Skype

Yes, I think we all have Skype accounts but for security, I’m not publishing those. Holler if you need that info.

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Taking Out The Trash Is A Hoot

I was actually VERY productive today, except YOU wouldn’t be able to tell what I did. I rearranged a linen closet and labeled the shelves. Ironically, I did this exact same thing a year ago, it was one of the last things I did before I got a headache. [ http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2013/04/08/its-not-a-head-achy/ ] You’d think… it would have stayed that way, but alas, it did not! Today, I cleaned a closet. 🙂

I also shredded several boxes of old documents (filled a black outdoor trash bag)! Today, I emptied boxes.

So, today, YOU can’t tell what I did, but hopefully this will fall in line with “never have to do that again!” [I will threaten livelihood if that closet gets undone again]!

I had a giant bag of trash. Tomorrow is trash day and I would certainly FEEL more productive if the bag left. To the trash I went.

Actually, I kinda lazily dragged and/or kicked dropped the bag, not because it was heavy, but because I was lazy! 😉 Feels good to have a choice. Since I was in full fledge lazy mode, I didn’t bother with shoes.

Not having my shoes on is normally not something to blog about, however, as I walked over and kick rolled the bag up to the side of the trash bin, I regretted not having shoes.

There was an enormous owl sitting on top the can! His head was rolled over in that upside-down owl manner that clearly ask “Watcha doin’ Willis?”

I explained that I was leaving the bag “right here and there is no need for him to move so that I can lift the lid;” and backed away slowly. Walking backward on rocks, in the dark, without shoes, is not something I have practiced in a long while!

As I finally reached the corner of the house and started to turn, he quietly hooted. I think that bag will be fine right where it is!

I have no idea if it is the same owl: http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2012/12/17/the-song-of-the-owl/

Since I did not know that I should have taken my phone with me to the trash, here is a consolation linen closet photo. 😉

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[ Previous clean closet attempts: http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2012/08/04/the-closet-threw-up-in-the-living-room/ ]

[ NOTE: Kim said “But more importantly, did you find out how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop?” Alas, I did NOT… but shall endeavor to remember! ]

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Laughing Luge

Often, I comment that “this is a visual,” however, THIS is “an audio.”

Several years ago, we were in Winter Park for their summer festival. One of the rides was a circular “cage” two people sit in, facing each other, with opposite shoulders touching, while it spins and flips erratically in circles. On Ashley’s turn, SHE LAUGHED LOUDLY, the ENTIRE time (5 minutes or so), I have video, she drew a crowd. If you ever saw Batman with Joker and those “laughing teeth,” you can get an idea of how she sounded; FOR THE ENTIRE TIME!

Today, while watching the Olympics, Jeff suggested that Ashley take up Luge. [that’s the one where you lie on a sled with feet downhill going 80+mph]

She replied “Can you imagine the TV filming of that, with me laughing “like this” the whole way down?!?”

She demonstrated the laugh; FOR THE ENTIRE TIME!

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Nightwing On Her Back

[pics incl] Nightwing and Ashley posing again!

Previous posing: http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2014/01/10/marc-is-here/

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[ More about Nightwing: http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2014/02/01/not-a-pet-bed/ ]

Ashley wants to know WHY I think taking pictures of them posing, is relevant to our lives?

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Chris Is In The House

[pics incl] Our neighbor Chris is here hanging out. The trash has been completely collected and taken to the street. (He’s my hero because we had all the trash from the leaking basement pipe)!  He LOVES the new couch! Heather is teaching him to knit? AND, he’s just about mastered sarcasm (sorry about that folks)!

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Courtney doesn’t weigh enough to hold the back of the recliner down, so she spun around. Chris thinks she looks 12 even if she is in college (HAHA!)!

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Chris helped her raise the chair legs!

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Mom, My Eyes Are Watering

[pics incl] NORMALLY, I wouldn’t have photos of such an event. However, Heather has glow-in-the-dark tears! Her eye is bothering her, they put drops in her eyes… GLOW-IN-THE-DARK drops! Since she’s not under a blue-light, it’s harder to see the yellow.

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She has micro-lesions? Getting different contacts after it heals.

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Go ahead, ask how Heather got to the doctor this morning (she couldn’t drive and see previous post where Jeff is with me…)

Gratuitous pic tonight of her NOT glow-in-the-dark 😉

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Hematologist Appointment 02/11/14

I saw the hematologist today, nothing to report, continue on as I have. They didn’t even draw blood. I do have a neurologist appointment in a few weeks.

