!! Fun with Tires !!

(...that have been cut in half, cemented into the ground,

 painted to look like a *insert your thought here* and tagged.)

I don't know what his name is, so I'll just call him John, Farmer John.

John has been sitting there for years, twenty-four hours a day, and it gets hot out there. On this day it was over 100 degrees. And yet there he sits. Night and day. Day after day. And he has a camera on his barn. He's pretty cool.

My computer is upstairs in the house and this guy is the guy who greets me as I reach the top of said stairs. He's been there for years and never complains of boredom or anything. In this photo you can see he is saying,
 "Que pasa señorita Tex?"
 I'm sure you've seen others like him, but he is mine.

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,

A tale of a fateful trip.
That started from this tropic port,

aboard this tiny....

Wait, what? Where? Tropic who?

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides was awesome. Of course, I'm a pretty big fan girl, so going into it I'm going to give it a lot of room for error. I am admittedly biased. But dang-it all, it was GOOD. I am very tempted to go see it again.

Above is some POTC swag that I picked up over the last few weeks. No biggie, just fun "junk". I'm hoping it is not another four years until the next installment.

The Captain Jacks on my shelf are tellin me that tomorrow is the day that I will be going to see Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.

And to that I say

!!! Huzzah !!!

Here's our modern day mule (more or less).

Without these things, gettin around this property would be purtneer major difficult. This picture was taken in an area where I liked to shoot my firearms. I don't shoot there lately. We worry about brush fires starting from a bullet ricocheting off a rock or something. It's a legitimate concern these days. I took this picture on a hot summer day with an old Sony Mavica. Not the best quality.

Doesn't this look like a nice, breezy, cool place to park your car? It almost looks as though you could lay a blanket out, open an ice cold beverage and have a lazy Sunday snooze.

Well, it's not. It's a hot, germ infested, litter filled Walmart parking lot.



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I heard a ruckus outside one day and went out to find this baby hawk a little confused about how to exit our balcony. I don't know if he was scared or angry or both, but he was making a lot of noise. Unfortunately there was not much I could do but watch and he finally did find his way out.

Hee hee hee! Ha ha ha!! Ho ho ho!!!

Here's one of the sunflowers that I grew last year. I actually didn't have much luck with them. I'm thinkin they didn't get enough water, and then the birds got to the seeds before I did. I'm a slacker.

Yesterday I went to Tom's. Tom's is a restaurant chain and they are all numbered. This Tom's might be Tom's #22. They serve everything from hamburgers to Mexican food to steaks, chicken and pastrami sandwiches... GREAT onion rings.

I like the atmosphere. Especially on hot summer days when the inside is cool, airy and the ceiling fans are whizzing away. Yesterday I had a... well... I'm not going to say. Let's just say I ate like an oinker.

This is my horse.

I spotted him in a store where he was the only one left and he had been ravaged and thrown around by who knows who and he looked really, REALLY sad. I grabbed him, brought him home, cleaned him up and gave him a spot of honor to lay were everybody could enjoy him.

Everybody laughs at me when I say that since he has been here, he has had a smile on his face. I ain'ta kiddin. He has had a smile on his face. I love my horse.

Here's another knife I've been carrying around. I REALLY think this knife is cool. This is a Benchmade #211 Activator of the Mike Snody design. It's 5.5 inches overall with a great little 2.12 inch blade. The steel is D2 (I have no idea) and it weighs about 2.4 ounces. The leather sheath is well made and the knife is held in quite nicely by friction.

The knife did not come very sharp out of the box, but I touched it up with my Spyderco Sharpmaker (my Sharpmaker is old school that I purchased about 25 years ago) and MAGIC. Sharpness abounds.

This is a great little knife and I am still seeing what it can do.

Tengo gusto de Acapulco.

We had the Acapulco Mexican restaurant patio all to ourselves,

which shifted my anti-social appetite into high gear.

(I'm not really anti-social, at least, not officially.)

Aye, that be right ya lubbers.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides opened yesterday. Have I seen it? Nope, not yet. I took this picture with my phone's camera a while back when I went to see The Black Swan. So my anticipation has been great. But like I wrote before, I am not a crowd person, so it will just have to wait until quite a few seats are empty.

But mark me words, bucko, Lizzy will be seekin treasure

and right salty old pirates soon enough.

It's a little bit chilly today and there's also some rain going on.

So how about we warm up the place with a fire? 

 C'mon, have a seat. Let's hang.

Niiiiice.

I like this view of a shed on our property.

I wish my photo could capture the semi-hugeness of it, but alas, it cannot.

Ahoy ya bloomin cockaroachers!

This is my (from the waist up) NECA 18 inch (HOO-RAH!) Cannibal Captain Jack Sparrow talking figure from the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. I have a couple of the larger figures, but this is the only one I have out of the box. He doesn't say anything very entertaining.

Here's another rattlesnake that was on our property today. This one had about 8 or 9 rattles on him. Sorry if you are squeamish about snakes. I don't love em', but these rattlers can be quite beautiful. Unfortunately this picture quality does not quite capture it. My mom took this photo today.