I love the 80's

Does anyone know this teenage heart throb? I had his picture (back then) plastered on my bedroom wall. Look at the BLUE eyes and sun kissed cheeks.. Looks like he's been on an ISLAND.

~Cathy

Whirlwind

Well... we had our first race Sunday. D didn't race this weekend but I was out in full force with "Baby" I took over 2300 pictures and would have taken more but I forgot my other battery and was running low. Tonight at 1045 I finall finished uploading pics.. After I was done I found that I had done around 640... The way it felt I had done 10,000... I have been eating and sleeping dirtbikes... Anyways we sold a few a the track and about 8 off the website.. If I figure right I have about $58,000 more to go before I can quit work.. I made a deal with myself that if I made xxx I would quit work for rolling around in the dirt... I don't see me quitting anytime soon though.. but wish me luck. If interested check them out.. I did upload a lot more than I would have but some wanted all of their pictures so they could pick the best one.. And I will be honest.. after 640 or 10,000 I didn't edit too many at the end.. I'm not seeing stars I'm seeing bikes and dirt, and butt cracks hanging out of gear.. I didn't add those pictures for the sake of the rider..

www.gearboxphotos.com ~Cathy

Wees

So far so good on the weather holding out for the race today.. It's 530 in the morning and I can't sleep. I'm a midnight person anyways but I'm also nervous about today.. I hope I don't get ran over by a herd of boys on bikes and I hope I get a lot of good shots. These little guys are from last weekend.Aren't they the cutest.. They are both 4 years old. I love this one with the dirt fluffing up around his foot and the weed hanging out the back. ( he was going about 3 mph, he was just creeping around but he made dirt) I'm not even sure he can see out of those googles. I doubt they make little wee googles..these guys are barely out of diapers..well not really but ya know.

I stopped and talked to their parents and then I went back to get a few shots.. They actually bought 4 different ones off my site. I don't remember which ones. I took like a 100 of just them and a few other little guys.

Wish me luck today and I will twitter if I get a detour.. just kiddin..

The three amigos

Last night D had the guys over to spend the night. The girls were gone so it was full on guys night.
Look at this..we have never seen this picture before.. D and his phone.. texting....NO! No?... The next pic I took was C texting too. What did we do without cell phones and texting?
They wanted to show me some tricks so I grabbed Baby and ran outside with them to capture another moment of them growing up. C is testing the waters. He is just recovering from a broken foot, he is our little accident prone child.. He is always getting hurt.

D took the water.

Then Cousin d decided to film it. I think he got wet.

This is their fun little toy.. they leave the serious business for the track.

I just don't know what to say about this... hmmmm?

Miss Emma Sue didn't approve of their behavior... She was mad at her boys for running that thing around her yard.. She was in attack mode.. Okay.. she weighs 7lbs.. she can't do too much damage. When I left for work they were looking at the practice pics and I thought they were calling it a night. I guess after I left they swam, rode bikes and ate us out of house and home.. G said they were still up at 1:30... I'm not sure what time the party ended but they were sound asleep when I got home...

~Cathy

6ft tall

Well already this year I have had to take D to the doctor for poison ivy... He has been running through the woods and has it all over.. So while we where there I asked them to measure him.. 6ft and something something of an inch. I can't believe he is that tall. He's not a baby anymore.

We are hoping for a race thing weekend.. The last 2 have been rained out.. It's Thursday and it's not looking too good for Sunday but we'll see.

The "boys" played outside last night and I got over 100 pictures so I will post later but they took over my computer to look at practice pics and then I had to come to work... Have I ever said that I hate coming to work.. I don't hate my work.. I just hate coming in for 8 hours.. Something tells me that I need to get over this cause it's not going to go away anytime soon.. Like 12 years..

~Cathy

Porta Portraits

Remember a month or so ago when I went geocaching with my parents and well mom was in control of the camera.. She is a baaaad bad person. Well this last weekend we went after the race was cancelled. I was planning on finding this one cache that was out in the water so I put her in charge of the camera.. My mistake.

Future note to self- Mom + camera + me + porta john = porta portraits. Yes, she struck again.

Okay, let me ask why when I get ready to open the door to I bend over like I got a stick stuck up my butt? I always think there will be some big snake ready to jump out at me or this time cause the park was away from town that someone might be hanging in there. Would anyone ever kill themselves in a porta john? I guess if you thought your life is that bad it wouldn't really matter.. IDK... Anywho. She got me. I didn't even think about her outside till .....

