lonestarpenny's Journal

headed out

Nov 07 2009 21:23

well girls, we are heading out tonight. have everything in the truck today and ready to go, went to town and ate pizza. I know it's pizza but we had been craving it for a while and where we will be there is not pizza hut. they have a 10.00 spec on for any pizza and size any toppings. that is about a 6.00 savings. we only have pizza about every three months. anyway went and ate and come home and took a nap. now we are up and I am going to get ready and off we go into the wild blue yonder. our friends called to tell us our room is all ready. they are having western music fest this weekened in tombstone ( cowboy music and poetry) and from what she says more people than last yr. we went last yr and it was fun but not a very big crowd. they will all be cleared out by the time we get there. next weekend is the clanton shindig. it should be fun. think I have talked hubby into going to the chuck wagon dinner in 1880's dress. that should be fun. they will have the orig. ghost tour with terry Ike clanton that sat. I will go on that. most things won't be a charge.. just for the meal and for a symposioum on western books etc. hopefully nobody gets any trouble from the hurricane but just a little rain and it moves on out. that is what we are praying for. they are still saying it will go east. no bad luck to anyone else... but please stay away from texas ida. I have threatened anyone that lets ma look at news report while we are gone until the hurricane is over. she will worry herself to death if she knew one was out there even if she hears it is not coming this way....... everyone be good while I am gone.!! talk to you later.

headed out

Nov 07 2009 21:23

packed up and ready to go

Nov 07 2009 01:02

Hubby and I went ahead and packed the truck tonight except for last minute over night bags that we put in with essentials in case of deciding to stop at a hotel at the last minute instead of driving straight through the 19 hrs. most likely we won't stop, but if we have to then just grab two bags and go. the hurricane Ida, now below trop storm status is still toying with our psyche making us ride the I don't know if I should go now or wait a couple of days roller coaster. they are pretty sure that it will probably go florida's way if it does get into the gulf, but one knows if one has had to deal with tropical systems that the main thing is... it ain't over till it's over. I had prayed that it would go on in to central america take the turn and play out. so far worse case scenarios are playing out. not that this will be a major hurricane or anything... but gosh who would have thought one would blow up out there in nov. ugh!!!!! Hopefully the Lord will be with us and if we go things will go ok and it won't come our way. I don't think it will be a big one for anyone( so I am not wishing any bad luck on anyone.( I just hope that ma c.-my mother - in-law ) does not hear about a hurricane out there that "might get into the gulf", she will flip her lid if we are gone)... the main thing I worry about is that now they say we have mandatory evac.'s in texas- which we have never had before.(remember we are 100 miles inland from the coast). basically with rita, and Ike we were better off staying at home and we knew that we would be on our own for at least a week( probably less- but we planned for a week) with no emer. help or whatever. we were ok with that. now they say if they do call a mandatory evac. that you "have to leave" but I don't know how they will push that . anyway guess we will go on and leave tomorrow and hope for the best and pray we don't get burned on this one. ( if not for worrying about ma being here with the sitter we would not even be thinking about this).this is a small system anyway not huge like Ike. maybe it will break up over cuba.. who knows. I don't want to sit here until wed. next week waiting to see what is going to happen and lose over 1/4 of our vac. hopefully ida won't come this way... everybody send good energy our way for things to go right..... thanks