[ Last hematologist doctor appointment: http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2013/09/24/new-hematocrit-levels/ ]

The most exciting thing that happened was, when we arrived at the building and tried to look up his office. Neither Jeff nor I could find his name on that list. I pulled out the info and said “Suite 540.” We stepped in the elevator, I reached out to push #5, and there was NO #5!? (Obviously, the elevator is flawed!) Ooops, wrong building! 🙂

[ Last MRI: http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2013/11/28/taz-last-brain-mri/ ]

One Year Ago:  http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2013/02/11/the-road-to-china/

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Another Loss Too Soon

Please send prayers for Heather, her friends’ & families! Two of Heather’s good friends were in a car accident, while visiting family in Virginia. A semi-truck was going the wrong way and struck their Camero head-on. Jake Welch has been pronounced brain dead (still on machines) and Miller Clannet is critical. You may have heard her speak of Jake, they met in middle school and he’s a former Navy Seal. She introduced him as, her “birthday twin” because they shared the same birthday and were born at the same hospital.

[ NOTE: Machines were turned off 02/09/14

Jakob Knox Welch; January 15, 1993 – February 09, 2014

Miller is in a medically induced coma. ]

[NOTE: Miller passed away 05/11/14

Miller Joan Clannet 1993-May 11, 2014]

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Death by Deviled Egg

[pics incl] Heather’s been making snacks lately and decided instead of plain boiled eggs, she would make up Deviled eggs.

This is from 01/29/14 (you do know that I take LOTS more photos I don’t post… right?)

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She made some today, and then, later, she made more for William and Jeff.

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You might ask, “What’s the difference?” One, the top one, was made carefully using paprika. The other, the bottom one, was made carefully, using chili powder. There were 3 on the plate. Jeff is trying to see if scalding, hot, coffee will get the taste out of his mouth! 🙂

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Burst Water Pipe

[pics incl] Remember the COLD temperature photo? [ http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2014/02/06/yes-its-cold/ ]

Well, apparently, the fresh air intake for our heater had only 3″ or so of insulation. We discovered “that moment when its raining, when its zero outside… and the rain is in the basement… and the ceiling is now on the floor”

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The heater duct was FROZEN?!? We have lived here 10 years; how has this never happened before???

John Lambrecht to the rescue. He figured out the problem and had it completely repaired (except sheet rock) in less than an hour! Jeff shop-vac’d, the used the shampooer.

I could only help a little; still can’t “stay bent down” for very long and I couldn’t sit on the floor. Courtney didn’t have class though. The water was right at freezing and even icy so we had to go near the fireplace often to thaw out! I picked Ashley up early from school and she & Courtney tackled “the library.”

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We had to throw away a lot of games and books but they worked quickly to salvage what they could. Heather left her class early, picked up William and they all finished cleaning up and set up heaters and fans on the carpet. We have the best neighbors, to the rescue when needed! Hopefully, that works!

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Yes, It’s COLD

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Nuggets 02/03/14

Jeff and Ashley (Heather had a class) took their 6th grade girls basketball team to a Nuggets game tonight. They had a few parents attend too. They all rode the lightrail to the Pepsi Center and back. The Nuggets pulled out a win with a buzzer beater 3-point shot by Foye! Some good team building & bonding! BTW, the girls are currently 7-3 for the season! Hope I didn’t just jinx them! 😉 I suspect they have awesome coaches.

http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2014/01/26/coach-ashley/

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At The Rock

[pics incl] Last week was so cold and yucky that I parked closer to the middle school and never drove by “the rock.” Today, I parked near the rock, txt’d the kids “I’m here @ rock, in truck”

A car had been parked blocking my view drove away… and I saw that Dalton’s friends, despite the sub-zero temps and snow last week… painted the rock!

[ http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2014/01/29/a-month-ago/ ]

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Super Bowl 2014

[pics incl] Not sure you can call that a game 😉 but Heather made a football cake!

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Vampire Butterflies… or NOT

[pics incl] Taken out of context… again! Courtney looked at Heather’s wristbands: Dalton, Batman and “vampire butterflies”

OR… Black Veil Brides (it’s a band).

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More taken out of context: http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2014/01/26/taken-out-of-context-2/

One Year Ago (actually 02/04/13 but it goes with this):  http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2013/02/04/rule-of-aquisition/

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