POKEY PEAS REFUGEES CHALLENGE for August 2017

nylene, so how is Steve doing? And, Good for you! You should get some rest.

grammadee, Your sympathy care is beautiful.

Strap in ya'll I'm venting about my day yesterday.

My last day of July (yesterday) had me up at 4:30 am. I had to pee, and since I had to get up in just over an hour to get ready for my day, I just got up. I was able to upload my 2017 photos from January through May to Sams Club and get them ordered. Hurray. I took care of the chickens and then showered. By 7:30, I realized I was hungry so I made a small bowl of grits. Woke up ds and let him know I was leaving. Forgot that I had to drive super slow with the dogs in tow. Our beagle gets car sick. I only had to pull over once for him to throw up though, so that was an improvement but I'm still a bit late (5 minutes). The dogs were to go to the groomers and then to the vet. Since the vets were all booked, but they needed the grooming appointment, their vet who was doing surgeries yesterday was going to squeeze them in between procedures. I just couldn't be there. The groomers were down one person and the others were splitting up her dogs. I dropped them off at 9. The vet had them down for around 11am. I ran lots of errands and was down to just needing to pick up milk and ice cream at 1pm. So I called the vet to check. They just received the dogs at 12:30. It's going to be awhile. Normally, I drop them off for a grooming or vet procedure and they tell me a couple of hours or late afternoon and I don't even get my errands run before they call. It was way too hot and humid yesterday to go walking, so I went to M's. I hadn't brought a book or anything to kill time with as I hadn't even expected to be in town this long. While I'm in M's a torrential downpour starts. I'm already ready to leave but while away several more minutes waiting for it to ease. Finally I can take it any longer and check out. I bought a book about praying taking from the war room movie and a little devotional and some Bible journaling stamps. I stand outside with another couple of customers who are waiting for the rain to let up. We are against the building and there is easily an 8'-10' covering over the front of the store. The wind picks up and the rain sprays us intermittently. Each of us in turn makes our way back inside the store. A clerk walks past and I quickly ask if they sell umbrellas. She directs me and I get the mother of all umbrellas and head back to the cashier stands. As I round the corner, the rain has slackened. I return the umbrella to the stand and dash for my van. I tend to always park at the ends away from all of the store entrances and bulk of vehicles as I get those extra steps. As I pass the large truck that had obstructed my vehicle from view, I yelped. I had left my passenger and driver side windows down at least 5" as it was so hot. Soaked!!! Luckily in the back I had a thick rag rug that never made it inside after being laundered. I used that on my seat, but my back still became grossly wet as the rug would not cover the bottom of the seat and the back. I then realize that my phone is almost dead. I go buy a charger and head for the library since I know they have the outlets on the tables around the facility that I could use to charge my phone. At 3:40ish I am almost charged, I decide that's good enough and I really should eat lunch. Since I'm sure it's only a matter of minutes left before I'll be able to get the dogs, I decide to go to a grocery store where they have the milk we like. I figure I can just get something there. I'll eat it and wait in the lot. When they call, I can run in for the milk, ice cream and frozen blueberries. I make it to the store, and the vet's office calls. They are in the middle of the procedures. They had an emergency on there side and apologized for the long delay. They tell me I can come get the dogs at 6pm. It's 4pm. I go get something to eat and sit in the car in the parking lot for an hour and a half. I could have gone out to eat, but I was already tired of driving all over town.

DD had a bad day, which isn't surprising as it was hot and humid and those days set her off. But Logan did such a fabulous job taking care of her. He made her oatmeal for breakfast. I had made soup the day before and he reheated that for her for both lunch and dinner. He made himself mac and cheese. After I got home, he helped me unload the van, and made me popcorn and closed the chute for the chickens in the evening. He did leave an overflowing pile of dishes in my sink and on my counter, but for as wonderful as he was I didn't say a word and did them this morning.

Sorry to share. I know it's a long vent like post. It's funny now, but I was so tired yesterday evening. It's nobodies fault - just one of those days where multiple things don't happen the way they normally do.

On to better things.

Hello Ladies

LisaDV - OMG - you totally deserve a spa day! It is so refreshing though how upbeat you are after that disaster of a day is said and done. I think too many people dwell on those type of things and it brings them down.
grammadee - your card is beautiful. I have such a difficult time making sympathy cards, I think I should sit down and make them when there is not an occasion and have them ready, because when I need to extend those sympathetic wishes I just can not create.
kellyr21 - Beautiful, Stunning, Gorgeous. I love it. You are so artistic. And of course this one rings my chimes because of all the use of yellow. I just love yellow it is such a cheery color to me. Recipients of your works are very, very lucky indeed.
nylene - great news on DH recovery, sounds like all is moving in the right direction.

I am planning on creating something, I have been working on organizing my trading card collection which has been sitting in boxes for years. Finally got all the cards logged into an online database, and I am know working on putting them into binders. I am using my scrapbooking supplies to create place holders where I am missing cards from a set.

Have a wonderful rest of your day, and see you tomorrow.

Good evening! Nice to see you maribeth and your new project sounds interesting!

nylene I am trying to do some scrapping! I was trying to do something as my background for my page but it was not working out like I wanted. So going to print my photos and do it another way! Our garden is finally starting to produce. Bob would not plant anything early so it is just starting. I can't wait to see your layout. Your cousin camps are so much fun!

grammadee how is your DH feeling after his procedure? Sorry to hear about your loss. I do not know how you keep up with all the traveling and and your garden and preparing food from your garden. Wears me out.

