Timing? What's that?

In the great scheme of things...  I am doing okay, time wise, except I keep getting people saying, I would like you to do X, then don't give me a time. 

I half expect to have everyone want me to be available on one day, for a 3 hour period, or some equally stupid thing.  On the bright side, I finally dropped one volunteer job I had been doing for about, uh, 12+ years, possibly as long as 15.  Getting sort of tired of it.  I just felt someone else could do the job, why must I?  And, amazingly enough, not one, but two people stepped up to do the job! 

W00t! 

At the substation, doing my receptionist bit for the deputies again.  Had this gent come in, and ask me if the email for a particular deputy was correct.  After a bit of futzing about, I was able to double check it, and it was.  He then asked if he could phone said deputy directly.  I said no, but gave him the voice mail that we are supposed to give out.  (Volunteers are not to give out direct numbers unless told to by said deputy.)  Then the gent asks if said deputy is on duty today.  After a quick check, yes, he should be on, this evening. 

After a long pause, he glared at me, and said, "You know, I have been trying to get a hold of him for two days.  Maybe I should do something bad so that he will show up immediately..."   I didn't say a word.  I just used the you are saying something stupid, I will wait until your brain reboots look that I have found to be effective.  If I had been in the mood, I should have said what I was thinking, "Gee, maybe some people ARE doing something bad, and that's why he can't just jump on your request."  But I decided to just keep my mouth shut. 

He did get the hint, from my glare, and blushed slightly, mumbled, "maybe not...", then left.  (Am I good, or what?)  ;)   

(Don't answer that...)

I am pleased to say scale day was one pound down.  Getting back to exercising actually helps!  (Today, especially.  I had no motivation.  If it weren't for Rudee, I might have gone back to bed.  It was that bad...)

So.  Other than our house and the biggest part of our property smells like a forest with the compost, all is pretty much is as usual. 

And for some of the comments I don't know if I got to:

John... about the socks.  Email me, "rencatus at yahoo dawt com", let me know what you are thinking of.

Bon Bon.  Here is the lead in about the cougar from my blog.  Feel free to peruse...

http://egginmypocket.blogspot.com/2009/12/cougar.html

http://egginmypocket.blogspot.com/2009/12/cougar-cougar-cougar-cougar-oh-and.html

http://egginmypocket.blogspot.com/2009/12/cougars-end-warning-some-graphic-pics.html

If I missed anyone else... Um.  I guess you can always leave a comment? 

(sheepish grin)

She makes plans...

And the Gods respond... ROFLMAO. 

Sigh.

So, to explain why I, once again, didn't get a Sunday Supplement out...

Husband and I had an open house.  So many of our neighbors and friends wanted to see the cougar, we decided to have a weekend to let them all come over and see it.  We also found out the in-laws were coming over.  Husband also had a major job that needed to be taken care of this week, (in fact, it's due out today, then he will receive another that is due tomorrow, lather, rinse, repeat, all week).

In-laws said they would be here Tuesday.  I told Husband, knowing them, they will be here Sunday.  Husband said, more or less, that might be interesting, because they would be bringing a long trailer, and that 'could affect parking'.

Ahem. 

They called, and sure enough, Sunday they were here. (Why didn't I buy a lottery ticket???)  Right when we had about 10 or so people show simultaneously to eyeball the cougar.  So, some very creative valet work by Husband, some very social hosting by yours truly, and we managed fine. 

But, as usual, plans... mice, men, all that. 

I totally spaced when I invited the deputies to see the cougar.  None of them could show this weekend, because we have the "Civil War" between our two major colleges here, Oregon State Beavers, and University of Oregon Ducks.  This was held juuust outside of our county, and the interstate runs right through.  And nobody had time off this weekend. 

Grrr.

So, I have invited them to give a call, and they can come over by ones and twos if they are so inclined. 

Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

Just received a call today, SMIL said Father-in-law has had a case of congestive heart failure.  We aren't sure what this means, except that he has to have fluid removed from his heart, and will be staying longer.  (I can't remember if I mentioned it in previous blogs, but they are buying a house in Eastern Oregon, and are storing stuff here, until such time as they can move it.  They just came from Missouri, and took something like 3 days to get here.)  So, right now, they are at FIL's sister's place.  They MIGHT be coming over and staying in their trailer here, because the Dr. basically told them he wouldn't let them travel until he felt FIL was OK.  (I still don't know how he can do that, but I don't want to rock the boat being nosy right now...)  But, in a screwy way, it was good that it happened here, he has the doctor he's gone to for years here, and they have family here to help them.

So, trying to decide what is important in getting ready for Christmas.  It might be the stripped down version of the Holidays here at Fur 'n Feathers, folks.  I was going to do my usual drawn Christmas cards, (I just love to do them).  I bought the card stock, but might not get to do them this year, depending on if we will be called in to help move, or what have you.  I have hand made knitted items that need to be finished for Christmas.  (I have images of knitting frantically 5 minutes before the recipient shows up, and screaming at Husband to head them off so I can throw it in a bag...) 

Dinner is at my house, too, but that is turning out to be easy, as Husband wants things like a spiral ham (stick in oven, pull out, serve), potato rolls (stick in oven, pull out, serve), and mashed potatoes, (which I could do with a box, but won't), so we aren't talking a real labor intensive dinner, the way it could be.  I am still trying to decide if I am going to make him some sort of carrot thing cake whatever for his birthday, he has mentioned a recipe that he would like me to make.  I may just be hard of hearing until after the new year, and let his mother-in-law make the cake, he like her cakes very well, (I suspect it's because my mom actually makes the carrot cake from scratch, and I generally... don't.  I am not lazy, exactly, but it is one of the more tinkery cakes I have made.)

In all this, I am happy to report that all the animals are doing well, and watch this space for news on that topic in the near future.  I don't want to jinx it by saying anything.  But think happy animal thoughts...

I am also fighting insomnia again.  I am thinking that I might use this to my advantage.  Heck, if I'm up at 2 a.m., might as well get some use out of it.  I am not sure I will knit that time of night, I don't want to have to re-knit, and I don't want a needle up my nose if I fall asleep.  But some other items might not be so... dangerous to my health.

Lastly, to anyone that has noticed that they are not being 'followed' by me, I apologise most sincerely, I told you earlier that I was going to do some clean up work on the blog?  Well, I cleaned it up, all right, I managed to delete about 3 or 4 of the blogs I follow, and since I didn't write down the address (like, with paper and pencil), so now I don't know if I can find them.  So if you were "deleted" from my followers, please, please, please, leave me a message in the comments, or an email, so I can put you back.  I was trying to move the followers from public to private, not public to GONE. 

So.  We shall see what we shall see.  I will try and visit other blogs when I can. I recently found a blog called reverb 10 , and was all set to start putting the writing prompts into my blog...  This could still happen... 

In January.

Maybe...

Sunday Supplement- Monday Edition

Why no Sunday Supplement?  Some great catastrophe?  Famine? Pestilence? Ravaging hordes? 

Would you believe I just forgot?  {sheepish grin}

So, to make up for it...

To prove I have actually been doing something, here is the baby blanket for Baby Grandchild #3 of one of the deputies.  (The Deputy is a total card, I can't wait for his reaction...)

And, this is the  famous cougar.  It is now a very, very, VERY large ornament in our living room.  I have named it Broken Tooth Killer, or BTK for short.  I must say, it is huge, (6 foot, 1.8 meters) and it was, when living, very heavy (188 pounds, 85 kilos and change...), so it is not a shy little thing in our living room!  It's going to take a bit of getting used to, but I guess I will manage.  The way it is put up, I won't be running into it, or hitting my head on it, so that's a plus.  Husband's seat is directly looking at it, I have the 'rear end' view, to paraphrase my husband.



So now, I am organizing a community get together, for all that wanted to see the thing, and I am going to start knitting and crocheting my Christmas presents in earnest.  (Amazingly, I am much more worried about the presents, can ya believe it???)

And all this when I am not running around doing other stuff. 

Dang, that cat is big...