Tragic

Much chillier today and brand new sprinkling of snow to boot. Yes...boots on again.


Last week I took the recycling at church out in my tshirt. This week the noteworthy part of the recycling is that someone brought the blue box in for me at church. The sweetest thing. If people only realized how little it takes to brighten someone's day.


I've been painting for the past week and a half. It seems that the busyness of life doesn't let up much. It's tragic how little time there is for things like cardmaking and blogging. But....it has been a lot of fun though to paint with my sweet friend Helina. Our only complaint was the lack of caffeine....so today we brought our own! We play music all the time...sometimes just listening to CBC, wondering what Eric Friesen or Jurgen Goth are serving up. The most fun musical moment was when we were playing a three CD country music set. Each CD has a Kenny Rogers song on it. The Gambler, Lucille, and Coward of the County. You'll be pleased that after 20 years I still know ever word. That's part of the legacy of growing up with brothers.

Tomorrow morning I will clean the church. There is a family lunch at noon and the memorial service is at 2. A funeral.

Having Max is still fun. Blixie has some sort of mishap the other day though. I'm not sure what happened...and if you're squeamish at all you probably want to go onto the next paragraph.... but somehow the outside toenail of her left hindpaw was ripped out. Boy does that ever bleed! It was almost five pm and I gave the vet a quick call for first aid pointers. The "nurse" said the best thing to do was to walk her in clean snow and if that didn't help to stop the bleeding...apply a baking soda paste. So we tried the first tip but ran out of snow...there was just a sprinkling and it was only about a 1/2 cm. So we encouraged her to lie still and made up some paste. That worked better. She doesn't seem to be suffering any lingering ill effects. But now Max is refusing to go up and down the patio steps....We can't figure it out. That is the only problem we are experiencing with Max. Other than that he is just lovely to have. He stays in the dining room without any barricades, unlike some other dogs we have dogsat.....so hopefully he will get over his fear of the stairs soon. I might have to whip out some shreds of sandwich meat. Blixie cannot resist hotdogs, she'll do ANYTHING for those....

Any advice and helpful tips would be much appreciated. And if you just want to say hi that's fine too!!! I look forward to being around a bit more......

Walking on the Wild Side...

I just had to let you know....I took out the recycling at church with no coat on!!!

Actually it's not that wild....but it being the beginning of January, and winter and all....it really SHOULD NOT be 16 degrees outside at 9 oclock at night!

Having Max over is lots of fun. He is a BIG DOG and has a BIG bladder, which takes a LOOOOOOONG time to empty(and that's all I'm going to say about that). I wish I had lots of funny stories to tell you but he is just a sweet big lug. Very boisterously excited when you get home...but what a warm greeting! Much nicer than an empty house!!

Blixie and Max together are doing great...but with the mild weather she has decided to dig up the back yard. I had to clean this afternoon so they were home alone. They don't seem to mind the weather! Max doesn't fit through the doggie door since he is at least a 70lb+chocolate lab, so the only adjustment to be made was to leave the whole door open instead of just the hatch on the doggie door.

I get to paint again this week after teaching Little Lambs tomorrow. It'll be fun to see all those little people again. Have a great day! Love ya!

Happy New Year

Wow...2008 already.

Hope everyone had lovely holidays and visiting!!

It is almost back to normal but a few days of vacation left. Craig is on a sleepover (well...more like an "awake-over!) and Joe has a friend to play with this afternoon.

I finished work for the day and am waiting for a phonecall. Tomorrow I don't have to go to work because I finished it this afternoon. That's so 'citing!!!! Oh...there was the phonecall! Now I am just waiting for my dog friend Max to be delivered....he's staying over for two weeks. It'll be fun to see how that goes! He came for a visit last week to see how it would go...

The heavy snowfall warning is no longer in effect. There was heavy snow on New Year's day and the next day but it missed us! The area to the west of us got quite a bit though....just depends on the jet stream....

Hope you all have a good day! I am off to make some cards!!