Poor Little Neglected Blog

I didn't intend to neglect my blog, Froggy.  It's just been kind of crazy lately!

Otter's had a lot going on that she needed me to help with, Bill's been crazy busy (and he's just crazy!) with pachinko stuff which I have become conscripted labor for and work has been pretty busy.

Last Saturday, Bill and I spent most of the day looking at antique stores (I found cheap, vintage Fenton!) and then Sunday was when Otter, J and I went to the Tulsa State Fair.

The Fair was a lot of fun.  Yes, Froggy.  Quilt winner pictures are coming!

This is in the petting zoo at the fair.  Alpacas are about the softest things on earth.  It was like petting a cloud and the cloud liked it!  I commented to "him" that I could crochet him - and he responded by laying that soft head on my shoulder and batting those big eyes at me!  He (not sure of the gender) seemed to really enjoy the ear scratch as well.

The other thing that happened in the petting zoo is that I discovered that I am a sheep magnet!  I am really only allergic to one animal on the planet, as far as I know.  It's sheep.  I stepped inside the enclosure, and suddenly just about all the sheep were standing around me.  And grinning!  Sheep are evil, no doubt about that.  I wasn't able to stay inside the petting zoo very long, even without touching them (Otter petting them for me) I started having upper-respiratory issues pretty fast.

There were donkeys, ducks, assorted chicken, wallabies (one had a joey on board!), several alpacas, a few variety of deer, about a billion goats (of all ages) and probably a few other animals including a really sweet brahma calf!  Most of the other pictures have faces in them, so they are not going to be posted.

(Sorry this is sideways).  Froggy, look at the next picture.  It's a close-up of one of the deer at the bottom.

It's yo-yo's!

I think Mom and AJ would really have liked this one.

The butter cream sculpture!  This year, it was an angel and a lion.  Sorry it's sideways.  Also, there is a glare that I could not avoid.

This little critter is crocheted.  I'm not sure if it was a dinosaur or a dragon, but it is cute.

Look at the next picture.

The decorative edging is doilies!

The fair was fun and the weather was perfect.  We parked the car at one of the satellite locations and caught the shuttle bus to the fairgrounds.  We wound up with an extra ticket since Otter's friend had to cancel because of a family member's health issue but I was able to give it to someone at the entrance gate who hadn't bought a ticket yet.  We had ride tickets, which Otter and J used but we still had a few left so I gave those to a father with a young boy who were in line at a ride.  We didn't eat anything too outrageous, although there were some "interesting" food choices including bug pizza.  As in insects.  Not on my menu!

I did do one thing that is worth mentioning.  The prize-winning quilts, crochet, photography, etc., were in the same building as some of the kid exhibits - a giant sand box, blocks (which were being played with by adult emt officers), a few so-called odd animals and there was a small enclosure with an aldabra tortoise - on of the big babies.  I had noticed the tortoise when I was walking by, but then I saw a couple (boyfriend/girlfriend or husband/wife) who were looking at the tortoise.  The man was standing up, behind the woman.  She was squatting down and sticking her fingers through the fence, right in the tortoise's face.  Anybody who knows anything at all should know that was a very dangerous thing to do.  Tortoise was watching her fingers very intently and I could see that it's neck muscles were tensing up, which means that it was about to strike.  At that point, I went over to her and told her exactly why that was a very B.A.D. idea.  She had no idea that they bite!  All the tortoise was thinking was that it was time for a snack.  The woman pulled her hand back - to the very obvious disappointment of the man with her!  I honestly think he wanted her to get bit.  But it probably would not have been a gentle nip - it could have taken her finger off.  At the very least, she would have had a broken finger and it would have been very bloody.  I can't believe that an adult would have been so stupid!

Alright Already!!!

(Froggy, that title is for you.  :)  NagNagNagNag...)  (Just kidding you know.)

First things first.  Fun stuff:

(Notice that the girl minion is a REDHEAD!)

This is the little, wooden rocking chair that my parents gave Otter when she was about 1 or so.  They brought it to her and it was love at first sight, she loved that chair and wanted it to stay in the living room.  She sat in it when she watched tv, she rocked her baby dolls in it, and she was very attached to it.  When she outgrew it, it held stuffed animals.  When we moved to our current house, it went into storage in the attic.  When she moved out and her room became the Room The Yarn Stash Lives In, it needed something and that something was Otter's little rocking chair.  My stuffed, TEXAS-related animals are now sitting in it and the rubber crocodile underneath is also Otters.  Well, hers and mine actually - and his name is Crickey.  The chair and assorted animals occupy a space in the Yarn room.  The yellow yarn ball is in Baby Bevo's hands and so is a crochet hook - the long piece of yellow yarn is actually the first (and probably only) piece of crochet Otter ever made.

It's supposed to look like Baby Bevo is crocheting.

(Billyboy, this one is for you.)

This one isn't really appropriate for my work, but it does apply to someone I know who has to put up with really bad stuff at work.

This one?  Well, it obviously applies to me!

OK, now that the jokes are out of the way.  My Fenton collection increased last week.  Otter and I went to one of our favorite junk-tique places and I found something:

(That is a stock photo and not mine.)  I've been looking for a piece of Fenton in the color known as Amberina.  I found a huge compote, thumbprint pattern and in the Amberina color while we were there.  IT WAS $5.00.  And it is perfect.  The larger pieces in general are becoming more rare, it is glass after all and glass breaks.  This color is pretty hard to find and the thumbprint pattern is somewhat uncommon - not really rare, but getting there.

Fuzzbutt Beagle, also known as Maggie Moo, went to the vet yesterday.  It's been two months since her last rear gland cleaning and nail trim, she was starting to drag her rear around so we knew she was ready.  The vet said that she wasn't completely impacted this time, but that she was close.  So, we'll keep her on the two months schedule unless we need to change it to more often.  She hates to have her claws trimmed and we got tired of fighting her so every time she goes to the vet for any reason, we have them trimmed.  While we were there, she met another dog that was just leaving and she seemed to be pretty happy.  Until the vet's assistant came to get her.  Then, it was time to play Drag the Dog!  Literally.  I had to lift her up off of the floor so the assistant could get her,and she immediately plopped herself right back down.  She literally had to drag/walk her to the back so they could gets her needs taken care of.  When she was done, she just about yanked the girl's arm out of it's socket in her haste to get back to me!  She is 28 pounds, which is about a pound and a half over what she was in July but she's still within allowable range for a small to medium beagle.

However, she is still known as BowlingBallButt for a good reason!

