TORNADOES ARE COMING Tornadoes are coming!!!

Bad, bad weather headed this way this morning!!
I think I'll get under my desk... or maybe we should ask
for Chuck Norris' help?? Shall we??




Nice hair Jennifer!!



CLICK HERE to play a home video of a tornado in Willmar, MN July 11, 2008. It's pretty cool!

- Jennifer

Who Stole the Tarts?

I was looking for "Alice in Wonderland" photo's for my jewelry
making and I came across this one. Is it just me or isn't Alice
SCAREY in this picture? I thought Alice in Wonderland was a
NICE, FUN classic bedtime story. Now I have to wonder.....

-Jennifer

IRA Sprint Cars

We watched the IRA-Sprint cars race this weekend. Fun stuff!!
-Jennifer

Who's Who

These fine, upstanding people have very diverse jobs. Can you figure out who does what? It's your job to match the career to the correct person. We have an aircraft mechanic, a wine and whiskey salesman, assistant director of a day care, a cop and a welder........WHO'S WHO?

Phriday Photo Phiesta!!!

Did someone say "Fiesta"????? Love em! Gotta have em!

Candid Carrie is hosting another one of her Phriday Photo Phiesta's so we (I) decided to join in.

When in Rome....... Larry and I at the "Trailer Park" Restaurant-Cabo San Lucas, Mexico - May 2008

Those drinks on the table are called "Michelada's. A MUST for us beer drinkers.

Recipe:
Wipe the rim of a chilled glass with lime and salt the rim.
Squeeze fresh lime juice into the glass. (Come on, squeeze some real limes not the crap in a bottle) I use one lime to a glass
Fill'er up with your beer of choice
Stir and top off with ice

They ROCK! Great beverage. Give it a try!

Hasta Luego!!!
- Jennifer

I Turn My Back...........

for 10 minutes and the WHOLE place changed!!!! Amazing what a little HSL (HTML as a second language) will do for a person. Good job Jen!

Well, we survived Sistah Dolly. Today was actually worse than yesterday. It just rained all day, some of it pretty darn heavy, but heaven knows we needed that. The deer aren't exhaling dust anymore (just geraniums).

Got the hubby home from the hospital today. Yesterday was really a good day for him (except for the foley catheter part). Today was miserable for him. He said he hurt all over and he couldn't pee. Apparently when they put him under for the surgery, they put his bladder under also and it didn't wake up until around noon today......how rude. Then when he was able to pee, it hurt like hell from being cathed. Poor baby. Anyway, he's home and in his recliner and very uncomfortable. We're both exhausted..................zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

HURRAY ONCE AGAIN

Thanks Chris CHRIS THE WEATHER MOOSE GOD for sending me the Html code to do this. Afraid, afraid, be very afraid!!!
- Jennifer

Hurray!

The boy's are back in town!!!
(Reference: March 5, 2008 Blog)



I'm glad to see your safe Sandi!!

- Jennifer

Sistah Dolly

Sistah Dolly is now lumbering off to West Texas. She got up to a Cat 2 storm with winds of 100 mph. Now we all know that hurricane's are not to be taken lightly, no matter what category they are. Then for the love of God, will someone please explain to me why there is always a news reporter standing in the middle of the street broadcasting the weather conditions in 100 mph winds and a driving rain that's blowing sideways? This morning our local ABC station sent the tallest, skinniest reporter they had to Corpus Christi. So, right off, this guy is vertically challenged. I guess maybe they do this for their amusement back at the station. They put the guy in a yellow slicker, dump him in the middle of a hurricane, in the middle of the street in 100 mph winds and rain blowing sideways and you suddently have a yellow slicker doing the bunny hop trying to stay in one place. One time he got hit by a gust of wind and I thought for sure it was all over.

Anyhoooo..............we needed rain and by golly............we got some rain. Here's some pictures I took from the hospital throughout the day.

This was taken from the penthouse suite at the hospital in Katy, Texas, just west of Houston. I apologize for the blinds, but they were installed in between 2 panes of glass. All I could do was open then and close them. You can see some of the *rain bands*







Ya'll have a good day!

I'm on my way!!!!

UPDATE 10:00 am: DOLLY BECOMES A CATEGORY 2 STORM - 100MPH Winds
South Padre Island, Texas



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I'm coming to save you from the Hurricane Sandi!!!
http://www.weather.com/multimedia/videoplayer.html?clip=328&from=hp_main_tab3

Hang in there!!!!!

