I have issues..
Posted on October 21, 2008 - Filed Under General
…with a couple of things lately.
The first being the big push for people to start using hankies again instead of tissues to save the environment.
Now I am as keen as the next person to save the planet but please..when we get down to the nitty gritty, hankies are basically a piece of material soaked in snot and a haven for germs…I guess that is one way to save the planet, kill off all the people.
Seriously though I am sure there are better ways of being environmentally friendly…sheesh, next they will be telling us all to start saving our newspapers so we can use them in the toilet like we did in the good old days.
I am feeling that I am going to have to start a petition against the bringing back of the snotty old hanky…use the tissues for heavens sake peoples and then toss em!
I think I might have to start a business making these..
Next on my list of issues is..MANTYHOSE…yes you read right…MANTYHOSE…pantyhose for MEN.
Now call me crazy but something just doesn’t seem quite right to me with this one. We already have girdles for men (mirdles) and hand bags (man bags)…but are MANTYHOSE taking it just that step to far?
According to reports I have read, they are just perfect for long haul truck drivers offering warmth and support…who knew?
I guess women wear jeans and pants so why can’t men embrace their feminine side once in a while..I just hope they have a good razor.
Saving the world, one jump at a time!
Posted on October 20, 2008 - Filed Under Dogs
Can you remember back to those science experiments we all did at school, making a prototype of a car and powering it with a rubber band?
If my memory serves me correct the energy stored in the rubber band is called ‘potential energy’?
Well I think my dog Toto runs on that very same energy.
He stands at the side of the couch or the bed and bounces up and down on his hind legs as we count and until he gets enough energy up to launch himself up.
Now I am not completely convinced that it isn’t just an attention seeking exercise as he can vary in the amount of jumps from 1 to his all time world record of 39 jumps.
My theory is if he can get up the first time why can’t he do that every time instead of all the palaver?
I just wish I could harness some of this ‘potential energy’…we might be able to save the world’s energy crisis with ‘dog power!’
That warm and fuzzy feeling.
Posted on October 16, 2008 - Filed Under General
The other day on my way to the doctors, a lady got out of the car in front of me with the biggest bunch of flowers I have ever seen. She started to walk down the street towards a lovely little restaurant right on the sea front and as she did an envelope fell out of her bouquet. She didn’t seem to notice at all so I picked it up and hoyed out “Excuse me you dropped something…yooohooo…wait” as I hobbled along behind her.
Once she realized that I was actually speaking to her, she stopped in her tracks and the look of pure relief on her face was almost palpable.
It turns out that she was on her way to lunch with her newly engaged son and his fiance with the flowers, and in the envelope was $1000 worth of Bunnings ( a DIY hardware store) vouchers.
I have never seen a person more relieved or more thankful, she kept insisting that I must have a reward and trying to thrust a $50 note at me, of course I refused and told her that hopefully someday someone will do me a good turn in return and that just knowing her son and daughter were receiving their much awaited gift was reward enough for me.
Later that evening TETB spent many hours lamenting about what he could have been buying at Bunnings this weekend while I was happy in the knowledge that I had made someone else’s day, it gave me a real warm and fuzzy feeling inside.
When is the last time you had that warm and fuzzy feeling?
Udderly gorgeous!
Posted on October 13, 2008 - Filed Under General
Recently in our local paper there was an article about a new company that is starting to manufacture a special hand cream based on an agricultural udder cream that has been used by the dairying industry for years (hubby swears by it).
The company has been searching for a “pretty faced cow” to front up their advertising campaign….gosh some of the photos that have been submitted have been some real old scrubbers and don’t come close to my gorgeous Lucy.
So I have now sent in some pictures of her, so who knows, soon you will all be able to say, “I knew that cow long before she was famous, in fact back in the days when she had a bucket on her head LOL!”
*Yes I know you have all seen this picture before, but it is my favourite and makes me smile..so suffer it again! I will show you the latest pictures I sent in when my camera returns from its’ day trip to Fraser Island with my boys.
Just to update you…Lucy actually appeared in today’s edition of the paper…look out bovine stardom….here we come! Wooohooo!
What a difference a few days makes….
Posted on September 25, 2008 - Filed Under Goats
My liddle goaties are coming along nicely and both very quickly turning into a pair of porkers! It took them a little while to get the whole “lets have one teat each thing” sorted out, for a while there they were both always drinking from the same side and poor Blackie was starting to look very lopsided.
They are running around, flinging themselves about in mid-air and head butting like crazy. It is so funny to watch and certainly can be a real time waster!
Here we have a back view of two little sticky beaks…dontcha just love Spotty’s black bum?
Look what I got!
Posted on September 21, 2008 - Filed Under Goats
My gorgeous goat Blackie has had two more little kids.
They are both little girls…one predominantly white (Snowy) and the other is black and white splodges (Spotty).
I can’t wait to get this stupid central line out so I can have a big cuddle..I just have to make do with photos for the moment 
