I hope you all had a nice weekend. Mine was. Yes! It actually was! :-) ....even with the snake still in the backyard, the car still not repaired (It's being towed to the garage today. Plans to do it over the weekend kept going wacky!...It was just one of those kind of weekends! LOL), and also no snow as promised! O_O....Okay, you know I'm not that upset about that part! LOL
There were a few things....what I call 'piddly things'...that happened over the weekend though that I wanna share with you. Ohhh...I don't know why. I just feel like sharing! ^_^
Please feel free to think about my sharing the same way you would think about a friend sharing her favorite chocolate chip cookies with you! :-) .... Not these cookies though (above). These are not mine. Ha! Ha!...But if you want these, just click on the picture. It'll take you to the shop so you can buy them!}
I wanted to share with you that my 'trick colon' is back in working order. :-) YAY!!...I guess the hot sauced chicken wings didn't do such a bad job after all!...Neither did the spaghetti, chocolate chip cookies, and coffee I had this weekend! :-) What?!....Once my trick colon was back in working order, I had to test it, right?!!....What kind of person would I be if I didn't test it to see if it was working after I 'fixed' it?! ^_^
I wanted to share with you that the scenery around here in Holyoke, as it is in many places right now, is just beautiful! It's not at all what any of us here in Massachusetts would've expected for February....FEBRUARY!!! We're usually about sick of the house, sick of ourselves, and sick of the snow by now!...But with the beautiful weather....sunshine everywhere, and only a passing snow shower every now and again...I'm ready for another February just like this one...for next month!! LOL
I'm kinda waiting on the birds to return to the backyard though...
I miss seeing the robins and cardinals hopping across the lawn and jumping up and down in the tree trunk...Well, it's a tree trunk now! That bad storm we had took my tree 'OUT'! :-( I'm not gonna be able to have my hummingbird feeder right next to the window anymore. There's no branch to hang it from. :-( ... The only good thing about that though, is that there won't be any ant or wasp drama this year either! :-]
I also wanted to share the photos of the gray scarf that I finished a little while back. Hubby finally had some time to take the pictures of it for me yesterday! :-)
Nothing too dramatic. It's just a plain gray scarf...
I just wanted to share! :-) ... I'm probably gonna list it in my Wuglyees shop later today.
Did any of you watch any of the 'Grammy Award Show' last night?!...I thought that a lot of the music was sooooo good, like Adele. Nice to see her voice is back in good form! :-) ... But what was with the mickey mouse eared techno music?! O_O People jumping up and down, holding glowing and blinking mickey mouse ears over their heads!?.....What?!.. O_O ...What?!...I must confess I only 'heard' a few seconds of the music. I had to mute the t.v. Between the jumping and the steady beat, my poor sensory receptors were in overload!! LOL
I didn't see all of it. I was turning the mute on and off for 'certain' head-banging, flickery lighted, acts. ^_^ I must say...I did SOOOO MUCH enjoy Bruno Mars' almost retro type performance though! It took me back to James Brown and some of the bands from the 60s and 70s. It was so nice to see the synchronized dancing with the music. Nobody does that much anymore these days! And it's too bad too!
Let's see......what else can I share?!....Oh! I can share these things that I found in my etsy searches!...
What a great way to use yarn, huh?!....If you're not gonna make a scarf with it, I mean! ^_^ And I love these colors together!
And for an old Georgia girl like me, who loves a good cup of green tea..or some coffee (just saying! ^_^)...this is the perfect cup!...
(Coffee Mug by DailyGrinder)
It has Georgia cities all over it!...My birth state...It would be like holding 'Down Home' in my hand every morning. :-) It makes me smile just thinking about that!
And the reason I wanted to share this one (below) is pretty self-explanatory!...*Teehee*...
I never saw a flower that I didn't like!....Or anything with a flower printed on it that I didn't at least get tempted to click on!! LOL
Lastly, I'm gonna share with you that I think I annoyed my father this weekend...We had a conversation that got waaaaaay deeper than I intended, but it couldn't be avoided. He was assuming that I was agreeing with him on a particular subject...involving our respective religious beliefs...and I had to make it clear to him that he and I were NOT on the same page!
