Evidence

I got an idea for a Halloween treat, and needed white chocolate oreos to do it.

I knew Kroger sold them, and I'd seen them at walmart. I went to Kroger first. I couldn't find them on the endcap where they usually were located. Instead, there were seasonal Halloween colored ones. I assumed they were in the regular cookie aisle, so I walked back to that.

Golden Oreos, Reduced Fat, Double-Stuffed, Mint, Breast Cancer Awareness pink ones, Oblong ones, Mini Oreos, Cakesters, Peanut Butter, Fudge Covered.... but no white chocolate ones!

I was forced to drive to Walmart, and knew exactly where to find them.

Once inside the store, I walked directly to the cookies aisle. There, I found all the above mentioned types, plus a new seasonal variety- Candy Cane Flavored- right where the white chocolate ones should be!

I was beside myself. Making my own white chocolate oreos would add three hours to my prep time!

I couldn't keep running all over town, so I put the items I'd need to make my own into the cart.

Resigned, I trudged toward the register. At the register, I scanned the tabloid headlines and then saw an entire endcap full of White Chocolate Oreos! I bought five boxes!

Once home, I grabbed the bottle of red cookie icing, and added a toothpick of green color, shaking well. I then drizzled the red icing all over the white cookies, and left them to set up, and headed out to Fairmont.

I threatened many lives if they were touched before I got back.

I returned a couple hours later and put the cookies into small plastic bags, and sealed them with "evidence" stickers.

Tune in tomorrow to see Jello Brains!

Morgantown's Best-Kept Secret

This is the perfect place to watch thunderstorms roll in, to watch the sun come up (so I'm told), or to just sit and think about everything in one's busy, busy head.

On this night, I captured the Hunter's Moon over the Coliseum.

Family Portrait 2010

After going around and around on themes, I made an executive decision and called it,

"Show up and look nice or so help me".

(Coming soon, "Show Up and Look Nice or So Help Me" the musical.)

Ron set the camera up to take five shots in succession, in the likely event that someone's eyes were closed. He pressed the shutter, ran into position, click-click-click-click-click, would run back and press it again.

As we were losing the light, Ron announced that it would be easier to pose all five cats and have them look at the camera than our five children. We'd had enough, so we came inside to upload all the pics. What we saw on the monitor was a surprise. The camera went out of focus and we inadvertently took several series of very blurry pictures. Another thing I discovered was that one of the children (not naming names, here) was making a face, in every shot, reminiscent of Calvin & Hobbes.

In some of the shots, Harrison was holding Oy in such a way that Oy's testicles look gigundous in the pictures.

The kids, thinking we were done, went on an ice cream run. I thought we were done and changed out of my clothes into my Mr Potato Head pants. After seeing 62 unusable pics (out of 64), I declared it "Round Two"... also known as, "Get Your Butt in Here, Shut Up and Smile or So Help Me".

Obviously, there were a few grumbles. And more than one kid flat-out refused and begged to be photo-shopped in. Another kid started crying, ruining her makeup.

I was immune to it all. I screamed, cursed, turned red in the face, and finally announced I was taking laptops and car keys if they did not obey.

Even then, we had a trouble-maker on our hands.

The Family Portrait would have been perfect

if Arden hadn't been making that face!