Ode to Mr Pepples

There once was a man called Mr O.
He wasn't an ordinary Joe.

He could paint and draft,
These weren't his only crafts.

He liked to lie and fib
about when he was in his crib.

He was afraid of getting old
so to his youth he tried to hold.

He tried to make people believe that he arrived in '75
but that was just a bunch of jive.

He really arrived in '72,
the rest is just pooh-pooh.

We love the one who is 34!
Not the one full of lore.

He has a devilish grin
and is quite fit and trim.

Working underground
has caused his mind to be lost and found.

He used to dress with a stylish flare
but now jammies are all he wears.

Today is the day of his birth
I hope he knows his worth.

So Happy Birthday to you
Mr O born in 1972.

Happy Birhtday David!!!

Boogers Boogers Everywhere

Some are good for pickin'
Some are good for flicken'
Some are yellow
Some are green
Some are somewhere in between
Sticky, stretchy, gooey, icky

Some get wiped
Some get blown
Some get snorted
Some get flown
Some get smeared
Some get flicked
Some even get licked

Some people keep them
Some people eat them
Some people seep them
Some people wipe them
Some people type them
Some people like them
Keepers, Eaters, Pickers, Flickers
Boogers boogers everywhere.

(This was a poem about boogers for the last Day)

"A good Girl"

You Are a Good Girl!

You're into fun - but it has to be your own brand of fun Drinking? No thanks. You rather spend your time differently... Whether it's talking with friends, taking up a hobby, or reading You're not the type to socialize just for socializing's sake!

Are You a Party Girl?

My Fart Poem

MY FART POEM.....

A fart can be quiet,
A fart can be loud,
Some leave a powerful,
Poisonous cloud.

A fart can be short,
Or a fart can be long,
Some farts have been known,
To sound just like a song.

Some farts do not smell,
While others are vile,
A fart may pass quickly,
Or linger awhile.

A fart can create
A most-curious medley,
A fart can be harmless,
Or silent, but deadly.

A fart can occur
In a number of places,
And leave everyone
With strange looks on their faces.

From wide-open prairies,
To small elevators,
A fart will find all of us
Sooner or later.

So be not afraid
Of the invisible gas,
For always remember,
That farts, too, shall pass.

Who's your inner rock chick

You Are Avril Lavigne!

A bit hardcore on the outside... But sweet and sensitive on the inside. "It's a damn cold night Trying to figure out this life"

Who's Your Inner Rock Chick?

What kind of soul are you?

You Are a Peacemaker Soul

You strive to please others and compromise anyway you can. War or conflict bothers you, and you would do anything to keep the peace. You are a good mediator and a true negotiator. Sometimes you do too much, trying so hard to make people happy. While you keep the peace, you tend to be secretly judgmental. You lose respect for people who don't like to both give and take. On the flip side, you've got a graet sense of humor and wit. You're always dimplomatic and able to give good advice. Souls you are most compatible with: Warrior Soul, Hunter Soul and Visionary Soul

What Kind of Soul Are You?

Confusion

So much of the day to day life is just organized confusion. Nothing is really status quo. We like to believe that we are in control of the world around us but we are completely wrong. At any moment lives can change. What we were willing to tolerate yesterday sometimes we realize that it is just to much sh*t. What changes so from day to day? Do we get our eyes opened with information while we sleep?
Where do we go from here. Then all of a sudden we are willing to tolerate it again. Is this a sign of weakness or the humans way of adapting to the stress of the world around us. On a daily basis I change my mind on where I stand on things. I am not sure where I stand on anything, except that I know I love my family and friends and can't live without them. I hope you all are equally confused.

10 ways you know that you are a redneck

1. You have more vehicles than there are people in your family
2. You own more buck knifes than silverware
3. You fix things with duct tape or bungee cords
4. You have cable for "Speed" the channel
5. Your kids can name all the Nascar drivers but not all the states
6. Your dogs have full rights to the couch
7. Jeff Foxworthy is your family's idol
8. You make your own pork rinds or "cracklin's"
9. You use your fireplace to burn household trash
10.You eat what your dogs catch in the backyard for dinner

(Disclaimer: this is intended for enjoyment only any resemblances to people real or imagined is purely coincidental.)

