So I hope to make some!
I was up until 2 am setting up a shop at Cafepress.com! It’s free for a small business and I thought, what the heck? So I had to almost redo everything this morning as they prefer png files over jpegs. Also, my chosen photos needed cropping, etc. So please check out my store-I have a little bit of everything, even thongs and what’s below! I’m so excited. I’ll probably be changing things around now and then too.
Ok, totally psychedelic! I took this self portrait of myself last year and edited it in PSP7.
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About 12:15 last night, I was finishing up on the computer and it was getting warm in here. Bri’s good at turning the air up to about 78 before he goes to bed. So I was walking past the front window to adjust the air and I saw a car parked in front of our trash bin! I turned the front light on and then I saw it drive away, but I heard wheels moving, the bin’s wheels! Sure enough, the bin was gone and I had to get Bri out of bed to go look for it. First he went up the yard in the wrong direction and I told him they went the other way. He found it all dumped out (and it was a full load this week) in our next door neighbor’s driveway and their mailbox had been knocked down! I decided to call the police, if just for the neighbor’s sake of needing a new mailbox. The officers came here to file a report.
Today I called our neighbor and she says this is a ‘new thing’ with the kids or whatever pranksters are doing it. They use to come along and smash our mailboxes. Most of us got wise and got plastic mailboxes or put a metal halo around them. It was nice to chat with our neighbor as I haven’t done so for a while. They are older and kind of stay to themselves.
I am suffering either from a sprained right thumb or carpel tunnel syndrome. I am left-handed, but my thumb started bothering me big time yesterday afternoon and throughout the night. I have a special support glove somewhere, but right now I am icing it and am wearing a glove you wear to bed (to moisturize it). It helps. I think I hurt it lifting the pots of roses. I’ve had hand problems before, but usually my left hand. Also trying to ‘stitch in hand’ without a hoop seemed to bother it. I guess I better lay off the cross stitching for a few days.
Sean did fine at the dentist yesterday, but he did feel odd and out of sorts, so I’m glad I went with him. He had three fillings done. I drove through Wendy’s for lunch. He tried to drink his Frosty float through a straw when he got home, but his lips were too numb and it went all over his face.
Have a great weekend. Hopefully some rain will break the heat here. I have green beans to pick, not sure if I can do it myself.
3 weeks from today we head up to University Park! Time surely flew by this year!
Update, so I don’t have to write a new post-I just added a 4th phone line to our TMobile account. I had called for a special offer on a phone, but it only applied to an existing phone line. I am giving my old phone to Bri’s dad and getting a cool Motorola flip phone in magenta. If pops can’t get the hang of my old phone, TMobile has a ton of phone deals to chose from. Mine is a $159.00 model and will be free after their discount and a mail in rebate. Can’t beat that. And each additional phone line is only $10 a month. Peace of mind for everyone to know they have a way to communicate.
I have my hand in an Ace bandage and it seems to help a bit.
My thoughts and prayers go out to families of the people who died in the bridge collapse in Minnesota. What a horrible thing! To think a bridge separates us from my brother and his family is still a scary thing to me.
I’m pushing 5’3″ and so are most of my flowers in this bed! Well the sunflowers are taller than me now. I look a little beat in this photo from the past few days of emotional turmoil. Mom apologized today and I said we should have followed our plans for Tuesday and stayed out of the stores. Mom was out yesterday with Jim her boarder to get the rest of her stuff she left behind on Wednesday. She brought her camera and took photos of my gardens and flowers. I was flattered.
Here are my flower shares for the day:
I’m surrounded by Cosmos, zinnias (out of shot) and sunflowers. Bri took this photo.
This is a Fantasy lily that the previous owners planted out back so they’ve been there over 20 years.
The Mexican Sunflowers (torch flowers) are blooming too! I am raising these from seed too.
By the way, everyone is talking about their bargains and I got 5 rose plants (two trees!) for under $15 at Kmart last night. They were getting rid of their plants at a buy 1 get 1 free special. I tried to pick the nicest ones as they were really neglected. When I got them home, I snipped off the dead branches and gave them a dose of Miracle Grow and bug killer (you never know what you’re bring home!). I have the rose trees across from the front door for now. One is like a fuchsia color and the other is a Peace rose.
I went to call my sister-in-law this morning and speed dialed mom instead. When I heard her voice I was like ‘uh-oh’. She sounded like a small child who was sent to bed without supper. I was going to give her a good ‘cooling’, but maybe it was another ‘force’ that made me dial her up instead of C. We rehashed a few things, but I don’t think she’s going to change her ways which is too bad as she is set in her ways like we all tend to get. There’s gotta be little old ladies out there with 10 nice outfits and who save up their social security checks for their bills. Unfortunately my mom isn’t one of them.
As I said to my guys last night, I just want to make people happy and to be happy. We’re only here for a short time. I may be like my mom in some ways, but I try not to buy too many things to make up for happiness that may be lacking in my life. Things are just that ‘things’. Mom said she was happy to sit in my yard and all. I was glad of that, but she was running away from her overflowing house too. If she would only let me go there and toss or donate things. I know it’s going to have to happen sooner or later.
Right now I am suppose to be at a retirement community on a tour! She called them up and gave them my name as being interested. First of all, you have to be 62 to get in. I have a few more years. Wish she had just used her own name. Oy!
