2nd Annual Pumpkin Carving Party

Well, the 2nd Annual Pumpkin Carving Party has come and gone. It was a huge success. There was an enormous turnout - lots of old friends and their offspring! The food was delicious (I made broccoli raisin salad). This is my Frankenstein pumpkin above. And, not to brag or anything, I really think it was the best ones there. Oh, some of the others were good, but my pumpkin was so BIG, and lots of imagination went into the lightening bolts, and so on and so on. Yes, I did work hard this weekend!

(OK - enough of that - I bet Brittney is having a melt down. Truth be known, I did work hard this weekend, but not carving pumpkins....I was babysitting and because of circumstances beyond anyone's control I did not return from Birmingham until the 2nd Annual Pumpkin Carving party was drawing to an end. Brittney (Jenfer's daughter) was kind enough to carve this lovely Frankenstein pumpkin for me. And my daughter carved me the bat below.)

Hillary's spider web, Rachel's bat, skull and crossbones, smiley face (I think Lisa's daughter did that one), and check out Ozzy Ozborne.

Scary face, Skull, Lily's cat

Cute Cat, spider, Rachel's first attempt (looks like an alien kitty - Love), and the Grim Reeper. The Grim Reeper is Tim's, but I can't remember who carved it for him. I know Adrian carved him the tree, but I don't have a picture of that one...it was real kool.

Lily's cat - (I am going to use this one as a screen saver too, Jenfer).

Love

P.S. Happy Halloweeny!

P.S.S. I finally figured how to upload pictures and be able to write between them. It is called the "UPLOAD ANOTHER IMAGE" button.....can't believe it only took me 3 months to figure that one out!

Babysitting Saturday

Jimmy and I are going to Bham to babysit Tatum tomorrow. I can't wait! Her parents are going to Atlanta to see Jimmy's son Blue. I went to Toys R Us today to get her a little something....

Jimmy: So you made it back from Toys R Us?
LL: yeah
Jimmy: did you find something you liked?
LL: yeah, something Rachel had....a book called "Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See" Rachel loved that book and had a brown bear made out of resin that she carried around for about a year and a half so I found a resin bear too...
Jimmy: Ok, well good
LL: .....and a puzzle that I think she will really be able to work, and a movie "Curious George Comes to America" and a Disney sing-a-long....
Jimmy: Good gracious...for what, Christmas?

(He doesn't know I already had Garfields Halloween movie and a little people farm girl on a tractor with a cow at home.)

Can't wait to tell stories of the weekend...It is also the 2nd annual Halloween Pumpkin Carving Party!

BYE BYE IS SMART

Spike is so smart. I thought a few weeks ago that Tim had left the gate open and Spike got out. Then, the other week my mom said she must have left the gate open, and he got out. But, the other night, I was sitting under the car port on the phone, and thought Spike was in the back yard (I had let him out about 30 minutes before). Well, I was talking and heard the tink-tink of his collar (we used to call Sally tink-tink) and thought he had run up to the fence. Then I noticed in the front yard a small back and white dog. I thought, "Yeah, Spike is coming to the fence to talk to a friend." But, as the "friend" got closer, I realized that it was MY BELOVED DOG!!!! He had been out galavanting through the neighborhood....then I realized, he had learned to open the gate!

So, at 10:30 Tuesday night I was outside wrapping coat hangers through the handles of the gates to keep my love locked up!

MICKEY

Mickey had surgery yesterday for a hiadel (sp?) hernia. That is at the place where your stomach and esophagus meet. I went to visit her in the hospital. I made her laugh and it hurt....so what did I do? Tried to make her laugh again! Tell me, is there something wrong with me? Why did keep trying to make her laugh knowing that it was uncomfortable for her? Was I jealous of the morphine substitute she was being provided? Maybe, or sometimes I just might be cruel. Trust me, Mickey can handle it.

LL: Did you go to my blog yesterday?
M: No, I never go anymore, quit going after that stupid story about Pam's birthday.
LL: Well, you should.
M: Why would I, you never write anything about me.
LL: I have too, you were in the picture of Rachel's go to college party....
M: Yeah, one meesley picture,
LL: ...and when we were at lunch and saw Pam...
M: Yeah, yeah, big deal
LL: ...and plus, Mickey the blog is not about you!

I helped her to the restroom while I was there...and scared her by saying I was going to put that 15 minute show on my blog....but, being a good friend I won't. (And I won't mention her pretty stockings, with the hole in the toe either!)

Love

STANDARD BED SIZES

This is driving me crazy. I was discussing bed sizes today with Tim. Then, I started to wonder, when were the sizes regulated....like Twin, Full, Queen, and King. At what point in history could you order a Queen sized bed and know that it would be a regulated size? I looked on the internet and could never find the answer. Was it 1970? 1945? Before? I CAN'T FIND THE ANSWER!

(Can you tell it is driving me a little crazy?)

HELP!

Party Last Weekend

I went to a party at my friend BJ's the other night. It was her party, but she said I could invite a few people and I did. I was helping her make appetisers when all of these people from my work walked in....people I hadn't invited! AND THEY HAD INVITED AND BROUGHT PEOPLE I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW! I just knew BJ would be so pissed. But she wasn't. I looked in the den and she was talking to my friend from college - Vivian. BJ called my over and said "Look who is here! Aren't you excited?" Of course I was! It was good to see Vivian. I had gotten Cocoa from a friend of her's who ends up being the cousin of Jamie's fiance Ben....boy, that was a mouthful.

Anyway, back to the party....I asked BJ if she and Tami wanted to go for a walk. They did so we left, rounded the corner and there was the COLOSSEUM....LIKE IN ROME! I started to show them around since I had been there before. We realized we should get back to the party. We pulled up and there were a bunch of people we didn't know walking out with big garbage bags full of stuff. I jump out of the car, approach the biggest, burliest looking man I have ever seen and asked what he thought he was doing. Well, he then pulled a gun, proceeded to make us kneel on the street, and scared the crap out of us. Then a nasty woman was walking around us telling us to take off our bras.....I couldn't figure this one out. Then it dawned on me that we could make a weapon out of the underwire! Well, i just happend to have on two bras that night, so I only took off one and saved the other to make a weapon. I was so proud of myself.....


.....then I woke up!

Happy Monday.

ALABAMA HISTORY 101

Alabamians will be receiving new car tags soon. They are kind of boring and just blue and white (no red). I enjoyed the "Stars Fell On Alabama" tag. But some prople might say, "What in the world is that all about? It's stupid." Most know it is an old song (1934), but it is also a book (1934 and again in 2000). The book, by Carl Carmer, "recounts the time he spent traveling through Alabama in the late 1920 as a professor at the University of Alabama.

The titles of both works refer to a spectacular occurrence of the Leonid meteor shower that was observed in Alabama on November 12-13, 1833. As reported by the Florence Gazette: "[There were] thousands of luminous bodies shooting across the firmament in every direction. There was little wind and not a trace of clouds, and the meteors succeeded each other in quick succession."

Sounds pretty spectacular to me.