Time to get ready for Christmas

Wow, it's December and now it's time to take down the Halloween/Thanksgiving decorations down and put them in boxes for next year. then it's clean up the carpet and try to figure out where and how to put a Christmas tree in the living room. We managed it last year but we didn't have a kitchen table and benches in the living room at the old house. We've been in here since May and this kitchen was smaller in size than the other one. So the kitchen table with benches is right at the kitchen door.

We only have one puppy left to send to a forever home and a lady is coming this afternoon to check her out. Then I'll move the big blue cage into my bedroom and that will be where little Phoebe will sleep. My puppy got renamed when we got to Grand Junction. The Grand kids wanted to call her Phoebe instead of Godiva so we switched and she answers to this new name as well.  Here's a newer picture of her:

Taken this morning and she's proud of herself...learned how to jump up onto the couch. Still working on how to get back down.

She's a real cutie...not a bully any more...only one left to bully and Nikki is going thisafternoon. 

Very alert.

Just fits in the hand and loves to snuggle.

Doesn't she think she's a queen?

She's such a cutie. I got the Quick Page from Arlene's tapping into Kyra's new Merry Seasons kit. I just love the colors and I'll take that Santa any day. 

This is a Polaroid from my trip to Grand Junction for my birthday last month. My oldest daughter doesn't usually let any one get a picture of her but this one she wanted. The whole family loves it. 

My cousin Shyanne Shirley who lives back East and this is her gorgeous daughter Elaina, looking like a model! Such a pretty little girl.

This is Shyanne and Elaina ready for Trick or Treat this year. Cute little bumble bee!

Well I have to busy opening up all the new Christmas kits I got this morning. That QP was made from one of them, and I've got another 30 to open but I've only made it part way (half) down the Blog Train. It's from designers World Wide. Each one made a contribution and this lovely lady is from Australia. The first pic with Santa is from the Netherlands, and the first picture of Elaine designer is Raspberry Roads here in the USA.

Have a great weekend and I should see you again next week! Got an eye appointment to have the 'dimple' on my eye checked out. I'd never heard of such a thing as a dimple on the eye but they showed me the x-ray of my eye and there's a  round patch of whatever on the eye.

  

Time for a vacation

I'm writing this from the laptop in Dani's kitchen while here on Vacation. We came down last Tuesday and we'll be driving back up tomorrow. It's a 13 hour drive less if we make only short stops to bathroom breaks.
    We came down with 2 puppies and one of them went to her forever home last evening. My little Godiva is just learning her sister isn't her to cuddle with so he next choice was me. Not a problem. I don't move around in my sleep anyway so there's no danger of rolling over on her and squashing her. Soon she'll be back with the other 5 pups which might be fund to watch. Her Mamma will be happy to see her too! Dani felt her health issues were too much not under control to give a new puppy the care and attention it needed. One of her co-workers has 2 little girls and just moved into a new house so her girls were thrilled to take the one I called "dirty socks" home with them.
    The kids here are fun to be around. Missy comes by every morning before she goes to school. Then she comes back in between school and her second job. Already has most of her homework done but might have some to work on after 9 pm when she's finished work. I believe Missy will be finished with school next May and will graduate with a Bachelor's degree. First one in my family. Their father's family had several doctors, businessmen, councilmen et al, so they were pretty savvy!
    And now I'm back in Washington State. It was a grueling trip. I was seated right behind the driver so I had no leg room and the knees got pretty sore and were very painful. But I switched places with Olivia somewhere in Idaho and sat on the other side of the car. More leg room and I was quite happy. We left Junction at 6:30 AM Mtn time and got here in Richland at 10:30 Pacific time. Even doing the one hour over again as you cross time zones made it a really long trip.
    Now here's a couple of pictures:

My Oldest daughter Dani. She tells me if I let my waves grow out my hair will be just like hers. No curling iron necessary.

Three of Dani's four children. Joe in the red shirt is 25 yrs old, Missy in the middle is almost 24, working on her Bachelor degree, and the tall dude is Bob, who is 27 and my "go to guy" for my computer!

I'm about to go in the other room and sort through 7 days of mail. Not a really big deal...just more catalogs and election propaganda and solicitations.

Have a great weekend my friends!

Sorry I missed the month of September

I get involved with life and I forget to relax and pop into visit my friends and look at the lovely pictures they've put on their blogs.

