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Good morning everyone! Today is trash bin day. John hauls the trash bin down the road for the huge trash truck to pick up. It is a liberating feeling to get rid of trash each week but I have such guilt about the enormous amount we generate. I am terrified of guns. But there does seem to be a strange common interest in guns…

Katie in one of her sleeping nests. Morning nap after her breakfast! Patsy

High clouds but warming and no rain at the moment. I’ll take that! We are ordering more and more over the internet, amazon mostly. Even coffee and other food items. That entailes all these lovely boxes with the arrow/smile. Now we must make a trip to the dump with the cardboard recycle bins. We must break down the boxes…

It is a very showery day but warmer! We had a lovely valentine dinner and movie with lots of valentines. It is important to us. And I must say...I love strawberries, chocolate and wine! I wish I didn’t but there it is! I did have a little chat with our daughter. She still has the flu. Continued fever and chills and nausea.…

Happy valentines day dear sneakers. Love is the gasoline that keeps us running. Not just on Valentine’s Day, but our whole life long. John told me about going to Costco to get chocolate covered strawberries and a Guy was getting some to give to his sweetheart. He was going to propose on Valentine’s Day. The Costco staff…

Great day in the morning! Sunshine! Coooooooold however. Katie’s outdoor water bowl has a thick ice covering. She loves to play with ice. Her inside water dish is often neglected. All these great meal plans, we are having our valentine dinner tonight. Angle hair pasta, chicken and mushrooms with hollandaise, green salad,…

Sandy! I wondered about that spam business. I had this vision of a row of canned meat under the garage door. I thought, “I wonder how that could work?” But then all manner of odd uses of things confound me. On YouTube they say to use cola to clean your toilet, baking soda to clean shower door, and my eye doctor said to use…

Doggie videos! Thanks Buzz! Great info! Holy cow! It also seems that this household is a dog dominated home. We think, play, talk cook, brush, comb, vacuum, and purchase all in canine mode. There are far worse things, to be sure. We had a couple hours of sun. It was fabulous. High clouds now, but at least they are light…

Wow! We are having a sunshine moment! I am not expecting anything more than a few minutes, but they are glorious none the less. Katie is in trouble with John. She jumped up on him and snagged the skin on his hand. Her toenails are long because the bloodline in them is so long, right to the tip. It is on the part of his…

Oh my! I guess I missed the fact that sweet little Max had to have eye surgery. Pray all goes well for the little guy. All is quiet here. John is sleeping in and Katie the Great is dozing in front of the heater, I am looking longingly At more coffee. I cannot look at the news. Very foggy out still. Oatmeal, raisins,…

Good Day to ya, me lovelies! We are cranking along here in soggy foggy Oregon. I think I saw a tiny bit of yellow daffodils buds as we drove to town. Or it could have been something like a scrap of trash. No matter! I prefer to think it was a daffodil bud. Everyone is very concerned about the flu here. Stations of hand…

Zoowieee! Ugly weather folks! Be careful, stay safe, keep warm, feeling grumpy and sooooo ready for spring. It is soooooofar away unfortunately. We did enjoy the game and had fun looking at the ads on YouTube to decide on our favorite. I did love the babies and all the diversity ads. It was quite nice to see that, to my…

Good morning folks! Still dark out but it is to be soggy again. No sun but it isn’t snowing so I am grateful for that. Katie is fast asleep so I can sit quietly for a bit before she gets up. Then the rumble-tumble begins! Yes the game was exciting. The underdogs won! Er...Eagles, I mean. It was sad to see the Patriot’s…

Lazy Sunday morning here. Continued soggy and fog. Very Oregon coastal weather. Not very picturesque, I fear to say. We will give the Super Bowl a try but if it is too one-sided, John will be off the couch and outta there. I was amazed that there was an Irish version of the farmers almanac. We always had fun with it when…

Here is my bashful Easter bunny. Had great time working with powdered paper clay. I am sure Anne will be appalled by the rather crude technique but this “clay” doesn’t allow a refined texture. I named him Percy! Okay! On to house cleaning and other creative endeavors. Patsy

