Friday, April 26, 2024
Comfy Frieda
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Kitties
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Working Hard. Mark, That Is
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Ups Downs and All Arounds
Saturday, April 20, 2024
You Know, Stuff
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
It's His Birthday
This guy, my only child, turns fifty today!
No one would put it together that he is my son. He looks absolutely nothing like me. He's tall and has a bulky frame. I'm short and small framed. He is built and looks like his bio-dad's family. Only his personality reflects who his mother is. He does have an opinion on everything! Fifty years, wow.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Life is a Crapshoot
I was knocked off my feet yesterday by some news, old news to all but me, that the man I was going to marry in the late '70s, but did not for various reasons, died in a motorcycle accident five years ago. I haven't known anything about his life since about 1982, when a mutual friend told me he had married. I had been pleased for him, he did want to be married and have children, which he did have. And grandchildren. This wasn't going to happen with me. I felt so sad. For his family and for the memory of someone I once loved. Long ago. I did feel there was some reason why Staying Alive was playing in my head when I woke yesterday.
Monday, April 15, 2024
Staying Alive
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Spelt Light Caraway Rye
Friday, April 12, 2024
A Photo Says it All
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Frieda
Good Morning. We will see 68 F today!
I have nothing of any interest or import happening at the moment. Stock is simmering, that's about it. I do have a very naughty, yet adorable, little girl kitty who decided to make herself comfortable on her two-legged mama. I am so glad she decided to knock on the door, come in, and live her life with us. She is a little pistol!
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Bits of Things
I was AWOL yesterday. I sat at my computer for a few minutes and then gave up. I inherited my mother's terrible sinus condition and yesterday it kicked my butt. Much better today. Tomorrow I go in for a med check with the Nurse Practitioner. Otherwise, it's unremarkable in my life. Mark is busy, manageable busy. I am not! I plan to make a couple of loaves of bread, but we will see what comes of that. I'm looking forward to working in the flower beds that have been mostly neglected for a few years. That's not happening soon.
I'll leave you with this adorable photo of Chloe and Malika. Chloe adored the foals, I could not keep her out of the stall when one was born. The mamas weren't disturbed by her, so I let her have her way. This would have been in the late '90s. Such an interesting dog.
Friday, April 5, 2024
Accomplished
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Just Stuff
Gatto knows how it's done.
McCool prefers to lay between my legs. He needs room to stretch out.
Today is sunny, just a slight breeze and will be 50F/10C. Mark is busy with his clients taxes, I'm about to resume The Great Office Cleanup. It went on hold for about a week. I was having a bit of despair over the collapse of a nation, but I got over it. One must, as it is, for the most part, out of our hands. All we can do is VOTE. There, that's the end of the doom and gloom.
I think I will take a cue from the kitties. Enjoy life as it is at the moment. They have the right idea.
Monday, April 1, 2024
No April Fool
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Self-Satisfied
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Popping In
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Down That Lane
Monday, March 25, 2024
Snow. Rain.
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Sunshine. No Lollipops.
Friday, March 22, 2024
Let it Snow
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Rocky Racoon and Other Things
Monday, March 18, 2024
Frieda and Flowers, Again
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Pizza. Flowers. Cats.
I disappeared from the internet yesterday.
Now it's time for some porch therapy to calm herself after the invasion of the strange two-leggers. Seriously......what were we thinking?
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Soup and Cats and Vacuums
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Grumble, Grumble. Life is a Tumble
I had an appointment yesterday with Mark's primary. I saw her once before about six weeks ago. We are trying Celebrex for pain. She mentioned seeing someone in pain management. I had done that at the prior clinic and it was a joke. She assured me this would be better. We agreed to wait on the results of the new pain med. I am cautiously liking her, I don't know if she is doing the same!
The social butterfly that I am, I'll be venturing out two days in a row. I need to renew my drivers license, which is expired. I have an appointment today, an opportunity for a new mugshot. Joy to the world.
The time change has me out of sorts, more than usual. I am a proponent of staying on standard time year round. It does give us something to grumble about for at least a month (the whole time we are on DST). We are both excellent grumblers.
Sunday, March 10, 2024
I dreamt last night I was out walking my deceased dog, Howard. Somehow he got into a pasture with cattle and was not listening when I called him. Imagine that, a basset not listening. I was upset with him, he was enjoying his journey among the steers. Then I see Diamond Rose and her foal, Zing, in the same pasture. This is weird because Mama Rose died at Zing's birth, but there they were, cantering along the fence line like it was a perfectly normal thing. The dream suddenly transitioned to Jesus winning a beauty contest. Everyone was so happy. OK. Where did that come from? This was the pretty blonde, blue-eyed Jesus that's in so many paintings. It was a seemingly normal event. What happened to Howard and the horses, I do not know. If there was a celebration after the beauty contest, I must have missed it. I decided to write about this because Boud wrote about a dream she had that was right out of left field. Maybe there was something in the atmosphere last night?
Friday, March 8, 2024
Spark of Floral Color
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
After the Fall
Monday, March 4, 2024
Took a Tumble
Last evening. A hard one. Ever since the brain injury I have had poor balance. I stopped riding because it felt unsafe. I'm now older and I have been inactive for three years, making my already poor balance worse. I wear sliders, comfortable, thick soled footwear which is proving unsafe for me. The sole is about two inches thick, so I need to pick my feet up higher than is my normal, which I don't always do. I have a step-up from the living room to the kitchen, this time I didn't pick my foot up high enough and snagged the sole on the step, sending me backward in a clumsy fall. The worst part was Mark. He was a hot mess, hovering and sure I was taking my last breath. Long story short, nothing was injured, I was quite sore, but all parts worked. This morning I was fine, my back hurt just a bit more, but that was it. Lesson learned, no more sliders.