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10:41 pm: >< a long delay in writing in my journals again.........
I am sadly remiss in that I amnot keeping my journals written in daily. I get up and say, lets wait til evening and then when evening comes around, either the weather is so i am not online, or we are gone off until later in the evening or else I just plain end up forgetting to post in evening. I will try to do better and daily from now on, I wll get myself back into a routine again eventually.....
I will skip to this weekend mostly as I forgot to check the date I last posted in my journal before I started writing this tonight.
Friday the 24th, we went up on the bus and waited for daughter to get off work, then we ran errands, had supper out at Chinese Buffet and after getting home and taking care of the groceries, I packed up backpack for te two days of the three day folk festival here in out town.
Saturday turned out very close and sticky weather and we waited until 3pm before we went downtown to the festival and luckily the clouds kept the sun in for the most part, we enjoyed the food and the groups performing and at 8:15, wich turned out to be 8:30pm, we listened and watched the Tibetien Minks performs their chants and spiritual dances and songs,we had to sit outside the guge tent to get close enough to see anything and halfway through it all of a suddent the rains poured down on us all in a micro burst of heavy drenching rains, about 5 minutes after that, we saw lightening flashes and 10 minutes later, even though we could only see the lightening and not here the thunder ( which meant the storm was a long wase away) we decided to get to the van as we had quite a walk to get to it, amid thankfully far off lightening flashes we got to the van and headed home, about a 15 minute drive for us, we got home and lightening was sharper, but thankfully still could not here any thunder, we hurried inside and the lightening continued for at least another near hour, only a few rumblers thunder way, way off we heard, then the rains started up again. Thankfully the storm skirted us and we did not gt the worst of it. We went to bed around midnight and 3 minutes i bed when my hubby said, he saw lightening again, we didnt hear any thunder thankfully and we fell asleep shortly after that and no more storms during the night, or today either thankfully for the festival and for everyone. Sure sorry for everyone who got the sever thundestorms however.
Today after church, we went back down to the festival and watched the Tibetien Monks again, they did 45 minutes today, had food goodies and then went and bought a few items from the Monks, a cd of their chants and daughter got 2 bumper stickers. The sun stayed out most all day even with a lot of clouds around for most of the day and was again very close and muggy, we had our hats on and umbrellers over us, but the heat and all got to us around 4pm, so we decided to go get into air conditioning awhile and cold drinks and cool down. We went to McD's, had coffee shakes and cold soda and sat and read in our book about near 2 hours, then came home around 5:30pm.
I finished my 8th book for this month and started two others, one a romance/murder mystery and the other a spiritual romance novel.I always have at least 2 books going at one time. the murder mysteries and sci-fi or fanytasy stories are for when I have longer time to read days and then the romances ones are for short reading or evening reading times.
Daughter doe not have to be up til 6:30am tomorrow, so I will stay uplonger tonight and get at least 6 hrs. sleep time in maybe 6 1/2 hrs. depending what time we go to bed tonight of course. :)
housework forenoons and sitting out and reading and talking in the afternoons every day is good and sunny. :)
In 2 weeks, we will go to our first craft show for the start of the fall selling season for us. :)
Will start in working severral hours a day again on our wide variety of crafts we make for the shows. :)
Thats about it for now, til tomorrow folks, have a great night and day tomorrow. :)

12:46 pm: capture the moment....
We forget that at times, to capture the moment, when it presents itsef if it is possible, we should let the world go on its way and embrace it, gather it to oneself and to share it with our mates, or our families and sometimes with our friends, for once we let that timeless caring moment slip away for non pressing daily events, that special and very precious time is lost forever to us, never to be recaptured again in the essence it was given upon that day , that time, that feeling. As I walk my spiritual life nad reflect on many things, when a day happens that one is just doing the everyday things in life, if a special moment comes around, we should embrace it no matter what time of day or night it happens.
This morning at 8:30am, I saw a hummingbird at our feeders and I stopped what I was doing to be in that moment, that endless special time eo embrace the beauty of the scene before me at that time, at that place.
As we grow older and our bodies change, we should be aware that any special feelings that we have at any time, when that special feeling happens to us , if nothing pressing is urgent at the time, we should forget the " did I do this or that" or " I had this planned to do today" altho it was nothing that was of utmost needs at that moment and we could set that part of our life aside awhile and go with the special feeling that was happening at that moment. Sometimes one person will feel this more strongly than the other in a relationship, but one thing I have learned as well as had been told to me by a very special person, was that in a relationship when one felt something at the oment that the other was not in that space at the time, to open up and embrace what the partner is offering whenever it should happen, grasp the moment, share the moment, be in the moment, for that time and place and moment will never come again for you, if you let it slide away, it is then lost for all eternity. If we have no pressing engagements, then we should be carefree and embrace that special moment in time inour relationships, to hold, to cherish, forever.
As we grow older, try to remember not to push aside any of lifes special moments especially in a relationship when we are not pressed for an engegement or appointment at the time, if we are just doing our everyday day, then set aside the small stuff for the bigger moment in our lifes at this time, this place, this hour, then after the special time has fullfilled its purpose we go back once again to the everyday part of our lifes, replete in the feeling that we did not push aside that special moment in time God has graced us with.
As you see folks I am in a contemplative space today. This is something I feel so strongly, that I felt not only in my Spiritual journal, but also to share for my daily journal. Sadly we get to caught up in the everyday hours of our lives, we think we have to do this, this and this and that those everyday things cannot wait when a special moment arrives, Now I do not mean we should let any appointments that we have shoud be shoved aside for that is not sensible at the time, but when a special time and moment suddenly come then we need to stop the everyday time clock thought and then nurture and embrace that special moment in our lives. There is nothing of our everyday loves that is so important that it should overshadow lifes special times in our relationships, for once we get to old to skip and run through the fields of lifes special gifts, we can then look back and know that we embraced all those times in our lives and we can then hold them in our hearts and minds forever.