What The..............?

Houston........we have cloudage (is that a word?). The outer edge of Sista Dolly is beginning to enter the Houston area. It's a little breezy here also. So today will likely be a rainy, windy kinda day. I'm hoping to get some pictures of "rain bands" and I'll post them later if I can get them. A hurricane warning extends from Corpus Christi south to Brownsville and tropical storm warnings are in effect for Corpus Christi, north, up to Dallas (this includes MEEEEEEEEE).

So..........is there a relationship here? Jennifer is my ex-sister-in-law.....that's a relationship isn't it?

Jennifer (Minnesota) is getting tornadoes and I'm (Texas) getting hurricanes. Of course there's a relationship!!!! We have a *connection*. To me, a tornado is a skinny, compact hurricane and hurricane is a fatter version. I'm sure Weather Moose will tell you that a tornado and straight line winds are hard to differentiate.......debris may be the key there.

I know ALL about weather cause I had to take a weather course in my ground school class so I could learn to fly. That reminds me..........I need to launder my cape this evening.......it's a little dusty.

Everyone go over to Weather Moose's blog and take his weather quiz. It ROCKS!!!!
http://weathermoose.blogspot.com/

Later!

Now really?

Are stoplights REALLY necessary???

P.S. My thoughts are with you Sandi. Hope all goes well with surgery day!
Give B. a big hug and a kiss for me!

Love, Jennifer

Today is Surgery Day...................

So if you see this post, please say a prayer for my husband that this surgery goes well and he can finally get his back fixed and out of pain. Say a prayer for the doctor that God will guide his hands and that he and his wife weren't in a fight last night and he lost. And say one for me too, that I will be patient and not kill my husband............you guys out there know exactly what I'm talking about.

Blessings!
Sandi

I wonder why storms are following me????

I think storms are following me. Let's recap shall we???
No wonder I'm deathly afraid of storms.


This past Saturday July 19, 2008 Big Lake, MN
I took this photo at 2:17pm when the 1st siren went off.
Touch down reported at 2:25pm 1 mile from Larry's place here
Thank GOD for Larry's basement!!




Cat 2 Tornado - Rogers MN 9-17-06. Tornado started on top
of my house and moved through the neighborhood.



Cat 2 - Hurricane Marty, Mulege Mexico BCS 9-22-03
This hurricane hit town when I lived in Mexico
Couldn't get into town for 3 days




Locals having to wash their clothes in the river.




And this my friend started it all for me!!! The mother load of all Hurricanes
Cat 5 - Hurricane Andrew 8-24-92
Started at Homestead, Florida




Keep it together, keep it together, keep it together!!
Jennifer

We Won an Award, We Won an Award!!!!!

Sandi and I just found out we won a blog award today!! As we stand here before you, blotting the the tears of mascara from our face are SO HAPPY about our award. We would like to thank Chris over at http://weathermoose.blogspot.com/

Sandi would like to take this opportunity to thank her agent in Hollywood *gasp* for making this all possible and most of all to Jennifer, my ex-sister-in-law, whom I love very dearly for making me who I am today....THANKS JENN.

I would like to thank the academy and hope for world peace! This is a proud day!!!!

As winners of this prestigious award, we must in turn award it to others. Boy, you sure don't get to hold these trophy's too long do ya? Thought we could put it up on our mantle, alternating every year between Sandi's house and my house. Anyway, here it goes

#1. We are suppose to post the award on our blog. DONE

#2. Add a link to the person who gave it to us. DONE

#3. Nominate fellow bloggers. In progress.....check back

#4. Let them know they won. Ummmmm will have to accomplish as #3 gets completed.

Jennifer hands Sandi the envelope and says "OUR NOMINEES ARE??"

Ree aka The Pioneer Woman Goddess of all blogs http://thepioneerwoman.com/

Marie over at http://breadbasketcase.blogspot.com/

TC "I pee in the wind" at http://ipitw.blogspot.com/

Jules at http://mum42.blogspot.com/

Thanks again Chris!!!

Sandi and Jennifer

Relax'n Larry

Larry kickin it back after our lunch at the Chicagoland Speedway.
Waiting for the Nascar race to begin!!

Peace, back at ya Larry!!!




Jennifer

Landing Gone Bad

Bummer..........




