ROTHBURY festival, a first year fest w/ about 40k people. 4th of july weekend. it was cool, tiring, boring. I am not sure how I feel about. Just Okay I think. DH and D are ready to run off too Allgood or Mile High or any fest coming up. Burning man would be my choice.

Myself, well I like to see the bands not just hear them. I am barely 5' tall and to see I had to be so far back the performers looked like ants or get up close and stand with too many peoples armpits at about my face level. and then hope to get a glimpse when the tall guy three rows up swayed. walking maybe a mile+- from camping to the farthest stage and then from stage to stage to stage and standing more and then walking again, going back to camp to get warm clothes for night and then doing it again. then come back and sleep get up and do it all over for 3 more days, it was tiring and exhilerating yet boring.

Bored, that is how I felt most of the time. I really wanted my daughter there. We got there about 6 thurs night, skiiped widespread panic & took her to the fireworks on friday( the fest was about 30 mins. from home). and were supposed to go get her sunday and take her to Colbie Callait. I didn't want her having to go in the porto potties once we were inside the main festival grounds(she's seven) she couldn't do the hover/balance thing to well and the walk back to camp would have been way to much(for everyone else-I would have rather done that than not have her there).

Plus I knew DH didn't want to go get her Sunday and possibly miss Rodrigo y Gabriella. He was already in no talk mode all day Saturday which meant he was very exhausted. Which with him means a short jump to absolute pain in the neck- and the kid would have set that right in motion the second she started whining about anything. I did not want to deal with two whining crabby people.

If I could have drove back and got her myself I would have but things weren't that way. If I could have ditched the guys and spent the whole weeekend with a 7year old I would have had a good  much better time.

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Then we get home and the guy(the one who's wife just ran off) that was watching the dogs was asleep in the chair in the comp room with a bottle of pills spilled all around him and some beers on his table. this was monday about 1:30. Tuesday I poured ice water on him and tormented him with a scratchy old straw broom but he still  wouldn't wake up. At Lunch hour we called the ambulance. They took him to the hospital and weren't sure whether he would come out of it or not. The info i have from him is thast he did try to off himself. It was so effing rude of him to do that in our house. He told DH that he wanted somebody to find him. Re-Tard-Ed. Seems more like a try for attention because if he did want to do himself in he would have used some whiskey and not beer And would have went where nobody could find him.

Wtf, when he is back to being out of the hospital I can't wait to tel him what a douchebag I think he is for doing that in my house. He didn't even clean up his kids messes or their dishes before trying it.

Okay so maybe that is selfish on my part but I don't care. I am selfish.I don't like people who cause things to happen that are negative. Or who leave dirty dishes. Or who don't watch there kids well enough. I even left a note when we left that said Please Do NOT let your kids trash my house.

The girl all of this happened over is a dirty, sleazy nasty skanky dirtee ho-bag. We've all known it for years. He just don't seem to get it.

good enough for now.

 

 

 

Poor old girl. She's at least 14yrs old.  I took her to the vet today to get his opinion on whether I should euthanize  her or not. The vet wasn't very helpful, he said(in different words) that it would be justified or some similiar opinion. After my dog Billy died I said I would never make a dog suffer again. I waited at least 6 mo. to(o) long with Bill. Throughout last winter I kept saying we'd put her down  in the summer. Now I keep thinking before the ground freezes. She's so happy still most of the time. geriatric yes but happy and energetic too. She has some medical problems. Nate (who's 8yrs old) likes to go after her throat sometimes, I remember Diamond doing that to Billy when he got old.  Is it a sign? Possibly like the strong trying to take out the sick and weak to make the pack stronger I don't know. I guess if I don't "feel" it being the right time it must not be.

Monday the 2nd of June, someone accidentally(myself I think but not sure)left the door to the garage unlatched, at bedtime I went to let out the dogs and realized I couldn't find them, then realized the cat was gone too.

I went for a walk calling the animals, took a right at the T-intersection, turned around and saw a cat cross the street under the street light in silhouette. I am guessing it was Star. We haven't seen her since. She had an appointment to be spayed the next morning.

Weird dream...

I had this weird dream  the other night. As I walked around the corner of some building I saw my dog Nate (photo by Mia)
                 


 he was surrounded by about 4-6 cougars whose colors were slightly darker than he is, he wasn't really running from them but more like just standing there looking mildly upset. I called for him but he wouldn't come to me(which isn't unusual when he's 50 ft. or more away). The next thing was that I had him in my arms and he had a hole in his chest that went right to his lungs and another in his neck.  I had to keep the chest hole covered and then give him breaths either through the top hole or is nose or mouth I don't know which. He would be out and then come to if I covered one hole properly and breathed into ...somewhere. Strange.

Collecting rainwater from eves...(for inside the house)


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I am lucky its been raining today or I would be carrying water from the neighbors and I am not equipped with enough buckets to make that an easy job.
A few weeks ago the well and/or pump quit working properly. The well guy came over and primed the pump and got it going again but said we need a new well. A couple weeks later I tried to get some water on the garden but the pump lost prime again. That time I primed it myself and all was almost good except that air would come out in chugs from the faucets(after the first prime and much worse after the second). Yesterday it lost prime again and I poured over 2 liters of water into the priming pipe but couldn't get it going. I talked to my brother and he said the pipe should fill up and then a person puts the cap back on and turns on the pump. That is not how it worked for me, the water I poured in kept going somewhere maybe down in the well. like a check valve wasn't working and so the water wouldn't stay up in that pipe. I don't have a clue as to the problem but I am getting a second opinion on it this week. I hate to get a new well dug only to find out that it was a pump problem.

The lighthouse...

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In 2006 they(whoever they is) opened up the light house to the public. It's never been open in my lifetime that I can remember. We walked out there and took the  four flights of slightly angled (like a big slide) ladder to the top, it was too foggy to see far but getting up and down the ladder with Mia was a trip. She did fairly well and made it up but sort of lost it when we got to the top and wouldn't look out the windows and wanted to go down NOW! Getting down scared her but she didn't have much choice but to keep going because that's the only way down. She wants to go back though. I hope she can go up again and enjoy it a bit more next time.

I'll have to go to town and take a picture myself because I don't know how to link one and make it show up on this site. If anyone knows I welcome instructions. I did check Xanga's faq but it was no help.
Also can I post someone elses photo if I give credit or do I need permission(like from any random site I find a pic on that I want to use) or does it have to be public domain?