A sunrise picture.
About 10 minutes later as the sun was rising.
A sunrise on a different day.
I like all the clouds in there.
The clouds stuck around for most of the day.
The clouds helped keep it a little cooler with some shade from the sun.
Wednesday, November 06, 2024
Tuesday, November 05, 2024
Everyone Has A Story, Here's One Of Mine
I've been thinking of writing an autobiography or memoir but it just never comes together for me but I figured if I write one story at a time and post it on my blog maybe once a month, I can do that. Maybe one day I'll pull all the stories together and put them in a book but for now I'll just share some stories with you about my childhood. Some of the stories will be happy, some sad and some horrific because that was my childhood. But they will all be real, things that actually happened. If it seems like something that people enjoy reading maybe I'll keep it going. These stories will not be in any kind of order, I'll just write them as they come to me.
Being Questioned By The Police
One of my dad's friends who he worked with was a guy named Mike. He was about 22 years old and my dad told me he was coming for dinner one night. My dad told me to be quiet and on my best behavior. He told my mom to get me dressed in one of my pretty dresses and she also curled my hair and made it look nice even though my mom seemed mad about it. She kept telling my dad that I was only ten years old and Mike was twice my age. But my dad kept saying that there was nothing wrong with introducing us in case he liked me. I thought it was weird and didn’t understand what was going on. I met Mike, we all had dinner and my dad kept trying to push me to talk to Mike more but I wasn’t interested in talking to him and neither was he.
My dad tried to set us up so that Mike would date me when I got a little older because Mike had a good job and was the kind of guy that my dad hoped that I would end up with. Thankfully Mike showed no interest in me. My dad was still working with Mike when I was 15 years old and he tried pushing us together again. Mike was interested at this time but I wasn't, thankfully Mike didn't pursue me.
When I was 10 though, my uncle Jack had come home from being in the Army for many years and had fought in Vietnam. He saw what was going on with my parents and didn’t like my dad because he saw his sister beat up a lot. One day I found myself in an office with two police officers and they were asking me a lot of personal questions about how my dad treated me or if my dad touched me in ways that I didn’t like. For all the awful things that my dad did, he never sexually abused me. But these officers had been told otherwise and they were going to make me go to the hospital for an examination that I was completely confused about until my mom and grandma talked to them. I don’t know exactly what my mom and grandma said to them but I didn’t have to go to do the exam after that. I just remember my mom saying that uncle Jack was a troublemaker. None of it made sense to me until I was older.
Monday, November 04, 2024
Happy Raturday!
Because Halloween is not over until I share the Ratty Halloween pictures
Even rats like dressing up in Halloween costumes.
*All pictures this week are courtesy of www.martymousehouse.com*
Sunday, November 03, 2024
Apartment Life #342
This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that have gone on in and around my apartment complex and in my neighborhood in the past 25 years that I've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 25 years here in a weekly blog post.
On Halloween when my daughter and grandson's father was taking my grandson to a Halloween party, they spotted an accident only a couple of streets away from where I live. The lady had been in the street selling flowers when a car accidentally hit her, she died. They covered her with a sheet.
The bucket of flowers that she had been selling was still sitting on the median after the police blocked the street off. That's really sad to have happened.
There was a news report that I found on this.
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This is the laundry room for my complex. There are 88 apartments in my complex. There used to be 4 washers and 4 dryers in this laundry room. The floor also used to be covered in laminate tile. But they pulled that up and it's just the cement block there now. This week management or maintenance decided to get rid of all but one washer and one dryer.
They used to take quarters and now you have to download an app and pay for it through the app.
One washer and dryer for 88 apartments seems a bit crazy. But I don't think they care. The laundry room is a mess too, they don't clean it. Some of the residents sweep it every once in a while but not recently. I don't use this laundry room. There's a self serve laundry mat across the parking lot in the shopping center next door or I just hand wash my stuff. There's too much drug smoking and other weird things that go on in the laundry room for me to be going in there.
The high this week was 80F/26C
The low this week was 47F/8C
So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.
Saturday, November 02, 2024
Fall/Autumn Pictures
I've enjoyed sharing pictures I've found on Pixabay that fits the month so I'm going to continue doing that. Today I give you Fall/Autumn pictures that I liked. Enjoy.
Friday, November 01, 2024
Freebie Friday!
Welcome to another weekly Freebie Friday post, where I tell you what free samples and full sized products I received in the mail and how you can get them too. Someone asked me why I do a "Freebie Friday" each week, so I'll tell you.
A while back I listed all the free samples and wins that I had received that previous year and so many people didn't believe that I could have gotten so many free things. So I decided to prove it by taking a picture every week and sharing the sites that I found the links to the freebies at. So now you too can get great free samples coming to your mailbox each week.
You can find links to great samples at Hey It's Free and Freebie Shark.
It's been a while since I've done one of these posts because I don't receive a lot of freebies anymore. But this week I did.
I received 4 free Covid Tests. Always nice to have those on hand just in case.
I also received a 3.3 lb bag of Iams dry dog food for Falcor from Direct2Pet.
Did you receive any freebies this week?
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Happy Halloween
I hope you had a good time during Halloween month!
Are you handing out candy? Putting on a costume? Throwing a party? Taking the kids or grandkids trick or Treating? Staying home and eating all the candy? lol
Whatever you're doing, have a good night. Watch something spooky.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
The Pumpkin Is Carved and The Costume Has Been Picked
My daughter helped my grandson carve a pumpkin. My grandson looks a little crazy but he's related to me so it's kinda expected. LOL
My grandson is going to be a Ninja for Halloween. The swords were extra, they didn't come with the costume but he wanted them anyway.
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
It's Almost Halloween
It's almost Halloween. Are you excited? We decorated, have candy, grandson has a costume. We're ready. Enjoy some spooky pictures.
Is this spooky? I think it is a little.
You just know that house is haunted. lol
Monday, October 28, 2024
Halloween With The Pets Through The Years
Some of you readers who have been around for years may remember that years ago I had pet rats. This was Scribbles. He was very curious of the Halloween decorations.
This was Flower, my hairless rat. She was the sweetest little girl and very fond of coming out to check out all the decorations.
This was Lucky. He was my 3 legged rat. Only having 3 legs sure didn't stop him from running around to check everything out though. He even sat there and posed for a picture. lol
And of course Falcor. He grabbed my daughter's stuffed pumpkin and ran around with it.
This was taken last year when I got a bear costume for him. He was not thrilled with it. lol Oh and the name falkor_the_luck_dog is his Instagram page that my daughter made for him.
Falcor pumpkin?
Na na na na na na Batdog!
Falcor is front of my daughter's haunted garden.
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