mAniC mOndAy - dAy fOURteeN

oh monday...how i hate thee...let me count the ways...1. still don't have water 2. have to go back to work 3. do i really need to give three reasons??? i think numero uno is enough in and of itself. this IS the 21st century right? we're on day 5 of no water. landlord is supposedly doing the 'best' that he can. won't let us call a trustworthy plumber. we HAVE to use his guy. 'his guy'...the one that didn't even show up yesterday...right...that one...yay (again, insert sarcastic font here)

walked over to the neighbors to fill buckets so we could at least flush the toilet and then it started to storm. tried to get a pic of the rainbow after the storm but you can just barely make it out.

after the storm.

I REALLY NEED A NEW CAMERA! this little dark spot in the middle of the field is a fox. he darted out of the woods in our backyard and across the field into the corn. he looked really wet and really scared...though you can't tell from this pic.

the storm looked even creepier as it moved away then it did before it came. loved the clouds. all in all, besides the fact that we still don't have water, it wasn't that bad of a day. hung out with Kim, Dan, and our neighbor, Bob, for a while. Watched some NCIS until the electricity went out from the next storm that came thru and went to bed. Hope Tuesday is better...

sUndAy fUndAy - dAy tHiRteeN

woke up not as early as saturday. did not run. the alcohol consumption from the day before prohibited this. spent most of the morning trying to figure out where we were going to go for brunch and whether or not we were going by boat or by car. turns out we went by car to the clarion. brunch was not their forte by any means, but it was better then nothing.

breakfast of champions for the second day. orange juice instead of water this time, coffee, bloody mary. the bloody mary was really spicy, and not great, but it was only $2.50 so i couldn't really complain. buffet was cold...but my omelet was delish. but i ate it before i could take a pic of it.

so instead you get a picture of what was left of my home fries and my cream chipped beef...

Lennie B Lennie hides from the camera...we don't know why.

came back from brunch stuffed. decided to walk the beach. it wasn't sunny enough to lay out and we'd had enough sun from the day before. came back from the beach and decided to journey home. it took us an hour to get from OCMD to Rehobeth. next time i will take monday off and stay another day. sunday funday turned into 'sit in traffic til i want to set someone on fire and put them out with a pitchfork" day. finally got home at 9pm only to find out we still don't have water...yay (insert sarcastic font here).

cLammiN' - dAy tWeLVe

breakfast of champions. water, coffee, bloody mary.

we woke up relatively early for a saturday and went running. about a mile and a half i'd guess, though i didn't clock it. went back and enjoyed bloody mary's, water, and coffee. eventually made eggs & sausage and got ourselves ready for the boat. there was a small boat advisory so we had to stay in the bay. i was glad for this since i have a history of seasickness. no good.

got on the boat, which i was afraid of first and started out...

stopped for fuel, and then at seacrets...i should have taken a pic of this really but instead i will do my best at describing it to you. imagine the bay at seacrets...now imagine not being able to see the water because of the seriously massive amounts of intoxicated people in the water...now imagine being in that water, drinking and having to pee. do you get OUT of the water to go the restroom? i wonder... i was glad for the taxi boat. for a moment i thought we were going to have to walk into the pee and cigarette infested water...gross.

took the boat in, had some really really really good jerk chicken and bruscetta while we people watched and stared in disbelief at what some girls will do to themselves, and then got back on the boat and headed for the chowder beds.

my two favorites...smellin' LN and Johanna Banana.

heh...floating heads.

you can't see it very well...but Dan is holding three 'chowder' clams in one hand...at most i can hold two. had so much fun with the three of them. my feet hurt a little from digging in the sand for clams, but it was well worth it. pretended to fly on our way back. probably almost got tossed from the boat a few times, though i'm sure i would have felt nothing. alcohol is amazing in it's numbing abilities.

ordered enough food to feed a small militia and nearly slept thru the delivery guy. watched a movie. LN and Dan watched it with their eyes closed. they have talent. decided not to go out that night. the alcohol consumption during the day was a little absurd...wait...that's not possible.

bEAcH bOUnd - dAy eLeVeN

left for the beach around 5-5:30. traffic wasn't really that bad. made a couple of stops at the market and the liquor store. two essential stops mind you. grabbed some fresh tomatoes and nuts at Hershey's Farm market and some sweet tea RASPBERRY vodka at the wine & spirits across the street...yum...and headed out. vodka and tomatoes don't really go well together, but it's what i wanted.

got to LN and Dan's around 8:30pm. we beat them there. HA. though i was sort of driving like a maniac. we got there in one piece. that's all that matters right? the drinking started and lasted all weekend, though this is what caught my eye when we first walked in the door. i have a new found love for Red Stripe Light...yeah...i know...weird.