09:07 am: busy busy busy :)
Well my daily posting is once again getting somewhat neglected sadly. Been a very busy time since I last posted here. Part of it is the script frenzy writing contest. I find it a lot harder to write a script than a story, so I am having slow progress at it. I have after a week and a half of blank brain writing ion the script gotten back into writing on it again. Have as of last night put in 4,0011 words and I do have 20 more pages to write over, but havent got to that yet. Will have to take myself to task and starting Tuesday sit down until I get all the handwritten put into my computer.
However, since I turned the script back into a story for now ( until I reset it into script form) I am going right along on the story now for the contest. :)
I will try after we get back tonight to put in a lot even though I am finding out it does not go in right yet. I will make a note and space and get it into the computer. I may even get to do some tomorrow for where is Fathers Day, we will not be holding a writers group meeting and when we come back from visiting hubbys dad and family, we will be here at home and can write then until time for our get together and Fathers Day BBQ at sometime between 2 to 4pm tomorrow depending on the weather as is forecast for thunderstorms cahnce of tomorrow afternoon. We will be having friends that are very close like family come up for the BBQ with us tomorrow. :)
I do take every afternoon when is warm and sunny and go out and work some outside and sit under shade tress and talk with hubby and read in my books, for summer here is short sadly and want to enjoy every day can sitting outside with a good book and talking. :)
Next week daughter goes back onto her 7am start time work schedule, this past week she filled in for a friend who was on her vacation and in just one week of the old schedule for a 4 or 5am start time and daughters ( mine too) routine was very messed up again. The 7am at least start time gets us back onto a good routine schedule for us both. :)
Well, must get everything ready here for when we go to our writers meeting around nootime, so will catch you all sometime tomorrow folks. :)

06:35 pm: wet and rainy day.......
Good evening everyone. :)
Today we are getting the remmants of tropical storm Barry, we are to get the rains on and off and possible thunderstorms from today through until late tomorrow night, then suppose to be sunny and warmer until fri. when again we are to see rains come in, the weekend is suppose to be sunny and hoe so in more ways than one, as we have a craft show on Saturday and then on sunday, we will go hold a one day weekend writers group get together at tim Hortons in Brewer. Sure hope we see some fellow wirtiers come and join us during the weekends we can host the get togethers. This is new from the writers contest people we are with earch Nov. and this one is called Script frenzy and is to see if you can write a script of 20,000 words or more in a month. so June will now be a script writers contest time for all writeres who want to pound the keyboards in a timed so try writing conest in a months time and so many thousands of words as well. :) Tonight, I will start typing in the handwritten pages I did over Fri. sat. and sun, at our writers get togethers. I have 26 pgs. to get typed over and then go on from there each day. :)
Haven't been reading much latey, but have been working on crafts for the upcoming show this coming saturday. :) Will take some time and go sit in the shade of a sunny afternoon and read though this week adn I just might get 2 books that are nearly finished read before the weekend. :)
Will srat goodie baking by Wednesday, for wed, and thurs. will baek and set the goodies into the freezer and then on Fri. will bake the chip cookies for the show. We will load up the van Friday before dark and then we can sleep in til time to go over to unload and set up. :)
Today I mostly played catch up on the computer different things I needed and wanted to do. Tomorrow I will do more housework then I got at today, did get some in but not as much as usual.
We got to sleep in til 6:30am this morning as daughter didn't have to be to work til 9am. We get to sleep in til 7:30am tomorrow morning as she does not go in til 10am tomorrow, she will work from 10am til 5pm tomorrow. Then she said we sleep in wed. til 8:30am if we want to as she is 11am to 5pm on wed. and wednesday night we have a yearly supper to go to. :)
well thats about it for today, so I will catch you all tomorrow sometime folks. :)

