The Day Was Up!...And Then It Took A Nose Dive!

 (Hand Knit Watermelon Baby Socks by PointedNeedle)

      Before I explain the blog title, I wanna tell you that this is gonna be a really quick post, and I wanna show you these cute items I found in the Etsy activity feed earlier today!...Watermelon baby socks (above)!...A clock face ring (below)!...

 (Retro Style Adjustable Clock Face Ring by ArtHarmony)

      ...and the cutest diamond flower ring I've ever seen below)!! :-) ...

 (Vintage 18K Diamond Flower Cluster Ring by EclairJewelry)

      And, Oh yeah, I also wanna show you the other crochet beaded brooch I listed in my Wuglyees shop today...

 (Crochet Beaded Button Flower Brooch by Wuglyees)

(Wuglyees)

      Okay...now, about the blog title!...This was a great day!...almost ALL day it was a great day! O_O I watched some tennis...great!...I watched some soccer...great!...I studied for my meeting tonight...fabulous!...I got a sale in my shop!...SUPERB!!! :-)

      In fact, the sale was of my large black and maroon crochet shawl!...

       ...One of the most expensive items I sell in my shop!...And WOW! I sure needed that!! :-)

      Great, right?!.....RIGHT!! :-) ...But less than an hour later... :-( ...Bad news!!!...VERY bad news!...I found out that one of my dear friends had a heart attack!!! :-( ...*sigh*...Smile-worthy?...NO!!!...Finding something to smile about tonight is gonna be hard work!!  ;-( But you know me...I'll find SOMETHING!!!...Wait!...I just smiled at my hubby...He brought me a bag of nacho cheese doritos!  ;-) For now...it's a start!! ^_^ Goodnight, Y'all!

Just When You Think...

Just when you think you've got it bad
you see that someone's got it worse!
You complain: "My aches and pains...",
but see that some folks need a nurse!

Just when the weather's got you mad
and the snow's too deep to run,
you see the melting everywhere...

And look again!...and there's the sun!

Just when you think: "I'll just move on,
and find something else to do",
there's another blog post finished...
and another poem too! :-]

Okay, So Here's The Story........

 (Panda Cookie Dunk Mug by LennyMud)

     It's another Monday...another week. And for me...another story to tell you! :-) Or I should say...I can finally tell you the story! I already mentioned to you that something happened, but that I'd tell you the story later. Well...now is the time.

     Since it's a story of an attempted 'mugging' I thought the mug in the header photo was appropriate! ^_^ Sorry. That's my silly sense of humor...which is finally able to be silly about this particular subject...which was no laughing matter the other day when it happened!! O_O

      I did end up having some chocolate chip and almond cookies to help me calm my nerves though. So...I could've used this mug! LOL

     Anyway!...What happened was my hubby witnessed a 'mugging'!...(The attack or robbing of  someone in a public place)...while it was in progress!! O_O...Yeah! Really!!! O_O It happened while he was doing one of his 'pick-ups' the other day.
       He was waiting outside of a building, for an elder gentleman that he transports to a center in town, to be brought downstairs to his van. The gentleman's sister, who doesn't live with him, had come by to get him ready, and to bring him downstairs to the van. Hubby was waiting in the van for quite a while, because his previous passenger had cancelled, and so he was early to this gentleman's building.
      All of a sudden he saw, out of the corner of his eye, a man holding a bicycle handle with one hand, and some money in the other, being threatened by a guy with what looked like a gun! O_O The man holding the bicycle dropped it, and, in Spanish, was trying to get the guy to leave him alone!
     Hubby says he was frozen at first, because he said he couldn't tell whether they were playing around or what was going on. He said it was as if it was a tv show or something. O_O One thing was clear though, the man being threatened was not going down without a fight!!
     When the threatened man kept refusing to give the attacker whatever he was asking for...his bike, money, whatever!...the attacker lunged at him! That's when the threatened man swung back, and knocked the gun out of his hand...Hubby says the gun clip fell out of it as it was going to the ground. That's when hubby realized: "HEY!! THIS IS REAL!!! HE"S BEING MUGGED!!!!" O_O
      Hubby didn't know what to do, because he already had a passenger on the van, an elderly woman (101 years old!)...who thankfully was totally oblivious to the whole thing!...and he was still waiting for the elder gentleman and her sister who he knew would be popping out of the door any minute!! O_O YIKES!!
      As he was quickly pondering..."WHAT DO I DO? WHAT DO I DO?!!""...the mugger went into his jacket pocket and pulled out a knife and was swinging it at the threatened man!!!!!! O_O Hubby says he thinks he actually hit him once with it!...That's when hubby realized...I HAVE A CELL PHONE! I'LL CALL THE POLICE!!...And as he was trying to slow his brain down and control the high volume of adrenaline that was coursing through his body by now too, enough to remember how to use his fingers, someone started yelling, in Spanish, at the mugger from one of the apartment building windows!
     The mugger took off running!!...Hubby went to find out if the threatened man was alright. For the most part, he was. Of course, he was kinda wound up by now too...and angry that the guy had tried to mug him!!...Shortly after that the police came. Hubby had to give them his name and information in case they needed him later to recount what he had witnessed. YIKES!! O_O
      We just found out a couple of days ago that they caught the mugger. PHEW!!! And so far hubby hasn't gotten a call...which the police officer told him probably wouldn't have to happen.
      Needless to say, hubby was a wreck when he got home!! He was upset with himself that he hadn't acted quicker, and terrified to think what would have happened if someone had gotten shot or killed!! O_O I assured him that his reaction was normal. The brain does some weird things when emergencies happen!
     It was funny....later. MUCH later!...listening to hubby talk about all of the things he should have done...blow the horn, yell "HEY!", drive the van toward him, call the police immediately!...and laughing about how he was holding a cell phone in his hand the whole time and never even thought about it!! ^_^
     Once hubby's nerves were back to normal, he called his boss to find out what protocol was in cases like that...in case there ever is another time...which he hopes there never is!!! O_O In this case, everybody got to the center safely, albeit a little late! ^_^ And the threatened man was still alive...albeit a LOT angry that anybody would dare mess with him like that! He was pounding his chest and saying: "I'm Puerto Rican!!!!"
      Okay...hmmmm...I think he missed the memo that Puerto Rican's, just like all other humans, get attacked!!!...Anyway!! :-)) I guess I would've been a little angry too! Especially since it was in the daylight of early morning...Don't muggers sleep anymore?! :-)) .........Sorry.
      Now I need some breakfast and a cup of coffee. My adrenaline started running again just telling you the story! O_O ...I'll save the story of our freak thunderstorm yesterday afternoon...