what a terrible tragedy. Fort Hood Texas

Nov 05 2009 19:20

I can't even begin to think of the horror that has occured today in fort hood at the army base. so far 13 dead, 31 more ( at least) injured. the base on lockdown as well as the 9 schools around the base( as I last checked.) They say it was a fellow soldier opened up shooting on fellow soldiers are preparing to be deployed to Iraq.He was also being deployed to Iraq. It was all planned other wise, how did he get the guns in.. something about him changing his name recently.. I am wondering from what.... to the current middle eastern name that I can't remember now.( coincidence? I think not). can you imagine the horror they must have felt thinking the one place on earth they would never have to worry about safety( I am sure they are not allowed to carry their guns on base as who would think they would need them.) this guy, they say, was suppoesedly a psychiatrist or psycologist. he smuggled in his own pistols and that is what they say he shot them with. they are talking about 2 other suspects, but at this time the officials do not know if there are actually 2 others invoved or not. It reeks of terrorism, premeditated murder. showing us the one place where we thought we could never be hit, and yet it happened. time will tell what it is all about. seems to me that all soldiers should be armed at all times anywhere.(in uniform) at least in this case they could have fought back.. these are desperate times and they call for desperate measures. sad fact of life but true. I also believe if you have a concealed permit, you should be able to carry anywhere you go. this is a different world we live in today and we have to realize that we have to react accordingly. I am glad I can protect myself if need be. I just wish these soldiers would have had that chance. my prayers go out to their families and the whole armed services of our United states.

wth...a hurricane in november.

Nov 05 2009 00:38

Ok, so I told everyone we were going on vacation, only if all the stars lined up etc etc etc. jokingly. ok. well everything seemed to be panning out, mother in law doing ok, dr says she is doing better with cardiac aritmia, the med has straightened that out. I have got all her meds filled for 3 weeks, which was no small feat, got hubbies dr. to call another months refills in for his med ( which we had to agree to an appt at end of nov. when we get back.)have managed to get the bills paid up until we get back.. will do ma's tomorrow and go pick up her and hubbies meds and then put hers out for 3 weeks and pay her bills and call on the ones that I don't have bills for that may come due before we get back( we are only planning on 2 weeks, but wanted to make sure we had meds for 3( just in case). have most of my stuff packed for what I figured would be cool weather about like what we are having now in east texas( it is usually cooler in tombstone than here when we go this time of year. I didn't pack any shorts or sandals and now I see that they are having 85 for highs... nights mid 50's ( still won't need a coat myself) so I will have to find shorts to take too.( find the room also). I sit there tonight and decide to watch the news. the weather comes on and guess what there is a hurricane just off central america, they think it will hit at cat.1, then move on up across to the yucatan and before getting there hit warm water and build. then they think it will probably go into the gulf of mexico( maybe 5 or 6 days away).OH JOY.. now what. It is almost unheard of to have a hurricane get into the gulf this time of year, but not completely out of the question. I can't remember one in my lifetime hitting in nov.(but I hear stories of one sometime or another).. could we just catch a break.... NOW HUBBY AND I ARE HAVING FLASHBACKS TO OUR NEW ORLEANS VAC IN 2000 OR SO WHEN WE WERE WATCHING LITTLE BLIP ON THE RADAR JUST OFF THE TEXAS COAST( LAST OF MAY) THEY SAID WOULD NOT DO ANYTHING BUT JUST RAIN ITSELF OUT.. THAT IS ALL. WE GOT UP THE NEXT MORNING HEAD ON TO N.O. THEN ABOUT HALF WAY THERE AT BATON ROUGE WE GET THE NEWS ON THE RADIO IT IS TROP. STORM AND WILL HIT AND COME THROUGH AT GALVESTON( BUT NEW ORLEANS WAS ON DIRTY SIDE SO WHEN WE GOT THERE WE GOT THE WET SIDE. WE SPENT ONE NIGHT AND HEADED BACK JUST AHEAD OF I10 GETTING FLOODED AT BATON ROUGE ON THE WAY BACK. WHEN WE GOT HOME WE THOUGHT WE WERE OUT OF HARMS WAY... TROP. STORM ALLISON WENT OVER 200 MILES INLAND UP INTO NE TEXAS NEAR OKLA THEN CAME BACK AT US 2 DAYS LATER... NEVER HEARD OF ONE DOING THAT EITHER. GOING THAT FAR INLAND AND THEN TURNING AROUND DOING A 180 THEN COMING BACK THE WAY ITLEFT. CAUGHT MANY PEOPLE IN HOUSTON OFF GUARD. SO WHEN IT COMES TO HURRICANES OR TROP STORMS WE EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED. IF NOT FOR HAVING TO WORRY ABOUT MA BEING HERE WITH CAROLYN WE WOULDN'T EVEN GIVE IT A SECOND THOUGHT. NOW WHAT TO DO...... thing always have to be complicated with us... the problem is we won't know for a few days what is going to happen, and we were planning on leaving sat. ugh. IDA I HOPE YOU DIE SOON.!!!

