voice activation....

I find myself often wishing for a voice activated recorder. It seems I do my best thinking when I am alone, which usually only occurs on my way to and from work, or when I am in the shower. I am a person who LOVES my personal space. I don't need someone near me every minute and yet I am constantly surrounded by someone. Anyway I digress.....When alone with my thoughts I frequently find myself thinking...Oh! I need to write about that...or what the heck??? Do people know this is happening??? I need to inform them...(Why I have the need to keep the world informed on what I think are the injustices of life is a topic to be discussed at a later date...maybe someday in therapy...) Anyway...my indignation usually turns into memory loss by the time I find time to be alone at the computer...As I sit down at the keyboard, my "hot" topic has disappeared and I can't remember what I was so passionate about, that I had to "put it on the blog"... The other day for example, as I watched the 9 millionth car, cut in front of someone in traffic, I had written an entire blog on the subject of line cutters, my outloud grumblings only to be interrupted by my outloud desires to have a dang recorder that would just start when I say "Recorder, start please...." (Mr. Scott where are you????) By the time I got home and found time to do a new post...the only thought I had, was how lame! I am so sure someone wants to read about line cutters, and what the heck was I going on about anyway? So! The moral of the story is...my blog posts are often spared the the musings of my overworked mind on the injustice to be found in the world. Somday maybe I can say..."Recorder...start please...and possibly it will come at a time, when there is something worth remembering...

Rain, Rain...

It's Raining...It's pouring...the old man is snoring...Do you wonder how some things never leave your memory??? I don't ever remember the rain coming without rushing up to my neighbors house pelting out that song at the top of my lungs! Nothing could thrill Brad and I more than riding our bikes in the rain. We loved it...there was a HUGE puddle in the pasture next to our house and we couldn't wait for the rain to ride our bikes through the hole! Pure bliss...I can't imagine that we were not soaked through and through but I never remember the wet, I just remember begging my mom to let me out in it...Living here in the desert we don't frequently get rain, and when we do my children act just like I used to...They love to go outside and act crazy! I can't say I blame them, I feel the need to act that way my self. There is something so refreshing and cleansing about the rain! My biggest problem with the rain now, is that it doesn't come often enough or last long enough! Somedays it is the little things that make everything right in the world...Today...the thunderstorm that brought us some rain for most of the day! Heaven on Earth...

Diaries of the food snob...

It is a well known fact, at least among my friends, and some who may not want to be known as my friends, that I am a food snob! I say this without any pride at all, I mean really who wants to be known for something of this nature, however it is true. I have to admit that I am! Let me clear the air however, to say it is not the same thing as being picky, as in picky eater...I like almost any type of food and like almost any type of food prepared in a multitude of ways, and I am always willing to try something new...however my problem is that I mainly like food, cooked in the way that I cook it! Not to say that there are not many good cooks out there whose food I love to indulge in, just to say that frequently I prefer my own version. It is rare for me to eat something and think OOOHHH! Perfection !!! Usually I eat something and think, OH! If you just did this or that, it would taste so much better! Before you all swear off of never cooking for me, or bringing me treats again, let me just say, that I do this to all of MY creations as well....I shared a recipe with a friend a couple of days ago, and she called to ask me some questions about it as she was making it. As she was telling me what she did, I kept hearing my self saying...Oh! I don't do it that way, and Oh! You shouldn't do that, and OH!! WHY didn't I tell you NOT to do that! I don't like them that way! I then had to spend the next few minutes reassuring her, that yes her cookies were going to be just fine, and yes they would taste good, and yes I freak out if mine don't turn out just so...and yes it is a finicky recipe, and yes I have a hard time duplicating it EXACTLY each time I make these cookies , but to remember that I AM the food snob and that all would be well, and that she would love the cookies....As I hung up, I was thinking well that was a disaster...way to boost her confidence and oh by the way, I am so sure she will be calling to get another recipe from me!! Why oh why can't I just leave well enough alone...Yesterday I made breadstiks for dinner...we haven't had them in ages, (except for some a week ago, that were made with love and left over from a function, were shared with us, and then sat on my counter for 5 days before heading to the recycle bin...) As I pulled the beautiful breadstiks from my oven, I had to do a fast recall of my CPR skills. My youngest son, was about to tip over from the sheer agony of waiting to sit at the table to eat! Moaning and groaning and about to expire, he finally got his turn when the plate was passed to him. One bite and OOOOOHHHHH the joy! I told him to stop acting around and just to eat his dinner. As I took the first bite of mine...I have to say my reaction was a wee bit similar to his. Perfection! It is no wonder I love my cooking...

Tales of the biker chick...

Vacation is almost upon us...We are heading up for our annual summer trip to see family and get out of the heat. We always have the best time up north and can't wait to get there and then complain about having to come home. We hate the heat!! This year we are taking the bikes. The boys have a couple of dirt bikes and plenty of space to ride them in, and David is taking his street bike so he can go on a "ride" with Stacey. He is so excited about this. Stace and Val met his family up at Glacier Park and they rode the "Going to the Sun " highway on the bikes. Had a blast! Just this morning found out Val and I are invited to go on the ride...Oh Whoopee! David will be thrilled, I think it is his secret ambition to be married to a biker chick! We took the bike to dinner with some friends a while ago, and he has NEVER stopped talking about it! Can I say I am so excited??? Helmet hair and butt cramps here I come!! Never let it be said I am not one for a little adventure...

Oh what do you do in the summertime???

Oh what do you do in the summertime????
.....family reunions...camping on the mountain....homemade icecream...fishing...sleeping in...game days with the kids...swimming...eating a homegrown tomato...
Oh what do you do in the summertime???
....trips to montana...boating on the lake...camping...visiting family and friends...mini vacation weekends...homemade jam...
Oh what do you do in the summertime???
...walking through the garden...trips to utah...picking peaches off my tree...baking...honey do projects...trying new recipes...
Oh what do YOU do in the summertime???

Thankful....

Love the windows of life that provide time for us to stop and count our blessings....
.....for simple times with family....campfires, cocoa, stories and laughter...
......for answered prayers...Safe journeys through troubled waters...
....... for the courage of 10 year olds...20 year olds...and 80 year olds...
.........for friends who listen with soft hearts...and pass on the flaws they see...
..........for life one day at a time, with all it's imperfectness....
...........for being just who I am...

De-bugging the bugs...

Virus...doesn't that word automatically put a picture in your head of something icky and disgusting?? We have had a major virus going on around here...or rather our computer has!! In a word?? It stinks...

It never ceases to amaze me, how dependent we can become on something that a whole world has lived without for quite some time... (cell phones come to mind?) if you think about the age of man and the age of computers...really they are brand new...and yet our life seems to stop if the computer goes down!

Thankfully we are on the mend...(notice I don't say fixed! I couldn't dare to be that hopeful...) only time will tell. We are not quite up to speed like I would like and if ever there was a time to push a button and say..."Mr. Scotty...damage report? How long will it take to fix us?" ...It would be now! However...

We are glad to be up and running again...I am glad to be back on the information highway with news, google, and more at my fingertips... If our de-bugging works, those little buggers, should be bugged out! Bugs on the run...sure sounds good to me...