Update on the Petting Zoo

So last night I get home from the "altar of Truth" (it totally lied to me, up.5) and my neighbour comes over with the most amazing "treat" she bought me a huge Zipper kind of Bag full well 2 of PB packs and Cheese Whiz. I'm not sure of the origin of said treats but with those littel PB babies I'll be set for Premeasured PB for the next 2-3wks, if the boys don't eat it all. I think they ate 10 this morning before I woke up?
Sorry tangent, so we're sitting talking and I mention the "pile of evidence" out by my front tree, and she says "wooooooahhhhh I didn't hear about this?" and I said "I'm home all day, I talk to people" and, of course, I told her who I heard it from and who she heard it from. I also may have mentioned how the other Mom at the school confirmed it with her story of 2 large clawed critters. On her way home, I walk out the door and down the front path with her and point to "large pile of evidence" and she says "yeah" and Hubbie comes out with laptop in hand and between the Points and ehhhhh? and the Points and grunts, we all come to the conclusion that we have the answer to the ever present question:

Does a Bear Shit in the Woods?

"NO, he shits on my front lawn"


Okay, let's just take a minute to digest this idea. I'm struggling to fit in activity/exercise in my life? I have a VERY hard time doing things that resemble Exercise as a routine or shall I say regimented program, so I pick things that are fun. Things that are good for me but disguised ever so carefully as "games" "playing with the kids" "talking with the neighbours" so things like volleyball, baseball, running after the kids, tiring the kids out by walking them in strollers, or bike rides. These Activities happen out of doors, we protect ourselves from the "critters" outside with the appropriate "bug dope" or Mosquito repellent. There is NO such thing as BEAR Repellent. Mosquitoes take bites out of us, I can deal with that., BEARS take chunks and they aren't leaving us there to "come back later for another pint of blood" or "saving some for later".


On with the critter count, so last night I'm sitting here "working" OK so I was surfing, and reading everyone else's work but I was on a computer. OK so yes I was virtual Gardening with the mrsblupete and I hear this noise. I almost sounds like a cross between a child screaming or a very female person being attacked. I rush to the window and thinking GREAT!!! now something else to clean up, some one is walking down my street (yes we get teens walking the streets at 1am) and they are being attacked by the critter that left the large pile of evidence? I'm not sure what it is, more crying/screaming but no way am I opening that door. I close the living room window and head for the bedroom Hubbie is standing at the window looking out. He's telling me to "shhhhhh" and of course, inserting various points and ehhhhhhh? and finally we see it the BIGGEST Raccoon I've ever seen is climbing down my birch tree and heading towards the house. I do not even want to know why it was screaming at the top of it's lungs and what it thinks was chasing it, I shut everything off, lights computers, and crawled under my bed clothes for the night, nice and dark and safe, until morning when the indoor critters decided 630am was getting up time.

I would just like to say that I'm Jealous of people that live in cities that don't have Large Piles of Evidence on their front lawns.

HASAY! And now for the hormonal Flux

This is the part I really hate about being over 35+, I get flux, lots and lots of flux. I can eat normal and less then usual and all of a sudden BAM the scales say "ah ah ah, you've been naughty". I can tell exactly the moment it happens. Some times it comes with me laying an eggs and that feeling of "OMG how it is ever possible for anyone to get pregnant if laying eggs feels like this??" so this week there is a gain. 4lbs! I'll have to wait for Wednesday to see if I manged to get everything back to an even keel. Even would make me happy. As for the trip to the store mentioned Friday, I got me Diet coke and baked chips and shared with the boys. I called it their after school snack and that leaves very little for me because apparently they are STARVING TO DEATH when they get home.
The exercise needs to get better around here, The Wii-Fit is fun but there are other things getting in the way that are more fun. It's very easy for me to sit here and read instead of write or work, and it's very easy for me to find my way back to the kitchen, which as you know doesn't count as exercise because uh the food is in the kitchen. So this week my plan is to move more. If you see me over commenting remind me I said this?
Oh I did pump up a volleyball this weekend so I'm hoping to get the net set up while the boys are in school today, got to get these things done while my audience is smaller. One boy watching and handing me pegs is much easier then 3 boys getting all excited and saying "is it done yet?" I wonder if I can manage to get this done if I leave MJ in here watching a movie... with the doors open I can probably hear him getting into trouble? then again trouble happens less when he's directly in my sights. Right now he's all upset because the DVD doesn't work and our antenna is not accepting any channels today. There must be some weather on the way? I'll have to check my Wii weather, that should start me being all into using the thing.
Another joy of the weekend? my Kettle Broke, I plugged it in and POP! spark, oops! well it was 14yrs old. You can't expect a Kettle to work forever, but oh I miss my tea. I pulled a pot out of the cupboard and boiled my water in that. I think it's time for me to scan the shelves at Value Village and find me a old thick Pyrex teapot! the kinds that has that really sturdy handle? In the last 4 months I lost a tea pot (boiled dry and melted the cover) and this Kettle, maybe it's a sign? Is there such a thing as too much tea?I know too much coffee almost killed me, too much diet coke isn't good for my brain, so maybe too much tea causes forgetfulness? I guess it's possible since I've dry boiled the pot and kettle a few times before they popped? Time for a new Kettle, one of those shuts itself off after the water boils ones.
OK off to d my arm workout with the clothes line, pull pull pull, hang hang hang, push push push, hang hang hang, push push push. OK it's a stretch but house work is WORK! I blame the hormones! and the heat, it's been hot here.

If you have no clue what that HASAY is go visit Casey, give you the details! and she can even scale a roof like no one's business.!