Pot Sticker!

Yum! Another positive cooking experiment, and forgive me but it seamed like a catchy title. Anyhow, anyone willing to be guinea pig only has to volunteer and I'll subject them to my latest creations. Seems like having a bit of time on my hands has been a good thing. I've shoveled, raked, sorted, washed, and cooked today. I'm exhausted, but that just means I'm a better kittah skritcher. Oscar approves of the pot stickers, though he much prefers the wanton to the meat filling (go figure).

I'm still without email service, it sucks. Apparently the person who shut Asgard down took off Thursday night and may be back Monday. I personally hope whomever it is has a weekend full of snakes, nighmares, electrical fires, and rancid food. Serves them right! Poor Scotty worked hard all day trying to get it fixed. I'm not the only one who's disposed by it, there are students with homework they can't get to. But darn it, I need my emials!

I have another interview on Tuesday night. We're also pouring concrete that night...go figure. My interview is with the college library for a cashiering position. I think I would love the job, and best of all it's with the college. The concrete is for our shed pad. Mom & Glenn are coming down, and Glenn's gonna finish the slab for us. We're calling in a whole bunch of friend favors to get the cement moved into the right place, and hopefully Scotty's got a new puttering project here soon to build his shed. Then I'll have a floral workshop, and he'll have a airplane workshop, and we'll both have a bunch more storage so we can get our house ORGANIZED again. I can't wait to get my xmas stuff out of the side yard!

Gonna go watch mythbusters with Scotty now.

May we all have a better weekend than that IT dude that shut down Asgard!!!!
-m

GHAAAA!!!

Asgard is down, I have no emails....
I may not survive this isolation!

Rrrrrrrrrrrr. Scott's working on it.


Anyhow, if anyone needs me just call me.

-m

Safe & Sound

Happy to report that both me & Truck Boat Truck made it home safely. Had a few white knuckle moments along the way, but most of it was in my head. Oscar narrated the entire journey, and was very happy to get back home to his Meows at the end of the ride.

Had a busy day today, ran a bunch of errands and applied for a couple more jobs. Met a neat kid named Chris this afternoon and he helped me to wash windows and mow the yard. It was awesome! I am now headed into the weekend slightly less behind than I was before. YAY! Sounds like Ashley's gonna come help me finish up the gravel distribution Friday, so I'll be even more ahead. And I fixed the cat cage so we can have kitty back yard time this weekend. I'll try to post some pictures.

Scotty went flying yesterday without his leg, and got to land the plane, twice. Sounds like he had fun and the adrenalin hit him halfway home. He tells me all of this with a huge grin on his face. I'm still trying hard to be excited for him. We'll see.

I've had a kitty touching me most of the day and currently have all three plus the bird helping me type. Perhaps I was gone too long. Sure was fun though.

I'm missing the Crawfords and the canyon. Can't wait to go back soon. It was a great get away.
Here's a few of my favorite pictures from the trip:
Here's Willow (Thom & Judy's adorable pup) with her first taste of snow. Scotty went for a motorcycle ride to the top of the canyon and brought it back in a saddle bag. We called it her Elk Flavor Snow cone. She kept licking till her tongue went numb and then bashed it apart with her paws and teeth. I had a good time watching.













Us Camped Next to Thom & Judy. See it's a tiny camper.... sorta.












View of the river along the campground. Perdy Ain't it?






























Another view of one of the campsites after the place cleared out from the weekend.








A rare flora found only in beautiful campgrounds, and premier landscapes. Like mine :).







Live long & prosper!
-m

Home again, home again, jiggidy jig.

Scott went back down the canyon yesterday (racing rain clouds all the way). I stayed up another night in hopes of dodging the nasty down canyon and end of holiday traffic. Glad I did. Today will be a much mellower day.

Thom, Judy, & I had a lovely mellow night last night. Well maybe Thom & I more than Judy, we made her watch another Sweeny Todd movie (she doesn't like to watch blood & guts). But then we all watched House & Bones and had a lovely ol time. I'm gonna miss them when I go home. Might be spending quite a bit of time here in the canyon this summer. Darn. If I wasn't missing my Kitties so much I'd be feeling bad about leaving this afternoon. But Oscar's missing his Meows too. And we're running out of groceries and clean clothes. And I can't wait to wash my hair, rinsing it in rain water just isn't the same!

Had a nummy food experiment last night. Frozen raspberries, under sliced pear, under gooey mixed lemon cake. Turned out fabulous! I'll have to try duplicating that one another time. I think even Scotty would enjoy it.

I believe I'll go find a sunny spot to read my book & steal a few more minutes of lazy before I have to load up & hit the road.

Today is the tomorrow we dreamed about yesterday. Why not sit back & enjoy it?
-m

Good Times!

