My last wishes..........

My last wishes are well known and have been for years. I have never understood why we can't be buried with our beloved pets.........So having said that,

I will be cremated and buried in the back yard here in the "Luhman Cemetery" out back. It is quite lovely actually. All my babies are there and I want to be with them forever so cremation will allow for that. The last thing I would want is to be next to someone for eternity who doesn't care for animals! Perish the thought!

I think I have found a way to beat the system! If I haven't, don't tell me cuz I will go all nuts all over again!! :o)

I am also in my dream house and never want to leave it so maybe I can be here long after I make my departure from this old earth.

Everything else goes to the Humane Society and my church. Easy peasy!

"Eucharistos" (live in celebration of light and love)

So long Summer...............

With the Hurricanes and all, I guess we can kiss our sunny days goodbye and go ahead and welcome Fall. As I walked in the garden this morning it was still bursting with color but soon we will have to bring in the Tropicals for the winter and the color will soon cease. All will be shades of orange, red, chartreuse and gold and then poof the leaves will be all gone and nothing but a blanket of white will greet me when I pull the curtains back. Many long months of all white. Terrible for a Artist!!

I noticed the Golden Finches of summer are beginning to get their rather drab little costume of feathers for winter. Sad because they are like ray of sunshine on a cloudy day. They have been eating so much thistle seed the last couple of days.

This morning as I looked out upon my beautiful little 'secret garden' that few have been invited to see, I noticed on the fence a big, blue, Morning Glory. I thought for sure the dogs had dug them all up but no, they left me one plant. This true blue flower made me so happy. I just can't adequately describe my feelings when I saw my surprise today. I love that sort of surprise, I really do.

So, with the gloom hovering and much to do today I will close here................

I went for a blood test...........

After my routine blood test yesterday we were trying to decide what to do next.....he had taken a whole day off work just for 1 minute of blood letting......

So we thought it would be a good thing to go donate blood at Mayo Clinic. We did and it wasn't big deal at all. I had a good vein and the blood came quickly and when we were done we could sit out front and have fresh baked cookies and juice or coffee or whatever we wanted. They were so nice to us and gave us little gifts of tee's and pens and things like that. We helped 6 people just with our little donations. Felt good and hope it helps someone, truly. That is what is most important.

Later he took me to a salon and I got my first acrylic nails. What a fun thing to watch! I could do that all day long I think. I love the detail work and it reminds me of making temporary crowns years ago. Anyway, I have some nice white nail tips in a square shape and now I can't do a thing. I feel totally helpless. Luther! open this jar.........Luther, Open the baby gate........Luther!!! I will bet he will be cussing himself over and over and over for encouraging me to go through with it.

So many pens and so little time

Well, I have gotten in way over my head with the Pen collecting......Thanks to Robb.
I am enjoying all he is teaching me about flex and softness of gold nibs.
I have quite a few pens to choose from now....one for my every mood.
I have fun changing inks and mixing my own colors.
My latest acquisition is a Sailor Pro Gear with a 21K nib. Smoothe as buttah!!

It's Raining Pens Hallelujah....!!

I've gone round the bend this time with fountain pens. No I didn't get a Montblanc and that will most likely take me years (if ever) for that but I did get a Lamy and it is German and Grrr-reat! Then today, I received a cheap $10.00 Chinese Jinhao pen that is one that the dealer said was a smoothe writer or he would give me my money back. Well, how could I resist? He was correct. It is heavy and really weighs in my hand and it is smoothe as butter......AND a definate keeper even tho the Chinese and I don't agree on Tibet!!

Oh My!! It looks like a Montblanc except no snowflakes on the ends. So who really needs snowflakes on their dang fountain pens? Well obviously for the prices they are selling for, some folks just gotta have 'em. (???)

I have a decent broad point Parker on the way and of course my Pelican Souv.600 with double B nib is due to arrive from Singapore. I am up to my hip bones in pens now. All with wondrous jewel tones of ink. I bought good ink for them on Saturday.

I have been writing all weekend. I wrote 4 long letters and was so proud of my pretty letters and envies. Then I just grabbed my journal and wrote all the crazy stuff that was going through my head just to be able to give them all a good workout and loosening up. It was so fun. I wrote the abc's over and over and over again. Crazy but the pens are writing smoother than ever......

