Love these

Ok, not a huge shoe shopper. But I LOVE these shoes. I want them really bad. Not gonna do it, but I can look right?? They are $96 on Sale!! That is about 10 times more than I can spend on shoes. But wow are these cute! K~

crafting

Still Crafting. This is a yarn pull container I made on the trip. It took hours. I have to finish the clasp. I have not used it but I hope it is helpful.

I have to volunteer in some way at TCA, Coras new school. I am going to put a Yarn class syllabus together and present it. I hope it flies, because, I would not like to do office work for free.

K~

The new school year

Heading out for the new school year. C, D & S started their new school year. It is hard to believe that C has been going since the 1st and the boys since the 7th. I am still behind on life, but am slowly catching up. Ironing the mans clothes today. Washing and putting away all the other clothes. Creating baby gifts for a baby born in late August. K~

In my own little bubble

I had lunch with some terrific girls yesterday.

You know who you are Bobbi, Kristi and Cassie :-)

I really felt honored to be invited to the pow wow at the French Meadow.

Thanks girls.

In thinking about the day, I find that I really do enjoy others company. But I always find myself in my own little bubble of home. I don't even go outside much anymore.

Sure, what I say is very true.

I HATE the mosquitoes. They find me anytime, any place, no matter who I am with.

I get super nervous talking to people. I am always sure they don't like me much. (odd, but true)

I do like it inside, but more and more, I like editing my communication.

Kristi was wearing a back space key on a cute necklace she made at the junk bazaar. It really wrapped up my communication style. I have for quite some time, loved being able to use spell check, back space, cut and paste functions. When your "out there" it of course is not possible to do that. Then, I just look dumb.

Just a thought for the day.

K~

money

There comes a time when a person just needs to make money. I have been WELL past that time. I have decided to try ETSY again, but, we know how hard it is to sell on that. I am still looking for J..O..B. Not super easy with all we have going on. But, I know it has to be possible. K~

Where am I??

What just happened. I feel like I am in a weird fog. I have been doing domestic stuff for the past day and a half. I have just been wondering if I will ever remember our "vacation" or this summer in general. Sheesh!! This is a black bear we saw. Cora got this shot with her camera. Nice job! K~

The Renaissance Festival

Fun day at the Renaissance Festival. Full day of dressing up and eating food.

It ended with a beautiful sunset. K~

Labor day

Made Puff this cowboy hat on the trip. Then I realized he didn't have "a top of a head" He was about as happy as the photo shows, to wear it.
Moonscape over somewhere in Montana

Glacier view

I am hanging in there. I have had a very crazy busy few months. I feel a bit pulled in many directions. Kind of like taffy. I am ready to be taken off the puller and put in a nice plain wrapper and settle into a round glob.

Renaissance yesterday. 7 hours! I am a bit tired. Pictures to come later.

Mom and Dad are still here and will be until at least the 13th. Cora started a new school (Twin Cities Academy) on Wednesday. The boys start tomorrow. I have been up at 655 AM every morning, making coffee, setting the breakfast table for my mom and dad, doing dishes, clothes, cleaning up, etc.

Puff is doing fine. He is taking water and baby food sweet potatoes just fine by syringe. Today he gets to try his super worms.

Enough for now. Enjoy the pics. K~

Puff has surgery

Well Little Old Puff had to have tail surgery today. I picked him up about 7:30 PM. He had some trauma to his tail and it was dying on the end. He needed it amputated to protect it from going up his tail to his legs or spine. He is resting in 85 degree temps on his towel. Tomorrow, I need to give him his pain meds and antibiotics. He is so adorable. I hope he gets better soon. K~

Why I keep coming back

After seeing Glacier and the Tetons, I still longed for the Badlands, Black Hills, and Yellowstone. The landscape warms me so. The colors, the animals. the atmosphere. I just get happy when I see the edge of the badlands. I had a great trip. Still hate the camping, but the hotels were so seedy, that by the end of the trip, I preferred toughing it out in the tent with the bears and bison. K~

Function over Beauty

So, Rick was on his way out somewhere in the evening. He had been busy outside for a few hours prior. He said to me on his way to the gate, "Hey, do you want to see what I made?" I went out and looked in my garden to find this monstrosity sitting there!!! It is a hand made (as if you can't tell) pool heater. I was rendered speechless and just shook my head. After I rescued my "Kiss me over the garden gate" I just proceeded to take a picture. Why do I even bother!