Yeah, mom is still here and no surprise, she is mad at me! It’s so juvenile I know. So I learned not to take a compulsive shopper shopping and then tell her to put things back. And I learned that two days is really enough time for a friendly visit, after that it’s downhill. Sean and I were going to take her home yesterday and on the way have a nice lunch at Ruby’s Diner. Mom figured that since her car also needs brakes, she’d hang around a few more days. We did go to the Olive Garden last night and have a nice dinner. The mistake was going to Kohl’s (and later Barnes and Noble) where they have those 60-75% off sale racks. I went to look for swimsuits as mine are old as the hills. They hardly had any left and they were still pricey. I go to find mom and she has an arm full of clothes. You can have discussions galore with people like her and she just wants to spend. I also see her personality change in a store, even a crappy store like a Dollar Store. She had two of the same tops in different sizes, two pairs of slacks, a jacket and another top that was the same as the two she already had but in pink. I made her try the jacket on at the checkout (as it was the most pricey item) which she said was embarrassing and it was too big all over for her. She ended up saving about $30. Now she had just bought things in Peebles the day before. She said I can’t take her to stores and not expect her to buy things when Sean and I were. I guess, but she had just borrowed money from me and there she was wanting to spend a chunk of it on clothes she doesn’t need. She has 4 bedrooms in her house and all of the closets except two contain clothing. And that’s not even mentioning the Rubbermaid containers of clothing.
So today she is ignoring me and I have to go to the dentist in a few hours. This makes me a bit anxious. I had a 10:40 appointment, but Dr. B figures he’ll need more time with me, so I got bumped to 2:40. I probably would have taken mom home.
Thanks for lending an ear. I guess some people just can’t stand hearing the truth. I’ll keep you posted.
And thanks to Su for the adorable house fob she sent my way yesterday. It’s in a place of honor on my special cross stitch tree.
Update-I had to get a filling in the bothersome tooth and was gone from 2:30-4:00. I came in and my mom didn’t ask what was wrong. She came to the doorway of the family room where I was numb to the gills and announced she wanted to go home after dinner. Things kinda blew up and I went out to make a nice dinner. She got on the phone and started crying to my brother and then he wanted to talk to me. To make a long story short, Sean had to take her home with no dinner in his belly and just ate it at 7:00. So I don’t know what to do about her and she doesn’t remember things and makes them ten times as worse in her brain. Yes, company and fish stink after 3 days, thanks Vonna and Ben!
I’m still here and so is my mom! I went to get her on Saturday. She got a new frig just like mine, but a shelf smaller in both sections. She didn’t have one of the shelves separated, so I did that and rearranged items in it for her. She tossed a bunch of stuff out of the old one. I started to get a big allergy attack there that unfortunately lasted all day. I took mom to the farmer’s market for lunch and then we dropped by the Goodwill as I had a bag of stuff (old cross stitch leaflets) to leave. We went inside and I struck pay dirt! Someone had dropped off a bunch of cookbooks-Emeril and a few other Food Network people. I also got a white wicker buggy for my teddies. By the way, the guys went on the bus to Atlantic City with Bri’s dad as they hadn’t been down there for a while. I would have been by myself all day.
We came home and just vegged out as I wasn’t up to par. Bri and Sean didn’t get home until after 10 as there was a ton of traffic on Saturday. They went to the new mall and were most impressed by the new fountain and light show that rivals the Longwood Gardens show! I went to bed early but didn’t sleep all night! I couldn’t turn my brain or bladder off. Sunday was a sit around day. Mom seemed to enjoy sitting in the lounge chair and painting with her ‘Watercolor a day’ calendar. We ordered Chinese food which I was disappointed to do as I like to cook for mom when she comes here.
We watched the finale of ‘The Next Food Network Star’ and I swear I could have gone to bed at 9 when it started I was so wiped out. I voted for both Amy and Rory, to be fair I thought. I was happy Amy won as they don’t have someone quite like her on the channel. Rory looks like she has a popular restaurant she just opened in Texas. Good luck to both of them.
Today we were planning on Longwood Gardens, but it looks like rain. Bummer. Sean and I will take mom home tomorrow. Then on Wednesday I have to get a tooth checked out as it hurts every time I eat. My dental woes continue!
My bride pal Karin sent me links to her wedding photos which are terrific! I can’t show you the proofs, but I can show you a few taken by Michael’s family …
Those are Michael’s co-workers and pals from North Carolina.
Yeah I look all giddy, but I was so tired! I had like 2 hours of sleep that night.
When I get my copy of the wedding photos, then I will share them with you.
Make your own character from The Simpson movie website!
Playing with an idea from a Digital Scrapbook magazine
I harvested my first Green Goddess eggplant (purchased at Loews) yesterday-a thin pale green veggie-incredible harvests of light green slender eggplant that become about 8 inches long. Mild flavor and tremendous production make this a winner for anyone who wants a steady supply of delicious eggplant. Lovely lime green color. 68 days.
Here’s what it looks like all fried up-yum!
Not much new-lots of humidity and some rain here. I finally got to mail off some things here and found out most of the parking lot behind the post office and library up in the next town will be used for a new office complex. That may leave me in a bit of a quandary, unless I just park in my nearby bank for five minutes to go to the post office. My ‘real’ post office is actually about 5 miles away as I live on the border on the next town.
Collages & Creative Goodness 