posted by sharlet on Feb 12
When do you know it is time to put the Christmas Stuff away? Yes I know today is February 11 but before I go to bed tonight I will have to unplug my Christmas Tree, granted it is a very small tree but it is still a Christmas Tree. Yesterday my friend had a really great idea, you see I am a Snow Bird ( no not a real Bird) and I like to run away from the weather. Now you see Michigan has this snow problem so as soon as I think it might snow I head for Arizona. No snow in Arizona, well most of the time but it has been known to happen. Love Arizona for it’s absence of snow but when it tops 110 degrees I head back to Michigan and become fodder for the Michigan Mosquito, I guess you can’t win them all. So you see I was in a quandary till yesterday when my friend said ” Well I don’t see what your problem is, you are leaving for Michigan the end of March just leave it up and when you come back in October you won’t have to decorate” What a Genius!!
posted by sharlet on Feb 5
Boy, I must of really done something awful to have pissed off the Bingo God! Wow, you can only lose for so long and then you have to lay the blame on someone or something (so therefore the Bingo God). Bingo is a big thing with us old folks and in the little town I live in it is so important that it is played twice a week. Do I play twice a week? You bet your sweet ___ I do and if I go into Vegas with friends to a Doctor or something like that we play Bingo. Friend had Doctors appointment today, so two sets of Bingo. Now I don’t like to complain but I will. Come on Bingo God give me a break if you don’t win not only is it no fun but after a while you don’t want to play.Tomorrow is Friday and Bingo day in my little corner of the world. Will I go? You can bet your last Bingo Dauber on it, praying all the way to the Bingo God!!! Till another day in my world, keep daubing those bingo numbers!!
posted by sharlet on Jul 20
My friends tell me I run a Wild Life Preserve in addition to the Zoo I have in my house. Well, I think that might be going just a tad to far. They are partly right, I agree I do have a Zoo in my house or maybe it just sounds like that sometimes. You see I have two Parrots, Echo and Chiquita or the bird formerly known as Chico. You see when Chico laid eggs, I knew it was time for a name change. Then there is Cloud Dancer (Cloudy) and Gracie Lou, my two dogs. Most of the time my house is very quite, like now the only sound you here is my typing, other times you would be well served to have a pair of ear muffs, like when Gracie and Chiquita play their favorite game “Come Here Gracie and Bark At Me So Mom Will Yell At You” . You can guess the out come of this game, Gracie gets yelled at and the bird formerly known as Chico sets in her cage and says “Gotcha Sucker” Echo, my other parrot never stops talking as long as there is someone around to listen. Sorry I got side tracked I wanted to tell you about Jake and Willow.
Jake and Willow are two Road Runners that have chosen my deck to roost on every night, this has been going on for almost a year now. Jake started coming to the house and making my deck his hang out, his favorite thing to do is pester the dogs. He dose this by pecking on the picture window and making them bark at him, I think it is funny but drives the dogs nuts. Couple months ago he had a friend with him, turns out she is more than a friend. You may ask how I know this, just trust me I do. So one day the dogs are barking like crazy and I go to check and there is Jake on the hammock jumping at the picture window (or so I thought) turns out he was trying to get to his new friend who is hiding on an outside speaker and he can’t get to her. Every night she is there and he is on the top of the cabinet by the door, makes you wonder if he is still trying to figure out how she gets up there. Anyway this is Jake and Willow. As you can see Willow just fits on that speaker no room for that pesky Jake and every night she is there and most of the time Jake is on top of the cabinet but every once in awhile Jake will go wondering and not spend the night and like any Mom who’s kid stays out all night I get all upset but then the next night or so Jake will come back home to Willow and the dogs.
Till next time World, Sharlet
Willow
Jake and The Hammock
Jake
posted by sharlet on Jul 12
Yes it is me doing one of my favorite things to do in my Arizona Neighborhood, I am working at our local Library. Meadview Library is kind of like the local Country Stores that you see all over the South. Kinda of like come on in and sit a spell and one of us will sit down and talk to you and if you sit there long enough somebody you know is going to come in and stay a spell and by the time you leave you will have spent time with good friends and maybe even returned a book or picked up a new one you have been waiting for but no matter what, you are going to leave happier than when you came in. When I say work I don’t mean work, I mean volunteer, which is funny because it is work (only it is work that I enjoy so very much). While I only work one day a week, I spend so much time there that you would think I worked every day even if there is not a lot of other places to go. Meadview as you my have guessed is a very rural place with about 2,500 people but with the right weather and a Holiday weekend it can become a metropolis, you see Meadview is located in the Lake Mead National Recreational Area about 5 miles from Lake Mead. Meadview consist mostly of retires (of which I am one) but on those times when our sleepy little place goes a little wild and crazy we the locals tend to go about our business and wait for our little slice of heaven to return.
As you may guess our Library is kind of like our town, small in size but big in heart. Looking for a good book to read and don’t need a huge selection then we have what you are looking for, want to use a computer we have that also or how about a movie to rent we have those but what we have most of all are those special people that you only find in Libraries like ours, Libraries were they feel free to just stop by and say “Hey”, Libraries where grown women will come in and make silly things that they wouldn’t spend .10 cents on in the store and leave with their prize in their hands and come back the next week and do it all over again. Libraries where the children come in and know that the lady working that day will take time to help them read their book, even if it only has pictures in it but the one thing they know for sure is that if they ask nice and say please Miss Pinkey is going to give them candy and they know how to ask because she is putty in their hands when they ask nice. Those are just a few of the reasons I think we have biggest and best little Library you can find around and if you would like to stop by and see us I work on Thursday.
See you then!
posted by sharlet on Aug 25
So hello world, I am home safe and sound from my surgery and all is well in my Michigan Neighborhood but I am kind of sad and missing my Arizona Neighborhood. It is not that I am not happy in this part of my world because I am, it’s just so beautiful in that special part of my world that I would like to share it with you. So take a look at a very special sunset from my front porch and you will see at why I love it so much.
A special gift for you from my Arizona Neighborhood!
posted by sharlet on Aug 21
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, and is not raining. Feels like it always rains in my Michigan neighborhood, while it never rains in my Arizona neighborhood(well almost never). Anyway it is a beautiful day and my Granddaughter is fixing breakfast(with some slight help from her father), what a nice way to start the day.So if the rest of the day is as good as the start, it will be swell.
