Yummy Ice

Cream that is my dear internets. Yes indeed yummy ice-cream. To be more specific Klondike Choco Taco. Oh my goodness and then some.

Here for your salivating pleasure is my story of discovery of this wonderful treat…

Once upon a time when we went to Big Bend, that’s in Texas, we meandered about the State Park and gazed down upon the Rio Grande. It wasn’t summer, but it was warm and when visiting the lodge store I spied an interesting sounding ice-cream in the freezer. “Humm” says I and then I promptly had my Beloved buy it for moi. Then we drove off as I ate the loverly bit of goodness. The store was closed when we left the next morning so I could not get another one. Drat! And Double DRAT!

I looked and looked and could find no Choco Tacos for my belly pleasure at any of the stores I happened to be in when I thought of those scrumptious tacos…poor ol’ me

Then on our last night in Savannah we (Beloved) was buying some lottery tickets at the little store by the hotel and I went in with him. As usual I ran to the ice-cream chest and I hoped I’d find my Choco Taco and TADAH they had one (yes only 1) Yea! It was as good as I had remembered.

I heard that Wals Marts carried them and so I wrote it on my list and guess what…you are never gonna believe this…but I found them, those wonderful cold tacos at the Wals Marts.

Have y’all had these? If not DON’T cause they are somewhat addicting. See there is the fabulous taco shell (waffle cone shaped like a taco shell) filled with creamy Klondike ice-cream that has chocolate syrup drizzled in it, then the whole thing is dipped in chocolate, nuts sprinkled on top and the top double dipped in chocolate. Oh MY GoodNESS!

So here’s what I need from y’all, my dear most dearest internets…I need your Klondike Choco Taco coupons. e-mail me for my address and they so better not be expired.

That is all and thank you for tuning in, have a nice day.

Send Cupons!

I did IT...

I sat on the couch with OPRAH!


So the other morning I got up early {usual} and stumbled into the kitchen for a cuppa and then flopped on the couch. I checked my comments (I’m addicted ya know) and was not surprised to see one from my dear internet Deanna. Anyways she gifted me with this…BUT Y’ALL DON’T STOP READING or click away just wait a minute…K?

L’Aussie’s Fair Dinkum Award

Rules: mention & link back to L’Aussie Writing (check)
I’m mentioning & linking back to Deanna’s Post
Optional: post on my thoughts…

I’m getting there about sitting with Oprah. Okay consider me there, this is the comment I left for Deanna (don’t laugh I was (AM) serious No really)

“Hole-E-Mole-EEEE. I, I, well I just don't know what to say. Thank you. Wow!

I mean...

Ha I always knew I would sit on the same couch with Oprah. I just thought it would be her couch and not that of a dear, dear internet friend. Gosh, thanks Deanna”

Now I’m gonna pass this on to a few folks -- ALL OF Y’ALL, because I love ya and junk. But to mention by name a few that have been encouraging, have helped, and are helping with a writing project (behind the scenes as it were)

Georganna Hancock of A Writer’s Edge, she is on blog sabbatical {whatever} she is an editor, and great source for writing / publishing information

Steven Book of Powder Burns & Bullets, y’all should go read his recent #FridayFlash Heroes Wanted Series

Linda Simoni-Wastila of Left Brain Write, she writes poetry and fiction and is great at it

Soooo Come on Y’all pile on the couch with Deanna, Oprah and ME!

I bet I CAN

Wonder what I can Do?


Be prepared for some bragging. Yes bragging. Some people think I’m too good at it and others think I’m modest.

So like I was saying I bet I CAN… piss y’all off, that is. How you may or may not wonder?...

Our electric bill for the month of December was $4.44. Yes you read that correctly Four dollars and forty-four cents.

Those solar panels are super and duper and mighty dandy too. Y’all should get some!
This message brought to you by the letters Electric & Bragging and the number 4

So did it work are you pissed off or What? lalala

Oh MY Stars

Y'all really didn't think I would let the whole constellation shift get past me without some sort of post...did ya? Especially after that falling birds thang.


I'm sure that by this time you have figured out:

that the various named star constellations were named way back. Like 5000 years ago or so including the "new" one (so not new).

that Astronomy and Astrology are NOT the same thing, in fact there are even differences in Astrology Here is an explanation in plain English and here is a fancier version

that the stars did not move, rather the Earth (surprise) moves in its wobble (tilt) about every 2000 years (give or take a few :-o) Huh! there is that whole Earth cycle again- that I believe is a natural and expected thing...not some freak occurrence.

