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It's not too late to order calendars!

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The new year is almost here, order your calendars today: Tabby cats by JeanC_PurpleDucky View other Cats Calendars A year of kitty cats (US edition) by JeanC_PurpleDucky make a calendar with zazzle A year of food (US edition) by JeanC_PurpleDucky Become a calendar affiliate at zazzle.com Calendars are half off until Dec 31, 2011: 50% of the calendar net sale price will be deducted when one or more qualifying products are purchased and the coupon code CALENDARSALE is applied at checkout. Offer is valid until December 31, 2011 at 11:59pm PT. This offer does not apply to past purchases and may not be combined with any other Zazzle promotional or volume discount offers. If a volume discount applies to your order, you will receive either the discount set forth in this offer or the standard volume discount, whichever is greater. Offer valid on Zazzle.com only. Expires 12/31/2011. Use Promotional Code: CALENDARSALE

WOO HOO!!!!!!!

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Old, decrepit, barely running furnace: Nice, new shiny furnace: Thank you Ackerman Heating & Air Conditioning :

Winter vacy ticking away

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Been enjoying the week off, for the most part. Furnace problems, toilet problems, leaky ceiling problems. All the fun and joy of owning one's home. But the toilet now works and doesn't leak, the new furnace gets installed tomorrow and we'll deal with leaky ceilings another time. Had a nice Yule and a very low key Christmas (hubby and I really do't do much). He spent the day fixing my computer which crashed. But I am up and runing now and playing with a new program called "My Paint". Okay, it isn't a new program, it came installed on one of the Linux distros he tried to install (sucked), so he put me on another distro and we installed MyPaint and I have been having fun. Still not sure what I am doing, but followed a tutorial for painting a cormorant: Okay, it isn't a cormorant, the tutorial is not bad, but I think you are supposed to be better at painting then I am. At least it looks like a bird. So played around some more: Not a bad doodle

Just in time for Solstice

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Got my tree Tuesday night and in the house with the stand: Last night it got its sparklies: So pretty in the dark: I am loving the new LED lights, they don't put off a lot of heat, use to much electricity and they are nice and bright: Can't wait for the after Christmas sales at Shopko so I can get more LOL!

Pioneer diary, or a weekend without a furnace

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At least we had electricity and the dragons (kerosene heaters). Our furnace decided to crap out on us on Friday, so it was a bit chilly this weekend in the house. Some wires decided to melt and things stopped working. Hubby called a heating place and since we didn't want to pay weekend emergency rates, opted to have them come in to fix it today and make do with the dragons over the weekend. Put blankets over all the door openings in the living room and that made a big difference right away and brought in the big dragon. Did a nice job, got the temp in the living room up to over 75 and we turned the dragon off to save fuel. We only turned it back on when it dropped to below 65 when we were up and about. We turned it off at night when we went to bed and cranked the electric blanket. So with luck we shall be warm again by the time I get home tonight. A friend who does the Winter Market here in Moscow let me have a corner of her table this last Saturday: No sales, but a lot

Shop Purple Ducky Designs

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It's not too early to shop for Christmas. Buttons, magnets and key chains make great stocking stuffers and are 15% off at Purple Ducky Designs ! Fireworks 2 by JeanC_PurpleDucky Sell art online at Zazzle.

How'd the heck did it get to be December already?!?!?!?!?!

Shouldn't have blinked :P Ah well, the year is almost over and then it will be next year, but then it will be this year. It is like there is today and tomorrow, but when tomorrow gets here it is today, so tomorrow never actually arrives. Gotta get more caffeine, my brain is derailing. My sister in law and her hubby are coming in today for a few days visit. He'll help hubby work on the cars (and maybe figure out why the van isn't running) and she will do my hair. Hubby is bound and determined I will be a serious red head. In order to have the color he wants will involved a serious bit of work and I hope I still have hair when it is done (my hair isn't in the best of shape thanks to the thyroid issue). We'll see, good think I like hats. Got the last of the turkey day leftovers into the freezer last night. Gotta start using what is in there as both of them are seriously over flowing. I still have to turn the two carcasses into stock and there really isn't r