NO, I HAVEN’T GIVEN UP PHOTOGRAPHY…
For those of you who may have wondered if I’ve given up photography,  ( which would be a normal thing to wonder considering my latest  blogs)…No I haven’t given it up…just in the mood to let my mind wander, you’ll be bombarded with pictures of chipmunks or something else as soon as “the mood” passes.
My mind is reeling..so much has happened…dreaming of a career with the circus didn’t work out as you may know…you can read about this debacle in an earlier post…..dreaming of a career as a stunt pilot did not work out…..and the heartbreak of failure as a “wing-walker” was almost enough to make me admit defeat….
I said “almost” enough….but…DO I GIVE UP? Â DO I BURY THIS BURNING DESIRE TO WRITE ROMANCE NOVELS….(did I just say that out LOUD? Â I MEANT to say, THIS BURNING DESIRE TO WRITE THE Â NEXT GREAT CLASSIC).!!??!! Â Â Â NO I SAY!! Â NO!! Â I WILL NOT LET MY LEGION OF FOLLOWERS DOWN!! Â Â Â And may I just say that you two followers count as a legion of followers to me….you have the hearts of a lion!!
In the great tradition of the worlds greatest warriors, I WILL NOT GIVE UP!! Â Â Â Â I have decided to follow my dream of being a “Miner”, you know…the fearless, adventurous,men and women of the wild west, who “panned” for gold in the mountains……
FIRST!!!!!  I must assemble the appropriate attire for this rough, tough life of a mountain woman…I will saddle the horses and “giddy-up”, I will be off to the “Miner’s” costume, er, apparel shop.  I’m thinking  for this dream of a career I’ll need something practical….perhaps those zebra striped boots over there next to the pink “tutu”.  Is it just me, or would a “tutu” make me look fat??   I’m buying it anyway…now I need some sparkly pink suspenders to hold my tutu…the only thing left to buy is a gorgeous buckskin jacket with lots of fringe and a big shiny sheriff’s badge…(I need the sheriff’s badge because it’s shiny).
I’m taking my trusty squirrel friends and the raccoon and the horse and the monkeys along….just in case I get hungry………WHAT?? Â A girl’s gotta eat!!
Things were going SO well……the monkeys were really awesome at dipping the pans in the water and then shaking them all around..they got so excited by the sound this made that they started dancing!! Â It would have been fine except that I had seen that the pans were full of gold nuggets!! Before I could stop them,they started banging the pans on their heads…grinning with glee…well this drove the squirrels into a frenzy…
The squirrels thought that the gold nuggets that had been in the pans, was corn and they had just watched the monkeys throw the “corn” high into the air…this caused squirrel OUTRAGE !! Â They immediately ran to me grabbed my tutu and screamed to the heavens!!! Â Well of course this rattled me just a bit and I began to turn one way and another, trying to stop the monkey dancing and the insane squirrel screaming…I turned faster and faster until I was spinning in a circle and the squirrels were flying straight out from my tutu, screaming in fear…..one by one, the squirrels were thrown free of my tutu and like guided missiles they found their monkey target and scared the “unmentionable debris” out of them…
The horse’s eyes were bulging out of his head, the fear was so intense…so intense in fact, that he was producing his own “unmentionable debris”.
Where was the raccoon during all of this? Â Sitting under the horse, eating nuggets…nuggets of GOLD!
My  tattered tutu in ruins, my sparkly pink suspenders wrapped around my neck….I did the only thing I could do….I took my shiny sheriffs badge, and by the power vested in me….I ARRESTED ALL OF THEM!!!
Hello fellow adventurer. I’m glad that you came to Susie’s party. She always has the most exciting and fun people in attendance. I was very sorry to hear about your tutu. The essence of any miner’s wardrobe. I hope that the zebra striped boots did not get “unmentionable debris” on them. It would so ruin the beautiful zebra stipes. I am definitely going to have to come back and read more of you adventures!
October 5, 2012 at 4:49 pm
Hi there!! The party was a LOT of fun and I’m glad that you stopped by afterward…no worries, the zebra striped boots stayed pristine and will hopefully go on other adventures…:)
October 5, 2012 at 7:02 pm
Hi! Stopping by via Susie’s. Wishing you had a photo to go with this story–would’ve loved to see the squirrels flying from the tutu!!
