Picture Saturday, It's COLD outside and Let's Hope Not Too Much Snow Falls

Hello Good People!
It is very cold outside today. The weather gurus are predicting snow for today. It is about 30 degrees out there with the wind blowing like crazy so it feels much colder than that....the skies are gray, cloud covered and it is spitting freezing rain as I type this post. So, looks like winter has arrived to NW Kansas along with other areas of the Plains States. I heard earlier this morning that it was snowing big time in Nebraska. I live less than 40 miles from the Nebraska border.
I couldn't keep that stupid Billy cat in the house. He stood at the back door meowing his fool head off cause he wanted out! He sits there and hollers what hears like OUT and no amount of talking to that stubborn cat would change his mind.
A van pulled into the driveway and then promptly pulled out of the drive and the dog wents nuts cause that is his job to monitor the traffic in and out of the driveway. The van was just turning around. Folks do it all the time...no biggie. The dog wanted out though to see just what was going on out there and that stupid cat beat the dog out the door before I had a chance to nab his hide to make him stay in the house! It was for his own good that I wanted him to stay in the house.... it's danged cold out there! It's quite warm in the house. Billy will be wanting in again before the day is done.
I don't recall just how much snow the weather gurus are expecting from this front moving through the area.....1 - 2 inches I think is what they said last night. I haven't checked the weather forecast for today. I can look out my window and see it is doing something out there! And that thin sheet of ice all over the porches tells me it is cold as the dickens out there!
I intend to keep close to home today~! I have no intention of going anywhere that I don't have to go to.
I am going to make art all day and do some laundry. There is a Zentangle-a-thon going on over at atcsforall.com (the link is up on the left hand of the sidebar). I unburied my marker box and have been playing with them for hours while the normal folks of the world slept.
I did get around to scanning some of the art that was in that little basket on top of the printer. There are still more twinchies and inchies that will be scanned sometime today when I scan the art I will make throughout the weekend. I may make more inchies this weekend as well.

Twinchies are a new endeavor for me. The two fishes below are the first inchies I ever made! I love the size of the canvas.... bigger than an inchie but not quite as large as an ATC, yet it is amazing all that can be put on a twinchie (2 x 2 inches square). Enjoy!

Yellow Fish School / Orange Toothed Fish

Yellow Chick / Fall Leaf Zentangle

Tennis Anyone? / Flaming Tennis Ball

Blue Zentangle / Blue Plant

The following are ATCs made for the Zentangle-a-thon this weekend.

Green Leaves Zentangle

Cupcake Zentangle

Eye Leaf Zentangle

Annabel's Celebration

This one was drawn on the day Annabel was born but colored this weekend.

My arm is much better today. The infection hit its zenith the day before yesterday and it has all been downhill since then. It is still painful but tolerable. Thanks for the concerns!

The last sentence was typed about an hour and a half ago...I've been out in the cold wind to see my sister next door. Her mother in law passed away this morning. Rose was a nice lady. I always liked her. She was 77?. I'm not certain of her exact age...somewhere around there though.

It is a bitter cold day. That north wind is whipping up the tiny little ice balls falling from that gray sky. There were many many more of those little ice balls...no bigger than the period at the end of a sentence....when I walked out my back door to head across the backyard. There was freezing rain falling this morning so everything has a nice fine icing. Not much ice, thankfully. Ice storm is a whole other creature than what's out there right now....it's just very very cold. It shouldn't be this cold this early in the year. Weather is a fickle thing.....

I have scanned all the art in the basket on the printer. I'm going to close this one out and start a new one with the rest of the art.

See ya in the next post!

:)

Peace

831

Reading Goal Met! and Some Crazy Weather!

No pictures yet. I WILL get around to scanning something this evening.

I have met my goal of reading 50 books this year! Yeah!!!! Now, if I could get my butt in gear and make the goal of 1000 inchies this year, I'll be doing fantastic! If that is to happen, I really have to get busy on it!

The weather gurus are talking about snow for Saturday. SNOW! In early October! It's crazy!
The temps dropped to the lower 50s today and are not expected to rise anytime soon. I have put the electric blanket on the bed to keep warm. I'm not ready to fire up the furnace just yet...perhaps next week...once it gets down to 'really cold' out there, yeah, I'll fire it up! I'm very low on propane at the moment and I don't want the furnace sucking it down like koolaid. I won't freeze~! I have the electric blanket and the radiator heater that heats a small space at a time. Sit that sucker by my desk and I'll be alright! Bundle up in layers....
Ma is going tomorrow to take care of the propane.

