Wednesday, April 26, 2006

1:30am wake up call!

So sweet and innocent?


What the hell is Mollie thinking? She wakes me up at 1:30am by ringing the "bell" on her door.
So I let her out and head to the bathroom myself. I come back downstairs and open the door to let her in and she is not waiting at the door. This is not a good sign. I call and she slithers around the bushes and hesitantly comes inside. Of course, within 2 mins she is ringing the bell again. Now is when my patience is tested. I get up and let her out again and quietly tell her to GO TO THE POTTY! I wait ten minutes and open the door to find her moon bathing, looking over her shoulder at me like I'm raining on her parade. "It's late Mollie, this is not the time to hang out" I think to myself. I make her come in and she acts like she has been eating straight sugar. She runs upstairs, gets in her toys and pulls a bone out and drops it on the hard wood floor. "Nice Mollie," how does Emily sleep through these times? So then she runs back down stairs after I have climbed back into bed and rings the damn bell again. Unbelievable! So I get up for the 4th time now and let her outside. I set the alarm clock for 45 mins, which is now 2:50 am. I wake to the alarm at nearly 3am and open the door to find the dog looking over her shoulder at me like..."I'm fine, why are you bothering me?" I tell her to get inside and make her get on her bed and "go to sleep" hoping she will not get up again.

Thankfully she stayed in bed until 8:30 when I got up. She once again bolted towards the door and has been outside for the last couple hours.

The strange part about this is, normally Mollie doesn't get out of bed until after 10am, especially when she has had a walk, and yesterday she had a walk and a swim.

This is what makes me nervous to have children. Emily doesn't even hear these 'sessions' and rarely wakes up when Mollie starts ringing the bell. My sleep is to valuable Mollie!


Notice how close her bed is to our bed, if she rolls over I hear her.

Monday, April 24, 2006

You might be a redneck if...

There has been an ongoing feud between my bosses next-door neighbor and the restuarant. The neighbor is mad because the parking lot lights shine on his house and the kitchen exhaust fans are too loud. He's probably right, but what do you do? He inherited the house and the restuarant is second generation.

So this is the latest chapter...several months ago a light pole in the restaurant parking lot is leaning to one side. It looks kinda scary, so the "powers that be" stopped by and put a couple ropes on the pole and nearby trees for what appears to me to be an insurance policy so the pole does not fall in the parking lot or on the neighbors house. The neighbor likes to make "signs" so I'll just let the photos speak for themself. Enjoy?


Here's a shot of the restaurant's spring bulbs blooming and the notorious sign in the background.

Here you can see the leaning pole and the signs in the background, hanging precariously from the fence.

You might be a redneck if...

...if you made either of these signs.

A picture is worth a thousand words? (Redneck/psycho is there such a thing?)

Friday Afternoon Photo 4/14/06 (FAP)

Our long weekend in Chicago, we had a great time and can't wait to see everyone in June.

Willy & U-tah (Aiden's shortened version of Uncle Todd)

Maggie & U-tah.


Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Spring Fever

The first bloom I have seen this spring.

Mollie acting as a track worker.

Someone, I assume some young 'uns, added a jump to the track. So what did we do? Rode it baby, we caught some air, and tried to crash.


Monday, April 10, 2006

The world seen through my beautiful wife's viewfinder.




"My Favorite"

"Peter Cotton-tail"

"Here comes Peter Cotton-tail,
hopping down the bunny trail,
hippity hoppety Easter's on it's way... Happy Easter everyone, "woof woof, thank you Easter Bunny," Love Mollie

Friday, April 07, 2006

Friday Afternoon Photo 4/7/06 (FAP)

I visited Emily's class today and saw the new baby chicks that the class hatched.

"Tastes like chicken"

Thursday, April 06, 2006

You might be a redneck if...

You might be a redneck if...

...if your pickup has a confederate flag for a tailgate.


...if there's a snowman on your car, you know, the car parked in your driveway without license plates.

We have been wanting to start a blog of redneck sightings, but we never have the camera when we see things like a mailbox being held up by two crutches and LOTS of tape. So, I am going to make some redneck post here for the time being and if we find more maybe we'll start a seperate blog. Until then, enjoy.(?)

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Friday Afternoon Photo 3/31/06 (FAP)

Here's a new thought, every Friday I'm going to try to take a picture of me doing whatever it is i may be doing. This week I was doing floors and washing a car for a caretaking job I have. I can't find the picture right now but I promise, it will be here shortly.

Well, here's the excitement...