Weekend Shopping

The sales-tax-free weekend in Oklahoma is this weekend.  It started on Friday and ends at midnight tonight.  We don't have to buy a lot anymore, since we don't need school clothes.  But Bill needed jeans, shirts for work and socks.  Otter need jeans and she also got a pair of shoes.  I found a few t-shirts at Walmart.  We saved a whole $12.36!  (I'm being a little sarcastic here.)  Not a fortune, but it all helps.  Otter wanted to get her glasses adjusted so we went to the mall for that but didn't actually buy anything there.  We got most of the clothing items at WalMart and one of Bill's shirts at Sears.  But the mall was still fun.  We also went to a Goodwill, where I made another Fenton find:

These are stock photos, but I found one of them.  $1.50!  I'm not really into the bells that much, but Fenton at $1.50?  Yes, it will come home with me!  This one did.  I had just remarked to Otter that I didn't think I was going to find anything at the store today, and it was on the next shelf.  It doesn't have the sticker that the last picture shows, but it's the Daisy and Button pattern and it is in perfect condition.  It's a little more iridescent than the pictures show.  The clapper is intact, which is usually the first thing to be broken off and lost.

I did get my closet rearranging done yesterday, like I planned.  It wasn't difficult.  I mostly had to move a few boxes around and then shift the longer clothes to the center of the closet rod.  And then I had to hold my left foot over the sink while Bill poured peroxide over it, after I dropped a small wooden box on it!  It wasn't a long drop, more of a slide out of my hands than an actual drop.  But it landed on the top of my foot and caused a small cut.  No damage, it wasn't hard enough of an impact to worry about broken bones or anything, but I'm probably going to have a bruise!

We got Maggie Moo another bed yesterday.  She was so funny.  She was a little on the confused side, but then she generally is, when she couldn't find her bed.  We kept the pillow out of the old bed, but the bed itself was thrown out last week.  It developed a hole in the bottom of the bed when I washed it one time and it slowly grew larger each time the bed was washed or the dog rearranged herself or the pillow.  Since they are somewhere around $7.00, we figured we would just go get her another one.  Yesterday, we ran a couple of errands and then went to Otter's store since that's where the first bed came from.  I brought it inside, cut the tags off and put it in the place by the couch where the first bed had been.  The Magginator was outside at the time, when she came in and saw the bed - she squealed like an excited toddler!  Then she literally bounced into the new bed, curled up and went to sleep.  Silly baby!  She made a few new puppy friends on our walk this morning, so she has had a good day.  She's snoozing on her blankets at the moment.  She was napping under the futon when I left to get Otter and she's been rearranging the pillow in her bed today too.

I also got the soup made yesterday, but I put off making the pinto beans.  Possibly one evening this week.

Bill's assorted frozen spots are fine, they are still a little sensitive but not actually painful.  He slept on the couch Friday night, we figured out that he would be more likely to stay on his right side and not his left (the wart was on the left side of his nose) so we made him a bed on the couch.  I went to bed before he did, but sometime after he got into his nest, he realized that he was laying on his right side and that was the arm that had the frozen spots!  So, he switched to his back.  Which means that he didn't sleep too well.  Last night, he decided he'd better stay on the couch and we fixed his pillows up a little so he'd be propped up more which would help him sleep a little.  I'm not sure where he's sleeping tonight, but he may decide to stay on the couch again.  I'm just glad it wasn't actually a skin cancer on his nose after all.

Sun Tea is happily being made on the back deck!  I forgot to put it out yesterday, but I remembered this morning.  When I picked Otter up for our shopping trip, I noticed that her jar was out on her patio today, too.

I think it's time to go check on the load of jeans I have in the dryer now.  Then I think maybe I'll answer the call of the chocolate that I can hear calling me all the way from the freezer!

Serendipitous Fleas

We ventured into Tulsa today.  Twice, actually.  The first time, we went to the Tulsa Flea Market and had a good time while we were there.  We found the movie guy and bought a few movies.  I saw a few Fenton pieces but I didn't buy any.  Bill saw one pachinko machine, but it was a modern and his machines are vintage.  But the seller said he does come across vintage machines sometimes, so Bill gave him one of our cards.  We went to a few other places after the flea market, then came home and just did stuff around the house.  Bill's cell phone was kind of going crazy today, he's had a lot of calls lately about pachinko repair jobs but then he got a call that was from the guy we gave the card to this morning.  Or that's what we thought, anyway.  He said he had several machines and that he wanted to sell them.  So, back into Tulsa for us!  Turns out, he was not the guy we gave the card to after all.  But he got the card from him.  He had mentioned to the man who had the modern machine that he had several vintage machines and wanted to sell them, and the seller gave him our card.  Bill almost didn't go with me to the flea market today, I think he's really glad he did!  The man had 7 machines and they are all vintage.  He and Bill came to an agreement on price, $40 each.  To prove that we will get the rest of the machines tomorrow (we were in my car), Bill bought one of them today and it turned out to have a couple of special features, so he thinks he should to give the seller another $10 for it tomorrow and then the rest will still be $40 each.  We can't get that many machines in my car, so after church we'll take the El Camino and get the rest of them.

I think I need to go buy more yarn now!  After all, Bill's stash has increased.  So, shouldn't mine?!

Otter's moving plans are firmed up.  They will go in to the apartment early in the week and sign the new lease.  They are going to move into the new apartment on Friday, but Otter has to work Friday morning.  I'm going to take off early, probably around noon, and head over to their apartment but I'm probably stopping to pick up a couple of pizzas first.  We will move as much as we possibly can on Friday afternoon, but I'm not sure if we'll be able to get it all moved then or not.  They will pay rent on the old apartment for one day, Saturday (the 1st) and then we'll get it finished up then.  They may pay for Sunday as well, because along with moving out of the old one and into the new one, the old one will need to be cleaned.  But I'm thinking that we can probably get it all done Friday and Saturday and finish cleaning on Saturday afternoon.  It won't be a lot of cleaning.  Vacuuming, the bathroom is small so it won't take too long to clean, the kitchen is probably the biggest but it won't be too much to clean either.  Once everything is actually moved, they can unpack, assemble, etc. as they have time.  The main thing is going to be getting everything across the hall and out of the way so we can clean the old apartment up.

Something tells me that today was a lot more fun than next Saturday is going to be!  :)

Guess I Should Post Something On Here

It is Sunday, after all.  And I haven't posted in a couple of days.  So, before Froggy reminds me, here goes!!

 

At the moment, I think we are fixin to have one of these:

All the signs are there of an imminent carpet shark attack!

(Nevermind, she curled up on top of the blanket at my feet and went to sleep - the same blanket that she was sleeping under a few minutes ago.)

