Caption Contest!!

Not much planned this weekend; going out to Des Moines as it's my MILs bday and her would-have-been 45th wedding anniversary. Planning on getting Mal's 9m photos taken this weekend as well. Today kicks off the Summer Arts Festival and the Olympic Swim Trials begin Sunday and run through July 6th. So more stuff a-happenin' in The Big O.

So I shall leave you with this week's installment of the Contest. This week's contest is HEADLINE. Have a great weekend and I'll see you Monday!!

What A Series!!

Fresno State, the ultimate Cinderella team EVER in NCAA history clenched the Men's Baseball National Championship as the lowest seeded team in any NCAA sport; 86th. They lost the most possible post-season games to get to Omaha, and lost games at the CWS.

This is the second National Championship for Fresno State - ever. In any sport. In 1998 the Womens' Softball won a National Championship.

Whodda thunk this scrappy team would set the most CWS records and rewrite NCAA and CWS history?

A hearty Omaha CONGRATULATIONS to the Bulldogs of Fresno State; 2008 CWS National Champs.

Celtic Horoscope

You Are A Maple Tree

There's not anyone in this world quite like you. You are full of imagination, ambition, and originality. Shy but confident, you hunger for new experiences. You have a good memory and learn easily. You are sometimes nervous and always complex (especially in love).

What's Your Celtic Horoscope?

New Quiz!!

Ok, I dunno 'bout y'all, but I'm tired of the same quiz thingie that goes around wanting to know what time you started and finished the quiz, whether or not you eat the stems of broccoli or what your favorite smell is. WHO CARES!! I have compiled a quiz from the book entitled "The Little Book of Stupid Questions" by David Borgenicht. This quiz will contain some very insightful questions geared at revealing your inner self. Have fun!! And as the theme these days is getting to know one another, here's my version. -Kristi
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1. If you ate your foot would you lose weight? Not at the moment, but give me about 12 hours.....

2. Is it weirder for you to make love in your parents' bedroom or for them to make love in yours? I would think having my parents in my room. It goes back to that whole "envisioning my parents even DOING it without yakking" thought.

3. What vegetable to you most resemble? Butternut squash - it's about the only vegetable I can think of that has an hour-glass figure. Or at least hips.

4. What would the name of your band be? Nocturnal Bovine

5. Do you consider yourself to be more of a head-butter or a groin-kicker? Go fer the groin!

6. If you had a theme song what would you pick? Hendrix's "Foxy Lady"
6a. What if the song were played every time you entered a room or walked down the street would you change your mind? Probably not.

7. If you could have one superpower what would it be and how would you use it? The ability to fly so I wouldn't have to drive. Especially with gas prices as they are....

8. Which of the Brady sisters would have been most likely to have gotten pregnant as a teen? Cindy - sure she was cute with the pigtails and all, but there was that gleam in her eyes.....

9. Do animals think we're magical gods or just plain nuts? Nuckin' futs!

10. Who would drive you crazy faster - Barney, Urkel, Mr. Rogers, or The Nanny? Tough one, but I'd have to say the Nanny - it's the laugh!

11. Who's smarter, dogs who chase their tails and drink out of a toilet - or cats, who lick themselves until they cough up a furball and chase shadows? Both are easily entertained in some degree, but I'll have to go with dogs.

12. Do you think the first time corn ever popped it scared the hell out of the Native Americans? More than likely.

13. What sort of margin of error do you work with when it comes to the expiration date of food? A week? Is that too long?

14. What dead person would you least want to be haunted by (remember: how they died would affect how they look as a ghost)? Hands down - Elvis. He was fat, bloated, on the can with his pants around his ankles. EW! Then again, thinking about the plane crash that killed Richie Valens, Buddy Holly, and The Big Bopper, those guys would be all smooshed together so you'd be haunted by all three in the same body or have each others body parts. Or you would be haunted by lots of Little Boppers as surely he wouldn't be in one piece when he was found?