She opened up the door.. See I told she was a bad bad person... Luckily I was getting ready to come out after washing my hands...NOT!!!! Anyways- She gave birth to me and let me say again.. it was a breech birth so I know that was a bit harder than normal not the normal is a piece of cake but I'm sure butt first hurts a little bit more.. She still feels the need to check on my sometimes..just kidding but today she felt it highly necessary to make sure I didn't fall in. I was screaming,,,shut the damn door and laughing at the same time. So we had to continue the prank.

You'd think by now they would have known what was coming but we just wanted to see if we could get dad worked up.. and well, that's another story. G was laughing so hard he couldn't breath and mom was spitting pop out her nose so in the end we did get one dad's last nerve but it was all in the name of fun... Right? Right! Ya know dad's mad when he says "Just TAKE me HOME!!!!!!!"Everyone got their turn except mom cause she started it. We had fun running around the Waynesville, Corwin area. We found about 7 that day. I think from now on we will take pictures of every porta john along the way. That will be our signature picture for geocaching...

Stay tuned till next time on Porta Portraits

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Bagel Pizza

Bagel Pizza

Split open bagel halves and top with your favorite toppings. Sauce, pepperoni, spinach, onion and cheese with a dash of garlic powder.

Warm in oven and broil til not to brown on top.
Serve on plate and enjoy.

For left over see Ree's instructions on flash freezing.. Pop out and warm up. Great snack for kids after school. Thank you, now I must go nap.. I am very tired today and still have 3 more days of work.

Rain and Hail Oh My!!!

Yesterday we had a round of storms which thank goodness didn't turn out to be too bad.

I just love storm clouds. I am kind of a weather freak. I will set on the porch and watch it storm. G thinks I'm crazy and he always warns me about the lightening. lightning smightning..

~Cathy

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How much ya know- Answers

Cathy was the winner... way to go..
1. To close for missiles switching to guns TOP GUN

2. Houston, we have a problem APOLLO 13

3. I'm takin' the day off. Now get dressed and come on over. FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF

4. I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner. SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

5. Show me the money! JERRY MAGUIRE
6. A hickey from Kenickie is like a Hallmark card: "When you care enough to send the very
best." GREASE

Good Luck ~Cathy

Go ahead and say it......

Okay.. go ahead and say it.. I'm a picky bitch. My new "cleaning" crew came yesterday for the second time. If you remember my first gal didn't do so well so I went with the professional, bonded company that was recommened By a friend. hmmmm.... The first "A" clean was extra detail on the bathroom and kitchen. Well okay.. I lived with it. Yesterday the "B" clean was to include sleeping and living areas... a bigger hmmmmm? Yesterday 3 gals came and it only took them 1 1/2 hours. I was kind of shocked but was my house clean? Yes! Was it cleaned like I want or the way they advertise?...NO!!!!! Then on top of that they locked their keys in their trunk in my drive and was here an extra 3 1/2 hours digging through the arm rest hatch trying to find them.. Anyways. Now just look down this list and tell me am I being a picky bitch or what... See the line that says extra attention on floors. Well I have proof.. Even G asked if they swept. This is the corner of the bedroom, which I asked for the trees to be dusted.. Apparently they weren't and the moss wasn't cleaned up from either..These are the steps and really all the floores have carpet fuzz on them. I have heard the girls both times complain how she hates to sweep stairs.. Sorry, it's your job.. right?This is called "floors, special attention" They didn't move my basket of blankets or lamps or nothing..and this was the "B" clean (living and bedrooms) Also if they didn't get back here then I would say they didn't wipe the baseboards either.. This is my kitchen table. They didn't shake the salt and pepper off, they just wiped around it..

And this is the kicker.. I wouldn't expect them to clean under the cushions and it looks likes I don't either but I don't brag that I do.. As I was reading through making my list I saw this so I went to check it out. Yeah.... I don't think they got this.. Whatcha think?

And it's not even in the fine print..

There are other things too. Maybe I'm just too picky, maybe I should not blog and get up and do it myself. Ya know I work, I can't forget to send a fire truck to a structure fire. I can't take money for bond and FORGET to send it to court.. oooopppps..sorry. I don't know. If your going to say you do it..especially in writing then DO IT!!!!!

Okay your turn. tell me I'm a bitch.

~Cathy