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February 13, 2011~ 12:00 am
The day before the DAY OF HEARTS is upon us.
I've always loved Valentine's Day. It seems sweetly old-fashioned to me, calling to mind red construction paper and paper doilies-- glue and glitter --and big heart-shaped boxes of candy. Nothing was as much fun as passing out those cute little valentines in school. Everyone had a shoebox on their desk decorated with cupids and lace, and the last period of the day allowed (finally!) for the circulation of small white envelopes dropped into slots, making happy ribbons of children giggling and distributing their "WILL YOU BE MINE'S".
Wayne has always made my Valentine's Day special. This year it was a GORGEOUS array of goodies......
....heart-shaped, foil-wrapped chocolate hearts, a HUGE box of fudge (it felt like a gold brick when I picked it up) -a lovely card, and the cutest, SOFTEST pink-stuffed FROG I've ever seen!
(No matter how old I get- and I'll be 60 this year, I'll never stop appreciating stuffed animals.) I LOVE THEM! "Dust-catchers" my mother used to call them when I was a little girl, but my housekeeping is less than stellar anyway, so what's a few more dust gatherers, especially smiling ones that make me so happy!
I just thought about the weather last year at this time. This was the very week of the great snowfall that paralyzed Pittsburgh for days on end! Man, I'm glad that this year, though frigid as anything-- has only produced average snow in the region. The rest of the country got hit hard, but we've been spared..... so far. (There's still another 6 weeks or so that could cause trouble. I'm hopeful, though.) Maybe we'll cruise right on through April, handling just a few inches at a time. Oh, I hope so!
The past week I've been having so much fun adding to my stories about the witch, the tooth and the dragon. Wayne and I saw the grandkids on Saturday evening and they were full of excited comments about the story website. (That did not, however, make me exempt from telling them a new tale made up on the spot about a pink dress and a gnome. LOL!!!) No free passes. 'In-the-flesh' stories are still very much expected..... (and of course I'm flattered as all get out they look forward to my visits and my tall tales.)
Kay and I played 'War' with a deck of cards. First she won, then I did.... and me and Bill had a kitchen table version of basketball we made up, using a foil gumwrapper rolled into a ball and our index fingers as 'shooters'. We (or I should say, he) made up the rules as we went along and by by time we left to go grocery shopping, the final score was Bill 95, Gram 70. (This pleased Bill) --- he's a boy LOVES to win!
My daughter Holly sent me a picture earlier in the week of Mike the corn snake's most recent shedding. (Wow! That's TWO so far. The boy is growing like mad!)
Here's Holly's words on this picture of her snake.... sporting what looks like cataracts.....
Last week when we visited, we were privy to Mike having a meal. It was a frozen baby mouse. (Yes, they sell such fare at the pet store.) In nature, snakes would never eat something that's already dead, but being raised commecially, this guy developed his strange palate from egg, on... and has no problem at all sloooowly swallowing one of those thimble-sized mice whole. It was amazing to watch, the big bump of just-eaten mouse working it's way on through the diamond-patterned length of him. He eats (I believe) about every 5 days. Then basks. Sleeps. Peers out curiously through the glass trying to see what's going on around him.
Mike's very friendly as well and doesn't mind being handled in the least. (Unlike Holly's newest male tarantula, who hides in his coconut shell) walling-off the outside world with BALES of web-- Mike gets right up to the glass, his little head darting that way and this, trying to see WHAT'S GOING ON. I like Mike's affability.
No movie to report on. (We STILL have the Michael Moore documentary "Capitalism" to watch, but the laughs are gonna have to hold off for a while; wait for a Saturday more wide open.) I have a feeling this one will be worth it-- a subject near and dear to my heart" the spiritual poverty of the fat cat nation and its fast hustle after any buck in sight. AMERICA! (Where else? LOL!)
