in my yard
I think better or more freely on my back porch. I used to be able to do this in the shower. Some of my most clear thoughts used to come when I brushed my teeth, so much so that when I left Colorado and moved to Cali, someone gave me a toothbrush so I would remember them.
Anyway, my sister and her family were here recently and for the life of me I can’t find a thing to say about the visit – but I’m going to try because photos were involved.
When Blossom arrived at my doorstep on Sunday at about 11am she had come from the Napa Valley from a visit with one of her MANY sisters-in-law. It was 85 degrees in my little berg and Blossom had on a hoodie, she’s from AZ and 85 is a winter temperature. The hoodie made me sweat.
My sister is condescending and bossy like you cannot believe and it might have been pointed out to me in the recent days since her visit that I am JUST LIKE HER. To take a phrase from the younger crowd – holyshitballs*. But then again, I do love me some sassy smart mouth and if you don’t get it then plain old tough shit*.
Scout and I had planned to BBQ some prime dead cow, bake some potatos and have a salad worthy of Cesar Chavez but OH wait Blossom and Mr T don’t eat THAT much meat. We went to Plutos. If you are not familiar with Plutos it is a smorgasbord-kinda place. Whatever, go look it up. Mr T was all impressed how they made a salad to order and score, that’s all I care about.
Late Monday afternoon the ‘rents came (I was just recently called a ‘rent so I’m using it) and brought Big E, who had been abandoned by Blossom and Mr T at said grand ‘rents house the previous Thursday. When MeMA got here she sat out in the 108 degree heat on a crappy plastic Adirondack chair just trying to recover from the rigors of entertaining a SUPER smart 14 year old and the discovery of beer in my frig. MeMa does not tolerate the heat well and we are often on the look out of her falling faint to the ground in any source of heat. I’m a bright child and I noodled through that if MeMA was sitting out in that heat she REALLY needed the time out.
I took family photos about 5:30/6:00pm because the light at that time in my yard, in this part of the world is kinda magic. I have an ivy that I grew on the wrong neighbors fence and it makes a great backdrop. We coordinated colors by accident, but thank god for that.
After the carnage I downloaded the photos so we could all enjoy the magic that is me the photographer and this was the final conversation:
ME – “I hate that I have always looked older than you, look at those wrinkles”
to which my sister replied in her condescending, bossy tone:
“oh that’s just a life well lived”
to which I laughed heartily and then thought
GO FUCK YOURSELF.
Blossom will appreciate this silent thought and ILSHIPMP cause she knows all the secrets of my “life well lived”.
I have posted ALL of the photos, even though, MeMA becomes a ghost in some, they make me laugh. So sorry Mr T but if everyone gets to see my “life well lived” I’m not going to fix that problem you asked me too.
*another post on this later
themocracy
Those are some wonderful faces.
i cannot BELIEVE somebody else out there uses “holyshitballs.” i thought that was MY word.
and your family looks wonderfully pleasant!
um, candice, hello….. have you READ any of my blogs?!?!! actually, i change it to “holy crapballs” to make it more appropriate for my readership, but still. I”m not surprised though. you’ve stolen my life in every other aspect.
oh, anyway, linlah… she needs to F herself, indeed.
Cupcake – Wonderful faces and wonderful people.
Candice – hmm, “holyshitballs” more on that later. And see my Cupcake response. Love, LOve LOVE my sister and the rest of them.
Blunt – Oh well, with foul language we can’t all be “inappropriately honest” and HELLO Candice can you PLEASE stop stealing Blunts life…geez all you need now is a Slumdog Millionaire.
Hold up! I was coming here to stake my middle-aged claim on Holy Shitballs! Damn! Can we thumb wrestle for it or something?
DG – Oh well the post on HSB is forthcoming and you may have already won the thumb wrestle match.
And yet I look younger than you all. I have it on good authority that the whole crows feet thing is proof of a life laughed through.
Ok… great pic of Mr. T. what a presence he shows in the photos, smiling or not. Did Scout ever wake up for the pic’s? What a fun group to be spending time with. Never a dull moment! And the wrikles… just shows who has been laughing more! Good pics.
Blossom needs some acting lessons and Mema needs some lips. otherwise all the rest take great pictures. smile old man.
‘love ya
mema
Gimli – Uh, I think you said “life well lived” and you know my response to that.
NL – You spend time with them…PLEEEASE and yeah he did wake up, PoPa thinks he’s having some prayer time.
MeMa – much love and I don’t think we need anymore DRAMA from Blossom.
so anyway now that you have all the comments and good cheers and run-downs on me i would like to remind you that YOU ARE JUST LIKE ME and the is NOTHING you can do about it haha. I love the pictures you took and will use one for every christmas card i will have for the next 56 years thanks for the supply now neither one of us will ever get old tell mema i got the lessons from HER. so much for drama.
blossom – oh and rooster inherited the acting talent too. I’m so glad it skipped a generation.