 

It's been a busy weekend.  Otter was off work yesterday, since she had the first Saturday off that she's had in several weeks she wanted to go shopping.  We hit the Main Street shopping in our small town and had a lot of fun.  I found one of these:

 

It's the larger size (this is a stock photo and not the one I bought).  It was $7.00.  $7.00!!!  I had to look at the price tag 3 or 4 times because I simply could not believe I was reading it right.  It could have easily had another digit either before or after the 7, and it still would have sold.  I went from having a few silver crest (clear edge) and none of the colored edges and now I have 3 (or maybe 4?) gold crest and one pink crest.  It was at the place where we used to have our booth.  There is another particular piece I'm thinking about, but I haven't decided yet.

 

It's one of these:

 

There are actually two, one is Amber (like this) and one is blue.  I like the blue one better, but the Amber one still has it's original Fenton sticker label.  They are both $10.00 and if I buy one, it will be one and not both.  $10.00 is a very good price, but I'd prefer to pay less per item if I were to buy both.

 

Today's adventures included cleaning the dog yard, it's been a couple of weeks since I tackled it and they left me a lot of "presents!"  I also went to the place where we have our booth and looked at a thrift shop.  And ran to Ace Hardware for Billyboy - twice, once by myself and once to take him.  After the 2nd trip, the one where I took him, we stopped at Braums for ice cream sundaes.

 

We had chili for dinner tonight.  I am not exaggerating when I saw I used at least 1 cup of chili powder.  And it was barely even warm!  Warm as in pepper and not cooking heat.  It's a fairly new bottle of chili powder.  Maybe we are finally getting immune?  I hope not!

Day After Motorcycle Day

I got snow for my birthday!  It was very pretty, but it didn't include much in the way of ice so I was still able to go to the flea market yesterday.  The flea market opened at 8:00, I got there about 10:30 and left about 11:30.  Empty handed, but it was still fun.  Lots of overpriced Fenton this time, very little of it was actually rare or hard to find.  Just high priced.

 

The snow got heavier in the afternoon.  We still were able to get out for dinner, Bill took me to a local diner that we have never eaten at but always wanted to.  It was a nice birthday meal, I had chicken fried steak.  First time I've had it in something like 12 years, and it will probably be that long before I have it again.  But it was so good!  After we ate, we went to Hobby Lobby and looked around.  Of course I bought yarn!  It was a fall color and the fall colors are about to be replaced with the spring colors, so I got 2 skeins and it's now in the stash drawers.  I did get a little yarn de-stashing done yesterday, Roomie got a cap made in red yarn which I have had on hand for a long time.  And still have on hand, it was a larger size skein.  I think I used about a third of the skein on her cap.

 

I made my own birthday "cake" this year.  I made a pan of brownies, but I didn't get them baked until today.  I used an entire bag of chocolate chips in them this time, so they are going to be extremely chocolate!!  I went to Braums on Friday and got a carton of strawberry cheesecake ice cream, because you have to have ice cream with birthday cake!  Or brownies.

 

We closed our booth out a few days early.  And moved it to another antique mall that opened a few months back.  The new one is in a slightly better area, the old one isn't bad in the sense of crime or anything like that but the new one will get more traffic and is a little easier to see from the street.  It's a couple of miles closer to the house.  We went to the new place this morning to see if they had anything coming up in the near future, and Bill worked out a deal with the owner today.  We thought that we were going to have to bring the machines home for a while until we found a new place, but the owner of the new mall was willing to make us a good deal so we went to the old place as planned and retrieved machines and then took them to the new place.  It's almost the same rent, just $10 more and she does not charge the 10% commission on sales that the old place did.  And she advertises, unlike the old place.

 

Otter got back from her Christmas trip to Oklahoma City with J and his mom.  We met her this afternoon to give her the car, she goes in at 2:00 a.m. tomorrow morning and nobody was willing to get up and get her to work at that awful hour!  She left her laundry here when she brought the car back to us last Tuesday, I told her that I would do it for her so she got a laundry basket full of clean laundry today along with the car.  She's going to let me know what her schedule is for the week and then we'll see which day we'll have Christmas with her.  Also, I hope to be able to have a shopping day with her sometime this week.

 

I have a picture I took yesterday that I might eventually get posted here - if Blogger will cooperate!  Actually, the problem probably is not Blogger but most likely the last windows update that changed so much on my laptop.  Anyway, the picture is one I took yesterday after the dogs went out in the back yard to play.  Frasier went out first, and it looks almost exactly like he was hopping on one foot and only one foot - he's got a lot of coyote tendencies and that is one we really notice, the single file walk that they do.  Maggie Moo, on the other hand, uses all 4 feet and it almost looked like she just jumped straight up and down, leaping from place to place instead of actually walking.  Silly dogs, but we like them!

 

I'm not making dinner tonight, we went out for breakfast and ate late.  Bill got into the cookies while ago and even though it's nearly 4:00 neither one of us is really hungry.  I'm thinking I might make nachos or something like that.  Maybe!  It's an F & F day for sure today.

Since When...

is microsoft in charge of what I need or want on my computer?  I'm pretty sure NEVER.  Last night, it took two hours for the updates to install.  Then I had a problem getting on the internet, I was able to get them to text me a temporary password and I thought I had it set to where I could go online automatically.  That took about an hour, just trying to find out how to get them to text me the temp password.

 

Today, I turned on my computer to discover that the (unwanted) upgrades also changed a lot of my settings and I had to input my password just to turn the computer on.  Except that I did not have it set that way.  And microstupid wouldn't recognize my password (I do have one for it) and I spent a long time trying to log in.  I turned the computer off in disgust and came back to it later.  I was going to actually call microstupid and trust me, they would not have enjoyed it.  RHTW* was already set to make the call.  I turned it on and gave it one more try - it took the password immediately - the same one it rejected over and over and over and over to infinity and beyond last night and today.

 

I changed a bunch of my settings back (again) and this time, I am fairly certain that I have the updates set to where I have to approve them.  Last time, microstupid's updates took out my entire email and that took days and days to resolve.

 

Not sure why people who a) I don't know and b) don't know me think that they are supposed to be in charge of decisions for me!

 

OK, enough whining.  For now, anyway.

 

I had a couple of things to do yesterday morning including the post office.  I went to an antiqueish junkish store and didn't find anything but I still enjoyed it.  I was on the way home when I decided on the spur of the moment to go to Goodwill.  Along with a whole lot of other people, it was very crowded.  I'm glad I went.  $3.99, amber (yellow ish) thumbprint pattern small compote!  I go years and years without finding any thumbprint Fenton and then I find two in a row.  :)  That's a Good Thing, by the way.

