway.

I had to answer the bird the other day. She (the African Gray) kept ringing like a phone. I finally said, "Hello Loka, no body's home!" She also kept calling my 7 yr old son's name repeatedly & I had to tell her to leave him alone. It is pretty funny when she gets going which entices the Senegal to start whistling & singing as well. My tiny little Senegal, Sunny puffs himself up & tries to look big 'n' bad if anyone but me gets near him. He yelled at my husband for leaning too close to me on the couch the other night too, that was pretty funny. Our 2nd tiniest pet (fish take first place) kind of rules the roost. I recently discovered he enjoys eating rice as well as all the fruit & nuts & seeds he gets. He flew toward my niece the other day when we were working on a jigsaw puzzle together & landed on her. I had to "save her from possible unwanted nipple piercing" & put him away. Plus, he wasn't very helpful in putting the puzzle together, dismantling a corner of it. My niece now threatens to take him to Kentucky Fried Chicken. A good friend & cook in another country was giving me a recipe for "plov" and mistakenly typed a "p" instead of "c" for "carrot" & I about flipped out. He had to reassure me there was no parrot in the recipe and apologized for giving me a heart attack! I emailed him back a couple days later that I had successfully made "parrot-free plov" & that everyone enjoyed it!

I will leave you today wishing you, Dear Readers, foot-free mouths, happy hearts & non-bird-pierced-nipples. Be well & be blessed. Thank you for reading.