Sadie...

OH GAWD!!!! what have I done!!! Papers all over the floor, whining, howling. Precious!! She is sooo cute.... Even her brothers were cute. I wish I could have afforded two of them. I would have bought a black one and a buff one.

Sadie is Buff and white, and is bonding nicely. I made a pouch out of the hem of my sweatshirt and she curled up in it and went to sleep. so I walked all over the yard with my big belly hanging out. Didn't want to wake the baby. The cats aren't too sure what to think of her. They are so much bigger than she is, and she certainly doesn't sound or smell like a kitten. Loki is sitting right on the other side of the "keep her contained" board. Sadie is asleep on an old blue towel, and Loki is watching her sleep. Wonder how soon until he is in with her?

I took her out in the backyard and she peed, no poops though. Then she thought it was great fun to run under the zuchinni bushes. and hide from Mommie. She started to head under the deck, but I would NEVER get her out of there, so up back into the pouch she went.

I will kennel her in the car where ever I go. Until she is old enough to get up on the seat by herself. I will try taking her to rehersal tonight, and see how she does, If she howls too badly, back into the car she will go. Gotta get her used to my life style. Whoo-boy!!

Back on that bike....

When I was young and learning how to ride a bike, I kept falling and scrapping my knees. I of course cried and told my Dad that I didn't want to ride it anymore. Dad of course being the guy he was, said you need to get back on that bike and learn how to ride it!!! I would fall, He would say, get back on the bike, I would fall, Back on the bike. Finally he told me that If I was to get back on that bike and learn how to ride it, the hurt from falling off would be forgotten, because I would have my mind on other things, like going down the road at 5 miles an hour, and seeing things I had never seen before.

I have used that analogy many times in my life, dealing with people that hurt and swear they are never going to do it again. It won't hurt as bad if you get back on that bike.

I Think I am getting back on the bike. I have been saying to my higher power...PLEASE LET ME FIND THE PERFECT PUPPY. I didn't care how long it took. I opened the Seattle Times want ad section yesterday and there in black and white print only 1/2 mile from me was a listing for cocker puppies. My Daughter and Bob both think I should wait until I am through with the playhouse for the season. Bob of course wants me to go get a rescue dog. I would, but there aren't any puppies, and I WANT A BABY!!! These puppies are 6 1/2 weeks old, and ready to go. Just the perfect age to bond with me. I have an appointment to go see her at 1:00. There is only 1 female. IF I get her, her name will be Sadie. Do not ask me why...just came to me.

If this was not meant to be, then she will not be there when I go see her. Maybe the perfect puppy will be a Male. HERE SADIE, HERE SADIE, Come on BOY! nahhhhh....gotta be a girl. WIsh me luck, Here I go!!!!...

RAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I woke up late this morning. I couldn't sleep last night, kept hearing toenails on the wood floors...Donna's dog. (used to be Mariah) Anyway, I woke up and heard wind in the trees. Ahhh says I, It must be cooling off. It was gray out so I assumed it was about 7:00...wrong again..905!! and GRAY!! and Wind!!! and cool air!!! so I got up fixed a pot of coffee and headed to my room to watch the birds and Lola, and the TODAY show. split, splat, spit, drip drip drop....OH RAIN!!!!!! Real Wet RAIN!!!!!! about 125 drops. That is it!!! PHHHFFFFTTTT!!!!!!!! Another day over 70!! so far that makes 59 days of temps over 70! and no measurable precipitation for over 2 months. I sure hope it stops soon. Say like late next week..not this one, I have a deck to paint!! Bitch Bitch Bitch...I know, never happy huh?

Mariah 1993-2003

I just lost a very dear dear friend today. Of Cancer. And old age. She was almost blind, and couldn't jump up on the bed anymore. It was the right thing to do. She went to sleep very quietly. and I petted her until the bitter end. (sniff) I had made an appointment yesterday for 9:00 this morning. But no matter how much you are prepared, you AREN'T prepared. She usually jumps and wags and jumps when I say "bye-bye" But today she didn't. She just laid down and looked at me. I got her outside, and she couldn't even jump into the car. It was time, and it was the right thing to do. She started as a puppy Learning how to ride in the car. I tried the back seat, but that wasn't going to do. She had her own seat, and knew she was not to get in mine. Everytime I came out of a store, she was in her seat looking out the window. I thought she was such a good girl. One day I came out of the store and did not click the remote until I was right at the car, (I usually click as soon as I get outside. This time, when I clicked, she jumped up out of my seat, jumped in to hers and looked out the window. o not such a good girl after all, just well trained. Click, move over, click, move over. She went with me everywhere. When I was stationed in Nevada, We would go exploring every weekend. Nevada has roads that are not paved. Nevada has roads on maps that aren't even graded. But we went, and she was very good, she keep all the boogey men away, she keep the bears and the Mountain Lions away, she kept all the snakes away. She Loved her kitties, and even nursed Loki when he was a tiny baby kitten ( no milk, just faucets) and even when he got almost as big as her, she allowed it. She barked when someone new came into the yard, and tolerated the squirrels. She will be missed by the whole neighborhood. I already miss her. I am such a big bawl baby...Life shouldn't have to hurt like this.

