Horrors!

Ack! I was going to post about our wonderful weekend on Sunday night. However, it has been raining so we lost our internet connection; and yesterday I came down with a 24 hour bug. I could barely haul myself out of bed. But I am feeling 100% better.

On Sunday we spent a wonderful day on the mountain- rode the gondola, walked for 3 miles on a great trail while there were threatening storm clouds overhead, and just relaxed.

We toured the vintage Railroad Museum (which was featured in that ever-forgetful movie Heaven’s Gate) and then stopped to get ice cream. Isabelle had a whole dish of vanilla ice cream by herself. Greg had a cherry dipped cone (his favorite!) and I had a butterscotch malt. Yum.

The temperature on the mountain ranged about 68 degrees F. But it was over 90 degrees in town. Ugh.

So we ate our ice creams in the park and Isabelle drank about a gallon of water afterwards.

Why does ice cream make you thirsty?

Most of the day we were Boris & Natasha, those cartoon characters from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show… “Dah-link, Vhat do you theenk of theese?” We kept calling Isabelle “Underdog” and asking her if she could fly! People were constantly giving us these funny looks…What nuts... What fun…

Why do people want to pet strange dogs? Isabelle looks beautiful and everybody wants to put their hands on her. She does not like it at all. She has been known to shy away, growl and even snap. But she won’t hurt anybody. She sees them as threats. So we have to explain to people. “Don’t touch!” Think about it. Would YOU want a total stranger coming up to you and petting you? Ugh. No.

1. One thing I have learned – Don’t eat french toast with butter & syrup while typing on the computer.

My husband likes to do things. Things that sometimes irritate me. For instance, he was asking me the other day if I had any exposure to “TB Man” as I was so sick. He kept repeating this all day. Then he expands on the joke- do I want him to call the CDC? Do I need to go to the emergency room? Will they have to cut something off? Since I was sick, it got to be a little irritating, but the hubby was having great fun at my expense. It’s not mean, he just does it to make me laugh. So then I fly off the handle… “Stop that!,” I yell.

Then he gives me those big blue eyes. Like a little boy. And that look. Agggh! I feel like I just squashed a puppy beneath my foot!

And then the WINK! He knows he is irritating me, so he laughs and gives me the WINK! The wink should be off limits; only to be used as a last resort. It is so unfair that men can use this. And I have only found a few men that can use it successfully. And my husband is one of them. Or maybe it only affects me in that certain way. There is no better tool than the wink to melt me in 0-2 seconds flat!

I made a quick page in honor of Greg's dad for Father's day.

Paper-Shaky Choices at http://www.scrapster.be/

Get my Father's Day game tile frames HERE. PLUS! There are additional frames. Find out what they are when you download!