Ponderings of last year and thinking of this coming year....

While I do not make resolutions I do think of things that have happened in this past year and wonder if I can do things slightly different this year.

One of the things that I have to realize is that my daughters are young women and not children who need to be told what to do. I often find myself thinking of them as teens rather than young women in their twenties who have minds of their own. It is very hard for me to think of them without wanting to smother them with mothering when they are home.

My eldest comes and goes. She lives for awhile on her own then moves back. That is fine with me. But my baby is moving out this summer and I am sort of wanting to stop her yet wanting her to try her wings and fly solo for awhile. Actually I want her room for an office and all that but I don't want her leaving. She is only twenty two and part of me has convinced myself that I do not want her to go. The other part is trying to push her out of the nest.

One of the things I want to do is make her room into my private room with my little tv. computer and all my hobby supplies in there. That is my plan.......

I never travel much but I have a friend in Illinois that I have not seen for many years. I am determined to take a road trip out there with my daughters this summer.

I want to be a better friends, the one in real life and cyber. I want to wish all of you who visit here, a happy new year.

No resolutions...

Each year I make a resolution not to make any new years eve resolutions. I used to make them all the time but now I don't. Mainly cause I never kept them. Oh, they were good for a week or two but I would soon grow bored with all the grand plans I had made to do better with my life and they fell by the wayside. I envy people who can decide to do something and stick to it but I decided long ago that I was not one of them. So I will not make a resolution to lose weight, go to church more often, watch less t.v. or stay on the computer less. I may do those things and I may not but I will not make any resolutions about them. Have a nice day!!!!!

tater tots is going to be staying. This is a pic I just took of him. He is a cutie.

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Dec.26..the day after.

I am relaxed and happy. The house looks like a tornado hit it and I want so badly to take the tree down but my youngest wants me to keep it up to the end of the week and I told her no later than Friday. I want to go in Wednesday and get some more items for my decorating next year. I love to decorate but I get bored with it if it is up too long.

We have a vistitor that I am falling in love with. His name is Tater Tots. He is an orange tiger cat. My daughters friend owned him. His landlord told him he could get a cat but his wife found out and started raising hell so he could not find a home for Taters. My daughter is trying to find an apartment so we are keeping Taters here til she finds one and gets moved in. My husband was going to say no but I said, Bill, we have always had four cats til Fuzzy passed on. We have room for this one. He is a cutie but I have not had time to take any pics of him. I will tomorrow.

Ho..Ho...Humbug

As I sit here looking at the tree and all the trappings of christmas, I ask my slef why do we do this every year? Every year we promise ourselves that the next year we are going to take things a little easier and sit back to relax and enjoy christmas the way we were intended to. And every year we get busy and bitter the week before because of all the things we think we have to do for christmas. What time that is not used with shopping, baking and running hither and yon to make sure we have all the gifts everyone wanted, we spend wondering if they will like the gifts we got.

We get snappy with each other over the smallest thing. We try not to forget our manners when we are out and about but we often do. The kids are whiney, the husband is being a real pain in the ass because he hates shopping and instead of doing it earlier, he rushes in and fights with the crowds to get what he wants to get others and he has no desird to look at the price of things.

In the mean time, I still have cookies to finish baking and several gifts to wrap and so many other things that I really am not in the spirit to do today.

Feeling like this is not what this season is about. It is about caring for each other and being with those you care about. I will be with those I love and I really do hope I am over this feeling by the time the day gets here.

Anyway, Merry Christmas to all of you if I do not get back in here again.

Pets at christmas...

My pets are important to me. Even at this time of the year. We do as much for them as we do our kids. We get them all gifts and have them open them. It will be a toy and treat for each but sassy. Sassy does not play with things. She was very abused when we got her and she does not know much about playing with toys. So we get her treats. She is quite happy.

My favorite story about christmas is the time we got my aunt a fruit cake. She loved fruit cake so we got her this real expensive one. I had it wrapped and under the tree. I went down christmas morning and found paper and bits of the fruitcake box all over the floor and a very fat beagle puppy with his stomach bulged out and a sheepish look on his face as if to say, "Who, me?"looking as me as his tail thumped the floor. It was funny but I was worried about him getting sick to watched him carefully for the next day.

I was mad but I had to laugh about it and luckily my aunt loved dogs and she understood. I mean this is a woman who kept a coon dog in her house and one day came home to find her dog and tore the house apart while treeing a coon that came into the yard, in her living room on a pole lamp in the corner. Apparently the dog was the coon and went thru the screen door after it and chased it into the house to tree it. Yes, she loved dogs so she understood. *s*

Another one for you dog lovers at Xmas.....

Doggy Wonderland Dog tags ring, are you listenin'? In the lane, snow is glistenin'. It's yellow, NOT white - I've been there tonight, Marking up my winter wonderland. Smell that tree? That's my fragrance. It's a sign for wand'ring vagrants; "Avoid where I pee, it's MY pro-per-ty! Marked up as my winter wonderland." In the meadow dad will build a snowman, following the classical design. Then I'll lift my leg and let it go Man, So all the world will know it's mine-mine-mine! Straight from me to the fencepost, flows my natural incense boast; "Stay off of my TURF, this small piece of earth, I mark it as my winter wonderland.

Dog tag ring, are you listenin'?
In the lant snow is glistenin'
It's yellow not white- I've been there tonight,
Marking up my winter wonderland.

Smell that tree? That's my fragrance.
It a sign for wondering vagrants;
Avoid where I pee, it's my property!
Marked up as my winter wonderland.

