Hey Yall. I was finally able to take Weezie into see the vet today. Two weeks ago, I took her in because she kept squatting to urinate over and over and over. And she had started to go in the house. Just little trickles, but you get the picture. The vet told me then that she had a urinary tract infection and that while she was examining Weezie, she thought maybe she felt some stones in Weezie's bladder. Ugh. She told me to give her the antibiotic for two weeks and if she was not better, to bring her back in. So I did today. The vet did x-rays and sure enough, little Weezie has 4 or more stones. And they are big. She is scheduled for surgery next Tuesday. I feel so bad for her. I have been in a seriously depressed mood all day.

The stones will be sent to be analysed so maybe there is something we can do to help prevent them from recurring. Unfortunately, the vet said that sometimes there is nothing you can do to prevent them. I hope that won't be the case with her.

Tootles.

A Visit with the Sister

Hey Yall! Last weekend, Dick and I drove to see Julianne and take her out to lunch. For the first time since we painted her apartment, I had my camera. We actually have an idiot proof camera and a camera that makes me feel like an idiot. I had been taking pictures of the inside of the apartment and took the above picture of her door and its wreath as we were leaving. I have a hard time trying to see through the view finder with my glasses on. Well, when we got out in the hall, I couldn't even see the door through the camera. Julianne just burst out laughing cause the lens cover was still on it. Duh. See what I mean about idiot? But isn't her wreath cute?


This is in Julianne's pink bedroom. We had to paint over awful, awful old dark wallpaper. It actually turned out pretty cute. I found some shutters back in the spring and painted three white. We are using them as her headboard. The ceilings are tall so it doesn't look as tall in the room as it does in the picture.


The white bedside table was made by Pennsylvania House. I found it at Goodwill for $9.99. I painted it white and it really turned out cute.


Julianne wanted me to make her a tassel, so I whipped this one up for her. She loves bunnies too.


Her apartment came with some furniture in it. One of the pieces what a white desk. Julianne decided she wanted to use it as a make-up table. I mean.....we have our priorities! So I made a skirt to go around it. We slipped in the space that was made to hang up clothes. It fit perfectly. I made a little curtain to go over the top and on one side. She can put baskets over it and still have storage.


Weezie loves to go and visit her sister! She went for the weekend when we celebrated Julianne's birthday.

The next time we visit her I will try and remember to take the camera. One of them. She has a lot of cute things in the apartment I want to show you. And the apartment is in an older house that has been divided into several units. It has lots of character. And the character is much nicer since we painted!

Boo Yall!

Hey Yall! Do you like my "Boo" decoration? This is actually the only Halloween decoration I have in the house. We would decorate more when the kids were younger, but now that they are grown and living away from home, I just kind of skip over Halloween and concentrate on Thanksgiving. And I need to start concentrating a little harder too! I have a million things I need to do before Thanksgiving. Last year I decorated for Christmas the weekend before Thanksgiving. I loved it! It seemed to take so much pressure off me to have every thing decorated. This year we have a wedding to go to in SC the weekend before Thanksgiving. How wrong would it be to decorate before that weekend?

The picture that I posted yesterday was taken by Dick last year. My parentals were here for Thanksgiving and we took a drive one day and saw "him". A farm house had put him out by the road and it looked just like someone bending over. So we stopped and took a picture.

Weezie needs to go back to the doctor tomorrow. I don't think the medicine for her urinary track infection has done the trick. The doctor suspects she may have some stones. I'm trying not to even think about that one.

I will be so glad when this election is over.

I guess that is all I have for now. Hope you all have a great day! Tootles!

Cause I Love Yall!

Happy Halloween!!!!!

Darlene at Darlene's Days is having a giveaway to celebrate her 100th post! Join the fun and leave a comment on her blog and you will be entered in the giveaway. She has such a sweet blog that I found not long ago but check everyday now to see what she is up to. Go!!!!!!

New Old Lampshade

Hey Yall! About a year ago, I found two great Waverly toile lampshades at a great store we have up here called The Christmas Tree Shoppes. Great store! They were marked down to $1.99. Full sized shades that were perfect for a couple of lamps I had that needed new "attire" to update them. One lamp is in the formal living room/Dick's office. The other one is in the entry hall from the side porch. I love the black and white toile, but needed some color in there. So I decided to paint the shade. You know....being green, recycling, whatever! I originally decided to paint it with a tan colored paint that had been watered down. You can see from the second picture what that color turned out to be and it was not what I was looking for!




