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 How in the world does one get to be so old?  Only 3 years to 80... i just can't even go there, that seems so very impossible.. My lovely niece booked a sitting for me to get some tattoos that i have been wanting, so off to eugene, oregon we went!  It was a bright sunny day and it was like that ALL week-end.  she booked an abnb and it was a really great house, with stellar beds. i could have slept in it forever!! Had a great lunch at Morning Glory Cafe.. and wonderful dinner at The Gordon.. i had an ice berg lettuce wedge and gin n juice which was lovely.  BUT i was having one of my days where i just could not eat anything,  have those now and again, like everything just will not go down, then when it does it sits there and makes me uncomfortable.. which was sad as i could not do credit to the meal...

I had a little tiny heart with a paw print on my left index finger. and a single line drawing by Picasso of a dachsund on the inner right wrist and 5 bird silhouttes  above mom's initials on my right inner ankle... i had some numbing cream for the finger and it really worked.. was really worried that i would make a fool of myself and it would be horrid painful, BUT i survived and all is well.  almost all healed by now.  

Sunday we went to the Eugene Saturday market, which was fun.. very aromatic (if u know what i mean)  lots of tie-dye  and cross dressing.. i can't tell, really most all of the time... but it was very interesting to sit and watch the crowd passing by.  i had bites off other peoples mac n cheese, pizza.. and had Dairy Queen cheese curds, which are really good...!!!  we left about 3pm and home by 6p so not too bad. and the drive was lovely

We stopped here and took pictures.. always driving by this and never stopped!! so this time we did and got some good pics!

also stopped at Sahalie Falls to pee.. the vault toilet was awful!!! and i have never seen so much water going over in all the times i have stopped here.  There is also a GREAT walk around the back of these falls to the other side then down past another falls Kooshah or something like that and back up to these (right Patty? we did this one year when you came to visit)

So it was quite the fun filled week end and i am on to another year...( i do NOT want to complain as so many others do not get these years and i am not complaining, it just seems odd to me to be this old.. i think of my self as much, much younger with flowing brown hair and able to jump up and take off with ease, and then get a shock when i actually do get up to move and creak and groan... am lucky tho as do not have any great illness to have to deal with and thank my lucky stars and God for that)

Take care all and God Bless

p.s.  this is little Sade, now 8.7 oz!

Gloomy

 I am so very pleased with how my daffodils are doing,, have a line of them in the front by sidewalk and every year they fill in more and more.. this is a good year!

It is so gloomy outside.. wish it would just rain for pete's sake!!  we get sprinkles and that is about it.. Have been watching Shogun on Hulu. i quite like it.. Japanese is an Interesting culture.. Of course it is a movie, but still some of it must be based somewhat on fact..

But it has all the intrigue like all history and maneuvering for control, which is a story in itself, but not so interesting to watch sometimes and my mind just does  not grasp what a major point may be and mean for an outcome... just can't think that i way i guess, have the same thing with mystery stories or crime.. can never figure how they get to the conclusion they did, unless it is really spelled out for me... 

So i re- read the Shell Seekers and it was as good as i remember from the first time, back in the 80's, now on to a Lisa Jackson mystery Tell Me.... Going to make some choco chip cookies and continue on with Shogun.. ( as an aside, i just got Hulu, dropped some others i had, there seems to be alot on here that i want to see.  Watched They Were The Lucky Ones up until the episodes continue weekly.. that is one depressing show, about Jews in WWII and we all know that story....

Still using my electric blanket at night.. it is still COLD here at nite

Take Care All and God Bless

OH!