vacation coming soon

Nov 02 2009 22:11

Only a few days left until we leave for vacation. for some reason my get up and go has got up and went... seems to be the same with everyone I talk to. guess it is just the change in weather. I did do my pilates last night, and tonight, and walked a mile last night. have been trying to keep up with my walking, but have been falling down on the job a bit. still hangin in at 210. hopefully those 6 halloween minis will not come back to haunt. I tried to stay with daily calories, but still have a few treats. went to the dentist for part 3 of the deep scale. so glad they got me in today( someone else cancelled) instead of having to wait until fri. the day before we leave. I hope to have friday as a just make sure everything is packed day. hopefully I will have everything packed by then and we will just load at our leisure. we will probably leave at midnight sat. that will put us into tombstone about 8pm or so on sunday.( we take our leisurely time, and I stop at every rest stop we come to. then sometimes we stop in between rest stops at truck stops too. It makes the trip alot easier to handle. guess we will stop in ft. stockton again at k-bobs in time for lunch. their food is always good and they have everything you can imagine on the salad bar. the towns are few and far between when you get out there in the area of texas so you better get something while you can cause it might be another 300 miles for the next place. I need to get my hair colored tomorrow night, and then go to beauty shop on thurs. and get her to wax my eyebrows. since I found out she does it for 5.00 I wouldn't even think of trying to pluck or something myself. I was just au natural until I heard my friend talking about doing hers, and she was there one day when I went in and I watched. I thought," yeah I can handle that. my perm has turned out good that I got a month ago, it is real curly, but I can use the 1" curling iron and curl it and it looks like soft big curls. and unless it rains it doesn't frizz. (good thing we are going to az on vac. haha. no humidity.) so I will do my own haircolor tomorrow night, still blonde, just cover up these roots nad temples. have let it go about 6 months so the perm wouldn't fry my hair. should like good once I get the color on there.( I hope)... haven't told mother in law yet about trip. think we will do it thurs. or fri. if she wants to know why we didn't tell her sooner will just say that wasn't sure until now... which is not a lie, we never know... we just have to plan and hope for the best. If you tell her too soon, she warts carolyn to death, and she will anyway... but it least it won't be as long hopefully. she will worry wart herself to death the whole time we are gone.( not like just any typical mother but 100 times that bad.) I have never seen anyone so consumed with worry( even before she went down and was younger she was always like this my hubby says.) worry kills... maybe not the worrier.... but everyone around them that they worry to death!!!! we will be back before her birthday on nov. 27 which falls the day after thanksgiving this year. probably be back a full week before. I hope that I can keep hubby gone at least 2 weeks this time. I think it will be more relaxing staying in one place this time, than going place to place like we do sometimes. that way if he doesn't want to get out, I can wander the streets by myself and shop etc....

