rainy days...

MITM POST - This year, Western Elk Hunt October - In the meantime some memories......

“Listen, you Balkan rug peddler, my role of the great hunter, as you put it, is my own business.  It has nothing to do with you.  It's a sacred subject.  Much like the sex life of my mother.  It's something you'll refrain from talking about or even thinking about.  It's way too difficult a subject for your small little brain to grasp.  It's a passion that's beyond you.  I'd have to explain to you the sound of the wind and the smell of the woods.  I'd have to create you all over again. And stamp out those years you spent on the dirty pavement in cramped shoes.”

John Wilson (Clint Eastwood), White Hunter, Black Heart

 

Captain Chaos - Success!  Boar Hunt, CA

“We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.”

Henry David Thoreau

"One does not hunt in order to kill. On the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted."

Jose Ortega y Gasset

"Hunting has opened the earth to me and let me sense the rhythms and hierarchies of nature."

Charles Fergus

Capn Chaos and Mr. Moose - Snake River

 

The Kid - Cali

Stretch - Cali

Idaho Thugs - Snake River Area

Pheasant Hunting - Snake River Area

Doc - Duck hunting Cali

Mr. Matrix and Capn Chaos - Cali Duck Hunt

MITM Post – “I know you don't smoke weed, I know this; but I'm gonna get you high today, 'cause it's Friday; you ain't got no job... and you ain't got shit to do.” **

It was Friday.  We actually didn’t have shit to do.  We decided to get high – minus the weed.  Living on the Plantation, surrounded by marshes and rivers, we sometime forget how close we are to the ocean.  From our marina landing by boat to the Atlantic and the outer sea islands – 12 miles.  From our doorstep to the beach at Tybee Island – 20 miles.

We had been cooped up in the house way too long.  We had begun to argue with TV newscasters.  We railed at the abundance of stupid people with stupid and uninformed ideas about our political, social, diplomatic, fill in the blank future.  We howled at the schmucks who wanted to make their agenda our agenda, their idea of morality our morality, their totally fucked view of the world our fucked up view of the world…….   You get the picture.  Two old farts in bathrobes and slippers ranting and raving and howling at the moon.  Not a pleasant sight when we looked in the mirror.  We had to get out amongst the hoi-poloi, connect with our fellow beings, get a bit of nature in.  We went to the beach.

 

Dafuskie Island and Hilton Head in the distance.

 It was good.  We got some air in our gills.  We saw some old friends.  Drank a few beers and relaxed.  It was the start of Tybee Island’s (affectionately known as the Red Necked Riviera) general foolishness BEACH BUM WEEKEND parade.  And yes, we continued to rail at the stupidity around us, but we were doing it at the beach.

NORTH BEACH GRILL

 

Gourmet Chef Mir behind the bar

LOCAL YOKEL STUFF - YOU BE THE JUDGE

Sporting the old Georgia flag with Confederate Flag intact

LAZARETTO CREEK

** Smokey in the movie FRIDAY

he's a cutie and we know it!

baby boy chaos is almost 3 months old!

hush, hush, hush

i don't ask for much, but...

i believe in the power of positive thinking.

i believe that our community of bloggers, our community of friends,

can and have marshaled wave upon wave of good vibes,


positive strength


and most of all


unconditional love when it's been needed to help a pal through difficult times.


i'm asking for that right now.


our best pal,

our BFF,

our traveling companion and all around good guy isn't well.


he needs your strength, your prayers, your positive thoughts right now,


 and so does his missus


and their children.





and so do we. 





 (the MITM comes home on sunday. i'll be back next week.)

Way out west there was this fella... fella I wanna tell ya about

cap't chaos speaks!!! drop by and say hello! you'll be glad you did! xoxooxox regular posting begins tomorrow! i promise you. xoxoxox and one more x

As HORATIO said, What news, my lord?

here's something for all y'all: mr moose has issued yet another challenge, but since i failed so miserably  (ok, not really, i just haven't written about it yet) with the last one (and no, if you don't remember what it was, i'm not going to post a link to it.) i want to share this one with all y'all! actually, it falls in line with the last one very well, hence, the title of this post. (too obscure? or too spot on?) so what is it you might ask? (you did, didn't you? to yourself, of course) words, my darlings, it's all about words. check out his blog and leave a word or 20. you'll be glad you did and so will he! we feed each others souls with our words, darlings. sometimes that's all it takes to sustain us...

and in other news

blogger STILL won't let me add or subtract urls to my blogroll! anyone else having this problem? things used to be so eay on blogspot, right? what happened? have i missed some prime directive? did i miss a dues payment? am i remiss? (or maybe i need to cut back on the caffeine! OK, i think that might be part of my problem right now...)

best news for last and then a picture

SOMEONE might be coming home sooner than we all thought! (shhhhhh, no mentioning of names since we don't want to jinx it!) i'll keep y'all posted.

and now, a picture

Moxie and friend

and with that, have a delicious weekend and remember to hug the people you love!

xoxoxoxox

Because most of the time, all y'all know almost everything anyway...

the MITM left for deepestdarkestafrica again.

i took a picture of his side of the partner's desk, but it made me sad because it was sooooooo neat and tidy that it just SCREAMED "i'm not here!" and that, my darlings is really, really, really mournful. i'll be back with good news and photos and all around good cheer soon, but for today

i'm



just




gonna




sit.

random stuff because i haven't done lx's meme yet

happy birthday, Dancing Lady!

today is her birthday and she's been celebrating all week long! raise a glass, dance around your living room, listen to some flamenco music and help celebrate her day around the world!!!

