Takin' A Day

I, Fabiola, have declared this day, this very one, to be Fabiola's day. Oh, dear! No! Not a holiday or a celebration or anything like that. Despite the list of things that Fabiola should do, Fabiola is spending the day doing what-ever she wants to do.

Ok, whatever she wants to do AND cleaning the bathrooms, and vacuuming and catching up on laundry. Fabiola declares that ever other hour of this day is a Fabiola hour. She is standing on that one, and getting the house clean in the process.

Late Night Last Night - Work Too Early Today ...

Fabiola was out playing, footly-tootling and just generally accomplishing nothing last night. Sometimes a gal has to ... well, roll around a room of all bright lights and noises like a drunken sailor, without the drunken part. Still, sleep was fine but too short and because Fabiola dithered and delayed, Fabiola had time for only one cup of coffee this morning, then it was outside with Mary who was helping to put down 90 track feet of rail.

Fabiola daydreamed about coffee all day.

How to make coffee:

Put commercial size paper coffee filter in metal filter basket thingy
add 1/2 cup of ground coffee, mostly folgers, mostly columbian
push "Brew" button on Bloomfeild 3-burner coffee maker.
wait 3 minutes

What? You were hoping for another coffee drink recipe? Maybe later, in the morning, Fabiola is not a fancy latte, mocha chino, candy flavored coffee sorta gal. Fabiola is a strong, hot, black served without the latte but in a latte sized cup coffee drinker.

Fabiola found some other blogs that have mentioned coffee lately.

Slashfood talks about Coffee Tasting (think Wine tasting)

Then there is A Belmont Coffee Disaster

Wishing On A Star

"We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them and discuss about wheter they was made or only just happened." ~ Mark Twain

Wish on a star and you only get half way, dreaming without doing won't make anything happen. ~Fabiola

Smiley Star <--- download "Smiley Star" as a .PES machine embroidery file

Wednesdom 05-28-2008

That which costs little is less valued. - Cervantes "Don Quixote"

How to Wear Bib-alls

I, Fabiola, spent the last several days working on railroad track. Rather advising Mary as SHE worked on the railroad track. Fabiola was much too concerned with keeping her bib-alls in order. In the event that you are contemplating wearing railroad duds, Fabiola would like for you to keep these items in mind.

Striped blue bib-alls are for engineers. If you don't drive a train and wear stripes, you risk having some old gentleman point out that you shouldn't be wearing them. If you Do happen to drive a train and some old gentleman tries to take you to task for striped bib-alls, you get to make snarky remarks.

Iron your bib-alls, wiggly stripes give people motion sickness.

All those pockets and loops on bib-alls are for tools, tools are for work, work gets just ironed bib-alls dirty, leave the pockets and loops empty. The only exception to this no tools rule is that you may lean on a spike puller. Unless you are wearing plain blue bib-alls, then you could be pretending to be a farmer, and you would lean on a tractor.

If your bib-alls are green, then you are a character on Captain Kangaroo and not likely to need Fabiolas fashion advice.

Well Throw Me a Lance and Call Me Quixote

Despite a rash of railroad related work that absolutely took over Sunday and promises to wipe out this day as well, I, Fabiola, am planning a cook-out. Ok, not so much planning as counting on because Fabiola defrosted hamburger on Saturday and has to do something with it today.

Fabiola is counting on thunderstorms. They threaten, because they do, they also promise, maybe, enough time away from convincing hundreds of pounds of steel to arrange itself in a way that won't send additional tons of steel careening off into the dirt -- or a tree.

Oh, dear! You my darlings do not come here to listen to Fabiola complaining. Not that Fabiola ever complains. Tilting at windmills, now that is another issue entirely. An activity that allows a gal to wear shiny silver and carry a weapon.

Plans For The Day

Easy chair and Mai Tai's? Afternoon nap? How is Fabiola going to spend this day before the Memorial Day Holiday? Sigh.

The Polka Dot Lawn Chair will sadly remain empty. Fabiola will be stylishly wearing her bib-alls and steel toed boots and helping Mary as she and others install a siding on the railroad track.

