Sunday, October 19, 2014

Hi everyone!

My current desktop photo is a duck on the river in the early morning. If you guess that I took it on my run, you would be right.



It’s mid October. Can you believe that? My calendar has already taken me into next year.



Mike and I took our new RV down to Springfield for warranty work. “What’s wrong with your new RV?” you ask.

Our awning bracket is cracked, three drawer slides weren’t installed right, two hangers are missing from the curtains that close off the windshield and the table doesn’t lock into the upright position.

On the way down I saw this billboard.

I was so busy reading it that I almost didn’t get a shot of it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one quite like this before and I just wondered what you all thought of it.

Our appointment was for early Wednesday morning so we went down the day before with the intention of hitting a few flea markets.

The Rusty Flea was the only one we went to though.

“Why’s that?” you ask.

Well, the very next flea market I picked from the list on the GPS took us way out in the country, to the middle of nowhere and when it said we had arrived at our destination, there was nothing there that looked like a business. We turned around and went back to the RV-parked at the Love’s Truck Stop-right next to Camping World where our warranty work was going to be done.

For lunch we decide to go through the drive-up window at McDonalds. We order our standard, two McDoubles-plain and drive up to the pay window. Just about that time we hear a big old THUNK!

“What was that?” Mike asked but I didn’t know. “Oh, she hit that with her mirror,” Mike said indicating the concrete post that protects the drive-up window.

“Yeah she did.” I can see her fooling with the mirror in the reflection of the drive-up window.

“I bet her dad is going to be pissed,” Mike speculated. “That’s a brand new Ford Fusion.” But after seeing the photo, if anyone is going to be mad at her, besides herself, it might be a husband. She was a middle-aged woman.

I know that some of you are wondering how the kitten is that I gave to Marilyn, my mothers care-giver.

Jenny, Marilyn’s daughter took the kitten to the vet. The vet gave her a bottle and kitten milk and thinks the kitten is 10-12 days old.

And the kitten is still alive. A testament to Jenny’s nursing skills.

I got a nice shot of a heron in the misty Osage the other morning. I bet this one would be fabulous framed.

You know something?

I was coming up the hill on my morning run and I see that-just since the day before, someone has thrown a McDonalds bag out.

In this day and age, who thinks it’s okay to throw garbage out of your car window!

I didn’t put a question mark on the end of that because it is more a statement than a question. Besides, I don’t expect anyone will have an answer for me.

That cat!

That darn cat!

Yeah, I’m talking about Baby Blue! That stinker. You know she gets on the table whenever I’m not looking, don’t you?

I was working on this puzzle and she puked on it! If she wouldn’t have been on the table, where she isn’t supposed to be, that wouldn’t have happened!

Do you know what happens when you mix moisture with pressed cardboard, like, say, in a jigsaw puzzle piece!

Yeah. It swells.

I blotted up what I could, I put paper towels underneath the wet pieces and paper towels on top of them, then put something heavy on top of all of that. Then I let them sit.

After it dried I continued to work on it. I was tempted to just trash the whole thing, but I didn’t. Then I thought that in the very least I would have trouble fitting in the pieces around the part that had been puked on, but I didn’t. Now that it’s done, I’m glad I didn’t throw it away and if Momma wants it, she can have it.

Let’s do November birthdays.

Rosemary Soden Cosentino, 2^nd; Nancy Bowers, 5^th; Cindra Bowers, 5^th; Stephanie Zabitz Brown, 6^th; Erin Lee Bowers, 7^th; Kyleigh Paige Ammerman, 9^th; Hunter Olewiler, 11^th; Michael Gerard Bowers, 13^th; Andrea Canales, 17^th; Joseph Matthew Cosentino, 26^th; Kristyn Dale Kraft, 28^th; Alexandria Marie Herold, 28^th; Julie Kraft, 29^th.

Happy birthday to all!

Mike and I are working on maintenance projects around here and that is taking up most of our time. But let me end this week with one more photo.

Slick sloors....

What’s a sloor?

Lots and lots of love,

Peg and Mike