News from The Hollibaugh Horror House

Well my dears it has been a week here at the Hollibaugh Horror House!  Let me tell you a thing or two....first off the Chosen One showed up at the house with a DOG and a pretty little girl.  She says he polite and she likes that sort of thing.  Well he better be!  His mama is a self respecting southern bred woman who wouldn't be caught dead going to town without every hair in place and her face on too!  Much less even think of breeding a boy who was rude.  Why those are cussing words in this neck of the woods!  I remember a time when a boy being rude to a girl would earn him a black eye to say the least.  So to hear those words almost sent to me saute again!  But I stopped myself, didn't need to do all that when we had company, I could wait til later to bask in the memory, swirl it around like wine before you taste it!

And would you know in come bounding that DOG of the Chosen One's!  So that pretty much ended my conversation with the pretty little girl.  So she will be leaving tomorrow, headed back to Mass.  Sure hope she comes back to see me.  I say me because they are young and I try not to expect much these days.  So maybe just maybe we will get to finish our conversation someday.

My free spirited child has alighted upon the branch outside out window and declared to all within hearing that her love has return from deployment today.  We are all excited for her, actually we are thrilled beyond reason.  So glad to finally see her smile for a change instead of snapping at us whenever we ask her a question.  I'm sure her love will keep her busy for the next few days settling back into the routine of everyday things.  Won't be long and she will be back and fluttering around spreading Joy everywhere she goes. 

Not sure if I ever told you how I conceived my kids but here goes!  If someone had a birthday party that I happened to attend be it my child or someone elses child and I held a newborn?  I was sure to turn up pregnant by the end of the month.  Now with that concept in mind I set the stage for my attack on the Angel Child and her hubs!  Yep you guessed it!  I staged a baby making party!  I made sure the Angel Child held a baby at my great niece's 4th birthday party last Saturday!  Yep sure did!  And with a little luck I might get to be a grandma soon!  Who knows!  I figure if it don't work I'll have to get her hubs involved and you know whenever we get the hubs involved it never works out like we planned!  Oh well we will just have to wait and see won't we?

Speaking of hubs.....Hubs #3 is recuperating from his ordeal this past weekend.  I am sure by now you have heard about him running about the yard beating himself about the head and shoulders?  You haven't?  Well believe me it wasn't pretty....It was freaking hilarious!  Yellow jackets were out in full force and man were they mad as hell too!  Apparently the Hubs parked his lawn mover over the nest and well...you get the picture.  So once the Hubs became aware of the intent of the yellow jackets he made a bee line (pun intended lol) for the pool, my beautiful crystal clear pool......

Yep you guessed it!  Turned that B#&!% pea green in a matter of hours!  It seems our wonderful hot humid southern dog days of summer has zapped my pool of chlorine.  Add one city Hubs covered in fresh cut grass (including his green grass shoes) stir with the pool vacuum and you have algae!    You also have me flopping around the pool tossing anything and everything chemical wise I have at it!  Nothing I have here seems to work so finally I admit defeat and take my little water sample down to Wanda our local pool specialist.

With whimpering and sniffling noises threatening to break out at any second I hand her my sample.  She runs the test, the whole time telling me how important it is to do this and do that and soon she is speaking Klingon to me or maybe Greek?  So I end up buying 60 bucks of stuff and stumble on back to the house. 

It's a 4 step process to get rid of crud.  You first have to had 2lbs of this stuff and then zap it and then in a big bucket predissolve this other stuff and then squirt 14 ozs of this other stuff and then wait 4 hours and add another 2 lbs of this stuff.  Oh yeah and stir in between each ingredient.  Did I mention I'm tired now?  Funny how that works out isn't it?

Well lo and behold, the dang thing turned crystal clear blue again and there was rejoicing in the land, the birds came out and sang!  All the little animals came out to greet me!  I swear I heard them say "Woman, you've been in the dang sun too long!  Of course it was going to turn back to clear, that is why you spent 60 bucks right?"