I have been on another sleeping jag. Eleven hours today. I had to 'fight' with three cats for space on my own bed! That danged Billy thinks he can sleep in the very center of the bed atop the blankets--I sleep in the center of the bed! Doob was certain I needed her to keep my left side warm. That fat critter squished me! I made her move numerous times during sleep. The little one doesn't really take up a lot of room and I don't even notice her really except when she sticks her nose in my face and tickles me with her whiskers. She likes to sleep under the blankets.

Got repair people coming in the morning to fix the stove in the kitchen. I really didn't think they'd get on it that quick! Guess it is rather serious though...a gas leak and all.

I have some cutting of folders to do this evening. Need to keep up with that endeavor as well as cutting inchies. I'm about out of those and need them for the goal. Got plenty of twinchies for the time being.
I really need to do some scanning also. You all haven't seen anything I've made for weeks.

I really don't have much of importance to talk about today so I'll stop rambling and let you all get on with whatever it is you need to get on with!
Have a Fabulous Friday!
Go get some hugs! Give a few smiles while you're at it!
Be good to one another!
Peace
831

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Title of this post is courtesy of Lola Kid. She was walking all over the desk while I was in the cutting room apparently. It works out OK. I have trouble thinking up an appropriate title to these posts sometimes. Lola didn't exactly hit the nail on the head today, but close enough. What more can we expect from a 7 week old kitten?



I do hope the world is being good to you all. All in all, I can't complain too much. I am in a great deal of pain these days from an infection but the daily aches and pains aren't any worse than usual.



I forgot to read my last post before I started in on this one so if I repeat myself, just chalk it up to old age creeping in! ;)



I'm pretty sure I told you all about Lola Kid so we won't be repeating that again. It looks as though she is here to stay, and that's alright with me. She's a nice little Kitten. Not too crazy about her name being Lola but she knows that is her name so we will keep it. I didn't name her. Susan and Linda did. Someday I'll show you a picture of her.



She and Fred had a gay ol' time following the weatherization guy around this morning. He came out to check over my house to see if they may be able to help me out with energy effeciency.

He was here for 4 hours checking out the furnace, hot water heater, water pipes, cook stove, insulation and other things. He was back here in my deskroom with the vent cover off one of the heater ducts, down on his hands and knees with his handy dandy mirror gadget and his flashlight. The dog was right down there with him, trying to see what it was he was looking at in that hole in the floor. The Kitten jumped from the top of the desk on to his back and was looking over his shoulder to see just what he and that dog were looking at. It was quite a sight! Then he put the vent cover back on, got the screws all screwed back in and says, "Dang! I left my flashlight in there!" He retrieved his flashlight and continued on with his inspection.

He had all kinds of cool gadgets! That little long handled mirror was something! When I first laid eyes on it I thought to myself, 'prisoners in jail would kill for that cool little thing!' I saw no use for it myself though.

He checked for air flow too. I didn't get to watch that test, wish I could have. He checked (with one of his (biggest) cool gadgets) to see how much air was getting in or out of the windows and doors. He had this big fan, a black bag with some equipment (never seen what was in the bag) and what appeared to be a screen door frame. He used the backdoor to do this test. I was in the livingroom talking to RW and Sam at the time.

He drilled two holes in the ceiling: one in the laundryroom and one in the cutting room closet, to check how much insulation is in the attic crawlspace. I live in a trailer house, I don't really have an attic! Then he drilled another hole in the outside wall in my closet to see how much insulation was in the outside walls of the house.

He crawled under the house to check the water pipes, looked under the kitchen and bathrooms sinks (I have 2 bathrooms). He was at the furnace for quite some time. He checked and tested the hot water heater and turned it down a touch cause it was at full blast. (I thought that water was awfully warm this morning while I was in the shower! I just hope he didn't turn it down too much! Cause I like me some hot water in the shower in the winter especially!)

