Where You Will Find Me…

For the duration… I am an Olympics junkie and especially the winter Olympics. 

Underneath the flash spot you can see the reflection of my feet and SueSue’s back end.  They are very patient with me and both are usually up on the bed sleeping ‘watching’ with me.

Both of these were taken while watching the snowboard time trials.  I don’t see how those kids stay on their feet.  It really gets hairy when they start racing in the heats after the time trials.  There will be 4 racers on the course at a time and it’s kinda like a cross between snowboarding and freestyle wrestling.  There are bumps and falls and ducking under and jumping over downed boarders and the jumps and whoever is standing at the end of the run, the top two I think, will advance to the next race.  I enjoy these even more than the tricks and jumps of the half-pipe because of the skill needed to navigate the downhill drops and avoid the other boarders and outthink all the others to the gold.

So while I probably won’t be posting much for a bit… you’ll know where I am.  Watching every event I can on the winter sports…

Except for this evening.  I’m going to Norman to watch the OU Women’s basketball team play top ranked Connecticut women.  The ticket was one of my birthday presents and the weather is cooperating but after the game I will be watching the re-runs of whatever I missed while at the game.

BOOMER SOONER!!!

WoooHoooo!!!

I'm back on-line. I actually was able to follow Bro's instructions and hook up to my Cuz's computer. And it worked! Tomorrow I'll be out with my camera if I can find which box it's in and take some photos so you can see the place and meet the critters, at least the ones that live here. Spud is a Jack Russell and he is in hog heaven. My Cuz says he thinks he has his own harem even though he and the girls all are 'fixed' they run around and check out all the trees and leaves and SueSue and he play chase some until the Spud gets too rambunctious as Jack Russell terriers tend to get and then she just ducks because he is jumpin' over her and around her. They all three like being around each other and Spud comes in and gets in bed with me and the girls and sometimes he and Suess nap on my bed. We both have decided that he's glad for short legged critters being around. Lucky is the outdoor dog. He has a short weak front leg that he can use somewhat and he is such a sweet dog. My cousin's late husband came carryin' him. He had found him and brought him home as a pup and thus the name Lucky.

It is so nice to get up in the morning and look out the window and see the cows grazing out in the pasture or just to go out and feel the sun on my face and the breeze through my hair and to know this peace inside again. And to know that my world is starting to level out and I love my Cuz all the more for opening her home to me. Her son came by the first day I was here and helped me unload my truck and told me he was glad that I was here. He was thinking it will be good for his momma to not be here by herself. I told him that I was the fortunate one to have a close enough relationship with her and was looking forward to be able to visit and get to know him and his sister and her three girls better. I'll be going to basketball games to help Granny yell for the granddaughters and Cuz and I are looking forward to taking the metal detector out to several places around the land they own that were old homesteads and her youngest granddaughter is faunching at the bit to go out hunting with Granny (my Cuz) and Helen looking for treasure. When she saw the metal detector Wednesday evening she wanted to go looking right then... I told her it was getting pretty cool and it was dark so not tonight... She said, "Granny has a big flashlight in her closet!" She sure made it difficult to not go right then but I told her we needed to wait until Saturday.

This is going to be such fun but I have to say that I already have my treasure. I have family that loves and wants me to be around and to be happy and peaceful.

I have the greatest Christmas gift that I could ever have been given.

I'm A Little Slow...

Some days, to be posting, I mean. Life somehow has a way of interfering with my life. Things like, oh, going to basketball games, going to see my niece, her hubs and kids and grandkids and today I'm heading into the city to go watch the Lady Sooners play the Lady Vols.

Both teams have big followings so we have to go to Okla. City to the Ford Center, where our new pro basketball team, the OKC Thunder plays, so there will be adequate seating available. The Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, where both the men and women hoopsters play their games only seats about 12,000, and I guess the powers that be decided that there ought to be seating for Tennessee's followers since Pat Summit is going for her 1,000th win this evening.

She has been Tennessee's coach for years and has built an excellent program and I root for her teams a lot. Except, of course, when they play OU. Nothing personal you understand, but I'd like for our girls to postpone Coach Summit's 1,000th win until later in the week, whilst playing another team.

Anyway... I'm trying to get stuff done around here because I'll be heading out a bit early today and go recreat by jumping to my feet, sitting back down, jumping to my feet again, yelling and waving my arms around, and mybe, just maybe, indulging in those nasty cheese nachos or a good ol' hotdog.

I've sent out give-away stuff to all who have e-mailed me an address so you should be receiving your goodies any day. For those of you who have not yet sent me your addresses, as soon as I get them I'll get the goods in the mail so you can have them in time for Valentine's Day.

If not this year then next...