Sunday Morning on the Lake

Beautiful day here so far. Here's some photos of what's going on on the lake today.


The Loon family:


Feeding the baby.


Following the parent.


Other parent swimming quickly to join the with the other two.

And now the dog version of loon! LOL


Tanner waiting for the return of hubby and Dad from fishing.


What a sweet Tanner face!

Another Day in the Woods

Things are going well here. We had a short killer thunderstorm last evening that gave us much needed rain. However, it also had a few wild wind gusts. Those gusts bent our flag pole in half and brought down a huge tree across our road. It was wild!

Our puppy is growing like a weed. She now weighs 5 lbs 8 oz! However, she had an accident and we had to take her to the Vet. She has a green stick fracture of her left front leg! Thankfully, if one is going to break a leg that's the best one to have. Poor little thing. But she's on anti-inflammatory meds and it's a stable fracture; no cast required as that would stop her growth of her bones. She'll be fine with some rest. She's in no pain thankfully. I swear, puppies can sure get into trouble fast!

We have discovered that she's going to be easily trained. Already she sits on command and no longer pees in her crate. She also sleeps nearly the whole night through. Silly little thing, Taffy wants to see the bigger dog, Tanner, but he still runs away from her. The 2 tuxedo cats sniff her and let her touch them but the other black cat flees the scene when she looks at him!. She also sleeps in some funny positions.



Taffy waiting by her bowl.


Taffy passed out on the couch! LOL

Our black cat Shadow is finally getting over the loss of his partner, Sammy. He hangs out mostly with Symba. Especially at bedtime.


Shadow's new sleeping partner.

Of course, like all our animals, Shadow is in denial about being neutered! So he jumps Bacchus on the window for cat sex with a lake view! LMAO!!


How rude!!! LOL

Then, like all men, Bacchus passes out afterwards! Sheesh.


How twisted. Heh.

So that's what's going on up here. Now, off to help with chopping up that tree that fell.

Sarah Palin: Exercise in Failure

Well, I've been watching and reading for four days now the laughable final political saga of Sarah Palin and I have to say: typical. This narcissistic woman has proved to the nation and world that she is nothing politically; an empty shell. While her quitting her term in the middle of her governorship surprised many it was her style. She did the same thing when she was on the oil and gas board in Alaska. So when the going gets tough, she whines and quits. All done for attention. She doesn't like anyone to tell her or ask her to do things according to the way things should be done. Her elevation to Governor was little more than a political fluke accomplished by Alaskans that were tired of their previous Governor and thought, wrongly I might add, that Sarah would be better. Boy, were they wrong and fooled. Fooled by a woman that talked tough but had no substance.

Her rambling typical Sarah-speak incoherent I'm quitting speech was a sight to behold. Of course she whined and blamed everyone else for her ineffective governing. She blamed the media, bloggers and anyone else that disagreed with her. I remember Sarah having the temerity to lecture Hillary Clinton about complaining when Hillary was running for President.




Seems Sarah should have taken her own advice! She complained about remarks about her family. The family that she put in the national spotlight. I'll tell you that woman hasn't put up with 1 tenth of what Hillary Clinton has over the years. Hillary is light years ahead of Sarah in knowledge and class.

The thought that John Mccain portrayed such terrible judgment in choosing this woman as his running mate speaks volumes. I can't imagine her as VP or, heaven forbid, President. Imagine if some world leader insulted her or said something she didn't like. What would she have done in response? Started a war or just whined and quit?

During her campaign she brought out the absolute worst in people that attended her events. The racists, the ugly and the ill-informed and hateful. Real America my ass. Real nasty America. That turned off many that possibly would have voted for McCain. One of those people was my Republican-forever-voting Father. She did sink his campaign whether she likes that or not and whether McCain's handlers ever admit that or not.

Now she can go on her merry way and make oodles of money giving nasty speeches and writing ( seriously, does anyone actually presume that this woman will truly write her own book) her foolish book. Now she'll have no handlers or advisers. Now she'll be able to say any stupid thing that jumps around in her flighty brain. This could get interesting and more laughable.

She and her lawyer, Van Flein, are threatening to sue bloggers. OMG. Does this woman not understand the meaning of free speech and that she is a public figure? Obviously not but any letter from her lawyer to cease and desist is nothing more than intimidation. Good luck trying to sue anyone, Sarah. IMO, she's nothing more than an empty suit and painted clogs...a crappy politician and a vindictive wench. Now come get me, Sarah. Pffffft!

She can also stop saying she's doing this for the country! LMAO Please, woman, go away. You've done nothing for this country except show yourself to be an ignorant jackass. And she's certainly not making any headway for women like she thinks. Good grief, I've put up with more nonsense in my jobs than she ever will...probably because I'm older than she is and have seen women actually make advances in spite of harassment at times. She has shown that, like some men, there are still some truly ignorant women out there that assume reasonable good looks can carry the day even if one is completely lacking in knowledge.

Thankfully, she ended her own national political career. She did prove to be an exercise in complete failure. Now,if she'd just end the whining!

A Beautiful Night

Up here the nights can be so beautiful. There are nights when the sky is clear of clouds and a billion stars come out. I could watch them forever---if it weren't for getting eaten alive by mosquitoes (skeeters)!

Then there are the nights when the creatures of the lake are heading home. Or just hanging out talking to each other.


A loon waits for it's family.


Mama duck takes her family to their night resting spot.

But the really awesome nights are the ones when the moon is full; like it was last night.


Looking leftward across the lake.


Just above the forest trees.


My favorite of last night...could almost see faces on the moon!

The New Puppy

Well, Taffy is doing quite well. She's adjusted to the house with amazing speed. Plus we nearly have her housebroken. When she yips we take her out and tell her to go and she does! Yeah! That makes training her very easy.

She eats like a little piglet which is good. For only being 3 lbs. 7 oz. she sure has an appetite.

She also gets crazy and bites everything in front of her. Tom calls her "gator girl"! LOL But we have lots of chew bones and give her that and then she stops biting us.

At night she plays around on the bed for a couple minutes and then we put her in her crate. We keep her crate right next to our bed. She usually sleeps for 2-3 hours and then yips. That means get up and take me out I have to pee! So we do and then she goes back in her crate and right to sleep. Last night she only woke us up once! I swear, it's like having a human baby but we don't mind. She's such a cutie!

Here's some new photos of her:


Sleeping with her toys.



Bacchus just had to whack her on the head just because! LOL



All stretched out. She's going to have some long legs!