Hey Guys......the Flock is back....!!

Even in the rain....

Look who came to visit yesterday.

Hello.....old friends!

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Pill Caddie.....

..for the dog..!

Mia decided late last week to stop eating...

Which caused a major panic in our house..

because

she is our chow hound...

The Vet is stumped.....he not sure where we should go with treatment...

So

she's on heart meds everyday...breathing meds every other day.....steroids twice aday....antibiotics twice aday and a water pill every third day...

You think I could remember all that?!

I wrote it down on the back of the vet bill....drove straight home and dug out the little pill caddie I use for traveling...

Look at all those little bugger in their own little sections...

Keep your fingers crossed and say a prayer...

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Turning 65.....

When I realized that I'd be alone on my birthday I thought I'd check the old bucket list and see if one of the items could be checked off......

Knit a pair of socks..

Perfect...!

Now it's been 40 years since I knitted anything....

sooooo

there's this cute little fiber arts store in town named

-Foxfire Hollow Fiber Arts-

and they give classes - I signed up for the beginner class...

After all it's been 40 years..!

Saturday was cold and rainy.....the best day for a old/new adventure.....an introduction to round needles....bright yellow yarn....sharing stories..

I'm about half way thru my little hat and next week I'll learn to decrease and increase....

I remembered more than I thought I knew....

Once I get this reprogrammed in my head it's on to the sock class....!!

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They're Back...

the jet jockeys are back.....leaving all those contrails in the sky...

A sure sign of Fall..

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Hello Fall...!!

We're starting to get color around the park office..
Just a little info on where I work..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfZcXKoTHqE

 

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I Believe....

..that Fall is here..

The hummingbirds are gone...

The butterflies are starting to migrate...

and

there are pumpkin stands along the side of the roads...

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Almost Time......

..for the Dillard Brother's to appear out of the mist and proceed with the annual harvest of the crop

..ahhhhh...

mowing of the weeds....

wellllll.....what ever....

it's almost time...!!

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Max.......hummmmmm...

Mia has been getting a lot of attention lately...

So

I'm not sure if yesterday was a great performance or if there was really something wrong...

But

Yesterday suddenly Max could not walk he had hurt his left front leg...

He's laying on the ground with his foot in the air...with that "Help me, Mommy" look....

he couldn't put any weight on it....."I can't walk, Mommy, it hurts"....

(ohhhhhh....those Johnny Depp eyes)

I carried him in....put him on the couch......loved on him.....gave him half a baby aspirin and proceed to fix dinner...

Later I went to the front porch and there was a huge bunny on the front lawn

"Bunny!" I said

Like a shot Max was down and out....barking all the way...!

Faker....!!

What a ham-bone.....

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By the end of the day....

We started the day with the smoke alarms "chirping"

You know that little "chirp" it gives you when the battery needs to be changed...

"Chirp!"........wait for it......."Chirp!"

It's just enough to drive the dogs nuts...

And then

I said..."let's go for a ride"

Pandemonium  sets in.....!!!

 the ride to the cute vet was uneventful.....Mia's heart sounds good and she now has a new med to help her with her breathing...

This dog takes more meds than I do....!!

 Anyway

Between the chirps....the ride....the vet....the new meds....and then going to work...

Mia and Max were ready for an afternoon nap.....

(me, too!)

 

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Recheck...

It's been 30 days....

So back to the cute vet we go.

Gott'a see if those meds are working for the Mountain Diva...

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Yes.....I Remember...

Although some of that day has faded.....here's what i remember most..

...hearing the news of a plane crash on the news driving to work

...gathering around an 8" TV watching the Today show with 30 other people in my department.

...hearing a co-worker say...she had just talked to her son in the second tower and everything seemed to be OK

...hearing her scream when the second tower was hit directly below her sons office..

...the many arms that held her.

I still cry...

 

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Could Summer be Over?

Starting Saturday the low temps will be in the 40's....

Hummmmm...

Can pumpkins be far behind?

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What does this mean..?!

We've had more heavy fogs in September than we did in August...!

Does this mean my " bean in the jar" count is incorrect....?

Are we in for a massive amount of snow...?

or

is this a year in which the heavy coats will never make it out of the closet...?!

I'm gonna start stocking the pantry and down loading books on the Kindle...

Just in case...

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It took years.....

..of hinting...begging...pleading....and finally you're just gonna do it...!!

But

I finally got my storm door for the front entrance of the Park Office..

Now I need one little strip of all-weather stripping and I will be able to view the parking lot all 12 months of the year...!

I've already started the hinting,,,,begging,,,,pleading...

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Hexed....!!

I've got a hexagon addiction...!

And I blame it on bloggerville....!

"It's a good way to use up scraps" blogger said....

"It's easy and a quick way to make a colorful quilt" blogger said...

I've got a two foot high wicker basket of scraps....!

This may be the biggest quilt in history.

Seriously...

I can remember sitting on the front porch in the summer, after supper, cutting up shirts for my grandmother and Aunt Bessie...so that they could made these little hexagons and then when they had enough(?) they would make a quilt called "Grandmother's Garden."

Who would have thought 60 years later.....I'd still be cutting/sewing hexagons...!!

Quilts are forever...!

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Ha...!

..A September fog doesn't count..!

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