If I were…

If I were a month, I’d be September

If I were a day, I’d be Friday

If I were a time of day I’d be late morning in the spring

If I were a planet I’d be the earth

If I were a sea animal I’d be a whale

If I were a direction I’d be west

If I were a piece of furniture I’d be a rocking chair by the fire

If I were a liquid, I’d be a cup of English tea with cream

If I were a gemstone I’d be lapis lazuli

If I were a tree I’d be an English oak

If I were a tool I’d be a computer

If I were a flower I’d be a rose

If I were an element of weather I’d be rain

If I were a musical instrument I’d be tubular bells

If I were a color I’d be forest green

If I were an emotion I’d be the love of a hug

If I were a fruit I’d be an apricot

If I were a sound I’d be giggles

If I were an element I’d be silver

If I were a car I’d be a Subaru

If I were a food I’d be green chile

If I were a place I’d be a library

If I were a material I’d be suede

If I were a taste I’d be wildflower honey

If I were a scent I’d be a forest after a rain

If I were a body part I’d be a pair of warm arms

If I were a song I’d be “This Kiss” by Faith Hill

If I were a bird I’d be a Stellars Jay

If I were a gift I’d be handmade with love

If I were a city I’d be Cambridge

If I were a door I’d open onto a secret garden

If I were a pair of shoes I’d be a pair of moccasins

If I were a poem I would be Kids Who Are Different by Digby Wolfe

what would you be?

Or perhaps, what would you be at this particular moment? For, if I filled this in next week, or tomorrow, or even in an hour, I might be something entirely different.

Borrowed from Laume  who borrowed it from….

A step on the wildlife side

Friday was suppose to be a lazy day. For who, I’m not sure. We started the morning with the discovery that Brandy had startled a skunk. She came running into the house and the pong brought tears to my eyes. We think that she barked at it when it was on the other side of the fence and that the fence took the brunt of it. Still…

We no sooner got her back outside when the phone rang. A computer customer turned dear friend called. Carl wanted Dan and I to stop by in the evening as he had a computer problem. We said yes, knowing that what he and his wife really wanted/needed was company. Carl is going into hospital on Monday for a series of tests. He has a tumor, back pain and some heart trouble to deal with and he is nervous. At 80+, and not in the best of health to begin with, we understand.

Once we finally got moving, Dan and I headed out to Pauline’s with some more stuff for her shed and to pick up anything that she needed moved. We ended up taking a truckload to the ranch. While we were there, the goats paid us a visit. Chandi, her dog so desperately wanted to herd them. He’s the right breed for it, but they aren’t good about being herded. On the way back from Pauline’s, we saw a roadrunner.

The afternoon was it’s own comedy of errors. John wanted to borrow Blue. We stopped to pick up LRT (Little Red Truck) after we’d paid bills and gotten the plates for it. However, Dan left the laptop on in LRT and so it wouldn’t start. Did we have jumper cables? No. Joe, the neighbor across the street that spends most of his day leaning on his fence watching the world go by hollered at us. In his hands were a set of cables. We jump started LRT, returned the cables and then dropped Blue off with John. At Safeway, we got some food for us and shampoo for the dog.

However, by the time we got everything in the house, and some chores done it was time to shower and head over to Carl and Maryjane’s. We arrived around 7:45pm. We sat and chatted for hours. Dan did energy work on Carl as those two talked about everything from computers to blind dates. Maryjane and I sat on the couch and chatted too. She is so worried about Carl. She’s a retired nurse, so understands more than most what may be going on with Carl. She also said that they’ve had lots of bears wandering through their yard. Living up in the hills, they do see more than the average person. If they are coming down this early, there is no food. Hungry bears are a bad sign, and show just how dry it is already. We finally left around 12:15am. Lots of hugs and best wishes combined with ‘please keep us posted and call us if you need us’. Dan and I also came away with that feeling we get when we’ve been “adopted”. We are the same relative ages as Carl and Maryjane’s children, who are all rather a long distance away. It wouldn’t be the first time, nor will it be the last. 🙂 We came home and literally fell into bed.