 Oh my gosh, my blog was gone for awhile there!!! Trying to figure out why when i comment on someone else's blog, i am anonymous!!!  Why? and then trying to get my picture in that comment box and just. can. not. figure it out and in the process disabled the whole blog!!! Geez... getting caught in that vortex makes my stomach hurt and all queezy... what the heck anyway ?.. but... hopefully i am back...

and then Brian wanted to know if in spam there was some comment on some of the cards he had ordered on ebay (baseball/football) i don't like doing things with ebay.. and won't use that paypal at all as everytime i get hacked... and got some things there all messed up, it is better that i just. do. not look at anything in that spam folder at all, there are the weirdst things that appear, trying to get u to respond so they do bad things to your account.. so just deleted everything there.  it deletes itself after a period of time anyway and better to just not know what is going on o trying to be going on..

so, will try the blog one more time and see that things are still as should be....

and heres a little Spring from my yard... Take Care and God Bless

Puppies!!!

We had snow again!! did not last the day, but geez, it was cold to wake up to. Robin said it was horrid driving to work at 3am, blowing and foggy, could not see the road. and when i went to Bend later in the day the roads were bare but it was still snowing heavily in Bend..this was Thursday if i remember right..

the puppies were born Saturday and she only had TWO and both female, so i will be getting a female and she will be Sade..   Will be able to get her June 8th..  2 whole months...

Yesterday i cleaned house, and dusted, cleaned bathroom, did 3 loads laundry, two of rugs.. hung 2 pictures that have been laying about for months and months. Cut the backing off of some estate sale sparkly jewelry that i have a project in mind for.. finished a baby afghan, don't know of any babies, but i am ready should there be any :)  changed sheets on bed, washed those. Just been a busy little bee.. I did go to Costco and they had their flats of pansies, so got one of those and have been nursing them as it is too cold to put them out i think.  but have learned when they have them you need to get them as next time they may not still have any.. and you will have missed out.  and they are nice big, blooming ones.. so just have to wait for some warm weather, and it is supposed to be 60 tomorrow, soooo

I ordered Hulu and AMC plus because i wanted to watch TWD and finally got to see the final season, the Daryl in France and Maggie and Negan in NYC.  so my nites have been full, hahahaha  got rid of Paramont +

Well that is about it... Got a ham for Easter, and have had 3 full meals off of it and dinner for me in the form of a soup mad with the bone and meat off of the bone.  Scalloped potatoes and the soup for the 3 meals after the dinner of ham and potato salad on Easter.  and it only cost $3.44,  really marked down from $21 on day b4 Easter,  was amazing, feel like i got my moneys worth out of that!!!

Take Care All and God Bless
 

Signs

 

 

We have signs of Spring!!!  It is an exciting occurrence. Have left the door open the last two days, and have no heat on. Have not even used that great electric blanket at night!  Picked up fallen limbs and sticks from the back yard.. Am house sitting for 5 days!! starting Saturday in Sisters.. have got to remember to take an afghan project (baby blanket) no baby due, just like to have them on hand in case.. and it gives me something to do.. Got pkg to Arizona mailed.. still have to get the Easter one to kids in Iowa .. have finally gotten it together. 

We have gotten lax around here, in regards to getting a new puppy.. leaving doors open and things laying about. I am sure in short order we will once again get trained, the hard way :)

 but prob won't be until 1st of june so plenty of time to get things to where they need to be.  

It is 74!!! so, so nice...

The mailman keeps delivering my pkgs to the neighbor,  we are right next to one another, but 2709 and 2721 do not look alike and it seems to be no prob to them to trundle over here with what i ordered.  but geez, how hard can it be to read the pkg? i get my other mail.. just seems to b the packages...

Am starting to get all those slick ads for voting for this person or that... i won't vote for them as they seem to have plenty of money to spend on those things than doing the job they were hired to do.. i know that seems stupid and doesn't really track, but that is what i feel.. and i get three or 4 of them for the same person every week, how much does that cost anyway..? don't like her anyway so... there is that.

Well, that is it, sit here trying to wrack my brain for something to say.. On FB there is a group called dull women... and that would be me... hahaha.. they all seem to be doing things and are interesting, so don't know how dull they really are.....

