catch up

 Cant believe it has been so long since i blogged...It seems like i don't DO anything.. the days meld one to another.. Yet things happen..  I am watching Novah on Wednesdays so her mom can work a housekeeping job. There are doctors appts.. That quilt i started in January is STILL sitting there,  undone..  on my set up in the garage.  at least now it is warm enough to be out there!.. so i should really get to it!

 Rylie graduated from middle school, starts High School next year.  She looked really pretty in her new dress. Quite festive.  It was kind of a weird ceremony, i felt. No music. they all just sort of sauntered in.  Had an opening speech by principal. awarding of different local awards. some closing comments, Go forward and do good.  and that was about it . Went back to their house and had tacos... about 20 friends and family.. lots of little kiddos, they are all in their productive years, hahaha..

She turned 14 on the 30th April

Novah turned ONE on April 29th She is an independent little thing and gets really mad when things do not go her way . Noticed her getting upset when she couldnt work one of her toys. That apple one where u put the different shapes back into the apple.. she figured out how to get them out, pry the little door, but has not figured out the shapes yet and how they go back in... just have to move them around to match...

 

My peonies did well this year and the deer were not around to eat the buds!!  Had 5 really big blooms.  Have a spot in  my beds where nothing will grow, have tried two different bushes and don't know how many flowers and eventually they all die.  Added some new soil and fertilizer and some NEW plants and will see how they do. Never know..    

 Sadie just as sweet as ever.  she is really the best dog. and loves me!!! Took her to Lowes today, put a towel in the cart basket and she just sat there, nice as  could be. No barking or trying to jump  out. And she is just standing there so nice when i take her to get her nails done..go twice a month!! (which is quite a change from when we started, what a nightmare) they grow SO fast.  she has only gone to the same lady and has gotten used to her and  TJ is really good with her. So kind and gentle. She has a mobile grooming van and is at a local pet store the 2nd friday of the month, then the last monday. an if i miss just all her and can go by her house to get it done. so it is really convenient.  she has really  gotten much better on her barking and when i tell her not to, she usually stops. an think she knows if she goes out there and barks, she will not get a treat when coming back in. BUT there is so much out there to take exception  to!! And she is quiet in the mornings and lets me sleep. Brian and Robin are getting up and getting ready for work at different times and not a peep out her .. but normally by 9 she is ready to pee!!!

People always ask me how many books do i read.. last year read 41 and so far this year, 26 . and i think that is pitifully few.  there are SO many books.  and i only  give up  on about 3-4.. usually i am pretty good about how i pick out what i want to read, or have been lucky. i  have always felt there is  a reason this was published, some one must have liked it, right? but have learned i am not obligated to red something and don't want to waste time on something i am not interested in.. I always carry my book with me. Never know when u are stuck waiting, doc appts, car work, waiting for people to show when u are meeting someone.. never know..  Well that is about it.. nothing exciting, no travels, no visitors.

Got yardwork pretty much under control, just up keep, Brian Mows.. And the weather is FINALLY warming up.. wonder how long it will be before i am complaining of the heat. 

Take Care and God Bless All. 

all that!

 Little Novah will be a year old the 29th. She is walking like crazy. and has a will of her own... am watching her on Wednesdays and it is all i can do,  let me tell you.  Can barely pick her up! and she has learned to hang on for dear life.  We are a pair...     almost over the binky.. i just don't remember Brian challenging on every little thing.  But that was long ago, who  knows? Maybe i am more of a softie than way back then!!!she just definately wants what she wants.. and does not sit still very often. Loves getting into the tupperware cupboard.  I just let her string them out all over the house, just pick them up when she goes down for a nap.  and she is not napping near as long as she used to. She is a sturdy little thing.. Loves her family.

That feeding tho, and the mess! and shaking her head back n forth when she does not want something, or sticking her hand out, right in your way, U surely know that, NO, she is NOT going to eat something, does not like veggies, loves fruit.. 

 This was at Easter

 And Rylie is getting to be quite the little lady

Today i turned 79.. As a friend made me aware of the last year of my 70's.. Wasn't that kind of her?  I went to Church this morning, decided i wanted to start off the year right. Went to the Church of the Transfiguration in Sisters (Episcopal) I was very nice.. They were quite welcoming and i did not feel out of place... I can't believe i am almost 80.... that is such a big number and i don't feel big at all. some days i certainly feel  it....

And then my Senior moment.. fixed a noodle something with a red sauce and poured the sauce into the noodles as the bowl was bigger, supposedly!!! EXCEPT the noodles were still in the strainer and the sauce that was not thick yet, of course went out all over the stove and floor.  That was a 1st and hope it does not happen again.....

Hope all is well. Take Care and God Bless 

update

 I have been babysitting on Wednesdays.. this is my 2nd week and we are still trying to find   our way of doing things.  The 1st day was good, but the next week, today, was not so fun.  she would not take her bottle ( i discovered later in the day that i had forgotten the insert thingy.. they have so many  NEW things now days,  not like 55 years ago!!! HAHA) so later in the day the bottle time went better and she drank it all.  She got tired about 2p so time for a nap, and she would not go to sleep.  i sat in the room with her, she kept opening her eyes and look for me and if i wasn't there she would start crying again... finally, she eventually passed out and stopped crying, geez... AND i got thru a poopy diaper without barfing... HA!!!!

