Getting girls ready for school. Not too bad this morning. Has certainly been much worse in recent memory.

I woke up before the alarm again. I certainly hope this is not becoming a habit??? How totally unnecessary to do something like that!! Please let this be a temporary abberation...

½ Pint woke up in a good mood, she always does. First thing out of her mouth is “do we have a two hour delay?”

No, baby, we don't. The snow periods are over. She cries for a minute, then brightens up when I tell her there could always be a flood....

Strange kid.

She runs in and tells me the radio station on her sisters alarm clock said it was flooding in OldTown.

I checked my email. It isn't. But I will check the River Flood Stages to make sure.

OldTown has flooded twice in recent times. Once when Baby was five years old, and then again when Pint was five years old. They are 10 years apart, both Baby & Pint, and the river floods LOL.

Old Town sits on the banks of the Mighty Ohio. Most of the inhabitants of OldTown live high enough up the banks that the flood doesn't affect them in any way. The only part that actually gets flooded is the sewage treatment plant and the City Park.

The caretaker of City Park lives in a mobile home. The fire department comes and pulls it out before the flood stage is reached. One of my best friends was the caretaker during the last flood. It was a bit dicey that time, since I actually knew the occupant, and was worried about her and her daughter.

No matter. We live quite a ways from the river now. There are no creeks close by to flood.

There is, however, a river in our back yard. Down about um...a football field away from the house, there is a low spot between the Angus pasture and the horse pasture. Our property is between the two. During heavy rains or snow melts, we get a bit of a stream crossing our back yard. DH wants to gravel it in and put a pump at the lower end, then put a bridge across it. The pump would be to keep the water flowing back up to the top and make a loop.

Nice idea. Maybe we'll do it. Maybe not???

I am thinking that when we get the motor for the go kart we bought the girls, it would be a hazard, or at least a lot of fun to drive the gokart right through the stream....flooding them with little bits of mud and muck?

See, guys don't think of those kinds of things. Women do. Still, if I was a kid, and had a nice little wet and mucky stream in my back yard....I would drive the go kart right through, laughing my head off the whole time.

I just put them on the bus and walked through the house and turned of 12 lights. Sigh.

Little Fishy looks dead again. We have three fish. Angel, big fishy and little fishy. Big and Little are sucker fish. They are the exact same species, purchased at the exact same time, and were the exact same size.

Big Fishy is about 7 times the size of Little Fishy.

I walk by the aquarium maybe a hundred times a day and think Little Fishy is dead. He gets in some of the worst possible configurations. Like, hanging off the top of the wall, body contorted, upside down and his body curled in a death throe.

But he isn't dead.

Today, he is hiding under the breeding grass, body contorted, twisted. One eye visible. I tap the glass. He doesn't move. I say “are you REALLY dead or only ALMOST dead?” (princess bride movie, one of my favorites).

He doesn't move. I tap the glass again. Still nothing.

Then, I see his little lips move. Do fish have lips?? well, whatever. He isn't dead this time.

This has happened at least 10 times a day since July. He plays dead. Weird behavior for a fish I think.

I don't have any doctor appointments, places to go, or anything to do today. I think I will sit on my ass and watch all the things on the DVR that I have taped, if DH hasn't erased them all.

He thinks that we have to conserve the space. I asked him yesterday....How many hours available does it say we have on the DVR?

His reply, we only have 52 hours and 16 minutes left.

Oh. Well, clean that sucker RIGHT OFF THEN.

He doesn't grasp the concept of “I TAPE THINGS TO HAVE THEM AVAILABLE TO WATCH WHEN I HAVE THE TIME.”

If you freakin erase them, they are not there and I am gonna be PISSED.

He gets irritated if the kids have too many shows on the DVR too. They like a series called

Growing up......” It is about rescued animals of different species. Growing up spotted leopard. Growing up Penguin. Growing up Tiger. Growing up whatever in the hell is that days show.

The girls like it a lot. It's educational. He erases them.

GRRRRRR.

Watched Boondock Saints again last night. Great movie. Love it. Course, I'm Irish.