See What I Deal With?

THIS is what I deal with EVERY time I try to work on a project! Ugh... Darn cats! You can't set it down for a minute with out one of them claiming it as a new sleeping surface. And... look on the floor, like I'm suppose to be able to get to the sewing machine now? Sigh... Gotta love 'em though, cause they ARE my babies after all!

So... THEN... I decide they just look too cute and comfortable to disturb, right? I figure I'd go and sit down a bit and maybe read one of those magazines I have stacked next to my chair and encounter THIS!!!!



BIG, BIG SIGH!!!!!!
What's a Nannybird to do? I know, let me go harass the Bunyaboo!

I Have Become A Beach Bum....

I can't seem to get back into crafting, I have made a few items for friends who are or who have someone who is, in the baby making way... Daughter included, but I just wanna have fun and not be creative to have that fun, just be lazy and soak up the sun kind of fun is what is on my menu lately. Channon and the kids came over last week so we could spend some time together before they had to go to their fathers for a month. I am going to miss them, but I don't normally see them as often as I have recently anyway, so I will be able to endure it but poor Channon, I can't imagine how she must be feeling to have her babies gone for so long at one time. Here are some pictures from my latest "Grand" Adventures!

Mitch's Birthday Party

My first adventure to a water park, well, it was Mitch's celebration and his first visit as well, was rained out. We were there for 2 hours when it started to rain, the rain wasn't too bad at first, but they closed the rides because of thunder and lightening, so we went out to the car to have our picnic lunch, of course all the other park attendees did the same thing so the very few available for use picnic tables were already grabbed up by other so we had to make do under the lift hatch of Channon and Joe's SUV, and then moved into the cars as it began to rain more.

It was my plan at the time to just play and ride on the rides for the first part of the day. Do the picnic and cake thing and then take the camera in for some photo's of the kids in action and just watch them and let Channon and Joe go and do some of the few things her pregnant condition would allow, of course best laid plans get spoiled.

We had our lunch and cake, ugh.. yes, out of the trunk of the car... those selfish people wouldn't give up there hold on the picnic tables under the trees for a little boys 4th birthday party!! LOL, anyway, after we ate, the rain had slowed so we headed back to the park, it had been an hour and we thought since the rain was less the storm might be moving out of the area soon. We get back in to the park, find seats by the pool, mind you, this IS a water park and we are ALL wet, the seats out IN the rain are all but abandoned while EVERY one else is huddled under the covered areas of the place. COME ON folks, the lightening was pretty far away, and there wasn't any danger, just some light rain falling. Ugh.. so anyway, we sit there for another thirty minutes, and they made the announcement that since the rides have been suspended for 90 minutes and the rain has not stopped and more was predicted that they were going to close the park for the remainder of the day.

In other words, I didn't get the pictures I had wanted to of the kids at play and we received rain day passes so we can go back some time in the future any day this summer. But here are the pictures I did get to capture for the birthday events that were celebrated.








Of course I was the one behind the camera taking the pictures so fortunately there were none of me drenched and looking like a drowned rat. ah ha... that's the way to avoid the unflattering pics, be the one holding the camera!!!

Birthday Fun

Tomorrow we are going to the water park to celebrate our Mitch's 4th birthday, tonight I am working on a cake with a water theme... I got this idea from Family Fun Magazine on line feature, here's what it's SUPPOSE to look like, but of course it's not going to because I couldn't find ANY of the gummie things or fruit ropes and candy rocks or sea shells, I will be winging it, but hey, I'm "NannyBIRD" so hopefully my winging it will work out.

I have baked the cake part and am waiting for it to cool so I can start playing. I'm tired, I had a busy day today myself, first off getting up at 4:15 and walking for 5 miles, but that walk took right about 15 minutes longer this morning because of several factors, one... Cindy brought out this most yummy 'pie' for me for my birthday today, it's a candle pie that she makes and sells, it's PECAN!!!! My FAVorite... [Did I sound like Mitch?]

So we walked back to my house so I could put it on the steps, and that added 2/10ths of a mile to our 5 mile walk, the second reason we were slower is it was warm already and of course humid, making the walking less enjoyable, but the MAIN reason we took longer was all the lost time stopping and swatting deer flies off of us and from around us.

They were HORRIBLE this morning, I know we each got some bites even with the efforts of shooing them away. OFF doesn't work on these guys. I figured we also we felt more exhausted from the adrenaline rush and let downs we dealt with for the 3 areas that we had to fight with them so hard. Oh, and that means it was 6 times we were attacked, because dreading it as much as we did, we HAD to turn around and walk back past all those nasty spots that were infested with them.

