This is a first for me

If you look really close you can see a tiny little baby lizard drinking from my humming bird's feeder.

This is the first time I have ever seen this. I have seen birds, wasps, bees, but this is a first.

The humming birds are afraid of him.
Geez, I wonder why? He is the cutest thing.

The Culinary Meme

The Culinary Meme: The Meaning of Thyme and Other Deep Questions
Welcome back to the 3rd edition of The Queen's Meme with Mimi Queen of Memes. Each week the type of meme will change; sometimes silly, sometimes serious, but always fun! Enjoy your time in the castle.

And remember, don't end up in the dungeon.

The Queen's Meme No. 3 is called the Culinary Meme. Contrary to popular belief, the Queen has been known to accidentally cook something edible. Although I've given the gift of food poisoning to a boyfriend or two in the past, I actually made the food you see here. Don't ask me how because I could never do it again. I made up the recipe and lived to tell it. I'll bet there are some good cooks out in the blogosphere. Show us your saucy side. Flip a hot burger and smooch on a mushroom. Strap on a sweet little apron with 3-inch heels (please don't do this guys) and pre-heat to perfection. I'm getting hungry now. How 'bout you? I can't wait to read your savory concoctions.
Dinner is at eight.

The Cooking Meme

(What Is The Meaning of Thyme and Other Deep Questions)

1. If you could put thyme in a bottle, what is the first thing that you'd like to do?

If I could put Thyme in a bottle, the first thing I would is channel Jim Croce for more verses to this song so I would know the answer. Is anyone there? Can you hear me?

2. Do eggs really crack or do they merely have a nervous breakdown?

Maybe they crack up from the pressure of knowing that they may be cracked.

3. Why are you whipping the butter? What did it ever do to you?

Well, it needs to be very creamy for what I need it for. No offense, butter, you never did a thing to me.

4. Do your spoons spoon in the drawer? Have you ever noticed? And more importantly,if wooden spoons spoon, do they get splinters?

My spoons definitely spoon in the drawer. Now my plastic spoons are a mess.




My wooden spoons are smooth because they are well used and no they do not get splinters because they do not spoon.



My grandmother use to spank us with a wooden spoon. Ouch! Butt, the spoon was smooth. No pun intended!




5. You hear: "Dumpling, my Dumpling, come hither." The candles are lit, the fondue is dipping, the Godiva is pouring, the scallions are steaming and the music is playing.....but wait, the windows are open. Why did you close the window?

You see it's like this...I close the windows because the dumplings are spooning, and they are using the whipped butter and they are running out of time.





What are the scallions for? I thought we were having fondue and ooh la la!


6. Do you need a recipe to cook or are you a bohemian chef? Show us your reckless and wild side in the kitchen. Don't have one? Here's a recipe I made just for you: You will need a spatula, a whisk, a gallon of Chardonnay, a banana and a rump roast. What is the name of your dish?


OK, the chardonnay is for me to drink while I cook and by the time I drink it all, I won't likely care about the rest of the ingredients.



It is called "Splatttt yurrr.... whinnn and b....bb...ba...nnnnaaannnaaa....on a rump roast." Whatever this means? ZZZZZzzzzzzzz...Izzz donnnttt reeeleze kere no mo.



7. After dinner, the dishes are so dirty that the dishwasher refuses to wash them. What did they say to get in hot water?





My dishes got a little inebriated and things started to look dizzy, so they had to take a cool shower to sober up, or else they were gonna start dirty dancin.








8. Is your pot black?










My cast iron or my famous skillet that I burn everything in?


Wait a minute... is this a trick question?

9. What is the sexiest spice or condiment in your cabinet? What makes it so?

Old Spice...

Need I say more? Except he is sitting on the cabinet half nekked!

OR

Slap Your Momma because it spices up any dish with some really good flavor. It is similar to Tony's.

10. How much crock is really in your crock pot?

I have to tell you at this point of the meme, I am running out of answers. So I would say I have a lot of crock in my crock pot.

How much crock in a crock pot ? Now you try saying that three times....geeze

Thank you for playing the Queen's Meme this week.

