I guess that secondary title might sound a bit narcissistic...but I just wanted to tell you about what I bought myself for my birthday (which isn't quite yet, but my "present" arrived this morning). 

If any body has been around me for any length of time, they have probably heard me say something along the lines of "I love playing with people's hair!" And well...there are just some hair styles that I cannot do on myself, but would like to learn how to put up so that I can do them for other people. And there are some styles that I might be able to do on myself if I already knew what I was doing, and had done it a time or two before trying to do it on the back of my own head...and that is why I got: a second hand cosmetology mannequin head. (Okay...that sounds kinda weird...)

But with no further adieu, I present Renee. (Who I named in honor of a friend of mine whose middle name is Renee.) 

Isn't she pretty?

If you are interested, here is a picture of what I did with her hair...I just kind of made it up as I went along, but I like the way it looks!

And just in case you like the comfort of seeing heads which are not alone, here are a couple pictures of me! :)

Have a blessed evening!

Hi Ya'll!

I am still alive, in case you were wondering. :)
I have been staying busy with life...that is what I always say isn't it? Well, it is true. :)

I thought I might share a few recent pictures.
The above photo (I know I am wearing alarmingly purple eye shadow, but I still like the picture) was taken the other day when I was "going themed", or attempting to...80's you know...just for fun. I know, I'm wacky.

Need proof?

I must either be wacky or have at least some modicum of bravery to put pictures like that of myself on the internet...

Are you laughing at me?? Did I say you were allowed to do that!?

Well, I guess that's okay....laughter is good...very good. 

Good medicine! Which I need a bit of myself tonight....

I hope that if you needed a smile or a laugh that I was able to help...you do know I like making people laugh right?

Hooray!

May God Bless you my friends...

Have a goodnight!

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!!

It doesn't really feel much like Christmas in our house today...
Since Daddy and G-daddy are still in the Other State  (Mom and Savannah having returned last week) we had decided earlier that we would "celebrate Christmas" on Epiphany, since by then, hopefully Daddy and G-daddy will be here. But we will be having lunch with G-ma and G-pa this afternoon...and we decided we will do the "12 days of Christmas"  with them...we will give them each something every day, for 12 days, starting today. 

I sadly have a sore throat which I acquired yesterday...I don't really "feel bad" elsewhere, I just have a slightly sore throat...still I am trying to stay away from everybody, so that they don't catch anything I might have. I have been taking my tinctures and all, and I hope that it won't last long...

So even if we aren't feeling overly celebratory here today, I hope that you are, and that you are having a wonderful day!!

May God bless us, every one!

Katherine

So...it doesn't seem like I've done a whole lot today...but I have been busy the whole time. One of those you know...I seem to have far too many of those. 

The day started as it has of late with the cat chewing on the tip of the rockers on the rocking chair sitting in my room...and of course the scratching on the irresistibly scratch-able material that it is covered with...however...the water bottle and I are working on these VERY bad habits. So maybe in a day or two...whoever heard of a cat who chews on a rocking chair anyway!! I think my cat must be crazy...sort of...she had demolished two of the flaps of a card board box (literally...the flaps are GONE...she didn't eat the card board, just tore it to pieces bite by bite...) she likes to suck on fuzzy things and purrs like a lion when she does...she likes to chew on paper, she likes to eat rubber bands, string, hair...she likes to chew on people, run like a race horse, mew over random articles she picks up and carries around for kittens at 3 AM...eat her food off of the floor instead of her bowl...she likes mango, avocado, and lots of other things you wouldn't think of a cat eating...but anyway, I still like my cat. I know that this is where folks who dislike cats would say I just ruined my own case...I mean, why on earth would you like a creature like the one I just described above?  I can't explain it...it's just a cat owner thing, you wouldn't understand. :)


However, that was a bit of a rabbit, or rather, a feline trail...

Today I hauled 6 dolly loads of wood, took G-pa his lunch, fed the chickens and re-filled their water, (trudging through almost knee high snow in places to do so), ate meals, wrote 3 letters...(not necessarily in that order).

And I believe that this post is a bit boring as I think I've just lost my chattiness...

So with that, have a good evening all!

My dear few and faithful readers, I hope that this evening finds you all well. We have recently had several inches of snow, and Racheal and I went out and took some pictures which I would like to share with you.

There is so much going on in our lives of late that it is just about too much to tell in this setting...so I'll say for now that life is in a state of abnormality...but who defines "normal" anyway? ;)

Now for those pictures...You must pardon the occasional dip of my hat into the photo...I was holding it over my camera to try and keep it as dry as possible in that blowing snow...

Have a great week everyone!