So anyway, tomorrow we shall have pictures of water fun and I will post them soon, I am so tired today, I wonder what a day in the sun and water will make me feel like tomorrow! Off to bed I go, Good Night all!

"Hey Gram-ma"

I have had the joy of having Mitch come spend the night with me last night, since we picked him up, I have heard "hey Gram-ma" soooooo..... many times! That and "guess what?" "I've got to tell you something" "it's my FAVorite!!!"

He has wanted to go to Jessica's so he could use the "jumpaline" and he has wanted "nashed ta-tay-toes" with his grapes, chicken and piece of cake. I'm the best cook, you know that? LOL!

This morning it was "smokey" out side, and he KNOWS its really fo-ah-og. "I can't tell you Grandma, cuz I got hick ups" "What is fog grandma?" "hey, UnCKle Robbie, fog is NOT smoke its a cloud on the ground, you know that?"

"Hey Gram-ma, I've got to tell you something, guess what?" What Mitch? "Why'd da nutcracker cross down the road?" I don't know Mitch, why? "I don't know, cuz he died." Oh, does that crack him up? Uncle Robbie says, "Ma.. that's dumb" Hey, I thought it was funny, so did Mitch, he said so, he said "you're funny Gram-ma."


"Hey Gram-ma, it's a whist-er-ly fish" [Dora said so, actually she called it a mystery fish, but Mitch said it was a whist-er-ly fish and I like that better]

"Guess what Gram-ma? I'm HUNgry! I want some froop loops" "these can be crabby patties!" Oh.. and "Can I have some pren-zils when I eat my crabby patties all gone?"

"Hey Gram-ma... Livia has a dance re-size-al" an she "throwed her dress off, up in the air and then catcheded it." An almost 4 year old can sure talk a Gram-ma's ear off you know that?

It's a Boy

Well, we don't know yet since Channon is only 9 1/2 weeks along and it's too early to tell yet, but I made this for a friends daughter who IS having a boy and thought I'd show it off since I have been so slack in the crafting department lately.

Another Beach Day

I have lived in Virgina for almost 3 years now and until yesterday had not been the famous Virgina Beach. I mean, it's not that far away, and you'd think I would have just gotten in my car and gone by now, but I am not adventurous like that, it's not something I would want to do alone, but now that I have Peggy and Cindy who both like the beach scene to share it with me, I have been 3 times to a beach in a short amount of time. Soon it will be too hot for me to care about going, not that because it's will be hot, because yesterday was right on up there in the hot factor, but because I am the kind of person who doesn't like a LOT of big crowds and as the summer moves in on us when kids get out of school etc, I will be less likely to be willing to be going and fighting the crowds.

So until then, I am going to be enjoying any outings I go on, since school lets out on June 12th here. [My birthday] I know my desire to continue to go on beach excursions will probably be diminishing as the crowds grow in size and the amount of school kids increase as well.

Here are a few shots from our trip yesterday, we had a good time and kept the SPF 30 rubbed in freely and neither of us ended up with any burn in the 3 hours we were there soaking up the sun. Oh and HEY!!! I actually went into the ocean yesterday!! It was so hot that the cold water felt so refreshing that I actually went far enough out to be up to my neck in the ocean water, that's the furthest I have ever gone out into the water. I have really only gone out to my knees before that. Fear of the unknown drop offs, the crabs biting my feet, and sea weed wrapping itself around my legs as well as fear of jelly fish have always kept me close to shore before, but this area was much better for swimming then the other ocean fronts I have ever had occasion to visit. It was very pleasant and I can say I would do it again!

Cindy Can't Be Still

I went to the beach yesterday with Cindy, she showed a side of herself to me that made me laugh and had me imagining her as a little girl in school, getting fussed at for not sitting still.

She isn't used to much "CINDY" time... that much was obvious, she didn't know what to do with her self! She had to fiddle and play around to keep herself entertained!
She fidgeted and wiggled and watched all the activities all around us, watching the life guards, the other families, the seagulls, the geese, the cars on the bridge, you name it she was watching it and commenting about it!! THEN... I suggested we turn over in our chairs and work on our backs some to get some even sun exposure.... The girl was at a loss for what to do now!! She couldn't see the water, she couldn't see the birds, she couldn't see the bridge, she could see the life guards and a couple of the other people, but she was bored with them by this time.. so she created her own little miniature desert island!!!


We were non threatening to these parental pair of geese as you can see how close they let their babies get to us, one even tried to peck my toe and when I pulled my feet back onto my chair they moved on to Cindy's and then decided to all settle down for a well earned rest at her feet, one decided to taste her flip flop while Mom and Dad kept a watchful eye out for threats to the babes.


