My Favorite Funnies From This Week

Dilbert - June 26 2013 

Shoe - June 24 2013

Shoe - June 26 2013

Busy Bee

The busy season is upon us at work, and I have had some long days. My cold is gone thankfully, but I'm still burning the candle at both ends during the week and sleeping extra on the weekend.

I just uploaded over a week's worth of meme's to the slideshows, but am still two weeks behind on catching up to The Daily Show, ah well. The weather is still so back and forth that it doesn't feel like summer at all. I don't miss the really cold snowy winters of Michigan, but I do miss the consistent warmth of the summers.

I was bummed earlier this week when I found that something had been digging in the pot that I have my Sweet Peas in, and I suspect the squirrels. I was so excited earlier this spring, they were off to such a good start. Enough of my complaining. The white rose out back has just started to bloom and that will make up for it ♥

I was having a brief conversation with my teammates Terry and Amber at the end of the day, that I saw/experienced some interesting things on the bus this weekend. Amber said I should blog about that. I want a catchy title for those posts, and I don't have it formed in my head yet.

The story I was going to recount to them was about waiting for the bus to go shopping on Sunday morning and watching this Japanese woman coming around the corner on the opposite side of the street, and she was walking backwards the whole way. I kid you not. The bus stop on the opposite side of Alabama has a bench, and she walked backward all the way around the corner and sat straight down on the bench. Then I could hear some music (coming from her phone presumably). Then after several minutes she walked across to the stop where myself and another woman were standing, not walking backwards by the way.

Then she starts signing to herself. Finally the bus arrives, it was crowded and she sat in the aisle side of the seat with a guy who was already on the bus. By the time we reached the Cordata bus station, she was leaning forward onto the seat in front of her like she was passed out, even though she showed no previous signs of being under the influence of anything.

It has now been a year of riding the bus since my car went kaput, and I know I can't say that I've seen it all because there will always be tomorrow....

Happy Father's Day

All of my geraniums are blooming right now, including the small section I accidentally broke of of the ivy geranium in the hanging pot on the front porch.

At first I thought it was kind of a freak of nature that the color was different. Then I remembered I planted two different colors in one pot!

The day lilies are all blooming right now, I love them so much. I just wished that they lasted longer. I would love the yard to be a sea of color all summer long.

Summer

This is a complimentary funny meme to the one posted last week.

We actually had a decent day today except for the chilly breeze. And I ended up spending most of the day inside taking not one, but two naps because of my cold. I had a such a bad sinus headache virtually all day. I've got Vicks Vapo-rub all over my chest, and will be in bed within the hour. Cheers.

This 'n That

Tom Cat and the Snapdragons

Today was my first day of overtime this summer, and after I got home from work I potted these snapdragons.

So the story with these, is that they are, if I remember correctly, "dwarf" Snapdragons. At the end of the summer in 2011 they looked like goners, so I just took them out of the pot and threw them on top of the compost pile. The following spring they bloomed, but were still pretty small, and I just left them where they were. Then this spring, much to my surprise, they started to look pretty healthy, and much bigger.

They started to bloom this week. I hope that I didn't do too much damage in the process, but I extracted them from the compost pile and put them in this large pot. And they are definitely not dwarf now, they are at least two feet tall. I love these vivid colors. I hope they survive and bloom for awhile (I'm keeping my fingers crossed).

First thing yesterday morning at work, we found out that our teammate Katie was burned out of her home Thursday night in Ferndale. Thankfully no one was hurt, but she and her two daughters and boyfriend are now in a hotel for who knows how long. We don't know how much of her belongings she was able to salvage. Something like that would be devastating to me. Thank goodness for the Red Cross stepping in to help.

Spring In The Pacific Northwest

Or this is how it feels sometimes when you are wearing your favorite turtleneck sweater and long pants with socks, and you realize it's June 3rd.....

Visit to the Vet, and other adventures

Boo

Boo

Boo had her first trip to the vet for her annual exam since I no longer have a car. She did pretty well on the bus I have to say. I gave her two of the relaxing treats about a half hour before we left. She did pretty good; no yowling at all, and only a little bit of meowing here and there. I talked to her a lot to try and keep her calm. She was even relaxed enough to purr while the vet was handling her.

When we left and walked to the bus stop a block away I saw on the schedule that the next bus was 15 minutes yet. Well I knew I could get back into downtown in the same amount of time, so off we went. She got a little tour of downtown with a hip-level view. The walk was not hard at all, but she is 13 pounds, so I kept having to switch hands so my arm didn't get too tired. She was happy to get home, and we ended up taking a nap together with her curled up across my arm. Little bosom buddies.

On Sunday when the sun finally came out in the afternoon I got out and mowed the lawn. It was really funny, about 5 minutes after I finished, I came inside to use the bathroom. When I came back out into the kitchen I looked out the window in time to see the two bucks in front of Dave's house next door. They were about 25 feet apart and they were both doing a squat pee. Synchronized deer peeing, not something you see every day!