a nice halloween

Nov 01 2009 01:45

I posted a pic of me in my halloween costume on my gallery if anyone wants to see, and that is a plastic spider on my nose( the hit of the party).... dumb me still does not know how to cut paste, or post a pic to my jouranl.. maybe one of these days..... had a nice halloween. things got a little hectic when I started trying to do my makeup.. but it always works out. I got some of that horrific white stuff in a tube at walmart, thinking I could use that, but yuck. it looked really gross. figured as iridescent as my skin is that I didn't need the white junk so used only back eyeshadow for blush shading and to do eyes and eyebrows. I was a voodoo witch. looked pretty good if i do say so myself. we went out to the place where we own property, the poa was sponsering the party. outsiders could come but had to pay entry fee. there was a pretty good turn out and quite a few in costumes. I am sure those with kids that had arrived at 1pm or 2pm were wore out by 7pm and started leaving. we didn't get there until about 6pm, or 6:30. we didn't hear the first band, but the second was good. they played alot of old country. during the break they played on of those new line dance things ( I knew all the old ones 15 yrs ago but these are all new) anyway they played that and I got up and caught on pretty quick. that was fun. the did a good job of decorating the pavillion, which is alot like a hay barn with concrete floor and open on all sides. I was afraid it would be kind of lame, but really all in all it turned out pretty good. didn't do the haunted forest, after the line the other night for the haunted house didn't even try it. we only stayed until 8:30, hubby's knees were starting to bother him with the dampness and cold. ( for sure az. will be alot better on us both for vac. the dry atmosphere is great for arthritis.) he was a trooper going with me, and even danced 3 dances.( after the costume judging and all the band didn't play alot of good slower dances- that is why we decided to go ahead and come home and watch some scary movies) I am glad we went though. seeing all the costumes was neat). and the mud wasn't too bad either. they parked us up on the main road and we walked down, and coming back we got a hayride back to our car, now how is that for service. a good old fashioned hayride taxi. we arrived back home just in time for me to put out skeleton and pumpkin in window and neighbor kids were just coming home so they come and trick or treated us. their mother even got out.. surprise surprise...( long story) that made my night. don't know if we would have had many other trick or treaters being a sat. night. usually they all go to parties and don't do much trick or treating. during the week we always have a ton of trick or treaters. all in all it was a good halloween. we went and trick or treated my mother in law and her sitter before we left, they got a huge kick out of my costume.

got the mail boxed fixed.

Oct 30 2009 19:53

hubby went out and fixed the door on the mailbox, luckily it is about as good of shape as it was when it was pounded this time.( has been hit before as you know this road we live on is not wide enough for cars to pass and everyone plays chicken with you... nobody gives... except me because I don't want to get ran over. one time we even saw the guy hit our mail box (with no other traffic, he was a little to far over to the left and pop. well he lost his side mirror anyway... so he had to deal with some trouble to that time. anyway got a screw and put it in and now the door will not be hanging anymore. C. PULLED A GOOD ONE TODAY... says her daughter called and wants to know if she is coming up home because the daughter is going in and the rest of her kids will all be having halloween together. oh great, here I am all excited about halloween, and she knows I told her last week if she needed off to let me know then because the week before vac. I would be very busy getting last min. things done. ugh nothing like having someone that flies by the seat of their pants work for you. last week she said oh I will just wait to get off after you all get back from vac. and then I can take more time after you all get back( we will make sure she has off thanks. christmas etc.) if she hadn't have waited until the last min. to pull this one me it would have been different. hopefully she doesn't get miffed and decide to quit before we go on vac. oh well, you have to draw the line some where. so I guess she got the mess. that now is not the time to ask off ( I hope.) I guess she was thinking to leave tomorrow to go. ugh. they changed my dent. appt. to monday( another reason for her not to take off now.) so I will get over with before fri( the day before we leave)... talked to my uncle, he is going to be at terlingua tx for the big huge chili cook off down near the big bend and rio grand. we had talked about going down there on the way( before we even found out he was going) but since he is going to be pulling out sun. morn, and we wouldn't get there until after the afternoon, we have decided to go straight through to tombstone. probably better anyway as we don't have a ton of extra money this time of year. getting the room in tombstone we will pay by week and get off pretty cheap. about what 3 nights would cost any where else. really looking forward to getting away although you couldn't tell by how little I have managed to get done. will get real busy the next few days. we are planning to go to the halloween party tomorrow night. so far they say they will still have it. WILL BE MUDDY MUDDY THOUGH AFTETR THIS HUGE RAIN..will nice to be out side in the cooness. 46 for the low. yaaaay. the river is running high but they say still ok for now. haven't seen the trinity this high in 15 yrs... HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

counting the days to vac.

