INTERNMENT TUESDAY

Monday was...
Another fine day.

I had to go to the town to the left to the foot doc... to pick up my inserts at long last. Yay!







I had time to kill...

I have lived here off and for about 24 years total time. In all that time I have never before been to the museum.
So I went today. Most of it was the usual stuff. But this painting above and these items below are very interesting to me.




They are from the Japanese Internment Camps. I don't know enough about them to do them justice with a narrative. Here are a couple of sites you can peruse if you wish to learn more.

Historical Overview: Japanese Americans

Minoru Yasui - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia





When I first moved up here we landed in a house across the street from a Japanese man who lived in an internment camp. Very nice elderly gentleman. It used to amaze me that anyone could do that to such a nice human being. It still does.



He had a Weimaraner (dog) named Molly. She was very protective of me. In fact she would not allow my husband to get out of the car when he got home from work, unless I came outside and told her that it was okay.

Gosh I liked that dog. ;)







After the foot doc it was back home again for ho-hum... house work and a bit of reading and blogging.

Back in the car at 4:00 for the usual Monday trip into town for all of StbX's obligations.





A nice twist was that Boo, my oldest, was waiting for us at the Court House. So instead of sitting there reading in the heat alone, I had a nice visit with him before he had to go to work.




Then we were off to the Bear's house for a BBQ.

Bear and I had to shop for food, but managed to escape child-free. Meanwhile Mikey P. fired up the grill and began the meat fest.



They are taking off to go owl pelleting in the morning. They will be gone a week. They sell them on line.

I got to see that boy before they left. He was very entertaining.



Mikey P and cousin J were in the recording studio and they were searching through some older music. Link 80 to be exact. Little Mikey decided that he and I had to head bang. Oh yeah... head banging and dancing... that's our specialty!

We all ate way too much. (I'm doing a half fast day tomorrow to make up for it and an extra hour of walking.) Urp!


When I got home, I visited with crazy4coens for a time until a knock on my door... at nearly 11:00 at night... interrupted.


It was my brain damaged friend that I have mentioned before... D. He's a very s -l- o- w t- a- l- k- e- r and I have trouble with that. It makes me fall asleep. Especially when it's late. I feel terrible when I am obviously nodding out on him. He had the good grace to excuse himself this time.


All in all it was a good day. I got some things done that needed to be done. Squeaky has been on a house cleaning jag... so my house is all shiny bright. Today I will drive up and bring Max home for the night to visit. That always makes me happy.

Oh and I ran into one of my "minions" as StbX calls my ex-students. He's got a steelhead for me and will fillet it today. He's going to give me a call when it's ready and promises to keep me in fish all season. Very cool beans! I'm thinking of steelhead in jerk sauce tonight. mmmmm

FRIDAY THIS AND THAT

I am impressed by this silly poinsettia. Seems it should be dead by now. I buy one every November 16th. You say it's an ugly plant? Yes... but it's still blooming and it's been doing it for almost 6 months! I have done nothing more than to sometimes remember to water it. No special light. In fact, it's across a very large room from the windows. To top it off, it has nice, healthy new green bracts coming out all over. I think it may still be here next Nov.16th. Now that is tenacity!



This is my beautiful Bear. This is the look she gets right before she grabs both sides of my head and gives me a nosey-blowsey. If you don't know what that is... lucky you... It's where you put your mouth over someone's nose and give a good hard blow... creating the creepiest farting effect in that person's nasal passage at the back of their throat. Obviously you do not want to do this to anyone you don't know well. Not recomended for children with snotty noses!






Today our AP Art Class's work is being shown at an art museum in the town to the left. No... a student did not draw this! This is here because I'm meeting a friend from work for a drink before we walk over and check out what the kids have done.I have never been to the pub where we are meeting.

I have been to the museum many times. My Max and Squeaky both have had things on exhibit there in the past. It is a small museum but has interesting things.

Somewhere in the middle of my day, I get to go to the doctor again. This is the one that I have had for over 20 years. He's in kahoots with the foot doc and the physical therapist. But this is all about blood work. It's my proof that I have been being good.

Oops! That reminds me. Last time I saw him a few months back he gave me three cups to pee in. I was supposed to keep them in the fridge until I had three days worth and then take them to the lab across the river. Well, I'm pretty good at the peeing in a cup thing. And I did put them in the fridge. Squeaky found them while looking for food last week and freaked right out. Don't worry... I had them double ziplock baggied. I guess you know how often I clean out the very bottom of my fridge! Looks like I need three new cups and a bit more time.

Yesterday was true spring weather. I found that dollar on the ground. Put it on Powerball, then decided that I needed to do another for MegaBucks... since we were going on the it's a lucky day motivation. Then I began to worry about my spirit... so I decided that since I'd put two dollars on the lottery, I'd give an equal amount to the hungry folk in Uganda via one of our high school class charities. Then it sounded like a paltry amount considering how much food that buys. So on and so on.

I think that today will be as gorgeous as yesterday. I hope that it is lovely where you are. If not, I hope you find something lovely to do indoors. At least one fun activity comes to mind... enjoy!