Miscellaneous Thoughts

Pet Peeves
Why does it seems that “old” people love to “drive” in the left lane…they are “driving” barely 55 mph in a 65 mph and of course the left lane tends to be just a “little” faster for “us” younger drivers….don’t get me wrong I really don’t speed but I hate to behind someone going slow especially in the left lane…that makes everyone pass them on the right…like that’s really safe.

Tree Trimming
Well I guess I was wrong (yes I do admit it sometimes). It looks like the cause of the satellite was the backyard tree. Since it the leaves have grown out…but mostly the branches are heavier but mostly there are some dead ones that need to be cut out….oh well, what’s a couple of dollars later.

Rose Bushes
What I thought was a great idea at the time….has taken over 4 weeks to plant. Two yellow rose bushes…I thought they would be nice to have in the backyard. So one day started out with digging a hole. Then a couple days later…I get a bag of potting soil. Then dug a little more on the hole. Actually, I did more beating the dirt then actually digging. It was very therapeutic…(I’m sure some will be happy with that activity)…So yesterday…I went out and planted both bushes. I put them along the fence about 18 inches apart. I hope they take….I did extra stuff (they miracle grow soil plus 2 bags of potting soil.

Kitty in a “tree”
It’s not like the first time Heidi has gotten out in the backyard. She seems to like to do escape when I let Josie out for the last time of the night before we go to bed. But the other night I didn’t even see her get out. It must have been at least 15 minutes that I notice that I didn’t see Heidi. Josie was already in our room….so I started checking every room….Heidi tends to hide...go figure. I even checked out in the garage…but no sign….that’s when my husband started blaming me that I must of let her outside. So once again, I’m out in the backyard, in my pajamas, with a flash light looking around. I really doubted I was going to find her. I looked through the bushes and she really can’t climb the tree (no front claws). So I’m over by the trash can and I hear Brent….Heidi eventually, came to the door after I went out and he let her in….so SHE had been outside. I know she’s just a cat and cat’s do go out and can find their way back…Heidi was a stray so her young beginning was pretty rough…I really don’t want to put her in that place again….but I guess she still have the curiosity of the outdoors in her. All I can do is to make sure she keeps her collar on with her name and our phone number.

Ghost Hunting?
Can you really take that for real? Is it a ghost or is it a demon/angel? I don’t know but I guess I’ve had something’s happen that I haven’t really want to believe in it. In college, I was the Supervisor at night in the dorm. One weekend, a group of guys got together (alcohol) was definitely involved…this was the 80s of college party times…the “boys” were playing around a weegee board…that an alcohol probably didn’t help but one thing lead to another when I get a call down to the front desk with about 25 guys scared and were coming downstairs and didn’t want to be on their floor. They wanted counselors or priests someone to talk to them…they were pretty scared when I saw them. I followed school procedures and reassured them and it was decided to calling some ministers/school counselors to help talk to these guys. I took a couple of my staff up with me to their floor. It was eerie with on one on the floor when the elevators opened but what was really weird was all the lights were off…even the emergency lights. It was like this floor didn’t have any power. But the rest of the 10 floor tower had power. None of the other floors were effective. I couldn’t find anything else wrong with the floor. We did pick up the game board and “confiscated”…haha I don’t really remember who ended up with it…I just knew we took it off the floor. I don’t know what happened there…I can’t explain and I was there! But to turn the power back on for that floor…the electrician had to shut down the whole tower and reset. This took about 15 minutes. Most of the residents were asleep and didn’t know anything until the “stories” the next day. I do believe something happen to those guys and that’s about as close to a ghost/haunting/whatever you want to call it. I just know, I’m not going to play around with a board game!

So now that I've rambled the night along...here's to blogging!