Fabiola rides in the toolbox

Fabiola spent the last several days riding around in the toolbox of Mary's service truck. Fabiola is not a happy woman. Regardless, Fabiola forgives Mary because I, Fabiola, am always gracious and patient. Well, that and Fabiola was taking notes and is fixin to tell you stories about the Mary's last few work days.

Wednesdom 05-21-2008

God bears with the wicked, but not forever. - Cervantes "Don Quixote"

Traveling

I, Fabiola, spent the day traveling. Just consider this a cheerful Fabiola wave as I cruise past.

Weather Report

Rain, rain and more rain, that is the weather around Fabiola world. This weather is enough to make a lesser gal pout. Fabiola believes in smiling through the rain, smiling and putting an extra dose or three of hairspray on the beehive do before stepping out.

Fabiola Recalls music from 1974

I, Fabiola, have had a song running through my head for the last day. Midnight at the Oasis. You remember that Maria Malduar song ... (Fabiola starts singing) Miiidnight at the Oaaasis ... (Fabiola realizes that people might hear her and stops). Play the song in your heads dears.

It all started Tuesday evening, as Fabiola was taking her evening constitutional she gazed up at the sky and there was the most gorgeous half moon in the fading light. Fabiola thought "Heaven is holding a half moon ..." Funny how lyrics once heard forever after describe certain events.

Anywho -- now that Midnight At The Oasis is running through YOUR head (Fabiola knows that it is -- it is one of those songs) and if on the next half moon you start singing, well, you have Fabiola to thank. You are welcome.

Wednesdom 05-14-2008

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. -
Cervantes "Don Quixote"

Fabiola wonders if self help is all it has been cracked up to be.

Wildflowers and a Spring Frock

When the days lengthen and the season turns, a girl's fancy turns to ... well, Fabiola past those days long ago. On the other hand, a new Spring Frock and wildflowers come in a close second.

If you wish to go skipping through the wildflowers you may want to peek at this

Wildflower Guide from enature.com

Fabiola On TV

Fabiola doesn't want to deceive you dear reader. Fabiola did not appear on Tee Vee, nor is she talking about daintily perching atop a console. Have console tvs gone the way of the dodo, Fabiola wonders? Console Tee Vees were a handy place to set an extra tv before God invented picture in picture. Or, for stacking the new (non console) tee vee, once the old one had died. Not that Fabiola has ever been guilty of Tee vee stacking.

More commonly, console Tee Vees were used to display decorative objects, in Fabiola's Grandmother's case a statue of the Blessed Mother. Always. Oh, you can laugh, some people believe that the Blessed Mother belongs in a half submerged cast iron bath tub out in the yard, but Fabiola's Grandmother knew where the Blessed Mother Belonged, on top of the Tee Vee.

Sigh. Fabiola has digressed all over the map. Fabiola purchased a new Tee Vee this weekend, with (gasp!) gambling winnings. The old one separated itself into three colors months ago, and while Fabiola didn't mind it so much (people will yellow eyebrow shadows were starting to seem normal), the Fella had reached his tollerance point.

Fabiola and the Fella acquired the LG Opus something or other. The picture is quite possibly more amazing than Fabiola is, and that is saying something.

Pelicans On Vacation - From the Headline Crawl

This morning, on the headline crawl at the bottom of the weather report scrolled this:

"Woman Attacked By Pelican On Vacation".

Fabiola wonders why the woman was bothering a vacationing bird. Fabiola wonders where Pelicans go on vacation? Any ideas?

Wednesdom 05-07-2008

Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be. Cervantes "Don Quixote"

Fabiola agrees with this one. Well, that and being a practical gal, if Fabiola sees things only as they should be, it saves Fabiola a whole bunch of work pulling weeds.

Fabiola and the Famous!

http://www.myheritage.com/collage

Use the linky above to do your own.

Fabiola confesses that she saw this first on the One Heck of a Guy Blog . In this entry where the collage says that DrHGuy looks like Arnold, I Fabiola "look like" Jessica Simpson. Mary did one too - Poor Dear, one of HER look-alikes was David Hasselhoff (not that he is not handsome ... still). Bill Paxton was another.

In all fairness, the photo she used WAS at the very end of a very long day. It was railroad open house day 2005, 400 people showed up for food and train rides that day. Mary didn't hire a caterer. Still (laughing at Mary's luck) well, there is nothing more to be said now is there?