He had this other gadget that detected gas leaks. It went nutso in the kitchen. My cookstove is leaking propane. He's gonna get someone out here pronto to fix that!

I really didn't think he would be here as long as he was. I had intended to go to bed once he left cause I got up at 7 pm last night from a six hour nap. I didn't get to bed till 4 pm and was awake by 10pm.

Seems I'll be getting a new furnace, insulation in the attic, insulation on the underbelly of the house, insulation and a blanket for the hot water heater, the stove fixed and something else... I knew I should have written that all down!

He said it would take 2 to 5 months for all this occur but it will happen! The furnace I have now works, it just isn't effecient. He also said he would try to get the central air unit hooked up as well but he didn't hold out much hope for that. I'll more than likely get a new screen door for the front door as well.

So..... good things happened today on that front. They called yesterday to say they would be coming this morning to do the inspection. They called Ma's number though. She came down last evening, did the dishes and helped me clean up the kitchen. Actually she did the majority of the work cause I was asleep when she got here and was three hours later I woke up to a bunch of noise in the kitchen.

I tried calling her this afternoon when the fella left but she wasn't home. Then I went to bed and woke up after she'd gone to bed.



I got all my ATC envies folded. Still have about 75 of them to glue. I'm done with ATC envies till I need more. I cut paper for matchbook notepads while Lola was in here walking all over the keyboard giving this post a title. (Some of those will end up as Christmas gifts this year. You know that is right around the corner, don't you?) Later, after I get something to eat, I'm going to put together more little handmade books. They're all made, paper cut, just got to put them together. Have about 30 of them ready for assembly.



I'm throwing around the idea of entering a chunky page swap. I'm not in any swaps right now and my plate is empty as far as trading art is concerned. The theme of the swap is fairy godmothers. Penlowe gave me an idea to fairy-up a picture of Ma as the cleaning fairy. I love the idea! Just haven't decided if I want to commit to it just yet. The pages aren't due till November but that is just around the corner too! You all will get to see them if I enter the swap.



Yes, I know you all are waiting (patiently) for me to scan the art in the little basket atop the printer. That might happen later tonight. That involves a lot of arm movement...putting them on the scanner bed, taking them off...and this right arm of mine just doesn't want to move too awful much today. It hurts like a big dog to move that arm!



Lola Kid is asleep on the desktop with her little head drapped over my right wrist at the moment. Typing doesn't require painful movements of my arm.

Doob is atop the computer tower with her eyes shut tight like she's afraid of something and just doesn't want to look! Lola Kid taught Doob to play with the things hanging on the wall behind the tower. There were four rosaries there when Lola came to live with me. There are now only two of them there cause Lola Kid pulled two of them down and they are on the floor behind the desk where I cannot easily retrieve them. Those rosaries and most of the other stuff on the walls has been there for 3 years now. Doob never touched them till after she saw Lola playing with them. Doob is 14 yrs old, not much of a player anymore, but she sat up there playing with as much as enthusiasm as Lola plays earlier this morning.



I need to dose Fred with Noromectin before the sun rises. Dose #2 for his mange problem. It seems to be getting better. He doesn't itch near as much since he started the treatment. He's still bald on his belly though. I think that's gonna take awhile for him to grow his hair back. I'm gonna have to make him a sweater for the winter cause that dog's belly is gonna freeze if I don't! I'll go to the thriftstore on Friday and see if I can find a sweatshirt I can modify. Don't want him freezing his belly! Three more doses to go...once a week.

Go get your hugs for the day!
Peace
831

A Windy Thursday, More Cat Wounds and the Trees are Turning Colors!

