Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Jeepers Creepers!!!

Blogger wouldn't let me in to my own blog nor would it allow me to take the whole site down! I finally used another browser and it let me in.
I am back to collecting gemstones again. Unusual ones. I have always loved to find unusual rocks...for colors or shapes. So, why not collect the really unusual ones? My latest one I am searching for is called Andalusite Chiastolite with the shape of a maltese cross in it. Also a Watermelon Tourmaline....a slice that looks like a piece of watermelon. How cool is that?

I am trying to find a way to display them right now. I am wearing a meteorite around my neck at the moment an I have a fulgurite (caused by lightning) to wear as well and I have a Moldavite ring. I love the whole thought of outerspace! I am also studying the meanings behind the different stones.

I just find it so amazing that God hid all of this beauty beneath the earth, or in the sky or under the sea. All for us to discover and discovering is my passion. :o)

My story and I'm stickin' to it.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

The Fourth of July

It has been so long since I visited my own blog that I need to get in here and knock the spiderwebs down and chase off the spiders! They have reallys set up housekeeping around here................

Happy 4th of July to everyone! T'is a great country we have here and believe it or not,even with all that is going on here in this country right now, we are still a "Blessed" nation. Of course there are still some folks that just won't beleive that.....they should go to Kenya where my little adopted daughter lives and see for themselves how good we truly do have it. It will get better here if we pray and ask for guidance.

Today sure looks dreary for all the picnicking folks..........It is raining as well. Sorry about that.

This afternoon Roseanne Cash (daughter of THE late Johnny Cash) will be here to christen our brand new bandshell here in Red Wing, MN. There will be other entertainment as well but she is the star that is coming. I hope the whole town turns out for her!! Tonight will be fireworks and we will enjoy it all from our kingsized bed. We can hear it all really well and sometimes see them from over the tree tops of the golf course. I don't want to go out and be eaten alive by mosquitoes, thank you very much! I had a stiff neck a few days ago. A powerful one with tons of pain and I also had a headache and I thought I had encephalitis. Perish the thought! I will stay indoors til they GO THE HECK AWAY!

I haven't introduced you to our new pup. He is 8 months old now and his name is "Marcello Luigi Pasquale" and he is a little Italian Greyhound. He is a powerhouse of energy and has a very very low threshold for boredom. (Witness our ottoman on the right side of this posting) They are strictly not for everyone. (Please read that last statement one more time if you think they are cute and you happen to want to run out and get one right this moment! They are a handful, Bright as a lightbulb but stubborn as heck! You don't really train them, they train YOU!

He is my joy and my inspiration. "I was born for him and he was born for me and we two make a happy family." :o) However, on the other hand, he drives all the other dogs and his daddy half nuts. His favorite game is grab a leg and drag the other critter across the room.......He is not particular, and ear will do just as well. As for me, he is a mommy's boy. He loves to jump up on his powerful little legs and bite the stew out of my bottom. I am sooo bruised.....(Really, do not try to picture this cuz it is NOT a pretty picture!!!

He is really something to sleep with. He will sleep for 8 hours at a stretch in bed but oh how he kicks the stuffin's out of me at night. I hang on the bed by 'one butt cheek'.....LITERALLY! Still, I firmly believe that God saved the best for last. He will romp and play where the others just want to veg out and sleep. If I try to rough-house with them they get all offended and get scared of me. So me and the 'Chello boy' will play and play and play until God comes to get us.

We are a rowdy little family and as happy as if we had good sense!