Usually, I stay away from deep conversations with my father on religious subjects because he doesn't 'play nice' when he believes something. He just assumes he KNOWS!! And therefore he's RIGHT! ^_^ And usually...because it's 'no skin off my nose', so to speak...I let him think whatever he wants! I don't have a big need to irritate my 70 something year old father! LOL
But when he started talking about how 'we' both feel the same about this and that!...I had to set him straight.......Uhhhh...No 'we' don't! That would be 'YOU'!...He needed clarification (meaning he just would not leave it alone!). I tried to warn him that he was getting into my 'wheel house' of knowledge here, and that he wasn't gonna like the info I was giving him...facts! But he insisted: "What do you mean?!...No! I wanna know!!!!!"....So, I let him have it! ^_^
In the end we agreed to disagree...and I was fine with that. He also agreed that no one in the family ever really discusses with me what my beliefs are. He was impressed with my knowledge, even though he chooses to believe what he's always grown up with...Fine with me! I'm not the one he has to answer to for what he believes! I have to answer for ME!!!
After that we went back to talking about our individual aches and pains, and about Whitney Houston's death...safety subjects! LOL...Do any of you have uncomfortable conversations with your older parents?!...I don't want to disrespect him because he's been around longer than me, but some things he talks about......Well....they're just wrong! And it's a tricky dance trying to correct your elderly parents! O_O
Okay....I'm done sharing for today...except for the poem below (it's one I wrote about my dad a few years ago). I'll share something else with you tomorrow. Something I've been crocheting all weekend!! Something I'm all smiles and "Why-didn't-you-think-of-this-before" about!! I guess you'll just have to stop by tomorrow if you wanna see what it is! ^_^ Bring your own coffee!
Dad Is Getting Older
I'm 48 years old,
and my dad is 71;
And reality just hit me:
"Growing old is not much fun!"
Dad is dependable and kind,
a step above most other men;
But I feel the tide is turning.
Things are not as they have been.
His health is slowly fading.
(Not to mention-so has mine!)
When we talk, he's still himself,
but now his 'Sharp' has lost some shine.
More frequent Doctor's visits,
high blood pressure, hemorrhoids too;
needs more fiber in his diet,
and less noise to shuffle through.
He used to take long trips,
driving hours, all alone.
Now he watches television-
All his hours, spent at home.
With a witty sense of humor,
and a colorful point of view,
he's still as proud as he can be-
But like a peacock-in the zoo!
He enjoys all our attention,
and the grand-kids love his jokes;
All the neighbors love his gossip.
He's a 'Special' kind of folks.
If things continue going
as they have the last few years,
dad's non-stop aging process
will evoke a lot of tears.
Next year I will be older.
Until then what will I do?
Keep spending time with dad
who will, by then, be 72.
I'm 48 years old,
and my dad is 71;
And reality just hit me:
"Growing old is not much fun!"
Dad is dependable and kind,
a step above most other men;
But I feel the tide is turning.
Things are not as they have been.
His health is slowly fading.
(Not to mention-so has mine!)
When we talk, he's still himself,
but now his 'Sharp' has lost some shine.
More frequent Doctor's visits,
high blood pressure, hemorrhoids too;
needs more fiber in his diet,
and less noise to shuffle through.
He used to take long trips,
driving hours, all alone.
Now he watches television-
All his hours, spent at home.
With a witty sense of humor,
and a colorful point of view,
he's still as proud as he can be-
But like a peacock-in the zoo!
He enjoys all our attention,
and the grand-kids love his jokes;
All the neighbors love his gossip.
He's a 'Special' kind of folks.
If things continue going
as they have the last few years,
dad's non-stop aging process
will evoke a lot of tears.
Next year I will be older.
Until then what will I do?
Keep spending time with dad
who will, by then, be 72.
