goofy

 Went to another paint class, there were 40 people there!  She gets a huge turnout.. there are a couple more i would like to do, there is a church, deer and a highland cow.  there is always something else you want to do, right ?.. never done or satisfied... 

watched "Our Girl" on Prime, part of BBC and there were 2 seasons, but different stories.. thought it very well done, kept me interested and was really exciting/scary in places.. it is military show... taking place in Kenya and Afghanistan..  and only 5 episodes long, so not a huge investment of time  :)

We had SNOW last night, one time, when letting Sade out, it was really coming down, but turned into just a skiff and was gone by mid day.  Stayed up until after midnight to finish that Prime show, so slept in today, well went back to bed after letting whozit outside for morning pee.  

Made a chicken soup for dinner today, with crusty bread.. It was yummy...

Well, that is about it... going to start my xmas sewing... pillow cases and then little things, potholders,  jar openers, and want to do a stocking for Brian out of old jeans, sounds horrid, huh?  the pattern looks cute on Pinterest.

Take Care and God Bless All

cleaning

 Been making xmas cads.. all different, get tired of making the same thing over and over.  BUT then have a hard time remembering who got what, hahaha

Oh well, it is fun and makes for interesting times trying to get them all to turn out...

and finding an envelope to fit! and not get too bulky, as don't want to pay extra postage for all of them!

also made some, favors? the house holds a hersey kiss and the sled/skates hold a full size kit kat bar. These were fun to make

those ones above are 4 boxes of varying sizes, lots of measuring, cutting, scoring the 1st one remarkably well then the 2nd one, was a nightmare, don't now what happened.. but had to make them twice... so, those will be the only 2 i do of that one!  I love watching uTube and getting ideas and they go thru things step by step and normally easy to follow.

I cleaned house today!!! even pulled up the big rug and vacuum under it, mopped... moved the couch, huge footstool and both chairs to get under, lots o rawhide chews under there! wiped down walls and base boards, yes i totally went over board, but once i got started.... washed rugs, then had to put it all back, by that time Brian was home and he was able to move that footstool, it is hard to move things on the rug, that's why i folded up one end of the rug, that way the couch and chairs just scoot on the hardwood floors..

Tomorrow i have nails , then go to walgreens and stand in line and wait as they have not refilled my calcium....i have probs with that every darn month! they give me enough for 3 mos, BUT i don't take one a day, i take 3!!! and insurance does not seem to understand......

I made some really good date bread, and Brian informed me that he isn't eating sweets as he needs to loose weight and eat healthier for his new job.... finally worked his way up in seniority to apply for the air driver job.... thank heavens.. the application process goes on forever and has specific steps and training for it, he got so frustrated... and i could not get the computer to work properly, so that was my fault, they finally had him use one at the warehouse office, thank goodness!!!!  anyway, so i am left to eat my good date bread... ah well.... (and he just came home home with burgers from McDonalds)???

Take Care All and God Bless

October

 Lovely day today.  almost warm, had a light jacket on and did not feel cool at all. Went to 3 Christmas bazaars... had Sade with me and let her out a couple times and it was just too interesting, as she wanted to sniff and not tend to 'business'... but did not whine either, so guess she just had no need.  Found some interesting things and did not spend too much money.. :)  

These were outside Highland Baptist, they were having a Christmas Mkt they called it, went there last year and it was the ladies and all their little crafts and some of  them were quite the seamstress's and really reasonable, but none of that this year ...

I am tending the chickens for my niece, just go over there once a day to gather eggs and check on things.  a white one was out, ( Jeri said that happens sometimes and they always get back in somehow) they have 13 right now and was able to gather 10 eggs from ONE nest, they had all been in there tho as they were all different colored and two hens were sitting on their nest.  Wellllll, one had some showing and i gingerly got some of them then tried to get her off  and she was not moving, so sort of pushed her with an egg carton and she was pecking at it quite aggressively i would say, did not want my hand down there.  the other was not moving no matter what, so don't know how many she had.... hope tomorrow i can get to both nests, they have 4 but only use two... 

I did go to 2 painting classes..

