I think I smell a conspiracy.

I think the government has been eavesdropping on my brain echos... I remember back a few (lots) of years I had a dream that I secretly developed a new fuel to use in our old VW... This stuff was made from ingredients found right in the kitchen... I used this stuff to make a trip over to MT... Ran out of fuel along the way but was able to purchase all the stuff needed to refuel at the local grocery store... I was going to let everyone know how to make it but decided if I did the government would either ration the stuff, make it illegal, or put me out of the market...

Anyway what would they do if they couldn't put a high tax on the fuel if everyone made their own...Now !! I just found out how I know they have been peeking in on my brain-echos... I see where they have been thinking of taxing the miles you drive versus tax on the fuel you use...Seems like if I did make a new fuel, I'd be screwed, blued and tattooed no matter which way I turn...Just for the record, If I do come up with something I sure as hell will make my mind a blank and not tell a soul...

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Trying something new.

I was trying with this joke I got from Mark, to see if it would work..It seems it did but with a problem...I was telling Steph that I would try and see if I could get something e-mailed to the blog...Seems you can but can't be longer than 10 mb...If you want to try it , this is the way...
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The IRS decides to audit Grandpa, and summons him to the IRS office.

The IRS decides to audit Grandpa, and summons him to the IRS office. The IRS auditor was not surprised when Grandpa showed up with his attorney. The auditor said, 'Well, sir, you have an extravagant lifestyle and no full-time employment, Which you explain by saying that you win money gambling. I'm not sure the IRS finds that believable.' I'm a great gambler, and I can prove it,' says Grandpa. 'How about a demonstration?' The auditor thinks for a moment and said, 'Okay. Go ahead.' Grandpa says, 'I'll bet you a thousand dollars that I can bite my own eye.' The auditor thinks a moment and says, 'It's a bet.' Grandpa removes his glass eye and bites it. The auditor's jaw drops. Grandpa says, 'Now, I'll bet you two thousand dollars that I can bite my other eye.' Now the auditor can tell Grandpa isn't blind, so he takes the bet. Grandpa removes his dentures and bites his good eye. The stunned auditor now realizes he has wagered and lost three grand, with Grandpa's attorney as a witness. He starts to get nervous. 'Want to go double or nothing?' Grandpa asks 'I'll bet you six thousand dollars that I can stand on one side of your desk, and pee into that wastebasket on the other side, and never get a drop anywhere in between.' The auditor, twice burned, is cautious now, but he looks carefully and decides there's no way this old guy could possibly manage that stunt, so he agrees again. Grandpa stands beside the desk and unzips his pants, but although he strains mightily, he can't make the stream reach the wastebasket on the other side, so he pretty much urinates all over the auditor's desk. The auditor leaps with joy, realizing that he has just turned a major loss into a huge win. But Grandpa's own attorney moans and puts his head in his hands. 'Are you okay?' the auditor asks. 'Not really,' says the attorney.. 'This morning, when Grandpa told me he'd been summoned for an audit, he bet me twenty-five thousand dollars that he could come in here and piss all over your desk and that you'd be happy about it!' Don't Mess with Old People!! Windows Live™ Hotmail®…more than just e-mail. See how it works. Access your email online and on the go with Windows Live Hotmail. Sign up today.

Not much here

Not much going on here in Colorado.  The weather is warming up a bit, but in Colorado that means nothing.  It could be 72 deg F in January and snow in August.  I'm kind of torn when it comes to the weather.  I want it to stay cold so that I can get a bit more snowboarding in but I'm also itchin' to start gold panning again!  I guess you can't have your cake and eat it to.

Rhodochrusite pics

Here are the pics of the pretty pink stuff.

Play the hangman at the bottom of the page... Played it today and guessed "telomere" right... Never even heard of the word before... But i'll bet you have Steph...Right? If anyone hasn't heard it before , look it up...Learn something new everyday...Granny

Wore to a frazzle.

