Saturday, December 26, 2009

Blog Laziness

If you couldn't tell, I haven't felt like blogging much these last couple months of 2009. I'll be better in a week or so. Stick with me. . .I'll be back. Promise.

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Happy Birthday Dad!

In Memory of
Ronny P. Kinney
November 1, 1934 - April 26, 2006

Love and miss you always!

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Fright Night

Have a Most Dreadful Halloween from
Uncle Fester & Wednesday Addams!!!


Wednesday, October 28, 2009

The Final Touches

Our Halloween costumes are assembled and ready for the party we are attending on Friday night! I'm excited! J, not so much so! I'll post pictures on Saturday.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Profoundness


Here's a poem I wrote circa 1980 when I was either 10 or 11. My sister found it in a box of stuff after cleaning out my mom's house. I thought I'd share the utter profoundness of my thought process at the time. At least you would get a good belly laugh!! I even typed the dern thing myself...if you couldn't tell. Enjoy.


In case you can't click to make bigger and read. Here it is retyped as originally typed:




I SAW WHAT I SEEN



I saw what I seen

I seen what I saw

Isaw the most scariest thing

of all. . . . Adragon standing

in the hall.



I seen what I saw

I saw what I see

I saw the most weirdest

thing that could be. . . .

A four-headed horse looking

at me.



I saw what I seen

Iseen what I saw

I saw the most cutest thing

of all. . . . Abrown-Headed boy

standing in the hall.



Iseen what I saw

I saw what I see

I saw the most beautiful

thing that could be. . . .

A little angel watching

over me.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

It was 40 years ago today. . .

that I had my 1st photo opp on Oct 7, 1969.
I was one whole day old.

I don't know what day my mom finally took me home,
but I don't look too happy here. I think the bow in my
hair is pissing me off. I have 30 years yet to fully
appreciate the benefits of hair accessories.
Silly me!

Well, here's to the first day of my 41st trip around the sun. So far, so good. I can't wait to see what surprises and goodies this year brings. My life has been filled with so many blessings and so many amazing people that I have no room to complain whatsoever. Therefore, I shall celebrate this crazy thing called LIFE and go forth with gusto!

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Contest Prize

Congrats again to Slick!! Prize has been delivered to the front door just this morning.

It's a crazy martial arts double feature cd!!! And, no, that's not a tennis racquet, but an bad-ass insect killa (electronic fly-swatter of sorts). Now Slick can go ape-shit crazy and try some new, mad karate moves a la Bruce Lee/Jackie Chan while he's killing the pesky bugs! Have fun, my friend!


Saturday, October 3, 2009

And the WINNER is. . . .

Drumroll please.

SLICK
Congratulations, Slick!!! You are the winner of the very first JAKL blog contest with 2 correct answers! Woo Hoo for you!!! Prize will be delivered to your doorstep sometime before the weekend is over (try to contain your excitement! ;) Prize contents will be posted on JAKL after delivery to Slick.
Correct Answers:
1. A Giant Doughnut
2. An Out of Order phone booth
3. The Queen Mary
4. A Boat Cleverly Named Vitamin Sea
5. Baby Stingray
6. A turtle
7. P!nk
8. Emmy Red Carpet
9. Deer in a front yard
10. Polo Match
Thank you all so much for playing. I know this was a difficult contest and required more chance than knowledge, but it was the best I could do for our inital game. I promise the contests will get better! Thanks again! I hope you all had fun.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

September 2009 Tweets

@Sarcastra maybe your nickel was part of that spare change I found in my jeans this a.m. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps. Want it? from web in reply to Sarcastra

@FerociousFluffy Run for cover! Did you get any damage? The Wind is still a blowin' like nobody's business! from web in reply to FerociousFluffy

Hella wind storm happening now. Whoa! from txt

I love it when I find money in the pockets of my jeans I haven't put on since last Spring. Happy Wednesday to me! from web