10:03 pm: Writing contest time! :)
Yep! it is a new writing contest for this year, hosted by the National writers contest people who host the November one each year. This writing contest is to write a script of 20,000 words or more in one month, this is for the month of June. The start time was at midnight last night and will continue until midnight the 30th. Although I am not a script writer, I am giving it the "old college try" as they say and is fun to be writing again and seeing what I can come up with. :) My script will be a futuristic ( at present time) detective type story, so we will see how it goes. :)
We are settling into a more solid routine now in going to bed and getting up, most days I am able to stay up all day from 4:30am on, sometimes when have a late tv night, I have to go back for several hours more sleep in morning, but that is not always all the time thankfully. Sure is great to have a day schedule to be getting things done in and time to have  fun with games, reading, movies and whatever else. :)
Nearly through another book already, actually, I am nearly through 2 books. I have a romance one I read whenever I do not have a lot of time to read, then I have a fantasy one to enjoy when I can sit and read awhile days. They are both nearly read already. :)
Today we hosted the combo kick off for the script writers contest, plus  for anyone interested, to join in on talking with us and or writing on their scripts in the company of other writers. :)Tomorrow, we will host from 11am til 5 or 7pm the writers get together and then Sunday, we will host from 1pm til 5 or 6pm.
Of course, we will all keep working on our scripts during the week, but hopefully others will come and join us on the weekends we are free during this month.
Got the lawns mowed yesterday, now we need to get more gas for the mower as will run out soon, so will try to go get gas in the big can someday next week to have on hand for mowing. I need to get the weed whacker out and learn to use it t get at the areas the mower cannot get into also.
Finally, a nice warmer night, warm enough to have windows open again, after having to close them for several days again.
Well folks thats all for tonight, catch you all tomorrow night. I am trying to get back to a daily write up routine n my journals as well. :)

11:37 am: retreat weekend
Well folks, I am a bit tardy in posting about our retreat, but having a great time can make one somewhat tired out, so I have been mostly vegging out until today.
We left here for the retreat on Friday at 10am in light rain which at times got heavier and then the spray from cars in front of us on interstate made driving not so good for sure, especially the 3 lane area for several miles before we get off the interstate for the fairly shorter drive to the retreat.
We were lucky in that we got all our stuff into our room without it getting too wet, as it had let up a lot for a bit before it once again started raining steadily.
It is a 4 minute at least walk between the guest house and the church monestary, so we donned raingear and took umbrellas to help protect fromt he rains every day.
Saturday was rainy as well, with spells it would let up for a bit at least. and Saturday is when you have the most conferences and as they still were not finished with the gym makeover, we had the longer walk betwen the guest house and the church 4 times during Saturday, so rainwear got a workout for sure lol. :)
Sunday was cloudy, but not rainy and after breakfast, then a prayer service, then the last conference meeting, was time to go to Mass at 10am, after that we finished packing the van from what we did not take out Saturday night and by then was time for lunch and after lunch we headed back home. For us it is a 4 hr. one way trip, 3 hr. drive and the other hour for rest and potty breaks. We got back home a around 5pm, to a frantic kitty who though she had our friends she loves visit with her was not like her folks of course, so she was a mighty happy camper giving us all kinds of attention and holding for sunday night into monday. lol :) the 2 bunnies were likewise glad to see us and be held again too. :)
It was sunny here the last 2 days, but chilly on northerly winds at various strengths blwoing. Today is likewise sunny and warming up more, though the winds still remain somewhat cool, they are warming up, Thurs. and Fri. to be humid, muggy and into the 80's, then Sat. to be back into the upper 60's and sunny.
Have set out the table and a chair for me so that later this afternoon hubby and i will get to sit outside and read and talk and enjoy the sunny and warmer day today. :)
I have a tray of flowers to plant today, has been to chilly to transplant them, but today will be great to do that before the muggy tomorrow.
Need to get the high grass mowed out back before the rains come back sunday and monday weather calling for again.
Daughter works 10am to 5pm tonight, we decided not to BBQ tonight and I will make a big batch of our top of stove rice with chicken a cream sauce over it and turkey cut up and peas and carrots all mixed together for tonights supper.
Have a few windows open even though is still a touch cool on my hands feels good otherwise, and to hear the birds singing and chattering is so lovely and the fresh air in the house again is so good . :)
We are all 3 excited about the upcoming June writers contest, to write a script of 20,000 words or more in a month. We will also host each weekend we are here for a writer group get together weekend times from 9 or 10am til around 6 or 7pm weekends. during June contest. :)
We will be taking another trip in June the 21st, through the 24th and we will come back home the evening of the 24th. We are going to go to the PortCon anime convention in Portland Maine and looking forward to it so much. :)
I will probably get a chance to finish a book today as have one nearly read. :)
Well I suppose in between being online, I will startin on housework as well in between. :)
Catch you all later folks. :)