 

I also got Otter's lap blanket finished yesterday.  I texted her a picture of Maggie Moo with the blanket draped over her.  I tried to get a picture of both dogs, Frasier was cooperative for once but the picture was blurry.  When I tried to take another picture, he got up and walked out the dog door - and I just barely managed to snatch the blanket off him before he got to the doors!  Maggie was quite happy to pose for me again though.  She was happy because she got the blanket!

 

I got a little bit more done in the front room.  I'm really about done in there now, except for the miniblinds and the doily curtain drape, and we might put a lighted ceiling fan in there too.  Bill hung three of the four bulletin boards for me and I started putting the sewing & crochet stuff on the shelves that formerly held Otter's shoe stash.  I have a tiny decorative spinning wheel, it came apart so I got the hot glue gun out and put it back together.  It is sitting on one of the two wall shelves Otter left, along with all 4 (or 5?) of my yarn spools.  I have a thread holder made from yardsticks, it is now on the wall in front of the desk beside one of the fabric covered bulletin boards.  At the moment, there are several large plastic boxes (the kind for under the bed storage) in the middle of the room.  They have a lot of Otter's fabric stash, and there are also three picnic baskets in the closet that have a lot of her fabric.  We may get into that when she gets over here in a little while with her laundry.  Or we might do that later in the week when she comes over here to get the car again - Bill will have it for the next couple of days.

 

I also have a new project idea.  I really need a clock in the front room, I was thinking that I could probably make a clock with a doily as the face of it.  I looked online, apparently a lot of other people also had that same idea because I found a lot of pictures.  Bill suggested that I use a wooden tray instead of a round piece or square piece of wood as the base, I think that will work nicely.  I'm going to get on that in the next few days.

 

Also, I think we are going to get one of those inflatable mattresses instead of an actual bed or pull-out couch to use for guests.  The kind I'm talking about is big, not like a pool float air mattress.  I noticed that Academy Sports has one on sale in their ad, but the regular price is not nearly as much as I expected them to be.  Also, it comes with a pump so you won't have to inflate it yourself, Froggy! :)

 

Bill's been making cookies today.  He's been cooking all afternoon and the house smells so good!  He ran out of vanilla, so I went to Wallyworld (which was a nightmare!) and I could smell cookies baking before I even got to my front door.  He's taking a bunch to work tomorrow.  When Otter gets here tonight, she's going to make brownies to take to her work.  I told Bill that I'd be his clean-up crew, which is actually self defense on my part.  He loves to cook and I love to let him, but he has this one problem:  he heads into the kitchen and it immediately looks like a nuclear bomb went off in there!  This time, he actually got flour all over the lower cabinet doors.  Not sure how he managed that.

 

Maggie Moo is curled up on her blankets, where she's been for a few hours.  Snoozing.  And snoring loudly!  We've had the back door and windows open because it was so hot in the house due to the oven being on and also the dryer was running.  But I think I'm going to have to close up soon, the rain that we were supposed to get starting this morning is finally hitting (it's nearly 5:00 p.m.)  It's getting colder, too.  I think that Maggie's snoozing might be connected!  Or maybe not, dog might just be a little bit lazy.  OK, so she's a lot lazy.  Frasier is also conked out on the floor at my feet, but he's only been there for a little while.  He spent most of his afternoon out in their yard, barking at nothing.

 

*She's a little miffed that she didn't get to give microstupid a dose of What-For.  If anybody has anyone that needs a Talking-To, RHTW is more than ready and willing!!  But I think She'll be satisfied with one of the many cookies Billyboy made. :)

Fiddling Around

Just had one of these nasty little beasties run across the kitchen floor:

It was about the size of a dime and it was running fast, like they do.  I noticed it out of the corner of my eye and what actually caught my attention is the way it was running, they have a particular way they move.  I had to move Maggie Moo's food bowl to get to it, which brought her running immediately.  She listened to me, for once, and didn't try to eat it (she seems to like to eat spiders).  I put the bug jar down and it immediately ran into it.  I was pretty sure what it was but I could look at it better in the bug jar and it was very clearly a fiddleback.  Brown Recluse is their actual name, but we've always just called them fiddlebacks.  It's gone for a very long swim now!  Most of the time, we leave spiders alone or relocate them, but not those.  They either get squashed (if we have shoes on) or flushed.

 

We got the carpet cleaning finished up Friday night.  I eventually got to run the vacuum.  It looks a lot cleaner and smells better.  Although we still get a whiff of the smell every so often, but now we think it's the dogs themselves so a bath is on order soon.  But not tonight, and not tomorrow because it's going to be very cold tomorrow.

 

We might get ice tonight.  It has been in the 70's the last couple of days and was really nice today, so it's going to feel even colder.  The ice chances are not high, but the chance is still there.

 

I found something today:

Except that mine is olive green, not blue.  But my camera is charging so I can't take a picture of it.  I think it's the 8" bowl, I haven't measured it but it is big.  And heavy.  And did I mention that it was only $6.50?  Talk about a steal!  It was at an antique-ish mall that we haven't been into in a while.  It was next to Goldie's, where we had lunch, and we've been talking about moving our booth so we wanted to look at the two close by stores.  We went to the first of two next-door stores and I just happened to see the edges of it peeking out from underneath the stuffed bunny that was sitting in top of it. I "may" have also said something to Otter about hoping the seller didn't know what they have!  The obviously didn't.  It's perfect and it's now holding court on the side top shelf of the entertainment center.  We watched Dirty Jobs reruns this morning and one of the episodes was the one where he went to the Fenton company, deja vu!  The pattern name is Thumbprint and it was made in the l960's.

 

Anyway.  Otter brought her laundry over, and we all went to lunch at Goldie's.  They have the best burgers!  We stopped at Wallyworld on the way home for baby oil, which we then used on the tulip bed.  We planted 56 bulbs today, and we've got pretty good timing because they need the cold ground.  They are fixin to get plenty of cold!  This is probably the last year for the tulip bed, at least in that spot.  We have been talking about extending the back side fence and it will block the sun from the tulip bed if we do.  They will be back, probably not for a couple of years and in a different spot, but I think we'll have them again.

 

Otter was going to have the car all next week, but with the weather chances we decided to keep it for the next two days.  Bill does not really want to drive the El Camino if the weather forecasters do manage to get it right.  Her hours for Monday and Tuesday work for me to get her to and from work, although Tuesday I'll bring her back home with me and she'll take the car then.  Her Wednesday shift is a possible all-nighter, this is the first late shift she's had in a couple of months.