     ...and it's HAILSTONES!!!! (those are the little white balls in the photo below)...

    ...for another time!! O_O

      To end today's post I'll bring it back to calm...and crochet!! :-)

      I finished these this weekend, and will probably put them in the online Wuglyees shop later today.

     Okay, have a good...mug free...day, Everybody! :-) Be prepared for all emergencies....and pray that there isn't any!!! ^_^

Just When You Think...

Just when you think you've got it bad
you see that someone's got it worse!
You complain: "My aches and pains...",
but see that some folks need a nurse!

Just when the weather's got you mad
and the snow's too deep to run,
you see the melting everywhere...
And look again!...and there's the sun!

Just when you think: "I'll just move on,
and find something else to do",
there's another blog post finished...
and another poem too! :-]

I Know You're Not Going To Believe This, But...

      I know you're not going to believe this, but I actually enjoyed the weather this weekend!! :-) Especially yesterday! It was so sunny and nice! And things were melting....Wait! Okay, so the melting was a bit of an issue...Hubby was worried that all that snow and ice in our backyard was going to break down our patio door and try to sneak inside! :-))
      We kept hearing little crashes outside the window every once in a while, all day long! And if you look close at the header photo you can see why...Remember, this is what this tree was looking like on Thursday.

      All of the other ice, except for the piece hanging on after the wind redirected it, has melted off. This melting was happening all along the roof edge and everything also! As a matter of fact, there has been a whole lot of people in our surrounding towns that have had to evacuate their homes because of roofs caving in...or they were hearing the creaking of them about to cave in and thought they'd better head for safer accommodations!....I think that most of the roofs around here were made to hold about 5 to 8  inches of snow, but not 15!!
      But just so you can see that we still are conducted business as usual around here, for the most part, I had hubby take some photos of the area..As you can see, snow hasn't ACTUALLY buried us...even though it feels like it sometimes! ^_^ This is a little Strip Mall near our house. (A Strip Mall is a bunch of stores connected to one another, side by side) See! We can still walk up the little sidewalks to get to the Supermarket...

      ...and there's hardly any snow where you have to park out in front of it..

     You just have to dodge the snow banks around the gas station, and the Kentucky Fried Chicken place...And NOT go to the Kentucky Fried Chicken place early in the morning.....without gas. ^_^
     But you can easily get to the yarn store!...

     And the Dollar store...

     ....and isn't that all that counts anyway?!! ^_^
      The main roads and stores are really good about making sure people don't hurt themselves trying to get to their establishments, but in your individual homes....you're on your own! ^_^ And around our home this is what we're dealing with!

      Ice....and snow on top of ice!...YEAH!! I know you heard it before people!!! LOL

 (The crocheted square rug is a reflection from INSIDE the house!) And all around the outside of the house is a wall of snow and ice, hugging the building like a monkey baby hanging on for dear life!

     I know it's gonna let go soon. And when it does.....I'll STOP talking about it!!! ^_^ ... In the meantime, I amuse myself by saying: "Hey! At least it's not this bad!!" LOL..."Beep! Beep! Cars coming through!!!"

      This, apparently, is Newfoundland! YIKES!! ^_^


Just When You Think...

Just when you think you've got it bad
you see someone that's worse!
You complain: "My aches and pains, Oh boy!",
but some folks need a nurse!

Just when the weather's got you mad
and the snow's too deep to run,
you see the melting everywhere...
You look! and there's the sun!

Just when you think I'll just move on,
and find something else to do,
there's another blog post about snow...
and another poem too! :-]