So, yesterday I am taking a Sunday nap. I hear a quiet 'mew' and call the kitty. She is standing on the floor near the bed. Again I hear 'mew' and so I get up and put on my glasses. She has a chipmunk laying in front of her. She softly paws it. It is on its back with tail and legs sticking up. Dead, right? (foreshadowing) I go down and call Josh in because of course I should not have to pick this thing up. He kept the door open so the cats can go in and out. Josh and I come back up to the bedroom. The cat has shoved the chipmunk completely in to one of my running shoes with just the tail sticking out. Josh picks up the shoe asks, "is it dead?" shakes the shoe and nothing moves. We go outside, Josh blows on the chipmunk and detects a slight movement. He dumps it out and the chipmunk turns over and runs under the deck.
Amazing adventures.
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WooHoo! My angels are off to school! :-)
I remember back when Eli began Kindergarten...someone asked me if I thought it was, "awesome." My honest reply, at that time, (foreshadowing)was..."No, I'd rather he stayed home with me." Not anymore baby...I love school days!!! :-) :-<> :-) However, when 3:30pm rolls around I am super anxious to see them...but, I'm totally fine having ALL DAY TO MYSELF...I have no problems with that. :-)
Gotta go and tap the Keg...my friends are coming over! :-)
Better to have a, "live," Chipmunk...than, a dead one...no?
What? Half-gay? Isn't that bi-sexual? I don't think Alvin and his brothers were, "bi."
Furthermore, Elmer chased the waskly wabbit...not, the Chipmunks...get it right...geesh.
Hiccup...hey, Tom...come home! :-)
Least Competent Cops: Four New York City police were called to an apartment house in July in the Bronx concerning a landlord-tenant dispute, but were distracted by a teenager in the hallway smoking marijuana and started to chase him, when a pit bull attacked the officers. The toll, 26 bullets later: one dead dog, one bitten officer, three other officers wounded by each other's gunshots. [New York Post, 7-24-06]
Was the pitbull smoking too?
The Emmys: Glad that Kiefer S. won. He looked handsome!!! Nice speech too.
Happy belated birthday, Molly! Hope you had a good one. I should have written this on the previous post since we seem to equate one's importance with the number of comments posted on that person's b-day.
Sounds like Tom and Nance had a good trip, except for the saying goodbye to Donny part. Tom, do you think most modern conveniences are an affront to manliness? Toilet paper? Cell phones? What about luggage with wheels?
For all of you with kids... Jude is driving me crazy. Throwing his drink on the floor or the crayons behind the couch, then saying, "Uh oh," and then crying because he wants the thrown item back, just so he can throw it again. This has been going on for quite some time. I thought this phase would pass. I've tried ignoring the behavior, saying no, time out, gentle explanations, everything. Do I just have to wait for this to pass? Will it ever pass?
Beat him.
check his hairline for three 6's...
Start doing the same thing to him and see how he likes it.
He has trained you to fetch. You're a good dog.
That's amazing! When my kids throw something behind the couch it disappears for two months. Then I rearrange the living room and they find all their lost booty before I have a chance to grab a garbage bag and get rid of it for good.
Hey, Em, if he's dumping his drink out move the cup out of reach. If it's something less messy, don't react.
Holy stinky sneakers, Patman! Your sweaty shoes revived the chipmunk. Check carefully for stains inside your shoes in the image of the Blessed Virgin. You could prop the shoe outside your house and have round-the-clock prayer vigils and thousands of candles lit in your yard. That would show Skippy or whatever his name was who is master of the neighborhood. Good cat, by the way.
Tomkin?
Em -
When a kid is crying because of something he himself did, you just have to let him cry. This is the practice of "benign neglect" espoused by the late vice-president Spiro Agnew. Good policy when raising children, not so good for inner-city blighted neighborhoods. I am a great champion of benign neglect, as well as benevolent irresponsibility and informed ignorance. Just ask my kids.
Oh, I should tell you that when the cat has a toy - a ball of paper or something, he always puts it in our shoes, so that is why the chipmunk was in the shoe.
Tomkin? What about Tomkin? That's my neighbors name...
