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Tawney Boy

Tawney Boy. AKA Big Blue

Tawney Boy

By matt
Monday, March 24, 2003

I miss him alot. You should have seen how this cat could attack me! I mean out of fun and play of course. He really was quite a buddy till things went wrong.

Good Morning. Well I just got up late. 7am for me since I am usally up at 5 am. I was thinking about my poor kitty that had to be put to sleep due to kidney failure

, This boy came from Angels for Animals, He was a great cat. Never played but liked to attack my ankles and legs while chasing me thru the house. I am a little scared to get another since the Vet is not too sure why he went into kidney failure. My daughter Rue Anastasia saw him at the Angels for Animals adoption center at the Boardman, Oh PetSmart store. The reason my wife and Rue adopted him is because he was the same as a 19 year old cat named Tawn that I had from 1975 on. You figure the math. Any way I miss him.

Matthew E. is the author, Firmly believing that the perfection of the heaven's and god's graces live only within him. And he is not the least bit conceited even with this blessing.

Calling all brick layers

Calling all brick layers

By matt
Wednesday, March 26, 2003

Great house takes a lot of care to get this place where it wants to be. I think that I am going to open it to the public for tours so that it can off set some of the cost. Just Joking

Just woke up! I get up around 5 am every day, 4 of those to go to work. I am sitting in the wing back chair looking into the living room see the new stenciling that my wife Marsha Lee has done as a border on the top of the walls. Very nice. I'll post a picture of it soon. In the meantime I am going to show you a pic of the fireplace that we just enjoy year round. The house was built in 1922 so the chimney had a few problems to cope with. So we converted to gas logs. Not as thrilling but ever so more convienent. Who knows how to deal with a chimney and the repair. I have no idea where to start. It is the top of a masonary monster that needs repointed. I find it hard to fly 2 stories with a bucket of mortar in my hand.

Pic from 2002 Thanksgiving I think.

Matt is the author and he can be an arrogant loving caring bozo.

What a day at work! Laughs and Food. Almost my two favorite things.

By matt
Thursday, March 27, 2003

Glad to be home! I do like the comfort of home

Here I am at home after a nice day at work, NICE and WORK together in the same sentence Oh My God. We had a food party in our cubicle division due to the birthdays of some of my favorite ladies that I work with. Laura and Tracy just got one year added to the bouquet of life. That is poetic for your boobs are starting to sag like bannanas. They really are goodly friends, they help me with stuff that I just can't seem to get through my concrete skull.

I got up at 4:15 am cause I want to start an excercise program and just can't seem to fit it into my life at any other time. I usta work out 4 times a week, enjoyed every minute of it, looked good and felt even better.

Marsha my wife called off work sick today with a cough of some sort. Poor thing. I wanted to help her feel better but you know how sick women don't really think any of our (men's) suggestions will really make them feel better. I thought I had some really good ones though.

I made myself a pot of decaf coffee since I ate so much at work today that I have given up the feed bag for the rest of the day. Can't do caffiene after 4 PM or I will be up till I sleep way to late. Lack of sleep makes me goofy. Yea yea goofier. I've heard that before.

Matt thinks he is a comic, fall down type.

Working out a smack on the arse

Working out a smack on the arse

By matt
Friday, March 28, 2003

Theis is a whole new thing getting up this early to work out. I can't tell you how tired I am of being fat w/ a closet full of clothes that I can't even get on my leg.

Damn I am proud of my self. I got up and actually did a small work out for poor weak decrepit me. Just some lat pull downs and rowing. Just a little upper body! Here is me doing my lower body work out.

I am finding the need to get a cup of coffee and move the brain as well as the bones. Simple minds need simple things. I don't even put cream and sugar in my coffee in the morning because it is requires too much mentation to even get the crap in the cup. Usually when I try there is sugar and creamer on the counter after my first try. Then a smack on the arse from the wife for being a slob.

Matt's mental image of himself is certainly alot better than reality. You know how us guys are. I see a 6 pack where you see a pot belly.

Tell your family that you love them.

Tell your family that you love them.