May not be the best, but it is fun, the top one Jeri and Rylie went with me

Bagged all the leaves in the backyard and loaded them into my little truck, took to the dump, then unloaded them all by myself!! and managed to not hurt myself or even get sore, took LOTS of vitamin C.. a friend told me long ago to do that after strenuous exercise or movement and it works! Got 14 bags of 100 gal bags !!

Sade doing much better at potty training, BUT i still think that i just know her 'tells' then get her out at the right time. sometimes, she just sits and looks at me and i know.. maybe i am the one trained!

Take Care all and God Bless

(its been almost a month since my last post, geez,,,, see, nothing to say as do nothing cept regular every day 'stuff')

oldladydom

 Think i have entered a new realm of oldladydom in buying this 'themed' sweater for Halloween.  Geez.. BUT it is warm and cozy, so, it will be fun... See even that i would think that.. ah, well..

We are all yellow around the edges, with the changing leaves and we again have smoke, there are about 6 fires burning around here, one, East of us is up to 7,000 acres.. so the air is smokey, but not as bad as it could get.. yet

And i worry and complain about that, while that horrid hurricane is heading towards florida, the second one in the last couple of weeks,  how do hose people live with that? and then then the reconstruction.  I follow a doctor who lives in Tampa area, and the things they have had to go thru!! stripping the house down to the studs and now she has been called to work and has her kids with her at the hospital, she has an office and they are in there while she is working, in the ER.. and leaving their house again.. and already she has water in the house...

As a side note my grandpa and family (from Iowa) were down there in the late 20's, my mom was born there in 1926 and went thru a hurricane, when it was all over there was an alligator under the porch and that was enough for him, took the family back to Iowa ( then on to oregon in 1934) 

Trees by Starbucks

Already have the pick up filled with yard debris, and have not really started raking the leaves yet, did once and filled the debris bin and that has been picked up already, so it is ready to fill again.

not much going on other than that... just the usual, cleaning, (oven) card making (Halloween), reading... the newest Nicholas Sparks and Hilary Clinton.  She writes really well. Interesting. 

Trying to get Sade to do what i want.... still think i am doing well in the potty dept, but i think i just read her cues, because then she will pee right in front of me, maybe because i am not paying attention to her?? hard to tell.. but wish she would  tell me she has to go out!!! right now she is on my lap/arm while i am trying to type and she is getting pretty disgusted with me as my arm keeps moving....  Took her out with me this morning to the post office and chiropractor and we got coffee and pup cup.  Then i had to go to Michaels and left her home, so this is the 1st she has had to nap haha and i am disturbing her.... she still has a fit wearing a harness and being in a leash,, think i need to find a dog training class.

Latest picture... living her best life

The chiropractor really, really decorates for the holidays!!!! there is stuff everywhere

Take Care All and God Bless

Nails

 Got Sade's bear claws trimmed today, missed last month as groomer was ill, so had a make up day today. She just goes crazy around other dogs, wants to play so bad... and then she gets excited and pees, so have to clean that up.  It took TWO people to hold her down... to get them trimmed and dremeled.. (sp) geez. going to still go on the 2nd friday to try to get them to where they should be and not be so long.... wish i was a better person to do it myself, but just can't do it... and there were many there, in the same boat, so it is not just me that is lacking.  The grooming lady, TJ, is very understanding and patient tho, so there is that. fortunately. 

Her is the little princess b4 the ordeal, just living the best life, after a pup cup...and had to get up at 7am for a 9am doc appt in Bend... it was just upper 60's today, tomorrow to be warmer they say... am sitting really good with the yard work tho, so grateful for that..

Take Care All and God Bless

Had to turn on the heat this morning..

Sunday

There is NO snow on those mtns... there was a skiff a couple days ago, but that burns off fast if the weather does not hold.. and we are having lovely Fall weather.. warm days, no frost... have gotten all of my yard work, cutting back things, done...

Am going to finally get my kitchen faucet done\replaced... have gone almost a year now, replacing the faucet to just have it fall off again. live in dread that it will fall off into the garbage disposal when it is on and ruin that!!!  been close a couple times.  :( 

Been reading, making cards, doing that yard work... today had to go again to Walgreens, but there was NO line, almost had heart palpitations was so excited!!!  then to Lowes to get faucet, called plumber, they are coming Thursday.. then went to get a pedicure.  fixed some soup i had frozen from a couple weeks that we did not eat.. they thought i just made it... :)   this is the time of year, do i water the yard or not? let it go? it is really, really dry and turning brown in spots.  did do the back yard... even raked a garbage can full of leaves already...