In the meadow dad will build a snowman,
Following the classical design.
Then I'll lift my leg and let it go man
So all the world will know it's mine-mine-mine!

Straight from me to the fencepost
flows my natural incense boast;
"Stay off of my TURF,
this small piece of earth,
I mark it as my winter wonderland. "

Green Puppy?

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Dog's Christmas Promise

Dog's Christmas Promises Christmas is for humans, and I will not ruin the surprises by opening all their presents. Christmas light bulbs, Christmas ornaments, Christmas stockings, and tinsel from the Christmas tree are not food. I am the alpha dog, therefore I do not need to protect my new Christmas rawhide from the omega dog by taking it outside to eat when the wind chill is -10 F. I will not demolish the Christmas tree and drag the string of lights out into the backyard through the doggy door. I will not dive into the Christmas tree to get the candy canes (which I will eat -- paper and all). I will not eat my Christmas doggie treats until after they're out of the stocking! I will not even THINK about going underneath the Christmas tree and piddling on the dining room rug. I will not get into a fight with the bigger dog next door, making my human have to call the vet's at Christmas. I will not get tangled up in the Christmas tree lights and pull the tree down while trying to get at a cat through the conservatory window. I will not pee on Grandma's Christmas presents that are under her tree as soon as we enter her house. I will not pee on the Christmas tree. I will not steal the neighbor's Christmas light bulbs. The bowl underneath the Christmas tree is not a dog dish. I will not drink from it. It will make me sick.

Christmas again....

Look what is under my tree!!!!!!This is ollie. He loves it there.
This is the tree shortly after we decorated it this year. My youngest and I do the tree while hubby and the eldest do the outside of the house.

It's that time of the year.....

This is the path in the woods behind our house. Our daughter who rarely ventures out when it is cold decided to go out and take this photo of the snow.

Multi tasking....

Yesterday my husband was on the phone and I said something to him that needed a response but he was unable to answer since he was swapping stories with one of his buddies. When he hung up he said, "You know I can only do one thing at a time."

I looked at him and said, "You need to be a mother for day and you would know about multitasking. You would be able to talk on the phone, feed a kid and hold a conversation with another kid all at one time. "

He looked at me like I was crazy but I have done that. Most mothers I know have done that. They had to. Why can't men do it? Is it cause they can't concentrate or do they just have to think of one thing at a time in order to get it done right?

Not Found

Yesterday I went to visit a blog I had been visiting for some time. I had not seen anyone post there the last several times I went but I crossed my fingers and dropped by anyway, hoping to read something from this cyber friend who I had grown to like quite well since I started blogging a little over a year ago.

I clicked on it and got, "not found". My heart sank. What happened to her, I wondered. Is she ill, or did something worse happen to her? I am hoping that what happened to her is that she just got too busy to blog any more and is now leading an exciting life as a published author. That was her dream. I hope she is living her dream. I really do cause she is just a great person and deserved the very best life has to offer.

I feel that way about many of he people I meet in this land of cyberspace. A few I know have passed on because their relatives were kind enough to email me and tell me what has happened to them and I am always saddened by the loss of a wonderful friend.

I bet many others feel that sense of loss when they click on the page of a blogger and get 'not found'. Those who do not blog or chat on the net cannot understand how attached we can get to those who reach out across cyber space to talk to us and help us thru many of life's circumstances. Many times it is those in cyber land that I have turned too for advice when I could not talk to people in real life.

I hope the friend who is in the land of Not Found now, is happy and living life to the fullest. I wish her the very best but I do miss her............

I heard it on the news........

While riding to the doctors office to get some of my blood tests done I had the radio on and they were talking about a study that showed those who set the purse on the floor while going to the bathroom in a public restroom end up with thirty percent fecal matter on their purse. Eeeeeeeeeeoooowww. I do not set it on the floor if there is a hook there but I am damned sure I I will hang it on my neck now rather than set it on the floor again. That is disgusting to think of.

I was in the bathroom the other day and my daughter was in one stall and another woman was on the other side. The other woman finished and walked out without washing her hands and my daughter came running out of hers ready to pounce on me cause she thought I did but I was innocent. We were at a restaurant so this woman probably went out and finished her meal without washing her nasty hands.

The study also said that if you do wash your hands, you should keep a paper towel with you to open the door as so many before you probably did not and You defeated the purpose of washing your hands.

Time for a change...

With my daughters help, I am going to change this blog. Especially the look and lay of it. She has given me some pointers and told me of some sites to visit that will help me do it. She is pretty good at that sort of stuff. It may take awhile but I will be working on it and hopefully it will look like a blog should look with my own touches to it.

I ate too many snickers today and I may pay for it later. I hope not. I had three bite sized ones and it is almost too much.

Going to try some things out and look into how to do this blog.

I am baaaaaaaaaaack. It is winter here in Pa and this is one of my favorite pics of a creek near us. The ice crystals on the rocks look like diamonds to me.

The flu did not get me even though it sure tried. I was not on the computer much at all except to answer some emails that had to be answered and taking care of bills.

My daughter and I decorated the tree right after thanksgiving. Well, she did it more than me I did ge this picture of my village but the ones of my tree did not turn out well. At least not the ones on my digital did. Maybe the ones on my other camera did. My mother in law was here and she helped with it. My village gets bigger and bigger every year. It will take up the whole living room soon if I am not careful...lol.


Here is another pic of our yard in the winter.

Damned flu

I have been sick for a week with this damned flue. It will be a week tuesday. I just want to crul up and die some days. This is the first day I have felt like posting much in here. Well, not much, just hacking, coughing, and wheezing as I type this. I will get back to this when I can feel better............