Ramblings of this and that . . .

Just back from a little camping vacation up at Lake Almanor with the Richmond side of the family. It was a really fun time and great to catch up with everyone, I'm sure there will be pictures that will be posted later. On the long ride home my mind went all over the place with little things I wanted to write about, so, here are some of my "riding in the car, idle thoughts".


First, any kind of "Sports Talk" on the radio is totally idiotic to me. I can't believe men get to sit on their rear ends all day and just shoot the - - - - over whatever stupid sport related thing they want to talk about on the radio. Then, there are an unbelievable amount of men with their ear hanging on every word these idiots are talking about, just waiting for who knows how long to get on the radio for maybe 3 minutes to explain why their opinion is so much more valid. Why do I know this you ask, BECAUSE, my husband who is a very smart person listens to this crap. This is the same man that has so much to say about me watching Oprah (which I hardly do anymore). When I ask him "Why do you listen to this?" His reply is "It's just background noise." Well, we had "background noise" for 2 hours on the ride home yesterday.


While up camping we played a game that is so much fun I want to tell you about it and maybe you'll try it. It's called Blokus. It's got a game board (plastic) and 4 colors of tiles in different shapes that you place on this board. The object is to block your opponents progress on the board. Zachy, who's 6, played for the first time and won! So anybody can play, even me, who is challenged by anything resembling a puzzle. Try it!

Do you know what can drive me insane? Mosquito bites!! I have gotten so many mosquito bites on our 2 camping trips. I spray, I wipe on, I wear some sort of "special" mosquito bracelet, nothing has helped. The itching and then scratching that itch is what is still making me crazy. I'd just thought I'd share that info with you!!

Before we left to go camping I had contacted the maker of my Bill's "Perfect Blend" garden fertilizer asking if there was a way I could buy a new sprayer attachment for my sprayer. When we got home I had a new sprayer attachment, free! Such nice people there ~ Sprayngrow.com ~ Check it out!

I start each day eating my breakfast and doing the Sudoku puzzle in the paper. It's kind of weird, at the beginning of the week the puzzles are "gentle" ~ by the end of the week they are "diabolical". I can have as much trouble with a gentle as a diabolical but I enjoy the process of trying to figure them out. While doing the puzzles you need to use logic and I'm not great at logic but I'm getting better!


My thought to leave you with today is: Isn't the mind a incredible thing? Oh the places you can go!


Until next time . . .