Signing off now, Jennifer

Three Things to Ponder!

1. Cows
2. The Constitution
3. The Ten Commandments

C O W S
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.

T H E C O N S T I T U T I O N
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq . Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked for over 200 years, . . . and we're not using it anymore.

T H E 1 0 C O M M A N D M E N T S
The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse is this: You cannot post 'Thou Shalt Not Steal,' 'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery,' and 'Thou Shall Not Lie' in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.

Jennifer~

Iowa Speedway - Iowa Corn Indy 250 Race

Here's a picture of Larry and I at a Indy race in Iowa last weekend. We were WAY WAY up in the stands. Awesome seats!! We were close to the track at the Indianapolis 500 so we changed stratagies and moved up to higher seats for this race. We are going back down low close to the track for the NASCAR race in Chicago July 12th. Stay tuned for more photo's of that night race. Should be cool!


Danica Patrick's Indy Race Car! (Yep....chick driver)

http://www.danicaracing.com/




Have a super day!! - - - Jennifer

Patience

I was watching Oprah this afternoon and just happened to look out the window in the back door and saw this yearling in our backyard. She's standing at the back of our property. It's very dry here as we haven't had any rain in a while and I worry about these guys (ahem....young ladies).

What's cool, is she knows I was there, and occasionally she looked up at me and would then go back to eating dust. She's actually standing beneath a pear tree we have. It doesn't have much fruit on it this year, but the deer just love it. I need to go check and see if they've eaten any of it

After awhile she sauntered over to a horse trough we have (minus the horse) and started drinking out of it. I made mental note to clean it out and fill it with fresh water. My lab uses this trough to dunk his frisbee and then go diving for it.


I love deer and I love watching them. They're good to eat too..........OOPS! Sorry if I offended anyone.

A couple of weeks ago I bought some geranium's and planted them in my front flower bed in between some yellow mums. It was sooooo pretty, the red and yellow together. One day I went outside and my husband wanted to know why the red flowers had disappeared so fast. My head snapped over to look at the geraniums and sure nuff........the pretty red flowers were gone. Not only were the flowers gone, but most of the entire plant was missing. It was then that I remembered the geraniums were popular to decorate cakes and salads with and that if we eat them, deer eat them...........grrrrrrrrr......

Here's a photo of her peeking over the bench at me. Geranium eating monster that she is. She knows what she did. That very night we went out to dinner and when we drove into our driveway, I noticed 3 or 4 of the suckers in our next door neighbor's yard. One had bedded down under our mesquite tree. "OH HOW CUTE" I said. Unaware that the little devil's were just waiting for us to go into the house and shut off the lights so they could wreak carnage on my beloved geraniums........


I think she heard me cussing her cause she started to sneak off on tippy toes. She knows what she did.

When does hunting season start?

Thunderstorm Winds

I was reading this Meterologists blog today and he posted the following:
I found it hysterical!!!

Winds don't like to be alone.It's true! I mean, occasionally you'll get winds without rain, lightning, tornadoes, etc. However, they're pretty insecure and not usually independent. Kinda clingy. I spoke with a tornado about this once. The look on his face said it all...

But seriously, here are some real facts about straight-line heavy winds...

1. They are the most damaging part of severe thunderstorms.

2. They can exceed 100 mph.

3. One of the worst types of heavy winds is called a downburst/microburst, which is a strong burst of wind downward from a thunderstorm. These can cause damage similar to a tornado (see above...winds are such wannabes).

Some things that you can do to avoid trouble during heavy winds include...

1. Not going outside....duh.

2. Gaining weight.It's harder to move 300 lbs. than it is 130 lbs. Trust me on this. I could go into the physics of it, but it's not pretty.

3. Wear bike helmets.

This will conclude this short lecture series on Surviving Severe Weather. I hope these tips have been helpful to all of you and that you will pass them on to your children for use in the future. Of course, there are all other sorts of severe weather (hail, blizzards, ex-mother-in-laws). Each of those scenarios can be expounded upon for the low price of $19.95. Or a comment, whichever you can least afford!

Source: The Weather Moose (http://weathermoose.blogspot.com/)

Jennifer

See

I just returned from filling up my car at the gas station.
When I finished the pump read $36.01...... Case in point!
Another penny lost out of my pocket. Crap!!!
Jennifer

I Dislike The Penny @ The Pump!