Tuesday. . .so far, so good. from web

Contest on JAKL!! Run and go play! Hurry! from web

Here we go again! WHEEEEEEE! from web

@FerociousFluffy we FINALLY got home after driving all the way down 287 across Owl Road & back up I-25. Icky! from web in reply to FerociousFluffy

Can't wait til 7p.m. for the season premier of DEXTER!! from web

Stuck in a huge traffic jam on EB I-80 in Laramie. Wreck on Summit perhaps? from txt

Onward to the cabin! from txt

East T-Birds beat Central 21-14! Thanks, Rita! from web

East vs. Central game. Tonight! Go T-Birds! from web

Ahhhh, Friday. Thank you thank you thank you thank you! from web

Back to work. Now where's my vat of coffee, cuz I'm gonna need it!! from web

Just landed back in Denver. Terra firma. from txt

P!nk was AWESOME!! If you get a chance go see her show! Today we go hiking in Monrovia Calif. from web

P!nk is on! from txt

That's not my name! That's not my name! from txt

At P!nk concert . The Ting Tings opening & on stage now! from txt

Finished exam! Whew! Good feeling about! from txt

Taking the Specialist in Housing Credit Mgmt (SHCM) exam in a minute. Keep your fingers crossed for me. from txt

Little baby stingrays! from txt

Lunching in a street cafe, people watching. Lots of Jason Mraz fashion inspired dudes about. from txt

Day 1 of affordable housing mgmt conf - DONE! I'm ready for Day 2. from txt

Conference time! from txt

Just landed at LAX. from txt

boarding now! late! from txt

@FerociousFluffy Tell me about it, sister. Monday sux. from web in reply to FerociousFluffy

Finished packing for my business trip to California. Don't like the styling choices I had avail to me. Bleh. Must shop soon to remedy this. from web

Monday. You are cruel. from web

@FerociousFluffy I am bedazzled by your bacon love! How were the peanut butter bacon cookies? from web in reply to FerociousFluffy

Tonight . . .white russians & chicken shishkabobs! from web

The hubs made luscious watermelon martinis. Tastes like a liquid Jolly Rancher! [slurp!] from web

@FerociousFluffy did yer pants make it home without ripping? Just curious. from web in reply to FerociousFluffy

Doing all the regular Saturday chores. NOT watching the football. from web

Never forgotten. 9/11. from web

@shplinkhimself http://twitpic.com/h8zyh - it walks on by the SanFrancisco treat!! from TwitPic

@shplinkhimself http://twitpic.com/h8m4h - Hey, it's almost 2! from TwitPic

@FerociousFluffy Yes, so yummy & oversized! Do put them on your menu next week (oh, and invite us over!) from web in reply to FerociousFluffy

@AlphaMaven I wish we had bacon plants. Only tomato plants have we. from web in reply to AlphaMaven

Hubs is makin' BLTs tonight w/Ts coming straight from our garden! YUM! I shall think of you, FerociouslyFluffy, lover of all things bacon! from web

Not only is it Hump Day, it's 09-09-09! Rut Roe! Hope nuthin' spooky happens today! But if it does, I hope it involves zombies of some sort. from web

@Sarcastra I guess that means I did a good job on my pict? YAY! from web in reply to Sarcastra

http://twitpic.com/h17i6 - I've become a resident of Zombieland! http://Zombify-yourself.net from TwitPic

Me & the hubs have upset tummies. Not fun. I'm sure he doens't appreciate his torn-up gut being called a tummy either! from web

My eyeball is very tired today. from web

@TheRevSlick yes!! Isn't that super cool that Vinnie is going to be on LOST?! He hit it bigtime! Finally! from web in reply to TheRevSlick

@TheRevSlick okay, so you have a point about free lunches. I'll that take into consideration. from web in reply to TheRevSlick

Happy 1st of September! Only 21 more days until the autumnal equinox!! Woo HOO! from web

Monday, September 28, 2009

CONTEST. . .play here:

Okay, I'm going to try my hand at a blog contest. There will be a small but lovely prize for the winner so I need all of you who play to identify yourself and how I can get the prize to you. Okay?! Okay.