By matt
Saturday, March 29, 2003

As always I enjoy writing whatever I want to. Ta Da

Lord God almighty on high. I just can't sleep well since I am trying to reschedule my waking hours. I got up at 3:15 am after going to bed @ 9 pm. I think I will do some lower body workout this morning anyway since I hauled my dupa out of bed anyway. Took my morning doses of old man pills. Just a small handfull of whatever. Do you know how tiring it gets to take pills everday of your life, the doctor says you will drop dead if you don't. Can I have 11 minutes of peace and joy in my life somewhere once in my days. I stuffed the dishwasher with all the dishwasher type things and am running it. Woosh Woosh Woosh is all I can hear while some Iraqi General is pouring heartfelt rhetoric crap out on the airwaves about the martyrs of the Iraqi people. Dear God why do these people exist. I wonder if they truly belive what they say. No goverment that is not elected by the people should be allowed to exist on this blue oasis in the heavens. We have created too much liberal tolerance towards the WRONGS that go on in our world, let's talk to them and see if we can work it out. Let's just ignore them and maybe they will see the light and stop doing wrong. Let's not get involved, those are not our people. Let's just get the UN together and see if this bunch of self posessed, arrogant men and women can make nicey nice with all these countries.

Bla Bla Bla. Any way I just woke up and I feel a little bitchy about all the world events. Hey tell your family that you love them.

Matt thinks that if he had a big enough gun he could make a difference in world peace. Remember Pax Roma.

Chicken and Noodle, Midwestern Style

Chicken and Noodle, Midwestern Style

By matt
Sunday, March 30, 2003

My god I enjoy cooking. My father and mother are both great cooks, you know how one picks up what the family likes to do. Other familes like to go to baseball games, we liked cooking a dinner! Lots of family dinners when I was a kid.

As for the kitchen in our house, It is my pride and joy. We have invested a great amount of time over the years to get it just right for my cooking. I pressure can food. I make a meal every day. I just enjoy cooking! We also have a 12' by 6' pantry in the cellar that we keep well stocked.

Woke up at 5 am, yesterday I woke up at 3 am! yuck. I spent all that time cleaning and pissing around the house till about noon then I started to get ready for a dinner that I was to make for 9 People for 5PM. Chicken and home made Noodles over Mashed potatoes. Marsha made the Green beans and bacon. Also come cole slaw. Made a mess in the Kitchen from the noodles, flour all over the place. Marsha helped red up the place after the battle. We hauled the mess O food over to her daughter Kelly's House. Kelly is a sweetie. She requested in " The Way of the Weasel. ", this dish cause it reminds her of Grandma Alberta. Marsha has guided me over the last 2 years how to get this dish just right, as how HER mother made it. I must admit that it is a really tasty dish. Personally I have never had a dish that was so very simple to make and tasted so good. When I was raised we had food that required more than 2 main ingredients. So I was amazed at how very good this stuff is. Personally I think Marsha has something up her sleeve for September's Martin Family Reunion at Oblong park in Illinois.

This is naturally a picture of our kitchen as It stands up to this date. There is really a lot of interesting articles in here that would take me a whole nuther day to just tell you about the minutiae of the acquisitions.

At any rate we arrived with the hot pots of food and brought them in with much fanfare. Got there at 4 30 and laid out the buffet for all of us. Marsha's son Mike lives next door to Kelly so he came over by invitation with his wife Stephanie and the little baby brats Mike Jr. and Sydney they daughter AKA "the Crow" so called because she like shiny sparkly things. Also Kelly has two friends Laura, whom she has know for about 15 years or more and Tom, Laura's love interest. Nobody was getting ready to eat to fast so I just made myself a plate and sat down at the dinner table all alone, BTW I don't think anyone said grace or a prayer for God's grace regarding interntional matters at this time. A bit on everyone appeared in the kitchen to get their plate fulls of grub and chow down. I know it was good cause no one said anything, they just ate and ate. Kelly said that she can close her eyes and see grandma with that plate of food. We all had seconds, then I retired to the living room to listen to A Prarie Home Companion. Soon Tom came in to listen and then Laura came in to listen too. I believe that they enjoyed the 2 hour radio show. As for Marsha, Kelly, Mike, Stephanie and the Spawn of children they all stayed in the dining room and den catching up on life's interesting moments that get handed out to each and every one of us. Ode to Joy how very much I enjoy family dinners, Great food and even better company.

Speaking of company Mr Tom is the new man on the block. Not much of talker, yet I hope. Kelly tells me that he was amazed that we have family dinners! I guess that he wondered why we were coming over to disturb the love nest! Yuck once again. I find no offense in him, other than time will open him up to the art of conversation. Or maybe he is just a quite man. Since he moved in there is now a large fish tank in the house that was enjoyable to watch. We spoke of various fish that we have both raised. Come to think of it maybe we need a common ground to talk about something. Ah it's all good. Laura has great intrest in Tom so he must have plenty to offer!

Well time to sign off of this and get it published. I need to take a shower and get busy on restoring a 1902 church pew couch that came from a realative when I was a kid! I will show some pictures of it at some other time.

Thanks for listening to me.

Matt wanted to be a chef all his life. Maybe some day!