to make the cashier look at you just a wee bit funny!

Drove over to Soldotna Tuesday to buy a new bathing suit - it is amazing how quickly the chlorine wears out suits, btw!

What with the price of gas and such, it was only a GREAT deal (50% off) that would have me making an extra trip to the next town (24 miles is 24 miles after all - round trip, that is). And, it was only that great deal - in the week prior to payday - that would have me robbing the Hawaii fund to purchase the suit.

I’ve mentioned before that I save my change, roll it and take it to the bank to put it into a special HAWAII FUND for the trip I am planning to make the year I turn 60 (and it is closing in quickly, I might add!) About 6 months after I began saving change I started adding folding money also - saving ones and sometimes fives.

So, I grabbed all the folding money before heading off to Soldotna.

Can you imagine - oh, please do - the look on the cashier’s face when I handed her the suit, watched her ring it up, then handed her a (nicely folded) wad of ones?!!? It was priceless!

She acted like she could hardly bring herself to TOUCH the bills, let alone count them out - even though I counted them right in front of her and had stacked them neatly into piles of ten - she watched me handle them, but could barely contain the snarl of her lips as she picked them up to count them herself.

I just know - and Ladybug even laughed with me this morning as I modeled the new suit and told the tale - that the poor cashier was thinking - “OMG! She’s pretty old to be stripping!”

LOL - honey-chile, that’s not the ONLY way to get one dollar bills! (I’ll let Ladybug tell you what SHE thought the cashier might have been thinking.)

Priceless, I tell you, priceless! I love living in a small town.

Posted: May 15th, 2008 under Alaska, Moosin Around.
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oy!

the house next door houses two adults and two dogs. One of the adults works and is in and out on a pretty regular basis. The other adult - never (NEVER!) leaves the house. She sleeps all day and (???) all night - generally with the music cranked up so loud it vibrates through the ground and through our house - of course our bedroom faces the room where she houses all of her music equipment.

Her sleeping arrangements do not bother my husband - because he works at night and tries to sleep during the daylight hours. It is ME who cannot sleep!

Add to that the dog run they built between our houses - after asking if we minded, of course - but also AFTER I TOLD THEM I MINDED!!! and asked them to build it behind their house or on the other side of their house.

Instead, for their convenience, they built it between our houses so that they can open their door and shove the dogs out without having to leash them up, etc.

Very convenient for them.

Not so for me.

Right now the little yapper is yapping and the big WOOFER is woofing - ad nauseum - at NOTHING in particular -

poor moosie. I know you feel my pain. Anyone remember the Seinfeld episode where Elaine yells out of her window SHUT UPPPPPPPPPPPP! ????

I am that Elaine.

It doesn’t work any better for me than it did for her.

Wait . . . didn’t Kramer help Elaine to put out a hit on that dog?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm - Kramer????????????

nah - of course I wouldn’t -

sigh

Posted: May 6th, 2008 under Alaska, Moose Nuggets.
Comments: 5

What better picture to show the true meaning of a SouthCentral Alaska Spring for the Thursday Challenge than:

We got out the mower and it was just waiting and ready to begin on the “lawn” when Alaska threw out one more spring snowstorm.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhlaska!

Posted: May 1st, 2008 under Alaska.
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changing from winter studded tires to summer treads: $75

repairing tire flattened by nail in between tire store and office (!!!) $20

looking outside to see this the next morning:

PRICELESS!

You just gotta love it when Alaska has a sense of humor.

took a swipe off the car with the handy dandy broom and then got this picture:

to show you the depth - looks like about 3 1/4 inches - or just over.

Yep - we had put away the snow blower and had gotten out the lawn mower - bwahahahahaha!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhlaska! You gotta love it!

Posted: April 26th, 2008 under Alaska, Moose Nuggets.
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So, I’m in my last couple of weeks as the interim ed. In some senses, it’s seemed very short - could be that extra stint in the hospital has something to do with that. That, and the recuperation time after the surgery that required some half days.

But, in other ways it has seemed like a very long three months. Could be the quirks and foibles of managing a diverse group of staff has something to do with that.

I am blessed because they are a great staff. They work hard for little pay (in comparison to big business) and they do it willingly because their hearts are with the clients. It’s a tough job that they do. I tell them often (but probably not nearly enough) that I am thankful for what they do.

Today the bookkeeper teased me when I complained about my left eye. It is probably just a bit of hay fever - but it has been itching like crazy for the past few weeks. My left eyebrow also had a bit of the twitchies a couple of weeks ago. We were standing together before leaving the building tonight when I mentioned these things and the bookkeeper just looked at me, grinned, and then told the rest . . . “there is something about people in ‘that office’. They all have SOMEthing go wrong with their eyes - they twitch - they . . . ” and she was off.

Is there something to it? Nah, probably not. But it gave us all a good laugh as we closed out what had been a somewhat tense day - and that’s not a bad thing, is it?

So, for your viewing pleasure . . . I give you a shot of the moosie in Juneau . . . . that is the Capitol building behind me and the bear. Welcome to Juneau, everyone.

Posted: March 13th, 2008 under Alaska, I wanna go home!.
Comments: 3