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New from Purple Ducky Designs

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Zazzle is now offering men's classic PRO-Keds Royal Hi sneakers: Bonfire by JeanC_PurpleDucky Design own shoes online with zazzle.com

Bye bye BBC America, Military channel, Fine Living........

We down graded our Dish yesterday to the Top 120 with local channels. It will save us some bucks, which will come in handy as the university is seriously talking furloughs to save money. I'm really going to miss the Sirius music channels since I like listening to the Broadway channel. Hubby was a little upset to discover the Military channel got axed when we downgraded as he'd just set up to get World at War, but I popped into Netflix and discovered they have the 11 disc collectors set, so those are now cued up. The one thing I am really upset about is losing Speed channel as there were two races scheduled on it later in the year. Okay, just double checked and they are the Sprint Showdown and the All Star races, so not actual Cup races, but I hope we can find another way to watch those two. At least we kept Discovery and TLC, along with the Food channel and Comedy Central. Not too sad about the various movie channels since we now have Netflix and can get movies when we want the

All in all, not a bad weekend

Tho still too short. Could have used a couple more days, esp to sleep. Mostly puttered. We'd planned on going up to Coeur d'Alene for the Huckleberry Online blogfest on Saturday, but had to cancel at the last minute. Bummer. Oh well, there is always next year. Dropped a pile of stuff off at the Sally Ann, so that is now out of the living room. Did a little bit of shopping, hit Ross and picked up a new set of sheets using the gift card my aunt gave us for Christmas. They are bright red and made of jersey fabric. Wonderfully comfy. We'll have to pop back in and get another set. The we hit Bed, Bath & Beyond to pick up a new probe thermometer. I keep killing the probes and it is next to impossible to get replacements that you don't spend more on the shipping & handling then the cost of the probe. Used up the gift card from my mom. I love gift cards, we'd gotten an angled 4 cup Oxo measuring cup on the card previously. I love gift cards :) Good race yesterday,

My brother was on CNN

The Rick Sanchez show to be specific. He got a call from CNN yesterday after someone there googled the IRS regulations Joe Stack had run afoul of and found an essay my bother had posted on his website, "Important Note for Recruiters and Contract Agencies" , in regards to Section 1706. So sad that guy felt he had to go to the extreme of killing himself and trying to kill other people while he was at it. The tax code REALLY needs to be overhauled so other people don't feel like they have to do the same thing.

Last Saturday at Spring Valley Reservoir

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As previously mentioned, we popped out to Spring Valley on Saturday and I got some pics. I was surprised it was that frozen and when I mentioned to a friend who's parents live near there, was also surprised it has been cold enough to freeze enough for folk to be out on it fishing. I will have to admit, that does look like fun. While I was taking pics from the boat dock, several people hopped off the end and headed out to the middle. I was tempted to give it a try, but my luck I would find the one place the ice was weak and I'd go thru.Wasn't gonna do it!

This is a great workout!

I really hate writer's block

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Makes it very hard to write anything. So been puttering along, managed to get a bit of cooking done, some cleaning done, a bunch of stuff ready to go to Goodwill, just gotta drop it off. Been so blocked I haven't been able to take any pictures, tho Saturday we got out to Spring Valley and I got some good ones. The lake is frozen over and there were folk out on it fishing. Braver folk then I. Still have to process the photos so I can post them. Saturday we also had a friend change the oil in the car and he figured out why the cruise control had stopped working. Seems a little hose had unhooked, so hubby now has his cruise control back and is very happy. Cooked a pork roast yesterday, so we have roast pork for meals this week. Been selling a lot of post cards and 1 t-shirt thru my Zazzle shop of late. The funny part of it is they have been some of my Groundhog day designs and all have been bought after Groundhog Day has come and gone: Target: groundhog by JeanC_PurpleDucky More Da

One of these years......

I'll post something LOL

One of the great mysteries in life

Why is one sock ALWAYS sliding down into ones shoe?