porch blog pic included

 

at least I hope the picture is uploading.  So here I sit on the porch thinking I would rather be at the beach.  I took a spill on my bike. Hit some loose gravel and down she went.  Have a nasty gash on my knee which I have to keep dry.   I have bought some anti-bacterial drying powder so hopefully with in the next two days all shall be well.

We're down to under two weeks here on the island.  I imagine time is going to go pretty fast. Tomorrow a good friend of ours is having a birthday celebration at the beach bar so that should be a good time.  Must remember to bring flashlight to find my way home.....sorry so short....ttfn

porch blog

the title is where I sit.  I found the coolest place to be other then in the ocean.  On the front porch with the big fan on, directly aimed to me :)
 I see some bees or wasps are building a home in our tile roof.  I hope they are happy ones and not some rare Asian/African killer cross breed type.  lol  Just what we need to worry about after dinner plate sized spiders and random snakes going over our feet... 
Time is running down here just under three weeks till we head off to Vietnam.  I am getting excited about visiting another country.  Can't wait to try the food and local beer...
Not much else to talk about been a cloudy sort of day with intermitent rain...

Friday Five

Crap these long nails are not conducive to typing easily.  I had my blog nearly completed and somehow slipped and deleted the whole thing grrrrr.  Well to make a long blog short I will give you the friday five in condensed form.
five things about my day so far...

1. Woke up fairly early so I could go for a bike ride with my Thai neighbor.  However when I opened the front door there was a note explaining she was sorry and couldn't make it as she had to go work on her farmer.   I'm pretty sure she meant farm as I don't think her husband would like the former..

2.Decided to wake up the kid instead and do a beach walk mountain hike, followed by a swim.  Very refreshing swim after the long sweaty walk.  Even saw some Thai boys catch some fish.

3. Back at the bungalow Harry had returned from getting his crown put on and was excited about a fresh kill he found on the road.  We grabbed a bag and large empty water bottle and went to fetch said snake.  He is now ensconced in vinegar and sitting on our neighbors porch.  I am sure he will be happy with his present ;)
: note here crown on tooth not head lol

4. Seeing that we were out of eggs and we all had built up an appetite I then biked down to the corner store to buy a bag of eggs.  Five eggs to be exact.  I didn't put them in my basket as I have learned that is not safe transport for bagged eggs.

5.I tried to peel open the outer shell of a coconut and forget it.  It is way too hard I will happily wait for my man mcgiver to come home from his massage and do the hard work.

Well thats it so far ttyl

finally

I am able to open my blog and read it in English.  I could read others blog's but when I tried to go on mine and compose it was all in Thai.
 So been pretty much relaxing, drinking beer, eating the super awesome food and just being generally lazy... 
Tomorrow is Chinese New Year and the fireworks are starting all ready.  This will go on for fifteen days.  Very loud and noisy.  We will go to the Chinese Temple tomorrow  night and watch the big celebration.  It will be super packed tight with people so if you don't like tight crowds you best stay behind...

ttfn

O M GOSH, has it been a week already?

Can one call in sick from ones New Years Resolutions?   If so I can bring a doctors note and everything.  Speaking of which,  what a waste of time that was, going to the doctor that is.  Drive down to the walk-in clinic sit in a room full of sick people and be told yeah your sick.   He didn't even look in my ears or take my temperature. 
On a happier note, yesterday was Nevada's 13th birthday.  My baby is no longer a baby.  Well she hasn't been a baby for awhile but now she is officially a teenager.....don don don....I don't anticipate too much of a problem with the teen years as I have been through it twice already and escaped unharmed...
So one week from today I will be winging over the Pacific to Thailand and possible Vietnam.  I am so excited.   We couldn't pick our seat till 72 hours before the flight so that part kind of makes me edgy.  Not so much edgy as kind of ticked off.  I didn't read that part till the flights were booked.  I called and whined a couple times to see if they would let me pre-book but to no avail. 
Happy Weekend

GO NINERS

Karma karma karma karma karma

chameleon.......

  I wonder if there is such a thing as backwards karma.  Yesterday in Target I found a pair of $135 Nike runners from Finish Line.  Someone must have inadvertently put the bag down and walked off with out it.   The runners were size 10.5 mens the exact size Harry, Harrison and Kaikoa wear.   I had a little bit of mental debate before I did the right thing and brought the bag to customer service.  I even walked back to the other store and told them.  In case the purchaser returned there looking for them...Then driving home Kaikoa told me he had put his new Samsung phone on a shelf while he tried on some jeans and totally forgot it there.  We were going to leave the store when Nevada spotted a shirt Kaikoa might have liked on a 60% off rack. He went to try it on and there was his phone sitting there.  

