Lock Your Doors

On Monday night there was a Dateline NBC about murders. The title of the show is A Stranger in the House. If you didn't see it, one of those murdered women was Monica my sister-in-laws best friend. She was a sweetheart beautiful girl, you can see pictures of her on the video. You will also see my sister-in-law talking, the one with the dark hair in the middle, in the second part of the videos. It is like six videos. Chilling and gruesome murders.

But the point of watching it is that the kind of horrific things that we see on television actually happens to real people. If there is a lesson in this horrible tragedy that my sister-in-law and brother would like people to take away from this is to LOCK YOUR DOORS! Seriously, especially up here in the great white north people do not lock their doors.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032600/

Check out her story, she was so lovely. And please LOCK UP! Always Don't leave the door open for anyone. Wake up when they get there. Okay? Ok. Good night.

Rain, Rain, Are You Freakin’ Kiddin’ Me???

It is bad up here, well when we can’t get to our fishing spot, or our fishing spot is no longer there – then it is bad! We took some pictures today of where the river should NOT be... enjoy.






Our Path!!!

I'm hungry...

I really miss meat. But I'm supporting my kid. We are going to make our own pizza tonight. Yum.

The New Vegetarians

Today my eight year old turned vegetarian. She hasn't been eating well lately, so I offer her anything and she turns it down. My anything is a lot of meat though. Today she said she doesn't want to eat anything that had to die to feed her. She was disappointed to find out that pepperoni came from a pig but willing to give that up. She also informed me that being a vegetarian was better for the environment. I know that it is true but I wonder how she did. I'll ask her tomorrow.

I didn't want to encourage or discourage, because unfortunately I have a freezer full of meat! Of course. But if she is going to be a vegetarian I can't eat meat in front of her, that would be quite unsupportive. I was a vegetarian for three years in high school, well until I had Big Mac attack. That Big Mac made me sooo sick, but I figured I couldn't be a hypocrite. Now I am a major carnivore! I just don't think about where the food came from just how it tastes.

I drove her to the farm stand and she picked out green beans, tomatoes, and a potato. She ate the beans and the tomatoes raw in a vege taco and then had mashed potatoes. Later I took her to the supermarket to get nuts and seeds. We'll see what she eats with that. She bought sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and trail mix. As long as she gets her protein it'll be ok.

Later she talked about being a vegetarian again and said that she didn't want animals to die to feed her because everytime an animal dies a little piece of her dies inside like her cells or veins. I told her veins don't die they just clog up, but cells do die. Beyond that if a little piece of her dies inside now I can NO way eat meat in front of her. I am hoping that I lose some weight not eating meat...

Hooray for the Sea Otters!

The Sea Otter Research and Recovery Act passed in the House this afternoon! Yay! It supports research and recovery for the little otters. Of course now it has to pass the House. If you want to check it out www.seaotters.org. The sea otter is the largest species of the weasel family and the smallest marine mammal. I've never seen one because I've never been to the Pacific, but aren't they cute!

Weird Weather

If you have been in New England this summer you have no doubt about serious climate changes. This has been the weirdest weather ever. Today there was a huge thunderstorm with torrential rain and the sun was out. I still don't even have my air conditioners in the windows and July is almost over. Today it was humid after the storm however, I might have turned it on for a bit if it was in. But we really don't need it. I wonder if it is going to be 100 degrees in September. Who even knows what is going to happen. If the summers are getting cooler that's truly started and the winters are getting warmer it should be a mild winter.

I don't have anything deep to say, I just wish I had an electric car. Don't you feel guilty everytime you drive? I do. And everytime I fill up. Even though it's not $4 a gallon anymore we still use too much gas. I think people stopped caring so much when the price went back down...

Whatever happened to the "Give a Hoot Don't Pollute" owl. The Forest Service should bring him back!

National Health Care gets my vote!

Jimmy Kimmel cracks me up! Did everyone watch our President Obama on health care tonight? He was good, to the point. I believe in national health care myself, while I was on welfare going to college I had Medicaid and it was wonderful. They covered whatever I needed no questions. I didn't have dental care but beggers can't be choosers. Anyway back to Jimmy he says the President gave a brief address tonight. Then they edited the President, "Good evening everyone. I have great health insurance. Good night." And he left the podium. It was a riot. Or maybe I'm just tired...

Sharing is Caring...

Playing Monopoly tonight I learned that my highly competetive daughter is very giving. When she picked a community chest card and received $20 as an income tax return she insisted on splitting it with me. That it so nice. I hope when she is older and files her own taxes she'll split her return with me, ha ha. After all I pretty much split mine with her...

I love Monopoly - where else is my kid going to learn to give change for a $500 bill!

Captain Hogwash...

We Miss You. Captain Hogwash we sincerely miss your wonderful blog. I kept hoping it was just a mistake and you'd be back. No such luck!

Here's hoping that you and yours are all well, safe, and extremely happy. I hope that you have found something so incredible over there in NZ that you don't have time to blog anymore!

Best wishes.