Jackie! Happy birthday! Just a little reminder...you bring such a special point of view to this group. In truth, you are a gift to the sneakers every day. Photos, pets, views and news from your corner of the world. As you share your life, we feel an ever growing closer friendship. I know we all wish we were close enough to…

February first! Wow! It is almost daffodil time. The skylights are in and the young man how put them in did a great job. Rain didn’t come until he finished and drove off. It is such a relief to have it done and over. Now the big task is carpet cleaning after a grooming of the naughty Katie. It may not sound like much but…

Hello everyone! So happy to see everyone this morning.really! I had my dr. Appointment with the eye specialist. All is well. No shot required. Vision is good. Once again I must expound on the virtue of these eye supplements I take twice a day. They are called “Preservision.” If you have an eye problem, look into them…

I have an appointment today with my eye doctor. Of course, it will involve another shot in the eye. I must admit, these never really hurt, it is all physiological. Seeing the needle etc. etc. what a wimp, I am! I have been working a fun paper mache’ easter bunny. Not sure why or for who. It is one of those projects that I…

Oh Sandy! What a darling birthday boy! “Where the wild things are” is a favorite. I read that to my kindergarten kids earlier. They all knew it and loved the story. All of them had seen the movie. It is interesting that the kids really live it. It is really very philosophical. Allegorical but kids get it on some level.…

Hearing about new clothes and styles of the sneakers here, I am astounded again by the differences we all enjoy. In my search for some new clothes, my hand unerringly reaches for the right colors and sparkles. I love a bit of lace and embroidery. You simply cannot keep the old hippy style from coming out when I hunt for…

Yes Buzz, I have had a strange diverse career in my time, art teacher, political communication assistant, (not sure what my title would have been, I worked with the media on PR meetings and press releases , PSAs and political cartoonist and now...personal slave to a labradoodle maniac. I once read that in the last 20years…

We have periods of lovely sunshine, the dark clouds rush in and we have a shower that passes quickly. So happy to see Mr. Sunshine! Daffodils are threatening to shoot up through all the fallen leaves and debris. Brave little yellow flowers that bring us joy and hope every spring. Hurry spring! I am looking at getting some…

Here is my wild area rug for my dungeon. It had to be unrolled and weighted down to relax the curl before installation. Doesn’t it look like it has been pre-diastered? I love it! John is ....well... intrigued by the design! It reminds me of my paintings and happy times in my dungeon. Aha Sandy! I am not confessing my age.…

TGIF and it is another wet one here. I am flustered, I have so many undone chores I don’t know what to tackle first. I guess I will go for the hardest and work down. We are watching the new “blade runner”movie. Very dark but the art direction is magnificent, just like original. Haunting story. John loves sci-fi and I like…

Hello from wet and wild Oregon again. We are having an unusually high tide and a trough of very high seas is causing flooding and beach erosion. We are all being warned away from beach combing and beach walks. Many people love to go to the beach when we have a storm. Storm watching is fun but we need to be in just the…

Interesting posts today! Terrifying really! I would not be able to handle something like a stalker. I have read about cases like that. I am sure glad Anne and Sandy and Jackie survived and handled these scary episodes. I would be running to the police Feeling very scratchy throat and achy. I will grab a cup of herbal tea…

Good day dear sneakers! All this talk of romantic gestures from interesting men...things like that make me smile. It is reassuring that “it is still going on” even as we age. John and I make a practice of trying to do a few of these things. Anne, I have never been that dedicated to a spotless house. It is a good thing that…

Here I am...scooting along doing my Sunday best to start the week. We talked to our son and heard about his latest animation project. He opted to stay home from the electronic trade show. It is the “Consumer Electronic” yearly show Demonstrating all the latest futuristic stuff. Robots, drones, digital assistants etc. the…

Well ladies, John and I had one of those nights where we just kept getting up for one little thing after another. That said, we both are a bit sluggish today. I watered my plants and the amaryllis is still green and growing. It is rather spindly, I may ditch this whole project if I don’t see any improvement soon. I could…