ammogirl

You know what’s really fantastic?  Sitting on the porch watching the deer and woodpeckers and bluebirds and fox (hmmm…foxes? fix? fice?) walk through the yard.  And did you know that woodpeckers are not really blue, nor wear white fluffy collars?  Damn that Woody Woodpecker for leading me astray. 

And, oh man…I really need to figure out John’s way-too-technical-for-me camera.  Because if I knew how to work that thing, I could have taken a picture of the hummingbird that just flew down and hovered right over my laptop for about 15 seconds, trying to decide if I was, you know, a good source of sweetness or not.  As I am only halfway through my first cup of coffee, the answer to that is: no.  Still, that was cool, I’ve never had a hummingbird come so close before.

We made it up to Paradise around 11:30 Monday night.  Of course, I did none of the driving since I suffer from car-colepsy (ha ha!) but also because John really appreciates every opportunity to receive my outstanding and completely necessary direction.  Who else would tell him there is a car in front of him, or that he needs to be in another lane, or that his speed is a bit much for the current traffic conditions?  No one, I tell you!  He LOVES it when I speak up, ESPECIALLY when he doesn’t have to ask for it!  And there is just no way I would be able to provide him with such attentive assistance if I was the one doing the driving.  This way we both benefit!

Yesterday the girls tag teamed me into going to lunch at Hula’s Mongolian BBQ and ohhh I love that place so much.  So, one more restaurant crossed off my (very long) list.  After that we met up with John’s mom (Carole, with an ‘e’, and did you know MY mom’s name is Carole, with an ‘e’?) to watch Johnny Depp do his thing in ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 2: In which nothing gets resolved so be sure you see Part 3′.  That’s not to say it wasn’t a great movie, because it was, and I just want to add that I think Johnny Depp is a fabulous actor and always has been and that I might or might not think Vanessa Paradis is an extremely lucky girl.  After the movie Christy brought Ty over, and he’s such a cute little guy, and he’s that baby that makes you say "I want a baby!" because he NEVER cries, just sits there and is cute with his little feet and adorable faces. 

We had planned on going fishing today but today is Wednesday and that means the lake is closed, which is weird to me…do the fish do their shopping on this day or what?  Prepare their wills?  Thank the fish god they made it through another week?  Anyhow, instead we are doing…well, I have no idea what we are doing today but I’m sure it will be fun!

There are lots of pictures, I swear, and I will have them up on flickr as soon as I can.  This, translated, means as soon as I am not too lazy to perform the arduous task of uploading photos.  I don’t want to hear it, it’s sooo harddddd and I’m on vacaaaation!

Auf Wiedersehen!!