Phew!! This has been an exhausting week for yours truly...We have had such nice weather down here that I have been taking advantage of every bit of time I can get outdoors...I finished raking the dead grass that Phillip didn't get...Not to mention all the leaves that fell off the cottonwood tree in the back yard, and packed in the rock piles that we have placed in lieu of any other vegative plantings...Got a few spines in my hand when I reached into the piles that are placed too close to the nasty cactus we planted under the windows as an all time great deterent to would-be house breakers...Even with heavy gloves I felt the bite of the cactus...The weeds in the garden spot are growing faster than any plants...Chard has started to show and the snow peas have sprouted...Potatoes will take a while but now that it is getting warmer, they should show pretty soon...Had to get the darn weeds though before they took over...I screwed up and lost the squash plants... They were getting their third set of leaves so took them outside to get some good sunshine...Got busy and forgot them...They got fried...Got to start all over again... Now that it's warmer I will start them to go outside in the daytime, and only bring them in at night until I don't have to worry about frost...

I cleaned up a lot of the rocks we had gathered this winter...Anyway the ones Phillip hasn't cut up...He has been going strong on both the saws...He cut some of the rhodochrusite that he found up in MT not long before we left there. It's beautiful...Lot more solid than it looks. Has quite a bit of matrix attached to it but not too detracting...Gorgous pink with white and dark grey... He will have to hike back up there and get some more this summer...

We went out rock hunting yesterday...I hauled my fat ass across the flats, up the washes and over the ridges...About a mile in we picked up some red and yellow blotched agate and some lavender oolitic agate...With full bags I wished for a helicopter rescue but had haul bags plus fat ass back out...At least most of it was downhill...

Had tumblers to take care of today...all 3 of them...Sorted and cleaned the stuff from yesterday then sat my fat ass in the lawn chair and had a tall frosty glass of pineapple and orange juice...

Sorted some garnet I want to facet then it started to get cloudy haze in the sky... Figured what the hell, might as well break for lunch, maybe it will pass over...It didn't so decided to plant my carcass in front of the computer and drop a post...

Well what's going on in your neck of the woods?

The other side of the mountain

Well now you know what's on the other side of the mountain so you don't need to wonder any more. Granny

Phew.....we have been busy!

Just got back from staying with Donna and Ryan for a few days. I went down there on Sunday the 7th and Donna and I hit the Thrift stores and did some general shopping for a couple of days. Then she and I came back up to Bull River and she stayed here for a couple of days. We spent most of our time cutting out some summer outfits (dresses, shorts, rompers and sun-tops and bloomers/panties) for Rhiannon. Then we went back down to her and Ryan's place and dinked around. I stopped by and visited with Bill, Sissy and Amee a couple to times. I really enjoyed my visits with everybody!!

I am back home now and I have so many things I want to get done over the course of the next couple of weeks......it is confusing as to which I want to tackle first!! The weather is improving up here. We still have a bunch of snow on the ground but the daily high temps are ranging in the mid 30-40's. I am looking forward to spring!!

I took and nasty fall about a month ago. Hurt my dang knee and hip!! If I didn't curse out loud........I sure missed a good reason to. I need to be getting out and getting in some walking but I am too afraid of falling down again!! A couple of weeks with temp as they have been and I will be able to get back into walking again!!

Bruce and Toby have been taking walks almost every day. They walk about 3 miles round trip. Toby loves going on walks! All he has to see is Bruce coming up the stairs with his jumpsuit on and he is ready to go!! Bruce says the he doesn't understand walking..he runs from side to side of the road, climbing and jumping on the snow burms WITH his nose in overdrive!!

Well, should sign off for now and get my behind busy!! Love ya all!!

Granny ----Wonder Woman

I can't help but wonder... How can a person be stimulated by a tax reduction if they don't have a job??

There are so many things to wonder about...When you are a child you may have wondered why the sky is blue...How many stars there were in the sky...What makes earthquakes...

Wonders change as you get older...An adult sees a button and wonders what it does...

A kid pushes the button then wonders why that happened...