Sunday went to Sisters for a lecture at the library re: Bay Ocean, town on the coast, near Tillamook that fell into the sea due to the building of the jetty on the Tillamook Bar by the Army Corps of Engineers... It was determined that if they had built the South at the same time as the North the town would have been saved, but alas.... It is funny how our memories are i remember when i was very young, 1952 thereabouts... Dad took us over there, we would have been living in Garabaldi at the time.. and showed us what was left of the town and a mansion, prob a mansion as i was so small :) (remember looking in the windows at the fireplace, wood floors, chandalier) and a tennis court he used to play on when he was young, b4 WW11.....

We still go to that area, Cape Meares, but to the beach there, they always, normally have shells and agates and sometimes the weather is better than in rockaway... am going to have to drive out the spit and walk along the bayside...  they are working on the jetty, and use the north end of that spit as a staging area for the construction rocks and whatnot;  it is amazing how the ocean will fling those huge rocks, weighing tons.  It used to be really high and then got really low and it is about halfway back to where it once was.. Remember also going to BarView (where jetty is) b4 the jetty and there was tons of sand and driftwood, you had to walk on driftwood for 1/4 mile to get to the ocean, but not anymore... and the sand is being taken over with sea grass (?) and scotch broom (bloom)  Will leave with pics of my Sunday drive

Broken Top

Hmmmmmm

Take Care all and God Bless

Fall

 Well I got pretty complacent, because Sade has really been so good about NOT getting into things she was not supposed to, and mostly i can say, Stop! or no! and she stops playing with my shoe or chewing on Brians' boots... and i have been easily able to redirect her play... BUT i was all involved in making cards, cutting and pasting, and out of the corner of my eye, i saw her race past with a looooong ribbon of toilet paper waving behind her, and then i saw this.....  the 2nd bathroom door was open.... we normally keep it closed, just because it's easier and not tempting.. well, now we are going to have to remember to close it... the other bathroom toilet tissue is up too high for her to get to.... Geez, it is always something, huh, and she likes receipts too, it must be the paper...

She had a fuzzy duck i had to toss as she was pulling the fur off, was not chewing it, just delicately pulling the fur out.. strange.... and fuzz was all over the rug.. and that is the only one, there are other fuzzy toys,  not AS fuzzy i guess.

Am in the doldrums of the end of August and the swing upward to September and downward grind to Winter, Fall leaves (to be picked up and discarded).. deadheading all the flowers, sunflowers, hollyhocks. coldness and darkness.... morbid, huh?  we are supposed to get almost 100 degree weather this week end.  This is the time of year whilst in the Navy they would give the order to go out of summer searsucker uniform to the navy blue wool, skirt/jacket and white blouse under, the guys from whites to wool (in San Diego)  then it would get so hot, we would be sweating like crazy and then they would say it was optional what we wore prob for the next month... happened every year...

Safeway had a nice Fall display today... Walgreen's has closed the pharmacy on week ends, but are open to 10p mon-fri... and they still have NOT opened the drive thru, not enough personnel they say... geez, gets harder and harder to get in... but then i am retired and can go any hour really.  cept when i am really sick, i don't want to drag myself in there and to the FAR end of the store to get a prescription.  and there is the thing that there may be other sick people in there, even when i am well.  .oh, well,  at least there is a store and pharmacy, which there is NOT in the Ukraine or Gaza.   I don't really decorate for Fall or Halloween..  

Jerimay got more chickens this Spring and now they are laying already, so has 12 i think and they have started laying like crazy, so we are having LOTS of eggs to figure out how to use up... give some to my neighbors... i think we should start paying her for them!!

Started going to the chiropractor again... and even after 2 treatments have noticed a difference... have got to figure out a maintenance system that works, rather than just not go, then get so bad that i then HAVE to go.. lower back n neck issues.. have to also ice it,  it does work! amazingly. and then they are so very kind in there, and they bring their little dogs to work and they wander in and out and stare at you and accept pets. and BOY do they decorate for holidays!!!! So that is fun.

Take Care all and God Bless