I Crushed It!!!

 WOW!!  What a way to wake up in the morning!!  The second I realized my entire house was pink inside, I knew exactly what was going on outside.  It was a 360 degree cloudy sunrise, since the forecast was calling for rain.  

Mr. Cooper and I were on the road by 7:00.  Truly, we didn't get all that far since he's become a senior citizen.  Still, he loves to smell the smells.  He's such a good boy, he rarely ever barks at anyone or anything.  I think that's unusual for poodles.  He's not running loose, you just can't see the thin leash.

Ok, I admit the reason we don't go very far is that I don't want to carry him home when he gets tired.  He would go forever if I let him, but then I would have to hitch us a ride back to the house.

I brought a couple of puzzles back from Quartzsite, and I had a brilliant idea.  I could use this game table to set them up.  I walked right up to it, grabbed the top and magically, it turned like it's supposed to.  Unfold the top and there you have it.  Trouble is, this 1,000 piece puzzle is a little too big.  AND I need a chair, since leaning over isn't good for old creaky folks like me.

That's when I had another brilliant idea.  My back entry was stacked four foot high with Amazon boxes.  Don't they ever use SMALL boxes?  Good grief ... I could sleep in three of them.  Previously, I used a box cutter, cut them into pieces and stuffed them in the blue bin.

This time I got smart.  I went outside and tossed ten of them into the rain.  Two hours later I went out to find them completely soaked.  I then went into SPIDER KILLING mode.  I CRUSHED IT!!  I stomped the heck out of them, which was easy peasy since they had soaked up so much water.  I folded them up and stuffed all of them in the bin.  How easy was THAT?

There was this one left, so I dropped it in the full-of-water flower bed.  I'll wad it up into a 6" square this morning.  As you can see, there are even a couple left over.  A water hose should fix those up since the rain stopped.

I tried to sneak in a nap, but it was not to be.  Off I headed to the lodge, having found out just in time that this was a tuxedo night.  I was surprised to find our treasurer (the King) had a hand the size of a basketball.  Apparently he had some kind of surgery ... which meant he could not count money or use the charge machine.  

So here I sit with the cash box, selling dinner tickets.  It's okay ... we traded jobs.  He had to stand at the counter and COLLECT the dinner tickets.  Hey, I like this!  I'm hoping his hand is tied up for a couple months!  I got to meet lots of people and I didn't have to stand for two hours!!

I didn't plan on dinner, but my two best bingo friends split theirs with me.  Since the steaks are the size of dinner plates, there was plenty to go around.  

That added to my napless yawning which occurred every three minutes during the entire meeting.  We had yet another initiation of folks joining, which meant a L O N G one.  For our small town, we have an amazing 1600 members and just added 23 more.  

I got back home to the squeals of Mr. Cooper, who meets me at the door every time.  I am always greeted with a tiny black nose pushing the shade out of the way so he can see.  He makes me smile every time.  

It might have been nice if I crashed on the couch, but NOOOO ... I was wide awake.  How could that be?  It took another 90 minutes before I finally hit the hay.  

No worries, but I'll have to catch up today, because tomorrow there's another event I have to attend.  And then ..... AND THEN ..... IT'S SUPER BOWL SUNDAY!!!!!  Bring on the snacks!!!!