Of course, if it's a grandchild doing the same things, you just keep retreiving the things and laughing about what a cute little rascal he is until the parent steps in, which is why it's more fun being a grandparent.
Tomkin is who I was thinking of when I said Skippy.
Musta been a size 7 chipmunk. Don't put odor-eaters in there. I knew a guy who did that and he disappeared.
Chip and Dale weren't gay, I don't think. They were more like a tony Randall, kinda fussy and just so.
Size 6.5 thank you very much.
One time Kozmo pooped in Joe's shoe. It was when he was young. It was a size 12 poop.
Not only am I a perfect, "10," so is my shoe size! Hmm, go figure.
Bob's absence, on the Blog, makes yah wonder if HE put odor eaters in HIS shoes! Tee, hee.
Nance how much do I owe you for the tshirts?
Yeah - how do the T-shirts look?
The tees look great...we think. :-)
The cost per tee...regardless of size is $7.40 each.
I will bag up the tees per family and write your name and dollar total on it. I don't want to spend my time managing this at the farm...so, I will place the box with all of the bagged tees in the family room and a manilla envelope, for your payments, on the fireplace mantel. I need to leave Labor Day weekend with $407.00 to pay my Dad. You may either pay in cash or check. If you pay in check...please, make it payable to Bob James as he has already paid the bill in full.
Thank you and we'll see you this weekend. :-)
Monica,
When are you headed down to the farm? I drive through Cedar Rapids on my way and may just pop in...
Hey...who all is NOT coming? Here's what I THINK...am I right?
Pat
Emily
Jim
Pete
Don
Anyone else?
Please, let me know. Thanks.
Mel Gibson will NOT be attending.
Benign neglect is a great defense mechanism for moms, especially moms of more than one kid. Emily, you should have another baby to fully understand how to implement benign neglect. On a totally unrelated subject... it's a miracle all the Jayjack kids survived to adulthood. I mean a MIRACLE.
Hey Joe3...Joe & Mary!
I'm thinking that we should send the tees, to Decatur, with one of you. We will not be arriving until Sunday and I think, maybe, the tees should be there at the beginning of the weekend. Furthermore, what IF something happened and we couldn't come at all? It would be awful if the tees never made it.
Please, get a hold of me and let me know if you can do this...and, what day you will be leaving. I haven't bagged up the tees yet and it will take some time. I'm planning to do this tomorrow.
Please, let me know. Thanks. :-)
Nance, thanks again for all the t-shirt stuff. And thank your dad, too.
Grace~ Oh...you are entirely welcome. It was your interest and efforts that inspired me to get the job done.
I know, I know...ooey, gooey...yes, I'm great...Grace is great...aren't we great? :-<> ~ha, ha. :-)
while parents my practice benign neglect, older siblings tend to practice malicious indifference.
Did you guys read about the woman who crashed while giving her dog a driving lesson?
Hey, whaddya mean, a miracle? For that...you must dance!
A modest proposal:
Stevo and I, the Ortegas and the Richardsons are already meeting at Ames on the last weekend of Sept to tailgateand camp. How about we make that TRHE tailgate game for the year? Granted, it's parent's weekend, but I've never noticed that that impacts gameattendance much. The game that weekend is against Southern Obscure University so ISU should win, it's at 6:00PM and tickets are still available. We got hillside tix and we got tix for all the kids for $10 each, but the comfy seats are only $35. The weather should be decent. If this is a go, you should be getting motel reservations tout suite. Of course, the mysterious powers that decide on THE game every year may have other ideas, but let's hear some feedback.
It is great to have indoor cats. Aggie brings me socks in liew of a half dead wild animal.
Emily - watch super nanny. sounds like it's time for the naughty spot to me. We all hate being manipulated, don't we.
last night super nanny delt with a child who gets out of bed to sleep with parents. It took only one night and two tried to get that child to stay in his own bed. All I can say is: what planet is that child from?
That child was a demon child. For sure.