The wind is whipping the trees this afternoon. Gale force out there! Not sure just how fast the wind is blowing but it is a good thing the temperature isn't too chilly. I have got to call RJ and RW and get them out here to take the A/C out of the deskroom window so I can close that window!
I've yet to go outside today. Truth be known I just climbed my butt out of bed. I'd still be asleep but that demon kitten attacked me while I was trying to sleep! I have more wounds (and yep, they bled!) from a deranged cat! This time the little one got me. She didn't do it to be mean, she was just trying not to fall off the bed and grabbed ahold of my left thumb with claws extended and now I have two nice claw stripes on the heel of my hand. They match the claw stripe from Doob on my right hand!
RW is taking the kitten off my hands. I'm hoping to see him sometime today. He accidentally ran over their kitten, Junior the day before yesterday. The kids were all up in arms about it...not happy little campers...and I told RW after he'd called about the kitten, that 'yes, you can have her! Come get her!'
I haven't seen Billy since the day before yesterday. It isn't unusual for Billy to go missing for a day or two though so I'm not really too worried about his feline hide. He will show up when he gets hungry. I do need to go check in the burned house to see if he's out there but it's doubtful he is out there cause he can come and go from the burned house as he pleases. RJ fixed it so he could get in there and then get out as well.
Fred is fine. He now has medicine for the balding. Vet says he has mange. We got some medicine for it. Lou is to be thanked for that! She took it upon herself to go see the vet and discuss Fred's balding belly. Thanks Lou!
I simply didn't have the money to take Fred to the vet. RW and Lou don't really have the money either, but Lou thought this important enough to find the money. She's a good kid!
Fred will take the meds once a week for 5 weeks and the doc says he will be good as new after that. He seems to sleep a lot more since I gave him his first dose. But other than that, he's fine. Still as goofy as he ever was.

I noticed yesterday when I was looking out the back door that the trees are turning colors. It is about that time of year.... the virginia creeper vine on the fence of the pen at Susan's house is now bright red with dark purple berries on it. Very pretty and very much reminding me that winter is right around the corner!

I know nothing new ....least not yet for the day.
If something comes up, I'll be back to tell you all about it!
Get your hugs!
Peace
831

If Pigs Could Fly...

we would all never go outside again! Think of what they could release to fall upon your head!!!!

It is very early on Tuesday morning. 2:45 a.m. to be exact.
I've been sitting in front of this pc for hours, reading blogs about art, life, oil engineers, travelers and other subjects as well that I just can't recall at the moment. It has been a learning experience, all this blog reading. I did not, however, add any new blogs to the 'everyday' list in my reading this morning. That's unusual for me.
There are certain blogs I read every single day I have access to them. (Sometimes, as you all know, my machine takes on a mind of its own and my own mind can't keep up with it so I abandon it for a few days and somehow it all works out that the issues dictating the machine's mind have been overpowered by the issues that dictate my own mind.)
None of the blogs I read frequently are updated on a daily basis, with the exception of one. I learn all kinds of things from these people! Things I wouldn't have a clue about if I didn't have the opportunity to read what they have to say.
I read six blogs on a regular basis. Each of those people enrich my life by sharing their own lives...their opinions, their endeavors, their means of making a living, their dreams and creativity, their loves, their losses. They share themselves. I'm thankful for their openness, for their humanity.

I didn't get any inchies made and I didn't get all my ATC envies folded nor glued. I did get about half of the ones that needed glued glued and put away. That stack of cut ones that needs to be folded is a daunting stack about two inches thick. I'm not sure just how many envelopes sit in that stack. 150 or more?
I certainly will have enough to last me a long time! I have plans for those envies so I'm not really hoping to hang onto them for too awfully long. What I'm hoping is that more will be needed to be made eventually!
And that is why the inchies didn't get made and the envies didn't get finished as originally planned. I sat in the livingroom going through magazines, pulling out pages with perfect pictures to make those ATC envies out of!
I have so many magazines I really don't know what to do with them all. And more keep coming....some of them are really good for ATC envies... the paper is the most important factor. Some magazines have very flimsy paper! I use it, but I prefer the magazines with stiffer paper...unusual pictures...unusal fonts....colors. The paper though, is the most important element in design of an ATC envie. A flimsy page has to have an exceptional design on it or it is not going to be made into an envelope.
In the process of hunting for envie pages in the magazines, I also run across images that may come in handy some day for a piece of art. Like magazines, I have more images already found, cut and put in a container than one person could possibly use in a lifetime. I have plans for those images just like I have plans for the ATC envies.
Those plans are in the 'thinking' stage at the moment...the 'getting ready to launch' stage is happening as well just in case the 'thinking' stage pans out like it should.
I cut one presentation folder today. 27 ATC blanks made. Plans for those as well.
I did figure out how to cut inchies on the paper cutter I have. That is a good thing! It wastes some cardstock, but it is much easier on my hands than trying to punch those little devils with the hand punch. There is plenty of cardstock on hand that the little waste isn't actually waste.
Twinchies are quite easy to accomplish on the paper cutter, as are 4x4s. I have lots of chipboard packaging stashed that I need to cut some 4x4s soon.
I've been thinking about making some paper from the scraps of things cut on the paper cutter. The scraps are small pcs...not much useful for much of anything BUT making paper from it. Paper making can't be done in the winter. Need lots of space and somewhere to get really messy in. A nice sunny summer day would be ideal to make paper in the yard! Guess paper making will wait a few months. But I can start collecting paper scrap from when I cut blanks and other paper.
RW took out two bags of trash this afternoon that were 95% paper. I'd like to have a go at paper making. I've never done it before. I know how it's done...I've read the tutorials and all. I have the paper scraps...and then some... to make handmade paper and save a bunch of it from ending up in the landfill.
Oh, the plans brewing in my mind! I can't tell you about them yet though...cause in reality... it really is only a bunch of thinking and very little action leading me anywhere just yet. Patience is a virtue! I have tons of patience.
There are those who would say I have an over abundance of it and it occasionaly becomes an obsession... this patience of mine. I will wait 'forever' for things to happen. That's a lack of agressiveness I wish I possessed at times. Patience doesn't always pay off. Yet, :) I persist at it cause sometimes... it does pay off.

