The Dog Days of Summer

Sadie is one of my dog sitting regulars, and we exercise a LOT when we're together. Since it's now too hot to go for walks in the afternoon, I decided to bring her over for a swim. She liked it more than I thought!

Three Wolf Moon Shirt

This is probably some of the funniest stuff I've read in a while. Amazon claims that this shirt is one of their best sellers now, and the hundreds of positive reviews prove it!

Be sure to page all the way to the bottom and read the reviews. VERY FUNNY.

http://www.amazon.com/Three-T-Shirt-Available-Various-Sizes/dp/B000NZW3IY/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

I Am The Jewelry Maker

I love turquoise. LOOOOVE turquoise. But it's not cheap and I can never find a pendant that is just right. Then I went to our new Michael's store at the mall and located the aisle where there are loads of beads and pendants. I've never made jewelry before (except the Geek Bling, made from a Pentium Processor) so I decided to give it a shot.
Not too shabby. I will be wearing my new creation, along with the matching bracelet, today!

Sweet Potato Pie

I highly recommend making sweet potato pie, if you're looking for a good, different kind of dessert. It'd actually not too difficult, the hardest part is NOT DROPPING IT ON THE FLOOR....

Tombstone. I'm Going There.

Steve and I visited Tombstone down in Southern Arizona a couple of years ago. I only had a crappy camera, so it was amazing that I got anything at all worth keeping. We just happened to be passing by the cemetary at sundown.

I love history, and I love visiting places like Tombstone that have the old courthouse, the old saloons, and, well, in this case an old livery stable where people were gunned down. What I can't stand are the hack re-enactors who stop everything so they can do a crappy performance of something that may or may not have happened. Tombstone has strict ordinances about the re-enactors, so they don't have that particular problem.

However, we have a town nearby called "Oatman," and it's about ten buildings on a hillside that developed in the 1800's when there was some mining in the area. It's an awful tourist attraction. The stores all have overpriced garbage, the food is expensive and meager, and they charge money for people to walk thru a two-room hotel that Clark Gable MAY have slept in. Of course there are signs everywhere stating that Clark Gable haunts the place. Oh, okay. Could they have been any more desperate and random? And the worst part about the whole place is the re-enactors who make a bunch of noise and block the only street in or out of town. They act as though they're drunk and they do a hideous job of reciting lines. Get real.

So. Back to Tombstone.
I am going to Tucson in October as a delegate for a Republican Women's convention. It's about an hour drive from Tombstone, and luckily it falls on the same weekend as the annual "Helldorado Days." It's when they commemorate the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. I am so there. I will most definitely be dressed as a saucy little cowgirl so I can pose for a picture in the saloon that Wyatt Earp owned. Yeeehaaaa!!!!