dead trees and a wonderful sunday

Good evening fine folks, it seems that I’ve been away for a while but actually just a little busy. On Friday my uncle and cousin cut down a big pine tree that had got struck by lightning back in October of last year. It finally died and something had to be done with it before it came down on top of my house. I might bitch and moan about my uncle from time to time, but he has really been great to me. When my dad passed away several years back, uncle bruce kind of stepped in and would help anytime he could. My boyfriend at the time was around so he took care of a lot of things for me also. Well since I’ve been single for the past year and a half, uncle bruce has really stepped up and done a lot of stuff for me that I wasn’t able to do. I try to take care of anything I can figure out and anything I’m big enough to do myself, but that isn’t always enough. Well I’m sure thankful for him and all of his help, he is a pain in the ass, but I love him none the less. Well after the tree was cut down it made one hell of a mess.





This is a picture of it and of course the man of the house, such a little shit but don’t know what I would do without him. Anyway when I got home from work on Friday, we had the little project of cleaning this mess up. It actually wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. We would stack the limbs in a pile and bruce would drag them with the tractor out to an old dried up pond that I use for all my brush. Figure sometime this winter we will have one hell of a bomb fire..lol.. We worked on that and then getting some more brush gathered up around here and taken off until dark and then went over to his house. He had a little project that also needed attending to, so I was there to help him. Not really the muscle he was looking for to help, but we got it done and no one lost an arm or leg so I feel like it was pretty productive..lol.. We went down and hooked on to the bailer and brought it to the shop. He had two rollers that was bent so we had to pull them so he could have them machined. It took a little while to get them pulled, but we got it taken care of and all was good.
Saturday wasn’t to exciting, talked to my baby most of the morning then went to town and met my friend and her husband and had lunch. Went and bought me a little mum and some pansies to plant in an old wash tub I’ve been meaning to do something with now forever. Got them all fixed up and they actually look pretty good considering.



Just a little picture to show all my one or two readers and stray passer by my little flower garden…



Sunday morning I got up bright and early and headed to Ada for my weekly dose of Tony..lol.. Its starting to become a habit, not sure if it’s a good thing or not, but I know I sure do like it either way. We had planned on going into the city to go shooting so I took my little gun with me this time. I had promised that I would let him play with “mine” since he always lets me play with “his” seemed only fair don’t you think…. Well we pretty much swam into the city, but I’m not complaining by no means, it was much needed rain.
We got in and got our firing lane and unpacked our stuff. He brought “MY” ar-15 this time and the old faithful little glock that a person can’t help but love. And then I come dragging out my ruger .357 Blackhawk. Its not a bad little gun at all, I really like it anyway. It’s a three screw which means it’s an older model gun. The three screw model was produced from 1955 to 1966.
Well of all the times I have shot and gone shooting with Tony, I think this was the worst shooting I’ve ever done. Tony put me to shame this time, but there is always a next time. The targets we got was not real good for distance shooting, it was really hard to see what we was shooting at considering he is an old man…lol.. and I’m half ass blind I guess we didn’t do bad all and all. We managed to hit our target every time which is more than I can say for some of the folks up there. We had a really good day, but cant say we have ever had a bad day together. We made our way back into Ada and messed around town for a bit. Ended up going to hastings to replace some CD’s that seemed to grow legs and walk off while he was having his house remodeled. While we was in there, we ran into his son and his sons girl friend. Was the first time I had ever met them. Anthony was nothing like what I had imagined. Not sure why, he looks just like his daddy and he sure cant deny his daughter either. They seem like really good kids. I’ve never been around Anthony but he appears to be a nice young man. From what I have saw, Tony has done a very fine job of raising his kids. Nicole just cracks me up, she is a typical teenage girl but seems to have a really great personality, you can’t help but smile and laugh when she is around. Bless her heart, I don’t think she ever stops talking….lol… well anyway as you can see, I had another wonderful weekend. Oh and I managed to get my little fat fingers on a couple of CD’s that Tony and his friends recorded a while back. The band sounds really good, wish I would have been able to see them play live. Maybe one day I will talk him into getting back in church and playing a little. Music is one of his strongest passions and a wonderful way for him to express himself. The daily grind of work and life has made him put it on a back burner it seems. I would really love to see him relax and enjoy the music like he has in the past, it would be good for him. Well I guess I am on the verge of going over board on this posting, I think I would type forever if I didn’t watch what I was doing.
Well my blog would not be complete without a quote of the day or a poem. I had the makings of a very promising poem in my head at about 2:30 this morning when I woke up, but I went back to sleep and failed to write down what I had, and I let it slip through my fingers. So another day and another time I will share an original poem, just not today.


Thought of the day:

I don’t make you feel special,
I just remind you that you are special.


Sending all my love out to my “tumbling dice”. Thank you for such a wonderful day, our time together is always appreciated and treasured by my heart.

“The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or touched,
They must be felt with the heart….”

God bless


Gem ;)