And besides IF they (whoever they are) decide that now (even though this is ancient news) there are 13 zodiacs -SO WHAT - It WILL NOT and CANNOT change who you are. Your personality or traits will NOT shift.

Relax my dear internets You are You are and are perfect in that NO ONE else can do as good of a job at being You than YOU.

And I for one Like YOU just as You Are so let's dance and rejoice just for the shear excitement of living.

ps: I hope my links don't vanish this time {crossed fingers}

pss: Enough with the doom & gloom, y'all know that you should be Right with God.

Don't Look UP

Whatever ya do, there’s birds a falling!

I know y'all have heard about the dead birds and fish in Arkansas and the doves over in Switzerland. They have come up with a reasonable and Natural reason for such unusual occurrences. NO really, isn't it perfectly reasonable to believe that the black birds were scared to death by fire works or that the fish were diseased? How about the doves, they overate, won't all wild life eat, eat and eat till they die?

See "They" broke my link to an article that tells about more than just our birds and fish in Arkansas. Yes even here in Texas and our neighbor Louisiana and more states. Humm, strange stuff going on around the planet. Go ahead read it...it has pictures...and a reason that makes sense to me...I'll wait....lalalalalalala dedededededede dumdumdumdumdumdum and so on.

Okay you're back. Y'all know I've said before how I believe that the global warming is a Natural Earthly Cycle. Y'all know I've said how scientist claim that the Earth is expected to tilt back (think opposite of what it is now). I mean is it really so crazya$$ed to think it could be possible? The scientific facts show that the Earth has been frozen before so why not again? No this does NOT negate my belief in God nor my faith. He made plants, animals and people to have life cycles why not the Earth too?

So that brings me to one of the possible reasons mentioned in the article...A slight shifting of the magnetic north pole. I say plausible!

Now tell me, my dear internets, has anything weird (nature wise) gone on in your state/country? If so What-Do tell. And tell me do y'all think humans would be able to survive an extended ice age or some such world catastrophic event? I do.

Huh! Whatdaya...OH-No

Can you believe it? I know I can't. I mean it just seems like yesterday, well almost yesterday anyway.

Here's the low down for those that want to know the OH No of it:

Decade One and you're a little kid tumbling around playing with Barbies and baking in an Easy Bake Oven some yummy cake.

Decade Two and you're all gawky then get out of it so you get married and next thing ya know you have a baby or two, and making them cake.

Decade Three and you're a home owner and have pets and kids and grandkids and your hair is starting to get scared, so you paint it till it feels safe, so you have a piece of cake.

Decade Four and you're starting to gain some weigh and the hair is really silver, but you don't care and stop painting it - hum, not so bad... please pass the cake.

Decade Five and you're still loving it all, you've hardly fell apart, well it must be the weight that's keeping it all together, hey where's the cake.

Decade Six and I'll have to let you know how that goes in another decade, but you can bet there will be cake.

*****

Did I tell y'all that I when I was born I was the first baby in my little home town? Well it's true I was. I know it was a really small town to take all them thar days to have the New Year's baby.

So did I tell y'all that I was breach born? Well it's true, from the get go I was always a little backA$$wards.

And did I tell y'all that I played with my Barbies till I was sixteen? Well that too is true and I still have 'em only now I can play with them and pretend it's because my granddaughters insist that I must.

Finally did I tell y'all that today (January 10th) is my fiftieth birthday? I mean Hole-E -- Mole-E can you believe it? 50! I know it's impossible. Totally Impossible I tell you.

And now you know my dirty little secret of the OH No of it.

Look…LOOK at ME…I’m finally learning how to raise just 1 eyebrow.

Can you see it?

ps a decade = 10 years and 5 decades = half a century...OMG don't say it like that! Between me and you my dear internets Let's just keep it to ourselves that I'm closer to 100 than 1...OHHHHHH NOOOOOOs

Surprise!

Post! So over at One Stop Poetry they have a Sunday challenge photo (55 word poem or flash fiction) and  today I wrote my first poem of twenty-eleven. Thanks to KJ Halliday for the photo. Pop over to One Stop Poetry to have a look at the photo and check to see if I have conveyed it well in words or not.



