"You Wake Up to the Sound of Alarms..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

Well, I am--sorry for yesterday's post. I was really, really tired. Looooong, wonderful weekend, but long. ^^

Daddy is sick. We think maybe pneumonia, so he got chest x-rays and bloodwork done, he's too old for pneumonia to go by lightly, so we're worried rather. I took Maggie for her walk to-day, and got the paper and the mail, and drove Daddy in to the doctor and got him the Times, and then I picked peas in the garden under my umbrella. The guineas squawked at me.

And Mama and I drove to the Oriental house and sat on a hay bale in the barn and watched the thunderstorm and talked for a long time. And I read a lot and watching Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, which is exceedingly silly and I had to hide my eyes a little, because besides being exceedingly silly it is bloody. Also it features God's big shiny box of smite. Really I think it ought to be common sense to leave known boxes of smite alone.

We had supper together, Mama and I, because Daddy's sleeping, he's been in bed all day except for going to the doctor. To-morrow I'll get up early and do everything again and then go to work. I kind of don't want to, I'm still pretty tired, but I promised Michelle I'd go to-morrow. So I'll try to get to bed at a decent time to-night because of that.

Maggie ate the remote. Also a driver at the truck stop fussed over her and said he had a dog at home that he missed, a golden retriever.

There's always so much to do.

Comments

[bewareofitalics]

Especially Jewish shiny boxes of smite. Never know when they might take a pound of your flesh, eh? ...sorry.

And hey, do those of us not lucky enough to have shared your weekend get a show report? *g*

*hugs* Love to you and your family.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Well, SERIOUSLY. I was like, Jeez, no self-preservation instinct THERE...!

Ooh, um, yes. But not to-day, I'm tired to-day. XD But yes. There might well be one.

♥ Thank you.

[bewareofitalics]

*g* I don't think I've ever actually seen a whole Indiana Jones movie... one of these days!

Not today is fine! I'd just like to hear about Marilyn the guy who makes out with his dad Hamlet and the rest eventually. ;)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

You're not missing too much, really? XD

Okay, yes, absolutely. And gahhhhh shhhh you.

[bewareofitalics]

Only the shiny boxes of smite, huh?

Yay! *...shushes? :D*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Precisement. And gory deaths.

^__^! *will get around to it soon, rly* *good!*

[silverdragon262.livejournal.com]

By the way... did you ever get our voicemail? XD

[bewareofitalics]

...no? :( ...wait. Were you the ones yelling at me about not wanting to talk to John?

[nrtf.livejournal.com]

...you have guineas? Are they not the noisiest and most curious-looking birds? Ours start around five-thirty, so as soon as I am dressed I am serenaded. Oh, and we lost them the other day in a windstorm, but two came back and all is better. We've also lost a duck, but that's off the point.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

We have a flock! And yes, yes, they utterly are. XD I love them. One of them has a crippled leg, and he hops around making noise in the front garden. Omg, I'm glad you got some back! That's scary. You have ducks? Eeeee. We could never make them stay.

[nrtf.livejournal.com]

Ah, we had one with two crippled legs, and she was miserable, and we ate her. With too much salt. Are they egg-laying? My lunch to-day was a boiled guinea egg, but they moved their nest and it's luck of the draw now as to whether we find them. We have two ducks, also layers but molting now, a widowed hen that's gone broody, ten little chicks that will lay in two months and a goose. She lays too. Those are harder too use in cooking. All giant, like-- and so on. We got a double yolker equal to around six normal chicken eggs.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

We promised not to eat them because they all came from a rescue. We just eat the chickens. And they do lay, but they hide the eggs. They are very clever about that. >_> As I'm sure you know. Ohhh, that's fantastic. We have a flock of laying hens but the chicks were eated this year. At the Oriental house we have an actual chicken house for the chicks and for the hens so we're hoping to have better luck keeping them alive. God knows. GOOSE! Oh, wow. That's--eee, wow. I mean, okay, besides being a pain because they're huge eggs, but still. HUGE EGGS. Is she a guard goose?

[nrtf.livejournal.com]

The purpose for the goose was to have some sort of fowl that we wouldn't eat. We got two, an toulouse named Tudor and an Embden named Stewart, but Tudor was borne off on a high wind and impaled on our shed. Then Stewart was so very lonely that we got her some ducks. She is a very dutiful duck-mommy. She is quite haughty and aloof in a very goosish way, but if she's, say, being bitten by a horse, it's all damsel-in-distress. One can then carry her to saftey which is wonderful because she is warm and I suspect goose down is the softest material known to mankind.

[tomecatti.livejournal.com]

The image of you picking peas under your umbrella is adorable. <3

God's big shiny box of smite is the best description of that thing ever.

I hope your dad gets better.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*bibbles and attackhugs* Awful. I wish I could take a photograph for you somehow.

That's what it was!

Thank you. <3 He's out of bed to-day, that's good.

[tomecatti.livejournal.com]

*clingsat, wondering what bibbling is* I would positively swoon, lady!

I want a box of smite...

That's very good ^_^

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*it's some sort of babbly wibbling, I believe* Oh, you would not. ♥

It might come in handy.

^____^

[tomecatti.livejournal.com]

*wibbling just gets more complex all the time, doesn't it?* Oh, I so would!

"Oh, you want to kill me and steal all my valuables? Why don't you go ahead and steal them first? They're over there, in that ominous box. I'll just be over here with my eyes closed..."

[gileonnen.livejournal.com]

Seconding the adorable umbrella-ness, and the wishes for your father--I'm sorry the weekend tired you, but I hope the tiredness will pass and it will be just happy. ^_^;

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Gleep, and thank you...! --I think so. <3 I really just need some sleep, I haven't gotten any lately.

[gileonnen.livejournal.com]

Sleep, dear one. <3

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I did. I keep forgetting that five hours a night makes me woozy, I can't handle it the way I used to. I used to be fine when I did things like that, but I was still sick then and I didn't feel it. And this is rambly because I'm still sort of tired, but I did get two hours, and that's a good thing.

[gileonnen.livejournal.com]

Do sleep, lady. Not everyone can survive on my sleep schedule. *hugsonto*

[flameofdeath.livejournal.com]

I hope all goes well with your dad. ^^

I love Indiana Jones. This last semester, I took Archaeology, and my professor showed up the first day of class dressed as Indiana Jones.

<3 Harrison Ford.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

He's better already. <3 You people and your well-wishing obviously make a difference.

HEE! That's fantastic.

He looks better with glasses. Says I.