Out of the mouths of babes

It seems I take too long between postings and then I want to write a novel. We've had lots of stuff going on. One of my funnies for work the other day was that I admitted a guy who lived on Nathan Lane. I don't know why that struck me as so funny but I guess it's because I adore him. I pictured him with a family on him like those commercials where the people are walking around with a person on their back. Weird for you guys...comical for me. Sorry to put you through that.

Our at home funny happened just yesterday. I was home with Tristan again...his fever keeps coming back. Didn't get much of an answer from the fill-in doctor yesterday but we discovered why tonite. Think he's getting the chicken pox. Poor little guy has spots all over him. So, it will be back to the doctor tomorrow for verification. Pray for me...I'm not sure I have the strength and stamina to go through this. He's fully vaccinated so hopefully it will be a mild case - but he's got them everywhere. Back to the funny...

Chance and his partner have decided to get an ad in the Feist/Yellow book directory again. They had one when they first started their business but they didn't get as much business from it as they do from the SWB yellow pages. And they've decided to try again. They've been dealing with this salesman that they say is a really weird guy. They had an initial meeting a week or so ago and agreed on pricing and content. The man needed a down payment and an ad draft yesterday and Chance was out on jobs. So he told the guy he would leave a folder on our porch for him to pick up. I was home with Tristan so we kept the door closed as if we weren't home for the day. (I usually do that anyway because I don't like all the solicitors that come by during the day.) Chance got home early ... close to 3:00 and the man still hadn't come. He really didn't want to talk to the guy so we decided to pretend we weren't home when he arrived. He did show up, get the folder and he sat in his car with it for about 45 minutes. We told Tristan that we were pretending and had to be quiet becuz we didn't want the man to know we were home. He couldn't figure that out and kept looking out the window at him. We were really wanting him to go as we didn't want to be trapped in our house forever. So the guy eventually comes back to the door and knocks. (We told Tristan he couldn't bark with the dog or get on to her. Yes, my son barks with the dog when people come over.) So the dog is going beserk, the man is knocking. He sees Chance's truck so I'm sure he thought we were home. He finally leaves. Later I found the folder with his comments and notes in it. Chance returned a call to him later that evening and they discovered they needed to meet again today to rehash the agreement. Chance had already planned to stay home with Tristan as he of course is not 100% yet. This is a long story for the funny.. but basically when the man arrived today, Tristan told him that we were looking at him out of our window yesterday. Needless to say, Chance was a wee bit mortified. The guy never said anything and neither did Chance. He certainly couldn't wait for the guy to leave tho! Out of the mouths of babes...

What else has happened since I last wrote...one of our new fish died. We think the nitrites in the water killed him...they got really high in the danger zone. The other 3 are getting big and fat and are finally used to us. They actually come up sometimes when we feed them. The water is staying clear so we can see them all the time now. Our lily pads keep dying - not sure why that's happening. The toads are still around. We have zillions of tad poles swimming in the water now. So... not sure if we will be overrun. If so, Chance plans to take many of them to the cow pasture or creek near our housing edition. My 3 main toads still live in the garden and while they were mating, absolutely didn't want me to "save" them from drowning. Now that that is over, they are friendly again. The other nite, two of them were swimming when I went to feed the fish. The one, swam right over to me and began hopping or bouncing as high as he could to tell me he was trying to get out. (The water level was low at the time.) So I reached down and he got in my hand and let me take him out. The other one let me too but he didn't "tell" me like the first one did. I know I'm weird but I really think I'm bonding with that little toad. He was out there tonite and didn't even run from me. I just talk to him like I do the other pets. Gosh, I'm turning into a toad lady. What's happening?

Taylor had a funny the other day. We were talking about concerts and she brought up nosebleed seats. Evidently she's been thinking they are the "mosh pit" section seats since people get hurt when they mosh. So after laughing hard, we told her what they are.

She also came home with a not so funny on Sunday. During the summer, she spends one week with us and one with her mom. We go back and forth all summer like that. Her mom goes to what I call a strange church. In my opinion, it is not my place to say one religion is better than another because ultimately everyone is worshiping God in their own way. I don't have to like certain things about certain religions, and I don't have to condemn someone because they believe differently than I do. In this church, they are very animated and sing and dance and pretty much try to make it a "fun" time for all. But I did witness some hands on "healing" and that makes me very weary of it. We can't prevent her mom from taking her there because that is a positive thing they do together, but I don't have to like what goes on there. Anyway, she came home Sunday nite telling us that their pastor was talking about "dead" churches. We asked what in the world is a dead church. And she said that it was churches who don't have a good time such as the singing, music and dancing they do. This man told his congregation that God doesn't even show up to churches that don't have this "fun". I so got on my soap box and proceeded to tell her that God is everywhere, especially any place that people are coming together to worship Him. I told her that I wanted her to understand that and know that what that man said was so untrue and unkind to other religions. She said she understood what I was saying and was just "repeating" what he said. Chance said that she was doing what he wanted, to go out and spread the word about dead churches. So, hopefully we got through to her, but it makes me so angry that she is being taken to listen to such crap. Again, these people are still trying to worship in their own way so I can respect that. But holy cow! That is so unbelievable a so-called man of God would say such a thing!

Well I guess I've written enough for tonite. I'm sure there's more I intended to say but I bet your eyes are quite tired by now. I'll drop a note if I remember anything of note.

Looking forward to seeing everyone on the 8th. Until then...