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Cool words to live by

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Courtesy of: SnapKnot

Nap time

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Scrapper & Phoebe curled up on the new love seat:

WHOA!

Last day of June already!?!?!?!?! Ah well, gotta get used to summers zipping by faster and faster. They used to be long, long days when I was a kid. Puttered a bit this weekend. Cleared two drawers and winnowed my boxes o'stuff down quite a bit. The boxes that used to be under the bed are now in the office closet for storage. Still have to rotate tchotkes on the shelves in the living room. Will be putting my dolls from around the world up for a few months. Then my horse collection. Tossed some dried pinto beans in the slow cooker Sat night. Since they were going to be slow cooked, didn't do a pre-soak. Just sorted and rinsed them. Added some dried onion and a small dried jalapeno and turned it on low. Sunday afternoon I pressure canned 4 qts of beans. I hope they came out okay. Only one "pinged" right away, I couldn't hang out as long as I would have liked to see if the other ones did also. The other 3 spent quite a bit of time still boiling once I pulled t

Older Ladies by Donnalou Stevens

Zooming along

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1st off, new blog: Purple Ducky Designs & Photography on Wordpress. Finally decided I needed a blog dedicated solely to my shops, art and photography. So June is almost over, another week to go. Been a not bad month. Been decluttering, we upgraded to a king bed with box springs this last weekend. Which meant we sold the pedestal, so no more under the bed storage as the new bed sits directly on the floor. Which did cause a new problem. Went to hop into bed when I came back from a middle of the night stroll and forgot the bed is now 1 1/2 feet lower than it used to be. Needless to say, the end result was quite painful. Luckily I still have the crutches from my knee surgery a few years back, so now I am remembering why I hate crutches in the first place. But my right knee is getting a bit better, so I should be back on just the stick in a day or two. Tomatoes are growing fast, can't wait to see flowers on them. My walking onions are going great guns again. Need to go thru a

Fatshion Peepshow: Keep Calm And Bikini At Any Size

Fatshion Peepshow: Keep Calm And Bikini At Any Size : *ATTENTION ALL BIKINI BABES* I'm a woman on a mission!! I'm aiming to create a wonderful, inspiring, and enlightening po...

Ahhhhhhhhh!

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My summer is in full swing. I have my Fridays off and have been enjoying my 3 day weekends. Mostly puttering about the house and hanging out with friends. I've started opening up the house, it is so nice to sit and drink coffee on Saturday mornings and listen to the birds sing and feel the light breeze coming thru the windows. Doing more decluttering, took a box of stuff to Hope Center and dropped a box of record albums off at the used record store to see if they want to buy any of them. We don't have a turntable anymore, to I saved a few of them, such as all my autographed albums and my Jesus Christ Superstar movie soundtrack. Also the 45 rpm of City of New Orleans by Arlo Guthrie that I had signed when he played in Moscow a number of years back. Yesterday was pretty laid back. Not intentionally, but that is how it was. Slept in, went to a farewell BBQ for friends who are moving to California, took pictures of the ducks there: ducks by Jean Crawford Evans on 500px