15. Which celebrity's butt would you most like to squeeze? Oh, the choices.....Pierce Brosnan
15a. Which celebrity would you most like to have squeeze your butt? Oh, the choices.....Mel Gibson

16. What mail order cataolog would you be most likely to model for? HA! Yeah right...."Freak of Nature Dot Com"

17. If you could have an extra appendage what would it be and where would you put it? Some days having an extra arm would be really handy. I would probably put it on my back between my shoulder blades

18. What would your name be if you were a goodfella? Kristi "Damnable Reach" Farrington

19. Which cartoon ability would you rather have - the ability to paint a hole on a solid object and go through it - the ability to be run over by a steamroller and "shake it off" - or the ability to fall hundreds of feel off a cliff to your certain doom and be back in the very next scene?
Perhaps the paint option - for as often as I walk into doors and walls having this ability would come in handy.

Weekend Wrap-Up

Caption Contest Winner!! This week's winner is Nadine with her, "I'm so gorgeous I have to lick myself....yum!" I chose hers because she then informed me that she did, in fact, lick herself.

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Weight Watchers Update: Well, Week 2 is done and in the books. So far I've dropped 9.4# in two weeks!! Lemme tell ya, it's much easier to walk and I can almost fit into pants that are three sizes smaller. Steve is doing this with me and he's dropped 6-7# in two weeks. This is my third or fourth try; this is his first. It helps having someone else participating.

Start: 258

Current: 248.6

10%: 233

Goal: 220-ish

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What a weekend! First, the weather has been spectacular the last few days. A couple of storms but much quieter than in weeks past. The past week I've been slowly working of a landscaping project that is, oh, about 6w behind.

Steve and I bought the girls a swingset and the area that we wanted to put it needs to be graded a bit and I wanted to edge it in brick for mowing. So here's the finished product:and

This is on the N side of the backyard. Round about where Mal's red swing is there used to be a Western White Pine tree. That is, until we took it down last spring. The area where the tree was was a temporary zinnia bed, for I had other plans but needed color in a very green and virgin landscape.

Because of all the rain my project was pushed back; WAAAAAAAY back. The total project is only about half done as it is now too late to effectively transplant anything. So I'll wait until this fall when it cools off before I'll finish. And I'm ok with that.

As much as I want these project completed I have to keep telling myself that at our old house it took me the better part of 10y before the landscape was to my liking. Why do I expect myself to get this done in two or three seasons? Because that's who I am.

Anywho, next to the crab sandbox is a little garden that isn't big enough for a whole lot, so I planted 6 Double Knock-Out Roses. In the past I've tried regular roses; they looked great the first year. The second year? Not so much. Then someone informed me of Knock-Outs. Haven't looked back since. This little rose garden leads right up to the NE gate.

The play area, as you might guess, is huge. This is a huge chunk of the backyard gone; less for me to mow! Saturday we bought 3 cubic yards of oak chips which are especially for play areas as it doesn't splinter like regular mulch. We even got a trailer and hitch free for two hours. And that's not the best part! The trailer was HYDRAULIC!! Didn't need to shovel off! Pushed a button and it all slid out! Not surprisingly all of the mulch has been used. For those not "in the know" a cubic yard is, essentially, the amount contained in one bulldozer scoop. Times three. That's a lot of mulch. And we have half a wheelbarrow left.

The bare spot in the corner will be my vegetable garden. I have two pumpkins coming up and I need to get my herbs in the ground. I still need to get some more chicken wire and fence it off so wayward bunnies and dogs don't destroy it.

Grilled this weekend; last night was some steak and chicken thighs for the rest of the week. I grilled some asparagus spears drizzled with sesame oil and Montreal Steak seasoning. Good eats.

Tonight is Game One in the CWS Championship of Fresno State against Georgia; the Bulldogs against the Bulldogs. Fresno isn't even ranked and defeated #3 North Carolina. I believe this is Fresno's first trip EVER to Omaha, so of course you have to pull for the underdog.

Caption Contest!!

Once again, Friday is upon us. Do you realize that the 4th of July is in a mere two weeks?? Gads....

Anywho, this week's contest is HEADLINE. Have a great weekend and I'll see you Monday!!!

Lookee What I Found!!

Found this l'il guy (or gal; too soon to tell) last night. I think praying mantis are the COOLEST insects ever, and that's saying a lot because, as a whole, I really dislike insects save a few harmless ones like ladybugs and butterflies. I think this is one reason (and quite possibly the main reason) why I never majored in biology. I would have had to take entomology and that just doesn't quite blow my skirt up.