Other than that,   i had been sick with i suppose, the flu, altho i did have a flu shot, probably the wrong flu, who knows. but i was sick for about two weeks, then got another UTI.. have been having a number of DOC appts to figure that out we have had not a it of snow all Winter, here in Redmond., and hopefully they can hit on the right thing so i stop having those... but the flu,,  geez, went on forever... i had full flannel pj's on, a sweater, on a heating pad, with an electric blanket and had the chills so bad.. only at night it seemed.. everything hurt and ached and then was not moving about, so my hip acted up.. then i even got a canker sore on my bottom lip.  i was a mess.... never did go to the doctor. felt too ill to drive in there..

Dear Sade has taken to pooping in the bathroom and i have been trying to be overly diligent to curb this behavior, but it is distressing to say the least.

I had started a quilt, got everything set up in the garage b4 flu hit and it is still all out there.  It is still cold here and it is old out there!!! But we have really had good weather over all, some really Spring like days.. tiny bit of rain here and there, but don't even think it was measurable.  Mt B only has a 42 inch base....  bad, bad, BAD.. can't even begin to think what this summer will be like. it is so very dry out there.. we have had not a bit of snow here in Redmond

Have been very sad at the state of the world and things WE are doing to make things so very much worse..  BUT  it is 6p and still daylight out there.

AND on top of everything my VISA was compromised...  entirely my fault.  and did not have a card for a month!!! the bank   card printer was down!!! and in that month had to transfer all of my  auto pays to my debit... and realized how much was paying out,    if is is auto,   it just gets paid and i guess did not realize... well, my VISA is well  on the way to getting paid off!!! When you make payments, but don't order/charge anything to it, the balance goes down,  DUH!!!! am slowly (hate change) getting used to having it all come out in "real time" and keeping track of it all.  one would think   that is a no brainer.... some of us it takes longer than others to figure things out... don't over think a thing, just  do it....

Well that is my sorry story,  hope all is well with you all, Take Care and God Bless 

heres a picture of the little shit

 

just nothings

 

Boy, have i been sick....  fever, chills, achy all over, sleep all the time... then the hip acted up cuz all i was doing was laying about and not moving at ALL.Today got up at 5:30A  yes indeedy... to go to the senior center to sign up for  a time to get taxes done.  got there before 7, opened at 8 and i was 37th in line!!!! better than 80 something like last year.. then had an appt to get brakes and rotors done, and one of the studs sheared off last time i went for an oil change and they rotated tires, so that was fixed.  then to Olive Garden with friend or soup...

Had gone to credit union before as  having VISA issues,,  their card printer is down in all their offices, since the beginning of the month!!! so now have to do the onerous chore of moving all of my auto pays to my debit card!!!  such fun, i am NOT remembering everything.. some are just yearly,, i guess when they cant get paid they will get in touch with me...

It has been really biter cold here, had freezing frost, always love to walk and take picture, but this year was sick, so missed out. vaguely saw from my  sleepy, bleary eyes (feel sorry or me yet? haha) 

Hope all is well with u and yours... take care and God Bless 

oh, have 'discovered' Louise Penny, wonderful time reading it, Mystery.. STill Life, was her 1st Three Pines mystery. gives me the feeling of reading the Mitford books ... real homey

online rant

  She would spend the whole day like this if i let her.. So cozy..

I have had a day.. We did get in a walk.  It is 60 degrees out there!! Can hardly believe it. My phone photo memories shows we had snow on this day the last two years!! We have had NO snow at all this Winter.. Going to be a long dry summer... hope its not smokey too! 

My VISA was compromised, so cancelled it 1-5, then today i get a charge on it!! was pissed... the bank is putting in a dispute.. I was going to sign up for Guardio to protect all the calls i get, and to show if a cite i go onto is fake or not,, they show you so many things tht could o wrong, you start believing it all.. but decided to NOT do it and never finalized the sign up and anyway had cancelled the card,, then it show two weeks later! well got that fixed

then there is the TV which i feel i am paying too much for in any case . guess tht is neither here nor there, as have been in a couple times, to try to get it less and there is no way and enjoy all my watching choices,.. but wanted to pay the bill, and of course would not accept my pass word, so tried to call to get it re set and you would think  it would be easy, NO... and talked to 4 different people on different phone #'s and i just can't understand them...  hung up... then tried the phone bill i got and that let me sign in.. but will just have to pay  it that way i guess, as can not seem to get it to come out direct from my acct#  AND have to go thru all of this because they changed their system.. was going along all ok, till then.. so here i am... doing less than i wanted to. and just guess tht is the way it is.. and doing it on the phone thru gmail  is not so very onerous.

I guess this is a rant... i do like the convenience  of online things, but not the hassle of getting there . I just do not want to change... I've always been that way, if something is working, and has been for awhile, why change/  can't see to the future and that eventually that will wok too.. maybe even better..