Ok, So now I have this cute little title line up 'thar', and I don't know what to put in it. I think I will try just writting this entry and see what pops up. I may just take it off again.

I just read Pure Land mountain today, and it brought tears to my eyes, He writes with such feelings, when he talks about his family. Today was about how SILENT silence is, when the grandkids leave. Not as in AHHHHHHHHHHHHH but as in SNIFF!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't agree with his politics, But I enjoy the fact that I can read him or not, and I, for the most part, enjoy his entries about life in Japan. He has this really cool Shiga Window, where he puts a picture about Japanese life. It is so Cool. I'll get there yet.

Donna, If you read this, For Christmas you can give me a blog that is really cool, I want the weather pixie, I want to be able to add Pictures, I want to refer other blogs, I want comments, I want really cool sidebars, I want a picture across the top, I want the phases of the moon, yadayadayada...Don't want much do I? Now sweetie, If you can't do it for me, you could hire John from Computer Clinic to come do it for you. (teehee) I know you showed me how to make this bold but I can't remember...

Loki is insisting on some kitty lovin right now, so I have pause for the cause....be right back

GUESS WHAT I FOUND?

I was looking for fonts and found the title line!!! Still can't find the fonts though. DAMN IT I wish I had a resident geek.

Ever make Clam dip with Cream cheese ? with only one beater for the mixer? Not fun. Messy kitchen. Now where in the hell is the other beater? I got it done, but it isn't the same. Not as creamy. I'm eating it anyway. It is dinner. I just got home from the playhouse, and I was hungry. and Mariah is worse, so It's gotta be tomorrow, so I deserve comfort food.

The last dress rehersal went really well except that Mortimer's beeper went off during act one. (He is a Surgery Tech for the US NAVY, and got called in for an emergency) we coped. he came back, found a relief.

Anybody see the moon tonight? WOW> It is a crescent waxing, and was just about to set as I left town. It was big and bright orange. Unusual to have a setting moon look orange. It is over the pacific, so no smog. When it rises it is over the Cascades, and there is lots of smoke in the air, so I can see the color there, but hardly ever over the ocean.

All summer no rain...I buy sealer for the deck and plan to paint it this weekend, and guess what is predicted. yep...rain. Guess I had better do it on Wednesday. I hope that Bob will get the posts for the railings too, then it will be all done. I need to finish getting the Iris planted also, and then go get some tulip and daffodil bulbs. I am bound and determined to have a pretty yard!! If I have to lay on my tummy and weed then I will. With no dog to dig up what I plant, it should be easier too. (Sniff)

Ok it is time to start thinking about a replacement dog. I want another small dog, and I would love to have another cocker, but I cant afford it now. I was thinking about a German Shepard, but I couldnt afford the food. Poodles are too yappy, and llasa's are too expensive to keep up. Hmmmmm... I wanted a Golden Retriever for years, but they have hip and eye problems, and I dont need that. Heck I might go stand in front of Safeway with a sign. PUPPY WANTED FREE, WILL GIVE GOOD HOME. Bet I get one in a few hours...

ahhhh That worked. I did a really cool blog about me and the kids and camping and me putting my foot down after Forgetting to pack MY OWN STUFF! and telling them to take their own responsibility for packing for a camping trip. anyway, I typed for a good 1/2 hour and blogger kicked me off, and I lost it all!!! ARRRGGGHHHHH

I refuse to re-create. When I get my creative juices flowing, I type, and then when I read it I wonder just where that came from. Sometimes I even amaze myself. Not that I am any LaVyrle Spencer mind you, but once in a very great while, I can come up with a good read. (write?)

