Hot Guy Friday__ It's been a while since I've posted on HGF.  I'm a bit out of practice. Instead of getting creative on the search machines I simply typed in hot guy Friday. Here are some of the images.

A very hot guy. :)

The Barbarian.

The fifteen year old. No I'm not cougaring...it's what's being offered as sexy these days. Maybe if you're a teenager.

The happy hot guy. LoL

The very hot guy__but comes with serious family issues.

The classic hot guy.

I also found Pamela Anderson on the page of hot guys.  Why?

Anyway I decided I'm not all that hot over the 'Hot Guys'. Maybe I'm getting too old?  What I did find sexy was__

Hot sun, cool water and some shade. Lovely.

Now that I am contemplating moving into my own space I find myself considering decor. Not the furniture as much as what I want to put on the walls. I have a couple of pieces I will bring with me but for the most part I want fresh things... stuff I haven't been looking at for years.  One of the things I am considering is a changeable placard that I can use to display different sayings.  I'm reading a series of books right now that has either bumper sticker or t-shirt logos at the beginning of each chapter. They make me laugh.

There is great need for a sarcasm font.

Lead me not into temptation. I can find it myself.

I know karate, and like two other Japanese words. 

Ask me about my complete lack of interest.

I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.

When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

What would MacGyver do?


The list goes on. The books are written by Darynda Jones: The Charley Davidson series

Many things have been happening around here lately.

I won't go into many because in all honesty, they are boring. But I thought I'd let you all know the progress of looking for a seaside [or close] apt./condo. It's been shelved.  * sigh *  The cost would be too high and the probability of water damage too great. Things on the weather/water front are-a-changing and it's becoming more and more difficult to find places that would be a good investment...and then there's insurance.  Many of the companies are raising their premiums to cover flood damage payouts and if you can find someone to write a policy for water damage you pay through the nose for it. In other words, it's not worth it. 

So, we've decided to put an addition on this house for me.  It will be a single story [no steps, yay!] 2 room w/bath. It's based on a common retirement apt. design. Kitchen, dining, living in one room and bedroom in the other.  It will be easier to keep up for me and I have to say I'm looking forward to it.

If all goes as planned [I know, nothing ever goes as planned] it should be done by summer's end.

Matt has been dating a woman for the last eight months and they are planning on living together in the main part of the house when I move. She has two young children from a previous marriage. Matt has never had a long-term relationship. It should be interesting. He's always been focused on work and school and just dated casually. Just before he got his BS degree he met his current girlfriend. Things progressed and well, as they say, the rest is history. He's still planning on getting his Master's but I think he's going to find things a little different with a relationship and a houseful of people to try to work around. :)  He is getting ready to start a new job that will primarily be telecommuting, which is great. His daily commute is 4hrs a day currently. 

So, that's some of the stuff from the land of topsy-turvy. 

Be well and prosperity...I mean prosper. 

I think we can all agree that it's been one heck of a winter [and for those Down Under, one heck of a summer].

We heat with a wood pellet stove.  It's a great gadget. Pour in forty lbs. of pellets and fire it up. It is our primary source of heat. This year we bought our usual 3 tons of pellets late last summer to keep us nice and toasty thru the Winter. Occasionally we end up buying a couple of extra bags in Spring. This year we needed a lot more than that.  And there weren't any __ anywhere.  Well, there might have been some in Pennsylvania but that's a few states north of here.  What I think I'm trying to say is that it was a cold
winter.  [I needed to tell you that, right?].

Today I went into town to take care of some errands and I noticed the daffodils are up and budding. Yay!!!  Oh, not up here but down in town everything is starting to get Springy and plump. How wonderful.

I just thought you'd like to know that Spring really is coming__even though it's supposed to snow in a few days...again.

The snowy owl. A beautiful creature. They've been in the news often lately. It seems they're moving south. At first it was the northern U.S. Now they've spotted them in Pennsylvania, Virginia and this last week they had one make headlines in Washington D.C. It had been hit by a metro bus. It [she] managed to survive.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/snowy-owl-doing-well-at-rehab-facility-was-apparently-hit-by-a-bus-thursday-morning/2014/01/31/1568f60e-8a81-11e3-833c-33098f9e5267_story.html

There are varying theories about why the owls are traveling south. Food, water [unlikely but who knows] and then there's my theory. Magnetic change. Yep. I think the magnetic pole wobble and predicted change has thrown them off. Maybe it's also one of the reasons for the beaching of so many marine mammals? Maybe.

Many years ago, when I was but a child [yes, hard to imagine] things within communities were different. The old saying about it takes a village to raise a child was in full force. In those days when you committed a transgression and it was seen by any member of the area you got called for it by said person whether or not they were in any way related to you. You might have never seen this individual before and invariably somewhere in the dressing down you got was the phrase 'Just wait until your mother hears about this!'  And hear she would  * sigh * My mother heard not a small number.

These days this isn't in any force at all and I think, maybe, we suffer for it. At least that's the premise I refer to when I find myself being the vocal party addressing some errant child. Yes, I do that. I am the meddling old woman who has something to say and I say it. Not all the time but often enough that a few kids in town and surrounds stop whatever they are doing when they see me coming. They don't usually run away but they get the all suffering look and wait for what is inevitable. Sometimes, just to mix things up, I compliment them. The humor this provokes [mostly mine] is a nice break. 

Today I got tired of being ignored by a six year old girl who happens to be Matt's girlfriend's daughter. I pointed out to her that she was being rude. Then I mentioned that responding when she was spoken to was the respectful and polite thing to do. Her mother was standing there so I didn't have to throw in 'the threat'. Mom heard it from the horse's mouth...and didn't immediately interfere. Finally the child looked at me and spoke. Wow! Anyway that got dealt with and I don't think any major feelings were injured in the process.

But the reason I even relate this incident is to ask whether or not you think we, as a society should say anything to children to help straighten their paths or if you feel that should only be the realm visited by the parents.

Things around here yesterday were boisterous. No, I mean chaotically, overpoweringly cacophonic.

Matt's father was here from up north. Matt's girlfriend, her two kids and two dogs were here, too. Now this may sound strange to those of you who are used to having a house full of folk but I'm not and it was staggering.  The dogs [including the beagle princess] were galloping through the house like it was Fall round-up. The kids were variously whining for attention or ignoring the attention they were getting. Video games were on and in full volume.

I adjourned to my room and put in some foam earplugs.

Today it is quiet. Ahhh.

I have become that crotchety old lady that snarls at the least disturbance.  * sigh *  The only thing I can say in my defense is that I do it well.