10:04 pm: a very sad day today :(
It is with a sad and heavy heart that I through my tears write this in my journal tonight. :( Our very dear old cat snuggies passed away in her sleep last night. :( She would have be 16 yrs. old next month. SHe was feeling well and doing great, eating good and everything was normal yesterday and last night. This morning daughter woke up at 4am and found snuggies had passed on in her kitty sleep. Thankfully she did not suffer, nor was she ill, that is a blessing. But we are deeply saddened that she has passed away and we will miss her so very very much. :(

05:55 pm: Finally caught back up in a sense again folks....
It is hard to believe how I say "I will get to that a bit later today" .... and then the day and evening goes by and you do other fun things on the computer or watch tv or a movie or write in your story or read or craftwork and then you are getting ready for bed and realise sometimes that you didnt do what you had plan of daily writing in your journal or in my case journals, as I have three journals... this one. my Spiritual journal and my journal in the gaia community which is a fun get together and gaming site, that all three of us are in.
I try to write at least daily in gaia journal and then copy and aste it into this daily journal as they will maniny be the same , however, i have been thinking that this journal at times will reflect more than I will put into the gaia site as this is mt primary daily journal for writing in.
I know that I need to get myself back into a daily routine for everything again.
Some days like today however, I am draggy and tired and just sitting and vegging out to renergize is in order, however, I could still be constructive and get more done here when I am on the comouter... how long does it take to post entries in journals each day... well sometimes not long, then times like today, the thoughts are plentyful, but that is no excuse "WHY" I do not set aside a time within a couple of hours later in the day, toward evening, that I can post in all three journals each day.
It is however called getting so" involved" with games on computer, that one forgets, ( meaning I ) to do the daily journal writing and then it is time for bed and has to be set aside until the following day.... and from past experience, I know that setting things aside can lead to many days without writing in my journals, or accomplishing much each day in anything else from housework tp writing on my sdtories, in my journal, reading, paitning, craftworking and whatever else I do that needs to be done daily,and should be done daily, sadly, it then ends up getting left undone.
Then, before I know it, I am getting "WAY" behind in everything again. :(
I am not trying to make excuses, only stating the truth, in that once I let things slide, then it ends up being "WAY" behind and I then end up having to try and catch up again with everything to get back onto a reasonable and hopefully regular sechedule in all I need to do and love to do.
My journaling is the least extensive in a way to catch back up in my journal, though daily thoughts are fresh in ones mind and tend to scatter away on the wind so to speak when left unwritten that very day.
As for the craftworking, painting pictures and writing stories, these should be done daily as well, and the housework definately should be got at daily, for once the housework is backed up it is VERY hard tyo catch it all up to be done up daily as it should be done each day, for by doing it each day means less longer work and a quicker clean up of the house each day.....
I need to get back onto a good diet and excerise plan daily again and to balance enough sleeptime, even though will be brooken up all but the weekends, and to get back into a good routine again, that is one of the reasons, I stay draggy, not eating good or on a good schedule can mess one up bad and it doesme and I know this, owever, I do not stick to it the way I know I need to and should do each day. But I am keeping at it and will get back on track in this area again as well....
NOW, to get all this together each day,as it should be, which is my objective as of today onward.... Today I am draggy, partly my allergies are acting up again from being outside yesterday in the winds blowing the pollen and old fall foliage around, but that is still no excuse for not doing what I can get done today... ie: my journaling for one, put in a load of tops that cannot be dried in dryer and until I can get them outside again, need to be hung up in the bathroom to dry a couple of days, the put in another load and do at least one load od laundry in the dryer this evening now that I am feeling more myself this last half hour again.... also work on some of the dishes that are backed up as well in between being onine this evening with friends and playing games and talking.... Then tomorrow start in on a more regular routine of houeswork, meals, diet plan and a better eating schedule daily too. :) will also start back on the extra work we have here in the livingroom, we are redoing the whole livingroom and each day we get the chance to work at it we do. Yesterday before the rains that did come in this morning, when we got back home, daughter and i moved the second computer stand a friend gave to daughter into the livingroom, we have it out of husbands way enought and I was going to gt at it today, but the allergies bummed me out so much, that vegging out was about all I was good for and then I started to fall asleep at the computer playing games and I got in 7 1/2 hrs. sleep. Once the allergies cleared up some, I now feeling better than I was, so I will get at the laundry and some of the dishes and will finish in all three journals today before going to bed for sure. :)
The two things I do make sure I do and they are a part of when I have to sit and veg out, is daily reading in books and in working on our crafts as well each day. :)
I do want to get back into a daily routine of writing on my stories as they are asking for attention again, and getting back into my daily morning spiritual reading and prayers as well. Getting back into painting daily would be great again too. :) Now, to get all this back together daily again. :)
Hubby says this evening we will watch another episode of" Doctor Who" we have on dvd cool! :)
Well folks I will stop for now before I awrite a novel her and catch you all tomorrow. :)

