Jake, Lunch, and Sports

Hi! Okay, I'm going to fly thru this blog posting since I know I'm gonna touch on alot of different topics tonight. First off, real quick, to make sure we are all on the same page as to know who I am. I'm a social butterfly who loves to go out socializing and if it involves a sports topic, well, I'm sold on it. LOL! I've been dappling (yeah right), okay, more like seriously hooked on the ESPN "Streak for the Cash" (don't let your imagination get away from you here), it's a series of professional sports game that are lined up for you to choose the team that will win. So, the point of the game is to picking winners of games and build a streak of wins. I have been addicted to game since Oct 2009 (yeah, 2009, that's not a typo LOL!) and still today, I hit up the website at a of minimum 3 times a day to work on building my streak (yes, it's free). Here's My Profile on that site to let you see what the heck I'm talking about :) So for all of you that don't care about sports, you can just jump down to the next paragraph (hmmmm, should of said that in the beginning huh) LOL!

Okay moving on! Let's hop over to what I did this morning. I met up with my walking group and brought some company with me. Yep, a little someone wanted to walk with me this morning at 41 degrees out, that might of seemed cold out, but the sun really helped alot to feel warm. Don't think I didn't debate about bring him out with me. I thought for sure I would have to carry him half way thru the walk (maybe I don't give him enough credit). He was great, a real trooper! :) Our walk started at a recreational building and walked towards a cemetery and back. I didn't feel like walking around in the cemetery and since this was Jake's first walk (literary his first walk before noon - spoiled brat), he handled it well, and lead the way the whole time. We walked to the cemetery and turned around to return to the car (two blocks north, around the block, and two blocks south (back to the car) took 36 minutes. It was great getting out of the house this morning and getting some fresh air with Jake. All these pictures were taken with my Blackberry, but they  didn't come out too too bad at all. When we got back home, Jake was tired and decided to take advantage of his hammock on the porch.

Time for my morning nap after my walkies :)

Staying in the order that my day was moving in, I decided to clean out the inside of my car. Everything that comes thru the front seat in my hands gets flinged to the back seat. Old mail, magazines, empty cups, Dunkin Donuts paper bags, oh yeah, a real mess.......I try not to let it take over the car, so I have to fight back and get some plastic bags to clean up the car every once in a while. I mean, this time it has gotten to the point that no one could sit in the back seat. I had books, mail, magazines, blankets, two sweatshirts (you know, you take them off when you don't need them anymore and swing them onto the back seat.) Yep, me, guilt! :) So I cleaned it all out, nothing went back in except Jake bed and his seat belt harness, a leash, and a long lost umbrella that I finally found in that SUV. Of course I got a picture........ :)

Yes, this was taken with my Blackberry, but I had to show you! :)
See that "What am I doing in the back seat?" look right there LOL!

Moving on, I had the pleasure of having lunch with friend today. I always look forward to this outing since anyone can get a hold of anyone via email and texting, but when it comes to actually taking time out of your day to physically spend quality time with someone.......yeah, it's called Friendship. We both may be busy (well more busy on my part), but to make the commitment to say "No matter what, we will have lunch once a month to play catch up on what's going on now" And let me tell you, my "now" changes every month. "Now" I'm doing this, "Now" I'm doing that, "Now I'm playing poker" "Now I won tickets to "BlogPaws 2012 in Salt Lake City" and I want to tell you all about it in person NOW. The friendship that can't be replaced by any email service in the world, is the friendship I cherish. SO, we went to lunch today (our October lunch) :) and the conversation just flowed and flowed and we even ordered dessert without a second thought. Lots of laughing, and more laughing! Out lunch outings never seem to last less than 3 hours. Talking, talking, and more talking. I love it! :) Oh, I did mention dessert right.......

So I'll end with that dessert picture. it was delicious. Guilt-free! LOL! Hope you have a great night, bug you tomorrow! :)

Manchester Community Meeting

Once a month the city of Manchester has a community gathering at a local restaurant (the restaurant closes at 2pm and opens only for our meeting at 7pm once a month). Well, tonight, there was ice cream social before the meeting. First off, when I got there, I swear this horse was posing for this picture......

"Haha! Go ahead and take the picture, I'm ready!"

"Okay, I'll behave now. Neeiiigh!"

Okay, moving on......the ice cream social was sponsored by a local restaurant called the Puritan Backroom. They have good ice cream there and they brought five flavors tonight.

Which one.....Wait! I want some of each....

There's my mess.... :)

Our mayor was there to answer questions from the public. There was questions about trash pick up, graffiti, and construction (When the heck was the Kelley Street bridge going to be done? Mr. Mayor said December)......

Our Mayor Ted Gatsas was there

Since we walked there (we live in the local neighborhood), I snapped some pictures of some flowers we came across on our walk home.

Other than that, my night was quiet, TV for the rest of the night and I didn't spend a dime today......Bug you all tomorrow! :)

Last Night and Today

I'll put what we did last night in this blog along with what we did so far today! :)

Last night we went to a little ice cream shop a little drive away from where we live........I love soft vanilla ice cream and splurge a tad on the rainbow jimmies......it was a little pricey at $3.54, but I know it's the "season".......of course I got a picture.....

Another wonderful Blackberry picture.....it was melting fast!

After getting ice cream, we drove over to the boat launch ramp and watched the boats drive by on the river. There's tiny park there, so we walked Jake around....

He's looking happy tonight......naturally! :)

Oh, I think he found something......

What's in there????

In the evening, there's quite some action with people taking their boats out of the water.......alot of drivers have a hard time backing an empty trailer down the ramp to collect their boat.....

Many people have their boats in the water

Some people bringing their boats in towards the ramp

 

People getting ready to bring their boats out of the water

Like this picture below who I was there when the driver cranked the steering wheel so far to the right and jack knifed the truck and trailer, picking up the trailer's right side off the ground with the help of the rear bumper.......see I got a picture of the dent on the bumper........

See the dent in the bumper.....that's from jack knifing the trailer into it

Okay, the driver finally made it with no additional damages....

Okay, this morning we woke up a little cause we knew it was going to be super hot out later this morning and this afternoon.......so we went blueberry picking in Goffstown again......I ate the rest of the blueberries we previously picked, so it was time to go back.......

This is the place in Goffstown that we go blueberry picking

We park and go here to get our buckets to go picking

So many blueberries.....so little time..... :)

Where do we start picking??

I think I'll take some of these......

And some of these.....

Plenty to pick.....didn't take us long....

We come back to the little shed and cash out.....

Last time we got 3 pounds, this time we got almost 5 1/2 pounds!

 Then after we got home from blueberry picking, Jake needed a bath (no his choice, mine LOL) so in the tub he went.......not a happy camper at all......he doesn't like baths.......he cringes even at the word "Bath"

"Are you going to help me get out of here?"

"I wonder how much longer this will take?"

"Okay, I did my time.......let me out!!!   I'm soaked!!"

"I smell pretty good, but I hate being clean....."

"Yeah, we really done?"

So that is our day today so far.......tonight there is an Ice Cream social for the neighborhood at a local restaurant (walking distance), so we will be going there tonight around 7pm. Until then I'll be on the sofa watching TV and relaxing......bug ya later! :)