There is a little, furry, purring unit upon my desk trying to rearrange the elements. She has thoroughly messed up my pile of pens here on the desktop. Kitten has no name as of yet. She just woke from an hour's nap in the skirt of my dress. I wrap my feet around the legs of my chair and when I wear a dress, a little hammock is formed... just the right size for a kitten who can literally sit in the palm of my hand. She snoozed quit nicely! And now she's awake and ready to wreck havoc.

The weather is getting cooler and cooler as the days progress into Autumn. My hands and feet are cold these days. Need to shut up the house... close all the windows, put the A/Cs away... check the furnace...get some propane. I need to get the boys over here next weekend. I need to wash my electric blanket. I already have two blankets on my bed along with the flannel sheets. I'm a cold-blooded old girl. I won't warm back up till spring.

There are no pictures in these posts cause I haven't scanned anything new to put in these posts. I keep telling Susan to send me the pictures we took the afternoon we went out to Jerry's oil well. She says she doesn't know how to do that. She is never on her computer when I go to her house. We do very little communicating on this machine. I'm not sure I'll ever see any of those pictures unless I go over there and send them to myself in an email. I want to show you all the hills around here... show you the places I talk about. The State Lake where I take Fred swimming, the countryside...its a beautiful place where I live! Susan has those pictures. I wish my own camera would talk to this pc. But it refuses...damned machine. So, no pictures unless I scan something.

I think I have rambled on enough this morning and I am going to haul my butt to bed. Yes, that kitten and Doob will be following. I'm pretty sure Fred is warming the bed as I say my farewells.
Here's hoping Tuesday turns out to be a glorious day! There were no hugs forthcoming since the last post but I'm certain there are more forthcoming the hours ahead. Go get yours!
Peace
831

Monday has rolled around .....again!

I did a post all about kittens not too long ago. I also stated in a post previous to the kitten post that I did not want another cat when Miss Blue passed on. Well, disregard that statement cause as I sit here making this long overdue post, there is a kitten sitting atop my right shoulder surveying her surroundings and sticking her cold wet nose in my right ear!
How, you ask, did I end up with a kitten when I vehemently did not want another cat? I'm still trying to figure that one out myself.
She doesn't even really have a name yet... Susan calls her Lola and Sam calls her Pete. RW's cat, Mama Kitty, is this kitten's mama. Sam has her sister and had her as well for a little while.
Sam said he couldn't keep her cause she refused to use the litter box all the time. She had peed on his dirty laundry apparently and he just couldn't have that. So Susan rescued the kitten and decided I needed a kitten even knowing that she has little chance of making it to adulthood out here in the country.
Doob is not a happy cat cause of the kitten. Doob tried to attack the little thing while it was sitting on top of my desk last night. Doob came from behind to swat the kitten, got me instead and didn't phase that kitten in the least! I have WOUNDS from Doob's claws! Wounds that bled profusely! That one on my elbow still hurts this morning!
Guess the kitten is here to stay though so I better come up with a name for her. I've been calling her Kid, but I call all of my critters, kid so that is not going to work. Susan will always call her Lola cause that is the name she and Linda gave the kitten when Sam brought her home from RW's house a couple weeks ago.
The kitten is quite afraid of the dog. She hisses, fluffs up her fur and side-steps that dog every time he comes near her. He acts like he doesn't even notice that little fluff of fur getting all bent out of shape. They will eventually come to terms with one another. Fred really likes kitties and this little one will come to realize that that big old dog is not going to hurt her.
Like I said, Doob is not a happy camper! Doob and Kitten both slept in my bed last night though and did so without any complaints from Doob. They even ate out of the same dish last night though Doob wasn't quite sure she liked that idea.
Billy is indifferent to the kitten. He hisses and goes on his way. The kitten gives him a wide berth and stays out of his way. She should be paying heed to Doob in that manner but she seems to delight in antagonizing Doob instead.
So, looks like I have a new addition to the family.

