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Oct2

Thanks so much

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I really appreciate your lovely comments about my two new framed pieces. I want to hang them up tomorrow so they won’t be damaged just leaning against the entertainment center.

I am feeling better. I think the fish oil I was taking wasn’t agreeing with me. Bummer. I guess we’ll have to eat more salmon or other Omega-3 rich foods.

Not too much going on. I was like in slow motion today. I did a few cleaning up chores, but I am concentrating on finishing up the ’57 Thunderbird by at least the 7th as it’s due on the 15th. I’m not crazy about deadlines, but they really get me going. I also made the small gift for MarJean who guessed the squash count for our garden. I need to assemble that and send it on it’s merry way. It turned out cute and a bit whimiscal.

I’ve also been watching some of the new shows-some kinda silly like the Caveman show though they had some good lines. I want to see ‘Pushing Daisies’ to see what that is all about. My mom and I agreed that ‘Private Practice’ with Kate Walsh and Tim Daly is really good (I really like TD).

Hope all is well with my blogging friends. : )

And added a little later…Pea had her desktop up, so here is mine. I use mainly my own collages. This one is of little gardening girls. Switched to Halloween!

Puter screen

Halloween!

Sep24

Congrats to MarJean!

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The odds were good, but she hit the nail on the head. She was correct when I said that I was ‘lucky’ because on the 31st of August I did have 31 yellow squash. If you added up all the ‘picks’ from then on you get 40! Yippee!! The only problem, our winner left no way to contact her. So MarJean, I will give you a few days to reply to get your prize. Thanks! I wish we had had more contestants, but I appreciate those who played along. Bri was even playing near the end there.

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Thanks to everyone who left a comment to wish my mom a Happy Birthday.

Sep20

CONTEST IS OVER

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Take heed oh weary yellow squash counters! The yellow squash looks pretty beat (and dead) so I think our contest is over. Please go here and leave a comment (please leave me some way of contacting you-blog,etc. as one comment there doesn’t have any). Only one guess per blogger please. I will see if anyone came close or was right on the money when the guesses are checked. Try not to guess what someone else has guessed. The comments section will close on Sunday at midnight.

If you guess correctly, I will cross stitch you a special prize!

Sep18

So I’m thinking

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It would be a nice day to go to Longwood Gardens and use up some of that pass I bought in January. I’ve been there only twice this year. Bad girl! I was going to walk for exercise around this scenic area and get snap happy with the camera. That doesn’t mean I can’t go every week now until the end of the year or until the pass runs out. And I don’t have to stay 4 hours. I could stay 1/2 hour. The thing for me is going alone. I know, I thought this out. I was hoping there was a walking group there and I need to look into that. Most of the people I know around here are acquaintances. Believe me, I tried for BFF with some people who turned out to be jerks. It’s easier with acquaintances. I have my family to think about first anyway.

Thanks for the 10 or so visitors to my neighborhood yesterday. I actually thought of adding more photos, but those who know me, know I have tons of photos in flickr(see side bar). Speaking of Longwood Gardens, I have a slideshow of that at slide.com (if you go there, click ‘original view’). And over in Vodpod is a little movie of my yard. I haven’t made any new movies lately. I have to think about what to make a movie of. Maybe I should take two cameras with me to LG!

So my private caller didn’t call back…yet. It’s almost noon. I’m thinking it’s an organization that is always calling here for money(who have called again and again) and I do believe they had a private number. The day isn’t over yet, but I am not going to fret about it.

I’m trying out flax seed capsules for my triglycerides. I need to get them checked out as it’s been 14 months since my last bloodwork was done. I read that salmon and fish oil is better and it helped Bri. I really dislike burping the fishy taste. My pal at tribe.net said there is another type of fish oil that isn’t as burpy. I’d rather eat salmon! Blackened salmon cajun style-yum!

Update of the college guy-he sent me his first paper to proof read about surveillance. I think he had trouble writing two pages about that. He mentioned where he worked-there was a camera pointed on the registers at all times-where he spent most of his time at Big Lots. He also mentioned the web cams he has seen around the beach resorts and NYC. He got his second goody package from me yesterday which included two boxes of individually wrapped ‘Wet Ones’. He said he wouldn’t mind having some of those. ; )

Aug10

Need a new tv?

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From my pal Carole/Pea’s blog:

5 Minutes for Mom is giving away a 37″ Flat-Panel LCD HDTV and you have a good chance to win! Click on the above link to their blog to read all the rules and to be entered in the draw-you have until the middle of August, but why not do it now? This tv is courtesy of Best Buy!! This contest is open to both Canadian and US shipping addresses!! Good luck:-)

Try to win me!

Aug7

Crash!

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It’s so darn muggy! When I got up it was 80 degrees outside already. I wanted to mail off a birthday card to a pal in Ireland and was filling it out when the UPS guy brought my new flip phone! It’s pretty cool and Sean has one almost just like it. With a rebate of $50 it will be a freebie. It pays to call up your provider and see if they have any specials. They would not have accepted the rebate if I had bought the phone at Wally World and some other places. Yes, it’s magenta!

