Huckleberries Online

A Big thanks to dho for the nice welcome to the land of blogging. What an exciting adventure this is turning out to be.
Also thanks dho for allowing me to keep track of MamaJD. As you know, some days that can be a chore. I sure don't have the energy to keep up with all in her busy life.

After Wedding Reception's Blues

It never ceases to amaze me the effects weddings seem to have on people. Yesterday we had a small reception for my daughter Puff and her new husband. They got married a couple of weeks ago in Bonners Ferry and then had a church ceremony in an old church in BC. Fortunately, they double checked and found out getting married in Canada wouldn't have much effect here in the States. Hence, the two ceremonies.
The Duke decided when she was here one day to talk to her about a reception. She said she'd talk to FSil (future Son-in-law) and get back to him. I was shopping at the time. (That's a future topic here).
The next day she had called and the Duke said she wanted to talk to me, but when I asked him what about, he claimed he didn't know. When I called her back and asked her what she wanted, she said she didn't want anything. Ughhhh!!! She then stated that she had called Duke to talk to him about the reception. That was the point at which I found out about it.
Sometimes my idea of entertainment is not necessarily the same as most people. Thinking quickly, I informed the Duke that he had to do the planning, cooking, decorating, etc. It was sheer pleasure watching his face go from horror, to 'I'll show you', to that ever so bold end all statements from husbands....I Can Do That!
I have had about two months of thinking of the wonderful time I would have watching him work his way out of it. I assumed (correctly) that he would be willing to go to any lengths to avoid all the fuss. I was not disappointed. In between the 'oh, sure, right away' which translates to 'do it yourself' and the fun daughters and I had teasing him about it, we had lots of fun.
I must admit he puts on a pretty good show. He did do all the grocery shopping, he did the grilling, he cleaned up the patio and got the tables and chairs set up and signed the checks. I loved going with Puff to order her wedding cake and BlondieJr to get the decorations that Puff didn't know about.
All in all for us, we kept it simple. Although Sil (son-in-law) doesn't think so. Oh well, he's in a matriarch family now and that's the way it goes.
As we all relaxed and had a good time in the warm afternoon sun, I think we all realized that life doesn't get much better than this. Also in attendance were my granddaughter-in-law and my future great grand daughter. (At least these finger are crossed). Grandson is in Iraq and we are all very proud of him and missing him as well.

Napoleon HAS Returned From St. Helena!

Way to go Mamajd! This reminds me of "The Full Monty" a couple of weeks ago at the Cd'A Summer Theatre...only more. Or was it less. I forgot to tell Mamajd and Diva to catch the show, but this more than makes up for it. I'm thinking that they will be asking for donations for seat belts by next season. (They all did a great job and gave a wonderful performance.)
It was hard to fully enjoy the show as I have two broken ribs since the 4th of July, but I gave it a 2 thumbs up.
It's nice to know that Napoleon has finally made it back from exile and is among us once more. Who (or it is Whom) among us hasn't missed his genius and presence? Should I make this a poll question?
Anyway, thanks for the wonderful welcome Mamajd. You get a 2 thumbs up too!!

Curiosity Overcomes Fear?

Well, that seems to be the case this time. I'm not even sure it's good sense. Either way, here it is...my first post.

Fear has stopped me from doing many things in my life that I perhaps wanted to do. Things like writing that best selling novel, going to law school, continuing with my painting, hiking in the back country....ad nausium. But this time the curiousity has won out and here I am blogging.

I am not sure what the fear was yet, but it was there...so, I bit the bullet, so to speak, and signed up. Learning a new language is supposed to be fun as well as some effort. Right?

I learned many years ago that people who have courage have just said their prayers and do it anyway in spite of fear existing in their rapidly beating hearts.

Who knows where this will lead, but a least it's the first step.

Let me introduce you to Chewy...My youngest of 3 grandsons wanted to call the pup that when we got her, but the Duke won out day to day, but in my world she is Chewy. That is very apprapo as she makes some of the most interesting sounds when Chico and her play. Chewy goes to see the Dr. today so that we don't have any more little Chewys. Those little feet aren't so little any more either.

Gotta go and take her away. It's too early to think on these things.

Ciao