Lennie B Lennie and Smellin' LN. two of my favorites. 

angry little Montgomery Burns.

we drank some, tried to play a game which called for absolutely no inhibitions, can't remember what it was called, and went to bed. great start to a fantastic weekend!!

dOg dAyS - dAy tEn

slowest day of my life so far! i leave for the beach tomorrow and the clock was not on my side today... Got up early and went running. it wasn't too bad this morning. last couple mornings i didn't even bother it was so thick outside. went to work schmirk. what a drag that place is sometimes. for the most part i like the people i work with, but what i do is soooooo mundane and repetitive...get it...? i think a well trained monkey could do my job. came home, ate pizza, packed up the laundry while Bird tried to hunt down the groundhog, and headed to mom and dad's to do a load of laundry. took some pics while i was there. sat with Kim for a while. came home to find Bird and Don fixing the water/pump/leak problem and watched kaley chase flies for a while...seriously though try to envision this...82 lbs of clumsiness leaping around our small little place for A FLY... she catches 'em sometimes too! Gonna go pack for the beach and hit the sack.

ladies and gentlemen i have finally found photobucket and i'm in love. joepetie is in love with kaley. she is his girlfriend and he is her boyfriend. they make out every night. it's kinda gross actually.

dirty dog prints

my feet do strange things. i thought they looked funny.

hUmP dAy - dAy nInE

typically i like wednesdays. i was bored at work today. sent out a resume to try to find something that pays a little more while i go back to school...we'll see.

came home from work and finished stuffing thank you's. Bird cooked dinner...again!!! no seriously! chicken and corn on the cobb and fresh sliced tomatoes. in all fairness, i did the corn and the tomatoes. not that it took much. aunt fran dropped off our joe corbi's pizza- yum. that may just be dinner tomorrow night. quoit night always proves to be an interesting dinner night since we have to be at quoits by 6:30. hopefully i'll sleep better tonight. i haven't been sleeping well lately. seems i'm waking up really hot and then can't fall back asleep...

we still have no water pressure. took a shower this morning and got all lathered up with soap only to lose water again. had to stand in the shower shivering waiting for the pump to come back on. ugh. no good. not a great start to my day. meanwhile, there's not enough pressure to do the dishes and we are running out...

played my guitar for a while outside and watched the geese fly by...it's  not that time of year yet is it? maybe they just do practice runs...you know...make sure they fly in proper formation and all.

s.H.i.t. sO hAppy iT's tUesdAy - dAy eiGht

work was work. there's nothin' much to say about that. though i did get most of my thank you's written! the b man was out, so i procrastinated work today instead of my thank you's. came home and Bird and i went to Hershey's Farm market. i spent $76 and got sooooo much stuff. i love the market. really i love the markets out here in the country. i went to the one in frazer by work last week and spent a small fortune on 1 tomatoe, a green pepper, and some homemade pickles-which turned out to be not as tasty as i would have thought.

stopped at mom's on the way home and got my camera charger. good thing too, cause there would have been no picture taking today had i not. i really need to get some sort of photo program too. my camera now leaves much to be desired.

Bird cooked! no really, he did! he made lobster tail and steaks on the grill! SO good! i made a salad to go along with home grown lettuce and tomatoes. i love cutting in to a fresh tomatoe and watching the blood red juices flow. not one of my better descriptions i guess but there isn't much out there besides blood that resembles the redness of a really good tomatoe.

watered my flowers-so as to help the weeds grow back-only to lose all water. yup, all of it. i thought there was a kink in the hose and checked it thoroughly. i went inside and turned on the spicket only to find no water there either. Bird was checkin' out his new spear gun (for the ginormous fish in the mountains) and was unpleasantly interruped by my qualms with the lack in water. fortunately the landlord's mr. fixit Rich showed up about an hour later. he'll be back in the morning to fix it. apparently there'a a leak and there's air getting in the pump causing us to lose all pressure. the water pressure came back, but we can't use a lot for long periods of time...ie me watering the weeds. came in, watch the phillies. we're in present time now so i can only assume i'll drink another beer and go to bed...or maybe i'll address those thank you's so i can mail them out tomorrow....hmmmmmm

yeah you know how we do.

i am carnivorous.

yum

the salad didn't fit in the picture nicely. plus i covered it in dressing before i thought of taking a pic and it just wasn't as aesthetically pleasing then.

believe it or not i ate the lobster, half my salad but only half my steak...yes...this is the half that's left! holy biggest steak ever batman. at least i can put it in a salad tomorrow for lunch.

i've killed this plant twice already. i wander if plants have nine lives kinda like cats do.

can anyone

please tell me

if this is a plant or a weed that i've grown in a pot accidentally?

jUst aNoTheR maNic moNdAy - dAy sEvEn

i usually hate mondays. today was no exception to that but it wasn't as bad as some have been. i am not the biggest fan of my own job. i will be back in school in no time and will leave this wretched corporate america...for yet another i'm sure.

after work i weeded the garden. i'm convinced now that I should have left the weeds because now the flowers don't look as luscious. at least they looked full with the weeds. i would have taken a before and after but the battery in my camera died and i need to get the charger from mom. tomorrow. at least i got a couple before it died. cooked dinner and cleaned up. drank a few beers and put off writing thank you's for yet another night....yes i know...the wedding was in may...i am a master procrastinator...

bird practicing...not happy that I took his pic, but he looked good doin' it so I couldn't resist...