Well POOP!!! I sat down here to write the great american fall blog, and just got interupted too many times, and now I've lost the mood. Shoulda done it last night when I thought about it huh? I have a grey tabby beating my left elbow with his head, wanting to be petted, I have THE VIEW on tv, and my hero DR PHIL is on, so that is distracting me; I have My daughters' dog whining at the window because he is such a wuss, and I am sposed to concentrate and write with all this going on? I don't think so.

I have several different things that for years I have wanted to write about, and that is why I originally started this blog. Ah well, one of these days I will fulfill my obligations to put to ether, my thoughts on the follwing topics.

Himalayan Blackberry bushes

deserted school bus stops

woodsmoke

Autumn (which is what I sat down here today to write about...so much for that today!!)

growing older...and older...and older

(egads...what did I do now? I have a grey tabby (Chitters) an Orange Tabby (Loki) and a Manx wanna be (Lint) all sitting here on the desk staring at me. THe cat box doesn't need changing, the dish is full, the toilet seat is up and the water is clean. ((OK, OK, yeah, my cats drink outa the porcelain spring!)) so what IS their PROBLEM? )

Pets

Gardening

RETIREMENT

etc, etc, and so forth.

When I was stationed in Adak, Alaska, I would take a theme book and a pencil and just find a remote spot with a view, (there were PLENTY of those) and just write. MAybe I'll post some of them here. Maybe not. hmmmm or did I do that already? have to go back into the archives and check.

SPeaking of archives, I started going back through some of my favorite blogs and reading their archives. It is so much fun to see how they have evolved. Brenda, You've come a long way baby!!!! Anne...straight from the hip is very poignant. And man, can she write when she wants to. Whoo. her letters to Bob are heart wrenching. I envy writers. I do so want to be able to write a best seller, Alas, I am afraid I never will. My luck, I will write it, and it will become a major bestseller...posthumously...phfffttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mariah seems a little better today, not as hunched up as she was yesterday. She is walking around in the back yard enjoying the sunshine. I know, I know, I am delaying the inevitable.

I woke up this morning at 4:15 . Had to pee, naturally. It was Dark! really DARK!! I laid back down, mentally grumbling about the oncoming short days. I looked outside, from my bed, Resting my chin on the windowsill. (Bed is under window...no headboard) And saw Orion for the first time this year. I do Love seeing Orion. It is so peasceful to me. I dont know why, maybe because he is so easy to find, and isn't cluttered by other stars around him. He sits low in the Southern sky, and goes higher and earlier as winter gets closer. I Love the long days of summer, but I really like Fall and winter also. Seeing Orion means that the cool days of fall and winter are just around the corner. I watched the Morning wake up until I could no longer see the stars, and then I fell back to sleep. It seems like just yesterday that I woke up to pee, and it was daylight already at 4:00!!

When I went to bed last night, my feet were freezing. I was chilly, but knew I would warm up once I got all snuggled in. I thought about breaking out the extra blankets, but I knew I would just kick it off and the dog would turn it in to his bed. I opted instead for getting all comfy and calling "Ethyl the heater cat". She curls up on the small of my back, and purrs me to sleep. The nights are getting very crisp which means it won't be long now until I have to clean the area around the woodstove, check out the chimney, and haul in the wood. I already have the kindling split. The door from the office is leaning against the back wall behind the stove, gotta get it back up, trash to recycle is piled around it, gotta get that gone. (GADS!! Why am I such a slob?)

I gotta post this and start over, my server is acting up, and I dont want to get into my heavy blogging and lose it like I did yesterday. hang on!

I am afraid that I have to do a horrible chore tomorrow. My Cocker Spaniel, Mariah, has a tumor that has grown like wildfire, and today she is walking very slowly, and all hunched up. I can not afford chemo and surgery for a dog that is 11 1/2 years old. I am told that their life span is only 12-13 years. She has been such a good dog and we have been through a lot together. She is a fantastic traveling companion. And she is a great watch dog. I will miss her terribly. We'll have to see how she is tomorrow. Maybe she is just constipated. I do not want her to suffer, and she looks like she is not at all well, even though she has not once uttered a whine. I CAN put her out of her suffering, I COULD NOT put my Mother out of hers. It just seems to me that there is something terribly wrong with a world that is kinder to their pets than to their parents. One simple little shot and she will be at peace, Mom suffered for so many weeks. 'tain't right!!