Day Trip Tomorrow

Time flies by too fast.
Sorry that I have not been around much, but I have been busy with the stuff of life. Tomorrow, Candy and I are going to Monroe, La. to load up some of her furniture. We'll make it a day trip and probably stop in Ruston, La. to see my youngest son.



Then off to Monroe to Candy's home. We will see her son, wife and the kids. They are helping us load up my truck. Ugh! My back!

Candy and I have been rearranging furniture and unpacking those left over boxes that just got shoved into the closet. We are getting ready for my best friends to come over and spend the night with us. It is really a girl's night pajama party. We will get to visit over chocolate Martinis and catch up on what is going on. They have not been to our new home. I am excited to get to spend some time with them again.

Well, that is all I know for right now. Time is flying by so fast that I can't keep up with it all.

The Queen's Meme

Welcome back to The Queen's Meme. brought to you by Mimi Pencil Skirt Queen of Memes . Each week the type of meme will change; sometimes silly, sometimes serious, but always fun! If you'd like to be linked here as a member of the royal family, just leave a comment and of course, please link back to us. Feel free to grab a badge from the sidebar for your own blog. I hope you enjoy your time in the Castle.
New! Grab your own copy of the Royal Blible full of your wise and hysterical commandments from last week's meme.

The Mission Impossible Meme
Lift off

1. You are a guest on the space shuttle. You just arrived on the moon and realize you forgot something back home that you can't live without. What is it and how do you convince them to go back and fetch it?
Oh my! First off I never forget something that important, but per chance I forgot say my husband...oops! That is too sad that he did not get up in time when the alarm clock went off. So he misses out on this fabulous trip with moi.

However, if I forgot my dear sweet sister, then I would beg and plead for them to return. I would pull out my new Blible and quote to them verse by verse that it is unkind to not return to Earth to get her.

2. Pretend you are a teacher in a rough public school for one day. You have been assigned to teach Manners 101. You have the "challenging bad butt kids" class (remember this is a pretend school and anyway I can't say ass on my blog 'cause it's so unQueenly and I might get fined or something).They are jumping up and down, cursing, and throwing things at you.
What is the first thing you would write on the board?

First off, I would have to PRETEND that I was a teacher again (been there) I get a lot of practice when I go to see my grandkids. Believe me they are like wild monkeys. If I can handle them and not pull all my hair out, then a few delinquent kids would be a breeze. I could bribe them with money. That works really well for my grands. Ha! DON'T MESS WITH ME...

3. Someone in your family or a friend has started a blog. They think it is anonymous but you have figured it out. They are saying derogatory things about you. Do you tell them or do you read it for awhile?How would you handle it?

No, I would not tell them anything, but I would leave some juicy anoymous comments! Besides I am so sweet how could anyone say anything about me?

4. If you had one dollar left in your pocket, what would you spend it on?

If I was down to my last dollar I would save it just in case I had an emergency and needed to make a call from jail. A gal never knows. The cost of a call has gone up.

In my youth, my grandmother always made me place a quarter in my shoe just in case I needed to phone home. You don't even want to know where I had to put my paper money the first time I traveled to Europe. She pinned inside my bra. LOL!

5. President Obama and the First Lady are coming over for dinner. What do you serve?

Ha,Ha,Ha....Haaaaaahhhhhh! That is really funny because I don't like to cook. I would call my best friend that is a caterer and ask her to bring the food. Of course I would clean my home and prepare cocktails. Maybe hors d'ourves? But I draw the line at cooking. Thank goodness for friends. I would do a beautiful floral design for the dining room because I like to do that.

6. You walk in on your lover. They are trying on your clothes. What do you do?

Someone is in really big trouble because I don't like anyone messing with my shoes. I adore shoes. What were they thinking? I would draw the line right then and there. Out you terrible people, out of my closet...NOW! I would beg my Queen to ban them to the dungeon in shakels. Now be off with you. Go away and never come back!