On the 16th of September, Serenity gave birth to puppies. The first one came at 11:03 and the second one came at 11:13 and then another one at 11:17. I was really hoping that it would stop here but about 11:30 a fourth one was born. Figured we were done since she is a little Chihuahua. Something of an over achiever though. Half an hour later a 5th puppy came out but the Mama was having some trouble with this one so I got a washcloth and wrapped up the messy puppy and gentle started to pull since you really can't leave the Amniotic sac behind. And as I'm gently pulling "big whoosh" out popped number 6. It took a little doing but Mamma got it all fixed up for both 5 & 6. She was laying on clean bedding about 1:30 nursing the 6 wiggling puppies when she raised her back side up off the bedding and pushed and out number 7.  She was exhausted by this time and I can understand why. There are 7 beautiful babies in that pen in my bedroom. And I'm going to put some pictures right here so you can chuckle too.

Of course we did get a fright. a friend was soothing the Mamma and she said there's another puppy in there. We felt her up and I called the Vet and she said bring her in and I'll check. It would be really bad if there was another puppy this long after the others had been born and the Vet would have to do emergency surgery to get it out. She did a good exam and said what we were feeling was an 'engorged uterus'. She went on to check each of the babies since she said bring them all down. She examined all 7 babies, weighed them listened to their hearts and did a check that I asked for. She weighed them all and they ranged from 107 grams to 157 grams.

I had lost a darling baby Australian shepherd at 2+ weeks because I checked him one day and couldn't find an "anus". The vet couldn't either and she was going to do surgery the next day. After about 1 hour she called me and told me it wasn't working. The tissue she was trying to use kept shredding. I asked her if he was still asleep and she said yes so I asked her to Euthanize him and then sat at my desk and cried for hours. I still tear up thinking about.

But these little darlings are all A-OK! Here's what we've got.

This dog carrier was too small also.

This 'dog pile' has Godiva on the top of the heap.

That's Malcom looking over the door way to the old cage.

There are 2 brown puppies and 5 black with some really neat markings. A couple of them look like tiny Rottweilers.

The puppy on the top of the 'dog pile' is Malcom. The puppy my grand daughter wants to keep. 

At 5 weeks I started feeding them supplement formula cause Serenity couldn't produce enough any more. They took to it really well. The only thing not in their development is the teeth. I imagine in another week or so they'll be biting my fingers and their Mamma won't let them near her.

This is Lady Godiva at 4 weeks.

I had a lot of appointments to get ready for 'surgery' on Oct. 4th. Then after three days in the hospital I was still confined to doing nothing for another week at home.. I'm able to sit now without a batch of pillows. But I can't do any heavy lifting because of the stitching in the tummy.

Company has started arriving for a potluck birthday party for Bridgit's betrothed who is 37 today. He's a Norse so I quit being surprised to see him show up in a "kilt". Jess is leaving on Sunday for his Apprenticeship in California where he will be learning more of his trade doing specialized makeup and making costumes. Jess and Bridgit went over to the airport and did the makeup on the kids who were being victims for a training exercise for the local fire departments. They were so authentic the kids went back to school looking like real accident victims. Bet they were a real hit.

Every one have a great weekend. Bridgit, Olivia and I are leaving on Wednesday to go to Grand Junction for a visit at my daughter's house. we hadn't seen her since her bus accident where she got tossed around and got a nasty Spider concussion. That was in May last year so we're all anxious to get down there and check her out. I personally want to move back there so I can be nearer to her. With Bridgit getting married next October and then moving to California to be with Jess I'd like to be down there in Grand Junction.

God Bless everyone and have a great weekend.

Last Day of August Yeah!

I am so ready for the beautiful fall weather. It's my favorite time of the year if only because of the gorgeous colors in the trees as they get ready for winter. I like Winter too. I just have to cover my face so I'm not breathing cold air.

I've been harvesting tomatoes O'plenty! I've given away 3 full strainers full and I need to go out when it gets cooler and probably find another strainer full. I think I'll make some salsa. If I don't make it too 'hot' then I'll be able to eat it. Otherwise the rest of the family will eat it. Charlie's man says it's real easy to make tomato soup so I'm going to go looking for a recipe for that next.

