tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15961323338093911142009-11-06T07:01:16.703-05:00Worker Beenoreply@blogger.comBlogger114125UnskilledLaborhttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1596132333809391114.post-41242975147655393132009-10-31T18:08:00.004-04:002009-10-31T18:19:40.894-04:002009-10-31T18:19:40.894-04:00

A man's first Halloween costume is an important thing.It might just set the tone for the rest of his future costumes and might even hint at bit of his personality. So since Donovan is unable to choose his outfit for this special evening his mother Amber thought long and hard about what costume to bestow upon her son...she thought and thought, toiled and troubled... and look what she did!No

Worker Beenoreply@blogger.com0http://housedrone.blogspot.com/2009/10/where-wild-things-are-on-halloween.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1596132333809391114.post-34421079294189301902009-10-28T10:32:00.023-04:002009-10-28T14:12:11.190-04:002009-10-28T14:12:11.190-04:00

Ahhh yesssssss. 'Tis the season and our thoughts turn to pumpkins, witches, spiderwebs, ghosts, spooks, and monsters. It certainly makes sense in our macabre state of mind at this time in October that there have been numerous horror movie trailers and horror movies of the week being played on television.You know the ones... Scream 1, 2 and 3... Poltergeist... Nightmare on Elm Street.. Saw

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So my folks are on a trip to Washington DC and surrounding Virginia sites. My Mom called the other afternoon from her cell phone while she and my Dad were sitting on George Washington’s porch at Mount Vernon looking out over the Potomac River. On my youngest sister’s advice, my parents took a boat cruise up the Potomac to Mount Vernon. Turned out to be a great way to visit. This business of

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Winter is making her appearance andthere is nothing anyone can do to prevent her arrival.She is tapping Autumn on the shoulder saying..."Thank you my dear. I WILL be cutting in now."Autumn's dance this year was short and sweet.Now she has to find her shoes and her handbag and make her way home.David and I are also hoping to skip out of here as soon as possibleso that we can start on our next

Worker Beenoreply@blogger.com0http://housedrone.blogspot.com/2009/10/forgotten-trees.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1596132333809391114.post-8490219273874320962009-09-20T10:31:00.000-04:002009-09-20T10:32:59.329-04:002009-09-20T10:32:59.329-04:00

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After a much needed long overdue visit we headed back towards the Great Lakes...actually near THE BIG great lake but this time decided to take a southern route. Once you get past Nevada (sorry) you wander eventually into the canyon areas of Utah etc. Until you go visit any of these canyons you think.. oh I will take just a couple pictures.. that should be plenty. After all it is just rock

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Well, we have been having a great visit with the new grandson and since I am a new granny I get to whip out the pictures and show everyone every time everything he does because it is great and amazing and I bet no baby has ever done anything like that before kinda thing!He should probably be in the record books or something!heh heh.and David and I are enjoying re-visiting many of our old

Worker Beenoreply@blogger.com0http://housedrone.blogspot.com/2009/09/old-and-new-haunts.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1596132333809391114.post-40092340037949079902009-08-25T11:11:00.003-04:002009-08-26T13:02:32.904-04:002009-08-26T13:02:32.904-04:00

Just keep your eyes on the watch and relax... you are getting sleepy... and now we are going to go back in time a couple of weeks... when I clap my hands you will awake refreshed and you will not remember anything... tick tock tick tockWell, before we left Sidnaw this last time we did a little extra washing of the windows, sweeping of the floor and mowing of the lawn.Heck. I even picked my

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Wow... he is taking this place by storm! He likes to hang out with Great Grandpa Richard. I am truly smitten. Will catch y'all up on the trip soon.

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I had been working away on my latest post to update folks on our quick trip out to California from Michigan but before I could complete it we had a not so much of a surprise arrival.I will add that post later but right now this one trumps in spades.As of Sunday, August 16, 2009 at 1:46 p.m.we have a new family member.Please join us in welcomingDonovan Chance Huggins8 lbs, 4 oz, 21 inches longHere

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We just might have a visitor arriving sooner than expected... and we all area pretty excited about that... especially Amber Lee who has been suffering through 190 degree weather and is ready to pop.Truth is... we all wanna hold him so she needs to just let it go. Quit being so selfish... pop him right out and pass him around! Oh... how easily Grandmas forget. So... we are packing our knapsacks

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Well... after a very sad few days we have dusted ourselves off and are looking around us and beginning to wonder what comes next? Our gypsy blood is calling and I think we are ready to answer.Next stop on this express train is a trip (temporary) to sunny California. We will have the camper packed soon and be heading out to welcome the first grandson! Showers are being planned, doctors are

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I held him and looked into his eyes and told him what a good boy... what a very good dog he has been. I told him how much we loved him and how lucky we all were to have him. He looked back at me deep into my eyes... and sighed happily as he went on his way.

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Oh how my heart aches. It aches out my fingertips and down through my toes into the earth below.For too long we have been trying to ignore Cosmo the Magnificent's issues. He is much older inside than his 9-10 years suggest. His teeth have been bad forever, he has a nerve condition that cause what we call "spells" where he becomes temporarily paralyzed and/or for days he does nothing but

Worker Beenoreply@blogger.com0http://housedrone.blogspot.com/2009/07/star-shine-love-sprinkles.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1596132333809391114.post-50364791009295234252009-07-04T10:23:00.049-04:002009-07-18T06:37:07.938-04:002009-07-18T06:37:07.938-04:00

Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, OhioPhew! That was 16 states! Of course, those of you folks from California, Texas, Alaska...You have to remember those states are tiny in comparison to your home states.Some states we passed through twice, coming and going.

