Damn

Ok.  So Memorial Day weekend is blown.  I was kind of thinking of blown in a different way.  oh well.
 This just comes to mind. 


"....close your eyes and try to sleep now, close your eyes and try to dream.
Clear your mind and do your best to try to make the palette clean.
We can't begin to know it, how much we really care.
I hear your voice inside me, I see your face everywhere...."

Holy clam bake, batman!

Oh.my.god.  My favorite person took me to Gladstones for Mother's Day.  We had so much fun and laughed our asses off.  It was really nice.  Here is a pick of what they brought to the table.  Amazing, really.  Must have been 7 pounds of seafood.  

And we sat sea side at sundown.  Perfect moment.

Now I am trying to decide whether to use the leftovers to make a chowder or a bisque.  I have never tried a bisque so I think that is what I am going to do.  I had some the next day with pasta but there was so much leftover that I had to freeze some of it.  Yummy.  


We spent the earlier part of the day watching movies and hanging out doing nothing.  so.much.fun.  

May 13

Happy Mother's Day!!  I am getting ready to meet my kid and spend the day!!!  YAY!!

Here is a pic from 2008.  And I am not drunk in this picture, in fact, I was drinking water all weekend and not putting any poison or unhealthy food into my body.  The previous fall had been a tough one.

Let's see.  Yesterday I took Hoss to rattlesnake avoidance training.  It was interesting.  The kid that was leading him around weighed in at about 100 pounds.  The trainer follows as he leads the dog through the course.  

They strap a shock collar on them and then introduce them to three kinds of rattlers.  One with a rattle, one without a rattle and the third one I don't know because he is a quick learner.  

Be vewwy vewwy qwiet, we ah hunting wabbits......

They give him a few minutes to calm down and go again.  This time they walk him through a path with no snakes.  They have him on one end, me on the other and as he starts to come to me on that same path, they throw a snake between us.  He hightailed it out and the kid couldn't hold on to him.  He ran all the way to the car and waited there for me.  

So, lesson learned.  That makes me feel better about walking the trails.  I don't generally approve of shock collars, but it simulates a snake bite and is better than learning from a real one.  So now I know if we encounter a snake on the trail he will beat me home cuz I won't be able to hang on to him either.

He is so high energy.  People can't believe he is six years old, they think he is a puppy.  

Summer encroaches

The snakes are out in full force already.  It got up to ninety degrees yesterday.  Hoss managed to rile up a big black rattler that was not even two feet off the path.  He jumped over it and got the warning rattle.  Then he started to go back to investigate and got the 'get the fuck outta here I am pissed" rattle.  It really scared me, I screamed at him to back off.  For some strange reason he listened.  He never listens to me but he did.  I guess the urgency in my voice.  I couldn't get a good look but I saw something white and cotton-like.  I wondered if it was a nest.  Then I went back later and found the remains of a rabbit.  I am afraid of rattlesnakes.  

Wow.  Time flies.  The memory files.  I am in a new place.  But it is really an old place.  Here are some pics from our hike this evening.  

looking down on the domicile

mostly purples this week.  Yellows were last week

Emerald green like none I have seen apart from dreams that escape me.

Moon plants.  Almost look like fiddle head ferns but this is the desert, there can't be ferns????

I don't know what this bush is, but it is very fragrant

hunting wabbits.

We used to call this Indian Paintbrush in Colorado.

My Viranda.  Morning coffee.

purple pretties.

It is almost sundown.

Allergens, but so beautiful in the sun and wind.

Pine trees at my back porch

House blessing, anyone?

I love it here.