I got a text message from my husband and I was trying to read it, I can't read the screen on my phone in good conditions, but put me outside with the sun glare and brightness on the screen, forget it!! I can't read it to save my life!! I discovered... by Cindy's suggestion mind you, that if I covered my head with my shorts, it would darken the screen enough so the back lighting of it would be able to be read... OK, I felt foolish and silly putting my shorts over my head to read my text, but imagine my chagrin when I down loaded my pictures to the computer and found that my "helpful" friend thought it was so funny she borrowed my camera and took a picture of me as I was doing WHAT SHE SUGGESTED, mind you, so I could see and read my text!! THANKS A LOT CINDY!!!!! LOL [yeah.. that's me, wearing a two piece bathing suit! I never thought I'd ever show myself at a public beach ever again in my lifetime in a two piece suit, yeah... flab and all.]


Here is who entertained us for a good part of the first half hour we were there setting up and getting comfortable. This little cutie [yes I got permission to take her picture before hand] was so into the sand and this sand pit she had to play in.

See, both Cindy and I are not used to not being aware of the children around us, me because of the years of my day care as well as my own kids and now grandchildren, and her because she has her grand niece she is raising and she is always alert to what is going on around her for that reason. So we both just had a great time watching this little sweetheart enjoying her first day ever at a beach. Oh.. and that look on her face? It was the look HER grandma got when she told her it was time to pack up and go so they could get some lunch... I don't think she wanted to go, she ignored her for awhile after that look was captured on my camera.

Now here is the interesting cloud I had to take a picture of, it did get out of shape a bit before I got it captured, we had just lost our geese friends to the water when 2 young boys came running down the beach toward them and one was throwing sand out of a bucket at them... not very nice children actually, Daddy goose was hissing and threatening the older one and the boy was not phased or scared and who ever was in charge of him didn't stop him... SOME people... sigh... so the Momma Goose got the babes out to the water and then Daddy followed after they were safely out of harms way [read... away from the screaming monsters that invaded our space!!]

So after loosing our entertainment of the geese, I looked up and saw what was to be our afternoon fun spoiler moving in on us pretty quickly, I thought that the cloud actually looked like a goose...

tell me, what do you think? It was better formed before I got the camera out and got it to zoom enough to capture it, but I think you can still see it's shape.

The clouds moved in and poured down on us, even though the weather men said there was nothing to worry about, there was not going to be any storms to spoil our day.. yeah.. .right!!!! We got dumped on and soaked before we got packed up and raced, as fast as two "old ladies" can, [while in flip flops in the sand] carrying beach chairs and coolers as well as bags and towels, to the car. It was fun, and since the water was too cold for us, at least we got wet at the beach even if we didn't get in and go swimming!

The many faces of beauty

Here are the expressions I captured on my granddaughters face as she got dolled up for her dance recital yesterday. Some of them are priceless to me, a couple of them I borrowed from my daughter, the ones with Livie and her friend from the night before at the dress rehearsal. It was a lot of fun to see her make the faces as the 'beauty' process progressed from start to finish and the look of surprise and awe on her face as she saw the finished transformation of her little girl look to a stage ready dancer. Momma said, "there, now that's enough make up to last you till you turn 25, you can't wear it again till then." [or something similar but you get the drift of the comment]

Can you believe this?

This morning my husband offered to go to the grocery store with me, I usually do it alone but we are trying to do more things together, even the boring every day things and I appreciate his efforts in doing his part!

Any way, we were at the check out and I stood there enjoying the bonus of having him there by letting him unload the basket and put the items on the belt. He turned to me after he finished unloading the basket and said "So... how much to you think this is gonna cost us?" I looked at the items, and guess, just out of the blue.... 189.00

The cashier works on ringing the items up, packing the bags and again I enjoyed the perks of having him with me and let him do the task of reloading the cart with the bagged items. The cashier was all done totaling the cost and turns to us and says "That will be $188.99" Cal looked and me and said "Oh my God!" We had a turn laughing at that and I explained to the cashier why we thought that was so funny, because I was just one penny off from the total.

My husband says to me "If you could pick numbers like that, I'm taking you to Vegas" but I pointed out to him that if I did go, I would always be one number off!! How funny is that?

Letchworth Park

When you grow up just a few miles from something so awesome as Letchworth Park in Western NY, you tend to take it for granted. While I was visiting my family last month, my sister Jan and my niece Mary took me to the highlights of the park for a much needed reminder of it's beauty. I hope you enjoy these pictures I am going to share and if you have never been and are interested after seeing the pictures, you will consider visiting the area if you are ever in the vicinity.

