Saturday - clutter, clutter, clutter

Brrr - cold in the house this morning.  I never leave my heat on upstairs at night, and the furnace had gone out.  It was 43 degrees downstairs when I got up.  I went down to the basement, took the cover off the furnace and pushed the round black thing to start it. 


While the cat's away, the mouse will play. Barrie and Kasey might be a little upset with me when they get home.

This is the dining room table.  I am putting it all in a box and it goes in Barrie's room.  She has a card table in there. I think the plastic bags have rotton bananas in them.  Wonder if they are important?

This is my old antique china cabinet. (The only thing I ever bought at The Barn Door.)  The pictues are going in a box in the closet, the sundial pieces are going back outside, and I am cleaning the top off too.

This is the bakers rack.  The big electric roaster is going in the basement, and the Wok is going to the Food Basket.  The fruit can go on the table, and I think I can find a place for the rest of it on the china closet.  If not, I'll get rid of it!  The recipe books can go on the white shelves that are under the dining room window.  Then the bakers rack can go to the Food Basket, and there will be a place to put the coat rack. I just now noticed a tripod is leaning up in the corner.

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It's starting to look like a blizzard out there.  Nice to be inside where it's warm and cozy.

Need to do some writing this afternoon.  In order to get 50,000 words written in a month, I need to write 1667 words a day.  I'm keeping up, but got behind for a while because I needed to do some reasearch about army life in Iraq.

What's in it for me?  Well, I get to print out a certificate that says I'm a NaNoWriMo winner, and I get a free draft copy of the book.  That's it.



Friday

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I watched The Country Music Awards on TV the other night.  Interesting, and I couldn't help but compare the stars to singers of long ago.  Yeah, I know I'm old as dirt, but I remember seeing Webb Pierce and Marty Robbins (and others I don't remember).  Webb Pierce wore a bright red western cut jacket with a big sparkly spider web embroidered across the back.  Marty Robbins wore a suit and tie.

Couldn't help but compare them to the male singers today, who wear ratty old jeans, tee shirts (usually black) and a hat that looks like it was run over by cows in the corral.  Gotta love their music, though.

Miranda Lambert looked like she was worried about a costume malfunction.  She wore a strapless dress and kept tugging it up.

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Just read a news item about a study that has been done in Sweden.  The study shows that men who donate to a sperm bank are well adjusted.  Whew!  I am so glad to hear it.  It's been worrying me.

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• You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going .... because you might not get there."

Yogi Berra





Thursday

I've been trying for three years to get rid of this tail, and the darned thing is still there.

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Small group in art yesterday.  Conley is back.  He has had a tough time with his back, and had cataract surgery.

I needed Conley's expertise on this painting I did some time back. I took this to art group and Conley spotted a problem immediately - it was missing a fin (where I drew the circle).  Conley was a taxidermist, and knows his stuff.

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I downloaded a couple new apps for the iPad that Kasey will enjoy.  I also got the book "The Night Before Christmas, illustrated by Jan Brett.  She fills the pages with little delightful things.  When Kasey touches Santa's picture, he "Ho Ho Hos", there's a little dog that barks when you touch him, a toy train whistles, and so on.   

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Maddy stayed in the yard yesterday.  Maybe she's like those dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.  She tests the electric fence, and never goes over the same place twice.  Maybe she'll figure it out. 

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I have tried several times to upload the video, and it wouldn't upload.  Yesterday I decided to switch from Internet Explorer to Fire Fox, and it uploaded just fine.  Go figure.



Wednesday

Barrie worked late on an office yesterday afternoon and Kasey hung out with Grandma.  I have been thoroughly enlightened.

First, do not cover your cough with your hand.  Cough into your elbow.  If you cough into your hand, you are getting all these germs on your hand. If you cover your cough with your arm, your hands don't get all germy.  (I knew that.)

Next, it is rude to say "shut up".  So when the dogs are barking, I am supposed to yell "hush" to them, instead.  I don't suppose "Hush #!&#;**" would be acceptable, either.

You must say "excuse me" if you burp.

I know what yellow snow is. Kasey told me.

I listen to too many songs.

Kasey doesn't fart, the cat farted.

 

Just think, I used to spend all day five days a week with a whole classroom of them.  I must have been much younger then. 

I also heard of lot of "Mama says ......"  Barrie, your day is coming.  When Kasey gets in kindergarten you will start hearing "But Mom, my teacher says . . . ." Hehe, been there, done that.

KC spelled words and made music on the iPad for a while.

Then she painted rocks and sticks. She switches between her right and left hands.  I think she may be a lefty.

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Maddy went over the fence and out of the yard yesterday.   She went over onto the garage roof.  I don't see how she didn't get zapped, and maybe she did.  She has stayed in the yard today.  I went down to the garage yesterday and called her, and put her in a kennel in the basement.