Have you ever noticed when you go fill up at the gas station you RARELY are
able to round off to the nearest dollar??? It ALWAYS ends up being $35.01 ( hey
what can I say I drive a Taurus) or $50.01, $60.01. The darn gas stations are
making a penny off of millions of people per day. Ticks me off.
I try every time when I gas up, it's now my new goal in life to round off
and stop giving the gas stations my penny. So get out there people........
I'm not kidding, try it the next time you fill up!
Jennifer

Nice Pan

Nice Pan there woman!

Yolks On You {smile}

LOOKY LOOKY LOOKY what I found........you don't see these often. I remember the very first one I saw. I was probably somewhere between 8 and 11 and my Dad was fixing *german fried eggs* for breakfast........aka fried eggs. He cracked the egg in the skillet and VOILA a double yolk. Twin chicks......... awwwwwwwwww................ poor babies never had a chance............

The other day (last Friday) I was fixing breakfast and VOILA...........there it was again............double yolks. It's the one at the top of the skillet..........see? Now I realize they are are unfertilized eggs, but what if they had been fertilized. Have twins chicky's ever popped out of an egg? Inquiring mind need to know!!!


This photo made me run like mad in the house and grab my camera. It looked for a minute like the sky was on fire. Check this out!!!! It's 8:15 p.m. and the sun is still doing it's job!!!


Blessings!

Sea Horse

So that's what they look like!!!
- - Jennifer

Pretty!!!

Saw this on the back of a van yesterday..
Look at the pretty green Sea Horses!!!!!!
Jennifer~

Name That Duck Contest!

What in the heck are these creatures?
Ducks, Loons, Pheasants, Quail, Geese???
Strange lookin guys n gals? They have a black
body and white beak's

If someone can correctly identify these "things"
Sandi and I are giving away a $500 gift certificate
to Lowe's AND Pottery Barn.! (Kidding of course)
but got your attention!!!

Please help!!

I have been humbled....................

I went to Wal-Mart to pick up some stuff and ended up spending WAY too much money! But hey, I needed the 2 outfits, and hey, I wanted a bigger kitty-litter pan for my 2 nitties and, hey, I HAD to get some other stuff I didn't need, and then it happened.................................

As I was checking out, an announcement was made over the loud speaker. The funeral procession for the Hempstead Police Officer that was killed in Iraq would be starting in a few minutes. I live in Hempstead. I hurried up and put all my stuff in the car and then waited for the procession. I wanted to honor this fallen hero. I didn't know him, but hey, he didn't know me either, but that didn't stop him for fighting for me........

What seemed like hundreds of motorcycle's, all with waving American flags, were the first in the procession, as well as police cars from every city in Waller County. And then I heard it. At first I wasn't sure what I was hearing, then as it got closer, there was no mistaking the thundering of the Army gunship. It was very low in the air and moving very slowly. It's main purpose was to escort our hero to his final resting place and that it did, because it was traveling alongside the hearse. I was blinded by tears, but I thanked this man whom I didn't know, for making the ultimate sacrifice, not only for me, but for EVERY SINGLE American........

If you see one of our men or women in uniform, thank them, don't wait until they're gone........

Blessings....................
Sandi

My Luna

Here's a current picture of Luna. She's fix'n to go to "Camp Robert"
for 6 weeks of obedience training. YEAH!!!! Yes, that's a bark collar
on her. Had to put one on her 3 weeks ago and it works like a charm.
No it's not cruel, it's WORKS.....You'd put one on your dog if she
barked all night long in her kennel and you got no sleep :)

Pioneer Woman's Punks

Luna's Parents

My English Cocker Spaniel's parents!

Let me introduce you to Luna's dad "Drako"
Drako is a National Field Trail Champion and currently in the UK at stud.




Drako




And please welcome Luna's mom - "Jodie".
She is a National Field Champion in the US and Field Champion in Britian 3 years in a row 2004, 2005 & 2006





My "Luna" at 5 months - March 2008

Pioneer Woman's Punk!

If this isn't the cutest picture.
www.ThePioneerwoman.com (aka P-Dub, PW or Rae's)
little "punk" as she calls them working cattle!
How on earth does a small child like that even stay on
a horse? (Note, he's on a horse not a pony)

God's little piece of heaven......little ones and ponies !
Enjoy Jennifer

Something to ponder!

Why does a "Invisible Fence ® " dealer need a showroom?? Duh!