RW brought me another 'pet' the day before yesterday. Like I needed another one! I haven't decided just what to do with this other pet. I'm not even sure it can be properly called a pet.
This critter is living on borrowed time as it is. Winter rolls in and this critter will die regardless. That's just the way the Good Lord made her! Winter comes along and life is over!
The critter RW brought me a 4 inch long praying mantis he found somewhere in the yard. I collect insects. Dead ones. The mantis is still alive in a to-go cup that the boy brought her to me in. I know it's a female cause of her size. Males are always much smaller! It is mating season for mantids and I'm uncertain if this one has had the chance to lay her eggs yet. I'd like to have her in my collection once she dies, but do I want to put her in the freezer and make the end swift or do I want to just let her languish in that cup till the end comes? I honestly don't feel right about either of those ideas simply cause I don't know if she has laid her eggs yet or if she even had the chance to mate. Oh dilemmas!
She's a beautiful creature! Just over 4 inches in length, brownish gray on her wing covers, bright green on the rest of her. I just haven't decided yet what will be her fate. I do want her for my collection for the simple fact she is a magnificent specimen and she will die when the cold weather comes along. I'm thinking I could also keep her as a pet until she does die of natural causes. Put her in a large gallon glass jar and feed her bugs of various sorts till that time comes along. I just don't know what to do with her! Guess I'll figure that out along the way.
Everyone calls me a bug murderer cause I do have other bugs in my freezer at this very moment that met their fate at my hands. I don't know why this one is giving me such trouble deciding what to do with her. Any other bug I would have just stuck in the freezer and not worried about it! I do have to do something with her soon. She can't stay in that large cup for the rest of her life, (unless I just put her in the freezer and stop worrying about it!).

It is now about three hours after I typed the last sentence. RW and Lou showed up to spend the afternoon with me.
I had put the mantid in the freezer not more than 10 minutes before they showed up. RW asked if I had found it on my desk and I thanked him for the gift as I was taking it out of the freezer to show him I had indeed found it. It was already dead as a doorknob. It doesn't take much of a cold snap to kill a praying mantis! For that I was indeed thankful! I now have a beautiful specimen for my collection. I do hope though that she did get a chance to lay an egg sac so more mantids will be in the yard next year. I'll never know for sure....
It was good to see RW and Lou. They helped me with some chores...taking out the trash, sweeping the kitchen, ect. We sat in the livingroom for a couple hours shooting the breeze while they looked at all my inchies I've done this year.
Inchies are on my agenda for this evening. I am up to almost 700 and I'd like to get a few dozen done sometime today. I have a few dozen that need to be scanned also.
I will have to clean up the mess I've made with the envelopes before I can get to the sharpies to do inchies. Only about two dozen envies to cut, 100 or so to fold and about 200 to glue. I'll be done with making ATC envies for awhile.
I've been cutting the presentation folders up into ATC and twinchie blanks also. I'd really like to be able to empty that box of folders and start on another soon. I only 50 or so cases of them to go through. At the rate I'm going, I'll be 90 by the time I get them all cut. Gotta get busy on that!

I've not made any art in the last week or so....with exception to the stuff that needs scanned...I've been busy working on those ATC envies.
I want to do a few pages in my altered book sometime this week also.