Accepted

Float on a fire sea
Silver white waters
Where there’s a walking me
Blood red cliffs hover
Hiding what lies

Within it I am discovered
So many strange faces
Erased by the forgotten
Names lost to other spaces

In your eyes you see me flee
My dear human brother
Locked inside your secret places

****** End of Post

Who is ready

For a nature trip-ah-long with me? Okay come on then. And just cause I’m the boss of this I want to caution y’all to NOT wander off the trails, Keep the noise and talking to a minimum, and for heaven’s sake let’s keep together. Hole-E-Mole-E it’s like I have a class of Kindergarteners. Stay on the trails because there are critters off trail, stay quiet because said critters are not fond of noise or talking, stay together as a group so none of you yahoos get lost, bitten or ate by any critters. And if that is not good enough reasons for ya, do it cause I said so.

Okay, today my dear internets we are going down to the NASA area of Houston. I know that covers a wide span of space. Get it? NASA - Space? Heh, No we are not going to see astronauts we are going to the woods of Armand Bayou Nature Center. Yes there is a small fee, so everyone cough up your share. I know we sure got lucky on the weather, not too hot (yet) and not wet. Okay so we did this last year, but I expect y’all to be nice dear internets and pretend we are doing it now. I know you can do it, you all have wonderful imaginations.

The Entrance

The Map

One of the many huge Banana Spiders. I know it doesn’t look so big in the picture but trust me when I tell you it bigger than an adult big toe, okay so maybe about the same size as an adult toe, and that is huge as far as spiders go where I’m concerned. No don’t touch it! The spidie wouldn’t like it and you would have to leave the trail. Come on let’s move along we have sam-witches for after.

Shhh. Do y’all see the bird in there? I don’t know what kind it is maybe a crane or heron. Yeah there are lots of dragonflies they eat most of the skeeters. Are so carnivores I looked it up. Shhh, did you hear the woodpecker? I saw him but he was faster than my camera. Okay I suppose it could have been a girl woodpecker. Let’s see what’s next…

The board walk, and what a nice picture of the, tank if you are in the hill country of Texas, pond for the rest of us. Yes a bit stagnant and full of algae but that is good for the dragonflies.

See a blue dragonfly. Yeah, so what if I really like ‘em. There is method to their flight pattern. Yeah like my flittering about from here to there to over there. Let’s move on. No the only point is to move along...

A butterfly, on that purple flower that dries so well, whatchucallit. Did y’all know purple was my favorite color? Well ya do now!

A field, wildflower meadow for you romantic types.

A windmill in the reenactment of olden’ days site. There were lots of different buildings and such, but y’all are gonna have to come here to see ‘em. Well, you don’t have to get mad I had to save something for your real life trip.

This here is called an armadillo, they like Lone Star beer. Do too, my Daddy said so!

I know, that’s it, short and sweaty. Hey let’s get in the car, turn on the A/C, clean our hands with some bacty-wash do-hickies so we can eat sam-witches. Yes we have chips and some devil eggs, I know how much y’all like my devil eggs.

See y’all next time, Yes, unless you see me first I suppose.

So on New Year's Day

My son came over and his girlfriend and y’all know that means my beautiful newest granddaughter came with them. I love her, she hardly cried at all, even when I pinched her. Hahaha, not really, but it made YOU laugh. Or cringe...whatever.


We had a nice visit and ate our traditional dinner of black eyed peas (for luck), cabbage (for money), ham (for continued food on the table), mashed potatoes (for we like ‘em), and biscuits (forgot to buy rolls). I held Wynter while everyone else ate, then Grampy held her while I ate. It was good. Then they had to go which was okay as Beloved had to go marry someone. Remember? I told y’all.

We drove up to Willis, took some pictures out in  the yard. Found out that our 2nd cousin’s friend was our son’s girlfriend’s aunt. I know small world and all. We drove down and around about a quarter mile or so and ended up in a small clearing in the woods. We all piled out of our cars, gathered around and Beloved spoke the words and the happy, in love, couple repeated ‘em and shared gifts of rings and then they kissed. And some of us missed the shot, so they had to kiss longer and more. It was beautiful. And then we took more pictures and hugged and offered well wishes. And hugged some more. Then it started getting too cold for the little ones, so we piled in our cars and drove to The Road House for some yummy food. Then we paid and we left the happy couple to tend to wedding night business. Y’all know {wink}

And then we got home and watched some celebrity ghost stories and got our milk and went to bed.

And it was one of the best First Day’s of the new year. How’s about y’all? Did you, my dear internets have a pleasant first One-One-One One?

Are you excited? Well you should be, my birthday is coming and I’ll be at the half way mark. I‘m all excited and nervous and all wiggly inside. Well, it hasn’t been that easy climbing this hill ya know…see some of it’s rocky.