Idiots that Riot!

Thursday June 16, 2011

 

I am sure, by now, you have seen or read about the riot that took place last night in Vancouver after the hockey game. I just want to point out that those idiots that were causing all the problems were NOT hockey fans! If they were hockey fans then why did they come prepared with hammers, masks etc etc? 

 

The 'trouble makers' were going to cause a problem no matter what the outcome of the game was. Then if they weren't stupid enough they make the police departments job easier by posing next to the over turned cars, or fires that they set and then they upload it to face book complete with new status as to what they had done… can you say BUSTED!

 

I am 100% in agreement with the police that the people that caused the damage should be made to pay, either by jail time/community service/money or better yet, all three!  You can look on a face book group that someone made so that people can post the pictures of people causing damage and then if you recognize someone tag them in it and the police will know who should get a visit from them. They have my backing 1000% all of the way. Even if I knew someone in one of the pictures I would turn them in, even if it were one of my kids! I don't put up with stupid behavior and to ruin a city and damage stores for shits and giggles is so NOT ON! Plus my kids would know that jail would probably be a safer place for them if I caught them doing something like that LOL

 

It is obvious that they don't have a brain in their head because they were looting the stores and wearing the clothing, jewelry and posing for pictures or posing with the TV's and the bigger items. What did the stores have to do with the hockey game? What did any of the damage have to do with the hockey game? NOTHING! It was just a bunch of losers that had nothing better to do and thought it would be a good idea to go and flip cars and set them on fire and then leave a mess of destruction behind them for someone else to deal with. I bet they would be the first person to scream bloody murder if someone so much as looked at something that they owned, never mind trashing it.

 

I bet their parents are so proud of them right now! Look mom I tipped over a car and set it on fire…. Aren't I the great son you raised!?!?

 

Sorry about that rant but it pisses me off when people do things just because they have nothing better to do or they just want to do damage no matter the cost as long as it isn't their stuff!

 

©2011 7Ladybugs

Tuesday June 7th, 2011

Well, isn't this week just flying by? I was walking around today thinking it was Monday lol I am pretty sure I was robbed of some hours in my day but no one believes me so what am I to do?

 

Anyway, how has your day been? Did you get any exercise today? I did a lot of walking today at two different venues. I was the photographer for the Senior and Teens luncheon, which I ducked out of after about 45 minutes because I got all the pictures that I needed and I was pressed for time.

 

The second venue was, and is, one of my favorite places; it was the local Chocolate Factory that I had to drop off a Thank you card for the door prize donation they gave us for my past event. Every time I was in there it smells so good! They have a chocolate fountain right by the window and lately it has been turned off when I have gone in there and I tease the owner and tell him I promise not to drool in the chocolate if he turns it back on! LOL

 

After dropping off the thank you card at the chocolate place we walked three blocks and dropped off another thank you card to the little store on the corner that sells nuts and fruits and hand carved wooden figurines. They donated a nice 'Princess of the Woods' carving to my last event and I wanted to tell them how much I appreciated it and that the winner was over joyed with it.

 

Other than that, I have been baking some 'Wartime Vegetable Turnovers'. They are cheap and so easy to make and you can add anything to them. The recipe only calls for onions, potatoes and carrots, but I add in celery and whatever meat I have to hand. Tonight I used a can of crushed tomatoes, a can of sloppy-joe mix, carrots, onions, celery and some ground beef and the kids call them Pizza Pockets. OMG they are so good and the kids love them. They are the best for filling up hungry teens on a limited budget!

 

I can't have that stuff so I use the veggies and then add a can of chicken or fresh chicken and then cook them as usual. Tomorrow I am going to be making some apple-cinnamon ones and I will have to let you know how they turn out.

 

The veggies I picked up today for dirt cheap at the local produce store because they were not the prettiest looking veggies and the apples were 99 cents because one had a brown spot on it, so I got a 5lb bag of apples for 99 cents… not bad eh!

 

In total I paid under $5 for everything to make 23 turnovers! Not bad eh!?

 

Well, that's it for now. I have to go and clean up the mess I made in the kitchen because no one else will do it for me lol

 

Have a great day tomorrow and don't forget to get your walking in!

 

©2011 7Ladybugs

NOTE

I broke down my May's Entry so it is in smaller chunks to read!

Hope this helps you read my blog better and COMMENT lol

 

©2011 7Ladybugs

June 5th ,2011

Yesterday we went to a Clean Up event at Stave Lake, about 2 hours or so from where I live. I thought I would have been getting a late start because some people (don’t look at me like that! LOL) don’t like to get out of bed so early in the morning.

I actually woke up and got dressed and was ready to leave the house before 7am, and then my IBD started to act up which made me late leaving the house because I had to wait until the meds had kicked in to leave, should have known it was too good to be true!

Anyway, even though I was only 15 minutes behind schedule I managed to make up some time from the lack of traffic on the road, which was a good thing because we also made a stop to get some gas for my truck and then a Tim Horton’s stop for my son to get a coffee and donuts!!