February 14, 2011~ 7:15 pm
It's Valentine's Day...(but all my celebrating happened over the weekend. Nothing left but a Monday. LOL!) Oh...... it started out great! The temperature was 48 degrees when I left for work, and it was the first time in WEEKS I didn't have to clean or scrape the car...just turn the key and GO. That was a thrill.
The very early morning was lovely. Blue skies, white clouds, a hint of spring......(that lasted about 2 hours.) Then the wind picked up, the temperature started to drop, the rain began.......and tonight it's going down into the 20's again. See??? A Monday.
Did you ever get a day that felt 'off balance' all day long? That was me today. Just a half-beat behind and a bit out of step with the rest of it. The world looked like this.
(That was a little segue into THIS site....."Unusual Architecture".) What a feast for the eyes! It's lovely to think there is yet imagination in the world, and not everything is 'little boxes on a hillside', but real leaps of IMAGINATION!
(You'll be busy stepping around in that place for a while, but you know my favorite, of all those wonderful places? The one I'd JUMP RIGHT INTO if I could, and stay there foreverandever?? It's THIS one!) Oh my goodness, that's got to be the coziest place on earth. A hobbit house. A 'for-real and true' Hobbit House.
February 18, 2011~ 5:45 am
I don't know what your week has been like, but for me.......
it's looked pretty much like this. One day falling into the next- pretty much indistinguishable, relentlessly stretched on forever, no end in sight. I'm covering two jobs at work. It can't be helped, but my own workload is falling waaaaaay behind, which means NEXT week will be heavier, longer and more tiring than this one.
I wanted to make reservations to get away in April. That turned out hopelessly jammed up with no rooms where we want to go. I had in mind I'd get my income tax done.... but when I return home, I'm too tired to begin it. I thought I'd read before sleeping, but never get past a few pages before I fall asleep and wake to the same gray day. We all get weeks like these..... this one's my turn in the tumbler.
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The day before the DAY OF HEARTS is upon us.
I've always loved Valentine's Day. It seems sweetly old-fashioned to me, calling to mind red construction paper and paper doilies-- glue and glitter --and big heart-shaped boxes of candy. Nothing was as much fun as passing out those cute little valentines in school. Everyone had a shoebox on their desk decorated with cupids and lace, and the last period of the day allowed (finally!) for the circulation of small white envelopes dropped into slots, making happy ribbons of children giggling and distributing their "WILL YOU BE MINE'S".
Wayne has always made my Valentine's Day special. This year it was a GORGEOUS array of goodies......
....heart-shaped, foil-wrapped chocolate hearts, a HUGE box of fudge (it felt like a gold brick when I picked it up) -a lovely card, and the cutest, SOFTEST pink-stuffed FROG I've ever seen!
(No matter how old I get- and I'll be 60 this year, I'll never stop appreciating stuffed animals.) I LOVE THEM! "Dust-catchers" my mother used to call them when I was a little girl, but my housekeeping is less than stellar anyway, so what's a few more dust gatherers, especially smiling ones that make me so happy!
I just thought about the weather last year at this time. This was the very week of the great snowfall that paralyzed Pittsburgh for days on end! Man, I'm glad that this year, though frigid as anything-- has only produced average snow in the region. The rest of the country got hit hard, but we've been spared..... so far. (There's still another 6 weeks or so that could cause trouble. I'm hopeful, though.) Maybe we'll cruise right on through April, handling just a few inches at a time. Oh, I hope so!
The past week I've been having so much fun adding to my stories about the witch, the tooth and the dragon. Wayne and I saw the grandkids on Saturday evening and they were full of excited comments about the story website. (That did not, however, make me exempt from telling them a new tale made up on the spot about a pink dress and a gnome. LOL!!!) No free passes. 'In-the-flesh' stories are still very much expected..... (and of course I'm flattered as all get out they look forward to my visits and my tall tales.)