04:00 pm: all of these past entry from gaia siet journal.....
<td class="postbubble tl" width="4"></td> <td rowspan="2" class="postbubble postbody">.looksaround sheepishly< >< I am so far behind in my journals andemails we havebeen so busy here lately. Having fun and since my lastpost on the 13th, the next day we got slammed with a snow/sleet/freezing rain storm and what a mess it was to get hand shoveled out aswas too wet and heavy to go through the snowblower. Took all weekend toget the driveway and enough of the walkway to get out to the vancleared away, then for 3 days after had to chip at the frozen ice andsnow to finish clearing out the driveway and walkway areas. It warmedup last week and with some rain, then snow finally has nearly allmelted off this week and the ground in some areas is starting to dryout... soon will be raking time in our yards. My allergies will give me a time and then some when raking up the olddead leaves and mold on the ground to clear the yards again.
with the winds and the ground getting bare again, my and our allergiesare kicking up BIG time with allergy colds and sinuses and all, that inturn, sets daughters asthma off more and my borderline asthma more aswell.
Today rigel had a Dr. appointment early and we walk from the mallto the Dr. office and the strong and gusty winds were cold all day,plus blowing around all the sand, and leaves and molds and all, myallergies are a mess tonight for sure. as is daughters
Well, I will try and keep a daily journal in here folks again for sure.
I finished a 4th book last week and am nearly finished another one andwill fisnish that this week or weekend in between the housework, beingonline and playing games and more each day.
Catch you all later on folks. </td>

03:58 pm: march 13th this one.......
Well folks, it's been awhile since I last posted, mainly because I beenbusy and kept forgetting I had not posted before I got offline for thenight. ><
Worked all last week at candy baking, getting housework mostly caughtupp and then 2 days of baking cookies for the show as well. Saturdaythe 10th, was the craft show day and also our Star Trek club monthlymeeting day as our club meets the second Saturday of each month. So Iheld down the fort at the show while hubby and daughter went to theStar Trek meeting. Then they came back for rest of the afternoon fromaround 2pm til close of show at 5pm. We packed up, bought a few neededgroceries and then unpacked the van and vegged out the rest of theevening til bedtime.
Sunday we served at church and daughter brought the host down forcommunion, then we came right back home and vegged out the rest of theday.
I got myself into a bout of exhaustion, so have had to get as muchsleep time in as possible and take it easy in between to rechargemyself again. Same for this week on taking it easy and getting in asmuch sleep time as possible to recharge as we will have a busy weekend,for on Saturday, we go with our Star trek club in uniform to help from8am to 2pm at the red cross blood donor center, we will be walkers andget the people their food and snacks and drinks to recharge them aftergiving blood donation. Then we will head across town for a shorter dayfor our writers meeting and then back home to veg out a bit beforebedtime for Sunday we greet at church and then after Mass, we stay andhold our monthly Franciscan meeting from noon to 2pm, then back home toveg out the rest of the day.
Working on crochet and knitting work for craft shows awhile each dayand getting in reading time which is a very good recharger for me aswell. I am over halfway through another book already.
Hubby is helping me redo our bedroom yet again, seems as though theclothes closet in our bedroom and our dressers overflow the room afterawhile and need to be tamed back int o the closet and dressers onceagain. Got the closet finished yesterday and today got a good portiondone on one area in bedroom. Tomorrow will be more of the same workingin the bedroom and then I need to tackle a partly broken down bookshelfand take out all the books and put in the new shelf (which is stillsitting here in livingroom) and change them around and get the booksonto the new bookcase and see if we can salvage the old metal one,hoping it will only need to be tightened on the screws that hold ittogether, so we can still use it for a bookshelf again.
Well folks, thats about it for tonight, will try and keep logged in daily to my journals each day.

