Thursday

I called my sister-in-law, Alice, to wish her a happy birthday.  I am two weeks older than she is, and she loves to lord it over me for two weeks, reminding me how old I am.  She is caught up to me again.  They are snow birds, and in Arizona for the winter.

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I have been working on the colored pencil drawing of Kat.  Colored pencils are SLOW.  I've spent most of the day on it, and haven't made a lot of progress.

 

 

  I wonder if it will warm up in February?

 

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Wednesday 1/3013

Kat is on a mission today.  She is bound and determined to catch one of those birds at the feeder right in front of her nose.  She waits and waits, with her tail whipping.  Finally, she leaps, and bangs her nose on the window glass.  She does this over and over again.  Brain damage?

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I got a very weird phone call about 7:00 Sunday night.  When I answered, a man's voice said "There's a package on your porch you might want to get inside."  I was in the middle of a movie, distracted, and said "Thanks."  That was all.

 

Then it dawned on my that UPS and FedEx do not deliver on Sundays.  We don't have a porch light since Barrie power washed and sanded the front of the house.  She took the lights out, so it's very dark out there.  Barrie didn't think I should even open the front door, but I finally did.  No package, no boogie man waiting in the dark. 

 

 

This is not mine.  Lenore found this in an art book (it's oil) and thought we should all do this in watercolor.  I haven't even touched my watercolors for a couple of weeks, but I will try it. 

 

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I started a colored pencil drawing of Kat this morning.  I just need to change medium once in a while.

 

 

If you are familiar with the work of any of these artists, you will get a kick out of this.

 





Tuesday

Now playing on my iPod, "Who's Gonna Feed Them Hogs?" by Tom T. Hall.

It takes a long time to listen to the Tom T. Hall playlist.  I have 104 of his songs!

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I noticed this morning that both the cookie jar and the cookie can are empty.  Barrie bought some more flour and sugar the other day, so maybe I'd better bake more cookies.s

 



 

I found another image of myself on the Internet!!

 

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I have spent a lot of time looking through photos on my computer looking for the picture of the newborn buffalo we took on our trip  home from Montana.  It's just not there.  Makes me so mad!

 

 

This is appropriate.

 

 





Monday

I just put 1 1/2 gallons water in the little upstairs humidifier, and six gallons in the downstairs one.  Ah, my nose feels good.  Little guage says 33% humidity.

I've been saying my barometer says 33%, but that's not right is it?  A barometer measures the air pressure.  Is it a hydrometer that measures the humidity in the air?

I just took these down from the red wall in my (Kasey's) downstairs bedroom and brought them upstairs and am deciding where to put them.  They are about 6 to 8 inches tall.  They are very light weight, must be made of something similar to paper mache.  I think I'll like seeing them upstairs.  I never looked at them on the downstairs bedroom wall.

 

I also brought up my pencil drawing of Vance B..  I did this drawing of him several years ago from a photograph I took during Rendezvous.

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I have a big pot of chili going in the crock pot, and I'm hoping it's edible.  I put some chiptole sausage in it, and it might make it too hot.  I guess we'll see.

 



Saturday

 

I switched to Firefox for my web browser this morning, and was so surprised to find I could upload the video I've been trying to put on my blog. Kat, in all her wacky glory! Do you think she should see a cat psychiatrist?

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I've been working on cleaning out my upstairs closet and storage space this morning.  If we are cleaning everything of mine out of the downstairs bedroom, I have to find a place to put it.  SO MUCH stuff is going to the food basket or the dump (or the recycling center).  But there are a few things I want to keep.

 

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A long time ago, I bought a little basket of yarn in a yarn shop in Jackson with sock patterns.  I actually made a sock or two, but the yarn is tapestry wool, so the socks weren't meant to be worn anyway.  This card was in the basket.

 

 

Beautiful socks, aren't they?  But worthless for wearing.

 

 



Friday

Baking a loaf of cinnamon raisin bread in the bread machine this morning - from a packaged mix.  I have ingredients to make bread - 9 grain cereal, bran, cracked wheat, etc.  But it is sure easy to just open a bag and dump it in!

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I kept forgetting to photograph this guy that Kasey make at school.  He's about twice as tall as Kasey.  When I asked Barrie why he has one red eye and one black eye, she said probably the same reason Kasey dyes Easter eggs black.

 





I'm Moving - - -

It's official.  Kasey has decided she is ready to move into my downstairs bedroom, and wants to paint the wall pink?  Where the heck did Barrie get her?  Barrie would NEVER have slept in a room with a pink wall!  Two walls of the room are white, one is the closet, and one wall is red. 

I have been slowly working on clearing out the room for some time now, but when Barrie steps in, it's like working with a tornado!  I pulled stuff out of the closet, and if I wanted it, I threw it on the bed to go upstairs.  If I didn't want to keep it, I threw it to Barrie and she made the decision whether to put it in the dump pile or the food basket pile.  She also cleaned the rest of the yarn out, including what was under the bed.  She also cleaned out the linen closet in the back hall, and I see she cleaned off some shelves in the basement. 

The bedroom looks bad right now, but we got a lot done yesterday.

I put my old pots and pans in the food basket pile and hung up the new ones this morning.  These aren't as high quality as my old cookware, but looks so nice.  And I have more space in the cupboards now.

Can I rest now?  I have a good book waiting for me.

Watched a good movie last night - "Absence of Malice" with Sally Field and Paul Newman.

Wednesday

I stayed for lunch at Rendezous Pointe today after art group.  It was hamburgers and tater tots.  I couldn't eat all my hamburger, so gave some to Jackie to take home to feed the fox who visit their place on the Upper Green.

I took raisin oatmeal cookies for treats for the art group this morning.  There were eight of us there.

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Finished this small drawing of a Big Horn ram.  Maybe he has too big a bump on his nose.

Good Grief!  Blogger actually uploaded this image using compose mode!

 

Tuesday

Blogger is so frustrating!  Can't post a video.  Kat had a moment this morning trying to kill her tail and being very vocal about it.  I tried to upload it, but no luck. I can't even upload a picture in compose mode, but have to switch to HTML  Does anyone have any ideas what my problem is?

I just finished baking oatmeal and raisin cookies, about 6 dozen, I think, because I doubled the recipe.  Whew!!

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This photo makes me giggle!

 

 

 

Ahh, another picture of me on the Internet!

 

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Both humifiers were out of water this morning.  I filled the upstairs one with 1 1/2 gallons of water.  I went downstairs to have my cup of coffee from the Keurig, and started a load of laundry.  I was pouring the seventh gallon into the big humidifier when my feet felt wet.  I had overfilled the darned thing and was flooding the dining room.  I sopped it up with towels.

 

Someone I live with doesn't like bright lights, and has uncrewed half the bulbs in the ceiling lights in the dining room.  I couldn't see the fill mark, and overfilled it.  I think I'll ask my roomate to screw a couple bulbs back in.   

 

 

 



 

My lunch yesterday, a grilled cheese sandwich made with multigrain bread from the bread machine, and home made fries.  Healthy?  Probably not, but it sure was good!