7. Every astronaut must have shots! Choose your vaccination: You only get one and you can't enjoy any of the attributes of the other choices. You choose either: (1) The fountain of eternal youth and sexual vigor but only for 10 years (2) perfect health for a lifetime (3) eternal mind-numbing nirvana and peace of mind (4) unlimited hedonism for one year with no negative consequences.

I like # 2 because if I were in perfect health for a lifetime, then it only makes sense that # 1 and 3 would follow. I am not into hedonism. Thank you very much.

This is your mission should you choose to accept it. And remember, don't end up in the dungeon.

How To Stay Out Of The Dungeon
Once upon a time in a faraway Bloggiverse there lived a maiden named Queen Mimi Pencil Skirt. She slayed her own dragons, stoked her own fire and well.....wrote memes by the light of the Bloggingham moon. One day a kind blogger from England noticed her meme lovin' ways and royally crowned her Mimi Queen of Memes. As time passed in the peaceful kingdom of Bloggingham, her Royal Highness found comfort in the company of fellow bloggers who also loved memes. But the Queen had a wicked disposition too. It is widely reported in historical Blogosphere archives that any and all bloggers found guilty of not completing their memes were promptly thrown into the dreaded Bloggingham dungeon.
If I were you, I'd do the meme.

The Queen's Meme

The Blog Outside The Box Meme This meme is all about using your imagination. Free your inner blogginess. Step outside the proverbial blox (that's blog + box for all you non-blog speakers). Answer these ridiculous situational questions and post them on your own blog. Here's the situation for today. We won't tell a soul. And remember:
Don't end up in the dungeon.


1. You are in court. You are in deep doo-doo. What did you do? Why I did not do anything? That's my story and I'm sticking to it. ('Cause if you want, I might could talk to the judge and get your sentence reduced to Bloggingham dungeon time.) I think I will decline any help from my queen besides I have heard terrible stories about the dungeon and MICE! Eehhhheeee!



2. Your blog just became a best-selling book . What is the title of your book ? Well, since it is my book, it would have to be called "I did it My Way"



3. It is midnight. The phone rings. It is Michael Jackson calling from the Great Beyond. What would you like to ask him? Not a thing because I am still channeling Elvis.



4. You are having your future told. The fortune teller looks in the crystal ball, screams and leaves the room in fright. What did they see? She saw my evil twin sister, Pamerala.


5. You're blogging along minding your own blusiness (that's blog + oh...you know) when Google unexpectedly puts a Objectionable Content Warning on your blog. Your own mother is afraid to enter! What, pray tell, did you do to warrant it?Like I said before, I am sticking to my story. I did not do anything. How did this happen? I don't know. What do you think a sweet gal like me could possibley do to get into this much trouble? Do you think you deserve it? No, of course I don't deserve this at all. Just how objectionable are you? Do tell. I object because I keep my life simple and clean.


6. You suddenly become God Of The Universe. What would your first Commandment be? Honestly, I doubt if I would ever be God of the Universe...I don't have enough muscles, but if I were...my first commandment would be to help those in need.


7. And finally, what secret would you like to tell the Queen? I fear for I have told a little fib about this meme. I could not let you down by telling the truth. I certainly hope you forgive moi?
Not to worry. What happens in Bloggingham, stays in Bloggingham.

Bruno the cat

Only a Southerner...

Southern women know their summer weather report:

Humidity

Humidity

Humidity

Southern women know their vacation spots:

The beach

The rivuh

The crick

Southern women know everybody's first name:

Honey

Darlin

'Shugah

Southern women know the movies that speak to their hearts:

Fried Green Tomatoes

Driving Miss Daisy

Steel Magnolias

Gone With The Wind

Southern women know their religions:

Baptist

Methodist

Football

Southern women know their cities dripping with Southern charm:

Chawl'stn

S'vanah

Foat Wuth

N'awlins

Addlanna

Southern women know their elegant gentlemen:

Men in uniform

Men in tuxedos

Rhett Butler

Southern girls know their prime real estate:

The Mall

The Country club

The Beauty Salon

Southern girls know the 3 deadly sins:

Having bad hair and nails

Having bad manners

Cooking bad food

More Suthen-ism's:

Only a Southerner knows the difference between a hissie fit and a conniption fit, and that you don't "HAVE" them, you "PITCH" them.