October 4, 2012 at 10:41 pm
LOL!! I had everything I needed for that outing EXCEPT a camera
October 5, 2012 at 3:59 am
The Wild Thing sent me… I would have loved a career in the circus… fun post!
October 4, 2012 at 12:21 am
Thanks for stopping by from the party….It’s been so much fun! But watch out…apparently there are some interesting items on the menu…..Wouldn’t the circus be fun?? I would want to work with monkeys I think…glad you like the post
October 4, 2012 at 12:25 am
Hi, I’m over here via Susie’s party…
Y’know, I think that the squirrels probably mistook the gold nuggets for nougat. Now, me, if I saw nougat (gold or otherwise) I’d go a bit crazy too.
And as for pan-handling monkeys (which I nearly typed as pan-handling mushrooms and, no, I’m not on anything) yeah, they did a good job.
October 4, 2012 at 12:05 am
O.K…first of all, isn’t her party the best?? Loved the dancing bears…almost as much as the flying pigs..secondly, oooooooooohhh NOUGAT!!….and thirdly, are you SURE you didn’t eat a mushroom at Susie’s party?? I didn’t know it was THAT kind of party….
October 4, 2012 at 12:12 am
You never can tell. I mean, those mushrooms looked like chocolate, but who knows what the best hostess would put in them?
October 4, 2012 at 12:15 am
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm…..food for thought…but what kind of thought……Susie seems like a great hostess….hmmmmmmmm
October 4, 2012 at 12:17 am
I love how your imagination works! It was all in your imagination, right????
Thanks for bringing it to the Use Me and Abuse Me day party! I hope you meet lots of new bloggers!
October 3, 2012 at 9:37 pm
LOL! Thanks! Your party was inspired and I LOVED it! I have met new bloggers, so thanks so much for hosting such a wonderful event
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October 4, 2012 at 4:19 pm
I really want to visit the mall that you find all these outfits in on your shopping sprees to support your dreams.
August 4, 2012 at 7:25 pm
The mall only exists in my imagination! LOL!
August 6, 2012 at 3:01 am
Very creative. Not often you read a good squirrel tale.
August 4, 2012 at 5:47 pm
Squirrel-Tales-R-Us!
August 6, 2012 at 3:01 am
Wait…whoa, whoa. Did you say you will bring along companions of squirrels and raccoons only to (gulp) eat them later on? LOL. That sucks about the wing walker thing. But with birds flying into people’s faces lately in the news, maybe that’s a good thing. The last time I heard about that was when Fabio got hit on the shnozz by a goose while on a rollercoaster. How have you been? Hugs!
August 4, 2012 at 1:32 am
The first thing I said when it came on the news about the boy on the roller coaster and the bird was…”do you remember?, the same thing happened to Fabio!”..I’m doing great! Busy, busy, how are you??
August 4, 2012 at 2:38 pm
I’m good! It’s been very busy the month of July, but things are going to settle down a bit more this month. The thing that keeps me going is that I can finally enjoy a vacation.
I’m happy you are doing great! 
August 4, 2012 at 5:14 pm
Yay for vacation! I just came back from one…and would like to turn right around and get back on a plane:)
Enjoy your “VACA”!!
August 4, 2012 at 5:16 pm
You are (should you choose to participate) invited to join the Capture the Colour contest: http://imagesbyregina.wordpress.com/2012/08/03/capture-the-color/
Your photos are soooooooo good. Do it, Miss Z!
August 3, 2012 at 11:54 pm
My grandparents worked a mining claim when I was a kid. We spent summers in the high desert in Nevada with a bulldozer, a jeep, and a lot of mud. I think a tutu would have made the whole adventure even more fun.
August 2, 2012 at 10:45 pm
That is just AMAZING!! It must have been really interesting..did they find gold??
August 3, 2012 at 2:04 pm
Yes, it was a placer mine – gold dust. They found just enough to keep up the assays for years. My favorite part was the adventures they created for us while they did the work. I should write a blog post about it:) A tutu would have completed the experience.
August 3, 2012 at 2:13 pm
You definitely should write a post on it! Fascinating!
August 6, 2012 at 3:02 am
August 2, 2012 at 5:12 pm
I think we need to start a club..”The sparkly suspenders club “.
August 3, 2012 at 2:05 pm
Yay!!
August 3, 2012 at 2:32 pm
Simply brilliant! You left me with a smile in my face. Thanks!