Kay and I played 'War' with a deck of cards. First she won, then I did.... and me and Bill had a kitchen table version of basketball we made up, using a foil gumwrapper rolled into a ball and our index fingers as 'shooters'. We (or I should say, he) made up the rules as we went along and by by time we left to go grocery shopping, the final score was Bill 95, Gram 70. (This pleased Bill) --- he's a boy LOVES to win!
My daughter Holly sent me a picture earlier in the week of Mike the corn snake's most recent shedding. (Wow! That's TWO so far. The boy is growing like mad!)
Here's Holly's words on this picture of her snake.... sporting what looks like cataracts.....
Here is a picture of Mike 'in the blue'. This is indicative of an upcoming shed. It creates temporary vision impairment for him, though, so he has been hiding in his coconut shell the entire day yesterday and today. I miss him basking in the right front corner of his tank during the day and his peeking and antics when evening rolls around. Once his eyes clear and the brightness somewhat returns to his scales, he will be almost ready to shed the old skin. My boy is growing well and FAST!
Last week when we visited, we were privy to Mike having a meal. It was a frozen baby mouse. (Yes, they sell such fare at the pet store.) In nature, snakes would never eat something that's already dead, but being raised commecially, this guy developed his strange palate from egg, on... and has no problem at all sloooowly swallowing one of those thimble-sized mice whole. It was amazing to watch, the big bump of just-eaten mouse working it's way on through the diamond-patterned length of him. He eats (I believe) about every 5 days. Then basks. Sleeps. Peers out curiously through the glass trying to see what's going on around him.
Mike's very friendly as well and doesn't mind being handled in the least. (Unlike Holly's newest male tarantula, who hides in his coconut shell) walling-off the outside world with BALES of web-- Mike gets right up to the glass, his little head darting that way and this, trying to see WHAT'S GOING ON. I like Mike's affability.
No movie to report on. (We STILL have the Michael Moore documentary "Capitalism" to watch, but the laughs are gonna have to hold off for a while; wait for a Saturday more wide open.) I have a feeling this one will be worth it-- a subject near and dear to my heart" the spiritual poverty of the fat cat nation and its fast hustle after any buck in sight. AMERICA! (Where else? LOL!)
February 14, 2011~ 7:15 pm
It's Valentine's Day...(but all my celebrating happened over the weekend. Nothing left but a Monday. LOL!) Oh...... it started out great! The temperature was 48 degrees when I left for work, and it was the first time in WEEKS I didn't have to clean or scrape the car...just turn the key and GO. That was a thrill.
The very early morning was lovely. Blue skies, white clouds, a hint of spring......(that lasted about 2 hours.) Then the wind picked up, the temperature started to drop, the rain began.......and tonight it's going down into the 20's again. See??? A Monday.
Did you ever get a day that felt 'off balance' all day long? That was me today. Just a half-beat behind and a bit out of step with the rest of it. The world looked like this.
(That was a little segue into THIS site....."Unusual Architecture".) What a feast for the eyes! It's lovely to think there is yet imagination in the world, and not everything is 'little boxes on a hillside', but real leaps of IMAGINATION!
(You'll be busy stepping around in that place for a while, but you know my favorite, of all those wonderful places? The one I'd JUMP RIGHT INTO if I could, and stay there foreverandever?? It's THIS one!) Oh my goodness, that's got to be the coziest place on earth. A hobbit house. A 'for-real and true' Hobbit House.
February 18, 2011~ 5:45 am
I don't know what your week has been like, but for me.......
it's looked pretty much like this. One day falling into the next- pretty much indistinguishable, relentlessly stretched on forever, no end in sight. I'm covering two jobs at work. It can't be helped, but my own workload is falling waaaaaay behind, which means NEXT week will be heavier, longer and more tiring than this one.
I wanted to make reservations to get away in April. That turned out hopelessly jammed up with no rooms where we want to go. I had in mind I'd get my income tax done.... but when I return home, I'm too tired to begin it. I thought I'd read before sleeping, but never get past a few pages before I fall asleep and wake to the same gray day. We all get weeks like these..... this one's my turn in the tumbler.
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