are you ready...

...for some football?!?

adapted from the free chart  for Tommy Turkey

at Brooke's Books

(swapped his stocking hat for a football helmet in Bronco colors and added a goal post and some yardage lines)

stitched on grass green mystery linen with DMC floss

Football is like life. It requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Vince Lombardi

 

to be happy in life

you must learn the difference between what you want versus what you need...

i need one of these...

Go Broncos!!!

orange crush

here's hoping that the on-line translator didn't lie and i'm not writing bad words in languages other than dianneish...

oranje

arancio

naranja

arancione

πορτοκάλι

machungwa

apelsin

オレンジ

d'orange

оранжевый

laranja

zoranj

תפוז

Pomarańczowy

orange

i do lurve me some orange...

 orange dream cookies ... adapted from this recipe for lemon cookies ... heaven on a plate, lemmetellya

 the garage door is finally painted ... mark that one off this list from a year ago ... this is how it looked in the early morning sunshine while the paint was still wet... it's a bit more mellow in Real Life ... needless to say, the new color has not been much of a hit with my neighbors ... and, also needless to say, i don't much care cuz i think it's kinda awesome ... and just look at the blue sky!!!

my orange kitty is named Pumpkitten ... finally, a cat that doesn't make my eyes swell shut

 renegade orange marigolds ... not where they are supposed to be
but i'm not gonna complain

 i did not know that cosmos came in orange till i was trying to find flowers that wouldn't clash with the garage door

 what's left of LuLu's tomatoes  ... she LURVES cherry tomatoes

 my new Bronco jammies ... to be worn only on game days

 coffee tastes better in a polka-dotted cup ... especially an ORANGE polka-dotted cup

my Lucy kit from Carrie Nelson at Miss Rosie's Quilt Company ... which i was lucky enough to score before they were all gone ... i was planning on swapping out the greys and blacks with blues so i could make a Bronco quilt, but the fabrics are just too doggone awesome ... and who am i to mess with a quilting genius's fabric choices?!?

Orange is the happiest color.
Frank Sinatra

sore winner

such a sad, painful, difficult to watch Super Bowl game was followed up this morning by a visit from Super Sam...

Seattle Seahawk Sam?!? say it ain't so!!!

can you believe the outfit he is wearing?!?

i need to put some orange on that kid!!!

“We ran into a buzz saw.”

John Fox - Denver Bronco coach

double you E eye are dee

none of that luck stuff worked this time...

 so it is official and i am, truly, just weird...

sigh...

this morning i got up early so i could read Kim's tutorial on making roses...

and i DID make a rose...

is that just a big blob of orange on a blue background or is it supposed to actually BE something?

but i did a mediocre job of following Kim's excellent instructions and my big blob of orange is not a reflection on her... 

i should have paid more attention in class, lemmtellya...

i tried turning it upside down...

not an improvement, is it?!?

maybe i just need to trim it a bit more... 

or give up and go to bed...


Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.
Brett Favre, former Green Bay Packers quarterback

ready freddy

okay ... it is

Super Bowl Game Day...

the Denver Broncos (woo hootie hoo!!!) 

versus 

the Seattle Seagulls ... or is it the Seahawks (who?!?)

no bias here - we're Equal Opportunity Bronco fans

and it is time to take inventory...

order the pizza - check

turn on the doorbell so you can hear the pizza guy when he comes - check

get the money ready to pay the pizza guy (seriously?!? FORTY BUCKS?!? when did pizza get so doggone expensive?!?) - check

lucky can of Orange Crush - check

lucky orange plaid jammy bottoms - check

lucky printed slightly off-center grey Bronco t-shirt - check

make sure i'm not wearing anything that is green - check

those Circus Peanuts hafta be gone before the 2-minute warning of the last quarter or all will be lost

lucky quilt - check

lucky socks - check

lucky Circus Peanuts - check

and i'm ready for some FOOTBALL!!!

It's only weird if it doesn't work.

Bud Light

good gawd, i hope this works cuz otherwise i'll just be WEIRD!!!

dear broncos

Keep Calm

and 

Hurry Hurry

Omaha! Omaha!

Peyton Manning

there go sunday afternoons

for the next five months ... and a monday evening ... in a previous post i wrote about the Broncos and how crazy excited Auntia gets when the NFL regular season starts ... a few weeks ago i found myself in the drive-thru lane so Auntia could get this...the official Wendy's Bronco 2010 Collectible Schedule cup

static ... Welcome to Wendstatic! Would you like to statitry our blah static blah blah?!? static

do you have the Bronco 2010 Collectible Schedule cup?

static ... Would you like to order now? static

well ... i dunno ... do you have the cup? i'm asking cuz last year we ordered and you didn't have the cup and we had to come back...

static we static static cup

was that a yes, we have the cup? or was that a no, we do not have the cup?

static we static the cup

sorry - i still didn't hear you

YES we static the cup

oh ... good ... then i want one of whatever i have to order to get the cup and one junior bacon cheeseburger

so you want a combo static and a junior staticon cheesestaticger

will that get me a cup?

yestatic

cool...