The contest rules:

Using the descriptions of 10 photos posted in my September 27, 2009, entry entitled "Things I saw in La-La Land", list the photos from 1 to 10 in chronological order of how I saw them once I landed at LAX. #1 being the first thing of interest that I saw #10 being the last. You get the drift.

The winner will be the person who gets the most correct. Your list must be posted as a comment to this link no later than 0900, Saturday October 3rd. Winner will be notified via post on JAKL immediately following deadline. In case of a tie, there will be a sudden-death type tie breaker (prepare yourself now).

So, have at it, Readers!! Make me proud!!

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Things I saw in La-La Land

The Queen Mary


Deer in a front yard!!


P!nk


A polo match


A boat cleverly named "Vitamin Sea"
A turtle (and a cute one at that)


The Emmy's Red Carpet


Baby Stingray

An out-of-order CELL phonebooth? Are you kidding me?

A giant doughnut
Keep your eyes peeled for a JAKL contest regarding these photos! You won't want to miss it!
Thank you and good night.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

You say toMAYto, I say toMAHto

I think our friend, Traci, over at Mischief & Mayhem had her first fresh garden tomato over a week or two ago (she's in Seattle). I was so jealous but now it seems to be our turn. FINALLY!! Our big, fat green tomatoes are now turning into big, fat RED TOMATOES!! YAY! I am so excited because I am so not a very patient person. I want instant gratification, I want it now and I usually want it covered in chocolate! But the anticipation for these delicious, red bulbs of goodness made the wait all worthwhile. (hey, isn't there a song about that?)

J made us over sized BLTs for dinner tonight and cut huge slabs of this tomato on the left.
The flavor was just divine!!
These are Super Fantastics

These are our Heartlands. They'll be ready tomorrow.

Another Super Fantastic waiting to be plucked!
We have a bucketful of fresh basil so tomorrow I will make caprese salad for dinner and this weekend I will make fresh red sauce for spaghetti! Yum! We will have tomatoes coming our our ears! We also have groves of cherry tomato plants that we are having a hard time keeping up with harvesting! Most likely we will make salsa like we did last fall. We made so much that we still have a few jars left!
Ahhhh, the tomato. . .the gift that keeps on giving!

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Things that make you say "WTF?" #2

Ummm. . .yeah, okay. Is that *all* your stuff? I mean I don't see the kitchen sink in there. And I'm sure the tarp really kept things dry today.

I understand and can sympathize with someone moving or having to live in their car, but there was barely a space for a driver and the stuff drooping off the back? C'mon!! So this lead me to say. . .

WTF?!?!?!?!?

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

August 2009 Tweets

@TheRevSlick my daddy always told me there was never such thing as a "free lunch." from web in reply to TheRevSlick

@FerociousFluffy No it's not sad that you are synomous w/bacon! Check out the show. They even use the WWBBD SouthPark song for the theme. from web in reply to FerociousFluffy

@shplinkhimself I had Nutella on pretzel crisps! and a cup o joe! I agree with the Nutella on a spoon! from web in reply to shplinkhimself

All you Nutella lovers out there. . .what's your favorite way to eat it?! from web

@TroyBrock mornin' Troy! The first cup is always the best, isn't it? from web in reply to TroyBrock

Pretzel chips dipped in Nutella for breakfast! Yum. Cup 'o joe too. from web

Getting ready to hang out with our 4-year-old great-niece Summer for the day. Should be interesting. Pray for us. from web

Check out the live Outside Lands webcast Aug 28-30 at http://bit.ly/lbqF9 from web

@shplinkhimself Shoot! Not what I thought. from web in reply to shplinkhimself

Long walk outside at Holiday Park instead of regular work out in stinky gym. Felt so good! from web

Going to bed early tonight mostly cuz I am old and boring, but pretty much because I'm really tired! Nighty.Night. from web