 

I'm also going to change Otter's dentist appointment.  I really can not get off in the morning to take her, she doesn't want to drive if there is a) ice or b) the slightest chance of needing the anesthesia gas and c) her boss forgot what day she needed off so he scheduled her to start her shift tomorrow at 10:00 - the time of the appointment.  He told her that she could just come in afterwards, but I'm going to reschedule it for her.  I'll call them the second they open and they'd better not give me any grief about short notice because I originally started calling them on Friday which was before we knew what her schedule is.  Thursday, I called them and thought that they might have an answering service but they actually had a message on their voice mail saying that they were closed.  On Friday, the message stated that they were busy with other clients and told me to leave a message - and I left two.  I think that they were probably closed, but they didn't have anything like that on the voice mail message on Friday - but they did on Thursday.

 

When she was over here today, we finished going through the stuff in her room.  It was mostly the stuff from her bathroom, and most of it went in the trash.  Which is what I thought was going to happen.  Some has been added to the donate pile, but the majority of it was make up, cosplay make up and thinks like broken earrings, etc.  She took some stuff with her also.  As of this afternoon, she is officially and 100% completely moved out of her parent's home!  There are still a few boxes of her stuff but it's destined for the attic for us to store for her.  But for all intents and purposes, she's out of our house.

Bill moved the sofa table to My Room when we were getting ready to clean the carpets.  It's still there.  It's going to be moved to Bill's Room, also known as the Pachinko workroom/hoard.  I moved the dogs blankets to the spot where the sofa table was originally and also have two plants on stands there.  They're right in front of the window and will get a good amount of light.  I also tossed a cactus that was dead and rearranged my plants in the dining room.  Maggie seems to like the blankets, she more or less flew onto them and sprawled out on top of them.  When she's not actually awake, she's on her blankets.  Frasier hasn't really gone back to them, I think because he liked the spot he always snoozed in and didn't care one way or the other about the blankets.  He would frequently move them, we thought he was playing with them but now I realized that he was moving them out of his way.  Maggie Moo is quite happy, and she'll be even happier when she realizes that she'll be getting more warmth because of the fireplace.  The blankets are not in an area where there is a fire danger, but they are in a spot that will be very warm.  She spends quite a bit of her time in the winter snoozing in front of the fireplace anyway!

Cold & Misty Sunday (Probably A Long Post)

I can't come up with an imaginative title today, but it is Sunday.  And it is Cold.  And it is Misty.  And this is going to be Long.

 

We were going to church today, but we had a bunch of stuff to do and decided to get it done today with the plan of going to a UM church next Sunday.  And it may well be the one we attended immediately before switching to Southern Baptist.  The minister from the time we attended was reassigned so we aren't familiar with the new one.  The previous minister was ok, but he wasn't spectacular.  The main reason we left is what the children's leader was telling them about the Bible not being right on a few really big subjects, but she's not there any longer.  Also, we don't have a need for a youth program anymore - not that that is an acceptable excuse, if she was still there we would not even consider that church.  But we had a lot of friends there and it was an active church - still is, as far as I can tell.  We were planning on visiting another UM church in our area, but we've decided to visit our previous church and see how the current minister is.  I have a good feeling about it, in the sense that we need to go into any church visits with the idea of seriously considering any that we visit.  Not that we are going to rush, but to be very thoughtful about it.

 

The car that Bill/Otter drive has had an issue for a while.  Several months back, the "check engine" light came on.  I took it in for an oil change and asked the Chevy guy about it.  There were a few scenarios, but Chevy charges a considerable amount to put it on whatever machine they use to check things.  If you get the recommended work done there, the machine is free.  But since the light went out again and the car seemed to be running ok, Chevy didn't think it was one of the big, bad issues and they suggested we just watch it for a while and see what happened.  Several days ago, the light came on again when Bill as driving it.  He took it to an auto parts store and turns out that they have the equipment to plug into it and check it - and they don't charge, even if you don't get the parts there.  The probe the auto parts stores used said that it was one of the two oxygen sensors, and the part was about $50.00.  Bill got online and found out where the part is and how to replace it.  Because the part is right at the engine, the car needed to be absolutely cold before he could work on it.  Otter had the car most of last week (it was safe to be drivien), she brought it back after work yesterday and it sat in the driveway with the plan of Bill working on it today.  Of course, it was cold & misty this morning!  Bill checked with the auto parts store website, which said that a) the stores opened at 8:00 a.m. today and b) the part was in stock at a store in the next small town over.  We were at the auto parts store at 8:05, and the sign on the door said 9:00!  So, we went up the street (literally) to the grocery store and bought groceries.  Yes, Bill actually went grocery shopping with me!  We got through just right at 9:00, the store was open but they did not have the part in stock.  Not sure why we were surprised, they weren't open when they were supposed to be so why should they have the part?  Anyway, the clerk checked and the store in our small town did have the part so we headed that way - along with a written offer of 10% off since we had to drive to a store that didn't have it.

 

We also got new windshield wiper blades for the car, since it's just about winter we got ones that are rated for winter weather although they are also fine for all year use.  The clerk at that store gave us 10% off on everything, not just the part.  Bill was able to get the part replaced, the mist stopped but it was still pretty cool.  It took him a little while to get the old part off, it was firmly attached.  He put the new part on, and the Check Engine light was still on so we drove the car to the auto parts store and they got the probe again - turned out that the car just needed the system to be reset, and the light went out when that was done.  We stopped at Arby's for lunch on the way home, which we haven't done in a long time.  Bill's going to drive the car tomorrow to see if there are any issues, but I think it's probably fixed.  It really did need the new wiper blades.  Otter will probably get the car mid-week and then have it for a few days.

 

When Otter brought the car home yesterday, she also brought her laundry.  Which was fine, she asked if it was ok and I told her to.  She got her laundry going and we cleaned out/sorted a few of the boxes in her room.  We went to one of our favorite junk/antique stores and found a couple of things, including a very small but real cast-iron sadiron for my collection of cast-iron things that is by the fireplace.  We then went to the small store next to it, which is one of Otter's favorite stores and she found a couple of really good things.  I found a $4.00 Fenton piece, it's a small hobnail vase in blue (Froggy, it is very similar to the small pink one you got me a few years back.)  This is where it gets interesting!!  TEXAS was not victorious in the TEXAS/ou game yesterday.  It was a close game, but it just wasn't our year.  We were shopping 2 or 3 hours after the game was over.  When we came out of the store, there was a woman standing between my car and the building - I was parked next to the building.  She commented on how she was looking at the giant sunflowers that were planted next to the building.  Which is what it looked like.  But, when Otter and I got back to the house and as we were loading her laundry and boxes into the car - I discovered a fairly long scratch on that side of my car.  It definitely was NOT there before that trip.  After we had a minute to think about it, we both realized that the woman was actually standing facing my car and might have been straightening up as we came out of the store door and came to the car.  I honestly think she scratched the car, and it might have been with her car keys or (and this is what we really think happened) she was leaning over and attempting to take the longhorn sticker off the back windshield and maybe her purse or jacket might have scratched the car because it's not really deep enough to be a car key scratch.  The sticker does look like someone tried to chip it off on the very edge of one of the horns.  It's infuriating, but we can't do anything about it at this point.  However, it will have the opposite affect of what she was probably thinking:  TEXANS GENERALLY DON'T GET INTIMIDATED.  We get angry, but then we get more determined.  Determined can be bad, very bad, for the person who makes us angry.  I probably won't even attempt to keep *RHTW in the fenced the next time I get crossed by someone!