Waving a big hi to LisaDV, kellyr21, msliz, @jana and everyone else who visits here!

Love your new look and avatar kellyr21!

kellyr21, I like your new avatar! I left you love the other day on your cheerful wall art -- such pretty colors. I can't believe summer concerts are already over. It doesn't seem possible to be so late already. What type of painting class are you taking - oil, acrylic or watercolor? I'd love to do one of each.

nylene, good for you for getting some oxides. I can't wait to see what you create.

maribeth, hurray for organizing! You always seems so well organized. Do you have any more camping trips planned this year?

scrapincin, it's so frustrating when things aren't working out as you have it planned in your head. I hope you get it worked out. Enjoy your veggies.

Thank you all for commiserating with me on my plight of Monday. I knew I could count on your compassion. Tuesday was just making up around the house for missing Monday. (i.e. getting that large pile of dishes washed and put away along with a few other chores). Wednesday I roughly finished organizing my wood stamps into categories and even got all of the Kids/Baby stamps into Evernote. I also put together the scraps of fabric to make a doll quilt for grandniece so it’ll coordinate with her quilt.

Today we’re off to the DDS and hopefully afterwards to the eye dr.’s to pick up their glasses. Then we’re going to the library. We will probably go out to eat too. Because of dd’s limitations, we only go to one spot and it’s a bit pricey, but so good. I love it when we can go out all together!

So I'm off.

Yesterday I was reorganizing an album called "friends". We had done some family pics through the years for a friend and I took my camera to their wedding and very descretly, I hope, and took some pics.

She recently died and their children are still very young. I remembered she had told me her wedding pics were horrible.. the photographer had done a terrible job. I offered to help her with them but she wasn't interested.
I pulled all my pics of them out and put them in separate album and will give them to him and the kids in the future.

While I was in this process, I found the battery for my old netbook that I had been looking for. One of my grandchildren needs it for a keyboard class..I had given up on finding it. It was behind the albums . So I'm very happy to have that charged up and ready!

@elaynef - what a wonderful jester, they will love it.
@gammadee - great card, very effective with the use of the slant and the multi-directional arrows.

LisaDV - great it was national chocolate chip cookie day! Did you take photos? you can make a page! Only one tree because hubby just wants to keep is simple this year. It is hard work doing what we do every year, he is getting older (70) and he just really wants a laid back Christmas.

Hey Pokeys. You have all been so busy. grammadee I love your card. nylene that page is amazing. Your Sillhouette skills are impressive. @elaynef what a generous thing to do. kellyr21 great card. maribeth I'm working on organizing my craft space, but I have to declutter first. I have over two feet of paper to donate so far. Stamps and ink pads are next.

DH and I went to the mountains for five days. We had a great time and I took some awesome photos. Our hotel had no cell service and very spotty wifi which was quite an adjustment. I'm so used to being connected all the time. I was home for a little over a day and then headed to my mom's. It is my uncle and aunt's 60th anniversary lunch today. It is a two hour drive to get there and we wil all be missing my dad.

I've made four cards that I hope to upload next week. Have a good weekend.

((((Hugs)))) justjac as you spend the weekend with your family. Hoping shared memories of your dad help you all as you celebrate your aunt & uncle's anniversary. Safe travels.

Glad you got your bg to work, scrapincin. Can't wait to see your project.

First on my agenda today is pea shelling. After that, I am not sure what else. I might fit in a couple of bd cards somewhere, but before much more creating I really need to do some organizing in here. With little projects done quickly and spaced apart in time and theme, the usual mess has become overwhelming--even for me. It's a chore to find things and when I do there is not much space to work with them. Trouble is that with the limited time I have to do it lately, I want to PLAY, not sort and put away. Hey maribeth: want to bring some of that organizational energy up north?

Next weekend is our family reunion, organized by a couple of nieces, and one of the activities they want to do is scrapbooking. Last night I chatted with my dn and offered to bring some supplies and tools and my Sephy printer to the event, which she was delighted to hear. So I guess I will need to do some organizing just to figure out what to pack up for this. We need to chat a bit more to figure out what she envisions for the activity, and what is possible. At one of our reunions, eleven years ago, justjac came and set up a scrapping table for us and we each created a page. I have the original scrapbook, which I had scanned and made into a photobook at Staples. I will be bringing that to the reunion for people to go through.

Happy Sunday! Glad you all liked my new avatar. Thought I would use a more recent picture. It has been HOT out here but I am staying cool. We normally don't have humid weather but for the last several weeks it has been. Hopefully whatever is causing it will end soon. (Fingers crossed) We are having a nice weekend. My dh had a day off on Friday and that was fun. I went to HL yesterday and got my Cricut mat. I had gone to M's and they didn't have the size I needed so I was glad HL did.

Today was church and then straight home to veg out most of this day. LOL! Oh, my new art class on Thursdays is acrylic painting. It was fun. We painted a night scene with two birds. It was good for me to stretch my skills to learn something new and different. I will share a pic of it this week. The class will go all this month.

LisaDV- That is so nice you and your dd will be taking a sewing class. Did you sew in the past? I started a few years ago when my mil gave me her machine. I do want to circle back to it and learn to make something too. Also, your ds is a good cook. Does he cook often?

justjac- Your trip sounds like it was relaxing. Glad you were able to get away.

Waving hi to you all and will check back soon. Have a restful evening.