Another 365er.

You guys know this place...

Grass River, the kids and I love it here.

I have more 365 project pictures  and I thought it might be fun to post them here.

I wanted to take the kids, but this was the day it was over 100 degrees in Northern Michigan. We were wimps and stayed home. I can't even tell how hot these people are, they did a wonderful job!

Alright, I am much calmer and a little cooler today.

I probably did over react a little bit. I'm not sorry I said anything though. I am sorry however that I mass massaged everyone since I'm not sure the issue deserved the attention I asked for.  So I learned a lesson... When I'm upset I will step away from the mass message button.

You guys were great  and you made me feel a little better, even the few who thought I was wrong.

I probably should have divulged  that when I was younger, my little sister had her head split open by kids throwing "stuff" in the water when we were at summer camp one year. She had to get stitches,  I don't remember how many, I am sure she does.

ANYWAY...

Moving on.

I get to see @Seedsower soon! Tomorrow!

She is taking a little side trip to go to a flea market with me before she and @SaintVI take off on their epic journey. Route66.

I am so excited!

Can you tell?  

Here's the scenario:

I'm at the beach (of course, It's 100 degrees out!) with the kids and dog.

A group of firemen show up and put a rescue dingy in the water, some of them zoom off to help a capsized boat, some of them are standing on the shore with the trailer the dingy was on and some of them are at the end of a long dock out in the water.

A group of about ten young boys show up and wade into the water, mixing with the other kids at the beach, mine included.

At first all of the play is nice and good, a little tag , some jumping on shoulders... 

 then I see the first handful of mud fly.

At first I thought, okay call my kids away, I did... Then more mud flies.

Other parents are standing around and watching, waiting for the boys parents to say something...

Very quickly it becomes obvious their parents aren't there...

There is a group of four firemen standing by a boat trailer with all of this happening in front of them, they are watching it all unfold, just standing there...

I yell at the kids " Are your parent's here?!" To which one replies no... as more mud goes flying through the air.

This time I yell... "STOP THROWING MUD!" of course I'm ignored.

The mud throwing continues, but now everyone is also looking at the crazy lady who is wading in the water yelling at the kids to stop throwing fistfuls of mud.

I am fuming watching the firemen just stand there... I go up to them and say "Aren't you going to say something?"

To which one guy said "Where are their parents?" I said "I don't think they're here."

Then, this is what set me off... One of them looked at me and said "It's not my job."

To which, I can't believe I have this much bitch in me, but apparently I do...

I said

"Your a fireman! So what, it's your job to wait until one of them get  their head cracked open by a rock and THEN when there's  blood streaming down their head, then it's your job?"

At least I think that's what I said... I am still a little foggy from the bitchiness that had over taken my brain cells.

They stared at me, I walked away, waited a few more minutes. Then  I watched one of the boys turning and wincing in pain as one of the other boys hit him in the back with a giant wad of mud...

I shouted one last time... "PLEASE STOP! Someone is going to get hurt."

The kids packed it in and as they got out of the water I saw one of the younger firemen take a couple of them aside and say something but I have no idea what.

Okay... I'm a little upset over this, more than a little. For the first time ever I am disappointed in the image/ ideal of a fireman.  I am probably over hormonal, maybe a little crabby from the heat...

I honestly don't know if I overreacted or not.

I guess my questions are these...

Would you have been upset with a group of kids throwing mud?

Would you have said anything if you were upset?

Would you expect an authority figure like a fireman to tell them to stop?

Three days now... Over and over... It's not that I don't like it... I do, but maybe if I share it I can move on to something new!

What's been playing in your head?

Seriously?!

Not once during the month of May? What's wrong with me?!

Usually I do a big all about ME birthday post and I didn't give even so much as a peep this year...

*sigh*

It's not that I don't want to, I do... really!

Life just doesn't feel all that interesting anymore, there's work and there's sleep...

See, not exciting at all.

Some day I will get excited again and just HAVE to share it, I know I will...

I hope.

Until then I leave with something that I see every morning...

Yeah, I guess it is kinda interesting.

I hope life is being good to YOU!

I know I am a terrible tease!

I tell you about meeting a star and then I don't share the juicy details...

(Calling them juicy is really taking some liberty, but I'm going to do it anyway.)

I don't know what happened, but the excitement faded. *sigh*

Maybe it will come again.

A friend of mine asked me to take some pictures of his band. 

 I tried... It went okay, but shooting in a big showroom under weird lighting, it didn't go as well as I would have liked. I tried.

 This is a few of the artsy ones that I liked... I got a lot of basic shots that were... ehhh...

I wish I hadn't been so slow on this one, too much blur, but for some reason I still like it. I think it's the expression on his face and the motion in the guitar and hand.

I know it's a cliche but it was fun shooting into the big spot light.

There were four other musicians in the band and I took shots of them too.

It was fun and I'd like to do it again, next time hopefully the lighting situation will be kinder to me!

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We stopped at the video store today and I was excited to see...

I have been waiting for this movie.

When Seedsower and I made our pilgrimage to the Xanga offices in NYC, (You can read about that here.) part of  ~All Good Things~ was being filmed at the hotel we were staying at!

. I was looking back at my blog sure that I had done a post on this, but I can't believe I didn't!

I must have pulsed it.

New York City 

picture post

food post

people post

(I did mention the movie in the people post.)

I can't wait to see it. All of the copies were checked out so I will have to.

Should I tell you about meeting  a star?

This is what Molly and I have been working on lately.

About ten minutes a day we go through her basics...

We pretty much have them down, she still needs a few manners lessons...

 I think our next fun trick is going to be bang and play dead.

Now if I can just get her to stop jumping up.

IT's so hard!

  When I come  home and a happy puppy meets  me at the door I just want to love her and squeeze her and love her... even if she is jumping on me. 

I know, I'm a bad girl.

Have you ever taught your pet a cool trick?