Our little Chihuahua is pregnant and last evening my grand daughter thinks she spotted a little white worm in her poop. So today I got her some worm medicine and mixed it into some Turkey Pate' but she won't eat it. And it's pretty spendy too. Maybe if I cover it with some gravy and mashed potatoes she'll eat it. She hasn't had much of an appetite lately but the book says that's normal. Her tummy is so big with the babies that she can't eat much. just often. I'm going to be the midwife and our Tiny Human is going to assist me. Her mother is too squeamish. She'd probably barf all over the place

I just posted a link on my face book page for the annual Time Of Remembrance event here in Richland. It a weekend to meet with other families who are suffering the same loss and who are usually too soon forgotten. I'm going to put the link here also: Just in Case!  http://timeofremembrance.org/ There is a yellow button on the left side of the page if you want to donate. This year is a really tight year and more families to care for. Every little bit helps!

Moe and Phil should be winding down their trip. They have been on the road foe the month of August. She did 9 National Parks in 9 days. I've been getting the pictures and making scrap book pages. Here's a few that I've done.

They had a great trip and shared some beautiful pictures.

The land in the mid to western US is a lot of dessert. Complete with all the creatures that inhabit it.

And I lived close to this one and never made to see it in person. Maybe next time.

This is Canyon Lands Nat'l Park. Phil taking a picture and Moe posing by the sign.

Black Canyon Nat'l Park looks like some climbing to do.

Early in the month Moe officiated a wedding and they ran into some old friends at the camp grounds. That was an extra good time.

Moe had the fun of standing in 4 states with one foot.  Geographically this is where they intersect and so there is large metal and marble plaque to mark the spot. I have a picture of me standing there but it was a long time ago. Now it cost $5.00 to stand up there and get your picture taken. And there are vendors all around the circle, some Native American and some others are different nationalities.

It's time to check the news. Louisiana has been having way too much rain and thousands are homeless this week. Flood waters up to the porch roof and lots of rescues going on. I only hope they thought to look out for the animals. During past storms volunteers have run through the neighborhood and rescued pets. Hopefully they are doing it again.

Have a great weekend and enjoy the Labor day festivities where ever you are!

Summer is almost done!

I went to my general practitioner last week, (actually she specializes in Geriatrics), she just loves us old folks. I think she might be Korean but her English is almost as good as mine and I love her!  She cares and she asks questions and spends the time to find out what's going on. She gave me some new type of compression socks/stockings. Actually they just came off a big roll and they cut them to my size/length. I can't believe how much it has helped my walking!  

And then on Monday this week, I went back to the Audiologist for my new hearing aids. They are sooo cool ! very tiny and you can't see them. They have a blue tooth connection that lets me listen to my cell phone through them, even if the cell is in the other room.
I wear this little box around my neck with buttons on it to turn them up or down, and one to push to connect to the cell phone when it rings and then to listen to the TV through my hearing aids so it can be turned down to not disturb the rest of the family. I am so happy with these ones.

Now to get the rest of me fixed, even though I know that the Lungs and Heart aren't going to get to 100%. I just keep working on slowing the damage down so I can live to 100 yrs old (lol). 

I did get to the Perseids Meteor shower last Friday night with my daughter Charlie & her boyfriend Kelin.  The volume of the  meteors didn't get very big until about 1 am and I wasn't up for that and neither was Kelin's mother who went with us. I did get to look through a good sized telescope from one of the Astronomy Club members and saw a really good close view of the moon with all it craters and dents. And then we looked up at something going across at a good speed and found out it was the space station. It circles the earth every 90 mins so we just happened to catch it. The sky was really clear so we saw it great and for about the whole 2 mins it took it to go from one side of us to the other. We managed to see about 5 meteors streaking across the night sky but we were early. The Observatory is about 5 miles out of town and not many city lights to interfere so we can sit and watch the sky clearly. Next good show will be sometime in October. I just looked it up. We have to wait awhile. I'm posting the info from www.stardate.org 

The Orionids

Night of October 21

Sets after midnight.

Well it's time to show off my scrapbook pages; I just found some that had been on my facebook page in 2013 so I thought I might share them too.

My friends Phil & Moe somewhere nice (I forgot to get the location) and they are such a neat couple.

A good friend and the Mom to one of my Great Grand daughters who will always be close to my heart! She checks up on me and whenever I go into her Albertson's store she always gives me a big hug when she spots me riding around through the store.