Happy St Patricks Day

Happy St Patricks Day
Originally uploaded by tim7423.

I hope everyone enjoys being Irish today.

Socks

How does everyone deal with socks? I have tried several different methods to contain the wild beasts. I have encouraged my family to mate the socks and put them together in their hampers. I have also tried labeling the socks as well as only doing one persons laundry at a time and mating them as they come out. Then there is always the reliable sock basket full of everyone's that at infrequent intervals I mate. This seems to work somewhat but then there is always those without mates. I keep them waiting for the mates to reappear. I just finally got rid of some baby socks that the mates never came back to and my "baby" is eight years old. So how do you deal with socks and how long do you keep those singles?

Sleep

Why can I sleep sometimes wothout problems and other times it does not come? Lately when I get home from work in the morning no matter what I do I can't sleep. I have tried all the usual- a protein snack, a soak in the tub, white noise, et cetera. I have not resorted to melatonin or benadryl yet but I am almost there. Usually around 11 am I can suddenly start to drift off. I don't know if it is because it is getting closer to spring or what.I haved learned to amuse myself by playing animal sounds on the computer which has caused the cats to try to find the animal hidden behind the speakers. It really is quite funny. When I played the barking dog both of them fluffed to twice their size and started to growl. It might be funnier to the sleep deprieved.

Birdie

Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday Little Birdie. Happy Birthday to you. (sung to the tune of "Clemintine"). I love you and have a great birthday you little cutie pie.

Thoughts for the day

1. I used to eat a lot of natural foods-until I learned that a lot of people died of natural causes.
2.Gardening Rule: The best way to tell if a plant is valuable or a weed is to pull on it. If it comes out easily it is a valuable plant.
3. The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.
4.Never take life seriously-no one gets out alive.
5.There are 2 kinds of pedesterians. The quick and the dead.
6.An unbreakable toy is useful in breaking other toys.
7.If quitters never win, and winners never quit then who is the damn fool who said, "Quit while you're ahead"?
8.Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which you can die.

The beauty around us

We are so lucky to live in the land of the free. I am doubly blessed that I get see the Rocky Mountains everyday. I want to take this time to thank all of those fine young men and now young women who have given their life or at least put it on the line for me to have the lifestyle I have. I am so lucky to never had to see the really ugly side of humans because of those who have fought to protect us. Thank you!!!

The kids

Here are the best group of kids at least I think so. They are my kids and their cousins. It only took one attempt to get them all behaving. They range in age from 13 down to 4.

Bryce's birthday wish

We went looking at motorcycles today and this is the one that Bryce wanted.

Sleeping Beauty 2

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Originally uploaded by adyrdal.

Here is Little Miss E sleeping like an angel.

Just passing time

Have you ever felt like you were just passing time in order to get to something important. Lately that is how I feel. I keep going day by day and feel as if I am getting nothing accomplished. It seems as if the things I do just have to be repeated over again and I know this is day to day life. I guess it seems so mundane and anytime I try to do something special it falls through. Like I had planned to take my husband to Vegas for his birthday just the two of us and to do this I was putting money into my savings account. He found the reciept from the bank and became unchained like I could run away very far with $300. Because of his reaction I have started slowly spending the money and will be damned if I try to do something like that again. So I guess I will go on with my day to day life and enjoy the mundane.

Pre-teen mood swings

What a morning! The sun is shining the mountains look beautiful and my 8 year old daughter is having a BAD day. It started out with "nothing to wear" moved onto "my hair looks stupid" and ended up with "there is nothing good here to eat, I will just starve". I know that teenage girls have this all the time because I was one once but I do not remember it before junior high school. I was a tomboy so as long as I had a somewhat clean pair of jeans and a t-shirt I didn't care. I remember my mom making me comb my hair before school and washing my face. On the other hand my daughter is much more girly than I ever was and seems to care about her apperance much more. She isn't as girly as her cousins the O girls but has me beat at her age. I liked to play soccer, kickball, et cetera and she doesn't mind sports but will almost always fix her hair before moving onto something eles. I tried to remain calm and rational as all the parenting books tell you to but I lost it a little there at the end when we were going to get into the car to drive to school. I only raised my voice a little but inside was wanting to yell and scream and then spank. Lord help me when we get to the teenage years.