And Jesus said, "Pickup all the colored eggs....."

Ok, Ok, just a little joke. Here's another one:

A Christian, a Muslim, a Jew and a Morman walk into a bar......... sounds like the beginning of a great joke. The punchline is -

IT'S EASTER!!!!!!!!!!!


We're headed to Easter Dinner with our good friends out here on the plantation. This is our Easter Basket.

We'll be toasting life, and all of you - ENJOY THE WEEKEND!

time out for MITM

before you say anything, he put himself in the corner!!! evidently, when you play a horn into a corner, you get instant feedback on your tone. (whatever)

here's the tune he was playing:




(he found the video and demanded asked that i post it.)

(for some reason, he found it funny.)

(you know, i really do wonder WHY i thought a partners desk was a good idea...)

and here he is continuing his penance and mine deconstructing "somewhere over the rainbow"

(ya think if i give him some ruby slippers, he'll fly away?)

evilene update

yes, the MITM was sitting right across from me. he's still breathing.

MITM - Hiding in Plain Sight on the Plantation

"Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits." - Satchel Paige

I'm just sitting today. The mistress of the manor has a short fuse. Everything is working on her last damn nerve - including me. Now experience has taught me that when one finds himself confronted with the worn nerves of Mistress SavMarshMama, the best thing one can do is melt into the background. I do that by hiding in plain sight and just sitting - no opinions noted, no exclamations or exhalations, no sudden movements.

Any further agitation of the nerves and she will become Evillene and the Plantation, dontcha know, will become her Work Shop. And me, I'm trying very hard to do as little heavy lifting as possible and carry as little water as possible. Shhhhh, I'm a rock......... She's screaming - "Where are my Fucking Flying Monkeys?"




So in an effort to chill her out, to take the Evil out of Evillene, I'm finding soothing music to play. I'm thinking about giving her a Rum&Coke and two Vicodans, but I think this rendition of Stardust by the Velvet Fog Mel Torme may help...



If this doesn't work - I'm taking the Yellow Brick Road the fuck up outta here and looking over my shoulder for Flying Monkeys!

SavMarshMama will be out of her blue funk and back here soon.......I hope! In the meantime I'll keep combat breathing and hiding in plain sight.

April 1, 2012

yes or no?


what say you?


or is it just the day?

from my desktop...

the MITM has decided that he really does have work that MUST be done, so he's leaving the blogging to me (ok, for today anyway) again!

i'm not prepared!

i've been on hiatus!

i'm in new granny-haven't-been-out-to-lalaland-yet foggyland?

or i'm just (fill in the blank).


but enough about why i haven't been blogging! here's some miscellaneous flotsam and yes, more baby pictures and at the very end....a surprise!

this is now my new favorite birthday e-card



i wanted to post this card on fb, but someone said it would be mean and not very polite, but i thought since i wasn't mentioning that the person was now sixty it would be ok...

any thoughts? *snickering*

(ok, yeah, a bit catty on my part, but i am just sharing it with all y'all and not everybody, so that has to lower the catty/mean girl/ok, i'll say it, bitchiness quotient.)

and moving right along

it's picture time!

Moxie and the blue bath mats

Moxie has decided that even bath mats are far more comfortable than parquet wood floors.

confused Moxie

and the back of the sofa is even more comfortable! but, she's also decided that it really is going to be OK to have another pack member.

after the doc's birthday brunch at casa de matrix

cap'n chaos and the coconut krewe have sent a few photos since my last pictorial essay, so it's fabulous baby picture time!!

mr. matrix and baby boy chaos

"so, this is what a party looks like!"

Stretch and baby boy chaos at the best creole restaurant in town!

sleepy baby!

the best creole restaurant in los angeles? i know y'all are wondering, "OK, the baby is cute, but you can't just leave that out there without telling us, savannah!" so, i'm going to share an insider la secret: go to harold and belles next time you're out in lalaland! don't thank me now, just remember to raise a glass! seriously, outside of being in new orleans this is the best on the west coast!

back to pictures...

when i opened my email today there was a postcard from our best pal, daisyfae! i think we should all meet up in NYC one day!

YES!

remember earlier on i said there would be a surprise at the end?


(hold on, you didn't just scroll down here without looking at everything else, did you?)



(you did, didn't you?)



(waiting while you go back)








and here it is:

IT'S A GIRL!!!

super nana & mr matrix are going to have a GIRL in august! this will be the first girl for the coconut krewe and their cousins. so far, there are 4 boys, so this baby will be a first on so many levels! i KNOW, right? to say we're all excited is an understatement!

but yeah, everyone is happy.


what a year this is turning out to be!