I'll take one of each please

The last thing on my list of discoveries from Saturdays "tour your own town" adventure is actually the second thing we visited, first we went to the tourism building and got maps and flyers and the art center is in the same building now so we took a tour of it.

Many, many impressive things to see and admire, here are a few of the pictures I was allowed to take at the time. I said "I'll take one of each please" but the price on one was more then I would pay... not that it's not worth it, I am just too cheap to buy something like that, so I will admire the work in the images I was able to capture on my camera and I will feel the peaceful smile that creeps on my face when I look at the work of these artists in my own way!




There were many more to admire but these are the only ones I took pictures of.
The following was where I got my NannyBird fix, there is no actual bird I consider my logo, I just say any bird is me in a nannybird kind of way and here is some cute little thumbprints made into bird, then of course the pink flamingo!! Wow, it was so cute!!

Tourist in my own town again

Here is a picture of a painting of the old historic courthouse, followed by a historic marker in front of the Boykins Tavern house and then a picture of the Tavern it's self. We took a brief tour of this tavern on Saturday but we will be going back for the hour long tour with Gail and Ricky at some not too far off time, hopefully in the next week or two.




This is one of the markers from Fort Huger, I liked the last paragraph and if you click on any of the pictures it will make them larger so you can see more detail, but if you click on this one you can read the words clearly.



In the Smithfield VA county museum, they have this on display. The county I live in is famous for their pork and peanuts. Below the peanut picture is a picture of the worlds largest ham and under it is the write up on the details.... if you are interested!





One of the charming things to see is this old phone booth and then the sitting statue of the Valentine couple below.



Here is a view of the street, not anything important, just charming to me anyway.

I will end todays tour of my home town [actually county, and not my home town but it just sounds nice!] With this picture that cracked me up when I saw this sign. This is an attorney's sign out side of his office. Needs no further explanation as to why I found it so amusing if you ask me.

Tourist In Your Own Town Series.

This will be some brief posts as I get too frustrated lately trying to upload too many pictures at once, of our recent excursions of some historic sights and points of interest in our home town/county here in VA. We have lived here for over 2 years and have not ever visited these things and are making an effort to start NOW.

We visited Fort Huger and my first encounter with another inhabitant of the area was a beautiful, colorful butterfly that was NOT polite enough to let me get behind him to get a picture of his colors and beauty, so I gave up and captured this skink, like I didn't see enough of these type of critters while we lived in Summerville SC!! They were getting in our house all the time and the cats would catch them and chew them up or they might get their tail and the skink would get away but leave it's tail behind.

Here's a picture of the bunyaboo, he's not EVER happy to get his photo taken but was a good sport of it and even tried to smile, OK, a forced smile, but a smile non the less.

A picture I had to let Cal take of me to make up for the fact that I took one of him. I didn't look much happier then he did, did I with my forced, "hurry up and take the darn picture" kind of smile on my face.

The view over the cannons, into the bay area.

Strawberry Pickin'

Cindy and I had planned on going to pick strawberries yesterday, then I got the opportunity to go with Gail to check out the thrift stores and thought I hadn't seen her in a while for that kind of shopping adventure so I went with Gail and we had a great time but I have to ask, when did thrift store wares become "worth" so much? We have noticed the prices in thrift stores climbing and the managers who run them think their merchandise is like gold now and they have jacked up the prices.

Since I have lost 46 lbs since Feb. I wanted to buy some shorts and tank top style shirts that wouldn't be falling off me for just walking and I figured the thrift stores would be a good place to get the 'in between' clothes for this actiivity... NOT!!! I did buy one pair of shorts and paid $2.99 for them and felt like I was paying too much and THEY were on sale at that price!!!!

I ended up going to maxway and found similar fruit of the loom shorts, brand NEW at the cost of 2 for $5.00, HUH?!!! I paid 49 cents more for used ones!! UGH!!! ARGH!!! So thrift stores are not for me when it comes to clothes shopping for tiding me over.

So, then today, Peggy and I were going to go to the beach at Nags Head, about a 2 1/2 hour drive from here and just spend the day, but then it got cooler and windy and some misty rain so since we put off our adventure to the beach till tomorrow at the earliest when it's suppose to go back up by at least 15*'s I decided to see if Cindy wanted to go pick those luscious red berried today. I couldn't walk today because I have another blister that got hit by the rolling foot of my computer chair and it busted open and ripped the skin and then it peeled off and left a raw area that no amount of bandaging was going to allow me to put on the walking shoes to be able to get my walk in today.

After Cindy walked by herself we met up for some strawberry pickin'. This picture is MY half of the basket of berries we picked. We went to a new place to both of us to pick our own and this place was different, it sold you the basket and you filled it as full as you could, and that was what you went home with. I have never seen it done that way before and felt like it was a rip off, I'd rather pay by the pound like I have always done before.