A picture of Olivia with my daughter Charlie's puppy that we call Junior (the whole name is Chazz Junior cause he looks like her but isn't related at all. Just best buddies!

A picture of Olivia who had "Cinderella duty" for the day. She did something she wasn't supposed to or she got sassy and her mom put her on Cinderella duty. 

Darling Olivia when sh was just 2 yrs or probably no even 2 yet. She has such a photogenic face that we couldn't  help our selves.

My brother Frank and my sister Dianna live together with Dianna's youngest daughter. It's quite good for all of them. They share expenses and chores. These are their cats. Yellow one is Boss and the dark one Ruby. Looks like they enjoy napping together.

Another picture of darling Olivia when she was almost 2. Her birthday is in Dec. and I had custody for a couple of years while her Mom went back to school etc..

These are my two oldest daughters when we lived on Midway Island. Dani (on the left) was just 3 in May so she got to go to school in Sept. there on the island. Little sister didn't get to start until Sept of 67 and then we left the Island in November with a 5 month old littler sister Charlie. I loved dressing them alike but only had one of each of these dresses.

I'm sort of proud of this picture, taken on Midway Island about March and Baby Charlie came in June that year (1967). You need to look close to see that I'm resting my right arm on top of the 'Baby Bump'.

This is my friend Marie's daughter Jeweli working on her science project. I guess she had to grow something, (hopefully something she might want to eat). She's a big girl now. In High school even.

Well that's enough of my rambling on for one day. I don't do too much housework but I help out when I can. I've been mopping floors but the tile in the kitchen is so old it's never going to shine. But it still looks good and we really like our house. Can't wait for the Autumn weather to start. I don't like heat. It makes my breathing worse. At least in the winter I can cover my face half way and I'm not breathing in cold air, (not good for lungs) but covered up it's tolerable.

Everyone have a nice day and enjoy the remainder of the Olympics.

Hugs from Grandma Sarge!

What's going on!

Wow! Bridgit and Tiny Human-Olivia are up in the woods camping and tomorrow is an Archery shoot that will both enter along with the rest of the Gibson family.Grandpa Kenny has an Archery business (not really large but it keeps him busy till the bars open or he gets called in too work). So needless to say all the kids and grand kids shoot a bow and arrow. Some better than others. Olivia managed to take a 1st place for her age group last year and she's been practicing.  They are in a camp ground a little ways away from the wildfire and up wind to boot. They should be OK. I say my prayers, they have 2 of my Gr-Grand daughters up there. I'm sure the Park management and the Forest service is keeping a close eye on which way the wind blows. I have 2 great grandsons up there this week end as well. They are a pretty close knit group even with the extended members, of which there are probably another dozen people and lots of cars, trucks and camper.

 We now are the hotel for 1 small deer head Chihuahua, 1 very old (14+) and 1 very young kitten. Mrs Beasley the old dear is mine but I live with a family of Wicca's so naturally there is a black cat in the house. Albeit still very small, 2 months old kitten but she still hasn't learned her boundaries so there is a lot of growling and backing off. The kitten's name is Lagitha (A Warrior Shield in the Wicca religion). She's a lively little thing and she is making friends with the doggie although maybe not for long. The little dog was mated two & half weeks ago so she might be pregnant and then she'll get some runaway hormones. (I did 3 times so why shouldn't the dog). That might either mellow her out or make her vengeful toward the kitten. Mrs. Beasley (my old cat) is almost 3 times the dogs size and really loud (no front claws so she uses her voice) and scares the small dog but not the small cat! I picked the list up from another blogger who has more 'fur babies' than we do.

I'm sure by now you've figured out that this blog is just for fun and me showing off! I made a couple of new Scrapbook pages so I'm going to post them here.

I had that cat tree for my old bitty but she won't go near it. It sat in the corner of the hall way for months (since last Christmas) and when Bridgit brought the kitten home from the shelter and put her on the floor to explore going down the hall way this was the first thing she found. Ran right up the silly thing so I put her food dish at the top to keep the other critter out of it. She has laid claim to it and no amount of talking is going to change that. She's still making up her mind where she's going to sleep at night but she has 3 choices so until she figures it out, she makes the rounds. P.S. That is my Geeky Tiny Human Olivia with a Mohawk haircut. And she starts middle school in about 3 1/2 weeks. I know for a fact she'll be the only one with that type of haircut and colored Blue & Purple at that! Hopefully it won't be a detriment.  I know she can take care of herself if someone tries to act the bully. She has stepped in at her other school when she saw one of the younger kids getting a trashing from a bully. Just walking in between him and his target was enough to send him packing.