Bird's baby. dogs sure can contort themselves in some seriously awkward positions.

sometimes i think her tongue is not connected. to a point where it concerns me some.

sUNdAy fUndAy - dAy sIx

i usually love sundays. not this sunday though. i woke up very hungover, stiff from the ground that i slept on, needing to pee, but longing for more sleep. sleep would have come had my bladder not won that battle. i got up and decided i'd might as well stay up. i wanted to be with family.

at least i had a nice view for my coffee.

Jay really likes my dad's John Deere. so i took his pic again. lol. i was happy to do it actually. I'm glad our friends came. we had a blast. Mom made breakfast and we all stuffed ourselves again. Jay, Donnie, Erin, Steve, Ben and Mary left and I proceeded to be even more hungover then i was when i woke up. i packed up the tent, and our gear only to find that i had lost the tent bag. typical. i found it later in another bag i forgot i had. packed the car and went back to sleep. Woke up later groggy and longing for my own bed. finished packing and loaded Kim and headed home since she wasn't feeling well. Bird got to stay an extra night and bring Kim's car home the next day. the drive home always makes me sad. and then i look back at pictures and smile...365 days 'til next tractor pull family reunion...

this is what happens when you let your sister apply your sunscreen...really she was fine...but sucking up all the attention just the same.

family game of mancala

anner nanner...

tRacToR pULL - dAy fIvE

woke up early...sung "nicola" so she would wake up and her and I went for a 2 mile run. it was great. weather was perfect for running. Came back, took a shower, and sat around visiting with family.

i'm kinda obsessed with strange littlle bugs and spider webs.

where i enjoyed my saturday morning coffee

Bird, Steve, Erin, Donnie, & Jay got up there around noon. drank some beers, went swimming, did some fishing. we finally decided we needed to go over to the tractor pull for some food.

we might be big, but we still find great pleasure in throwing stones bigger then your head

Jay liked this tractor so i took a pic. notice the roll cage around the seat...

We ate some great Pulled Pork, went back to the house and did some more drinking and swimming. Ben and Mary showed up and the real debauchery began! Bird decided to go snorkeling and when he did, he found a ginormous wali (sp?) After that he fashioned himself a spear and went back in after it. He was not successful, but I was proud of the effort even though I still don't believe the fish existed. At least not as big. It was really just amusing to watch him go around caveman like with his make shift spear that was really just a long stick with a couple knives tired to the end. I was upset he was not successful cause I secretly wanted to see it as bad as he wanted to catch it.

we drank a whole lot more. our friend RJ cooked the world's best BBQ chicken, corn on the cobb, baked potatoes, my sister's baked beans. it was fantastic and i gorged myself. not too much that there wasn't enough room for more beer mind you.

drank a ton more, played the guitar, sang some. finally made it to the fire on the beach. i retired very late and didn't get much sleep. I was warm now with Bird to snuggle with, but my arm kept falling asleep. i was not meant to sleep on the ground.

tHe LoNg dRivE - dAy fOuR

I love the drive up. I love the roads, I love the view. Sadly I couldn't reach the camera in the backseat of the car without wrecking in the process. So I have no proof of the beautiful drive. I'm pissed because I already typed this intro once and then I lost internet connection. Not sure I remember everything that I wrote and not sure it really matters. I just remember thinking some of it was funny and now I can't get it back. poop.

It was late but not too late for children who are on vacation. We walked over to the Antique Machinery Show to see Uncle Charlie pull his yellow and mean Minneapolis Molene. He pulled 152.2 feet. He said that wasn't very good. That he had power and no traction. Tractor Talk. He gave us a ride back to the house in the bed of his truck. I haven't done this in so long and I felt like a kid again! It was only right down the street but I think I prefer this method of traveling and wish that it was legal.

Got back to the house and drank a bunch of beer. had to sleep in the tent by myself. Bird had to go to a Phillies game with a vendor Friday night and so wouldn't be up 'til Saturday morning. Bird time meant that would actually be around lunchtime. It was a little scary sleeping by myself in a tent borrowed from my boss. I was really cold though mostly, and was sad that i didn't have my Bird to snuggle with.

goiNg NoRth

Probably won't be able to post any pics for today, Saturday or Sunday-So I think I'll just start numbering my days manually-I'll post pics when I get back. Going north for the annual family reunion/antique tractor show. Can't wait! This IS my favorite weekend of the year! Guitar strummin', Banjo playin', drum thumpin', tractor pullin', camp fire buildin', tent sleepin', inner-tube floatin', creek swimmin', mountain hikin', crawfish grabbin', beer drinkin' laugh my head off kinda time! I can't wait for that 3 hour drive at the end of my day! See ya'll on the flip side of the best time of my life!