I just read CRITTERCHICK'sblog about trying to win the lottery. Oh I would Kill the ass-hole. DEAD! Really DEAD! I don't think there would be a jury in the land who would find you guilty of 1st degree murder, maybe manslaughter. and with a much reduced sentence. Our state lotto today is 39 million. Oh how many lives I could change with 39 million. first I would give 10% to the neonatal ward at CHILDRENS HOSPITAL in Seattle. I have no agenda to do that other than thanking the Lord that I have never had to use it. Once that was done....PARTY!!!! I think I would take a loooong trip; a cruise to ALaska and then rent a humvee in Anchorage and drive down the Alcan. I wouldn't even care what season it was, however right now would be an ideal time. School back in session, and vacationers off the roads.

Then once I was back home I would find a nice quiet piece of land to build my dream home on. GOtta have a view of the water. and definately out of the flight path of NAS Whidbey!!! of course I would also find a great lawyer and accountant to help me. I know there will be all kinds of people and organizations who would immediately want a piece of my loot. I think I would just refer them to my great accountant and after one year then I would decide who I would donate to. (To whom I would donate?) hey with 39 million I don't have to be grammatically correct. I can have my secretary do that.

Enough with the day dreams...

I just got my 4th call today from 866-559-1025. I have gotten to the point that I will not answer a number I do not recognize or that will not ID themselves. It has to be a telemarketer. So I remember google, and go in and type in the number and query google. YEP its a telemarketer and from the sounds of the blog I read, A pretty unethical one too. I just registered with "do not call " so starting Oct 1st if they call me it costs them!!! LOTS!!! :-)

(Oh don't you just MELT at the sound of Sam Elliotts voice? He can come talk to me all night long!!! wouldn't have to touch, just talk, that would be enough to do it. (wonderful shudder))

I was supposed to go in to the Playhouse and touch up the set for ARSENIC AND OLD LACE, but I am home alone, Donna went to Ellensburg to see her husband, and Bob has a funeral to go to today so He wont be over, so I can stay in my muumuu all day long, nap if I want to, play music if I want to, AS LOUD AS I WANT TO!!! So I am playing hooky from painting, and I am gonna take my playbook and script from GODSPELL out on the deck plug in the cd player and play the soundtrack and immerse my self in my play which goes into Auditions in a little over a month!! so catch ya'll later.

So, I bitch about being a ++ size woman, and here I sit on my coleman camp chair, cause the dr chair was too hard, eating Ben and Jerry's New York Super Fudge Chunk ice cream. It was my second choice. I really wanted B&J's Coffe for a change ice cream...it is soooo good. Ah well, nothing wrong with chocolate either. Yummmmmm

I fixed a real Pacific Northwest dinner tonite. Bob actually caught a salmon, so I grilled that, made a mango salsa out of the over ripe mangos, (OH MAN!!!) Stopped along the road and got ears of corn fresh picked, a salad and sour dough garlic bread. The only thing missing was the blackberry cobbler, that would have made it perfect. We have Himalayian Blackberries Every where, and they are so sweet and good. Unfortunately it is the KUDZU of the PAC NW. It starts growing and will cover everything in two years. It is Hell to get rid of too. Just as soon as I had all of the food on the table on the deck, (I grilled everything) The fog started rolling in, and it chilled way down, We toughed it out, and enjoyed the dinner.

I have got to clean this cage. I did finally change the cat box...It's rough with four cats. I think I will make a concerted effort to clean house tomorrow, I say this tonite, but things may change tomorrow...i'm out of chocolate...GRRRRRRRRR

I have GOT to get a more comfortable chair for my 'puter desk. I am using an old dining room chair, and it is hard on my bony butt!! you would think that a ++ size woman would have plenty of padding down there, but I am shaped like an apple, and have no Meat on my ass. I have bird legs. I look like a marshmallow on toothpicks. I guess I should head to Office Max and see what they have to offer. I really miss my office chair. But not enough to go back to work!

Yesterday on the way through Coupeville heading to the Playhouse I noticed a fog bank hanging low over the Straight. You could see the Olymics, and Pt. Townsend, but the fog was white like a blanket laying over the water. It reached up when it hit land and kind of clamped it's hand over the the trees. then slid on down the sides of the woods, and hung really low and creeped over the fields. Fog is really neat to watch. I especially love it at night. I can lay here on the bed with my head at the window, feeling the coolness creep in. And then off in the distance a very low booooop! Boooop! The fog horn on Admiralty head letting the ships in the shipping lanes know where the shoals are. Often you can hear a far off fog horn blare, and then little bit later, a louder blare and then louder as the ship feels its way through the narrowest part of the straight. once through, the blares get lower and lower as it continues on its way. I can just imagine what it must have been like before electronics and radar. THey must have literally felt their way around the turn and down the Sound to Seattle. When I was a young lass, We lived on the West side of the Island and I could hear the horns from Smith Island, Partridge Point and Pt Townsend. so it sounded like BOOP, boop, boop........................BOOP, boop, boop.....................BOOP,boop,boop. I loved laying in my bed and listening to them. They would put me right to sleep. To this day, when I hear them, I relax and feel like all is right in the world. BOOP,boop,boop.