Life itself is a wonderous mystery...The longer I live, the more I wonder about my life, my experiences, the universe, what happens to this country, and all my family...

I think wonder is a good thing, because mystery and wonder makes live new and exciting...

Ever wonder what is on the backside of this mountain??? Next post I'll tell you...

Exploring Colorado

Jason and I had a good weekend exploring some new Colorado territory! This state is so massive and there is so much to do here we are not bored! Unfortunately, these silly things called JOBS, get in our way of having daily adventures :(

We went to the northwest corner of the state to Steamboat Springs. Unlike much of the rest of Colorado, this was not a mining town, but rather a cattle ranching town. Apparently, many of the townsfolk have not gotten the clue that in the 21st century it has become a high-falootin' ski resort town and have attempted to cling to Stetson hats and bolo ties amidst the Prada handbags and fur coats!!!

On the way back we took the Cache la Poudre/North Park senic byway back to Ft. Collins and it was amazing! The canyon narrows and widens throughout the length of the byway setting for some spectacular views. We were a little disappointed not to see any wildlife, but maybe next time.

Brain-echo update.

Last night when the echos were rolling around in my head I forgot to mention that I also had to wear a garter belt and long brown socks...Before the year was out I began to roll up the underwear above my knees and roll the long brown socks to the top of my shoes...The apron I wore was what my mom called a pinafore...I used to pull my long skirts up thru the belt a bit so the skirt didn't hang down so far...A bit blousy around my waist but what the heck, I already had courious bumps around my knees and then every one could see the fat rolls around the tops of my shoes...All this ended the next year when we moved to Wyoming and we were out of range of my Grandmother's influence on my dress habits... By the time we returned to Utah, my father told my Grandmother in no uncertain terms, I would not be dressing like an old lady any longer...
Granny

Another week and a new month.

Bloomers!! Now there's an old-fashioned word for you...True, today's bloomers are not like they were when I was a young...That wasn't as far back as the dark ages but the ones I started out with were made from flour sacks by my Mother... They covered you from your waist to your knees...They were made bloomery enough not to bind when you bent over...Before the second world war they had elastic in the waist and legs...After the war started, elastic was impossible to get, so the bloomers had buttons at the waist and legs...Instant disaster if you happened to lose a waist button, because safety pins were impossible to get too...
Ahh!! The joys of childhood...Echos from the brain... I see myself on the playground at school...First grade...Looking like a little old lady dressed in my long handled underwear, flour sack bloomers, 2 petticoats, (1 Knee-length,1 to the shoe-tops), boys high-top shoes, dress made from flour sacks that hung down to shoe-tops, ( long sleeved to cover the long handled underwear), apron , you guessed it!! made from flour sacks...
At this school we had what the kids now-a-days called monkey bars... Bars were at different heights...Some at 3 feet and others up so high only the 6th graders could jump up and reach them...I could swing on all of them I could reach with out the boys looking up my skirts...I mean what the heck... What could they see anyway?
I really hated wearing those darn bloomers even if they did preserve my dignity...
Now more brain- echos...One good thing about that time of my childhood was, I got to wear boys clothes a lot in the summer-time...Great for climbing trees, hiking and chasing around in general...During the war shoes were rationed so ration stamps were saved for school shoes...Boys shoes lasted longer...Until I was 9 years old I had to wear those darn bloomers along with one of the shorter petticoats or a dress that mom shortened and cut the sleeves off of when I went swimming...When my Grandmother wasn't around to preach to me, I would go swimming in my old boys overalls... I had worn holes in the knees, so I had mom cut them off for swimming...My Grandmother was a staunch Mormon and wearing those old cut- off overalls were considered almost naked... I wonder what she would think if she could see today's bloomers... If she weren't already dead she would die of shock I bet...Enough brain-echos...
You'll see I have added some new features to the blog...
Another thought to leave with you...A new feature...

YOU KNOW YOU'ER IN ARIZONA WHEN...people drive the temperature instead of the speed limit.
Granny