So after leaving it on the lamp for a month with this hideous color that stuck out like a sore thumb, I decided to take it off and repaint it today. I got my barn red craft paint and thinned it with some water. I can't tell you the exact measurements because it is a very guarded secret. Or because I didn't measure. I very carefully (hahahahaha) swirled it around with my paint brush until it looked completely thinned. I, however, was mistaken because after painting for a while I got a few darker globs in the fabric and had to brush the paint brush over it continuously to try and thin out the color. I went over it twice and actually got a little bit darker on the second coat. Mostly because the bottom of the paint was thicker....I guess I should have swirled it every few strokes.




All in all, I think it turned out pretty good. I feel like I have a new lampshade in there.

Hey Yall! Every afternoon, we walk out in the back yard and look for golf balls. We have a picket fence around part of our yard. We find a few balls back there every day. More when the golf course reopens in the spring (rusty golfers!)and less as the season winds down. It just like hunting for Easter eggs! I mowed the grass today and had to manuever around two that I had not picked up. Just for reference....don't ride a mower over a golf ball. Bad, bad, bad. Not that I have ever done that.....

Tootles!

Go Jackets!!!!

As most of you know by now, we are Georgia Tech fans. Dick graduated from there and we love to fly our Georgia Tech Flag, especially during football season.



We even have a grand dog named Grace Darling that dresses up like a Yellow Jacket!



Being the loyal Georgia Tech fans that we are, you can imagine how we felt when we rode past our next door neighbors house and saw this awful flag in front of their house!



Isn't this just the most disgusting thing you have ever seen?

Our neighbor lived in Savannah for a few years and had purchased a Georgia flag while he was there. They have been waiting and waiting for us to put up our Georgia Tech flag so they could put up their Georgia one. They have been laughing and laughing.

We see no humor.

Hey yall! It is Friday and the weekend is almost here. We really don't have anything fun planned. We need to do some outside work. There are some plants that probably need to be put out of their misery and the pots washed and put up in the garage. It is pretty easy to see that winter is knocking at the door. We have some very pretty hanging baskets and some pots that will have to be dumped out in the woods. That's sad because they are perfectly good and healthy but are too big to be brought inside. They will freeze in the garage so I can't store them in there. Anybody want to come up and get them? I'll throw in lodging and dinner!

Yesterday I had my dental appointment to put my permanent crowns put on. My previous visit was kind of traumatic for me. Now I am no stranger to the dentist chair. But I was in the chair for 3 hours with my mouth open most of the time. I was having a hard time getting one molar numbed. This required multiple injections. And my jaw was so sore and hurt to even open for about a week. Well, I thought I would be able to be in and out in 30 minutes yesterday since I was just getting my permanent crowns on. Oh no. The sensitive molar had lost it's temporary crown twice and the second time they used a little stronger glue. Yesterday, they had a hard time getting all that glue off what was left of my molar so the permanent crown would fit on it. And since that molar is sensitive, I had multiple injections again to numb it up. I spent 2 hours in the chair yesterday. And was pretty uncomfortable later in the day. UGH! Makes me really look forward to getting new crowns next year! NOT!!!!!

I have so many things that I need to do. The yard is calling, crying, screaming, and pleading for me to come out and make it pretty again. I need to blow the leaves, rake the pine straw and mow. I would have done this already, but it rained yesterday and we didn't feel like it last weekend and, well, you get the idea. Dick says I always have an excuse. That is true. I need to mop the wood floors. I need to vacuum. I need to dust. I need to throw things away. I need to, I need to, I need to. And for everything I mentioned, I have 10 other things that I also need to do. And the bad thing about all this is that I just want to curl up with a blanket and take a nap. Now I haven't actually done that yet.....can't even remember the last time I did it, but I want to. Bad. This explains why I always say when you get the urge to clean, mop, rake, or dust, you better jump on it cause the desire can leave as fast as it came! Learn from me.....Your welcome.