_____

Only a Southerner knows how many fish, collard greens, turnip greens, peas, beans, etc., make up "a mess."

_____

Only a Southerner can show or point out to you the general direction of "yonder."

_____

Only a Southerner knows exactly how long "directly" is, as in: "Going to town, be back directly."

_____

Even Southern babies know that "Gimme some sugar" is not request for the white, granular sweet substance that sits in a pretty little bowl in the middle of the table.

_____

All Southerners know exactly when "by and by" is. They might not use the term, but they know the concept well.

_____

Only a Southerner knows instinctively that the best gesture of solace for a neighbor who's got trouble is a plate of hot fried chicken and a big bowl of cold potato salad. If the neighbor's trouble is a real crisis, they also know to add a large banana puddin!

_____

Only Southerners grow up knowing the difference between "right here" and "a right far piece." They also know that "just down the road" can be 1 mile or 20

_____

Only a Southerner, both knows and understands, the difference between

a redneck,

a good ol' boy,

and Po white trash.

_____

No true Southerner would ever assume that the car with the flashing turn signal is actually going to make a turn.

_____

A Southerner knows that "fixin" can be used as a noun, a verb, or an adverb.

_____

Only Southerners make friends while standing in lines, ... And when we're "in line,"... We talk to everybody!

_____

Put 100 Southerners in a room and half of them will discover they're related, even if only by marriage.

_____

In the South, y'all is singular, all y'all is plural.

_____

Southerners know grits come from corn and how to eat them.

_____

Every Southerner knows tomatoes with eggs, bacon, grits, and coffee are perfectly wonderful; that red eye gravy is also a breakfast food; and that fried green tomatoes are not a breakfast food.

_____

When you hear someone say, "Well, I caught myself lookin'," you know you are in the presence of a genuine Southerner!

_____

Only true Southerners say "sweet tea" and "sweet milk." Sweet tea indicates the need for sugar and lots of it -- we do not like our tea unsweetened. "Sweet milk" means you don't want buttermilk.

_____

And a true Southerner knows you don't scream obscenities at little old ladies who drive 30 MPH on the freeway. You just say,"Bless her heart" ... And go your own way.

_____

To those of you who are still a little embarrassed by your Southerness: Take two tent revivals and a dose of sausage gravy and call me in the morning. Bless your heart!

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And to those of you who are still having a hard time understanding all this Southern stuff, ... Bless your hearts, I hear they are fixin' to have classes on Southernness as a second language!_____

We're Havin a Heat Wave

We have relief from this scorching 100 degrees plus burning heat. I was to the point of losing it because it has been so HOT, and I don't mean in a good way! Cabin fever had set in and I was feeling trapped most of the day. I am an outside girl and I would rather be outside than inside any day. The heat put me in a terrible mood. It is so hard to water your plants and garden when it is this HOT. It is so oppressive to work in the yard, mow, or even walk when it is this HOT. Finally a little relief.

A little bit of rain has come our way. It is not even enough to measure, but I am grateful for it has been overcast and the temperature has dropped for the last two days. Ahh, a little reprieve from this excessive, sweltering heat.

So for this moment, I am in a happy place with a gentle rain and my heat index is medium. It's going to be great cool day.

I am thankful.

Happy Fourth of July

Have a safe and Happy Fourth of July. Do you think our forefathers would be turning over in their graves with what is going on in today's government?

One year milestone...

Yesterday, I was on a day trip to another town for my accupuncture and then to the vet for Carmen. Something was in the back of my mind tho I did not know what it was until today.

I did not realize that it was my one year blogversary.

It came and went too fast

After 229 post, I am still here

I would like to say how much everyone that comes to my blog has enriched my life.

So this is for you my dear friends.

Thank you for the encouragement

Thank you for the friendship

Thank you for the love and hugs

Thank you for letting me be me

Thank you for listening to my journey about finding me

Thank you for teaching me so many new things

Hugs to everyone!

Pam