My new phone

So what’s the title up there about? I happen to look in the direction of the vegetable garden and the fairly good size apple tree there had fallen over directly in the green beans and yellow squash part of the garden, the area I take care of! Bri may have a hard time cleaning it all up, but maybe we’ll be able to save the garden. I don’t know if my ‘count the squash’ contest is still on as it literally got squashed last night! The tomatoes are fine. The tomatoes are visible in the foreground and the my part of the garden is under the tree. We only have a chicken wire mesh fence. I kinda know why it fell over. This and the two pear trees next to it are suppose to be dwarf trees and were not kept trimmed back correctly. It’s not like I didn’t remind ‘someone’. The pears are hardly producing anymore and he won’t cut them down.

Fallen down

Another angle of the apple tree

My uncle needs someone to put his a/c units back in the windows of his house. If he can’t find anyone, Bri and Sean will have to go over and help him. I’m hoping someone will do it today.

Update late Tuesday-Bri and Sean went out after dinner to clear away some of the tree. Sean couldn’t stand the horrible humidity and Bri wouldn’t give the trimming up until over an hour later! He came in looking like he had been in a downpour-he was drenched to the bone from perspiration. The veggies are pretty well squashed. I reached in and got 1 MORE SQUASH! ; ) I think one in the far corner didn’t get ruined. I came in and made strawberry smoothies. Thanks again to Carole for the idea of freezing the berries on a tray first. It took a while with ice and strawberries (live and learn-like put a few in at a time instead of dumping them all and making the motor run weird). I think I need a new smoothie maker as the one we have is letting off an electrical burn smell. Sean can pick me up one at Big Lots.

We watched a movie called Disturbia. It was really scary at the end! One of the characters was played by David Morse, a resident of Penna. I still think he was the best in St. Elsewhere (doctor show from the 80s).

The lady who came to help my uncle today put in the a/c units (they are small ones) for him and cleaned like crazy too!  I hope she comes several times a week.

Please check out my new link to a cool art e-zine. I’ve been visiting there a lot lately!

Watch out for spammers who use your old blog entries to comment. I wrote to word press about it and finally just ended up taking off this particular entry they were using all the time. I deleted about 10 comments today and some were a bit obscene. I just removed my archives from this blog to see if that helps.

Aug2

Hey I’m a Rockin’ Girl Blogger!

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Thanks to Barbara for tagging me and leaving me such kind comments. She is definitely at the top of my list, but can she get ‘double dipped’ to rock twice as much? ☺ Barbara is a friend who has lived a pretty cool life first in Maine and now in the Netherlands. But she is moving back to Maine one of these years. She’s smart, a brilliant writer, a caring wife, mom and daughter. Her stitching is amazing for someone who just started stitching within the last decade. My jaw dropped when I saw she had listed over 125 projects on Cyberstitchers.com (where we met). I can’t wait to meet her twins due in December!

I crown Zoey at Perennial Passion secondly. When I was a new blogger, she came to visit and left comment after comment. She’s an amazing gardener and has inspired me in my own gardens. Don’t get me started on her quilting-she’s gifted to the core.

Carole/Pea at Pea’s Corner is a doll. We have a lot in common, height, all brothers, my middle name is Carol, but she would be the bestest next door neighbor and someone to go on daytrips with. She always shows us her adventures, even in movies. Thanks for being a dear too.

Nancy over at Cross stitches and Kitty Kisses rocks big time! Well they broke the mold when Nancy came along. She and I share the same maiden name of Knowles, so we swear we are related. I’ve known her a long time too. She’s been through a lot with her health and eyes, but her dead pan humor surfaces all the time. She loves kitties and cross stitching. And she’s a wonderful grandmom too.

And I’d like to combine all the wonderful ladies who I met on the Neighborhood Round Robin project-Annemarie, Rachael, Carol, Su and Veronica (and Helen too). I’m so glad to have met all of you and stitch on your projects and get to enjoy your blogs too. All are very giving people. I have a feeling we will be pals for a long time. Thanks everyone and you’re all tagged!!!!

By the way, all the above mentioned bloggers are pretty good with the camera too. I appreciate good photos and I’m always in awe of the shots of their yards and homelands and of course kiddos and kitties, etc.!

May19

8 Random things…

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I’ve been tagged for the “8 Random Things about me” meme by Karen.

The Rules:

~ Each player starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves
~ People who are tagged write a blog post about their own 8 random things and post these rules
~ At the end of your blog you need to tag 8 people and post their names
~ Don’t forget to leave them a comment and tell them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

1-When I was a kid, I loved to play outside at night in the summertime, especially hide and seek and catching fireflies. I still like the nighttime and love to look at my solar lights illuminating my little pond.

2-I sometimes think about pulling weeds in my sleep, especially if I need to do some yard work.

3-I have 100s of book and rarely look at any of them anymore (randomly), though I can’t get rid of them. Most are non-fiction too, so I have tons of reference. Maybe I should start reviewing books on my blog!

4-At one time I thought Bri and I could start a photography business like Olan Mills with me making original backdrops.

5-I use to watch The Wizard of Oz every year, (no fail) as a kid (it was only broadcast once a year-before videos!)

6-I love to spray paint things to make them look new again.

7-I’m kinda scared about traveling to places like NYC (and am going for the first time next month), but once I get to the new place, I really enjoy checking it out.

8-My one year younger brother and I use to do singing routines to entertain my mom and grandmom. My brother always out sung me, though I ended up in the church choir for a number of years.

If you’d like to do this, please go ahead.