So, daughter Lessa - she who designs my PurpleMoose, btw - works at night to support her family. She designs websites AND she writes for 451Press.

She writes for Survivor fans
and
She writes for Rachael Ray fans
AND . . .
she writes for Big Brother fans.

Be sure to go over to Big Brother Craze today and see what she is now offering - a t-shirt for fans of (pick one) evil doers OR think pink-ers. Gotta love the girl’s sense of humor.

Notice - adult language alert - if you are put off by certain epithets, do NOT go there. Okay?

but . . . be sure to support the girl - thanks!!!

Posted: April 19th, 2008 under Family.
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shrinking woman!

look closely at these two pictures . . . count, if you will, the lines above the heads of the two women in the pictures. You would THINK that Ms. Thang would be smiling because . . .

she is (at least) one inch taller than her gramma!!!!!

sigh!

pictures taken at the Ohio Historical Society Museum in Columbus, Ohio. This is the museum which houses the mummy behind which said gramma received her first kiss (awwwwwwwww) when she was only 15 . . . from the hubbymoose, btw . . . who was also 15 at the time.

Again with the awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

but will you just LOOK at how short the moosie is getting! Sheesh! I used to be 5′ 41/2″ - somewhere along the line I lost an inch and she found it! Too bad all that height is going to my girth. lol

We had a great time - this despite the red devil eyes on Ms. Thang and her look of abject misery at (once again) being photographed by her doddering (short) gramma.

hubby moose and I reinacted “the kiss” for her - at her request - so she could get a shot. Unfortunately (or maybe not) that picture is on HER camera.

and, about the angle of my head. Hubby mentioned that I might have been tilting it backwards and so it just seemed that I was an inch shorter. Awww, isn’t he sweet? Even if I had been tilting my head one way or another - the girl is STILL taller than I am. (much to my dismay) but thanks for trying, hubby.

Posted: April 2nd, 2008 under Family, Moose Nuggets, Moosin Around.
Comments: 3

this was sent to me by a cousin who still lives in the Columbus area . . .

the email said something like . . .

even the snowmen are tired of the Ohio weather.
bwahahahaha!

Posted: March 10th, 2008 under Family, I wanna go home!.
Comments: 3

Well, not in ALASKA, of course . . . no, my friends. It snowed TWENTY INCHES in Columbus, Ohio. This is important because . . . that is where we are headed next Sunday!

Oh, the smirks and laughter we are experiencing. Oh, the pain of it all. Seriously - we are melting at a rapid rate here in ALASKA, while out there in the midwest it SNOWED TWENTY INCHES.

Never fear - we DO know how to drive in the white stuff (unlike some Ohioans we’ve seen on the tv) and, we’ll make sure that the rental car has all sorts of insurance - for our protection, of course.

Not to mention that it will probably ALL be gone by the time we arrive next Sunday noonish.

We are taking our oldest granddaughter with us. She and I were supposed to go to Washington, D.C. for spring break - and the trip was cancelled. So, with the same amount of money I had spent and gotten refunded we are able to all go - grandpa, the Girl and me. It will cover the airfare, hotel AND car rental. (are we thinking the DC trip is a tad overpriced? No, that actually covers all DC transportation, lodging, food, and admissions - so it’s all equal, I guess)

Juneau was great - I walked a LOT - up and down the big hill from the hotel to the Capitol building and to the office where our meetings were being held. Visited with one of my legislators and spoke to the staff of the other two. Unfortunately, it would seem they are pretty set in their way and the hoped for funds will not be coming through. That is sad - as it affects 20 dv agencies. I can’t imagine status quo - most likely people around the state are going to be let go. Or our insurance coverage rates will go up. Or . . . too much to think about.

But, I did enjoy the trip - right up to coming home when the planes were being grounded for this or that - I left Juneau 2 hours late - missed my flight in Anchorage - got another flight - left an hour later than it was supposed to leave - then they forgot to put my bag on that flight. So it sat in Anchorage for a couple more hours before they could get it down here.

All in a day’s work in Alaska.

unlike Ohio . . .

Columbus, Ohio . . .

where they had TWENTY INCHES OF SNOW!
bwahahahahahahaha

Posted: March 9th, 2008 under Alaska, Family, I wanna go home!.
Comments: 1

yes, another birthday in February . . . Happy birthday my daughter!!!

Posted: February 26th, 2008 under Family.
Comments: 3