And with that being said I really must let you know that's the way I see it!  God Bless and take care til we meet again.

That Loud Ripping Noise

Well, the DOG has arrived and let me tell you he came in here like a Cat.5 Hurricane!  All legs and looking for food, he will definitely be a force to reckon with when he grows up!  Loves the Chosen One that is for sure and follows him around everywhere he goes.  And as far as this mother is concerned that is a good thing. 

The Chosen One needs a dog like I need a hole in my head.  Ok I know I already have a few of those but this dog might be a good thing for him who knows!  I do know one thing is for sure, the first time I have to feed him, bathe him or buy his meds, take him to the vet or replace anything he has destroyed he is out of here!  What did the Chosen One have to say to that?  Well let's just say he didn't like the idea but once we informed him he could go with the DOG he seemed to understand a little better! 

As for the rest of our four legged demons that call this place home, well to say they freaked out upon learning of their new room mate would be the understatement of the year.  To say they are still under the box spring of my bed would be a better statement.  Honestly I had no idea our black Persian cat could make her hair stand on end like that and if I did I would have done this a loooonnnnnggg time ago! lol 

Ringo our 4 month old gray/white domestic was the first to meet the DOG.  He stood his ground for a few seconds til he realized that he was little and Ace the dog was BIG.  Ringo would hiss and growl and his hair stood on end.  Ace would bark and jump ......That's when Ringo took flight and ran under my bed.  That's when that ripping noise began.  Next came our calico neurotic cat, you know the one who lives either above the fridge or under the bed?  Well she took one look and no one has seen her since....been all day now....we'll probably find her body under the free spirited daughters belongings dried up someday.... But when Mo saw the DOG well folks that was priceless!  Yep priceless I tell you!  She took her own sweet time coming out to see what was all the ruckus about but finally she drug her geriatric self out of the our closet and into the living room only to perform her astounding act of making 6 inches of hair stand on end! You it's funny how you never have a camera handy when you need it....

Needless to say that's when that ripping noise really started under my bed.  That ripping noise turned out to be the underlay of our box spring.  Oh well now the cats have a place they can go and hide.  And Ace has a place he can stick his head under and bark.  Boy, Hubs is gonna love this on graveyard....

Well folks not sure about the rest of them but I can say that's they way I see it.  So until we meet again, God bless you all!

Tomorrow There Will Be An Extra Nurse

Well my dears, tomorrow will be a big day for my baby sister.  Tomorrow her life will change once again.  I wish I could take this bullet for her, walk this walk.  But alas it is not for me .....this time.  All I can do is stand by and helplessly watch and witness.  It seems the job the Lord has given me, this job of standing witness always to others lives is sometimes too difficult for me to watch.  I want to turn and bury my head in someone else arms.  Bu t there is no one there for me to turn.  I will try my best not to cry.  She always hates to see me cry.  That is another curse our Lord has given me.  The curse that I carry all the emotions of this family. 

I have tried to stay busy today as well as she has.  We each running around chasing our children and their own needs, forgetting about what was to happen tomorrow.  I know at this late hour she is very much wide awake.  It will be hours before we both sleep.  Such odd memories float through our minds as we toss and turn, each trying to conjure up our mother's face.  Yes she is very much in our minds these last few weeks.  I know when I kiss her goodbye as she goes through those doors tomorrow that I will be handing her to some great doctors. I will also be handing her to our mother.   You can't see her but you sure can feel her all around us.  Every where I look I see pennies on the ground, on the beach, in parking lots and they say pennies are a sign of angels. 

Tomorrow will be another story.  Tomorrow I must sit still for a long time.  It will be hard but for my sister I will wait.  Wait and see what news the doctors will bring.  I am told it will be an all day affair.  I have tried to remember how long it took our mother but I just don't remember....  Tomorrow it will take all day and if it doesn't it will feel as though it did.

Tonight I will pray to our Lord to watch over my baby sister.  To watch over her doctors as they make her life's decisions.  I know tomorrow there will be an extra nurse with them.  Tonight she is with my sister.