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7 YEARS where did the time go? Well it was stolen by a place called work & Boise State. Jake planned a nice getaway for us this weekend to McCall. I have to eat food about every four hours or else I get really cranky. So we stopped in Weiser at the local A&W and watched the colorful people come in & out of the place. I loved the A&W! 1. The "from the tap" Root Beer in a frosty mug...and that's about it. However, this location had an actual telephone that you placed your order through...really old school.

My not so happy face, I don't like to be seen eating.

We stayed in a bed & breakfast about an hour outside of McCall. It was very interesting...to say the least. It was out in the middle of no-mans land & when we arrived no one was home, but the front door was wide open with the TV blaring. About twenty minutes later a Mercedes came wheeling up the drive way with two dogs & a lady who by the way looked like the ranger off of Open Season. A skinny lady who looked like she lived off of tofu wearing a big straw hat.

The place was all decked out in the usual western attire...I had never seen so many animals skins in all my life. At least there was no animal heads on the walls.

Our room was really nice..lots of wood..it was like sleeping in a varnished forest. There was even some homemade chocolate left on our bed. As the evening progressed we thought our hostess would retire for the night....nope. She managed to talk to my husband and I until 1 in the morning & drink quite a few glasses of wine. By the early morning anything we said was wonderful & funny to her. She did make up for it at breakfast, the omelets she made were amazing. I have never had anything like it.

To say the least we were BORED to death in McCall. We try to make the best out of every situation....so we just made fun of people and the tourist attractions. I guess we are not up to par with the upper class crowd. I saw a lot of fake tans and wrinkled old women who would be described as "desperate" housewives. No one said hello and everyone was at the local art show for he afternoon. The art show consisted of singing hippies and lots of beaded jewelry. I got in trouble because I tried to bring my root beer into a store but oh no that's not allowed... I'm sorry lady but your cheesy shirts that say McCall are really ugly they could use a few root beer smudges & some more fake crystals & sequins glued to them!

We did spend some time at the lake, which was very beautiful. Then we were out of there.

Some might say we are the happiest couple in the world. Come to my house on a weekday after we have paid bills, worked all day & driven through traffic..oh not so happy now. We are the craziest couple. Total polar opposites not to mention my bi-polar moods every once in awhile. Which I think every wife experiences...one misplaced dirty sock can send you wheeling into a total outrage. While one kiss on the cheek can bring you back down to a peaceful haven. We "compliment" each other like Ketchup & mustard, Peanut Butter & Jelly, Toast & Jam. Some days the toast gets burnt, the jam is too sweet or you fall on the floor jelly side down. Through the past seven years we have been through a lot. We have cried, lost loved ones, experienced disappointments, yelled, slammed doors, thrown things, said hurtful things but in the end laughed until we cried. Humor whether appropriate or not in certain situations has pulled us from the depths of hell & back.

I could not have done it without my best friend, & his name is Jake.

B-lated Birthday Cake

I love CAKE!

After much sickness I finally got to eat my birthday cake.

Thank You Jake!

Peanut Butter....

Giving my dog a bath or brushing him is impossible. I swear he has ADA. My only weapon for the stinky beast: PEANUT BUTTER. What am I going to do when I have children? I have it timed...I place peanut butter in his Kong and I have exactly 7 minutes to brush him.

Birthday Sequel

Jake: Hmmmm what to get Leslie for her Birthday?

Jake was feeling so bad that I was sick on my birthday and I still wasn't up to full speed so one of our favorite wasting-time activities is....wandering around Target..If you were thinking of Walmart shame on you...we HATE Walmart. We meandered around until we happened to stubble into the shoe department. Already my spirits were lifted! Then I saw them....Ahhhhhh and a pillar of light landed on the beauties....The purple suede flats. Jake had not gotten me a gift yet so he saw the sparkle in my eye & knew this was his only chance to give me the perfect gift and redeem himself. Just kidding it really didn't go down that way:

Jake: Oh I'm sorry sugar for not getting you anything...

Leslie: Oh look at these cute shoes....

Jake: Do you like those?