CLOUDS!!!! and FOG!!! now if they would only drop some of their moisture!!! I dont ever remember going this long without rain. Yeah when I was stationed in Fallon, Nevada (shudder) we went awhile with no rain, but then we would get gully washers, and I do mean gully washers. It was amazing to me to see rain that hard, gather that fast and flood everything so completely. I was in Wally-World one bright sunny day, and heard thunder. then it sounded like B-B's hitting the metal roof. I paid for my purchase and went outside...WHOA!! It was raining so hard you couldn't see across the parking lot. All the desert people were standing in the doorway not moving, waitinf for the rain to subside. Pshaw say I, it's only water, Im used to it, Im from Washington state, land of the perpetual mossy yard. I find my car, but I and my purchase were soaked to the skin. I drive slowly through the now accumulating water on the parking lot and find my way back to US 50 and headed West. HA!!!! I nervously laughed while driving because I could not see ANYTHING!!! I knew that I should be getting close to my turn, but who knew? You couldnt stop, someone would hit you, you couldnt pull over, you might fall into a canal, so you had to keep on keeping on. I will say that was probably the dumbest thing I had done in awhile. I did find my turn, and prayed that there was nothing coming and headed across traffic and across the Carson RIver to my own road. Once off the hiway, it was better, but the "MIGHTY" Carson River which was usually only 10 feet wide and 1/2 " deep was actually a raging river!!! Since I only lived 1/2 mile from the river I was hoping that the old timers were right, it would not flood where I was. It didn't. But I have not seen rain like that Ever, nor Since. But I would love to see some like that right now, right here. We are so dry, I will wake up and smell woodsmoke and PRAY that it is some weirdo who thinks they are cold and have a fire in their fireplace instead of some teenager camping in the woods. If a fire got started here right now, It would go forever!!! I guess what I have been trying to say is WE NEED RAIN ! And LOTS of it, and a long lots of it. Now all of you remind me in January that I actually said this. Because once it does start again, it prolly wont stop until next summer. And I will un doubtedly Bitch about it. I have a very short memory.

Oh GOODY!!! The jets are flying again. No TV for me tonite! I dont mind them as long as I know they are going to fly. I will just go to bed and read. It is when I settle in to watch something and they start that I get upset. So I will sit there with my remote in hand, volume UP.............VOLUME down. THey are a necessary part of living and working on a Navy Base though. Actually I live just over the trees from the field. They line up on my house, bounce on the roof, over the trees and then practice their landing and take offs.

I need to get my big fat arse up off this chair and go do something useful like find quotes from caterers for the fundraiser at the Playhouse. catch ya all later...have a nice one, and pray for rain!!!

I now have TWO Lola's at the feeder. (Lola is a Douglas Squirrel, sex unknown) Lola was there yesterday, and I got a really good look at her. Yep It's a her. She has 6 little pink titties on her tummy all bursting with milk. She sat there for an hour chomping on sunflower seeds, and looking very glad to be away from her babies for a while. I know that there are at least 4 different ones, as I have seen them all at once either screaming on the fence at the ones on the feeder, or screaming on the ground at the ones on the fence, or growling on the feeder at the ones on the ground and the fence. OH and there is Sal! Big Cahunas, definately NOT a Lola. So now I am still wondering if they will be bringing their babies to the feeder, or if they will be really smart, and kick their little asses out the door to fend for themselves.

Rehersal tonight went really well. THe woman playing Aunt Abby is a cold fish though. She looks right through me, and does things her way. Oh well. The rest of the cast listens to me, and I get along with them all, so maybe she is just shy. (read that BITCH) shame on me. I still have to get the light cues programed in before Thursday night. THe Press from all over is invited to attend, so we gotta look reasonably professional.

Came home tonite and Most Darling Daughter Donna had brought me a steak!!! I have been craving a really good rib steak, but the price of Beef right now is AWFUL, So I don't buy it. But She did!!! :-) good girl. Steak at midnight...yum.