Today is my fourth day here at Perception Park (Ogden Canyon Campground) and I'm loving it! I've carved, sat by the campfire, dangled my toes in the river, and had over all an absolutely lazy lovely time.

We're camped right next to Thom & Judy in the host site. This whole camping with internet access thing is pretty nice, I could become totally spoiled! This morning I woke up to the sound of birds, and the smell of woodsmoke...and then opened my email and applied for a job. If I didn't know the cats would kill me for it, I'd definitely think about staying longer.

Oscar is having a good time, he's had several visits with Judy's birds and thinks they're fascinating. He's also picking up words and sounds from them.

I beleive that todays plan is more lazy and more relaxing, so I'm gonna go finish my breakfast and get to it. Poor us, such a hard life.

Happy Memorial Day!
-m

On the road again!

I'm glad to say that all of my cooking experiments went well. My roasted hunk of cow came out perfectly acceptable. My curry will improve with practice, but is most edible, and my bourbon chicken should be better than last time. Should be an excellent camping menu...lol. (it's all a very long way from campfire dinners! even if it is warmed over the coals)

Tomorrow Oscar and I head out for Ogden Canyon. Scotty will follow soon, ON HIS MOTORCYCLE! *think big smiles and bug encrusted helmets* We're looking forward to a mellow weekend of books, carving, cooking, campfires, and good friends. I can't wait! (maybe that's part of why I'm leaving on Wednesday...

Mom and Glenn came down Saturday and set up the forms for our shed pad. Between the 4 of us we moved 3 yards (6600lb) of gravel from the truck to the proper place in the yard. OUCH! The best part is that mom now listens to me when I say "that's gonna make you hurt" because she's learned that I speak from experience, I don't think she has any more illusions me faking my back pain. I know how she hurts and have warned her too many times now. I'm glad she's listening, and absolutely frustrated that she gets to understand how it hurts. NOT FAIR! But we get what we get, and I try not to be angry about it.

I'm really looking forward to a visit with our friends (even though they'll all be too busy to spend much time). I'm even more looking forward to some uncomplicated relaxing time. I've had plenty of stress and just want to chill for a while. Me, my hammock, the sunshine, the shade, a good book, a lazy afternoon, who wouldn't look forward to that? And we'll go back to camp with our friends again another weekend when they're less busy! So if you don't hear from me for a while, I'm fine, and I'm happy, and I'm absolutely relaxing!

If anyone MUST contact us Mom will have the number of one of the friends we're camping with, and i'll try to check my facebook (but prolly not my email) sometime over the weekend. Odd to have the option of internet but not cell phone isn't it :). Judy and her wonderful sharing of interwebs....she rocks. Anyhow, you won't HAVE to contact me, cuz nothin's gonna go wrong. I'm just paranoid.

And Scott's in the other room mumbling at his computer, usually not good news. I'm gonna go check on him and put the bird to bed.

Night, night.
-m

Saturday again!

And I haven't done much but apply for jobs and sleep. Some person who shall remain....Scotty!...gave me swine flu....or just plain annoying flu for a birthday present, and I've been half of myself all week! But there's enough !!!!points in that paragraph for my whole post so I'll calm down and just give fun stories from here in.

Tomorrow is KitTaH VEt DaY. This is their least favorite day of the year, and also one of my most dreaded. This afternoon I captured and harnessed all three. This was not fun for any of us, though all of them were better behaved than usual because Scott was home (dunno why but he's scarier than me even when he's not participating). In the morning we will individually trap and transport them to the camper (much easier with the harnesses on) and then we all go for a ride to the vet. Then mom wrestles in the first kitty at hand (usually yahzi cuz I'm too exhausted to do him last ((he's a strong little beast))) and we begin the awful process of weighing....and shots, and worst of all NOSE DROPS. They hate nose drops! (yes another one, couldn't help it,sorry) And then we all ride home burrowed into whatever blankets and pillows the camper provides (still so much better than when we loaded into cat carriers and all rode in the CAR. And then I'm the evil hated Mom, much like today just after the harnessing. (why does some part of my head still think "hoaaaarness" like grandpa says?) and I'm paranoid about any of them having a bad reaction to the shots (people parents worry this much too right?) and they are just exhausted and sleep a lot (the exact negative symptoms of the shots, yay).

So anyhow, we're also going to get firewood, and cooking a beef roast tomorrow. How is it I got to be 27 and have never attempted a beef roast? Should I be intimidated or concerned? Frankly in comparison to the cat's vet appointment, cooking a hunk of cow seems safe and friendly. That's probably not right either.

Either way I'd better get a good nights rest.
Live Long and Don't get clawed to death by your pets.
-m