Category Archives: Life in Motion

I’m Exhausted

Aren’t weekends supposed to be for napping and lying around to recharge your batteries so when Monday rolls around you’re rested up and ready to go again?

Yeah, not so much at our house. We spend the entire weekend on the go from Friday night until Sunday night. I’m so fried and I would sell my soul for a nap right now.

But it was a fun weekend. We went to the casino (twice over the weekend), went shopping all over on Saturday (Biker Dude likely didn’t think this was so much fun..heh). I bought some clothes and shoes for the Romance Writer’s of America national conference I’ll be attending in New York City next week. This week I’ll be breaking in said new shoes, so picture me in semi heels, a tank top and worn out capri pants (there’s a visual for you).

Yesterday being Father’s Day, we met our daughter in the morning for breakfast, then spent the day and part of the night at the casino. We do spent a lot of time there. But hey, we figure if we spent the entire day there, we were winning, right? Can’t say we brought all those winnings home with us though. 😉

When we got home we watched the season finales of Game of Thrones and The Killing. Game of Thrones was amazing. I can’t recommend this series highly enough. It was so much better than I thought it would be. Superb acting all around, and the scenery? Breathtaking. The Killing was good, too, though the ending? Not sure what I think about it. Kind of anticlimactic with a sprinkling of WTF? tossed in.

Hope you had a wonderful weekend, and that you started your Monday off great. I’m hoping to get my daily word count in soon so I can take that desperately needed nap.

A Long Story (That Ends With Clydesdales!)

So last night Biker Dude and I headed out to get some fast food. He’d had an after work meeting that ended late, and I was starving. Fast food worked for me (once the blood sugar hits low, I need to be fed and fed NOW).

So we hit the McDonald’s drive-thru. And waited. And waited. And waited. Then another car pulled into the other drive-thru lane. The person behind the magic speaker box waited on the other car, then came on to wait on us. Biker Dude isn’t the most patient person, so when she waited on the car who’d arrived five minutes after us, he was outta there, deciding he wasn’t giving McDonald’s our money that day.

McDonald’s is the halfway point between where we live (pretty much middle of nowhere) and town. Which meant we’d now have to drive into town to get food. Color me near fainting by now, but I figure I’d just deal. We pulled into the Carl’s Jr drive-thru and ordered our food. While waiting, three Budweiser semi’s pulled onto the main highway. No, not beer trucks. Three Budweiser Clydesdale semi’s.

Now we live in a pretty small town. If the Clydesdales are going to make an appearance in our town, we’re going to know about it. Biker Dude and I discussed this while waiting for our food and decided they had to be going to the expo center, so he decided I could eat my burger in the car.

I grew up in St Louis, home of Anheuser Busch, home of the Budweiser Clydesdales. I’m a big fan because they’re beautiful horses, and I wanted to know where those semis were headed, so I was game. We drove to the expo center, and pulled into the back parking lot, where sure enough they were unloading the Clydesdales into the barn.

Interesting, since the only thing going on was a Dressage tournament this coming weekend. Not a big enough event to draw the Clydesdales. So we got out of the car and headed into the barn to see what was going on. They had corralled the horses and were feeding and watering them, so we wandered and took pictures and talked to their handlers. Yay!

Turns out they were in Peoria, IL today, headed toward Minnesota when they got the call to be part of the parade to celebrate the Dallas, Mavericks NBA championship win, so our small town was their layover point for last night. Go Mavs! And we couldn’t be happier to see the Clydesdales.

Oh, and we got these (aren’t they beautiful?)

Life Outside

Our daughter came over this weekend to give Lucy, our Aussie Shephard/Lab mix a shave. Lucy has an abundance of thick hair, and she gets really hot in the summer. That’s why she has to have her own swimming pool (think mini pool–cheap and plastic). If we’d move Lucy to the frozen tundra of Iceland, she’d be one happy camper. This winter when there was two feet of snow and ice on the ground and the temps dropped to well below freezing, we brought the outside dogs in at night to keep them warm in the heated house. Yeah, Lucy wanted none of that. She begged to go outside so she could lay out on the ice. I think her internal thermostat is messed up. 😉

But isn’t she just adorable with her new shorter do?

The vegetable garden is growing like crazy. Nothing like hot temperatures and a lot of rain to get things going.

Our tomato plants and potatoes. There are also green peppers growing in there, but no way can you see them.

Our zucchini and yellow squash take over half this garden. The rest are peppers and herbs and a few onions. And we’ve been fighting squash bugs…ugly beetle looking things. Bleh. Hate bugs. We’ve got them on the run now, though.

Our onion plants look like they’re about to give birth. Heh.

And a final shot…yes, this is what she likes to do…sit practically right on my feet. (But that face…so irresistible)