I began my drawing class today. I am not sure what the first class is really about so I will wait til someone posts their lesson and see if that makes sense to me. I think it is probably a very easy exercise and I am just trying to complicate the matter.

DON'T BUY ANYTHING FROM HAUTE DOLL.....EVER!!! THAT IS MY ADVICE THAT I AM PUTTING OUT INTO THE UNIVERSE. I HAVE BEEN BURNED BY THEM BADLY AND AFTER WAITING FOR TWO DANG MONTHS WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WORD FROM THEM, I FIND OUT THAT SOME OF THE THINGS I ORDERED THEY SOLD TO SOMEONE ELSE. I CAN'T DO A THING ABOUT IT BECAUSE THEY NEVER CHARGED MY CARD. IT IS JUST A CASE OF FAVORITISM AMONGST THEMSELVES I BELIEVE. WELL... EVEN THO I AM A CHRISTIAN, I DO BELIEVE IN KARMA. WHAT GOES AROUND WILL COME BACK AROUND AND BITE THEM IN THEIR GREEDY LITTLE BUTTS! BITE HARD KARMA MY FRIEND, BITE REALLY HARD!!!

I had Luther call and get on them this morning and tell them that he is reporting them to the Better Business Bureau and they didn't seem to care a bit...NOR did they apologize for their crazy office system. Never again. Not ever!!! Poor attitudes. My friend ordered over $1000.00 in clothing and they did the very same thing to her. We were both on line when the clothing/shoes/wigs became available. There is no way they sold out in the first five minutes. No way! So we are grumbling and spitting fire today. :o)

Last night, there wasn't anything on t.v. so about 10 o'clock we hit the hot tub. We had such a light show out there. Lightening bugs galore! They were out in force like I have never seen them before and I think after they mated they were going around hoping for seconds......Hmmmmm, little horn-dogs they are!:o)

It was so lovely and all I could think of as I sat there watching them and the shooting stars above us was that my God is an AWESOME God. I love you Lord, with all of my being. Thank you for the flowers, birds, trees, stars, lightening storms and every beautiful thing you created. You give me chill bumps daily.

Well, that is my side of the story and I am stickin' with it!!

I am on the hunt again........

Well, one thing always leads to another for me. As I was waiting on an auction for a doll that looks like the Olsen twins when they were babes, I began to research fountain pens and decided I wanted a Montblanc pen. Whoosh! They are some spendy... they are!!

After studying all day long viewing so many diff. sites, I finally decided on a really nice Pelikan Souv. 600 pen (German) because the cheapy one I have, ($25) writes like a dream so I figured if I get way up near the top of the line, I would have myself one smoothe write. Well, a guy in Singapore (with excellent references) sold me one and he was most excellent with e-mails back and forth and he told me this morning that he already mailed my pen this morning. How cool is that? Great service....especially since I ordered doll clothing from Haute Doll and it is almost a month and they still aren't here and they are really close to me in MN. Drat!

Anyway, I would not hesitate to order from him again. He sells pens that go up to many thousands of dollars so my Pen is like ordering a Bic from him!! sigh!! He treated me as good as if I had bought a highly sought after vintage pen.

My goal IS still a real MontBlanc even if it has to be a used one. I just gotta.....!!!

We Survived!!! (P.T.L.!!)

It was totally awesome. Saw many baby ducklings, and some butterflies that I have never seen before....Indigo blue and orange. Wowzer!

We ran into the river bank a couple of times.....barely missed two huge boulders in the river, and were a couple of clowns for a family having a picnic lunch.....sigh!

It was so quiet and serene and peaceful. (Awesome God we worship!!!!)

We were on the 5 mile ride at high noon, it was far enough! I was so slathered in Sunscreen that I looked ready to pop into the oven to roast. I didn't get sunburned, amen! Three of my meds. warn me about not getting into the sun......

I always tease Luther that there are no fish in the 10,000 Minnesota Lakes because it is all just 'melted snow'. No self respecting fish would ever live in that stuff... Well guess what! I was the only one that saw this huge fish jump straight out of the water. It was about 18 inches long....family feedin' size and it had a pink belly. That is all I saw.....and I DID see it....That is my story and I'm stickin' to it!!!