August 2, 2012 at 2:56 pm
LOL! Glad you liked it!
August 3, 2012 at 2:06 pm
Lol lol
August 2, 2012 at 2:22 pm
August 3, 2012 at 2:07 pm
That brownie you mentioned to someone… who baked it???? did it have a bit of something in it… we call them daggabrownies… What a story, and what potential, I disagree as a child’s book, unless I can buy it and say it’s for the grand children… panning for gold with that bunch of misfits, would and could only be, hair raising…
Love the dream though… and the imagination once more runs riot… you in a tutu with chocolate in your hand, monkeys panning, squirrels screaming… what a laugh, I’ve had…
August 2, 2012 at 1:34 pm
Now that you mention it there’s something addictive about those brownies…
You think this is an adult book? If I did do it for adults, I could leave in the part about
the unmentionable debris….(wouldn’t want the kiddies to be influenced to do something
Inappropriate….it’s to late for you grown-ups)
August 2, 2012 at 2:03 pm
exactly…. sh t is sh t…
August 2, 2012 at 2:16 pm
Suzanne, you are the definition of imagination, and a truly wonderful one it is!!
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August 2, 2012 at 10:58 am
Thank you
. I’m very careful to not let it out of it’s cage too often.
August 2, 2012 at 12:24 pm
Flying squirrels…dancing monkeys…hmmm. Did you have enough chocolate today?
August 2, 2012 at 10:40 am
Not nearly enough…but I did have a brownie that packed quite a punch.
August 2, 2012 at 12:25 pm
And why do I suspect you about to drift into a version of Indiana Jones.
August 2, 2012 at 10:28 am
“Just you wait, Henry Higgins!”
August 2, 2012 at 1:26 pm
We need a new Ian Flemming and super hero James Bond….so get creating
August 2, 2012 at 7:59 am
I will do my best….I will lock myself away, and THINK
August 2, 2012 at 12:32 pm
You just weren’t in the right spot! You need to come to California if you’re looking for gold…I can take you to the seat of the Gold Rush, but you’ll have to leave the monkeys and squirrels right where they are. I’m sorry, but you’ll have to choose! Debra
August 2, 2012 at 4:57 am
WOW! The seat of the gold rush!! SO COOL!!
August 2, 2012 at 12:34 pm
What a creative mind you have! This is hysterical. I can just see it all from your description. Write this as a children’s book. It would be such fun for kids.
August 2, 2012 at 4:19 am
You’ve got the wheels turning in my little brain..I think I might have to re-write the part
about the “unmentionable debris” though…Is Boy too old for this sort of thing?? Maybe
You could ask his opinion on this.
August 2, 2012 at 1:33 pm
I HAD THE SAME DREAM!!!
Except instead of a mine, it was a beach.
And instead of monkeys and squirrels and horses, there were dolphins and lobster and bartenders.
But besides that, IT WAS THE EXACT SAME DREAM!
Oh, and mine didn’t have that debris stuff either.
August 2, 2012 at 3:33 am
WOW!! It WAS the exact same dream….except that I like YOURS better!!
August 2, 2012 at 1:24 pm
And quite right too!
August 2, 2012 at 3:18 am
Now you’ve really rendered me speechless! But laughing so hard I’m gasping for air. I must go get a breathing treatment now.
August 2, 2012 at 2:52 am
Oh dear!! Barely breathing? A breathing treatment??…I feel so guilty!!
August 2, 2012 at 2:58 am
Just kidding; no worries, but I do have runny mascara from the laughing/crying thing.
August 2, 2012 at 3:00 am
Oh well then!! You must look lovely!! Off to dreamland for me! Another flight tomorrow…I wonder if it will be as interesting as the last one
August 2, 2012 at 3:08 am
I’m thinking Halloween party! Fall will be early!
August 2, 2012 at 1:51 am
LOL!!!
August 2, 2012 at 2:22 am
You are certifiable, but funny!
August 2, 2012 at 1:33 am
It’s out of my control
August 2, 2012 at 1:46 am
And of course you’ll spend the night in jail with them to make sure they’re all well cared for. What a ruckus that would be? Would give new meaning to the jailhouse rock. A come-as-you-are party?
August 2, 2012 at 1:08 am
Can you imagine???
August 2, 2012 at 1:13 am