 

I think I'm going to have to check with the vet.  Maggie Moo had some problems earlier with leaking while she was in the house.  She quit it, so we stopped worrying about it.  But she's doing it again and this time, it's not just accidental.  Bill caught her peeing in the living room when he came back in to get something while he was working on the car.  I "tossed" her outside and blocked her for a while, then I got towels and then the spot cleaner.  Then, she did it again!  Although I think the second time was an actual leak and not on purpose.  She was walking to me at the time and she didn't even seem aware of it.  I put her out in the back yard for a bit so she could have some play time with Frasier and be out of my way while I cleaned the spot.  I'm waiting on it to dry enough to vacuum it, I've already vacuumed the first place but I'll probably hit it again with the vacuum.  I did some research on bladder infections in dogs and she could well have one.  I'll call the vet in the morning, Maggie Moo (also known as Moogie lately!) is probably ready for a butt-squash anyway.  Frasier, who does not like the vacuum at all, is currently snoozing in the living room and his head is right next to the vacuum cleaner!

 

I tackled the bathroom while ago, the one in the hall that used to be Otter's.  She got her shampoo, make up, misc. stuff when she moved.  But there was a huge amount of "stuff" that was hers that got left.  Some of it was old toys that were stuck in a drawer years and ago and never cleaned out, some of it is craft stuff, and there is also quite a bit of cosplay make up.  A lot of purse-sized packs of Kleenex, a bunch of misc. stuff that she probably won't want but she still has to go through it first.  She probably isn't going to enjoy that, but it's got to be done.  Her nebulizer is still here, she really doesn't need it anymore and hasn't in years but I want to hang on it to it.  Her jewelry boxes are still here, she has a lot of costume jewelry.  I've been toying with the idea of re-doing that bathroom, but I'm going to hold off on it.  The shower curtain is a kind of rusty-ruby red color and it's very pretty.  The decorative stuff is jewel tones and I like it, but I might change it up a bit.  Maybe!  I do want to take the wallpaper down and paint but that might be next year's project.  The cabinet over the toilet was pretty much empty already, Otter did have a few things still there but I took it all out and boxed it up.

 

It's windy at the moment.  I think it's stopped misting, it had started again, and the sky was blue for about a minute.  Then it got cloudy again, and it looks like the wind is really blowing.  Bi-polar weather for sure!

 

*RHTW.  Run away.  Just run.  As fast as you can.  Don't bother to look back, just GO.

Zoo Tails

We went to the zoo today.  We took J with us.  We had a great time but my feet are tired!  But it was really fun.

 

Tulsa's got a new baby:  Seymour  He is really cute.  The otters were out of their enclosure today, which isn't always the case.  They were curled up at the base of a tree by their stream, snoozing.  But at least they were outside today!

 

Tulsa also has an animatronic dinosaur exhibit.  It was ok, but not the best one we've seen.

 

Froggy, you asked about the progress in the office/pachinko room.  All the furniture is now in place, the tarp is over the desk/filing cabinet work station and Bill's got the computer hooked up again.  There were two printers that he didn't use very often, they are now in the "donate" pile and I might take care of that tomorrow.  All that we are waiting on now is for Bill to finish the pachinko restoration he's working on at the moment and that should be this week.  Then, the last of the debris pachinko related junk clutter will be moved out of the living room.  And then the yarn will move in!

 

After the zoo today, we went to Hobby Lobby because both Otter and J needed items for their matched companion cosplay for TNT and J needed Otter's help in a couple of the components for his.  While they were wandering around the craft section, I was lost in the yarn aisles.  My stash increased by two skeins today, it's a very pretty light pink with metallic speckles.  I got the last of the office supplies out of the plastic drawers last night and my ReallyGoodReallyExpensive yarn that I got in TEXAS is in that drawer.  Along with the two pink skeins I got today!

 

We took J back to his house in a neighboring town, then we went by the booth store today to pay rent for July and collect for June's sales.  Then we went down the street to another craft/antique mall and we both found a few things.  I got a few more crocheted doilies for the curtain drape I'm going to eventually make.  Eventually being when I have enough, and it will take lots.  I also found two more yarn spools, but they aren't as big as the other two I got a few weeks back.  I did not get any more Fenton, but I did see a few pieces that are interesting.  Just not interesting enough to actually come home with me!

 

Yet, anyway.

Humid Sunday

So I'm spending most of the day inside.

With my yarn, mostly.

Not ever!

 

Anyway.  It did rain a little bit this afternoon.  Just enough to make the already humid day unbearable.  Bill needed to readjust the block of wood holding the window glass in place in the driver's side window on the White Lightning.  It was sunny, but when we went outside it was raining.  But it was SUNNY at the time.

 

Otter's off with J today.  Bill's been working on a pachinko machine for someone who wanted a full restoration.  I've been doing laundry, in between crochet!  Froggy, I've gotten quite a bit done on Uncle Crazy's blanket.

 

Otter spent yesterday afternoon working on her cosplay for TNT.  She was going to make a circle skirt, she saw a tutorial online that we were going to use but it had some problems.  She put in her measurements and it came up with a pattern, but it was not written very clear so we gave up and she went to Wallyworld to see about an actual pattern.  Which is what we/she should have done in the first place!  She got the first layer cut out (it's a double skirt) and we figured out what length it will need to be.  But we got a late start on it, so we didn't get as much done as we wanted.  I say "we" but mostly my participation has been cutting out pattern pieces and helping her hold it on to see how it's going to fit.  She will be getting it done this week.  She's also going to make a blouse to go with it, she bought enough white fabric to make a full length ballgown style dress which was the original plan - same character, just a different style dress.  However, even though the skirt is smaller, it took up most of the fabric so we went to Joann's today and she got some more white fabric.

