Kinda quiet around here

I'm thinkin' it might not be just a Fawteen thing.

Sweet Pea's been on some kinda kick since she got home. Not sure what it's about, but she bought a simple curtain to cover the venetian blind in her bedroom. Fine, she does keep some odd hours, so less light in the room is okay. The window's on the north side of the house, so maybe it'll even help with any drafts over the winter. It's her room, doesn't really matter to me. Our own bedroom is pretty dark in the daytime, too.

So I get up this morning, and the venetian blinds are all lowered and closed on the kitchen windows and even the back door and the thermal curtains are drawn over the double doors in the living room. The venetian blind behind the curtain in the bathroom is louvered shut. A bright, sunshiny morning and the whole place is dark as a tomb.

I guess in her absence, Sweet Pea has developed this thing about folks lookin' in the windows??? Mind, we're out in the country. No windows at all on the south side, no direct views from anywhere into the house from the front or the north. And the rear? There's a ridge about 3/4 mile back where a hunter with a really good scope might get a peek. Other than that, there's the peak of Mt. Waldo about a mile and a half off, and we all know what kind of folks might four-wheel up to the top of that!

So here just a short while ago I obediently answer Miss Karee's call to "Come here." She's quite short, so she needed me take down the rod holding the little valance/skirt at the top of the blinds on the back door. So I'm thinkin' she wants to wash all the kitchen curtains. But out she comes with this dark blue curtain to go up in its place. About a foot of it draggin' the floor, and she starts holdin' up the bottom, sayin' she's gonna have her mother shorten it up, and aks me how long I want it. I THANKED HER for askin', but allowed as how I didn't really want it at all.

I took the dog to the vet today for a booster shot of some sort and to have her nails trimmed. She seems to have forgotten all about it already, so I may still have a friend around here.

This was supposed to be on another board.

Sorry 'bout that!

Dang!! Thanks for the "oops" post. I thought I had wandered into a Lydia Pinkham's forum !! I gotta quit driftin' off.

Howdy
Many years ago a guy named Mel Ellis, a sports writer, wrote a column about his home and family in southern Wi., it was called Notes From Little Lakes. He had a kinda different writing style. I often had a hard time keeping track of characters as he intermixed stories of the kids and animals and the animals all had people names like, "Kim and Mary stopped in this morning for a visit , stayed long enough for a drink of fresh water and had to leave, they have been coming to the creek every morning for almost 6 months now." Next line would tell something about the kids.
Your post reminded me of old Mel, a good writer, wrote a lot for various outdoor mags.
Bob S.

I wanna know what kind of folks 4 wheel up Mt Waldo and should I be puttin kertins in the windas ova heah.