Stinky rose bush revisited

Since so many of you wondered about my rose bush that I don't like I decided to do another post about it. Now I referred to it as a wild rose and I can't say for certain that it is but it does grow in kind of a wild way.
Here it is in it's ugly stinky entirety. For those of you who are missing Duke, look in the window.

roses fully opened and the petals will all fall off very quickly

For anyone who still thinks this is pretty come on over and dig it up and it's all yours.

I've been tagged.

JP from A quiet corner tagged me and I had to answer 11 questions. These were kind of tough and I chose to take a lighthearted approach to my answers.


You leave tomorrow morning for your excursion so you only have today to prepare.  YOU are climbing Mt Everest

 and I want to know:

1.  What is in your backpack/sack that you will be taking with you?
Well naturally my camera will be in my bag and since I'm climbing a mountain I'm assuming that I'm going to be needing a supply of some kind of pain reliever. 
2.  When everyone runs out of food, would you share what food you have?
So long as I'm not down to my last chocolate bar I would be more than happy to share my food.
3.  In your mind, what is at the top?
In my mind, I am at the top already finished with the climb
4.  Where will you sleep tonight?
Tonight I will be sleeping in my nice warm comfortable bed. 
5.  A storm is forecast for the day of the climb.  What will you do to help the others in your party?
Probably the nicest thing I can do to help them if there is a storm on the way is to stay home.
6.  One party member was injured and had to be left behind on a cliff's edge...why?
because no one felt like carrying them? 
7.  Do you have any climbing experience?
Nope, so maybe I should stay behind :)
8.  Did you offer to stay with the injured party?
If there is blood and or broken protruding bones, no I didn't. 
9.  Do you have/know any life saving skills?
Other than knowing how to dial 911 nope
10.The guide becomes blind, what would you do?
stop following him
11.You are exhausted, freezing and weather beaten...yet hours away from the summit, how do you energize yourself?
Oh no, I think I'm in serious trouble now. Hopefully I'll wake up and realize it's all a dream and I'm still in my warm comfortable bed


Now I'm supposed to come up with 11 questions and tag 11 people. Instead I'll just give all of  you one question.
Since I really don't care to climb a mountain, I need you to bail me out of this trip. Where will you take me instead?

Getting naked in the grocery store

Did you know that you can now get naked in the grocery store? I'm not kidding. We were there yesterday and I saw it with my very own eyes. It apparently isn't illegal as I saw no  sign of security guards or police to stop it.
I unfortunately didn't have the forethought to take a picture. Lucky for me though my son called me from the store and I asked him to get a picture for me. I instructed him on what isle I had seen people getting naked. He too spotted it and sent me a picture.

You will have to pay to get naked in the grocery store though. After all I highly doubt that any of them are giving it away free.

Happy Birthday to my son Brad. He's 25 today.

Thank God for leaky fish tanks

My but we have had a time with our aquarium lately. You may remember me telling you about the friend that fell into the tank and it shattered spilling fish and water all over the place. As you may recall, he replaced the aquarium and all was well. Well until it started leaking. We purchased another and just recently I noticed it was leaking again. Yesterday morning Wade was cleaning the tank and it was leaking A LOT. No more tanks from Walmart. He asked if a certain pet store was still in business and I said that it was so we decided to go there to get a new aquarium.

Now it just so happens that the pet store is in the same plaza that we were at Friday night when I lost my glasses. I told Wade that since we were there I would check the areas in the parking lot where we were as well as the two businesses that we had visited. He said that if I did find them they would be crushed.
We had eaten at Pizza Hut so I stopped there. Luck was on my side. I walked in and saw my glasses laying next to their register. When the waitress came up and asked if I was there for a carry out order I explained that I had been there the day before and lost my glasses and told her the ones sitting there looked like mine. She said she couldn't believe how many times they find stuff like that and no one ever comes back for them because they have to know they are missing. I thanked her several times and went on my way singing "I can see clearly now the rain is gone". Wade could not believe my luck. I'm a little amazed at it myself.