A simple blog for keeping my circle of family and friends posted. This is an experiment, and I hope that you will offer your suggestions for making it better.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
EveryDayMatters Challenges #198&194
Friday, November 14, 2008
I jumped in ...finally
Friday, October 31, 2008
Dropped in to see what happened
Lately I have been doing a lot of drawing. I just participated in my first ATC trade, the theme was "under the sea" so it was fun to do and very interesting to see people's different takes on the subject. The cards I made are posted here. Other than that, I participate in the weekly drawing challenges on Drawspace but usually finish too late to post in the forum so I just add them to my gallery. I will try to add some of those here as well.
I am looking forward to our daughter coming home this weekend, she just seems to brighten up the house. We have plans to go to Epcot for the Food and Wine festival. I am looking forward to it and will bring my camera and hopefully take lots of pictures.
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
What has been keeping me busy lately
It seems I still have to get into a routine to regularly post to this blog, here goes.
I have recently joined some on line art instruction groups, and posted some of my paintings and drawings. I am a decorative artist (tole/folk art) and have been trying to learn to draw from various books. These pictures are of my work done over the past two-three years.
Saturday, August 11, 2007
New computer
Our Japanese Chin dog, Mieko, will be 2 years old this month. I can't believe it! Time goes by so fast. Peppi, our toy Poodle is getting old, he will be 10 this October. I don't know how I got onto the subject of dogs, maybe because my last post was about my sister's dog.
Well, I will resume this later, with more detailed news. I have to go get a bite to eat.
Monday, December 11, 2006
Sad news

For those of you who knew "Charlie", my sister's standard French poodle, he is very sick, the diagnosis is lymphatic cancer. He was scheduled to be euthanized this morning. I have not called to confirm that, as my sister is in no condition to talk about it. He was 13 last Thursday. He will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved him.
Trying to get some posts
Sunday, January 01, 2006
Happy New Year
Freshening up for the New Year
We had a wonderful holiday season, my sister and brother in law came down from NY and we all spent Christmas and New Year's together. My brother in law, worked very hard while here, doing all the "honey-do" things that my husband is not able to do any longer. As usual, I enjoyed my sister's company. Our daughter was able to join us over the holidays. She was a great help to us. She did a lot of the heavy lifting and assorted other "gopher" tasks.
I owe a special thanks to our friends, Helene and John who hosted the Christmas festivities. They are very generous and they spoiled us all with wonderful goodies to eat and lovely gifts.
New Year's eve we went to different parties, my sister and brother in law headed out of town to spend time at a friend's home and we spent the evening with our good friends, Barbara and Terry.
Saturday, November 12, 2005
I got two comments on my last post, Hooray!
I read in the tech news how popular blogging is, but I think it must be younger folks who are participating the most or politically active people. Since I am not in the former group I definitely am in the latter group.
As I mentioned in my post "its been a year!", many things have happened. I won't bore you with all of the details but instead tell you the latest happy news. We travelled to Hot Springs Arkansas and bought a male Japanese Chin puppy. He is adorable. I originally was going to get a female but with an eye to the future, I was not crazy about her markings. I chose a sable and white male, which I named "Mieko" which means "Bright" in Japanese. The name really fits him. He has caught on to going outside to do his business, and when we do not pick up on his hints that he has to go outside, he uses the "wee wee pads" which are a housebreaking aid. I had forgotten how much fun it is to have a puppy in the house. He is full of energy, and so far, our toy poodle Peppi is just tolerating him. I am sure in a little bit of time they will be best buddies.
Today is my husband's birthday, he is 79 today. Our daughter came home this weekend to celebrate his birthday with him. We were all supposed to go out to see "Finian's Rainbow" which is being put on by the local community theater, but the day before yesterday, my hubbie fell and he is still pretty sore.
I will close for now, I want to save some news for another post.



















