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Tuesday, August 05, 2008

dunegrass(first weekend aug 08)

Here are some pics of Dunegrass in Empire MI.Sleeping bear dunes(state park?)

DH and Mia front and center during moe.

dunegrass sign

Sand scultpture
4th of july

We went to ROTHBURY. here are some pic's. Btw, none of us are in any of these.

Some people clearing out Monday morning

Sherwood forest during the day

the guy who sat naked for ten minutes and let peeps come and take pic's w/ him.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

an ok weekend and suicide

ROTHBURY festival, a first year fest w/ about 40k people. 4th of july weekend. it was cool, tiring, boring. I am not sure how I feel about. Just Okay I think. DH and D are ready to run off too Allgood or Mile High or any fest coming up. Burning man would be my choice.
Myself, well I like to see the bands not just hear them. I am barely 5' tall and to see I had to be so far back the performers looked like ants or get up close and stand with too many peoples armpits at about my face level. and then hope to get a glimpse when the tall guy three rows up swayed. walking maybe a mile+- from camping to the farthest stage and then from stage to stage to stage and standing more and then walking again, going back to camp to get warm clothes for night and then doing it again. then come back and sleep get up and do it all over for 3 more days, it was tiring and exhilerating yet boring.
Bored, that is how I felt most of the time. I really wanted my daughter there. We got there about 6 thurs night, skiiped widespread panic & took her to the fireworks on friday( the fest was about 30 mins. from home). and were supposed to go get her sunday and take her to Colbie Callait. I didn't want her having to go in the porto potties once we were inside the main festival grounds(she's seven) she couldn't do the hover/balance thing to well and the walk back to camp would have been way to much(for everyone else-I would have rather done that than not have her there).
Plus I knew DH didn't want to go get her Sunday and possibly miss Rodrigo y Gabriella. He was already in no talk mode all day Saturday which meant he was very exhausted. Which with him means a short jump to absolute pain in the neck- and the kid would have set that right in motion the second she started whining about anything. I did not want to deal with two whining crabby people.
If I could have drove back and got her myself I would have but things weren't that way. If I could have ditched the guys and spent the whole weeekend with a 7year old I would have had a ~~good~~ much better time.
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Then we get home and the guy(the one who's wife just ran off) that was watching the dogs was asleep in the chair in the comp room with a bottle of pills spilled all around him and some beers on his table. this was monday about 1:30. Tuesday I poured ice water on him and tormented him with a scratchy old straw broom but he still wouldn't wake up. At Lunch hour we called the ambulance. They took him to the hospital and weren't sure whether he would come out of it or not. The info i have from him is thast he did try to off himself. It was so effing rude of him to do that in our house. He told DH that he wanted somebody to find him. Re-Tard-Ed. Seems more like a try for attention because if he did want to do himself in he would have used some whiskey and not beer And would have went where nobody could find him.
Wtf, when he is back to being out of the hospital I can't wait to tel him what a douchebag I think he is for doing that in my house. He didn't even clean up his kids messes or their dishes before trying it.
Okay so maybe that is selfish on my part but I don't care. I am selfish.I don't like people who cause things to happen that are negative. Or who leave dirty dishes. Or who don't watch there kids well enough. I even left a note when we left that said Please Do NOT let your kids trash my house.
The girl all of this happened over is a dirty, sleazy nasty skanky dirtee ho-bag. We've all known it for years. He just don't seem to get it.
good enough for now.

Saturday, June 21, 2008

well/pump repaired maybe

The other day the guy who said I needed a new well came and put a new diaphragm in the pump. Water pressure is back up but I am still saving my tubs of water just in case.

The second time the well guy was here I was out in the pump room watching him and he noticed a mild dripping leak. He said the pump casing probably had a crack. I looked at it hunted down the leak and I told him it was the diaphragm. He asked if I wanted him to order one. Well of course. I am not putting a new well in if it's only a $10 part. Sheesh!.(Mia read this and said "yeah right I'm not gonna pay that much!") kids so funny.

A week later the pump lost prime for about the 5th time and when I got it pressured up I noticed the tiny hole that lets the diaphragm breath had water shooting out of it instead of just dripping. So I shut down the power to the pump called the guy and left him a message that I needed the part NOW. That was on a Friday, on Monday he stopped into my work( I wasn't there yet) and dropped off an estimate for the well DH was at work but I was still home DH told him I was home and he could come talk to me but he said he didn't want to. DH told him we needed the part and he said it would be in that afternoon. The next day he came and put in the diaphragm. Of course first he called the shop and talked to DH because "he knew I was mad at him" Yeah right, mad, why bother. What did he think I was going to do yell, scream and stomp my feet in protest of his procrastination.

When I was first having trouble with all this I called my brother and asked him some questions knowing he had just done some pump stuff at his house, My bro told me to hire some one who had already made their money and that he had never heard of a screen in the well having a capsule around it by sand/or some thing. I called another place and talked to the lady that answered the phone and she said she had never heard of that either(but she wasn't the person who actually worked on the stuff). Still if you work a in a business you usually know th general issues of that biz. I did find some capsule stuff online but only one or two references to it.

I am glad (so far) that I hesitated and didn't put in the well right away(not that I could afford it anyway) but I just had a feeling I didn't need a new well. Especially since we had a new screen put in back in october 07.

I wonder if the guy just didn't know what was wrong or if he was trying to make some money, or of the pump will keep losing prime.

I guess only time will tell.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

My poor old diamond

Poor old girl. She's at least 14yrs old. I took her to the vet today to get his opinion on whether I should euthanize her or not. The vet wasn't very helpful, he said(in different words) that it would be justified or some similiar opinion. After my dog Billy died I said I would never make a dog suffer again. I waited at least 6 mo. to(o) long with Bill. Throughout last winter I kept saying we'd put her down in the summer. Now I keep thinking before the ground freezes. She's so happy still most of the time. geriatric yes but happy and energetic too. She has some medical problems. Nate (who's 8yrs old) likes to go after her throat sometimes, I remember Diamond doing that to Billy when he got old. Is it a sign? Possibly like the strong trying to take out the sick and weak to make the pack stronger I don't know. I guess if I don't "feel" it being the right time it must not be.