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catstuff
11:44 AM - 12/18/2006

The topic: Kitty Movie Monday

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An oldie of Richie in the sink.  I thought it was so cute how he pushed himself around.

Oh, I learned how to add music, too. 

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Kitty Movie Monday.

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This movie was made with SwishVideo


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otherstuff
09:15 AM - 12/18/2006

The topic: When do you make the call?

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Brian went up to the property Saturday morning.  If he stays the night, he calls me when he’s settled after his work is done to let me know he’s okay.  Then he calls me when he starts home.

If he doesn’t stay the night, he calls when he starts home, so I’ll have an idea of when he should get here.

He didn’t call last night.  Around seven, I called his cell phone.  It went straight to voicemail.  For those of you familiar with cellphones, you know this means his cell never got the call.  I tried another time, with no luck.  I actually called a few times with no answer. 

Concerned, I called his brother, wanting to know if he’d spoken to Brian yesterday.  No, but he had left a voicemail asking if it had snowed.  I told him how worried I was.  He said that he and his wife would drive up to the property to see if Brian was around.  About fifteen minutes later, the phone rings.  Mark called the sheriff, who lives next door to our property.  He said the gates to our property had been open earlier, but were closed at 5:30, which would have meant that Brian had left.  One of my worries is that he gets hurt working by himself.  An uncle I never met died when the tractor he’d been on rolled over and killed him.  This man spent his whole life working with tractors.  Gates closed meant Brian was ambulatory.

The trip probably takes somewhere around an hour or so, depending on traffic.  Mark said if I hadn’t heard from Brian by eight to call him back. 

I start thinking maybe he stopped for dinner.  Or maybe he stopped down at the Ranchita store, put on his geezer hat and started conversating.  Get Brian started on a subject that’s close to his heart and it’s hard to stop him. He can be downright gregarious.  He did this last week.  I called him, he said he should be home by eight.  He got home at about a quarter ‘til nine.  Because he stopped at the Ranchita store for coffee.

If I didn’t hear from him by 8:30 (which was a good three hours after the gates had been seen shut), I’d call his brother and we’d start searching for him.

He finally showed up around 8:20.  He didn’t know he’d gotten any calls.  He told me “this phone doesn’t work”.  His brand new phone. It just kept “searching”, even for the time.  I told him to turn it off, then back on.  He did. It worked.  “Gee, I didn’t know that.” (Yeah, you did.  You had just pushed that information to the back of your mind, since it didn’t seem important.)

It seems he had, after all, stopped at the Ranchita store.  And spoke with Jocelyn, the proprietess.  Out of curiousity I asked who else was there.  “Oh, other people came and went, but for the most part” it was just Jocelyn.  Two weeks in a row.  I’m seeing a pattern.

Now, don’t get me wrong, Brian would never cheat on me.  It’s something we discuss (not in terms of us) every once in a while, how it’s just not worth it for all the parties involved.  And besides, Brian is too busy to have an affair.  I know all of this, I know this in my heart.  I married a good man and as he’s told me in the past “I’m not your father”.  My father was a horrible cheat.

But I pointed out that Ranchita is a small town.  And people will start to talk if he keeps this up.  “Oh, his wife never goes up there with him, he’s always alone, poor man, I wouldn’t blame him if he yadda…yadda…yadda….”  Small town gossip. 

(They have no idea why I don’t go up there and in reality, it’s none of their business.  I’ll tell you, dear readers, why I don’t go up there. 

There’s nothing for me to do.  Sure, I can sit in a trailer and read.  Maybe take some pictures.  But Brian would be outside working and I’d most likely be bored to tears. And I’d be worried about the cats.  It’s one thing when we go to Disney for the night, we leave here around noon and we aren’t home terribly late, when we get home, there’s still plenty of time to let the cats run around outside.  And I’m sure if we didn’t have so many cats, I would go up with him occasionally.) 

There was some yelling. There was some cursing.  All from me.  I was relieved that he was okay.  I was upset that I was so upset for no reason. When all it would have taken was the consideration of a phone call.

He looked like he felt pretty bad that I was so frightened when he didn’t call and that he got home so late. Like I stressed over and over “when do I call for help? How do I know when you being here late is because you’re being neighborly or because you’ve been hurt? How do I know?”

I think this won’t happen again. 

Oh, and he said my coffee was lots better than Jocelyn’s.  Good answer.


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otherstuff
09:12 AM - 12/18/2006

The topic: Baking

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I got the white chocolate Rice Krispies thing done yesterday.

I did two batches of oatmeal raisin cookies and two batches of milk chocolate chip cookies done.

Today, I’ll make peanut butter cookies, snickerdoodles, tollhouse chocolate chip cookies and chocolate macadamia nut with white chocolate chips.

And maybe some more of the Rice Krispies things.

I had one cookie during all of that baking.

Yay me!


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