Take Care and God Bless

Home again

 Got home about 2;30p on Thursday... all safe n sound...  Got everything out of the car in good order.. had laundry to do!!! and a car to clean.  Which i did on Friday, to the car wash... i am sure they used salt on the roads in Utah as it was all over my car... a crusty rime where the water/snow/slush was upended on me.  Some of those summits were seemingly high and NO guard rails... could have just soared out into the wild blue! Stopped at all the view points.. It was great to see things from up so high and it was a great time to move about and not be in one place, driving.. in every place, were there another person, we all interjected how marvelous it all was  'God's Beauty'... Could not help but think of all the pioneers (women) that walked over all of this, and at the break of each hill/mountain to see just more of what you had just been thru and more and more and more to go.. how in the world they did it all.  Such bravery and fortitude!! and this was at a time when things were starting to green up,  what about in the heat of the summer, or the coolness of the Fall with the harbinger of Winter on their heels....

It was good to see everyone and that things were as i left them, and the house was clean and put together (thank you Robin!!)Now i need to get an oil change and get windshield washer fluid into the tank..Arizona by far has the worse roads!!! with Oregon not far behind... Nevada had good roads... less traveled or all of that gambling money??? Lowest gas was at Panguitch near Bryce Canyon @ $3.20 a gal and the most expensive in Burns, Oregon @ $4.26... On the way down i spent the night in Tonapah, NV and on the way back home, in Munds Park, AZ,  (near Flagstaff)  Kanab, UT, and Winnemuca, NV

I went in to see the Grand Canyon, last time i was there was in 1986 with Brian in July... it was very hot!! Also stopped at Bryce Canyon, but did not go to all of the view points as there was snow!!! and i was not at all dressed or had the attire to be traipsing about in the snow!!!  I have a senior pass, so get into all National Parks free... normally it was $35 per car... i think, did not really pay alot of attention to that, as.. i was free.... i got that pass when a bunch of my friends and i took a trip to Hawaii(big island) and got it at the volcano there.  that was about 2000, and it has really served me well every since.. Was able to get into many places when i was in the RV 2010-2011

It was a great trip. i got to visit with old, dear friends and see a lot of different country and come away with the realization that i can do this, i can go and do things. i am still capable...

Take Care all and God Bless

Bryce

 I drove n drove and drove.. over i don't know how many passes and most looked like this!! Snow and sleet.. ran out of my windshield fluid.. so would have to stop and use my bottled water and wipers.. after going for a long ways and not being able to see, as trucks would throw stuff up and my car looks horrid, they must use salt on the highways....

and who knew Bryce Canyon would be covered in snow!!! i went into the park, stopped at 1st stop, Sunrise Viewpoint... took pics, then got back in car n went to visitor center to stamp my passport n get a t-shirt and left... got there early, thank heavens as there were lines of people on the way!! but i was not dressed at all for snow! only had my tennis shoes... minced my way to the viewpoint

(i can't seem to get a picture of me AND the background.. my niece gets really cute pictures, can't believe she has that long of arms.) must be a setting i am missing. and why is my mouth open?

See... walkway to the viewpoint..very snowy

Red Rock Canyon

So i saw lots. was here when Brian was a junior in HS!!! many, many years ago and lots are NOT as a remembered, lots of changes.  It is just alot more populated, built up, not as wild seeming as i remembered. but still out of the way... There were signs for other places, like Grande Escalante which sounds like a place i would like to see...  Just many more rocks and places unseen... and even driving along there are rocks, formations, sights... it would seem i have all the time in the world, but i did not want to linger, maybe that is just how i travel.. hurry up and get back.. (:

So, am in Winnemuca today from Kanab UT, through SLC.. i NOT get lost and traffic was not bad, it was about noon... But today was the longest day and most all of it was on freeways... so not my fav... but very beautiful

Take Care and God Bless... yay for being home!!!!!