So at work they're talking about adding a second shift and a weekend shift. Which is fine, as that will cut back on our on-call time, and i'm all for doing less work. However, we'll have to take turns working these shifts with the new people who are hired for them until they get up to speed. Fine, I understand that, but one guy I work with is all up in arms about it, even though at this point it's all theoretical.
"Well, as a person with a wife and kids I wasn't looking to do shift work. I wouldn't have taken this job if blah blah blah" and I guess I can see where he's coming from. Of course, that didn't stop me from saying to our boss at the end of the meeting "Say, Nathaniel, I'm going to need some time off soon to run to China and adopt me a baby."
it's fun to be a jerk.
Frank, you can adopt fast if you get a 12 yr. old juvie...then get the work shifts you want.
no, no... that's way too old for me to warp their fragile littel minds...
The beauty of a twelve year old "juvie" is that their minds come to you warped!
I watched super nanny once and she was so competent she made me spiral into depression over my inadequate parenting skills. Nanny, schmanny. I choose to believe it's all fake.
Now I watch LOST and Prison Break because those shows are so much more realistic. And My Name Is Earl.
Our boys LOVE to sleep with us...especially Liam.
Very hard to control. He arrives in the dark of night...and, most times I don't realize he's there until the morning.
Guinness sleeps with us every night...completely buried under the covers...cozy.
Are we weird?
Nevermind...don't answer that! :-<>
I always liked Grace. Oops there I go again!
Frank, you can get a pre-warped kid and heve someone old enough to provide slave labor at the same time. If you're still thinking about becoming a homeowner, think about it. Someone to roll out at 6:00 in the dead of winter to shovel your driveway...
Maybe that's the true cause of "empty-nest syndrome." I know that now that the young'uns are all gone, we're pricing snowblowers.
i actually kind of like shoveling snow... i do it at my apt complex from time to time even though I don't need to. my neighbors think i'm weird. they're pretty much right.
I used to actually like when a tiny person arrived in the dark to climb in and snuggle. At least until they got in the middle, kicked off the covers and (always!) slept sideways. You wake up configured like a capital H with the sprawled-out kid sleeping soundly across the middle with two shivering adults perched on the outer 6 inches of each side of the bed. Ahhh, the good old days... how is it that a 20-pound kid can be impossible to scooch over? You move one end and the other end goes back to the original position, like an unending Popeye cartoon.
The kids all used to sleep with us off and on but now when they come in the room I let them snuggle for 10 minutes then boot 'em out. Unless it's Saturday morning, then they can hang out on the bed until we get up. They're so squirmy. Good for snuggling, bad for sleeping.
Hey, mom, wanna borrow a few kids for your tent this weekend?
Frank, would you come live with us? How do you feel about leaf-raking?
I'm planning on a bed. On account of my advanced age and infirmity.
And pathological addiction to air-conditioning.
What's the weather forcast?
Moderate air-conditioning with occasional beers by the fire.
Does anybody know anything about Mozilla Firefox web browser? I had to install it last night to take an online quiz because the college site had a problem with my browser...and the techies told us to install Firefox and access the site through that.
By the way, algebra, calculus, geometry - all essential for forcasting weather. I've been tearing my hair out over two puny graphs and the calculations of rise and run and the slope and the y value... for my "easy" science credit, Climate and Weather. Stupid Ernesto.
Alert: Stevo just called me and said the Sept.30 ISU game (the one I'm urging us all to go to) is expected to be a sellout. They're playing UNI. I still think it would be fun.
actually i hate raking.
as for the kids all squirming in one direction, the capital H thing, maybe they all had to face Mecca, or true north...
Firefox seems to have fewer problems with security then Internet Explorer does. Just as easy to use, no major differences that i know of.
My cats cause the H Syndrome. But I'll never have to pay for their college education.
Just wait till one of them gets cancer of the hairball or something. Do they kick off the covers?
I love firefox. And you can customize quite a bit with it, which is fun and makes "webbrowsing" easier.
Jude's too young for time outs. Ignore it, let him cry, and get him a little basketball hoop to keep inside. Then use a lot of positive reinforcement when he throws toys in there.
The last two years, the ISU/UNI games were not crowded, so I doubt it will be a sell out.