24

i don' t think she's ever gonna get around to blogging about it, so i am gonna update the world on how Auntia spent twenty-four hours on the thanksgiving weekend ... she slept in ... then she ate some of dianne's world famous coffee cake which was made with apples and not cherries, so it wasn't as good as Auntia thought it should be ... then she and NoJo hid out in Auntia's room and watched Star Trek instead of the parade and they checked every few minutes to see if Santa had made his appearance and hollered down the stairs no Santa yet! to keep dianne from coming up to see what they were really doing ... Auntia took a shower after the m&m's left and put on some clean jammies ... the rest of the afternoon is a blur - i'm not sure what she was doing ... i do know that it did not involve helping get the turkey in the oven ... Mrs. Moth had given her a ticket to the thanksgiving bronco football game and Earth Science gave her a ride to a parking lot about a mile away from the stadium which used to be called Mile High and they walked the rest of the way fueled by adrenalin and maybe a beer or two ... Auntia's seat was in the north stands close to the horse's head that you can't see if there are people sitting in the stadium and she said that it was hard to keep track of the yardage cuz there was no yellow line like there is on the tv to tell her how close they were for a first down ... she was sitting with Mr. Moth and his brother and some other guy who was tired enough to fall asleep during the game - that's his story and he's sticking with it ... she must have done a lot of cheering and shouting because she was very hoarse when she came back home ... the broncos broke their 4 game losing streak - they beat the Giants woo hoo!!! and Auntia was in a really, really good mood ... the next time i saw her was at 4:30 on friday morning ... JoAnn's had CriCuts which we did not need but Mrs. Blakesmom did for some ridiculously low price and snuggle flannel for $1.49/yard and we were determined to not stand in the cut line for three hours and then in the check out line for another hour like last year ... we arrived at the storefront at 5:45 and there was already a line of thirty or forty people ... one of the store reps was handing out tickets for the CriCuts for some ridiculously low price but Mrs. Blakesmom and Mrs. Moth had already scored a CriCut for some ridiculously low price at the Northglenn store ... so we headed to the flannel ... and started loading up a shopping basket ... after we had one basket full, Auntia took a number for the cutting table and i hung around to wait for our number to be called while she picked out wreaths which were also a ridiculously low price to take to the cemetery ... and some more flannel ... and then she selected some yarn for the sunflower afghan that she's gonna make ... and some more flannel... and a peppermint spatula for flipping christmas pancakes ... and some more flannel ... and a peppermint batter spatula and a snowman batter spatula ... and some more flannel ... and some halloween trims ... and some more flannel ... and after we'd filled two carts with stuff, i decided that i'd had enough of standing in one place ... i wandered around to look at the storage containers which were also some ridiculously low price and when i returned to the carts i saw this......it was about 7:30 in the morning and there were still 13 numbers ahead of us for the cutting line......Auntia has never, never, never been a morning person ... she was running on one cup of coffee and a bite-sized York Peppermint Patty ... but while i was on my walkabout one of the people we befriended in line gave Auntia her ticket and we had moved up 5 people in the blink of an eye ... woo hoo! we were outta there by 8:10 and i took Auntia to Village Inn where we waited 45 minutes for a mediocre, over-priced breakfast ... and then we went to Target ... groan ... where we spent more money that we don't have ... by the time we made it back home Auntia had been awake for the better part of 24 hours ... and she took a nap ... the end

happy thanksgiving

clockwise - beginning with the monkey - is Gumdrop, Mrs. Moth (who has way cooler panda slippers but didn't wear them this morning), LuLu, dianne, NoJo and Auntia
from my house to yours ... where there was a surprise visit from the m&m's this morning ... they must have smelled the coffee cake baking in the oven... LuLu has her first bite of dianne's world famous coffee cake
and headed on over ... where they found their lazy nonna still in her jammies
rumpled and crumpled
pondering what ails the world and how to fix it
whilst sipping coffee and reading the newspaper
and wondering
how much longer till it's time to eat?
how much longer is the parade?
how much longer till it's time to eat?!?
when will i get to see Santa?
how much longer till it's time to eat?!?
when is the game?
and
how much longer till it's time to eat?!?

boxy the bronco

NoJo spent all of his hard-earned summer cash plus a coupon for ten dollars off that his Auntia cut out for him and for his sister - who spent hers on an MP3 player for her bear from Build-A-Bear on a Bronco jersey for Boxy the Turtle ... he brought Boxy over the other day and asked Auntia and me if we could figure out a way to put Boxy's name on the back of the jersey ... the jersey fabric is the mesh stuff that jerseys are actually made from ... i think it is too holey for embroidery or any kind of machine stitching...

Boxy in his Bronco jersey ... complete with knee pads and cleats
...i'm thinking maybe felt letters with fabric glue ... so, whaddya think?
gotta go ... half-time is over and the game's back on

how 'bout them broncos?!?

win or lose ... it ain't no secret that there are bronco fans living in this house ... and one of them who shall remain anonymous but her initials are Auntia is a little bit goofy about the whole first and ten thing...

it doesn't matter that her blues don't match - those pants are classic and that's a Lynch jersey ... he's gone, but she has not forgotten
yes ... yes ... she actually does dress like that for every game ... she paints her toenails orange and blue ... she drinks Orange Crush with an orange straw in the official Wendy's Bronco 2009 Collectible Schedule Cup ... and she shakes those pompoms which her season-tickets-holding brother gave her as a consolation prize for having to sit at home and watch the game on a small screen tv instead of the excitement and pure joy of going to Invesco Field at Mile High and cheering them on in real life with him like a dallas cowboy (hiss!) cheerleader ... on steroids ... i gave her those classic sweatpants purchased for me, myself, and i the first time we went to the superbowl and were soundly trounced by the despised dallas cowboys in 1978 and in return...
dianne's IN-COM-PLETE bronco quilt
...she made this quilt for me ... if you look closely you can see the famous bronco head quilted from border to border...
bucking bronco
...and my sister embroidered this terrific towel for me ... it should come in handy for wiping sweat off my brow during tense moments ... and dabbing tears when we're losing ... and waving in the air when things are going our way as i dance the happy dance and shout woo hoo!!!
go broncos!!!
gotta go - the game's on