I'm so over it...I'm so over people doing stupid rotten hurtful things just because they can...we're supposed to be better than the things in this video...

http://youtu.be/pNxcylWLEH8


...and? seriously? save the justification...that dog don't hunt...

I'm Learning a New Skill...

it is called "Lowering the Bar"...

see, just 3 or 4 years back, I would have taken 15 photos to get 1 decent shot of the Rahhhh Kitties in their St. Patrick's Day ribbons...

 

...and I would have decorated for the day a bit more than adding two green ribbons to the Rahhhh Kitties...

 

But, one of the advantages of getting older is gaining a little perspective...The Rahhhh Kitties don't mind the crummy photo...they're just happy to get a change of ribbon because they wore their last ribbons about 2 years...might actually be 3 years...If the RKs don't mind, then I guess I shouldn't either...

 

Hey. Hey. HEY, LADY...change the ribbons already...loser...

actually, taking the whole 2-3 year thing into account, perhaps I'm a little further along the path

to mastery of the whole Lowering the Bar thing than I've been thinkin'...

 



Some Times...

change can be as simple as, yes, a can of spray paint...

 

 

other times...not so much...

 

But, this time, I'm in luck...2 cans, actually, of paint, and a minor

irritant of several years vanished

 

I've gathered a few doorstops...two, no, three, were gifts and two I bought...

One I sent to a charity gift shop because I disliked it so much...

One I like just as it is...

 

the other three need some work..

 

just because I don't like the colours and they irritate me...

 

I have no idea why I have not dealt with these stops long before now...

 

I guess these stops are like other things in life that we tolerate just

because it seems more effort to halt our fast pace and actually address

the annoyance than just to keep on being annoyed...

 

Well, I finally stopped long enough to decide the time had come...

to either make these stops fit in around here or

to send them packing in the next box sent to the thrift shop.

 

And, as it ususally turns out to be, it took so little time, so little expense,

that I shake my head at my own self that I didn't do this years ago...

 

Why on earth put up with any thing in this life that is annoying

that can be easily removed or changed when there are so

many things in this life that are so much harder

and cannot simply be spray-painted away?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It Just Doesn't Get

any easier than this!
I bought the Cute Halloween Gift Bag just because...well, I had another project in mind for it, but
like so many projects...let's just say it didn't come to fruition...and my friends would say well, imagine that...

so, the bag is just hangin' there on the coat rack...kind of makin' me feel crappy with those unspoken taunts because it is Yet Another Reminder of the Un-Done Things...

but then I get a flash of Cheap Door Decoration Inspiration: find some twigs, paint them black and orange*, stuff them into the bag** and stick on the front door...

as an aside, a good indicator of my Crafting Abilities is that when my husband sees me standing on the driveway, spray painting sticks, he doesn't even ask any more...he just heads in the other direction...
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*The black-and-orange thing didn't work out so well...at least not using both on the same twig...kind of had a Creepy Halloween stripe thing going on...painting each twig a solid colour is a better way to go...unless you like the Creepy Halloween Vibe...I prefer the Cute Halloween Vibe...just sayin'...

**the bag, bein' paper, will not hold up for a long time if you leave in a Naturally Moist Environment like southeastern Georgia...but it'll last several weeks as long you give it a sheltered spot...

We're The Proud New Parents

of Samantha!

Many thanks to Lorraine for posting about the chimp sanctuary...I decided I'd much rather
have a bouncing 19-year-old baby chimp than that new laptop I don't really need ('cause, yes, I do lay around on my large behind too much as it is...)...and I believe DH is thinking about adopting Elway...

At # 17

in October, it is allllll about the pumpkins!
(normally, scarecrows freak me out but this guy cost only 10 cents plus he stays on the porch sooooo...)
I confess to havin' a pretty serious Pumpkin Problem...But gettin' your pumpkin on is soooooo easy...you can just plop them down anywhere...

in the house...on the porch...another scarecrow but this one is a Bear Scarecrow and surely he can't animate some dark Georgia night and go all Horror Picture on me...plus, he too lives outside with his other little freaky scarecrow mate....yes, I do have issues....somewhat belatedly realizing I really should have found time to paint the wicker this year...pretty sure it ain't gonna happen in 2011...in the garden...
and *poof* you're callin' it done...and the older I get, the more I like *poof* easy...

and then we have an entirely different type of Pumpkin...Pumpkin Butt plopped down in our bedroom...watching my Leslie Sansone walk-aerobic tape...the tape finished and Chubby sprawled out like "whew, man...that wore me slap out!"

No, Chubby Bubby...trust me, I've tried...just watching the exercise video does not melt those pounds away..

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*before anyone gets hysterical, I do try to "exercise" the Bub...she loves to chase the red laser light from the level around the floor...

Appearances Can Be Deceiving...

at least when you have Blind-As-A-Blind-Bat vision...or limited attention span...and I can raise my hand on both of those...

I thought the garden was all petered out except for these spider lilies that I completely forgot I planted*...so, nice surprise there...

once I was out & about with my camera, I decided to taunt MB, a northern friend of mine, with this shot...the woman can gather up buckets of osage oranges that are crazy beautiful but, somehow, I still find myself pickin' up dirty old magnolia pods for her...

and then I noticed some blooms here...a couple more here...and I realize this garden is still bloomin' along...and that makes me smile...

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*I truly cannot remember these at all...I wonder if they have been lurkin' under the dirt for the 5 years we've been here, just waitin' for the right time to pop up...but I love these...my granma grew these alongside of her house in Thunderbolt...and since they weren't blooming when we moved away from Thunderbolt, well, I didn't get the chance to bring any along with me...I've regretted that...that and the Snowdrops that didn't come along either...

and what is this strange weed that grew up in one of my butterfly bushes?! it has papery pods that remind me of the orange Chinese lantern pods but I don't know...