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I cleaned out my spam folder today.  Interesting.  The majority of my spam used to be how to enlarge my penis.  Now most of them are how to get an extension on my incomce tax.



Monday

Barrie harness broke the puppies yesterday and they got to go out.  Barrie said "Instant Sled Dogs, just add water."  They are only 4 1/2 months old.  Those people who say sled dogs are forced to run don't know sled dogs.  They were happy pups.

 Karma, first time in harness.

Kori looks happy.



 Kudar is ready to run.

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Barrrie put electric fence around the back yard.  Maddie went over , but the fence must have "bit" her on her way over, because she's stayed in since then. 

Oops!  That's gotta smart.

Sunday

 Not the nicest language in this message, but it makes me laugh.  No, that isn't my cat.  I would never ever be able to get her outside!

 The coleus I bought last spring is finally starting to look like something.  It's getting more light, I fertilize it once in a while, and I pinch it back constantly.  It's still not the gorgeous color it was when I brought it home, but it's looking better

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Barrie got the back yard fence put back up,   She had to take one side down when I had the big tree taken out.  Yesterday, she put an electric fence up.  Hopefully, this will keep Maddy in.  Maddy is not only as big as a moose, but she goes over a fence like a moose too.

Saturday

The snow the National Weather Service predicted for last Tuesday is finally here today.  I doubt if we get very much.  The wind is blowing a little here, so I imagine it's really blowing out of town on the flats.

Another picture of the polar bears playing with sled dogs.

Calvin and I agree on how to live well.

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I just read that over 200,000 people took part in the National Novel Writing Month (Nano).  Don't know how many there are this year.  When I checked the forums this morning, it said 52,399 people were currently on line.

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I was so hungry when I woke up this morning, that I went downstairs and made fried potatoes and eggs.  I burned everything, including the toast, and by the time I got my plate upstairs, the eggs were cold.  I ate part of it and threw the rest out the window to the dogs.



Friday

Not sure why I didn't post anything yesterday.  The day just seems to go so fast when you don't get up until 10:00.  Don't know what happened.  I woke up at 7:00, but my bed felt so warm and comfortable.  The next thing I knew, I was at a party and visiting with George Strait.  Then I woke up and it was 10:00.

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There are a couple of news items I am avoiding at all costs - one is Michael Jackson's doctor, and the other is Cain's political adventures.   (Or misadventures.)

Betty thinks I should name my bobble head moose "Bob".  Judi thinks I should name him "Marvin" in memory of the controversial cowboy head (with holes in it) sculpture that we had around town for a while.  Does anyone have pictures of Marvin?

I guess Marvin is still around somwhere.  I think he should be put up over on the west side of town, among all the townhouses.  He could give them a little class.

Postcard sized painting of the day.  That's supposed to be water, but I think I lost it.  Think I lost the trees too.

Wednesday

Kasey got a little Halloween bag at dance class yesterday.  She loved this little thing you blow in and the paper unrolls.

Looks like it hurts, doesn't it?

 Meet my new traveling partner.  Jeanine gave him to me this morning.  He is a bobble head and rides on the dashboard.  So cute.  He needs a name.

The grass needs more work, but this drawing is pretty much finished.  It is pencil and white charcoal on toned paper.

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I formatted the cards in my cameras yesterday.  Moved all the pictures to folders on my hard drive.  I organize my pictures by the year and month.  Not sure that makes it very much easier to find a particular photo, but it's better than nothing.  That's for the pictures I took with my digital cameras.  I also have a folder for scanned slides, scanned pictures. and some that don't fit anywhere.  Organized chaos.

The weather forecast was, as usual, way off.  Four to six inches of snow was predicted, and we got nada.  Looked at some web cams and saw it was snowing really hard in both Riverton and Lander.

Tuesday

Absolutely no reason for the two photos I uploaded today, it's just that I don't have any new pictures.

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The NWS is predicting snow today, lots of it.  As they are never right, we'll see.  It does look like snow, though.

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Have you all heard the song "One Step Forward and Two Steps Back"?  That's Barrie.

The charges her ex filed against her were dropped by the court, and he was required to submit a plan for paying off the back child support.  Current child support is to be withheld from his paycheck (if he holds onto this job).  He is to start paying $50 a month on the back support, which is the minimum amount allowed.  At that rate, it will take him almost four years to pay it off.  But it's a step forward.

But then, the judge changed the location of the meeting place for visitation pickup and drop off to Daniel.  That's only fair, I guess, BUT - it's eleven miles to Daniel, which means Barrie will be driving an extra 22 miles every day he has visitation.  With gas at $3.75 per gallon right now, it's going to cost her more than $50 a month just to pick Kasey up. 

But Barrie got some good news today.  He is required to pay her attorney fees.  I wonder if he regrets taking her to court over one missed visitation afternoon?