It was a Heluva Good race weekend

Thank God Jimmy didn't win... we had a great time at the Heluva Good Race weekend. Only got rained out on Friday which meant all that racin crammed into Saturday. We watched about 8 hours of racin' - yee haw!The truck race was a little boring but we still had fun.

Saturday night we found a fun little bar in Concord called the Green Martini. Good drinks, music and food. I'd go back. We weren't even the oldest people in there!

Sunday's race was loud and exciting - 1st race of the Chase. My crystal told me Tony was going to win but it didn't count on him speeding down pit road! Two of our driver's looked good at different times in the race - Junior & Tony and two of our drivers, Ryan Newman & Kasey Kahne didn't look so hot. We were happy not to have the race get rained out - it rained all morning but then the NASCAR gods got busy and it was just cloudy the rest of the day. Traffic was better than we thought it would be, we got home by midnight. Steve & Debbie are back home today - safe travels!

Who did I think I was, Wonder Woman??

Yesterday we had a bigger storm than our brush with Hanna. Anyway I thought it was. Here is a picture (same view as the last photo). It was pretty cool to watch but when I got home from work, I discovered a tree branch had broken off a big ol' tree and blocked the driveway. So I got out and thought I'd take a crack at moving it. Do you know some of these branches can weigh several 100 pounds?? I didn't know it at the time so gave a try at moving it, ala Wonder Woman. A smaller branch I grabbed broke off, and all my displaced energy carried me backwards and since I was going downhill I lost my footing and fell - backwards with my head breaking my fall. And I thought my ass would have been big enough to hit first! Glasses & cell phone went flying and I lay in the drive way stunned & sure I had broken my neck. I was freaked out when I reached back & felt blood and started to cry, Ok sob. You can laugh - the visual is funny now but trust me, it wasn't then. Especially after I made repeated calls to hubby and no answer on his cell ( found out later he left it on his desk at work.) So I grabbed all my crap out of my truck ( purse, book bag, 2 potted mums for the front of the house) and walked down to the house like a blubbering idiot.


What was the first thing I did when I dropped all my crap on the floor? What anyone would do - grabbed the emergency bottle of chardonnay (everyone has one of those - right? Ok - maybe not but I do) and poured myself a glass. Then I cleaned up my hand road burns (from the fall), washed off the blood from my head and applied an ice pack. Once hubby got home - to his credit he didn't laugh and seemed genuinely concerned - he went out with the chain saw to remove the tree branch. He guessed it weighed about 1,000 pounds - it was big. I was on my second glass of wine by now and had started to wonder if ETOH might mask the symptoms of a concussion. So.. I finished my second glass of wine, ate dinner & called my neighbor, Karen. She told me to check my pupils - check they are Ok; and if I started to vomit go to the ER. Thanks, Karen! I waited a little bit before I started the third glass of wine so I would be able to tell if I got sick from wine or head injury.


Today my neck, and head hurt but I think I'll survive. And next time...I'm going to park the truck & walk around the damn branch.


Steve & Debbie arrive tomorrow for our NASCAR extravaganza weekend - I'll try to post - we have free high speed Internet at our hotel - Woo Hoo!


I just got Site Meter added to my blog so I can tell if anyone is reading this - hope someone is! Oh ya - and a link to a really, really, really funny blog story from my new favorite blog is below - a warning - don't drink anything while reading this story - you'll snort it out through your nose, it's that funny! Make sure you read the original post & comments. Let me know what you think!

Robbing the Bees & the perfect sports storm

First the bee stuff - photos of Steves Squared robbing the bees this weekend. I think after it was all said and done we ended up with 32 1/2 pounds of honey. Not enough for Christmas gifts (spoiler for those of you who get gifts from us) and mead so next year we are going to add a third hive. Nice how I keep saying we? I should say him because I don't have that much to do with the whole backyard bee operation but I do enjoy the honey.

Back to me, it is my blog after all....

I love the fall, but this will be a tough weekend sports-wise for a fan like me; sort of the perfect storm. First of all we have The Red Sox - as of today only three games back in the standings for the American League East title and 5 games ahead in the wild card race. They play Saturday at 8:05pm. The boys are making left hand turns in Richmond(NASCAR) on Saturday night at 7:00pm but they are predicting rain from Hanna so it will probably run on Sunday. Which is when the 'Fins season opens at 1:00 against the Jets. We can TiVo all of them ( as we are meeting friends for dinner in Providence Saturday night - can't wait!) but when in the hell will I watch them all??? Hubby is somewhat interested but not as obsessive as me and will give me endless crap if I stay inside all day Sunday watching TV. But we don't get the NFL Package for nothing so I may need to take my chances - oh and the Sox play again Sunday at 3:00pm...

The view from my office today was nice, sort of distracting - you can see the colors are starting to change. I LOVE my view & am really starting to love the new job - I've been here for 3 months & it is a good fit. Don't want to go into too much detail but it's a great company. I'll try to get a photo of my view on a fairly regular basis or as it's interesting.

Possible jury duty tomorrow so I may not post again until the weekend if I'mNotSoWildAboutBlue Internet works or if I go to an Internet cafe. Disadvantage to living in the boonies is the very limited choices we have for Internet service...