Busy day. Drop dog at groomer! Blood drawn! Nails! Dentist! from txt

Hey, LAAADY!! Yeah, you! The one who was crossing 22nd Street & Central at 7 a.m. I just wanna know where you got your FABULOUS shoes?! from web

The boss man is out of the office for 3 whole days! Finally projects can be completed w/out new ones to impede progress! from web

Back from the mountains. It was sooo cool and nice up there. 90 degrees in Cheyenne. Whoa! from web

I can't find my chopsticks. . .grrrr! from web

¡ʎɐpıɹɟ ʎddɐɥ ɥo from web

˙ʎɐpıɹɟ sı ʍoɹɹoɯoʇ ʎddɐɥ os ¡ʍou ʇnoqɐ ʇɥƃıɹ ןǝǝɟ ı ʍoɥ sı sıɥʇ from web

To another jewelry show I go! Yay! from txt

FYI: today is Nat'l Do Not Use Your Turn Signal Day! Again. from txt

I needs me a nap badly! from web

I'm getting the whole "you look just like Fergie" thing after more than a decade-long hiatus. Which celebrity do people say YOU look like? from web

Off to do another jewelry show tonight! Woo hoot! from web

Top o' the misty mornin' to ya! from web

Just received my current issue of InStyle magazine. Nothing like 500+ pages of Fall fashion goodness to brighten one's spirit! from web

Start your engines. . .it's MONDAY! from web

Cyborg is an animal! from web

Carano v. Cyborg!! GIRLFIGHT! YAY! from web

@FerociousFluffy I'd love to try bacon chocolate, but i'd have no clue where to purchase such a thing. from web in reply to FerociousFluffy

Coffee time! from web

Go read it! from web

FINALLY updated the blog! from web

@FerociousFluffy serious? For real "bacon chocolate"? from web in reply to FerociousFluffy

Getting ready for bed! Nighty night! from web

Generally, I love DARK CHOCOLATE; however, dark choc. M&M's are just wrong. Ew. from web

If bitten by a zombie, I'd last 1 hour and 23 minutes before becoming infected! http://su.pr/1GiCqW from the delicious @oatmeal from web

@Sarcastra your clever bank will never be empty, my dear! from web in reply to Sarcastra

Wondering if anyone got to see the Perseid meteor shower clearly. from web

Waiting and waiting and waiting some more. from web

@1953diygal [[shiver, shiver]] about the widow hunting. Eww! from web in reply to 1953diygal

@FerociousFluffy Weird thing this HUMIDITY in Wyoming. . .isn't it? from web in reply to FerociousFluffy

Boy is it ever humid here in Cheyenne right now. from txt

Black coffee is most certainly my best friend. from web

Re-watching last season's episodes of Dexter so I can be ready for the new stuff in September! Can't wait! from web

@1953diygal Tres cool. What's that flower you have on? from web in reply to 1953diygal

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Kids R Weird!

We hung out today with our 4-year-old great-niece, Summer. She kept us entertained all day doing wacky things like this:

Anyone remember the days of the Unknown Comic on The Gong Show? So funny. Oh and I think she is going to grow up to be a waitress. Her favorite thing to do all day long was take our order for food and drink. She'd ask us "What would you like?" Whatever we'd ask for she'd say, "Sorry, we don't have that." When we'd ask her what exactly the "restaurant" did have, she'd phhfftt! and say "Read the menu!!" Uhhhh. . .oKAY!

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

New Addition!

Meet BillyBob our new used, 4wheeler. . .


Got him to make getting around on the roads up at the cabin a little easier on us! We are going to put Artie in one of those arm rest containers when we go moseying around! This should be interesting to say the least. Can't wait.