Oct 29 2009 19:04

well the other night, some young punks decided to play mailbox baseball and our mailbox got part of the brunt. luckily it is still standing, not too bent up, but the door was knocked off and hanging by one bolt. some others did not fare as well as ours. are these kids thinking about where they are doing this at. hey this is texas... everyone has a shot gun at the ready. oh well, they are taking lives into their own hands. on the up side today I took ma for her heart dr. appt. things looked better, he said upping the med had corrected the arithmia, and her blood work looked good. he was a little worried about the swelling in her left leg, the right leg not swelled. I told him about her falls. he didn't look at all the bruises but I told him about them. anyway he said the leg looked a little infected so he gave her 10 days antibiotic. they also did ultrasound on leg to make sure there were no blood clots. everything ok. so maybe things will stay on even keel for a good while. we are having rain rain rain here today and the ground was already saturated. seems we are feast or famine. drought up until about a month and a half ago ( for 6 months before) now like monsoon. the rivers are all on the rise and some look to be out of banks in the next couple of days. don't know if they will get to have the big party at our poa near the river. will have to see come sat. if they have to cancel... that will be a bummer. I know it will be muddy anyway... but it will be nice and cool and clear for halloween. the party is suppoesed to start at 1pm and go until 10 pm or " you are done howling at the moon" they say. I have some halloween candy just in case we are here at home instead. will still dress up and give out candy if party doesn't happen. now to get serious about the packing for tombstone and southern az. didn't want to get too ambitious before seeing how ma was doing. hubby will have to get all his stuff together these next 3 days, and I will work on it the next 7 so hopefully we can leave about the 7th and be gone until the 21st. we take warm up food, snacks, sleeping bags( you never know) pillows, warm weather cowboy dusters, 1880's clothes, then our reg. stuff. It will be so good to get away............

errands today

Oct 27 2009 23:39

went to town today to do errands, rotate tires, see ins. comp ( again about policy change-- that we have had to go up there about already 3 times) ugh. ate chinese, dang me... it's not the calories, it's the sodioum I know I will be up 5 lbs tomorrow and scale finally showed me 209 today, first time under 210 in months and months and months. oh well. I know it will be sodioum weight and I know I have to pay when I eat chinese. but I do love it so.. pshaw.. did the grocery game at two stores then took groceries to ma's along with garbage because we share a pickup. came home and tried on things to wear for halloween coustume sat. night. decided to be something spooky... a voodoo witch. don't want to get 1880's dress dirty with going to tombstone in a few days, and the saloon girl dress is a little showy for a night outside. decided on black velvet broomstick skirt with black velvet rose print long sleeve top, black suede belt, and also have black cheap crushed velvet cape with hood.. skull necklace and earrings. bought white makeup to really give the creepy effect ( that is the only thing I had to buy) and I will use black eye shadow( from a cheap batch I bought somewhere sometime) for blush and eye shadow. should be creepy enough. don't know if I will get any creepy makeup on hubby or not, will be shocked if he goes for it. I do have another cape he could wear and he could be grim reaper, or skeletor or something, it has a hood too. he probably won't go for it though. found a really cute lone star shirt today at the consignment store. has the state flag of texas for front. really cute. it fits. will look good when we go to tombstone. will wear with my rocky mts and cowboy boots and western belt. ( I am a country girl after all and we country girls always have plenty of western wear to boot). hope everyone is having good week......... BONNIE HOPE YOU HAVE FOUND YOUR PASSPORT....... NOW YOU HAVE WENT AND DONE SOMETHING THAT I WOULD DO .. HAS TO BE THERE SOMEWHERE SWEETIE.....