A Heartbreaking Goodbye

With a profound sadness and a heavy, heavy heart, we had to say good bye to our beloved ol' beagle Snoop...Snoopy..a.k.a. noodle (I've no idea why...he was just..."my noodle") and sometimes I called him porkchop...Portly Porkchop.

He entered our lives when he was 5 years old and we enjoyed his company for the past 7 years. He was strong, healthy & quite content except for a bladder problem the past few months (which bothered me a lot more than it bothered him). He suffered what appeared to be a very sudden blood clot and was in some pain for a bit before rapidly loosing all feeling & mobility in his hind quarters. There was nothing more that could be done ( we tried against the odds with some injections). My husband & I sat with him, I held him in my lap & we fed him a bagful of k-bits. It was gut wrenching. I wish he had lost his senses but he knew us. We kissed him as he drifted off to sleep. We let him keep his dignity. He took a piece of our hearts.

..............Love'ya Noodle....................

What's in Your Pillows?

Time to buy diapers.

No, not for "The Girls"

For me.

Now that they're two.....

Things happen

When I pee.




They were laying down for their nap.

There was a tiny tear in the pillow.

I couldn't wait any longer.

They're laying so still.
I'll just be a minute....

There was a tiny tear in the pillow.

Wishing for Wings

Soap Opera

Always, Always! look in the mirror before leaving the house

Mama leaned over & hugged Beans before leaving for work.

My camera was on the table.

I took these pics right after the hug.

Mama should have used some static guard.

If I wasn't there......

I wouldn't have believed it.

Crying Over Spilt Milk

The cup's broke
The furniture's soaked
And to cross the floor
I needed a boat

What the ferhekkon!?!
You want to know
O.k. then
I'll tell you so

"The Girls" each fed their baby
as quiet as could be
So Gran'mare stole a moment
To sit down & pee

Bubble Builder - MuseumTour Catalog - Educational Toys for children

....$29.95
Bubble Builder - MuseumTour Catalog - Educational Toys for children

It's never too late

Concerned about fitness in my middle 40s, I enrolled in an aerobics class.
To my dismay I walked into a room filled with much younger women and decided
to combat my nervousness with humor.

'I'm here to do my postnatal exercises.'

The instructor gave me an appraising look. 'How old is your baby?'

'Twenty-six, ' I replied."

....and I thought Gran'mare had a big heiny......

"The Girls" get a New Kitchen!

The back of my family room belongs to "The Girls".
On one side is their kitchen (as yet unfinished)
On the other side I am working on another mural which I'll post later





Please ignore the cat..he looks like something the cat dragged in!
A direct result of "can't leave well enough alone"

I bought "food" from the craft store..much more realistic

Looks good enough to eat!

After seeing the incredibly high priced play food online, I decided to make my own.



Beans & Boo love their noodles
Felt strips come already in super long strips for around $1.50
They are for making no-sew quilts.
I just snip to size. One pkg. makes a lot of noodles.
Next I'm getting brown for wheat noodles.



Ham & eggs..Ham & eggs............

Finally!..a no calorie cake


We sing Happy Birthday a lot

I will always be in my 70's......

1970's that is!!

....Yeah Baby!...that was My Generation.

I was born into a black & white world ,a poster child for 1960's suburbia, coming of age in a post-psychedelic world of Disco balls, Dancing Queens and DayGlo.
What a time to be a teen with Dance Fever!

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I recently came across one of those "you know your are from..." email list (which I usually ignore) that took me by surprise. It was "you know you were a girl in the 70's if..." The first line (repeated below) caught my eye and though many of the others did not apply to me, the memories came flooding back to me and I hope my list does the same for you.

So get out your bean bag chair, pour yourself a Fresca and be young again with me.......

The 70's is your generation if.....

• . . . you wore that rainbow shirt that was half-sleeves and the rainbow went up one sleeve, across your chest and down the other.
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• . . . you owned a bicycle with a floral banana seat, handlebars as high as your head (with long ribbons and a basket. In the early 80's you moved onto the ever popular 10 speed. Gosh that seat hurt.
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• . . . your started out on metal roller skates that go stretched & locked with a "key and then graduated to the "Professional" shoe skates (white) that laced up like granny boots
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• . . . . while we're on skaters you had or desperately wanted a "Dorothy Hamill Do"
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• . . . you wore psychedelic & paisley bell bottoms with midriff tops (and looked cute not trashy.
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• . . .you caught lightening bugs, wore flip flops and played "red light, green light"
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• . . .you carried a metal lunch box to school with a thermos inside. Inside the thermos was glass that broke the first time you dropped it(probably within the first two weeks)
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• . . . your t.v. had knobs that clicked and rabbit ear antennas
  


• . . .Admit it......you thought Gopher from Love Boat was cute BUT not as cute as Davey Jones. You never missed an episode of The Monkeys. Hey..heyyyyyyyyy
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• . . . you had rubber boots for rainy days (galoshes) that you pulled over your shoes, owned a smelly, rubber rain coat & tied a plastic triangle over your head.
  
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• Later you had a " bubble umbrella and lace up granny boots....ohhhh...remember granny skirts, mood rings and chokers!?!
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• . . . you wore snow suits,clip on mittens and wrapped your feet in plastic before putting on your snow boots
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• .. . . you had either a "bowl cut" or a "pixie" because your Mom was sick of braiding your hair. How traumatic when people thought you were a boy.

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• . . . your sleeping bag was a prized possession and you took it on sleepovers with the girls.
• ******you got your first period at a sleepover and were wearing white pants******** .....oh wait..that was me!
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• . . . you owned several"ponchos" most crocheted by your mom (who was also into macramé planters) & wore toe socks with your clogs.
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