All was good, I hope the buyer gets his shoes back and if not we can phone in thirty days and claim them with a clear conscience. :)

Thursday Thirteen

I had a great opening line a few minutes ago and then got distracted by my hunter's horn on MH.  Well,  guess I will have to go with a new train of thought...  I have decided today's thirteen will all be along the same theme... injuries I have suffered over the years.  So here goes in no particular order just as I think or remember them...You'll understand where this subject came up as you read #1...

1. Last night at pitching clinic (Nevada has pitching clinic every Wed.  and I have to be her catcher) someone namely fore mentioned child neglected to make eye contact before blasting off her rifle shot pitch and woomph right in the gut.  I must say it was a strike and lucky for me it wasn't aimed at my head.  Big bruise this morning and very tender to the touch...

2. Growing up in a family of 4 children apparently my parents thought one bike shared between all of us was plenty. My brother thinking he was mechanically inclined was forever doing modifications. One day I was flying at breakneck speed down the alley when the handlebars turned and the front wheel didn't.  There wasn't a part of my exposed skin that didn't have a tiny piece of gravel imbedded in it.

3. Lets go back to ball, this could be a reoccurring theme here ;)   back in the olden times when I was young and stupid I stayed out all night partying at the river. I had a ball practice at 10 that morning and couldn't miss it or you would be benched.  I was standing in the field catching fly balls not flies lol . I think I went into a sleep deprived trance, smack right in the forehead.....

4. Here is another one  on the partying theme. Around 1981 a group of us being the smart minded individuals we were decided that alcohol and going to the lake to go off a rope swing were a good mix.  I climbed up to the top of the tree, grabbed onto the rope and attempted to swing out onto the lake....fail...I let go of the rope about 3 feet off shore in about a foot of water. Knocked the air out of my lungs and luckily for me didn't break anything. thanks Dale the only one who asked if I was ok.

5. Self-induced whiplash even unintentionally is no laughing matter.  Last winter I was pulling along my work briefcase when I hit a lip in the sidewalk.  It pulled right out of my hand and a muscle in my neck. I was on Aleve for months after.   note to anyone Aveve kicks butt on muscle pain...

6. Lets go back in time to 1966 Quebec Canada....I was skipping along happily to the blueberry patch with my mom,  showing off my athletic ability at a young age ;). Jumping from cement barrier to cement barrier I was pretty high on myself when they must have put one farther apart then the previous ones.  Bang onto the ground in a pile of broken glass.   I still have the scars on my knees today.

7.Drunken teenage years again....Cultus Lake 1980 all the teenagers were put in the same campground. I think they were trying to spare  family's the rambunctiousness of youth.  Being the intelligent beings we were and fueled by alcohol and wacky tabacky we decided a lake swim was in order.  We all piled into Blake's car, unfortunately I didn't quite make it into the car before he sped off.. One foot was under the back tire when the screams alerted him to stop.  So of course he stopped and reversed over it again....Quick trip to the emergency room and we were back partying within a couple hours...

8.Ball again,  batter's cage no alcohol involved.   I took an inside pitch on the side of my hand and broke it.  Drove myself to emergency and had to have it set and wrapped.  Next day, I had a job interview at Safeway so unwrapped it and pretended all was good.

9.Big waves are a dangerous thing...Charley Young Beach Maui mid 90's.  Boogie boarding in waters I should have left to the pros...major face plant down to the bottom where I had sand pushed up into my teeth and gums....I guess those flags had meanings ;)  yes there was alcohol involved....

10. Fireplaces, sure they are lovely to look at.  Yes, the dry heat from burned wood is like no other.  But put one piece of wood in that shoots off a deadly spark and you have the makings for a burnt neck.   For weeks after it looked like a big hickey.

11. Makeup there is another injury waiting to happen.  Back in the day when I cared about putting on such, I was attempted to separate my eyelashes with a pin when I moved and stabbed my eye.  A bright red eye is such a lovely look to sport.

12. Here's a good one...of course it involves liquid courage again...Nervous and I took mountain bikes with us one trip to Northern California.  We were going along a trail and there was a wooden bridge with no sides over a creek.  I came upon it at breakneck speed and realizing there was no way I was going to make the turn I made the decision to put the bike down before I did a head over into the dry creek bed....this was during the 7 year drought of the late 80's. You can check it out Lake Shasta was so low you could seen the town they flooded building the dam.

13.  I must have a fairly injury free life I am having a hard time coming up with the last one.   Oh I know....One morning my brother and I were having and argument at breakfast when he took his peanut butter and jam toast and smooshed it into my face.  Well of course a chase ensued.....Running through the dining room door he pulled it shut behind him.   I ran full bore into it and was knocked on my ass.  I had the biggest goose egg ever.  It even came down and kept one of my eyes shut.

There you have it folks I"m done and now I"m off to paint Nevy's room....