Mikyla's sleeping behind me, snoring so loudly it's impossible to believe a little girl can sound like that, I have to turn around to be sure it's her and not a lumberjack!
We had such a good day - Warren's Camp was a bust, we got there but didn't find a cemetery or an old slave place. We did find a nice cemetery closeby, and I got some good shots of it, but it was a pretty now-a-days cemetery, nothing close to the slave graveyard Sarah was trying to show me.
I gave Mikyla a Polaroid camera full of film...I figured she'd have a better shot of catching ghost writing than the rest of us would (the caul, you realize) but while she did get a gigantic orb (the biggest I've seen so far) she didn't get any ghost writing. We'll have to try again another time. I'll post that orb pic when I get it, Sarah had it tonight showing it to her mom-in-law.
We went to the old bridge in Artemus and I got a shot of a nice mist towards the top of the bridge. It was in 2 shots, one lower than the other. It had moved a few feet in the space of 10 to 15 seconds.
Then we went through another cemetery I've been dying (not literally) to get into, but was blocked with a cable.. it was opened this time.. so I took shot after shot, knowing it'll be a long time before I'm lucky enough to get in there again. Boy that place has some old stones. I love cemeteries like that one.
All total, I got 15 disks of photos today. It'll take a year for me to get them all posted!
Dad's fine, the hurricane hit hard there, but he's fine. Thank God.
Mikyla is hard of hearing. Truely. Her doctor said that the tube has fallen out of one ear, and the other is lodged deep inside the other in wax..they're sending her to a specialist on Monday to find out what to do about it. She's not deaf, but she can't hear unless we practically shout, and the television has to be full blast to sound like it's on 'low' to her. I hope they get that taken care of quickly. She's beginning to slur her words when she speaks and it's obvious she's having a hard time. Bless her heart, I can't stand it, she has to get this fixed and fast! There's too much she needs to hear that she's missing out on.
Mallory is plain ol' southern born and bred. She told us that her ice cream "ma-ol-ted", her slow, country drawl cracked me up. I think she's got the thickest hillbilly accent I've ever ever heard and it's hilarious to hear and pretty tough to translate!
I didn't see Joel today. He spent the night night before last and went home yesterday about 1:30, and Bonnie's off again today, but he'll be back tomorrow around 2.
My dog is doing ok, she went out with us today on our cemetery haunts, and she took off into the woods at every place we went but when we got ready to leave she came bounding back. Her going was an accident, we put her in the yard and by the time we got to the highway there she was panting at the side of the car. That's one determined dog. It was either leave her there and risk her getting hit or taking her with us, so .. with us she went. I never did care much for a dog in the car, and I still didn't today. The dog kept farting and my GOD did she stink. I blamed it on Mikyla and she got afronted.. No! Mammy! I didn't do that! That was comical. We're gonna have to do something about Smiley's diet. Or invest in some Beano. Now I know why they call her smiley.
Nick hung out with us tonight, we went through another cemtery - got some more shots, and I hope to get them posted one of these days.
I'm going to make a head shaped meatloaf tomorrow, like the one I saw on Roseanne last night. I thought that was pretty cool. I bet no one will eat it.
*laughs* but I could use a pic of it on my card shop!
We went to Mom's and Lisa's too - Mikyla made full rounds with her camera, and she took some neat shots, I'll post them in another entry here, maybe in a while. Maybe tonight. But.. I should be sleeping, we're getting up to go to Whitaker tomorrow. Lisa and Nick have to see it! The thing is.. I'm not sleepy!
Posted by juel at October 3, 2004 12:42 AM