Take Care and God Bless 

Happy

 Here is my New Years Eve Eve picture.. I had some pink glitter to make the pink champagne sparkle...I did not even stay up until midnight.  Sade took exception to all the booming and fireworks going off (not too much) but kept her from going outside.. she held it all   night and let me even sleep in! Don't know why this year she felt the need to protect, but there it is.

Have put all of Xmas away, except for outside lights.  Been cleaning the garage.  You know, you  don't know what you have when stuff is spread all over the place, here and there, turns out i have 4 containers FULL of VHS tapes and dvd's..  have a small box that i am keeping . Like the Borne Trilogy and Clint Eastwood movies.. Play Misty For Me.. that movie has stayed with me all these years.  Don't know why. It was the times, maybe.  Also have a Doris Day collection, and just a few others that mean alot to me.  But i sent SO much money on them. I still have VHS player, suppose i should get rid of that,.. the ones i kept were dvd... also Some Came Running and World of Suzie Wong, i always wanted to get them transfered to the dvd.. maybe some day.  Have whole tub full of embroidered pillowcases, my grandmother made,, i am going to make a quilt out of them, anyway that is the plan.  Found 2 baby blankets of brians, he said i could give them to the new baby.  so i have washed and mended them as needed.  took a bunch of stuff to goodwill and the dump!!!

What to do with the VHS tapes??? i did ask goodwill and they said they took them.   so there is that..   

I got cards from two people that i did not get cards from last year and feared them passed on, so glad they sent cards!!! They are still with us.

 

This was taken a couple days b4 xmas... but you an see the new snow and down into the foothills... they have had much more snow up there.  I have to drive about a mile West to get these pictures.  there is a little cul de sac, tht is not developed facing West and i go up there to get enough height to get over the top of the houses...

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 and driving a couple feet and facing North i get Mt Jefferson... but not centered due to houses.  There are also the power lines going thru this property.. so no one will build on this right of way, i assume.

Have been watching West Wing on Netflix,       amazing that there are the same issues today as they were grappling with back then.. in season 4 and back then there wee like 22 episodes per season and there are 7 seasons, so i still have a way to go... Got the 3rd book in the Rebecca Yarros series, Onyx Storm. and am reading that....  i have things to do here, don't need to leave the house for much,,   my grooming needs, food and med appts here and there and that certainly does not take up all of my time, so i should be getting much more done than i do!!!!  It seems everytime i go out, i spend money!!! So trying to stay in and work on things here to keep busy and productive.. And need to save money to have the car worked on, it almost has 200,000 miles on it (2006) and there are maintenance things that need done, which ends up being rather costly... Also want to get a good detail of the outside, to make it shine....

Take Care all and God Bless... Peace Be With You 

Dec Happenings

 Who on earth can resist this face?

She is crawling!!!   And yells when she wants picked up. And is eating soft food. But was given a chicken leg to gnaw on and was that ever funny, she would not let go of it, even sort of cradled it in her little arms. and YELLED when it was time to clean up. she was not eating it more, just wanting to sort of suck on it..  She definitely lets you know her wants.. Sleeps really good and has her schedule...

She was sort of overwhelmed by all the action going on and people in and out.

 

 

 This is my 'official' xmas picture.  I went to my niece's in Prineville and spent 2 nights there.  the 1st night is always horrible as Sade will not settle down in the little twin bed and takes exception to all the bumps and movements of others throughout the night.  But we survive... Kevin did a brisket and it was enormous and very good and we all ate almost ALL  of it!!!  He was cooking it since 2am, up every hour to baste,,, like I said,   SO GOOD.

Everything was very nice,  Kevin daughter, Ava was there and my brother and his wife were also for Christmas night dinner.  The girls spent alot of their time in the bedroom.. such is teenagers now days, came out to greet people and eat, is about all you get.

 Weather even co-operated and was decent.. could have been warmer, but was nice and there was even a great sunset on Christmas Eve

Had a painting class on the 16th and i was happy with how it turned out.. Maybe i am learning something..

 

Celebrated my brothers 70th birthday on the 11th.  A really GOOD Mexican restaurant in Terrebonne of all places.. just a dinky little place north of Redmond. (the town not the restaurant)

 She is always so very alert to everything going on round her.. and all of the noise and color was a bit overwhelming i think, but she was very  good

She is eating so good

 

Sade is curled up on my lap, don't think she has recovered yet and is so tired.. She has to stay out alot of the time, or partitioned in a part of the laundry\man cave area with the other dogs.  They have gotten used to her and don't bother her much but she much prefers to be out when the chickens are and she is sure she is going to catch one of them and game on!!!  She gets too crazy and they have to put the chickens back in their area.  And she hovered the kitchen and had to keep track of that baby!! And when i  held Novah, that was very concerning.. tried to share my lap numerous times.  She just squirrels her way in there..

It was just a great family time and JOY was had by all 

Take Care and God Bless and Peace Be With You... and Peace for the New Year