Author Archives: aliceaudrey
Secret Vacation Spots
Do you have one? I’m going to show you one, but it’s not really mine to share so I won’t name it or give you specific directions. All I will say it that it’s between Goblin Valley and Lake Powell and requires the traveling of about five miles of dirt road. Right after supper in Goblin Valley we hit the road. Following directions from a friend we found a secret spot. In all the dryness and dust, this was an […]
Goblin Valley Utah
Seems like everytime I go anywhere I just have to tell you all about it. On this one I got a LOT of pictures, so for the next couple of week I’m going to be squeezing them in to every available slot. I’m starting where the trip really started – Goblin Valley. Goblin Valley is a park a few miles away from Lake Powell. We got there fairly early in the day, which meant 100 + degree temperatures, little or […]
How to Lay Floor Tile Part 4: Grout
Grout turned out to be the most problematic for me. I made the mistake of mixing it up with water – which was one of the options offered on the bag. This was all fine and well for most of the floor, but the lip I constructed between the tiled area and the wood floor didn’t fair so well. That will be a blog post all to itself, though. Suffice it to say that in the future I will always […]
New Toy
Jack: Hey, Honey, look what I got you for your birthday. Jack: Isn’t it great? This baby’s got enough horsepower to go through bone. Now you can make all the jerky you want, which is great because I’ve already got a hunting trip lined up. Yep. I’ll be bringing home the venison this time for sure. Jack: Just be careful how you… huh? Jack: Oof Jack: Babe, if I’d known you wanted one this much, I’d have gotten one for […]
Suzie’s House 74: Decisions, Decisions
We continue from last week when Sean and Joseph, the red headed men, were nearly caught by the woman who lives in the apartment in which they’ve been squatting. . Sean clutched the laptop to his side, as much to staunch the pain as to safeguard the computer. The wound was well on its way to heeling, but with the exertion of chasing Joe down the fire escape, it might open up again. Even as he ran for his life, […]
Thursday Thirteen #34: More Pictures
Here are more pictures that have appeared on this blog. These are all from Belize. Hover your cursor over the pictures for comments. The blogs themselves appeared here in April and May of 2007. By next week I should have pictures of Lake Powell ready. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. More Thursday Thirteen Participants TT Home Page Get the Thursday Thirteen code here! It has come to my attention that those […]
By George! What a Fine, Upstanding Husband He Makes.
Last week George was having money problems. Can you think of any problems his wife might be having? For over a year, (1793) the Prince and Mrs. Fitzherbert had been growing ever more distant. I think it would be more accurate to say that the Prince had grown more distant. Or, at least, more insensitive. They were fighting frequently. After one such fight, Mrs. Fitzherbert fled the room with “angry tears.” Said the Prince to a dinner guest who witnessed […]
Vacations
As many of you know, I’m nuts for blog stats. I check my numbers more than once a day, and am usually very quick to reply when anyone leaves a comment on my blog. Ok, a lot of the time my reply will be on the commenter’s blog rather than my own, but still, I’m there. Not right now. It feels strange to do a Talk To Me Tuesday in advance. I usually come up with it the night before. […]
Call of the Wildside
At times nature can be cruel, but there is also a raw beauty, and even a certain justice manifested within that cruelty. The alligator, one of the oldest and ultimate predators, normally considered the ‘apex predator,’ can still fall victim to implemented ‘team work’ strategy, made possible due to the tight knit social structure and ‘survival of the pack mentality’ bred into the canines. See the remarkable photograph below courtesy of Nature Magazine. Note that the Alpha dog has a […]
Deviled Boats
3 hard boiled eggs 2 Tbs. mayonnaise a pinch of paprika salt and pepper to taste 6 Wheat Thin crackers Cut hard boiled eggs in half. Remove yolk. Mix with seasonings. Stuff yoke mixture into egg hollows. Place on plate or tray. Stick crackers into egg mixture on edge so they stick up like sails. Sail into your mouth. Little raison crew optional.
Gotcha, Jack!
Jack: Jill! Previously in Jack and Jill With Running Water saturday photo scavenger hunt The rules for Photohunt can be found here. Today’s theme is bright. Be sure to visit the home page.
Suzie’s House 73: Time to Go
This episode continues from quite some time back when the red headed men found a place to hide while recovering from their wounds . “What do you think you’re doing?” Joseph balled his fists so he wouldn’t just yank the laptop away from Sean and fling it across the room. He could see it now, fancy silver case skidding through artsy-fartsy, hand-made junk. The longer they crashed in this stranger’s apartment, the uglier the primitive little figurines ranging from Hindu […]
Thursday Thirteen #33: Thirteen Pictures
These are all pictures that were posted on this blog at one time or another. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. That last one is from a trip my family went on to Belize. While on that trip I was unable to get to a cyber cafe, though I saw a few. I was unable to post. My blog withered away. […]
By George! Can You Spare Some Change?
It seems George IV never made it a day without some sort of money trouble. Let’s see how close he can come to the national debt. Previously in By George! Next in By George! The Duke of York’s solution was to get married. While my loyal readers know that The Prince had already gotten married, they also know that it wasn’t the kind of marriage that anyone other that The Prince, his sorta-wife and their intimate circle of drunken reprobates […]
Exsqueeze Me
… Mr. Al and I dropped by the grocery store on our way home the other day. Each of us grabbed a basket and loaded up with our own choices. I, for one, won’t buy potato chips. He doesn’t buy raw potatoes. We went through the check out line one after the other, each paying for our purchases out of our own wallets. So far, this is what we would consider normal. Then, after Mr. Al made his purchases and […]