I woke up this morning with a headache. Some of it from all the energy work I did yesterday. We got a call from Carl at 9am. He slept really well last night. Set his alarm for 9am so that he could ask Dan something and then told Dan he felt so good that he was going back to sleep! That made both of us feel good.

Dan is off with Karen in Aguilar trying to fix various issues. When he gets back, we get to wash the skanky dog. I think I’ll go take a nap.

School carnivals, drives in the country and Snow….

Friday night was the Gardner school carnival. Morgan had spent the night with a girlfriend and so Dan and I picked up Matt and headed up to the school. Now imagine 75 of your closest friends, their families and all the siblings that ever graduated coming to a huge dinner and then playing games for 3 hours. Everyone knows each other, inspects the latest boy/girlfriend, new baby(ies), new tattoos, etc. They catch up on all the gossip, tell all the latest grandbaby/kid stories and pet/livestock stories. This is Gardner school carnival.

Dinner was pizza, salad and cheesecake. Dan was happy. I’m allergic to milk, so I didn’t eat. Then it was off to the gym and the games. Ball toss basket ball, airzooka blasts with teacher targets, basket ball shoots, face painting, car racing, darts, bean bag toss, and the pistol range shoot. We walked around, chatted with friends and watched Matt and Morgan do their thing. Then I gave the kids and Dan more tickets and went to chat with my friend Jolene. She was running the table sale. Lots of junk for a donation. Meanwhile, Dan went to the pistol shoot. He took his turn, then took over the booth while the teacher took a break. Fun bit was that he stood behind the smaller kids with another pistol and was hitting the targets when they couldn’t! What a riot! Then he went over to talk to Bruce, who is also the local sheriff and Jolene’s hubby. We finally headed home around 8pm.

I got about 8 miles down the road when the headlights from another car clipped me just wrong and zapped me. I get migraines almost instantly when this happens. Luckily, I could see enough to drive to a safe place to stop. The road is very narrow at that point. Dan drove home, and I went to bed. Awwwggghh…… Of course ten minutes after I got home, I tried to go to sleep. Not that anyone could keep quiet. Just what I needed with a headache that was light, scent and sound sensitive! I nearly threw up. So, while I went to bed by 9pm and didn’t get up till nearly 7:45am, I think I only really slept about 6 hours.

Got up Saturday morning and felt a bit better. Sort of wrapped in cotton wool. After I took Daniel out to Pauline’s so that he could house sit, I planned to take a nap. Reason being that in the afternoon, I was suppose to play friendly native guide to our business partner Carlos. Wheee…. However, the work on the Aguilar NOC took longer than we thought. Plus, the phone kept ringing! So, I got no nap and the drive got postponed until Sunday.

Sunday we got rolling about 11am. We drove up HWY 12 from La Veta to Trinidad. Then out to Hoehne, up to Gardner, Redwing and past up the Huerfano Valley. Then out to Wolf Springs Ranch. It was about a 200+ mile drive. I had fun, and Carlos got to see where we want to put in WISP service. After we got back, I picked up Daniel from Pauline’s, did a bit of laundry and then went to bed after watching HellBoy. Odd movie, but funny too.

Today, we woke to about 4 inches of snow. It was still snowing hard at school time and I decided that it was better to not drive in the snow. We probably would have been fine, but I decided to play safe. The kids aren’t going to keel over for missing one day of school. Dan, Karen and Carlos headed off to Colorado Springs and Pueblo for the day. They are going to the big gun store up in the Springs. I’d have gone too, but I have two meetings tonight and don’t want to miss them. If I had gone, there is no way I’d have been home in time. I’ll get to hear all of their adventures when they get back. Wheee……

Meanwhile, I’m catching up on paperwork, writing things for the meeting and taking it easy for a bit. Oh, and it is still snowing… Gads!