Cindy and I were challenged by the fellow that was collecting the money, and he showed us how the "professional pickers" [as he called them] loaded up the baskets and told us if we were "all that" we could get that much into a basket as well... All I have to say is NEVER challenge two crafty ladies to that unless you are seriously ready to accept the consequences!!!!!

MISTER, we ROCK!!!!! We ended up better off then paying by the pound when we got done with the arrangement of our little ruby jewels!!! OH, not to mention all the ones that were so ripe that the tops pulled off when we picked them and of course didn't want them to go in the basket because they wouldn't last as long, they found their ways into our mouths!! Now they would have been way better off selling us the fruit by weight for sure, especially if they had required us to be weighted before and after we were done with our work in the field!

We started out with carefully arranging the bottom layer of fruit, fitting the berries together like puzzle pieces, there was NO room for empty air pockets!! LOL, quilters at heart, making them fit just so, we got so many more berries in that basket then the farm hand ever thought we could. He yelled to us as we walked to the car, "Wow, I think you owe about $4.00 more at least!!" Hahaha!! YOU Challenged us!!! so NOT!!!! Then he says "hey, let me check those pockets, you got more in there?" Now I did NOT have more in my pockets, my jeans were too tight to hide any, and I was holding that basket close to my stomach so nothing would fall off. Cindy on the other hand had a handful of loose berries, one pocket full and 2 big ones in her other hand! We laughed and laughed about being challenges, that's what he gets for telling us if we "think you are all that" and can do a better job at piling that basket better then their "professional" pickers!!! The joke was on them!!! I wonder if we go back next week if they will have new rules in effect, at least for the 2 returning puzzle piecing, quilting fitting berry pickers Cindy and I made as a team!!!

Ummm.. yum... Strawberries for dinner tonight!! Want some?

Horror-able Pictures of People I Love

Updated May 2nd so I can include a "Horror-able" shot of me as well... I can laugh at myself too, but I'm just so 'photogenic' that there WERE NONE until I got this one... hahaha.. just kidding!!!


Here are some really Wacky Wednesday Pictures for you, they are Horror-able pictures of people I love! Heeheehee....I have more, but need to get Robster to school and then off for my walk and thrift store shopping with Gail so I will update later in the day! So, now we have had a good laugh at some of the people I love, go start your wacky Wednesday with a smile and do something fun!

Warning... Cute Kid Content

Ever Wonder Where a Nannybird Grew Up?

The last house I lived in as a child, from 8th grade till I graduated, then BRIEFLY while getting ready to move to Raleigh, NC when I was pregnant with our daughter Channon, right before my 21st birthday.


I picture of the tree we planted as a family the week my brother was killed in 1983. It was just a little twig of a thing when it was planted, 25 years later, it's a beautiful tall reminder of him and how he continues to grow in our hearts as we proceed on with out him.


A picture of the barn my brother Steve spent many hours working for the farmer next door, this is a view from the front of the drive way looking right, down the road.
Steve milked cows and cleaned stalls before he quit school to join the army. Sooo many years ago now, and it looks much the same.

This was the view I looked out to see every day when ever I looked out the picture window in the living room or my bedroom.
This Field always grew corn the years we lived there. To feed the cows but the farmer always planted a generous amount of sweet corn for anyone who wanted to walk the fields on summer days to pick their own to have with their dinner. Some of the best corn ever eaten.

This is the view from the front of the house to the left. You can see the pond, that scummy pond... and the barn, it looks the same, even 27 years later!



A front view. Stupid me, misses it!!!

Here's an "escapee" from the barn!

Some one who finds that scummy pond just as inviting as any fancy well groomed pond!


This is not ALL, just all I am posting today, the house and the immediate views across the street, as well as left and right to where I once lived.

Where have I been?

I have been on vacation to visit family and friends.
The first thing I want to talk about is how adorable my niece Mary is, that's the girl with the wacky Wednesday hairdo in the last post! I just love her to bits!
We went on a Wacky Walk last Wednesday, wacky to her, because she had never heard her Aunt Nan complain so much in one 2 mile walk! She was doubled over on the side walk laughing at me by the time we got home and cars were driving by I'm sure wondering what the deal was with those 2 on the walk way!

Oh, I was in a silly mood, I had just spent the day with my friend Mary and we made a paper piece quilt square together, she showed me how and did so much of it I can NOT accept credit for it at all!

I had a Wacky lunch that day of dessert, Thank you very much... YES ED, I ate Dessert first for a change!!! It was SOOOOO.... good, brownies, ice cream and home made fudge sauce... oh my gosh... what a devilish treat! Oh MARY? I DO need that recipe by the way.. hint, hint!!!

