Buy me Some Peanuts and Crackerjacks

Heritage Day dawned hot and humid with temps near 100 and no electricity- at least no electricity back in our small corner of Jackson Acres in Deltaville.  The lack of power, and therefore, the lack of AC, nearly sent me driving home earlier than planned.  But then I would have missed out on meeting up with Chesapeake Bay Woman- blogger extraordinaire.

We met up in the parking lot of the Deltaville Ballpark much like we did a couple of years ago when we met for the first time.  This time, I wasn't forced to drink wine out of a dirty Big Gulp cup.  I actually had a single serving bottle of wine. 

The game started and we admired the crab pot wire that was used to protect the fans from foul balls.  It's probably the only ball park that uses crab pot wire.  It's also an historical ball park in that it was built in the late 1940's (with help from my great-grandfather). You can check out these other posts about the Deltaville Ballpark here and here.

At one point we retired to the parking lot for some refreshments.

Please note this is not the single serving bottle of wine

It was at this time that Midge and I were admiring Waterman JP's very clean truck.  This discussion about his very clean truck lead to conversation about folding underwear.  In my world, that isn't such a leap.  It all speaks to anal retentiveness OCD tendencies being neat.  All this talk of clean trucks and underwear meant that Midge took it upon herself to poll other people in the parking lot about whether or not they folded their underwear (I really don't know where she gets it). 

This is the unsuspecting gentleman in the parking lot that Midge asked about folding his underwear. 

Some poor former Tides player was grilled asked about his undies.  Turns out he folds them.  Waterman JP happened to have a clean pair in his truck and demonstrated the proper underwear folding technique.   The Tides player agreed that was the way he folded them, and I had to agree that was also how my boyfriend folded them.  I'm certain underwear folding is more of a man thing.

 We went back into the game and spent the remaining 90 7 innings critiquing the game.  The Deltas unfortunately lost in extra innings.  I found it interesting that during the time we spent in the parking lot discussing underwear, the Deltas were winning 3-1 but once we returned they began to decline.

Maybe we were too distracting.

Day 26: Your Dream Wedding

I've rewritten this post more times than I've been married.  I've been married twice.  The first time I was 18 and got hitched in a quickie wedding chapel in Dillon, SC with 140+ other couples.  I wore a skin tight crushed red velvet dress and looked like a hooker.  Thankfully, there are no more photos (I hope).  The second, while more traditional, didn't really meet my expectations. But the cake was good.

I don't really know what the heck is down the road for me at this point, and I'm okay with that.  I think the "dream" is to see where life takes me without worrying about it. And in the event that I find myself in a situation where I can dream up something, I think mostly I just want to face it without the trepidation of the last two and have the faith and confidence that I'm finely making the right choice.

Also, I'd like crab hats for everyone and wine.
And a rubber ducky float for each person in the wedding party.

   And a honeymoon, because even with 2 weddings I never got a honeymoon.

Day 24: Something I've Learned

* that I'm stronger than I thought
* that even when you feel totally alone, your family and friends are there for you
* that you aren't the only person going through whatever you're going through
* that eventually, great things happen
* that wine and crab hats make everything better

Day 14: A Picture of You Last Year

How have you changed?.... I've become more animated.

I'm the short one on the right

 Oh I crack me up.  To see the whole cartoon story go here.

Day 7: What Makes You Happy

This is how I view happiness:

The straight line would be what I would call "contentedness" with the peaks being the absolute highest happiness and the troughs being the lowest low.  Most people have many contented moods, not to high, not too low but just right.  When I think of "happy" that's what I think of.  So here's a list of things that make me feel warm, fuzzy, chipper and content:

*The sound of spring peepers
*Sitting in a chair on the beach with the sound of the waves and the sand on my toes
*A good book- read while under the covers on a cold night
*Stargazing
*Rain on a tin roof
*A spontaneous hug from my kids
*Getting a great photo
*Laughing
*Dancing to the radio
*Rubber Ducky floats
*Crab hats
* People in crab hats and/or rubber ducky floats or any other odd article of clothing
*Lunches/dinners/drinks with friends
*Baby chickens
*Ducks
*Throwing sticks for the dog so she can jump off the pier to retrieve them
*Working in the garden planting seeds
*Weeding the garden and seeing all that I've accomplished
*Riding a horse



But the number one things that makes me "happy" would be spending time in Deltaville/Mathews

Wordless Wednesday: Deltaville Year in Review

The Tornado:

 

Cleaning up the damage

 

Sailing the Piankatank

  

Hurricane Irene Preparedness

 .... here's to 2012 being something positive and filled with hope.

Monday Meditation

"Insane people are always sure they are fine.  It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy."

~Nora Ephron

I am in no way suggesting the individual shown
in this photo is crazy- quite the opposite.

"No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys"

~Doug Horton

Thinking about everyone down in the Tidewater region of VA. 

Hope you weathered Irene okay and are powered up soon!

Monday Meditation

"When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused."

~Rainer Maria Rilke

Hijinx in Mathews County

I had the good fortune of being able to attend the to-do over at Chesapeake Bay Woman's house this past Saturday.  As promised, there was food in the form of Noe Noe's famous Shrimp Bawl and a salad prepared by CBMumma with lettuce from her garden.

Noe Noe hamming it up with an actual

 Womanless Beauty Pageant Contestant in the background

(CBW gets all the local celebrities at her parties)

Somehow the theme of the evening went from "man-pigs" to "everyone must wear a hat". 
There were funky cowboy hats, coonskin caps, chef hats...

 Sombreros...

and of course crab hats.

Here were have DJ Jazzy J and the Fresh Princess... or Danielle Boone

Noe Noe has such a sparkling personality

CBMumma choosing flowers for our center piece. 

What you don't see is hiding behind that grass.

Love those fuzzy pink slippers!

Which also sport silver claws MEOW!

And because I love her, I respectfully did not post the video of Noe Noe's

strip tease which also features Baby Sis and a cast off belt.

WINE-ONE-ONE!

Today I am headed south to Deltaville for some much needed R&R.  While there I plan on heading over to Chesapeake Bay Woman's place for a shindig that will include several other Blisters (blog+sister) from the area and maybe if we're lucky, some from out of town. 

I am certain there will be some of this:

(great food)

Some of this:

(because Chockit-shakes are sort of on the way to CBW's house

if I drive past her house then turn around and go back to her house)

Some of this:

(people in crab hats though not in the water because I like CBW and wouldn't want her to get hypothermia)

Some of this:

(great friends and people running around saying things like "O-M-G!" and "Oh HELL yeah!")

and a whole lotta this:

See y'all Monday once I've returned and recovered.

(with hopefully lots of new photos and blog post ideas)