Aug 26th, 2008 by Beckie | Posted in Uncategorized | | 5 Comments » |
I heard that today was some sort of National Dog Day - I’m a tad late for the celebration - my fancy dancy blog wouldn’t let me upload the the blankety blank photos. SO…it is a good thing that every day is dog day at chez Hineykap.
Our Lily is a little over 10 months old now. She still chases cats, eats anything and everything she can find in the backyard and sometimes she treats herself to a little nip of kitty-roca. The dog is one little bundle of muscle. When she comes running at you from across the room it is like a mass of muscle combined with a speeding bullet - her exuberance knows no bounds. Generally she is a pain in the backside, but we love her and she is kinda cute….sometimes.
Aug 24th, 2008 by Beckie | Posted in Uncategorized | | 16 Comments » |
The ladies from Mama Drama are the hosts for FM this week. The assignment….
What funny trivial fact do you remember that you probably should have forgotten a long time ago?
I’m not sure that it’s funny, but it is trivial (unless you’re a clown fish). I don’t remember where I learned it, but I have always thought it was intriguing that clown fish are all born male. They live in groups with one breeding pair. When the female dies the dominant male changes sex to become the breeding female. It puts a whole new spin on watching Nemo.
That’s it for me - go check out the other Fun Mondayers
Aug 18th, 2008 by Beckie | Posted in Uncategorized | | 16 Comments » |
I never shared the pictures from our camping trip a couple of weeks ago. We really had outstanding weather. The first one is of Mt. Rainier.
The second is a picture of one of the glaciers on Mt. Rainier. It was taken with a telephoto lens several miles closer to the mountain than the first picture was taken.
A meadow….
A waterfall….
It was gorgeous - the pictures don’t do the beauty justice.
Enough beauty - how about some destruction. In 2006 a flash flood came through and caused some severe damage. This is one of the places where the water came down the hill. Although you can’t see it there is a river on the other side of that little fence. We are standing in the campground where we usually stay.
The water wooshed (yes, that IS a word) down the hill and across the river and wiped out some of the riverbank, campground road and campsites. Rest in Peace campsite C26. You can see the river in this picture, but it is misleading. There is a huge (about a twenty feet) drop-off between that C26 sign and the river.
Aug 17th, 2008 by Beckie | Posted in Uncategorized | | 28 Comments » |
I haven’t written anything in such a long time I almost forgot that I had committed to do a post PLUS I had to figure out my blog password before I could write anything. That’s pathetic.
Lisa’s Chaos is hosting Fun Monday this week and she wants a question from us. A question I can do.
Since I’m having such a hard time with inspiration and ideas for my blog my question to you all is…
What should I write about?
Ideas people - I need ideas, assignments, questions - give me your best shot. When I answer your question I will link back to you so you will know the answer.
Aug 2nd, 2008 by Beckie | Posted in Uncategorized | | 14 Comments » |
On my veggie post there were some questions about CSAs. I explained it in this post. We have been VERY pleased with our experience so far.
The mystery fruit is still growing. I think it might be a pumpkin although I have never seen one develop quite like this. I will post pictures when it grows a bit more.
We are going camping here tomorrow. Hopefully we will have spectacular weather and I will remember to take some pictures.
Today is Lil’ Mil’s thirteenth birthday (I am the mother of a teenager!) and Tuesday is Hub’s and my twentieth anniversary…woo-hoo.
The birthday and the anniversary are among the reasons that we decided to go camping. We can’t afford to take the whole gang on a ‘real’ vacation and the kiddies are too young to stay home alone so camping we will go (Hi Ho the Dairy-O).
The following is a list of deterrents that we have had this week (so far).
Getting ready for the 13th birthday party. ($) A swimming party. The pool closed due to chemical imbalance. CRAP!
Keeping ten 12 to 13 year olds busy for five hours.
Toad eating too much birthday cake and puking on the hallway carpet.
Renting one of those nasty grocery store carpet cleaners to get the chocolate cake puke out of the carpet.($)
Finding wasps nests all over the trailer and the side of the house where we park the trailer. ($)
Figuring out that we needed new tires on our trailer pulling vehicle. ($$)
Finding out that our battery is dead in the trailer and there isn’t electrical hook up where we are camping. No electricity/battery means no flushing potty. I must have my potty to go camping. ($)
Paying a pet nanny $20 to come by one time and feed and scoop for our two cats while we are gone. That’s some pretty easy money - if you ask me.
and for the piece de resistance….
Lily went into heat because her owners were too cheap to spay her sooner. We have an appointment for August 19, but apparently that’s a little late. Nothing like living with a bitch on her period.
All I can say is we must REALLY want to go camping.
Jul 25th, 2008 by Beckie | Posted in Uncategorized | | 11 Comments » |
Yesterday I was encouraging Lil’ Mil to call a friend. The other two hoodlums caught wind of the conversation and Carm (the youngest) wanted to know who we were going to call.
My response: Ghostbusters.
Carm: Is that the place that rents Wii games?
Apparently I have failed to properly tutor my children in eighties pop culture.
I know - no loss.
Jul 23rd, 2008 by Beckie | Posted in Uncategorized | | 16 Comments » |
I mentioned a long time ago that we were joining a CSA this summer. It has been a great experience so far. Every week we go to our pick up location and get our handy dandy box of veggies. The walking carrot was in last week’s box.
I took a picture a couple of weeks ago, but never posted about it. We usually get about 10 to 15 different vegetables in the box - sometimes they throw in a fruit.
We also have our own garden space. Right now we have potatoes coming out of our ears and the tomatoes are starting to ripen. There are also some peppers, zucchinis, cucumbers and a mystery fruit. Can you identify what the mystery fruit is?
I know it isn’t ripe, but I thought cutting it open would give me a clue to what it is supposed to be. I think it must be some sort of cross pollinated squash/pumpkin. Only time will tell.
