Last evening I was out in the garage taking a break from updating a friend’s template and smoking a cigarette, when I heard this horrible noise coming from the kitchen. I mentioned I have two cats, well, it was louder than normal, but I thought maybe one of them was coughing up a hairball. I ran in the house in the direction of the noise, and no cats. Not even the hint of one, until the ‘noise’ bellowed out again scaring me darn near out of my shorts.
I searched everywhere to locate where the loud noise was coming from, to no avail. By now both cats were in the kitchen curious as to what this noise was also. One on the table, and the other sitting directly under the window sill looking up. I don’t run the air conditioning much, so I had the windows open, so I determined that it was probably a frog sitting right outside the window bellowing inside and went about my business of making the bed and doing some chores that I had been avoiding all day. I listened for the noise to happen again, but never heard it and thought maybe I scared the frog off when I yelled at the cat to get off the table.
I finished up in the bedroom and walked into the kitchen to get something to drink and noticed out the corner or my eye something hopping across the floor. I of course knew it was a frog then, and tried to get it to hop back into the kitchen so I wouldn’t have to chase it all over the living room with the furniture in the way, at least until I could get my “frog” container so I could scoop him up and put him back outside where he belongs. As you can tell, this happens quite often. I’m not sure how the little buggers get in the house, although I have on occasion opened the door and seen them right on the screen door just waiting for the opportunity to jump into the house. Yes, they are the “small” ones. How this incredibly loud noise came from such a small creature, I do not know, and while I hear the frogs chirping (or whatever they do is called) on a nightly basis, I have to say I have never heard one up close and personal like that before.
Unfortunately for the little frog, one of the cats also discovered he was in the house and decided it would be fun to bat the poor thing around and carry him off to play with. Typical cat. I chased that stupid cat all over the house before he finally gave the little guy up, but it was too late, he was gone. Usually I have a couple of minuets to grab the scooper and get the frog before either one of the cats become aware of what is going on, but not this time, Kitty was right on my tail as I walked into the kitchen and while I tried to keep him back…no doing. Now, at least, the next time I hear this indescribable noise, I will know what it is and look a little harder for the frog. I should probably get rid of the plants in the kitchen, might make it easier.

Car Situation

My car situation hasn’t changed much. My dad had talked about putting a new engine in it because he determined that if another head cracked that the engine was probably warped and needed replacement. I guess that idea turned out to be a little more expensive than he anticipated because he called me a few days later wanting to get me a “scooter”.
Now, don’t get me wrong, if you don’t have far to go as far as work and such, and can tolerate the weather conditions, sure, it would be a great thing to have. Good gas mileage, he said, 80mpg! Ok, that’s great. Lord knows we all need a good vehicle that gets great gas mileage. I work about 15 minuets away driving a regular car, in pretty much any type of weather (although sometimes the torrential downpours do tend to slow you down a bit) can you see this on a scooter that goes 50mph? He said, “You’d have to wear a weather protective suit to protect you from the rain.” Um, yeah. 95 degrees, 100% humidity, and here I am riding down the road on a scooter wearing a weather protective suit, in the pouring rain, with 4 bags of groceries dangling from my arms and sweating so profusely that at any moment I may pass out from heat exhaustion as 50 cars pass by me because I’m going to slow for them. Sounds like fun, yes?
I love my dad, dearly, I can’t tell you how much he has done for me over the years, and I understand completely why he would want me to go this route with the gas situation deteriorating as it is, but I just don’t think in the large scale of things that a scooter would be the best route to go. Here I was thinking of something like a Chevy Cavalier or something similar that gets relatively good gas mileage and would get me to my sisters or brother’s place when the occasion would arise. That would be impossible on a scooter. Groceries would be impossible. Lol.
Anyhow, my next door neighbor is looking into getting me a vehicle, and hopefully sometime this week I will be in a newer car. I say hopefully because they are going out of town the following week, and if something happens to the car during the three week period they are gone, I’m pretty much in a sink hole without a ladder. I am to the point now that I have to put water in the radiator everyday, so I don’t imagine it’s going to last too much longer.

New Plates

I will be putting up a couple of new blogger templates at my website. I haven’t been posting much because I have been working so hard on one particular template trying to get it to work the way I wanted it too. Needless to say, I didn’t get it to work the way I wanted, but it’s finished, and I think it looks good.
The second one I’m posting is good also, I think, it’s different in that it has ‘moving waters’. Oddly, that one only took me a few hours to do the graphics and they coding. Go figure.

List of things I need to get done today:
1. Bake a birthday cake for my boss
2. Bake a birthday lasagna for my boss
3. Update my Templates pages
4. Do a load of ‘work’ clothes
5. Post to my other two Blogs

Not too long of a list, but time consuming to say the least. I’m sure there are a couple more things I should add, but of course I can’t think of them at the moment. TTFN!