Because I made those two stops it now put me back 5 minutes and when I got to our friends house, where hubby spent the night instead of coming home and then going back there, the guys and the trucks were all ready to go… that is a FIRST! The guys are always fiddling with their trucks for those ‘last minute adjustments’ which means take the whole engine apart lol



The day was perfect to be out in the great outdoors because it was nice and sunny and the air was a bit crisp at that time of the morning but it was still a great day. The following are some pictures from the event.

This was the first pile of crap we picked up. It took 4 tractor buck loads to clean up the bags of drywall we found!

This is Manda being goofy at the side of the road after cleaning up the drywall!

One of the volunteers found someone’s guilty pleasures out in the woods!

We will not find out the total amount of the garbage and metal that we picked up as it still has to be tallied and recorded, but as soon as I find out I will be sure and let you know.

After everyone came back to the staging area they were handing out hot dogs, chips, juice/pop/water and a bunch of other food items, and you can be sure that we were very appreciative of the food! You don’t realize how hungry you are when you are working picking up garbage but when you smell the BBQ going when you pull into the staging area your stomach starts to grumble and you cant do anything until you have eaten.

After everyone had eaten they were giving out door prizes. I won a hat, a gift card to a Lordco, a flashlight and a tire pressure gauge, all in a package. Jason won some jumper cables which he is giving to me because apparently the last time I lent him them they broke, but he forgot to mention that to me LOL Manda won a pair of long work socks, a hat and a cd’s holder (which she wanted). Justin won a huge tin that was donated by Purina for Gizmo. It had dog toys and food in it and the can is big and decorated with different kinds of dogs. Our friend Dave won a cammo hat, a t-shirt and some really good Geocaching gloves (which he gave to me). Our other friend George, won a great big canvas bag and in it was a bunch of items from the Health Food Store like a bag of Nachos, a jar of Salsa, some vitamins (2 bottles of different ones), a box of tea, some cookies and a really nice book with some recipes in it and telling you about the different foods and how they help your body. All in all it was a great day and a great clean up!

Now normally we would say our good byes and go home and relax for the rest of the day, or what was left of it or just hang out at Dave’s place for a while…. We didn’t do either! We went back up to the mud flats and spent the rest of the day playing in the mud with the trucks!! Below are some of the pictures from after the clean up event when we were back at the mud flats! Don’t worry there will be a YouTube video coming in the next few days of all the pictures.

Some idiot thought he could get his truck between some trees…
it didn’t work out well for him LOL


This is my truck next to our friend Dave’s truck… which one is mine LOL


This is Manda after going for a ride in the
back of Dave’s truck through the mud puddles!



And this is me after spending an entire day in the sun!

There is more to the story of how I got so sun burnt but I will have to share that with you maybe tomorrow because I am running out of time to get everything done that I am supposed to!

How was your weekend? Tell me what you did this weekend!

©2011 7Ladybugs
June 5, 2011

And I am off Again...

The last few days have found me walking through 4 foot high wet grass, swamps, prickle bushes and through streams all in the name of helping a fellow geocacher get coordinates to thier cache!

 

It was actually a two day adventure though the wet grasses and in the rain, but a fun one at that. You see, they had replaced a geocache and had taken some coordinates but their GPS was acting up and said that the cache was two kilometers away from where it really was. So, without the real coordinates we only had the clues and a few hints as to the area, it was like trying to find a needle in a haystack!

 

Eventually we did find it but only after spending two hours the night before in the dark and walking through swamp lands, and then another hour and a half yesterday doing the same thing in the rain. Just as I was about to call it quits, Manda noticed something odd by a tree and sure enough there was the geocache. We actually signed the log book and then took the correct coordinates two times and then emailed them to the owner :) Thats what geocaching friends do for each other!

 

Tomorrow, Saturday, I am getting up at 6am so I can leave the house by 7am to be at a 4x4/geocaching clean up event by 9am. I love driving in the mornings on the weekends because there is no one on the roads and I can usually cut my driving time down... I am hoping anyway because I have to drive about 100 kilometers to get to the event. I have everything ready to go and the coolers packed so it should only be a matter of getting the truck packed and then hopping in the truck...thats what SHOULD happen but we all know it never happens as we would like LOL

 

Well, I am off to bed now so I can get up early in the morning. How are you spending your weekend? Are you doing anything fun? I knwo we are going to be spending it outdoors and on the forest service roads both days 4x4ing because it is supposed to be sunny and hot here!

 

Have a great weekend! I will let you know how things go tomorrow night when I get back!

 

©2011 7Ladybugs

May's Steps Total

Wow I can not believe that I actually beat last months steps!

My totals for May were .... drum roll please .............

170286 steps. That is equal to 107.5 miles or 173 kilometers! YEA ME!

Really I do not notice that I am walking that far anymore, I feel so good about walking that I find I would rather walk to places that are even further than I would normally walk to, I can only imagine that is a good thing!

 

How is your walking coming along? Are you trying to get out and about each and every day? With summer coming I find I am walking more and more and spending less and less time inside which is why I am sending this via email to my blog in hopes that it will show up and I can update you easier this way.

 

I am so sorry if the last post was so long I do plan on breaking it down into smaller chunks so it is easier to read.... thats if you would like me to do that for you!

 

Have a great evening and I will chat more tomorrow!

 

©2011 7LadyBugs