I have tried cutting down on my Caffeine intake. I tried only one cup of coffe. Nah, that didn't work, so I bought Decaf...why even bother. SO I mixed the decaf with the regular and it is just right. Still gives me the caffeine rush I need every morning, But not enough to make my heart race, or my blood sugar jump so high. So I can tell the Dr that I have cut my caffeine consumption in half and not be lying!! cool huh?

Have not heard from Errant Son in awhile. He must be doing ok. No calls to come visit him in jail, no requests for money. Wow, do you suppose he actually has his act together? NAH..............not Tim...

Well I have tried everyway possible, and I still can't get a picture to appear here. Gotta learn more. back to the help file....

Which VW Are You?

by Auto Glass America

Whoo-hoo!! I'm A VW Rabbit Truck!! yep, that's me alright!!! Actually used to drive a VW Rabbit. Deisel powered, Got 49 MPG. Unfortunately I also had a 16 yr old Son who just got his license. Went through 3 clutches, an engine and a transmission in less than a year. "It wasn't me Mom!" Yeah right, how come that car worked FINE until the day you started driving it alone? Could it be the speed shifting? could it be the speeding? The hot-rodding? NUH-UH!!! I really loved that car. It was bright Red and was the first brand new car I bought in my own name. (after husband) only problem was it had absolutely NO guts! couldn't merge very fast on the Interstate, had to give yourself lots of room, chug, chug, chug, but then it got up to speed and ran like the wind until the first hill, then chug, chug, chug. I did a LOT of right lane driving!! Washington has lots of hills, and mountains. hardly any flat land. When that glacier melted, it dumped lots of rocks in piles. Then Nature took over, and covered it all with trees.

gotta run...be back soon!!!

I just spent a nice 45 minutes snuggling with Bea Bunny. She and I sat at the window seat and watched the birds while I combed out her long fur. She has become a much calmer bunny since her "surgery". She has discovered dried bamama chips. oh MAN!! I walk towards her cage in the evening and she is on her back feet sniffing at the top of the cage wanting her 'nana chips. She is so cute. I give her "bunny Bon-Bons" about once a week. I will go out to deadhead my roses and bring in the blossoms that are spent. SHE LOVES THEM!! I was wanting a tooth-purr today, but alas, she was not willing to give one. Spose I better go get ready for rehersal... I have to tape the commercial for the Playhouse tonight. UGH...

I just read Brenda's blogand I can really relate. She laid down to take a nap, and woke up 3 hrs later. I Have all the time in the world, and I feel so very guilty when I do take a nap that extends longer than an hour. Why? I'm 57 years old, raised a family, worked my butt off for the Navy Exchange for 37 years, earned an adequate retirement, and I feel guilty when I want to sleep? Whats up with that? I'm sitting here right now so damn tired, at 330 in the afternoon, wanting to take a nap, but I haven't done ANYTHING today, so I think if I do I will be a lazy slob. I have no energy, I can't breathe very well, I really want to take a weekend or a few days and go someplace and just sleep. With no guilt, and no interuptions. Of course the masseur that looks like Sam Elliott or Harrison Ford would be allowed to interupt my sleep. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

I have GOT to learn how to make this blog pretty. Put in Pictures, list my favorite blogs, etc. Add a spot for comments so I can know if there really IS any one out there reading this.

Leslie aka CRITTERCHICKread me on Friday, 'cause she mentioned me. WHOO-HOO!!Thanks Les!! If there IS anyone out there, who would like to clue me in on how to add comments to this feel free!!! dreamer@galaxynet.com is my email. I am sorta computer literate, but not really, so keep it simple. I like step by step instructions. My daughter the Bio-chemist spouts "read the manual MOM!" I gotta be Shown how to do something, and then I can do it. I wasn't born with a computer chip in my back side like she was. Hey, since I am retired now, and not entirely BROKE, (YET,) Maybe I should take a web design class at Skagit Valley College!

(Egads, I just reread the past few blogs, and found all the typos that I missed when I posted! I have got to edit before I publish and post huh? )

I am watching the TODAY show, and they are showing fashions for full figured women. They all look really sharp. Now why am I afraid to dress like that? I am sooooooo inhibited!! My Daughter isn't! She wears what she likes, and looks good. I don't always like her taste, but she always looks good.

We got the cast selected for OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS last night, so one more thing down and off my plate, ARSENIC AND OLD LACE opens Friday Sept 5, then I can devote time to OTRATTW, and get the Fundraiser over with. Next season, I am gonna stick to just two shows a season.

I can not get my brain wrapped around any one thing this morning. I have a lot to blog about, but can not focus. I shall return...maybe...yeah.