03:57 pm: this is from March 4th......
Well today I have been taking it easy on lame and sore muscles from theshoveling I did yesterday. Playing games online, chatting with friendsonline, having company for awhile this afternoon and watching tvtonight from 8pm on we will have tv tonight.
I baked a double batch brownies from two brownie mixes we keep on hand for fast brownie making for us.
Got in a bit of housework, but it will be tomorrow after we get backfrom a trip in town and then I will tackle more catching up of thehousework from over the weekend as well as laundries to do. ThenTuesday on will be baking each day and freezing the cookies and cakesand cupcakes for the show this Saturday, plus will be making my part ofthe chocolate making and then daughter will work on her part ofchocolate making when she home after work into the evening each day andnight this week.
Working again on some more crochet work for the shows as well as mydishcloths, the large ones I make were way low, so crocheting up avariety of the multi colors into dishcloths again. Need to work on some sewing projects this week as well, have about 2dozen silk scarves to sew up and want to find the child's vest patternto make up in Easter cloth I have on hand as well for this show.
Well best get things caught up on computer before 8pm tv time, until tomorrow folks.

03:57 pm: still catching up.......
Today saw a high temp. of 42 (F) and sunny most of the day until itcoudedover around 3pm, sadly the cloud cover we are now not able to gowatch the lunar eclipse tonight, it started at 6pm and rigel says willbe over b y 8pm, bummer! was looking forward to seeing it too.>sigh<
To top it all off, we just got over a snowstorm that dumped 8 inchessnow in our area, then drifts were higher, plus from 3pm through thenight last night, we got sleet and freezing rain, so made the snowheavy and wet halfway down into the snow, so when the snow blowercouldn't take care of it, plus the areas where the blower cannot getinto, I had to shovel the rest of the snow away, I am stiff and lameand sore tonight after that for sure and to top it all off , now ourlocal weather says 2 inches snow overnight. I sure will be glad for warm weather and bare ground again for sure.
I read 5 books for the month of February, one less than I read inJanuary, so pretty good for me, as I love my reading and all else I doeach day for sure.
I finished my first book for March yesterday.
Housework and meal cooking took a backseat today, so will get at thattomorrow, as well as work on an area daughter needs to have use of acraft table and cleared and ready for her candymaking she does as wewill have a craft show o the 10th, of this month. All next week, I willdo the baking of sweets to take to the show along with some of ourcraftwork to sell.
Going to watch tv tonight at 9pm to after midnight, then will be bed for us when its done for that show for sure.
Monday and all week, I will put in more time not only in the baking,but also on a few new crafts we want to add in this year to sell andwhat I get ready can go with us this show.
Catch you all tomorrow sometime folks.

03:56 pm: Catching up........
WOW! another lovely mildish day for the 5th straight day we have for ahigh temp between 38 to 40 degrees and most those days sunny all day . Was a lovely 31 temp. at 1:30am this morning and when I went back to bed for 5 hr. sleep time, it was at 30 degrees. Saw 40 degrees around 1pm and sunny most of the day, been some cloudcover at times, but sun been out most the day and melting and finallysoftening and breaking up the hard crust and icy snow we have here, sonow it will start melting finally. > happy dancing<
Staying on computer today from 1pm til around 7 or 8pm at least, thenwe have our first baseball games of the season for warm ups startingtonight at 7pm. Baseball on tv again yeah!
Tomorrow a major housework day, as I want to do a lot in livingroom andget that completely back to space and where things should stay.
If and hopefully it will stay at least this mild temps. and even moreso and then I can get the things out into the garage that need to goout and stay out there for more space in livingroom and to clear outthe spare room as daughter will need to take on another boarder again.We had turned the spare room from a renting room into our craft/storageroom, and been sorting out what can and cannot go out to stay in garageof our craftwork we do. Then when get the spare room ready again torent out will get an ad in the paper.
I finished my 4th book for this month and am halfway throughanother story, but will not get that year before tomorrow, so that willmake me 4 books I read for February.
My dear mom in law is doing better each day thankfully after her majorheart surgery last Friday morning, today dad in law said they moved herfrom ICU back to her private room, very encouraging ,however both dad and mom in law are trying to fins out why they keepsedating her when she doesn't want it because it makes swallowingdifficult for her when she is on the sedation and has to then have afeeding tube put in to get her foods for now. Now that she is back inher own room, we can go see her at anytime again thankfully, so Friday,we will go and see her as tomorrow daughter works until 4pm as theschedule stands right now and then she has to get up for a 5am go in towork on Friday morning, so we will go see her Friday and through theweekend and daily when possible until she is able to go back homeagain.
Time to go put in a load of laundry, then back here in gaia and multi tasking as well.

