Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Oklahoma City in the eyes of Abby

Last summer I did a post on “Ruidoso in the eyes of Abby”.  She wanted me to write a post on “Oklahoma City in the eyes of Abby” tonight and this was how it went.

I had dad take a picture of mom and me getting my leash on.  I really wish they would hurry because it has been a long time since I had my last pee.  (Those eyes are scary)

As I was heading out the door I looked up at the street sign & saw lots of blue sky today.

Looks like a lot of activity this evening down the street. It must be trash day tomorrow.

I’m going to head across the street to one of my favorite spots for a pee.  It’s the Garlow’s yard. I miss Dan he passed away about a month ago and he would always give me a nice back rub.

We have some trees along this stretch of sidewalk and my favorite fire hydrant.

I like to smell & pee on all the flowers, lamppost and trees.

Oh look, they filled up the pool!  It opens over Memorial week-end.

I like walking down the green belt area because I usually get to see several of my friends. 

This is where that young pesky little female schnauzer, Paisley lives. I wonder where she is.

We’re going on down to one of my human friends.  This is Grant.  He always plays and pets me and this is where Paisley stays sometimes.  

Grant and Kay, his wife, are working in their yard this evening.  Dad sat down to talk a while.  We usually stop here and visit. 

Oh no! There she comes.  She has way too much energy but she is really cute.  I remember when I had that much energy. 

She always wants to play. I wish my mom would get me a pretty pink harness like hers.  I think I’ll play with her tonight.  I slept quite a bit this afternoon.

Paisley started eating dirt so Grant got a hold of her. I prefer the green grass myself but mom won’t let me eat it.

Then Paisley had to go set in her mom’s (Julie) lap.

It’s time to move along and get my business done. Thanks dad for cleaning up after me. 

I want to show you some other animals in my neighborhood in OKC.  We don’t have any bears but we have rabbits & frogs.

Smells like Truman has been by this mailbox. I don’t know how we missed him tonight but here is a good picture of my little friend.

I like to sniff the pansies and they are so pretty this spring. 

I’d like for you to meet Izzy.  She looks so cute with her summer haircut. 

I wish some of these houses would sell. We need some more dogs in this neighborhood.

OK we are making the turn towards home. 

Wait what is that between those two houses. Ducks!!  Don’t they know this is a gated community? How did they get in here?

I can’t believe my neighbors put their trashcans right in my walkway. 
 
Wait! Someone is barking at me.  It’s my next door neighbor, Rowdy.  He has that little man syndrome, lots of bark & aggression.  Kinda like me. I am getting better at that.  I’ve learned to pick my battles.

That was a really nice walk tonight.  I didn’t see everyone but I got to sniff quite a few butts. Thought I would show you some of our flowers in the front yard and our rabbit. 

Oh look who came walking by the house. This is my dear old friend, Charlie.  We have been friends a very long time. He is lots bigger than me and he comes and visits me in Ruidoso during the summer.  

Well, mom and dad are ready to go in for the evening and I am a little tired. Hope you enjoyed the tour. 

We’re going to watch “The Thunder” beat “The Mavericks” I hope. 
 We lost the 1st Game. Gotta win the next.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

My favorite website at the moment! Pinterest

Have you heard of this site called Pinterest ? I´m sure you have, but if not you should go have a look and sign up. It´s free.  Pinterest is a great place for creative people and bloggers to find inspiration. You can pin pictures from internet sites and collect them in your own folders, to keep for inspiration and you can share with others and see what they pin too. It´s simply just a picture universe, a treat for the eyes, a visual wonderland. So if you haven´t signed up yet you can do it here. It also is very addictive.

I use to buy lots of magazines. Then I would go home and dream about the ideas, crafts or foods that I wanted to try.  I usually would just save the magazines or maybe tear out the pages, hence I have stacks of magazine or notebooks full of ideas.  This is my new way to buy magazines and collect cookbooks and it's free.  But I spend alot of time on the site.  

Now I just need to use some of these ideas and get to work.   Check it out!





Tuesday, May 10, 2011

More in Vegas!

Tuesday Schedule in Vegas

I need to backtrack a little and tell about a problem that came up on Saturday.  Don discovered that he didn't bring all of his medicine.  He started trying to figure out what to do.  He decided to call Ricki and ask her to go to our house and pick up the medicine and then UPS it overnight to our hotel.  THANKS GOODNESS FOR RICKI!!  She keeps Abby when we are gone and solves a lot of problems for us.  He was to receive the package Tuesday morning.

I had a mission first thing. I needed to walk to the discount ticket office to pick up 6 tickets for Viva Elvis. Paula, Raymon, Susan and Shaun were going with us. Got them and headed back. Don stayed in room for medicine delivery. No medicine yet.  Then I walked to get us sandwiches for lunch.  No medicine yet.  Checked at the office, not yet.  Then had to walk to Avia Hotel's ticket counter that opened at noon to pick up real tickets for show that night.  Got back and he had gotten the package and all was good!!  I had walked a couple of miles by this time.

Our plan for today was to head to Red Rock Canyon, west of Vegas.  We met Paula and Raymond on the west side of town and they rode with us.  We drove to the visitor's center.  It was an outstanding one. 
This is Mojave Mac, the "Spokestortoise" for all the wild desert tortoises, a threatened species in the Mojave Dessert. 
Beautiful red mountains and views

The Canyon has a 12 miles scenic drive and lots of pull outs and hikes.  We made our first stop to hike and look for several geocaches. 

We headed out looking for a particular cache and took a few wrong turns and it took longer than we had expected.  When we did find the location we couldn't find the cache.  Bummer!!  By this time it was already late so we had to hustle to the car and make the drive through the canyon so we could get back to clean up and get to the Elvis show.

We made it and had a great time at the show.  We had Balcony seats but right in the front. Great seats!


Wednesday Schedule
We were heading to Valley of Fire with Paula and Raymond and started out about 9:00.  Valley of Fire was about 60 miles to the north and east of Vegas.  We found about 10 geocaches during the drive and hikes today.

As we drove into the Valley the beautiful red mountains rose up in front of us. An amazing site & the wild flowers were in full bloom.

We took several hikes to hunt caches and passed by numerous petroglyphs along the way. It was a little windy but the temperature was perfect for hikes, probably in the 70's.
The drive was long but the scenery was beautiful

Thursday Schedule

After two days in the car, Raymond was ready to get back to the casinos.  Paula took him to down to Fremont street for the day and met us at the hotel. We were driving towards Las Vegas Lake area and then Hoover Dam to see the new bridge. 
 Our climb up the hill to walk on the bridge at Hoover Dam

 Bridge Facts

 View of the old road across the Dam

Walk on the new bridge

 View of the new bridge

Girl's Lunch with Don

We had a great week in Vegas visiting with Paula and Raymond.