So when I got back to my sisters house I felt it was especially important to be sure to do my walk, now with this lovely lunch I consumed a large glass of water, and then returned to Jan's house and promptly drank another glass, must have been the bacon, and egg I crumbled and mixed in to the grits I ate for Breakfast! SO, with a loaded tank of 2 glasses of water, you can only imagine the duration my bladder was able to hold out for was less then the planned 5 mile hike we had set out to conquer!

Not only was I feeling a bit guilty for eating this fabulous lunch, I was determined it was not going to show up on any scale as a weight gain! So I set out with Mary to walk it off! We weren't even out of the drive way and I was already complaining, I can't remember exactly what it was about, something to do with my shoe or sock or foot or sand in my shoe, or sock or rubbing on my foot? Humm... not important.

We get to the end of the drive way and turn on to the sidewalk, blasted by a gust of cold wind, there came my second complaint... "hey Mary, you said it was warm out!" But knowing myself as I do, I knew by the time I got moving I would be plenty warm and not need a jacket and would have been toting it instead of wearing it by the time we got home. Oh I guess we had gone another few yards before I found another thing to complain about, I didn't bring any Kleenex and with the wind blowing straight in my face, the old nose had already started running by the time we were just 2 houses down from the starting point.

OK, I am lazy, I don't want to stop and fix my shoe, or go back and get a Kleenex, I resolve myself to sniffing and snorting and swallowing to avoid going back. Ugh. Mary is being a good sport, hasn't said a word yet about how I haven't even gone a quarter mile and had complained a good 3 times already!

I know there were many other little complaints and right now I can't remember them all, because it was many before I really heard myself and realized what it was I was doing! Oh.. the side walk, the next thing I remember complaining about, it is all broken and easy to stumble on, then the steep hill... with a foot that was complaining about SOME thing, that I can't be sure I remember what it was, and a full tank of sugar and water in my belly, that hill was brutal!

OK, we are about half way to the one mile turn around point, which we would then continue up and down side streets to complete a 5 mile trek, yes, only half way to the FIRST MILE and I have complained so much already, when did my get up and go, get up and leave? Probably on the third step out the door is what I was feeling like!

Up the hill, whew... leveling out, dripping nose, sniff, snort. Not cold any more though, glad I left the coat behind! Mary, you did well by that. Oh... hey, I just realized I have mentioned TWO Mary's here in this post and they are different people!! One is my Niece, the other is a friend I graduated with, the barer of such lovely dessert lunches!

SO, on ward we march, heading to the turn around point. I am sure there are other complaints forgotten between the half way point and the one mile marker because I know my niece Mary was laughing about a lot of things I had said between then and there, but I can't remember them.

About the time we got to the turn around point? Yeah.. that's when the full tank hit me that it was running through and ready to exit me. A mile from home and man did I have to really GO!

Mary suggested I cross the street to the pizza shop and use their rest room, but I was not going to go in there and use a rest room and NOT buy something!! So NO, I say we just head home and finish our walk later after I get relief.

When you have to GO and you have to walk you are faced with 2 different strategies to get where you are headed, one is walk as fast as you can to get there so you can 'GO' but then there is the jarring and bumping motions of walking in a quick pace to deal with thus causing greater discomfort in the haste to achieve the speed to cover the ground quickly to get there. The other is slow down and walk so you can walk with out fear of wetting yourself because of the bumping and jarring but then you have a greater amount of time of holding it causing even further discomfort as those 2 glasses of water filling the tummy tank get to move and progress down to the bladder tank! What to do? What to do?

First thing I should NOT have done was announce this to my niece, she gets to laughing which then causes her to slow down and almost stop because she is laughing at you... hurry up!! come on.. don't make me wait any longer, I'm going on with out you!! OK, then there is also the giggle she is infecting you with, her infectious laughing is causing YOU to laugh as well.. HELLO??? laughing and having to potty are NOT a good mix people!!!

Hurry, hurry, hurry.. almost to Lorraine's Restaurant on main street, thoughts of just diving in there and doing what I wouldn't do at the pizza shop cross my mind, use the bathroom with out buying anything... NOPE, I'm stubborn, I can hold out, just lets hurry!

Sniffing and snorting snot, swallowing it and laughing, OMG HURRY UP!!! Walking face for a brief few steps only to slow down to control the urge again... stop laughing at me Mary!!! Come on!! Crossing the bridge where the water is running steady and gurgling happily by the library, OMG!!! That makes is worse, dang it, I shouldn't have said that for sure! more laughing... Hurry, hurry, lets go!

