Origami, hummus, and hens.

AKK. My son was gifted with an Origami booklet and a wad of sweet colored squares, and as he lacks the patience and the secret ninja powers to read these instructions, I promised him there would be surprises waiting when he woke up tomorrow a.m. Sucker ass mommy. I need an engineering degree to figure out these diagrams. But I made a shifty looking bird and am working on a fish. Ok, these are cheater origami, I had to glue something and even I know that true Origami is done only with folds.

I put up ads to join with the fine ladies on Our Hummus is Homemade, a group of ladies who all were looking for answers and found a community of awesome.

This is my mom's henhouse. She gets about 20 eggs a day from her girls, who are all named Percy. Every time I call her in the background all you can hear is the rooster whose name I've forgotten. It's fabulous.

Lets see, I may as well update the blog world. Ummm... hmmm.... Asa still has his job, I still have mine. Miles is still 6. The dog is good. The fish is even still alive, good Ol' Cletus II.

My grandparents were in town for a day last week, that was neat, haven't seen them in a few years. They have a kinda medium sized winnebago and travel round the country. I'm jealous, I'd love to do that. I got to hear some stories about their childhoods which I loved, since I really don't know much family history.

My brother and his family moved to Flagstaff for many reasons in July, to get out of the desert, to be near my dad, job stuff, etc. And that puts them so much closer to me which is awesome. Its funny how having kids makes you want to live near family. I'd like nothing more than to move back myself. Though I think back on my high school years and the things I did... Hmmm. Small towns.... Teenagers.... Yeah I dunno. We are stuck in vegas for the time being anyway.

OOOOO best news of all!!! Can't believe I forgot til now! I planted all sorts of veggies in containers trying to get things to grow and they all die in the heat, but peas and carrots do ok in the winter. But! I have compost in the back yard, and some how, (I think birds) a squash plant randomly started growing beside the leaky kiddie pool we have for Renfield. So I've been cultivating it, and watering it and it flowered, and now has actual size able squash on it, and they are butternut! YAY! Thats my favorite kind.

Some of the news that's fit to print.

Miles turned 6. We got him a camera, the only present he got from us since the big money fairy has seen fit to avoid our house this year. But it was a winner, since Miles has a big fondness for picture taking. He always has my camera, and my phone is full of pics by the next Ansel Adams.
A favorite model, Renfield. Good dog. He has approximately 300 extreme close ups of his eye recorded for posteriety. And Miles always uses the flash.





In other news, I got a job. Needed to because of said money fairy issues. Asa is trying to find a new job, his sucks and is causing him emotional discomfort. Poor guy, moving here was supposed to enable us to do all sorts of cool things like buy a house and that's all fizzled, and we have never been so broke before. Kinda scary, but nothing's wrong with me, I can work, so I am. Eventually, I'll get my coveted stay at home mom status back.


Why do these not post in the order I posted them? I did the eye first, since it went with that paragraph.

That pic with Miles, also shows ALL of my kitchen counter space. That's what I have to work with, and boy do I use it well.


I will upload Miles' pics off his new camera into a flicka site and link that to here eventually.

Halloween, and whatnot

1st Halloween in Vegas and many opportunities to do different things. Too bad everyone lives in Egypt. Trick or treating around here'd probably be fine, there's plenty of kids in the hood.
We (Miles and I) went to a holiday deal at the springs preserve yesterday, and it was so so fabulous. I don't know if planned things are better here cuz its vegas and they know how to throw a party or what but, the decorations, the fog machines in hidden crevices, the x-mas lights outlining rocks and trees, all so spiffy, and then the entertainment... We saw a belly dancing troupe, and well, the last troupe we saw was at the Tuscon eat your self (hope that was awesome, I totally missed the potato pancakes) and while they were decent, some of them were new, and most of them were round, and less skilled. Last nights were over dressed so as to not bother the tiny minded folk, but they all did things like synchronized belly rolls and sword dancing, and candles, it was way tight. I observed that a good belly dancer is very like a good break dancer, the popping and locking is much the same, just hips and arms instead.
But every bit of public performance art we seen has been super high caliber. It is big city or is it vegas?
My dad is coming in a few weeks, we are going to go see the Beatles Love thing so that should be cool, and I get to show him some of the cooler things one finds when one gets off the strip.
I also get to meet his new lady then.
My mom has some sort of medical thing, she isn't sure what is going on yet, and I haven't talked to her, so I'm not sure, but hopefully that will work out alright. Actually, my dad has something going on as well, he had an MRI, for dizziness. My mom's supposed to have an MRI next week. Interesting.
Miles is doing well, mastered the alphabet and counting to 20, and starting to pick up words,visually, and write both letters and numbers. He is way into transformers, and has got me wishing too that our car could turn into a robot. (Then it could stomp by all the other cars at a red light).