11:19 pm: sunny and mild today :)
Yep! sunny and bit milder out today, go up to at least 30 today and with thewinds not blowing for a change, felt a lot better out for sure todaywhen I would go in and out a few times until our pizza party and startrek movies and shows we watched rest of afternoon into the evening. (10pm)
Have done up part of the dishes and the rest can wait til tomorrow. Iwill get back up in a bit and do some more of the straightening upbefore bedtime and then will finish that also tomorrow.
Did get one area of the livingroom redone before had the party today,so that much started, now rest of the week, will finish up here in thelivingroom and then over next the weekend, daughter and I will workmore of finishing up her area behind me here in livingroom for hercomputer area for her.
Well I will make this short tonight and catch everyone again tomorrow.

03:11 am: Bless the Lord, today my Mom in law had to have open heart surgery andaround 2pm we got call from rigels dad that she was in recovery and allwent fine with the surgery. We are feeling much more ourselves tonightknowing she has come through the surgery and now we pray continuedprayers for her full recovery and back to her old self soon.
We went for extra groceries tonight as we lost a week somewhere in lasttwo weeks, for this coming Sunday is our monthly get together with ourStar Trek club here at our house and we decided last month to do apizza party and watch Star Trek show and movies all afternoon Now I have the extra I needed for the party on Sunday.
Daughter surprised us with early supper out tonight to Pizza Hut, waswonderful and we had a good time together as we always do.
Nearly read one of the books I am reading, but wil probably not get itfiished over the weekend as tomorrow have a lot of work to do in houseto get ready for the pizza party on Sunday.
Well will catch everyone tomorrow sometime when take breaks fromt he extra work in the house.

12:29 pm: Well yet again, it has been a few days since I last posted in any of my journals. It is a stressful and fearful time for us as my husbands mom is to undergo major heart surgery only 4 weeks after cancer surgery. We nearly lost her nearly 2 wks. ago when she woke up and oucldnt breath at 3am in the morning, they rushed her to Er and she said they told her they nearly lost her. SHe is looking better all week and startig to gain some weight back,she talks like her old self again and though we are all worried for her and praying for her, we feel better about the operation than when we saw her the next day after she was admitted to hospital. Today she leaves the hospital she is in an dgoes to the major hospital where they do the heart surgeries and will stay in that hospital until she can go back home or they send her to a rehab place for a bit until she can go back home. We will go in tomorrow afternoon to see her and then if she feels like visitors Saturday, we will go see her each day and visit with her.
Working on crochet work and knitted type hats on a circular hoop for s ome of the items for our next craft show which will be in March right now, then will work on others next week as well. Then the week of the show, will be baking every day for our sweets we take to the shows each month.
Nearly read another book, will probably read it over the weekend if not busy on other projects most of the time.
Well until tomorrow folks.

12:28 pm: catchig up my journal through my gaia journal
YIPES!!!!
I didn't realize I was way behind in my journaling, but have had a lot going on around here, a craft show on the 10th, and then 2 Fri. ago, rigels Mom went to ER at 3am and we found out when we visited her this past Fri. that we neaerly lost her on the way to hospital and she has to stay in hospital and they will do a by pass and repair a valve this coming Friday she told us today when we went to see her. She looked and sounded more herself today and we will be concerend for her surgery and will be glad when she is doing ok again for sure, she is such a vital and loving lady.
We did our monthly writers meeting yesterday, then daughter got busy online and we stayed until 10pm last night before coming home. Had a great time as usual.
Becky didnt feel god this evening so she called out for work for tomorrow, when she does that you know she isnt feeling herself for sure, she said she is feeling a bit better than she was earlier now thankfully. Work she said is full of workers getting sick or working sick around her now.
Weather is saying a chance of up to 2 inches of snow overnight. I sure hope not for sure.
Have a oad laundry in dryer now, then tomorrow catch up on more housework and maybe a chance at some extra work want to do here in livingroom.
Nearly read another book, might get it finished in a couple days depending on what I doing for extra work of course.
Well until tomorrow folks