Friday, August 14, 2009

Bountiful Harvest

We went through the garden today after work and got quite a payload for dinner tonight. J made a fabulous dinner of steak Gorgonzola that rivaled any restaurant entree I've ordered. He also whipped up ratatouille of our own garden harvested zukes, onions and chili peppers and added a store bought tomato (ours aren't ripe yet). The fingerling potatoes were to DIE for and melted in our mouths. J slightly boiled then pan fried whole with a tiny bit of butter & salt. Wow. Superb!

There is something to be said about growing and eating your own food that makes it taste so much better!! Also something to be said about a spouse who is great at cooking said food we "growed"! Thank you, Honey! You are such an awesome chef! SMOOOOOOOCH!

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

First Hike of Summer of 2009

We have been working so hard on the cabin every weekend we've been up there that we haven't had time to do ANY hiking except for the last time we were up there. We made time to do a small 6 mile round-trip hike to Deep Lake, which is on the back side of Brown's Peak for those of you in the know. We had a wonderful time and encountered a porcupine (in a good way) and saw lots of flora & fauna along the way. Here are those picts documenting the moments.


Really cool mushrooms are growing like crazy up there.
These are poisonious. . .just sayin'. Don't eat them.
Here's me and Art-man bushwackin' thru the meadow
(BEFORE I fell in the stupid river)

Here's me drying off my socks & shoes once we made it to the lake.
I thought this was a pretty setting with the trees all around.
Good job, J, on the picture taking.

Deep Lake. Just like the sign says.
Very isolated. We saw only 2 other people up there fishing.
Niiiice.


Deep Lake with Luke looking across the waters.

Ah, we hope to get more hiking in while we're up there the next 4 weekends in a row. However, we still have tons of work to do on the cabin shack. Hopefully next year will prove more fruitful in the hiking and fishing departments!

How Does Our Garden Grow?

. . . apparently with all this rain, the garden grows very well! Except my zucchini. Those just aren't producing like normal. Usually we are up to our earballs in zucchini!!

Here are some picts of what *is* actually growing -- check it out!

White hollyhock. Purdy flower.

Raspberry colored hollyhock. There were a bunch of beez doing their thang with this right before I snapped the pict. I really wanted to get them in it because you know they are disappearing, don't you? I am glad I saw the bees. Whew!

Big, fat green tomatos. Let's hope they ripen before the first frost in two weeks. ha ha. As I was looking at this pict, I was wondering how anything grows in this ground with the tons of rock in the soil. Sheesh!

Here's my insane flower bed and my insane puppy, Artie.
He's fixin to bark at something at the end of the yard.
See how he's standing all at attention?

The secret, ancient dojo (or whatever I called it in the other post) is practically
hidden in the jungle of wild daisy things. The plants to the right
aren't blooming yet, but will be soon in case you were interested
(and I *know* you were! wink, wink!)

To make this post a little more interesting, here is the post at the beginning of the spring/summer when we first started growing the stuff. So I guess this would be the link to the BEFORE pictures! http://jakldays.blogspot.com/2009/05/springs-garden-makeover-pt-3.html

Again, hope you enjoyed!






Moose. . .Meese? Anyway More of Them!

Okay, because I *know* you're just dying to see more of the pictures we retrieved from our wildlife cam: moose1 I'll post these. These pictures are pretty interesting though. Judge for yourself. And leave comments, would ya?
This first picture freaked me out a bit.
I couldn't quite make out what it was. . .
Looks like a human head, tilted to the left.
Really not a human head, but a freaky ZOMBIE head tiled to the left
with a weird ear sticking out on the right.
Just waiting to jump up turn around and eat our face off!!!
(okay, I know, I know I've watched way too many horror movies when I was young and
it warped my measley brain!)

BUT never fear!! The "head" turned out to be the rear of this feller:

And yet a better picture of the same visitor.

Flash didn't seem to phase him.


Awesome pict of this moose cow on our "walkin' log". Goofy lookin' critters but so amazing at the same time.


This one looks a lot like a Clydesdale, don'tcha think? Not sure if it's the same cow or not.