$.02
Tell him, "no," and do not react to the water works nor retrieve the thrown item.
Thanks for all the advice regarding my fetching abilities. I am going to get him a basketball hoop as soon as we move.
Oh, yeah. He'll probably be tall so start grooming him for a b-ball scholarship now. Look what happened to Tiger after he learned to play golf at age two.
I'm going to groom my cat.
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Pat, start grooming your cat to be a great hunter. Pretty soon it'll be bringing you home tasty moles and squirrels to eat. Some day...a little speckled faun.
i have my sources. i just love the product descriptions. i want me a Breastplate of Righteousness.
The day I spend $49.95 for kids' pajamas...you can call me Jessica Simpson.
p. rose~ Ha! You win. :-)
I just ate a huge slice of pizza for lunch. But it was from Whole Foods so I feel great about it...
Phelan told me that the owner of the Whole Foods chain is a big contributor to the Republican Party...but, I still love to shop there!
Frank, I like to shovel too. You are more than welcome to stop by. I am going to the farm some time on Sat.
I heard it may be a bit chilly this weekend. Which sucks. Meaning I have to pack cold and hot weather clothes for eveyone.
Nance, I hate it when the dog is in our room at night. It always starts clening itself in the middle of the night making gross licking noises. Sometimes it snores.
Monica
Guinness is, almost, human in his sleeping and cuddling behaviors.
Sometimes humans are dog-like in their sleeping behaviors.
Don't shop at whole foods. We had a friend who worked with refugee populations, trying to find jobs, housing, etc. Anyway, she said whole foods was a terrible company, not remotely helpful. She said Trader Joes was great to the refugees as was Target. Not surprisingly, Walmart was terrible.
By the way, we found a different apt last night. This one is in Huntington Beach as well. It's actually a condo we are leasing from the owner and it's about 150 dollars more a month than we really wanted to spend, and it's small, but it's really nice. It is two blocks from the beach. It is on the third floor with a big patio and spectacular ocean views. The complex has a pool and there are lots of kids right around Jude's age there. We move on Sept 2. I am really excited. We just figured this is our last chance to live at the beach, so we decided to splurge a little since we know we will only be here two years. Ya'll come visit ASAP!
I'm anxiously waiting for Trader Joes, they have the $2.99 wine...but, in the mean time, Whole Foods does have the 4.99 wine...but, it sounds like the top dogs are asses!
they're bringing a Trader Joe's to Madison. and Mary, you can buy MadDog anywhere really...
Em, that is awesome. Definitely made the right choice, living in a place with an ocean view. The only thing I truly miss from California is walking along the beach several times a week.
Hey, someone wiht a digital camera take lots of pictures this weekend and send them all to me.
P
Ooooh, Em, I'm jealous. Living right by the beach! I bet Frank would even sacrifice shoveling snow for that.
Thank goodness you are still going to be in Huntington Beach. I feared I would have to get out my Sharpie and change all the tees! ~ha! :-)
Who is going to be at the farm Friday night?
i'll be rolling in sometime on Friday
We are coming on Sunday.
I will be there. I should be on the road right now, but I am not.
We'll be there Friday, as will the Richardsons and Ortegas. We're bringing golabkis and colcannon for sometime Saturday, which will be great if it's cool and rainy as predicted. Everyone bring plenty of dry socks!
Here's a suggestion: If everyone brings their own towels and takes them home with them, and sheets if using a bed, we won't have to do the laundromat thing on Monday. That could help in terms of cleaning up and getting out of there. Anyone else staying to clean up on Monday?
Ed, will you be there tonight?
Don't forget to bring pictures for the Eli Cash Memorial Photo Album (to remain at the farm for the enjoyment of future generations)
I think it's the day AFTER Labor Day.
That's what it was back in the day...for me.
Methodist ones.
"Do all the good you can, as much as you ever can" is part of the motto.
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Today, football starts. Can you believe it? Iowa State tonight, Garrigan tomorrow night, ND and Iowa (and whoever else, SDSU etc.) on Saturday. Glorious football season is finally here. I'm gonna cry. Tears of joy.
Good luck tonight, Joe IV!
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