• Dogs,  Happiness,  Home,  Productivity,  Vlog

    Taking Some Time to Myself, A Jewelry Project, and another Shopping Haul

    Good morning. The new VLOG is up and you can see it HERE. In this vlog I’m enjoying a rare day off, spending time with the dogs, doing some projects, fussing with my camera, opening up my weekly shopping haul and sharing the Melaleuca products I bought and sharing the website. What a fabulous day. A rare jewel of a day in this period of time in my life. Thanks for all the congrats on the new grand baby set to arrive in March of 2024. And all the prayers and well wishes from my having a bout with diverticulitis. I’ve been on a liquid/soft diet for two and a…

  • Home,  Weekend

    A Few Tales from the Weekend and a Busy Week Ahead

    I fixed bacon on my off day. I love bacon! Who doesn’t? So I had lots left over. George fixed eggs and chipped beef on toast (Stauffer’s) and it made a nice breakfast for dinner – I think that was Friday night. Afterwards, we watched some dog movie that George had rented from Netflix – about to wrap up his “mail in” DVD’s as they are ending his service. George has been a die hard DVD fan, not wanting to give that up when we did streaming. So we’ve been doing both. Dexter really got into this dog movie. I was so surprised because the characters were cartoon and had…

  • Aging,  Dogs,  Health

    Maddie is Recovering But What is Wrong With Me?

    Maddie says “good morning” in her very dazed-but-coming-around-state. She is now “fixed” and “chipped”. She was really out of it yesterday when we picked her up. We had a little scare early in the day when I found blood in the bed where she lays. I thought she was in heat. But they said she was not swollen or anything and so they did the surgery. I had a huge workload/backload of work to do. I had been gone on Wednesday for part of the day to take Mom to get her glasses. When we go over there to Hermitage from Lebanon, and I have to come from Antioch to…