 

Frasier was a talky boy last night.  I should say this morning, to be accurate.  As in 2:15!  I hollered at him to be quiet and he did - for about 5 minutes.  Then he barked.  I went up the hallway and told him to go lay down.  Loudly!  He did, and didn't make noise again until about 4:45.  At that point, I let him out and he just about flew out the dog door.  I went back to bed at that point, I didn't wake up until around 6:15 and they were waiting patiently to be fed.  I fed them, got the coffee ready and then took it back to bed (the coffee, not the dogs!) to have with Bill.

 

Movie review:  The LEGO movie.  Otter loved it, she saw it in the theater and since she was off yesterday she got to pick the movie we watched.  It came out Friday, and that's the one she rented.  I'd been hearing a lot about how good it was.  So we were looking forward to it.  Frankly, it was probably the worst movie we've seen in years!  And that is saying something, because we have seen some absolutely awful movies.  Otter still enjoyed it, I'm glad for that.  But we didn't.  Bill's turn next Saturday, I'm not sure if there's anything out he wants to rent or not.

 

I went to the Salvation Army store in the "expensive" part of Tulsa on Friday.  This store is strange, the people who are in charge of pricing and display very seldom seem to know what they are doing.  The will usually have something that is actually worthless or worth very little displayed in the locked case with very high prices on it.  While the real "good" stuff is out on the shelves and priced at almost nothing.  I've found more than one expensive piece of Fenton for next to nothing that way.  Friday was no exception.

 

This is not the one I found, but it is one of what I found.  Mine doesn't have the sticker.  But it's in perfect condition, and it was $3.99.  While a coach purse that was so obviously fake a blind mouse could spot it from a mile off was in the locked cabinet with a price close to $200.00!  This is the same store where I found the cactus Vaseline footed compote a few years back for $2.00.  This one:

I already had one of the nappy (candy dish) pieces but I was wanting another.  However, I'd have bought it at that price even if I had a dozen.

 

I am taking the car to Chevy in the morning.  I hope that it's a 2-day job and not a 3-day repair.

 

So does Otter, otherwise I might have to drive the car she shares with Bill!

I Don't Know

What to title this.  It's just Wednesday.

 

The freeze happened, it was hard but not as hard as the forecast.  It did ZIP to the pollen, we're still having just as much to deal with as before.  Well, actually, we have to deal with more because now the tree pollen is beginning to make it's appearance.

 

The tulip bed is exploding with color.  It is absolutely gorgeous, all that work we did last Fall was so worth it.

 

I had something planned in mid-May.  For various reasons, I decided to change it to early June.  (Froggy, you know what I mean).  Lately, I've been having the strangest feeling that I would be getting a jury duty notice in the mail and that it would be on the dates of what I have planned.  Well, I was half right.  I got the notice in the mail yesterday, and it covers the original dates I had planned.  Of course, it's the absolute worst time for me to have to be off work.  The middle of the month is not good to take off, which is why I changed my original planned thing to early June.  I checked with the jury duty clerk - crochet hooks are not allowed in the courthouse.  I guess I'll load my purse/tote bag up with books and hope that I a) don't get picked and b) get released early.  I guess I'll find out next month.

 

I went to the booth today.  I cleaned out my jewelry the other day and took several necklaces and bracelets up there.  I think one of my necklaces has sold.  I'm not positive about that though.  I rearranged a bit and put another glass piece up for sale - it's the Fenton piece I've been thinking about selling.  Attempting to sell, anyway!  It's the fan-shaped tray which is actually a plate.  It's part of a snack set, which is a glass plate with a small tea cup.  The tea cup never survives, they are almost always found without the cup.  They were originally sold in sets of 4, most of the time they are found as singles.  Mine was probably made for Anchor Hocking, Fenton made things for many other companies.  If it sells, fine.  If not, fine also.

 

There was probably more, but it's been a looooooooooooooooong day and I am tired.  But at least Froggy will not be able to gripe about me not posting lately!  (Yes, I know you will still gripe.  But not about blogging!)  (Ducking and running now).  :)

Think I'm Just About There

Yesterday was the first day I've felt good, really good all day, in somewhere around a month.  It was nice!  I feel pretty good today, too.  I think I'm pretty much recovered from The Bug.

 

I have to be careful not to overdo it; yesterday was a little boring at times since I didn't want to do to much and exhaust myself.  So, I cooked!  I made a pot of crock pot soup, beanie-weenie surprise for the freezer (Bill's lunches) and cookies.  The cookies were from a roll of slice and bake but it should have been named "bake and disappear" because that is what happened to them.  Frasier helped me take it easy, every time I sat down he would appear and lean on me until I petted him.  At one point, he more or less melted to the floor where he stayed for a very long time - purring!

 

Otter is off next Saturday, so she and I are going shopping Saturday morning.  We're going to a few antique-ish stores we don't get to very often.  She's off with J at the moment, she wanted a ride today to meet him at the mall so I took her.  I'll go pick her up in a couple of hours, it might be getting dark about that time so I am going to take Bill's car since I didn't get the headlight repaired on mine last week as that was the day I stayed home and rested.  I'll call Chevy to get the oil change rescheduled and get the headlight replaced then.  Then I'll take Bill's Impala in for an oil change and tire rotation the next day, if they have an appointment open early.  I like to get the 7:00 a.m. slot, they can usually get the work done and I can get to work on time.  They do have a shuttle to get people where they need to be, I just prefer to get it done quickly and then have the car without having to get them to pick me back up.

 

Bill has been happily boxing up Aripachi machines.  They are similar to pachinko machines and he got a lot of them in the inventory he bought from SA last summer.  He's been selling then on eBay and he's got someone who wants to buy the last few he's got left, so there are large boxes all over the house and each one has an Aripachi machine in it.

 

We went to the booth this afternoon.  Bill's been listing the booth on craigslist as well as on his website.  Someone that has had Bill work on pachinko machines wanted one, so Bill told him to go look at the ones we have at the booth.  He and Bill spoke earlier and they made a deal on one of the machines at the booth.  Finally!  Bill cleaned out the Useless Collection (shot glasses) yesterday.  He's keeping several of them, some of them are being donated and quite a few will be put in the booth.  We took a few things up there today and I put 10 shot glasses out.  We'll see if they sell.  I had a moonstone opalescent Fenton candle stick at the booth that I was going to bring home if it didn't sell soon.  It finally sold.  Along with a gel-filled bicycle seat that I think I used once.  I'm going to get a few more shot glasses priced and ready, and see what else I have to take up to the booth.  I'll probably do that when Bill meets the pachinko buyer there since he'll probably rearrange the pachinko machines until he gets another one ready to replace the ones that is going to be leaving.