Leslie: Yes, very much & they are only $12

Jake: Then here ya go, have them, Happy Birthday Sugar.

Next time when he is desperate to find a gift last minute I'll remember to select the big flat screen TV.

Jake kept petting my shoes....

We finished off the night with dinner at yet another one of my favorite places, Red Robin. All you can drink lemonade.

I threatened Jake that if he told the waiter that it was my birthday he would not live to see the sunrise tomorrow. I did not want to stand on my chair with balloons tied around my head while people sang happy birthday to me. Jake chose wisely that evening.

Happy Birthday to ME

Ah another year older. I won't tell you how old you can figure that out yourself. It was a very interesting Birthday this year. Work had food brought in from On the Border....well let's say Leslie was on the Border of near death. Food Poisoning here we come...real nice the day before my birthday. Great present to hug the porcelain throne while wearing your birthday crown. Jake was great he always tries to make the best of every crappy situtaion {no pun intended} which sometimes drives me to complete madness. So here's my Birthday weekend Jake Style:


Oh I know...an Ore-Ida Patch for my killer Jacket...I'm an official Tater Tot now. How thoughtful Honey?

Olive Garden!

Side note: Even though I was totally nauseated and feeling like crap, hence my "ugly headshot" of bed-head I still felt like wolfing down some soup, salad & breadsticks at Olive Garden.

To be continued........

Good Ol' Blackberries

The "Boys" favorite thing to do during the summer time...pick blackberries. These are right in the park near our house. Clyde loves to eat them right off the bush. I think they are wretched things. Nasty thorns that cut up your hands. I do have a deal with Jake that if he picks them I will make him a homemade Blackberry pie.

Tomato Plant on Steroids

We decided this year that we were going to"grow" a garden. Well here's how it all went down.....We started with 1 Tomato plant, a Blackberry plant (it was more of a stick with a few leaves on it), four Cucumber plants and 12 Raspberry starts.

I see some people's gardens with no weeds the soil looks freshly dug and all of their plants are huge and green. They spend countless hours tending to their garden to ensure a large harvest. Well, I've decided gardening sucks and here's why:

12 Raspberry plants: We bought a huge bucket of expensive plant food, we had the soil nicely broken up, watered and juiced up with plant steroids. We made sure all the weeds were pulled and that Clyde didn't pee on the new raspberry starts. All 12 plants died within 24 hours.

100% work = zero results

1 Blackberry plant: This thing was pathetic. A stick with four leaves and Jake expected it to have blackberries...well it had about five blackberries all of which Clyde ate. The plant did survive with three leaves remaining.

75% work = 25% results

4 Cucumber plants: I made sure to plant them in a mound like my mother does... watered them every so often..then we forgot about them for about two weeks...revived them with some water a few weeks later leaving us with...two plants. Ok better odds then the first plant. We did have some good tasting cucumbers but we must have had some left over drugs in the soil from the previous owners. Our cucumbers were so miss-shaped.

50 % work = 75% results

Hmm...so with a little bit of neglect we at least got some plants to survive and produce something..which leaves us with the Tomato plant.

1 Tomato Plant: We planted it in a random corner of the yard, we let the weeds co-exist with it heck they were even choking the poor tomato plant. Maybe watered it a few times. Then completely forgot about it.

....the plant grew over five feet tall.

..and produced over FIFTY tomatoes in one picking.

5% work = 110% results

Who says you have to tend your garden...it kind of denounces you reap what you sow...a little bit of neglect with a touch of water can go a long ways. Eat your heart out Martha Stewart.

Uh-oh Jake is going to be Jealous....

Cliff Hawkes is the sweetest old man. Cliff lives on the other side of our block and he is always bringing us fish or things from his garden. So we always return the favor with a home cooked meal. He even made ME a cake....he's 92!

GET OUT OF MY FACE

Can you tell that I was madder then HELL in this photo? When I get pissed off I like to be left alone until I cool off or else someones face will be ripped off. Jake knows I HATE earwigs...so he thought it would be funny to shape my hair into the shape of an earwigs rear end.

Thanks Honey....nothing says love like an ugly hair-do.