2009-10-24 1500 hrs…WELCOME HOME, DEAR HEARTS, WELCOME HOME!

Come on in and make yourselves to home… coffee is hot…

Ah yes, living in the mountains is a wondrous things most of the time… or not! Tick season appears to be over… We’ve had two hard freezes and the lil chiggers are asleep for the winter. Now we have the imported “lady” bug season!

Trust me, they are not the real lady bugs nor are they ladies! They, the bugs, show up the last week of October usually…They were a little early this year. Swarms of them out back. The only good thing I’ve seen with them lil critters is I am not allergic to them.

They DO bite/pinch… they smell really bad, they leave a yellow smelly stain where ever they land…and they are heading north… rapidly. They have no natural enemies that I know of… Chickens, lizards and even turn their noses at them… I’m not sure about the spiders…

And yes, I let the spiders alone… they serve the purpose in nature…keep other multilegged critters under control. Well, I must admit I check to see what variety I have in here… Black Widows go out the door to be released.

Anyway, back to the imports… they get under your clothes.. in your hair, your ears, your shoes if you get out in the sunny side of the house… Sheesh!

The other morning, I was out on the back porch, leaning on the rail. Just lookin’ at the colors in the trees… Changing mostly to golds now…Beautiful and peaceful and oh so quiet. A wasp landed on my thumb.

Wowser… this was wonderful! Took a bath while sitting on my thumb and seemed to take particular care of her antennae. She didn’t seem to mind that I watched and talked to her… seemed to enjoy the companionship. She finally got finished and flew away.. a most amazing experience.

I’ve been able to get outside a few times this week… Running between the raindrops and the low flying clouds… Saw some of my flyguys too.. Them BBSBs went over and I got flashed a lot! Them cute lil fellers need to do a better job of focusing their equipment. Or maybe not! I waved and threw kisses and hugs… Did my ‘flash’ dance for them! Lolol and still they fly over the house… gotcha kids! Gots the giggles now…

I gotta tell you that I finally got some iffy measurements on the Newbie! Sort of! Well, almost! Lolol I found my old soft sewing tape measure and decided to check him out! The Newbie had no idea as to what was going on. We ended up waltzing around the kitchen, the hall way and into the apartment! His attitude? What the heck is she doing?!?

So here we go… from nose to base of skull – 17’’ from nose to tip of tail – 76’’…chest – 42’’…height at shoulder – 30’’. Like I said, I’ve ridden ponies smaller than that! Lololol I swear to you, the boy is still growing!



I finished the apple painting and have titled it “ Transition of the Autumn Apple”…

Have been looking for some star stencils. Finally made them myself… did that last nite… got all the stars of various sizes cut out… Used an exacto knife…and a metal ruler… it works!

I used card stock weight paper… printed the assorted sized stars… then used acrylic water based varnish to coat both sides of the paper. Dried them and then cut the stars…

I’ll use the stencils on the Lady II as part of the background shadow… I think…

Talked to Butch’s wife, Dorothy, today… Asked her what she was up to… would you believe :’’holding the couch down’’ lolol We’ve agreed that in this kind of weather ‘couch potatoing’ is the only way to go!

Before I forget, I’m starting to cut down on my group memberships. I hate to say this, but I think the years are starting to catch up with me… Not enuf time in the day to get all the things done I need/want to do. No old person remarks, Marv…

Later all of mine… take care and go in safety always. Remember to take a nap daily… it recharges the motor… lolol

Many hugs, much love and lots of lafter… meems