The dogs in this area have gone out plum out of their heads. (Yes, that is the technical veterinary term.) Twice in the last 24 hours I’ve found myself holding a dog’s chin, looking deep into their eyes, and asking “WHAT on Earth were you thinking?” Case one – A very sweet slightly elderly lady [...]
I finished my latest kid’s charity quilt. I think I’ll save this one and make a package to go out on Summer Solstice. My goal for the year is to give a donation on all four quarters.
Well, I finally did it. I rode Prize today. I’ve been slacking since the accident last May. (To recap, she stepped on a pop can and freaked and I ended up with a broken pelvis.) Since I was cleared to ride I have only ridden once and that was with adult supervision. I took her [...]
The husband has lost 50 pounds since September. Yeah for him but I want to lose weight too. He had such horrific eating habits that any change for the better made a huge difference. He’s also taking hydroxycut. I hate the idea of those pills but he was having such good results that I decided [...]
I talked to my homestudy provider yesterday. She promised me that my completed homestudy would be in the mail last week. She’s been avoiding me ever since. She says she’s been sick and promises again that it will be in the mail today. We’ll see. ___________________ My mother came down for a few days to [...]
Well, I am absolutely boring recently. Not a thing blog-worthy has happened here. I just hung around here this weekend. I am attempting to supplement my income by becoming a temporary corporate shill but that is starting to look like more trouble than it is worth. But hope springs eternal and the idea of making [...]
I wore this dog out yesterday. She went to work with me to get groomed. We came home about 7:00 PM and she went to bed. She just got up at 11:00 AM this morning long enough to go outside and now has gone back to bed for her regularly scheduled naptime. Snowball hates bandannas. [...]
I had plans for a nice little ostara ritual. I should know better. Spirit decided to be sick again yesterday morning. He was flat out on his side in the arena when I decided that obviously my drugs weren’t working so I called in reinforcements. Of course by the time reinforcements came, he was up [...]
I never watch local news because it tends to be sensational – “What product do you have in your home that could KILL your child????” But it was on last night and I didn’t turn it off. I should have. There was a report on a rape and beating of a 14 year old girl. [...]
My morning started out with Spirit laying down in his stall when I went to the barn. Spirit laying down = Spirit sick. But he jumped right up and ate an apple so I figured he was ok. I turned them out and he wasn’t acting right. Finally he laid down again in the pasture. [...]
I’ve finally decided what to call myself religiously. I’ve been thinking this over for a while. I’ve been trying grasp at some concept that was floating in the ether just out of reach. I was looking for a term that described people of the pagan persuasion who didn’t go around dressed like extras from a [...]
There was massive cleaning here this weekend. Not by me, of course! I’m not good at the big cleaning. I start going through things and organizing so the project gets even bigger than it already is and overwhelms me. The husband is good at this because he just stacks things without looking at them. He [...]
My poor, ugly reject quilt has been rejected again. It is so ugly that someone would have to be really cold to like it. So I sent it to a homeless shelter in January. It just came back to me unopened in the mail. I guess that shelter isn’t there anymore. So I’m sent to [...]
I got the contracts emailed to me today. It is official. I’m going to breed Prize. But since this is my real life and not my fantasy world where everything runs smoothly, there are already slight complications. 1. Prize doesn’t show obvious signs of heat. So we have to figure out if she is cycling [...]
I read this post in the Carnival of Feminists about women reacting to men harrassing them on the street. It reminded me of an experience I had in San Antonio. The husband and I were returning to our car from a walk in the downtown tourist area at night. It was brightly lit and there [...]
For the last few days I’ve been craving fresh air. Part of it has to do with airing out the house. We’ve been doing a lot of cutting and sanding of wood and drywall lately. No matter how much we clean there seems to be a fine dust over everything. Also, my new desk is [...]
The husband and I did a home improvement project yesterday and are still married. That qualifies as a great success. This is my side of the computer room. The shelves and the built in desk went up yesterday. Now I have to empty out my previous desk and find a place to put everything. Then [...]
From Witches’ Weekly via Turtleheart. Personal Ceremonies If you were to plan your own Wedding or Funeral ceremony, would you create two separate ceremonies for pagan and non-pagan folk, or would you just plan a ceremony around your beliefs. How would you feel if any non-pagan friends or family did not wish to attend such [...]
Today for sewing day I finished my row for my next row by row round robin quilt. It is a Christmas theme and I made the row of Christmas trees.
As promised here is the picture of the moon over the Alamo. That’s the pretty part of the trip. Here’s the not so pretty part. I’m a wannabe fashionista. To that end I bought some terribly impractical shoes for the trip because I love them and they were on sale. Exhibit A : I wore [...]