The Critters....

I think all three of the house critters instigate and help in the trouble making dept! Mo keeps a keen eye on Buddy and Mou keeps an eye on all! Monkey see Monkey do....would make it cat/dog...but it would be alot longer saying since each one starts trouble...lol...love um though. I usually dont let cats get on computer, but today I decided I would take pics...in case my memory fails (and to put on simonscat.com)and THEN scold Mou..The look on there faces know they have been caught!...the toy Buddy is after is really for the cats. Buddy has the time of his life with it...plastic ball with a bell ball inside. On the parkay floor it and him really move!

Sigh...

Sorry guys...alergy season...really feel like I got the flu...w/o being sick...cough,cough,cough...see...thats what its like! cya soon..

COUNTING DOWN THE DAYS.....SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED AFTER 35 YEARS OF "SOMETHING

" ALWAYS PREVENTING ME FROM SEEING VAN HALEN, THE 22ND OF JUNE IS ALMOST HERE!!! WHOOP...WHOOP...THIS SHOWS JUST HOW MUCH A FAN I REALLY AM! VH4EVR

MEMORIAL WEEKEND....

As i sit here trying to wake up, having my first cup of coffee (just a lil almond joy creamer, Doc...its less than a teaspoon!)telling the critters NO for the 18th hundred time,its either NO or DOWN this early, my vocabulary doesnt function well till "after" coffee....Oh yeah....I sit here thinking our past and present service men/women for served or fought for our country. I wanted to be a Marine, made it up to the point of loosing 5 lbs, but thats another story. Looking back now I would of made a terrible Marine....the first time a DI looked crossed eyed at me I would of burst in to tears! Jeanne says its just us Sockwell girls being "passionate" about something. Its a terrible trate to have...crying over the slightest thing...just like Daddy was. Oh and speaking of Daddy...he was a Vet and served in WWII. He did not see any fighting but was an instructor. When I was older (wanting to be a Marine) I asked him if he could still bark like a DI....boy did I get a big grin out of him....sure enough....out came this command that made me have goose bumps on my arms. Soooo cool sounding (another side of my dad I never saw)...guess asking him to do it at 10pm was not cool cause we woke up Mom, who was not so cool! Over the years my Sisters and I heard many stories about his service, commissions lost, commanders so and so (%@@$%##%#@$%...were those names or just names he had for them?), Love letters sent back in forth between my parents while Dad was stationed away from Mom....Dad even asked Mom to marry him through Western Union...(sigh...)real romance! Daddy looked real handsome in his uniforms, even the one of him in the pilots skull cap thingie. Before Dad passed away he wanted his uniform to go to a responsible person in the family who would care about it and pass it down to the next generation. After Dad died I decided on Dads Great Grandson Brandon Long. My prior conversations with his dad, Stace Long, my oldest sisters son, left me with the impression he would be the best one to choose. My sisters and I have a few medals from the uniform and left some on. When I pass I have instructed to pass the medals (i have) on to Brandon for more of a complete uniform to pass down. (Jeanne: Why did we take them...we have sooooo many memories of Daddy and now I believe, you may not, but i think they should go with the uniform...let me know in an email). I dont ever remember thanking him for protecting/serving our country in whatever way he did...I remember him thanking service people he would see when we were out and about....OMG...and then the conversation these poor people would get stuck in...lol...Dad loved to talk...If he was calling a company (example) and you got my Dad...sorry....you had work to do I am sure...but Daddy needed someone to talk to sometimes and you got his call! Loved talkin about the past. I will never see what my Dad has seen in my lifetime...from going across the pasture on horseback to make a business deal, with his dad, with just a "hand shake" (a mans word was worth something then i guess) to the WWs, moon landing, microwaves, computers, TV...too much stuff to mention all! It's just amazing what he saw in his life. Believed in God, Family and the Government. Towards the end "I" do not believe in our Government...but thats another post! "Thank you" Daddy and all the service men and women, past and present that served or protected our United States of America! from #4...p.s. I never wanna know what it is like to live in a dictatorship/communist country...so again, I THANK YOU!