On the flip side, Bobbi got me these lovely organizing pieces for my Birthday! Thanks Bob! They are so pretty, and will make the ugly mundane paperwork items look so much more beautiful. Guess Rick and Bobbi are not cut from the same cloth. Both items are functional, true, but well they don't seem to look the same. K~

Yeah, more flowers!

How pretty are these! K~

tomatoes

These are my tomatoes. Luckily the turtles (and rick and I) LOVE tomatoes. There are a lot of them. The plant is nearly 9' tall. Weird. The tomatoes that I planted from seed have potential for growing tomatoes. The plants look good. I just need to be patient. This has been a very good year from growing things from seed. Many of my plants have grown and flowered. Including my favorite Zinnia. My wire plant is doing well too. Can't forget about that one. It is 3 years old now. K~

It's alive

Well Bob, it seems to be determined to make it. It has a bend in it, but "Kiss me over the garden gate" seems to be making it. Now if I can just remember that it isn't a weed next spring, and pull it. I seem to do that quite often. K~

The zoo

The zoo is not too far from my house. I have people trying to camouflage into the background. I have people who often show their true colors and are not afraid to stand out in a crowd. I have those people who just hang around in their own wonderful splendor. And I have those who just float along and paddle when needed. That is what makes a house a home. It is what makes life interesting. I treasure these traits. They are challenging, but worth the work. K~

Boy's of summer

D at bat.

S at Bat

Ok, so today, I sat and watched D play baseball from 10:30 AM - 4:15 PM. There was a 15 minute break in between. I am absolutely exhausted. I can't imagine playing it for that long. Their team came in 4th out of 13. I think that was pretty good. S was done on Tuesday. So now we are done with sports until September?? Phew. K~

Our new adoptees

These are our 2 new adoptees. We named them Pinky "girl" and Bulbus McPorky "boy". They are fresh water parrot fish. I need to do more research on them. They are in their own tank and are pretty cool. They look like they are kissing and that they need lipstick on. Seriously... I am not an animal hoarder. K~

Bonsai

I got yet another bonsai. This time a ficus. Now I would love to just keep it alive long enough to learn a bit about them. Like orchids, I kill them almost instantly. I have been trying to do some sort of bonsai for years, but only dabbled in it. now I might actually try and learn something. K~

Working on the House

I have been deep cleaning for about a week now. I have vacuumed the living room and dining room walls, washed the sheers for those rooms, and vacuumed 1/2 the kitchen walls too. I do the kitchen about every 3 months, but I only do the living room dining room about 2 times a year and on a need to basis.

I am getting ready for visitors at the end of August, my parents and another dog.

The work is rewarding and discouraging all at the same time. I like to think that I got something done, but alas there is just more where that came from. I got up this morning to a full sink of dishes, one I was too tired to do last night, the floor needs vacuuming again, the table is yet again full of odds and ends. The junk drawer wont soon close and there is a new unfolded basket of clean laundry waiting for me to fold.

I try and get my kids involved, and actually do. Sometimes though the reminders and crabbing is not worth it.

But I just plug away. I keep whittling at the mess and cleaning. Keep thinking that "This is what I do" and keep plugging away.

K~

Firsts for me at WRC

We have 2 baby river otters. They are truly as cute as a stuffed animals. I was baffled by their poop. It was piles of some many different blacks, grays, browns and tans, I just didn't quite understand how they digested things.
4 baby green herons. SO SO cute. They put up their heads and they look like fluffy sticks. So very very cute. These little guys were in our flight room. We have 6 enclosures in the flight room. These guys are in one. Then there are the crows that I said I had an omenesque experience a few weeks ago. One enclosure has older baby birds in it, A LOT of older baby birds. It was the first time I got pooped on.... right on the head!! then on my shirt sleeve. eeoo..

After I cleaned the poopy birds I needed to feed them. So I read their sheet and did the normal counting of how many total items I needed. I could not believe my eyes and double checked with the vet. They needed 750 meal worms and/or wax worms. 750 in one enclosure!

I finish counting them out, luckily not one at a time, and finish counting the earthworm total. 750 earthworms. That is a total of 1500 worms in one enclosure and I have 3 more enclosures to go. I have never seen that many worms in one dirt pile in my life. I hope the birds were happy. After I fed the other birds, I looked over and boy oh boy what a mess mess mess robins can make of their dirt!!

K~