(I drew this Thanksgiving "Card" this afternoon...)

Dear All,

I hope that everyone has had a splendid day with much to be thankful for.

This morning found us girls dressing up in costumes coming as close as we could to pilgrim like attire. Such is a tradition with us. 

We then began a picture taking spree, and we pretty much kept snapping pictures all day long. (Photos are coming...you will also see pictures on my sister's blog...) 

We took lunch out to the Grandparents apartment and ate our "official" Thanksgiving meal with them. Regrettably Daddy was not able to be with us as he is still in the Other State with Granddaddy. (Who by the way, fell and broke his hip last week and is not rebounding very quickly, and is not really very motivated to do his therapy. If you all would please keep that and the surrounding situations in prayer that would be much appreciated.) 

We spent a while with the Grandparents and then Mum and Grandma took a plate of lunch to Grandma's cousin who is in the nursing home (and she is really not doing very well). The piece of meat which they took to her was a turkey leg... Okay, so that sound like a weird statement, but there is a story that goes with it...a couple of years ago she spent Thanksgiving with us and after the meal, she asked if she might could have the turkey leg...of course she could, but the point being, it is a yearly tradition with her to eat a turkey leg at Thanksgiving, she has been doing it since she was a little girl when an aunt of her's always gave her the turkey leg at the big Thanksgiving meal.

Racheal washed the dishes out in the apartment and after Mom and G-ma had left Savannah and I took all of the fixings back to the house. I washed the dishes that had remained in the house and Savannah put up the leftovers. Meanwhile, Racheal was interviewing Grandpa, getting his life story...with her video camera.

After the dishes I took the chickens the slops and refilled their food and water containers. Unfortunately not eggs...we only got one today that I picked up this morning.

After standing a while with Savannah and watching the sunset, we returned to the apartment where Racheal and G-pa had rather run out of interview energy. So we talked a while, and then S and R went in and I followed shortly leaving G-pa watching the evening news.

So...that has pretty much been my day. Not really exciting, or necessarily "fun", but relaxed and enjoyable.

And I am Thankful for much this evening...

"Blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall! Blessed are the people whose God is the LORD!" 

Psalm 144:15

May God bless us all with many more days, may he forgive us when we complain, and may he give to us who have innately ungrateful souls the grace and strength so as to make every day a truly, heartfelt,

DAY OF THANKSGIVING.

Hello everyone, sorry it's been a while. Life has seemed a bit hectic and off kilter for the last several weeks...

I'll start with last week...Monday G-pa had a very bad nose bleed but he didn't want to go into the clinic, because he was afraid that they would send him to the hospital in the The Big City like last time he had a bad nose bleed which they couldn't get stopped. Soooo his nose probably bled for about 3 or 4 hours before he finally decided to let us take him in. And that wasn't good as his hemoglobin levels were already rather low. I helped him change into a clean shirt, and loaded him up into The General, as I call it, (the wheel chair van...there is a story behind that...but no time now...) and then unloaded him again at the clinic and hauled him inside. The wheelchair accessibility to that building is really not very good, there is a ramp, but getting through those two doors is quite a hassle... So the Doc. packed his nose and said he wanted to see him again in three days.

On Tuesday Mom, Grandpa and I headed for The Big City to pick Grandma up from The Big Airport as she had flown back up here from The Other State. Okay...back up...that probably didn't make any sense...you see...G-ma had gone down to The Other State with Daddy so that she could go to her favorite dentist and get her drivers license renewed, then she flew back here and Daddy remained there with his dad. Then The Sisters headed up here, stopping to be part of a reenactment on the way. At any rate...we picked G-ma up from The Big Airport...and it is big! It has been ever so many ages since I had been to an airport...and I didn't really get to see much of this one...but that didn't bother me...I really think that I would freak out if I got stuck in an airport...I hate crowds!! So after picking G-ma up we made the long drive home. We stopped and ate dinner at a Bob Evans, I really like their Cob Salads, That is almost always what I order when we go there : ) So by Tuesday I was already feeling like it had been a very long week....and....I can't really recall much of the rest of the week...except that we returned Thursday to the clinic to have G-pa nose unpacked. And also that our Friday market was canceled for pending rain which didn't happened.

This Monday The Sisters arrived for their visit. YAY!! Looking forward to several more weeks with them : )
I don't remember all that happened Tuesday, but I do remember rolling up about 11 irrigation hoses from the now pretty much finished garden...and being hot while I was doing it :) Oh yes, and I moved the chicken coops too.