My computer desk is in a niche in this hallway so I'm here quite a lot the time. She decided that my desk was a great place for a little nap and now she's here a lot. If I make too much noise shuffling papers she jumps down and stretches out on the floor. Yesterday, I picked up a towel headed for the laundry and folded it up and put it right where she wanted to take her nap and still keep an eye on me. She didn't look to comfy in that first picture so the large towel folded in half and half again was just right for some sort of softness.

This is a picture story of my my good friend Moe and her husband Phil. She and I collect the Parks & recreation quarters but Moe & Phil are going one better. Each of those parks has a stamp and when you stay a night or two they stamp your book. She's trying for all 50 states, I think. I just follow her pictures and make a scrapbook page to document the journey. This time when they got to Montana she had the opportunity to meet up with her Aunt Joannie and her daughter Linda Mohr. They had a nice visit and it wa a big plus for their journey. I understand she's going to be on the road the whole month of August, I think. They have a nice camper and she cooks a really nice meal. I'm going to have to make a page of the first meal she put together in the camper on this trip. Quite a nice looking, well balanced meal.

Tome to run off to another blog and see what's going on on FB. I've been leaving FB alone a lot, during the election campaign. Can't stand the negativity.

Have a nice day, friends and fellow bloggers and fellow scrap bookers!

What's going on!

Wow! Bridgit and Tiny Human-Olivia are up in the woods camping and tomorrow is an Archery shoot that will both enter along with the rest of the Gibson family.Grandpa Kenny has an Archery business (not really large but it keeps him busy till the bars open or he gets called in too work). So needless to say all the kids and grand kids shoot a bow and arrow. Some better than others. Olivia managed to take a 1st place for her age group last year and she's been practicing.  They are in a camp ground a little ways away from the wildfire and up wind to boot. They should be OK. I say my prayers, they have 2 of my Gr-Grand daughters up there. I'm sure the Park management and the Forest service is keeping a close eye on which way the wind blows. I have 2 great grandsons up there this week end as well. They are a pretty close knit group even with the extended members, of which there are probably another dozen people and lots of cars, trucks and camper.

 We now are the hotel for 1 small deer head Chihuahua, 1 very old (14+) and 1 very young kitten. Mrs Beasley the old dear is mine but I live with a family of Wicca's so naturally there is a black cat in the house. Albeit still very small, 2 months old kitten but she still hasn't learned her boundaries so there is a lot of growling and backing off. The kitten's name is Lagitha (A Warrior Shield in the Wicca religion). She's a lively little thing and she is making friends with the doggie although maybe not for long. The little dog was mated two & half weeks ago so she might be pregnant and then she'll get some runaway hormones. (I did 3 times so why shouldn't the dog). That might either mellow her out or make her vengeful toward the kitten. Mrs. Beasley (my old cat) is almost 3 times the dogs size and really loud (no front claws so she uses her voice) and scares the small dog but not the small cat! I picked the list up from another blogger who has more 'fur babies' than we do.

I'm sure by now you've figured out that this blog is just for fun and me showing off! I made a couple of new Scrapbook pages so I'm going to post them here.

I had that cat tree for my old bitty but she won't go near it. It sat in the corner of the hall way for months (since last Christmas) and when Bridgit brought the kitten home from the shelter and put her on the floor to explore going down the hall way this was the first thing she found. Ran right up the silly thing so I put her food dish at the top to keep the other critter out of it. She has laid claim to it and no amount of talking is going to change that. She's still making up her mind where she's going to sleep at night but she has 3 choices so until she figures it out, she makes the rounds. P.S. That is my Geeky Tiny Human Olivia with a Mohawk haircut. And she starts middle school in about 3 1/2 weeks. I know for a fact she'll be the only one with that type of haircut and colored Blue & Purple at that! Hopefully it won't be a detriment.  I know she can take care of herself if someone tries to act the bully. She has stepped in at her other school when she saw one of the younger kids getting a trashing from a bully. Just walking in between him and his target was enough to send him packing.