Worker Beenoreply@blogger.com1http://housedrone.blogspot.com/2009/07/15-states-yes-i-said-15.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1596132333809391114.post-5803314160586342362009-07-02T17:53:00.005-04:002009-07-02T18:19:34.627-04:002009-07-02T18:19:34.627-04:00

We have returned from our New England travels! What travels they were too! I wanted to check in real quick and let you know a post will be coming soon. We did like 13 or 14 states with a surprise detour across the Mason / Dixon line into the lovely Virginia and Monticello the home of Thomas Jefferson. I will sort through the pictures and put some up along with tales of our travels. Saw

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So... this is a quick addendum or post script if you will to the previous post.I had mentioned that I cabled the dogs out on the hill on the lakeside andwhile I was writing my post I hear this loud... ::tonk:: sounding noise.Delta had walked... and then jerked on the end of her cableand was standing staring at something down by the woodpile.I looked.... and what I saw was a brown ball of fur

Worker Beenoreply@blogger.com1http://housedrone.blogspot.com/2009/06/prickly-addendum.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1596132333809391114.post-27807252972689587242009-06-04T15:01:00.014-04:002009-06-04T18:25:06.217-04:002009-06-04T18:25:06.217-04:00

Been packing my knapsack again!I gotta tell you I just love that.We put a camper on the truck and plan on taking a drive over to see these fellas...or at least the place they used to hang out. They look like some party animals. I wonder if they like tequila? I will have to bring some just in case but I have a feeling they are partial to rum or ale.WAIT!LOOK UP ON THE SHELF!There is hope

Worker Beenoreply@blogger.com0http://housedrone.blogspot.com/2009/06/little-ride.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1596132333809391114.post-27277061552788544292009-05-11T15:31:00.030-04:002009-05-19T06:02:06.429-04:002009-05-19T06:02:06.429-04:00

There has been so much going on lately I dunno where to start!Lets start with the most recent andthen I will feel free to just jump around all over the place...Let's start with today... Monday. You may remember the great unsuccessful Moose Hunt of 2008. Well, today the dogs and I went up to L'Anse. Halfway between the highway turn off and L'Anse is Alberta. Alberta was home to a Ford

Worker Beenoreply@blogger.com0http://housedrone.blogspot.com/2009/05/giddy-up-horsie.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1596132333809391114.post-22571259193365003632009-04-29T08:01:00.044-04:002009-05-19T06:01:26.672-04:002009-05-19T06:01:26.672-04:00

Well we had a bit of excitement here in the U.P. after the last posting. I wrote in that post about spring fever and the joy at seeing the snow melting. Well, on April 21st-ish I went to let Delta outside about 5 a.m. and there was about 5 inches of snow covering all that once was brown.... those few inches then proceeded to turn into 2 FEET of snow in the next 47 hours. I had just

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Phew.. that was a long break!Sorry about that.I just have not been feeling particularly inspired to write lately. I would get an idea for a post... and then get busy doing something else and decide that nah... I don't wanna write about that. anymore. Then I would do it all over again... until finally here we are.The ice is breaking on our lake and on Lake Superior. For the last few weeks if

Worker Beenoreply@blogger.com1http://housedrone.blogspot.com/2009/04/break-time-over.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1596132333809391114.post-9695125792781111392009-03-20T06:37:00.023-04:002009-03-21T12:22:36.902-04:002009-03-21T12:22:36.902-04:00

Well it has happened. Happened in our heads anyway.The locals keep gently (and of course slowly) telling us..."You know. Winter is not quite over yet. Hay?"Phooey.What do we care about local lore, weather charts,Doppler radars, and years of experience!Heck, after all, the snow and that weird permafrost stuff is still melting quickly in the yard, and the sun is out. Based on that

Worker Beenoreply@blogger.com0http://housedrone.blogspot.com/2009/03/gone-round-bend.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1596132333809391114.post-83516301636121691762009-03-11T18:52:00.028-04:002009-03-12T08:49:15.156-04:002009-03-12T08:49:15.156-04:00

Ya know how they say,"It's not the heat… it’s the humidity."What-ev-erWell up here one might change that saying to:"It's not the cold, it’s the never ending length of time stretching into oblivion that the white blinding snow covers everything in sight. Snow that removes every trace of any other possible color in the palette that might exist other than white and gray. A colorless void that

Worker Beenoreply@blogger.com0http://housedrone.blogspot.com/2009/03/shack-happy-parte-dos.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1596132333809391114.post-38171497948800539792009-03-01T07:08:00.022-05:002009-03-01T15:43:34.403-05:002009-03-01T15:43:34.403-05:00

We have been tucked in all comfortably for the last few weeks making great efforts to appear like a pair of hermits... well, not really a pair as we have the beasts here with us. So I guess that technically makes us a quartet of hermits.Anyway, we have been (forever) painting, and have even been selling stuff on the computer. Sporting equipment, old coins etc., through eBay and used books

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Every once in awhile I have someone ask me, "You two gettin' shack happy yet?"I know... took me a second too. You know, there really should be a West coast/Midwest translation books. Maybe even one of those Rosetta Stone classes... anyway... the question relates to what is perhaps more commonly known as Cabin Fever.Cabin fever is an idiomatic term for a claustrophobic reaction that takes

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