I'm just rambling now....need to go do something productive. You all get your hugs today! I got a few already today, perhaps more are forthcoming..... don't miss out on yours!
Peace 831

Early Saturday Morning!

Dang! Had to come back and add the post! All that I got posted the first time was the title to this post. Don't type in your title and hit the enter button! You will have to do some editing to get your post where you want it!
That's pretty good! It's 6 in the morning and I've already learned something today. It is a good omen, I think!

Yesteday I didn't feel well enough to add commentary to my post so I did it earlier today.
Today, I still don't feel exceptionally good, but I'm doing laundry, sitting in front of my pc getting some things done I have been meaning to do and drinking lukewarm coffee.
Coffee is lukewarm cause it's been sitting on this desk for awhile. Need to go fill it back up. Though there's a mess on the counter under the coffee maker cause 'someone' (that would have been me if truth be known) didn't set the coffee pot under the dripper right. It dripped all right! All over the counter! Should have known I couldn't do that in the dark! Had to make a whole new pot! Good thing that tiny little coffee maker only makes two cups at a time!
I do not know what is on the agenda for today. I've made no plans. I haven't made any plans for anything in a long time actually.
I went to Pburg with Sam the day before yesterday. He took me to lunch and to go shopping at Alco. I had no money on me. I left my purse at home. So I didn't buy anything. Which is OK, cause I really didn't need anything.
I went to breakfast at Frank's with Susan the day before yesterday also. I had to drive cause she is still gimp in her shoulder. We took her convertible. Top up. It was quite chilly that morning.
Saw the kids the day before yesterday as well. They came to town instead of me going to them.
Saw RW and RJ (again) the day before yesterday. Sam fixed RW's front door for him. Now if he'd just quit kicking the danged thing in when he gets mad, he might have a good door for awhile! RW and his brood were headed to Nebraska today to see Lou's mom. That should be a good trip for them all. Got to see all four grandboys while there.
I don't have any other pictures to show you all today. I have 9 ATCs that need to be scanned. I did five of those yesterday and found 4 of them in my bowl where I keep my trade index cards. They have been there since MAY!
I'm not trading much art these days cause I don't have the money to be spending on postage but I am still producing art.
One of these days I'll scan some of the pages in my altered book so you all can take a peek. That ain't happening today though.
I'm praying this old body of mine will hurry up and act right. Well, as right as it can act! I hurt from the top of my head to the tips of my toes in one degree or another. I have absolutely no energy!
My cell phone has died from lack of adding minutes to it. I won't be able to rememdy that problem till after the first of October. Not that I use the cell phone much, but it's still a good thing to have around!
Bills are on my agenda for today! Those must get in the mail! Soon!
I guess laundry is on the agenda as well beings I've been working on it since about 3 this morning. I let laundry get out of hand and now have about seven loads to do! What the hell was I thinking?
Fred needs a good dose of oil on his belly. He needs to take two benedryls as well sometime today. He didn't do well with the benedryls yesterday. I usually wrap them up in a slice of bread. He bit right through one of those capsules and refused to eat anymore bread yesterday. I had to put peanut butter on the bread and stick another capsule in it to get him to take the darn thing. They help with all his itching. His belly is bald! He's lost all his fur there and the skin is very dry. Looks like he has psoriasis. I'm really not sure just what he does have! I'm thinking mange...but where he'd get it from is beyond me. I'd love to take him to the vet, but the funds just do not allow that expenditure and we are taking the home remedy route, hoping to do him some good. A consult with the vet on the phone was helpful. That's where I learned about the oiling his bare spots and the benedryl. He's perfectly happy, just terribly itchy at times. Still eats, sleeps, gives that Billy cat hell and stays out Doob's way. I think a trip to the lake for a bath is on Fred's agenda today. It has been awhile since we took a lake trip for a bath. Sure wouldn't hurt the dog! Guess that means I'll be going to the lake as well cause we all dogs cannot drive! And he ain't getting out there without someone driving his hide out there.

I have been trying for weeks to add to my top ten scores on Splashspot.com's Cave In game. I'm lucky to hit 200,000 points. My top score is 427,000 some right now. I'll keep plugging along with that!

You all have a superb Saturday! I'll give it my best shot!
Peace
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