02:02 pm: February 6th, 2007 gaia journal
well I see my last entry was on the 2nd, and today is the 6th. We did get the snowstorm and got around 3 to 4 inches snow. Someone was very kind and plowed out our driveway and around daughters van and up to our ramp, so had not as much snowshoveling to do out int the strong and very cold winds out on Saturday the 3rd.
Yesterday was bitter cold on very strong and gusty winds all day and only got as high as 10 above with a -14 below windchill all day.
Today has been cold and windy again. So far tonight a bit better sice around 10pm, but still cold, and it is 11:37pm as I write in my journal.
Been in Gaia while on computer tonight and watching some tv in between. I am getting gold built up to get an upgrade for my fishing pole and only another 2,000 and I will be able to get the upgrade, so a lot more puzzling in between housework next couple of days at least to get the needed gold for the upgrade.
Finished another story this forenoon and am already about halfway through another story, will finish it tomorrow or next day.
This coming Saturday is two events for us. One is our monthly Star Trek club meeting, plus the craft shows start up again this month onward, so I will stay at the craft show, while daughter and husband go over to the club meeting. Then they will come abck and get me and our cooking only that we will take this time for a show and maybe a few other items as the show will get over at 5pm.
Sunday, we will go over to other side of town, as we will be going with our Star Trek club and doing our first for the year walk-a-thon, this one will be for Muscular Dystrophy. The walk will be held inside the mall and then there will be a party after the wall and before the mall opens for the day.
Tomorrow is a lot od backed up housework, for int he bitter cold need to run as less water and dishwater down the drains as possible to try and prevent freezing the pipe and drains. Tomorrow is suppose to not be as bad on windchills, still cold, but hopefully will be so can get a lot of housework caught up during the day before 4pm when it will get even chiller after dark again, is suppose to be partly sunny tomorrow and hopefully less winds.
Until tomorrow folks.

02:01 pm: February 2nd, 2007 gaia journal
Yep! weather says after midnight tonight through 7am tomorrow to be snow of 2 to 4 inches forecast presently. Will know tomorrow wheter the snowblower has to come out and be used again.
It started out colder, then warmed enough today to get to 33 above last temp. I saw when I checked on our local weather around 6pm. tonight.
Ran errands, payed bills and got few groceries for superbowl SUnday munchies and foods to eat after we get back from church around 1pm Sunday. Going to have a friend over during the afternoon into the evening on Sunday also.

Well, can we say how NUMB people can be at times. We were coming down a one way street this afternoon and a car stopped off sort at side of road and hguy gets out into traffic. Daughter layed on the horn and jammed on her brakes to keep from chancing hitting him or taking off his door. We rolled downt he window and told him he was in a no parking zone when he even tried to tell us we were in the wrong and too close to him where he was off the road parked he said. . we pointed to the good sized sign beside of his car that in big red letters stated ' NO PARKING THIS SIDE OF STREET' He would not look behind him and kept insisting we were wrong, for another car was illegially parked at the end of the street same side this guy was on and that car too was sitting beside of a big red letterd NO PARKING sign as well. When we could clear him ( in his floresent blue dark shaded glasses we kept moving along not to hold up the traffis as was on a hill street.
Read awhile today, now in a bit, I will go either read or watch tv and crochet rest of the evening before we go to bed around 11:30pm to midnight. We are to have possible company tomorrow around 10am, so I want to get up by 9am at the latest and get ready for the day. While husband and our Captain of our Star Trek club talks with my hubby, then I will work on the extr work I have either in our bedroom ( finding space in rooms is so much fun) or else I will work out in the kitchen and perhaps in the livingroom, but will probably hold off the livingroom work so the men can talk easier without my thuds and bangs going on in moving stuff and sorting stuff. The other room will keep me busy enough for tomorrow until after the Captain leaves and then I will work back out in the livingroom again. I need to move over some bookshelves before Sunday afternoon.
Well folks until tomorrow have a great night, fun gaming and a great day and game time tomorrow. Catch you all later tomorrow folks.

02:01 pm: February 1st, 2007 gaia journal
Lets see now, from yesterday and today whats been up around here. Besides the cold and seeing your breath steaming in front of you and a wheelchair ramp on the van that protests it's too cold to work without VERY slow motion until van gets all warmed up.
Celebrated daughters Birthday yesterday, went out to our favorite Chinese Buffet resteraunt and had lunch. Then went shopping a bit before coming home.
Our dear friends down the road from us came up with a Birthday caked for daughter and we all sat around and had Birthday cake and a great time talking.
Today although did get up to 27 above the windchill mostly ran around 18 above, but though cold out, felt better than when windchill is below zero for sure.
Did some of the re-arranging in the livingroom today, then stopped for rest of afternon so to put together a BIG kettle of homemade seafood chowder for tonights supper. Just got it all together and simmmering for a half hour at least to meld the flavors together and cook up the potatoes diced up, then we will have supper and will veg out with games online and perhaps some tv and if watch tv, will do crochet work, working on dishcloths in valentine colors in the multi colored crochet cotton. We have a craft show on the 10th, and we will take some valentine items we make and a lot of baking goodies, some valentine, some everyday sweets to sell. Do a sort of theme show this time around and not have to take as many tubs this show.
Tomorrow after we get back home from shopping, I wil work on some more of the extra I am doing in the livingroom before suppertime. Tomorrow will be easy supper, any leftovers or will do pancakes for supper.
Well folks, will catch everyone sometime tomorrow, have a great night and day tomorrow fols.