We have a half a mile left to cover, Oh no Mary says, it's not that far, we are almost there, me and my bladder beg to differ, we had already taken the car out to mark out a distance for a walk and we were arguing with a 14 year old! Oh no, we have a lot longer then the few hundred yards she is claiming it to be to her door!

Oh, now she's laughing at me again, I want to grab her hand and pull her along, I threaten to, she is stopping, bent over laughing at me!! OMG!!! Hurry up Mary, come on!!

Whew we made it, what a Wacky Wednesday Walk that was, never again will I fill up my tank with 2 glasses of water before I decide to go for a walk again, Hey Mary, [the niece Mary] did we ever go back out there and finish our walk? I don't remember? Oh, yeah, I think I did by myself after I waited till I knew I had let a little more of the water make it's trip through.

Photo's for a fun Wacky Wednesday Kick Off

I have discovered....

If you want to know if the jeans you are trying on that are 3 sizes smaller then you used to wear, look OK and don't look too tight... don't ask your 17 year old son.

I asked, figuring he would be honest with me... "Robbie, do these jeans look too tight?" and turned my back to him so he could look and see if they did look like I was squeezing into the next size down too soon.

There is a brief pause, then "Yeah Mom... they're way too tight" and he turned around and walked off. Hummm.... I said "REALLY? They look too tight?" A sigh, I guess because he thought he escaped! Then he turned around and looked at me with a grim face and said "Mom, you're my MOM! Of course I would say they are too tight!"

HUMM.... Is that good or bad? It was just TOO funny to me!

Silly Day Participation!

Hey, hey, hey!!! Thanks for those who sent me emails and made comments on their own silly day fun yesterday. Now it should have been one heck of a silly day with it being April Fools day, and others might have more to report before next post when I will include those who shared with me the fun they have their days of just pure fun for the sake of fun! Next week, at least I will have more to report on our Wacky adventures! Oh, and by the way, it's not too late to send in your own if you haven't done it yet!

Weekly Wackiness Continues.....

Here it is Wednesday already! WOW! Whew! Wee! Wanna join me in a Wacky day again?
OK!! Lets start with the joke that Jaye from Just a Mom sent me last night, I just got the biggest kick out of it! I hope I don't offend any of you, but if I do, excuse me my offense!
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You hang in there sunshine.......
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Ha ha!! I just laughed right on out loud with that one, yep, nodding my head as I type this.

Last week I got Cindy to tell me a funny story and I posted it, it kept me giggling every time I thought about it all week long. She has shared another one that got me about doubled over on the shoulder of the road on Monday when we were walking. I enjoy that girl sooooo much! I'm glad I was brave and stopped the car that day I saw her walking and asked her if she wanted a walking partner.

I'll tell her next story soon, but I HAVE got to share Andreas' contribution to W.W. on her blog Indigo Blue Last week she told me she participated and me being the very poor blogging Buddy I have been recently didn't check it out till yesterday. She got right into wacky fun with her students, and I want to post a link so you can see the fun she had creating with her kids. They are the cutest darn little wacky fun egg cozies I have ever seen! ;)

The best thing about a silly day or Wacky Wednesday is, there is no rules! ANY thing fun or silly is game for taking off and running with. Finding the fun, the silliness or the wacky enjoyment of everyday stuff... how COOL is that? It doesn't have to be Wednesday, that's just the day I report it, any day can be a Silly Day, so come on now, PLAY with me!!!!!

OK, now maybe I am just plan silly and this is not funny to anyone else, but I was talking to Cindy on Monday, telling her how much I missed having her to walk with over the weekend since she was out of town, and I was telling her about the different things that happened on my solo walks.

Being this is a Nannybird story, I will first back track and admit the whole conversation started with the fact that I got all excited when we saw 2 mating blue birds, it was so cute, then THAT reminded me of the bald eagle I saw on my drive over to Channon's on Tuesday last week it was BEAUTIFUL! I was driving down 460, heading into Waverly and right before the woods thinned out, I saw this HUGE!! I mean HUGE bird above me, I never, ever, NEVER, EVER, knew they were THAT big! I looked up and saw it fly from the left side of the road above the tree tops across the road to the right and on out of sight. I was stunned! I was in awe! I was excited, and I was not the only one!!!!

The guy in the truck right next to me in the other lane started honking his horn and I looked over to him and he was grinning and pointing up, I nodded that I had seen it and he gave me the thumbs up and nod, he was grinning... sharing something so awesome with a complete stranger! WOW!! That was soooo cool! We both were grinning and kept looking back and forth at each other and nodding. He slowed and got behind me in the same lane as me and when I came to my left turn and changed lanes, he pulled up along side me again and honked and grinned and nodded and gave me the thumbs up sign again.... COOL! HUH?