 

I'm not sure if I mentioned it before or not, but the dryer keeps eating things.  There is one spot where stuff sometimes gets caught, it's right at the top near the door.  Bill looked at it today (because I finally remembered to leave the caught item there for him so he could see exactly where it was caught at!) and he thinks he knows what the problem is.  There are two components to the barrel piece and he found them online.  One is a felt piece that fits underneath it and helps the barrel stay in place.  The other piece is plastic and fits on top of the barrel at the door.  He's thinking that maybe the barrel has not been revolving as fast as it should be, hopefully the repair will help with that and maybe it will be quicker to get the laundry dry.

 

Froggy, I have been working on my "projects" for you.  One is nearly finished, I think it probably just needs a couple of finishing touches.  The other two are half-way there, they are crochet and I have not had a lot of time to work on them.  I didn't want to attempt them when I didn't feel good recently, they involve counting stitches.  I think I'll get them done this week, they won't take that long.  Also, Otter has finally decided she wants a poncho.  Similar to the triangular shawls in style, but not open in the front.  I have a few patterns, she just needs to look through them and pick the one she wants.  Then, we get to go buy yarn!  Because it never fails, I get a project and I don't have the right yarn.

 

Not that I'm complaining about having to buy more yarn.  Ever.

Groundhog Jerky

I wonder if the groundhog would make good jerky?  Otter wants to just make stew out of him but I'm thinking jerky.

 

It was probably not over freezing today, it never got above 32 yesterday either.  Tomorrow is another day of the same - although we might get snow late tomorrow night into Tuesday.  Tonight's forecast included pogonip - also known as freezing fog.  Oh, Joy.

 

It was sleeting slightly when we left for church this morning but it quit by the time we got out.  We had a few errands we wanted to run and we also went to Cici's for lunch.  The plan was to drop Otter off at work at 1:00, but we got through earlier than we thought so we came home to drop Bill off.  But then Bill decided he wanted to go with me to take her to work and we could go to the booth at the same time.

 

We haven't had anything else sell at the booth, but we weren't surprised.  I took several pieces of Fenton (yes, Fenton!) that I had been thinking of cleaning out and Bill had several craft & how-to books that we put in the booth as well.  I know I have posted that I sold some of my Fenton a few years back and then regretted it, but I have been thinking about "thinning the herd" a bit and the pieces I put in the booth are a few pieces that aren't really usable to me and aren't really decorative either.  If they don't sell, I'll probably put them back in the china cabinet and maybe eBay or craigslist them later on.

I thought this was appropriate, since Valentine's Day is Friday.  And I am the Borg Queen, after all!

 

Speaking of Star Trek (which I frequently am) Otter has given me her solemn promise that she'll get a "Hi Mom" picture with my drones at TNT this summer.  I'm thinking that it's time she tell them that their Queen is here now, but she'll have to make sure they don't follow her home.  I have quite enough to deal with now, with the other drone I deal with on a daily basis!  (Yes, Bill.  I mean you.)

These are the drones that were at TNT last summer.  They are always very popular.

RIF, Y'all!

BEEF!

It's what's (was) for dinner.

 

I don't think that is strictly a TEXAS thing, but it might be.

 

Anyway.  Today is our 29th Wedding Anniversary.  I stopped at a local butcher store the other day and got ribeyes.  Bill got out the grill this afternoon and they were, in the words of Otter, "cooked the right way, over an open flame."  And they were delicious!  The potatoes were baked in the microwave, but the way we do it they are good and not all squashy.  There were 4 steaks, so Bill will get steak for lunch tomorrow.  The dogs were so funny, they stayed outside next to Bill (and the grill) and sniffed the entire time he was cooking the steaks.  They got a tiny amount as a treat tonight and we kept back a tiny bit for them to have treats the next couple of nights.  Maggie Moo enjoyed hers so much that she kept licking her bowl and it slid nearly half of the length of the kitchen because she was so dedicated to getting the last drop!

 

We ate too much.  Not that anybody is complaining!  But the pie will have to wait, maybe until tomorrow afternoon.  Same thing for the ice cream to be served on top of the pie.

 

Otter recovered from the bug, it doesn't seem to last too long.  But that doesn't mean it was fun for her, it's a very intense bug but then it's gone quickly.  She did have a little fever Friday afternoon/evening, but not high and no other symptoms such as achiness or anything that could be flu.  I had a touch of it, but mine was lighter than hers.  We both woke up feeling pretty good yesterday, so we went ahead with our plan which was to go to the Tulsa Flea Market.  We have an occasional "excursion" on Saturday and we'd been planning this one for the first chance we got when she didn't have to work.  It was a fun trip, very crowded at the fairgrounds because (as usual) there is always something going on out there.  The flea market opens at 8:00 but we didn't get there until about 10:30 and that meant that it took us a while to find a parking space - which was in the Back 40!  But we still had fun.  Otter didn't buy anything, I found a specific Fenton piece that I'd been looking for.  It's a rose-bowl style vase, pink cased glass (white glass over a pink glass inside) in the silvercrest pattern.  I thought about a few other things but then decided against them, but I did enjoy talking crochet with an older lady who was selling her stuff and that's always fun.  I bought a couple of things from her.  We were only gone a couple of hours total, so we still got home in time to have an afternoon nap!

 

However, Bill decided to share in the fun and he started feeling icky last night.  I woke up a few times because he was so stuffy he snored loud enough to be heard in the next county.  At one point, I could hear him talking about being cold so I got him two blankets and went back to sleep.  When I got up this morning (before he did), I discovered that he already had a larger blanket folded over two or three times so he was well layered before he started feeing cold.  He slept in this morning but he felt much better by late morning so we went ahead with our day.

 

Today, we went to a nearby town for our semi-regular "last Sunday of the Month" fun day.  We actually went to an antique store that we like (Froggy, the one with the train caboose and next to the concrete place) but we don't get there very often.  About once a year, it seems like.  I found another Fenton piece, Froggy remember the rose colored small vase you got me at the Tulsa Flea Market a few years back?  This one is the same size but the top ruffle is slightly different and it's blue opalescent.  After that, we stopped by the store where our booth is and I finally gave in and bought a small pink hobnail Fenton vase that I've been lusting after for what feels like forever.  I finally decided that I'd better get it now, because eventually someone else would have realized what it was and it would be gone.  That's 3 pieces this weekend, but they are all fairly rare pieces and were good finds.

 

I got some crochet done yesterday and today on your "whatevers", Froggy.  I'm still not telling.  :)

 

Now, I think I'm going to sit on the couch with a glass of wine and enjoy my evening.  And the memory of the great meal we just had!