My computer desk is in a niche in this hallway so I'm here quite a lot the time. She decided that my desk was a great place for a little nap and now she's here a lot. If I make too much noise shuffling papers she jumps down and stretches out on the floor. Yesterday, I picked up a towel headed for the laundry and folded it up and put it right where she wanted to take her nap and still keep an eye on me. She didn't look to comfy in that first picture so the large towel folded in half and half again was just right for some sort of softness.

This is a picture story of my my good friend Moe and her husband Phil. She and I collect the Parks & recreation quarters but Moe & Phil are going one better. Each of those parks has a stamp and when you stay a night or two they stamp your book. She's trying for all 50 states, I think. I just follow her pictures and make a scrapbook page to document the journey. This time when they got to Montana she had the opportunity to meet up with her Aunt Joannie and her daughter Linda Mohr. They had a nice visit and it wa a big plus for their journey. I understand she's going to be on the road the whole month of August, I think. They have a nice camper and she cooks a really nice meal. I'm going to have to make a page of the first meal she put together in the camper on this trip. Quite a nice looking, well balanced meal.

Tome to run off to another blog and see what's going on on FB. I've been leaving FB alone a lot, during the election campaign. Can't stand the negativity.

Have a nice day, friends and fellow bloggers and fellow scrap bookers!

Summer is coming to a close, Maybe!

Before I start rambling, Let me say, that I'm saying prayers for the families of the policemen who were assassinated last week and the week before that. I pray for the ones who lived and for the families who are grieving. I can't understand why they think that they can just kill police because someone else got killed in the act of a 'felony' or in a shoot out that he started. I just sit and cry, it's so senseless. Join me in praying for Peace and Common Decency to take over this ravaged country.

It hasn't been too bad for me. The evenings are cool and I have a window fan in my window which both cools the room and is a white noise for sleeping. Not like the concentrator which I think is trying to blow up or at least it's a plane preparing for takeoff! I've taken to using the big tall bottles for sleeping and it's quite nice for me. At least they will still work if the power goes out.

It went out for a few hours last month when a squirrel got too close and got himself 'fried' but he burned out the transformer and several blocks were without power. Now I have his son running across my fence and up the trees where I've hung some dried corn cobs with corn on them. He packs his cheeks and then runs back along the fence and buries the corn in the neighbor's back yard. He also has a spot next to our gate that he's dug a little hole but when the 'puppy' saw it, she waited until  squirrel was gone and she dug everything back up.

I think I've mentioned the 'morning Doves' outside my bedroom window before. I've learned that one of the doves escaped and flew away. He/She's never returned. Guess they aren't like pigeons. But that didn't put the remaining Dove into a mourning period. Oh No! every morning at break of day this remaining dove starts his/her noise. Good thing I'm usually up at that hour anyway.

Last week I had a brilliant idea to make a 'chicken coop' and raise about 3 hens and 1 rooster. I thought fresh eggs might be a nice change. Then 'grand daughter' broke up with her man last weekend and so now I don't have anyone to build the chicken coop.  Both of my girls are out on the Archery range this afternoon. Bridgit has promised to teach one of her friends how to shoot a standard bow and our 'Tiny Human' got her own bow last week from her mother and I (we split the cost of the bow and some arrows). Her Grandpa will be thrilled since before she had to share a bow with some of the other kids. Now she's a big kid and has her own bow. And she's doing quite well in her Judo class. I understand they were going to learn choke holds. I've told her I'm not a practice dummy so find someone else to choke. They really aren't allowed to actually choke each other in class but they practice up the actual pressure.

I've got a few more scrap Book Pages to share with you. Actually I found 10 new ones.

My young friend Ashley @ her Mom's birthday party.

My two girls mugging for the camera as usual.

My youngest daughter Charlie and her 'man' when they were at a concert.

Charlie & Kelin went to a Rock Concert and one of the band members found out her name was Charlie and so he asked her to do the Charlie's Angels' pose with him. I cut them out of the picture they sent me, because it was way too dark.

This is my Adorable niece Consuelo on the front of her home up in Yakima. She's going to college and taking care of my brother Frank and my sister Dianna at the same time. God give her strength. 

This is the latest fur baby to move in with us. Her name is Lagitha and she came from the shelter. So she's been spayed, and had all of her shots and a chip has been embedded in her back. But she still has claws and like to climb up my leg and body to get onto the desk so she can take a nap right here. That is, after she chases the little arrow around the screen for about 15 mins.