OK... now, that's not wacky, but I was telling Cindy about it, THEN... the bird theme continued, I went on to blabber, jabber on about Sunday morning and how when I came home from my solo walk, I picked up the newspaper and wasn't paying any attention as I climbed the steps to the front porch, all of a sudden I hear this awful ruckus! I am startled and look around and then see what it is.... all along the roof peak of the house are these HUGE black birds, at first I thought they were buzzards, the fear that put in me... LOL! I was ducking and weaving afraid I was gonna get dive bombed or pooped on [as is unfortunately not a unheard of event in my life! Read, how I became a Nannybird in the list of stories on this blog over on my right side bar]

So.. anyway, Cal heard the ruckus and my yelp of surprise and came to the door to see what was what, just in time to see all these huge birds hovering over head of me and begin landing in the trees around the house. The first thing out of my mouth is "OMG!! I feel like this is an omen of impending doom!" That is when I realized they were crows not buzzards, but just BIG freaking crows, OK, still not a omen I want roosting on the peak of my house.

So I told Cindy about that and we laughed at my fear, my omen comment, my fear of getting pooped on and that ended the bird theme portion of our conversation. I then mentioned the fact that I saw a HUGH snapping turtle on the side of the road, by the creek we cross.

Oh, is this getting too long? Oh well, if it is, just come back and read some more when you have the time, I'm gonna go ahead and write it while I have the time, you know I type fast. [haha...]

So, that was the end of my comment and she proceeded to tell me about shortly after she had moved out here around 30 years ago, she was driving down to town by her self and saw this huge turtle, she held out her arms to show me the size of which she speaks and it is TWICE the size of the one I thought was big!

She said she had the idea that she would just stop and pick it up and take it home for her son to see, thinking "I'm gonna be such a COOL mom!" "he's gonna love this" and all those things someone thinks when they have a 'brilliant' idea!

She said she parked her car, and got out, walked up to it all excited and just about the time she gets close to it, the turtle pops up on all four feet, hisses and starts 'running' toward her! She freaked out and yelled, turned and ran back to her car, yelling "I thought turtles were SLOW!" she got back in her car, her heart pumping and fear shaking her.

She continued on that later on she was telling a friend of hers about it and he laughed and laughed at her, he told her she was lucky she hadn't had her hand taken off! It was a snapping turtle and being that size could have very easily done her some serious damage!

The way she explained the turning and running for her life back to her car, and the noise it made and how it 'got up on all fours' and moved faster then she ever expected a turtle to be able to move. It had me laughing so hard. I wish you could have heard the story straight from Cindy's mouth, much funnier! I love this girl, she is a bright spot in my day, every day we spend time together.

So... tell me, whats been wackily happening in your lives? share! leave a comment, or make a post on your blog and tell me in the comments to come read it or email me, the address over in the right side bar! Lets enjoy each others moments of joy! HUGS!! And.. Happiest of Wackiest Wednesdays to you all!!!!!!!

The View Out My Front Door

I love the color of spring green, this is the wheat that is planted in all the fields around my house, miles and miles of this beautiful sight... ah... I guess I am a country girl after all!

Cindy Goes Wacky For Me!!

This morning on our walk, I was telling Cindy the joke I had posted here for Wacky Wednesday and how I had hoped I might get some wacky stories from others to make the day fun. She decided to share a funny story with me that had me just about dropping to the asphalt and rolling on the ground.

I won't get too detailed I wouldn't want anyone to be upset about my posting their names if I used locations and work places that were the place this occurred, but I do have to use the name here to make you understand the hilarity of it.

Cindy had started a new job and was learning the ropes of who was who and what their jobs were and their names. Everyone else knew everyone and probably had since the cradle but she was new to the area so she had to learn those things such as names.

One day she was going to be required to address a person by name for a report and wasn't sure of the mans name so she asked a fellow employee what the fellows name was. The women she asked knew who she meant and had known this man all her life and she simple told her the name and thought nothing of it.

Cindy was horrified and said "No!" I'm not calling him that! What is his REAL name? Her coworker looked at her strangely and said "Cindy, that IS his real name!" Cindy said "don't they call him anything else?" and was told no, that was his name and that is what she was to call him. She kept saying "I can't call him THAT!" Finally the coworker caught on to her horror.. when Cindy said it out loud her coworker just started laughing. The gentleman's name is Nurney... his first name is Bert....Cindy thought she was being told to call this man Burt and Ernie... from Sesame Street! I just love this story!!! Thank you Cindy for going Wacky with me!