Something Fishy Is Going On

 This little picture made my day!  I laughed out loud, mostly because he resembles Mr. Gibbs so much at Patsy and Bill's House.  I needed a good laugh to get over the neighbors craziness!  

Fair warning .. don't look at the picture down below if blood bothers you!  Just a heads up.

This definitely helped too.  I was invited to breakfast with my best friends.  I don't know what there is about greasy restaurant food, but it tasted DELICIOUS and totally got me going!  We discussed all things Fourth of July in the Park, where they sold drinks and popcorn while eating a $10.00 rib.  That's $10.00 for one single bone barely covered with meat.  I'm definitely in the wrong business!!

On the way home, I decided to do a drive by of the party house.  Did I mention it's BIG?  That's seven ... count them, SEVEN cars parked across the front and there's room for six more.  

You know what?  I have a sneaking suspicion that none of these are the owner.  I only saw ONE guy the day before, working like crazy with a front end loader smoothing out the entire yard.  When I looked through the fence, I only saw the SAME one guy walking inside with not a stick of furniture in sight.  

Something fishy is going on here.  I'm wondering if one of the contractors had a nice big party while the owner wasn't around.  Yesterday, everything was as quiet as a mouse.  Not a single noise and not even one light turned on way into the night.  I guess I'll see what today brings.

And then THIS happened.  Once back home, I gathered up yet another bucket of tomatoes and one lonely yellow squash.  My neighbor even called to ask if I had any zucchini.  Nope ... not a single one.  It must be the weather because all her other friends she called said their's were not producing either.  That's weird.

The ground seemed dry, so I thought to grab my hose and water it a bit.  Of course it twisted up and I was WAY too close to one of the big rose bushes ... you know, the one with ONE INCH THORNS?  I whipped the hose around like I was getting ready to rope a calf ... and .... INSERT SCREAM HERE!!!  My hand went straight into the rose bush.

Gosh darn it (not the words I actually said) ... I ripped open my little finger one inch long and a mile deep.  YIKES!  I haven't felt anything hurt that bad in a VERY long time!!  An entire bloody dish towel later and I finally got it to stop bleeding long enough to stick a bandaid on it.  The calf got away and I finally remembered to turn the water off an hour later!!

That's when I heard the knock at the door ... and I want to thank whoever recommended I get a wireless doorbell.  No, I did NOT hang my wreath upside down on purpose.  I just realized that by looking at this picture.  It is now fixed!!  

See that little black thing on the side?  That is my new doorbell that just arrived via Amazon!!  You plug the big piece into the wall and glue this one on the door.  It works like a charm and I think it was only $15.00.  

It really was a lazy day, having eaten WAY too much for breakfast.  That definitely took all the pizzazz out of doing anything, so I watched one of the all time best rodeos ... the Calgary Stampede!!  I think this is the highest paying rodeo of the season, with the best bucking stock of the year.  That of course brings the best riders out in force.  

One of the things I like most about it is how they always include the younger crowd.  They have special classes for kids 18-20 that are just getting started riding bucking horses and bulls.  

They also have THIS competition.  Had this been available back in my day, I would definitely have signed up.  First kid holds the rope ... second kid grabs and controls the head (which as you can see isn't happening much) and the third one jumps on the back and rides for two seconds.  

Out of six teams, I think only one actually got on back of the pony.  The most fun part of all is the kids getting drug all around the arena while waving at the crowd.  For obvious reasons, it's the crowd pleaser of the rodeo!!  You can watch this on the Cowboy Channel for the next week.  What can I say, ranch kids are tough!!

And that was it for the day.  My finger is throbbing from typing, so I'll wrap it up.  This morning I'm off to the embroidery gal to get the last two pieces done for the last two quilts.  

After that, I feel a hot tub coming on since my swimming pool is now 90 degrees and counting.  That will probably be my last hurrah since the water now needs those expensive chemicals and I don't want to go there!!

I'll be in the garden ........