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Sunday, 12 July 2009

  • The Way That Kids Always Seem to Steal The Show!

    I have never posted video before, and most of mine have moven to CD by now, but just for the sake of posting one to see if I can I wanted to share this one with you all. This was back when we went to the Ga Aquarium for that continuing Ed course on........well anyway I was trying to capture the serene beauty of the tropical fish exhibit and instead I captured the humor and sense of imagination that comes to kids when you pull out a recording device!!! And Action!

    Until next time, M

Saturday, 11 July 2009

  • The Inspiration of Technology

    WOW, there has been more buzzin' goin' on around here than pile of horse shit covered in flies!......First of all let me say that if you have not seen our new baby go here http://kidzandk9z.xanga.com/706672910/sevenas-in-lucky-/ and check her out. She is feeling better, she has come from a not so great situation and all the stress of moving here and changing food, and getting shots and dewormed left her feeling a little overwhelmed and suffering from some severe diarrhea, but all is good today. We are soo glad, cuz in the short time that we have had her she is getting into our hearts quickly!!

    Maverick is recovering well, went swimming today for the first time since his surgery, with ear plugs of course...and Lexie got adopted yesterday. I plan to call and check on her Monday, but I suspect that she is doing well and am so happy for her.

    The garden, aside from the blossom rotted tomatoes, continues to do well, and the dog boarding business is booming. Gotta love extra money, which brings me to the most exciting news of all. With the added income, we have decided that we can now, since it is now offered out here in the sticks of Redneckville, afford DSL. Adam installed it yesterday and I am still learning about all the features that I can now access, so much so that I feel even more computer illiterate....but soo happy just the same. I was never able to listen to music or watch video before because the dial up was sooo slow, I have been enjoying that some this evening.

    What I was really happy about though, was that I was able to download Adobe and was able to read the rough draft of Midnight Sun, by Stephanie Meyer. It was illegally leaked onto the internet, and since she did not want her readers after it she just decided to make it available, via her own website. I read the whole thing, in its rough entirety and was just as captivated by it as I was the rest of the Twilight series

    I know, you are all going to yell at me now......call me a crazed vampire, Edward Cullen loving, teenage drama wannabe....or something to that effect.....well guess what, I dont care. Stephanie Meyer's work inspires me and the characters are compelling, just like the characters on Queer As Folk. The dynamic relationships and intriguing plots that they find themselves in just continue to remind me of the person that I was trying to be for so long and what life as a writer of such page turning work would be like!

    I was encouraged at how sloppy the rough draft was in comparison to the other novels in the series, either Stephanie is a real rewriter or her editors edit the hell out of her work. I always wondered how much a publishing company really changed a writer's work and whether of not I could allow that to happen to mine. And what I would do if someone plaigiarized me or if they allowed someone to read something of mine that I had not intended for them to read.

    So I ask you Xanga, most of you are pretty passionate about your writing, what would you do if you saw something that you had written someplace it wasn't supposed to be, or if you saw your work with someone else's name on it?

         

Wednesday, 08 July 2009

  • Can anyone help me with my tomato problem??

    As you all know we planted our first garden this year, and I have put up pics of what a good yield we have been getting. I have freezer full of yellow squash, zuchinni, bell and ancho peppers, jalapeno peppers....and we have mint and basil like crazy, even the cantaloupes and watermelons are showing some promise.

    The tomatoes however are a different story! I have grown tomatoes in pots before and have been pretty successful, and you may know that tomatoes in my opinion are the absolute perfect food and I love them!! So we planted about thirty tomato plants, of different varieties and were so excited as the grew tall and strong and started to get loaded up with hard green tomatoes.

    Problem is, once they start to go from green to yellow to orange, and sometimes before, they get black on the bottom and rot before they turn red. We have yet to be able to eat even one and I am sooo dissapointed. I feel like we are doing everything right, we did do a lot of research and have had lots of help from my Pawpaw who plants a successful garden every year.....and yet they just wont cooperate.

    They are in direct sun, we water about every other day unless it rains, in the evening after the sun goes down. We fertilized with horse manure and we staked them up so that the fruit wont be on the ground.....and yet they look terrible once they start to change.

    Someone suggested coffee grounds and someone suggested epsom salt, to be sprinkled around the bottom of each plant....which by the way look amazing, it is the actual tomotoes that look awful. We have not tried the epsom salt, cuz I was wary of that....but I did dump some coffee grounds on one of the plants to see how it will do. At this point we dont have anything to lose, but if anyone out there has any suggestions PLEASE let me know. I should have taken a pic of the tomato itself but I was sooo pissed off that I ripped it off the vine and chucked it over the fence. Mr. Ed just looked at me like I was nuts, but he ate the tomato just the same.

    Please help, and if u cant then rec this so that someone else can!!!Until next time, M

  • SEVEN...as in Lucky #

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    Our New Puppy!!! Everyone all at once, Awwww!!

     

Tuesday, 07 July 2009

  • Rednecks Gone Fishin'

    Maverick is feeling some better and is about one day away from finishing his meds, so we loaded up the truck

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     and headed out to my Mom and stepDad's house to fish in their pond in the cool evening after if rained. We were too late to buy any real bait anyplace so we stopped at a convenience store for a cheap pack of hot dogs (wieners). We had a couple stowaways.........

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     (Pepper Anne and Lexie.....and Lexie is ready for a home now if anyone is interested!), and really did more untangling lines and baiting hooks than we did actually fishing...but in the end it was worth it.

    We had a great time, here are a few that Maya and I caught,

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     and Adam caught a big bass but we missed the photo op, sorry.  We threw them all back, it was all in good fun anyway and came back the next day to actually eat some big catfish that my siblings had caught at Lake Weiss last weekend.

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  • kidzandK9z
    @abciseas123 - Awww, thank u so much little sister, it is nice to be loved so much! I dont know what I would do without u either! And thanks for the birthday greetings too, I will pass Adam's along to him, whenever I see him that is! M
  • abciseas123
    Hey i so happy for you sending the letter to the people, also happy for you that you are getting all these email. I want to wish you and Adam a happy 30 birthday and that am glad that you are still with us today. Don't know what i will do with out you.Love, Mary-Ellen
  • MSTtexter
    yeah.....
  • kidzandK9z
    @MSTtexter - just laundry and dishes Dude! It is just one of those days you know!
  • MSTtexter
    hey misty whats up
  • dshad
    HEY MISTY I AM NOT SURE THIS IS THE WAY I AM SUPPOSE TO DO THIS BUT HERE IT GOES FOR A TRY. I HOPE EVERY THING IS WELL WITH YOU TODAY OR SHOULD I SAY HAVING A GOOD DAY. JUST THINKING ABOUT YOU AND TRYING TO FIGURE THIS OUT LOVE U VERY MUCH SO LET ME KNOW IF THIS WORKS AND I WILL TRY IT AGAIN. THINKI
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  • BigBuck42
    Chris lost against BAY Spring
  • abciseas123
    Read my blog i put some things on it.
  • kidzandK9z
    @BigBuck42 - go to your private page and click on weblog! Simple , Love M
  • BigBuck42
    hey misty its zeke i just wanted to tell u that i have my own xanga the link is www.xanga.com/BigBuck42 i have also been reading your blog i think it is pretty cool i relly likd the part WHATS THE DEAL........ P.S. How do you update your blog like how do i write (or type) things in