Good friend Lorene with her three girls. Kaddie is my Gr-grand daughter, but the other two call me Nana also. Kaddie was going on a trip with her Dad to Florida to visit her Step mother's grand parents. It was quite a trip.

Another picture of the birthday party. Ashley's little sister Mia is trying to teach her to play with the string we all used to have 60 years ago called Katz Craddle. 

My good friend Moe with her daughter Michelle and the other picture is Moe and her Mother Cleone.  Solid Irish family.

This is my Then and Now picture. In 1968 I was between stations with the 3 daughters waiting for housing to open up on Guam. I had started Cosmetology school And practiced on my own girls for haircuts and I let the other student practice on me for the Finger Waves and mixing colors. Needless to say when I got off the plane in Guam, my husband walked right past me. Then it hit him, that lady with the 3 little girls has to be his wife. It was worth having bright red hair to see the look on his face.

Well I've spent enough time rambling on. I'm going to relax in the big recliner and probably nod off.  I wish every one a Happy Weekend and a great week coming up!  God Bless every one.

It's been awhile!

ven't had a whole lot that is shareable. Doctor's appointments, new hearing aids, more doctor appointments and some really nasty tests. Those 'scopies' are pure torture. Went through the prep work twice because they gave me the wrong medical prep at the pharmacy at the hospital.  Everything had to be rescheduled to a time when the first prep kit had worked it's way out of my system. And some really nasty stuff the second prep kit was! Then the 'CT' scan was done and that was the most tortuous thing ever. Results from the second screening wasn't favorable. Now I have to go Spokane to a GI doctor one slevel above a Gastroentrologist. some polyps, and hardening of wall mean a more inclusive test and at least I'll be out for the exam.

Had another appointment with the ENT's office and he tested for the Tinnitus and yes there is a ringing in my ears 24/7 and supposedly it can't be cured but he sent the results over to my VA representative who will be filing for a disability from the Navy. Might raise my status up a level and I guess it will get me a small check each month which I will put straight into savings. It won't even be enough to pay the electric bill.

We are reopening my claim against the Energy people for the COPD/Asbestos Pneumoconiosis and we're adding Pulmonary Hypertension to the mix. That just means the poor heart has been working harder to get air to the lungs so it make the breathing harder. I still walk some times going to the bus and such and doing light chores here in the house but I can tell when I've hit my limit. Have to sit down and get the emergency inhaler. Really bugs me because about all I can do is pick a few of the veggies.

Got the first cute little tomato yesterday. All the others are still green but it won't be long.  I'm giving a bumper crop of Rhubarb to a friend of mine. And we seem to have acquired a few volunteer Gian Sunflower plants. I two 7 footers in the back yard along the fence with the Strawberries and about 6 or 7 6 footers in the rock garden in the front yard. I'll wait till they are ready to harvest and then I'll bake some sunflower seeds for the kids. Not sure when I'm supposed to harvest them but I can always Google.  Find out a lot of things that way!

Here's a few scrapbook pages I made over the last couple of months.

This is a good friend Audrey out on a walk in the spring weather. Used a kit from Kyra and threw in the blue thingy from another of my ladies.

Audrey using a new phone I think, checking camera.

Family portrait that was done back in 1982. Just uncovered the picture in it's frame from the photographer. That would be my 3 daughters, Dani, Denise & Charlie (aka Danita). Another of Kyra's kits with a few squiggles from a file on my computer called overlays.

My Great Grandson Dominic at his 10th birthday. I've been cleaning up the computer and finding duplicates of a lot of files. In the process I've come across some neat pictures that I hadn't made into scrapbook pages.. Dominic is 12 now.

Grand daughter Bridgit, (my caregiver) and her new boyfriend Jess. Jess will be going to California to his new job in October, working on movies as makeup artist and making costumes for the new star wars/Star trek, which ever one it is. He'l be in LA with his friend Dragon's company who is on the credit list for a couple of those movies. 

I'll add something here when I figure out if she's a cousin or a niece.

Time to get a few more chores done. Litter box was the first one. We now have 2 felines in our house. One is a kitten named Labitha and the other is a cranky 14 year old named Mrs. Beasley! I'll do something with Labitha's picture later. She is a black Egyptian and about 4 months old.