That's all the wildlife pictures til next time. Hopefully, we'll have other species to post for you! Hope you really enjoyed these!

Slacker City Blues

Hello everyone! I have been a mucho slacker on our little blog here as of late. So, I thought I'd just post a butt-load of pictures in multiple posts with minimal captions and call it good for a couple days. I hope you all bear with me here until I get back on a regular schedule. Until then, let the picture madness begin. . .

Saturday, August 1, 2009

July 2009 Tweets

DESTINATION: Isolation! Later all! from web

Wakin' up is hard to do. . . from web

At the CFD rodeo finals with Julie Childs & her family. from txt

Playin' darts w/jackie & cory runion. good times! from txt

All chores postponed on account of Riddick! Can't look away! from txt

I got the WHOLE HOUSE to myself. I got the whole house to myself!!! [sung to the tune of "He's Got the Whole World In His Hands"] from web

Omg he's playin' Blister =N The Sun! I luv KC for this! from txt

Ok I knew "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" but had no clue he sang that. from txt

I do not know ANY of these songs but the crowd seems 2 b having fun! from txt

Off to Kenny Chesney concert at CFD! from txt

Just got the NEW jewelry! YAY all the pieces are so cool. from txt

Thursday at CFD. Nothing going on. Maybe I can get something accomplished today at work. Don't hold your breath though. from web

I meant "can't" see the USAF T-Birds. Sheesh! from web

Wishing I was at the Air Show right now. I can hear them, just can see the USAF Thunderbirds. :( from web

It's Cheyenne Day! Only 1/2 day of work. woo hoo! from txt

I am 100% ready for a productive workday today! from web

@Sarcastra yeah, Sawyer Brown was really loud. At our house it was like we were at the fairgrounds. from web in reply to Sarcastra

Still REELING from Premier Designs RALLY!! from web

Mama , I'm comin' home! from txt

Rally! Rally! RALLY! from txt

Our hotel had a water main break. 5k women here! yikes! from txt

Just landed in Dallas/Ft. Worth. from txt

I'm leaving on a jetplane. from txt

Eating an overpriced breakfast at the dia terminal eatery. from txt

Packed & ready to go at o'dark thirty tomorrow. Now time for bed! from web

Getting a pedicure right now! Ahhh! from txt

Launder clothes for trip. . .NOW!! from web

Today is my Friday! Neener, neener boo-boo! from web

@Sarcastra didja go see Ironman? from web in reply to Sarcastra

We're so loving NURSE JACKIE on SHOtime! If you're not watching it then start! Only a 1/2 hr! Directed by Steve Buscemi! from web

Off to Pilates & kick boxing to work off the crappy "camp" food I ate this weekend. from web

@kassk who pressured you to twitter? not i. from web in reply to kassk

oh, if I only had a Bumpit! from web

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

More Moose CAM

Boy yous guys are gonna get sick of seeing moose on this blog! We were up at the cabin with a different set of awesome friends who helped us get most of the sheet rocking done with minimal physical damage to my poor body! Took a good elbow shot to the bridge of the nose and didn't even pass out (saw stars but didn't fall). That's pretty tough in my book! Ha! Anyhoo, a big hearty thanks goes out to Klan Kohrmann! What a fun weekend it turned out to be, friends! Sorry about all the blood suckers!


Here is the main attraction for the week on the moose1 Wildlife Cam up at the cabin. How cool is this dude? You need to understand this is right outside our cabin.


In fact, just a few days later, I was walking that log with my great niece. We hadn't looked at these pictures yet . . .the time stamp on this camera is about 5 hrs off, just fyi.

Even creepier, from the same point of view where we were walkin' the log earlier, a set of eyes are just off in the distance. We were still sitting at the campfire and we remember that Artie was having a coniption fit around this time. I guess he was seeing something we weren't. . .THIS SCARY WHATEVER IT IS ATTACHED TO THE GLOWING EYES!! I'm guessing Sasquatch!
Until next time, my lovely readers!!! Au revoir!