Category Archives: Daily Life

Humor and Blood

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Am talking with my mother-in-law on the phone:

Jen: A little white paw kept coming out and scratching me this morning, drawing blood.
M-I-L: Ah yes… the weapons of mouse destruction.

At least these WMD’s can be found!

(Said cat with WMD’s got her little claws trimmed today as did her sister and one of her brothers. The other brother will go for my jungular vein if I trim his claws so his only get trimmed when Jon and I are not exhausted. siblings. I waited until my bengal was in a sleepy mood before gently lifting his paws and giving him a feline pedicure.)

An Unusual Visitor

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Ke was frosting gingerbread cat cookies with me this morning when an unusual visitor came into the kitchen: FREYA! I’d already showed a very spooky Edda to Ke and I wasn’t expecting the other cats to come in; but I guess Freya was curious. She even came and curled up under the chair. I finally picked her up and had Ke pet her. She was a good little monster and didn’t rip my arms up like her siblings would have done.

Now to just explain to her that tabby patch cats aren’t supposed to eat the porcelain wisemen on the table…

Open House Prep

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In a vain attempt to keep myself organized, here’s my to-do list for the open house prep:

-get the boxes out to the garage
-clean the bathroom
-clean the china (I’m using some of my good china for serving pieces)
-unpack everything else that needs to be unpacked or send it to the proper room
-make “do not enter” signs for the off-limits areas
-remove everything from the medicine cabinet (since there WILL be people who check it)
-thaw out food in freezer
-make cider
-arrange stuff for baking with Ka, Ke, and Ca.
-put up tree for Kl to decorate
-find tablecloths for the two tables
-figure out arrangement of living room and possible alternate seating upstairs
-put hampers in proper places
-wash bedspread so bedroom can be used for coats
-figure out what I want D to do
-make CD of cool Christmas music
-string up lights in living room

IT’S OVER AND DONE!!!!!!!!!! Now to just figure out who to pawn the leftover food off onto at church!

Somewhere in there, I also need to eat, shower, sleep, and breathe.

Back Home

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I arrived back in Montana today. I am exhausted and I feel like I’ve been in a time warp but it was a good trip. My grandfather is doing better and I have memories of a good visit with him if this is the last visit I get with him before he passes. Thank you SOOOO much to everyone who has kept me and my family in prayer. I have appreciated it!

The only downside of the trip: I left my bag of crochet hooks on the train on the way there!!!! Jon has offered to replace everything as my Christmas present. GOOOOOOD husband!

I haven’t done much since getting home other than do laundry and take a shower. My brats were happy to see me and I have had all 4 keeping me company as I’ve watched “Grey’s Anatomy” and worked on afghan squares. (I don’t have any really pressing projects so I’m working on squares with my scrap yarn.)

Will post more compelling content tomorrow or something…