The wind is blowing outside right now. The temp is in the 50's and I am trying to resist the urge to turn on the heat for just a little while. I do love heat. Except in the summer.

I would dress warm and go outside right this minute but I haven't finished the pot of coffee. Or finished visiting blogs. Or checked out my new Martha Steward Living magazine. Or.......

Tootles!

Big Dog

Hey Yall! Weezie has been feeling a little bit left out lately. I think she really wanted me to blog about her. Weezie boarded with her Ms. Bee a week ago. Normally Weezie is scared of her shadow. However, every time she gets back from boarding she thinks she is a big dog. Saturday, she was barking her head off at the golden retriever next door. Of course, there was a fence in between them and she was close enough to the house that she could get in if she needed to. Beaudy, the golden retriever, looked at Weezie like she was crazy. She wasn't even responding.

Hopefully she will be back to normal soon. Now if we could just do something about the snoring!

A Sighting....

Hey Yall! I was outside and saw something. Do you see it?


Look close. You can see it on the grass.


Can you see it now? Look closely....


Yep. Frannycakes has been spray painting again.

An Exciting Phone Call!!!!

Hey Yall! My morning started out like it usually does.......waking up at 7 (stop laughing Dick, I really DID this morning!), getting my coffee, checking the news, catching up with blogs, washing clothes, emptying the dishwasher, drinking more coffee......well, you get the idea! I had just sat back down and was watching Matt Lauer when the phone started ringing. Ugh! No, I don't want to order Omaha Steaks, no, I don't want to take a survey, NO, NO, NO! When I saw the name on the caller ID, I know that I WANTED to answer! It was my friend Sheila. Sheila was my savior when we lived in Bastrop. Truly. My savior. Bastrop was kind of a strange move for us. We were required to live in Bastrop. But my children attended a private school in the next town over, Monroe. So they had friends there. They were in high school and were very, very happy there. And I was in Bastrop and I was not. Until I found Sheila.

Sheila makes me laugh! And aren't all relationships better if you can laugh together? We were both in a town that we didn't necessarily want to be in. We both had family in other places. Our husbands were both very dedicated to their work and spent a lot of time there. We started going to Monroe and shopping. And shopping. And shopping. We went to garage sales. We went to a few craft fairs. And we laughed. A lot.

Weezie, our Shih Tzu, came from Sheila. Now I wouldn't call her a dog adoption agent, but that might be what she could be called. She had helped many people adopt the most fabulous loving dogs that for a variety of reasons just didn't work out for her. She trains them, and then you can enjoy them for a lifetime! My kids still talk about the chihuahua she had named Taco Bell! She definitely can name them too. Weezie's name is actually Louisiana Southern Belle. When she belonged to Sheila, she was called Belle. For some reason, the name Belle didn't click with our family. So we shortened Louisiana and started calling her Weezie. Her vet here thinks her name is Wheezie because she makes the loudest noises! She snores louder than most men. We sometimes have to wake her up because we can't hear the TV! Seriously! Thank you Sheila! We love our Weezie Belle!

She and her husband are building a house in the same town that their children live in Arkansas. I am so excited for her! Finally! A house she knows is hers and she can decorate and not worry about having to leave it in 6 months. And believe me, she will decorate it so pretty. She has that touch. I am going to try and make it to see her. I miss her.

Some friends come and go. Some friends stay in your heart. And Sheila is that kind of friend. Thanks for the call today! It reminded me of the fun we had and all the laughing we did and how I really want to see you again. I miss you!

Fall....Again

Hey Yall! Just in case you are not sick of the fall pictures, here are more. Everyday when I look out, I expect all the leaves to be laying on the ground. And I am totally amazed that the leaves are still on the trees and the colors are even prettier than the day before. Don't worry....I am close the end of my fall photography. Wish you were all here to enjoy it!



Okay, okay! This is the last day I do this with this tree!


This was a couple of days later.


This was taken one day later. It is amazing how fast the leaves fall off.













I hope you all have enjoyed the fall foliage in Maine. It is so beautiful. Hey, I have an idea! Why don't you plan to come up and visit me next year during this time? I think you would love it!

The Leaves are Falling!

Remember this tree?


This is what it looked like today.