Yesterday afternoon after feeding the chickens and gathering eggs (we only got three!! ) I pulled up all the old rusty flags from the very sad looking rhubarb patch...but before I got finished I had to go in and change out of my skirt into a pair of jeans because some very annoying little buggies that live in high grass were nibbling on my legs and making them itch!!  And they are still itching...

I busily zipped around in the go buggy :) (It was fun Daddy, I like your toy, and I think I've finally learned how to drive it correctly, it has shifted fine for me the whole time, once I learned the "feel" of it ;) )

I used the buggy to help Mom pull a big piece of wood over to the fire pit where she was burning pieces of the old rotten corn crib that Uncle D. pulled down with his truck several years ago...Racheal was mowing till until mower broke...and by that time it was nearing time to knock off for the day anyhow...We stopped by to see the grandparents and then proceeded on to the house to bathe and eat dinner, more then one of us were a little blank from hunger...

So, today is market prep day, and after lunch, I shall get busy making a few grain free baked goods to take to market tomorrow.

So until next time my dear readers,

Have a Jolly day!!
Au Revoir!!

Yesterday was a busy day...
In the morning I went with Daddy to help him get some firewood from Mr. John's place. Daddy had gone the day before and felled a few trees and brought home a load of wood, but wanted to have a little extra help for the second load as Mr. John would not be available to help him. There was a huge mulberry (huge for a mulberry tree, it was probably about in the range of a medium sized tree when it was standing) which he had cut down  the day before and we started on that. Daddy using his chainsaw took off all of the green leafy branches and I drug them into a huge brush pile. Some of those branches thought it would be jolly if they could take my head with them as they flew and flumped into that pile....thankfully none of them succeeded. :) And after all the leafy branches where gone Daddy started chopping up the firewood sized stuff. It is obviously still green and will need to weather a while before we will be able to use it...but time will take care of that. We took the "go-buggy" as we call it, with us, so we loaded the wood into it's little bed and then hauled it over to the trailer. So we got the entire mulberry tree cleaned up. We will probably go back next week and get the rest of the big Poplar that Mr. John's friend left and some other trees...We must have wood to keep the fire going all winter and keep us warm!
It was probably 3:00 to 3:30-ish when we started home...we had taken along a snack "lunch"...and ate that on the way home. After getting home and showering (Daddy and I were dirty....you know, hauling sappy, sawdust covered wood...) I ate some real lunch at about 4:00. :) Then I started my usual Thursday market prep day baking. I made gluten and grain free "white" bread, zucchini bread, and chocolate brownies.
So yes, a busy and productive day....it's nice to have those...seems like so many of my days are not as productive as I should like them to be.
Anyhow, I must run for now, Daddy is going to market instead of me this week so I must help get them off soon.

Hello all ya'll folks who have probably reckoned that I fell of the edge of the earth...again...
I'm still here...but just don't get around to posting overly often ("Oh really? I hadn't noticed!"  Yeah, yeah....rub it in ;) ).
Anyway, I have something to post about this evening, so if I post it NOW, it'll get done :)

So...today Mum and Daddy went to town, it was  kinda an out and about trip, so they were figuring on probably being gone an hour or so. Mum said she would lock me in the house, but I said no, I could get it, since I walked out with her. So I walked on out to "see them off" so to speak, I waved as they drove off and turned around to go back inside...That Moment...a shocker...THE DOOR IS LOCKED!!!!!!!!!

HELP!!!
 
They weren't too far down the road yet, so I lit out beside the road waving my arms like a maniac and hollering "WAIT!!!!" (Although I don't know if I was actually hollering all that loud or not...they couldn't have heard me either way. But it sounds good in writing :) )  They slowed down....oh, they saw me, good...no...that was only a fleeting hope, they were only slowing down to make the turn! What am I going to do now!! I hastily darted towards the  barn: "Please LORD, don't let the door be locked!!" Thankfully it wasn't. Upon entering G-ma and G-pa's cozy apartment, I (now panting and out of breath) asked if I could borrow G-ma's phone, and briefly explained the situation. G-ma doesn't currently have a key to the big house...she did, but it got lost somehow (I didn't loose it though!! Even with my history of loosing house keys. It was lost before that anyhow). So having called them I got Mum's assurance that they'd come back right away and let me in. Whew!!!
And they did...came home, gave me the key, and let me unlock the door, return the key, and made sure I was securely INSIDE before they drove off again!
I guess that Mum had thrown the lock on the handle reckoning to lock me in....but I unsuspectingly shut the door behind me when I followed her out! So that is how I came to be locked out of the house...for a second time....but I couldn't even get in the garage this time!!

Ahhhh...it was good to have That Moment of panic over with!!

See ya later gator (or gators as it may be ;) ), I'm off to vaccume!

Katherine