Random Friday

Well it's Random Friday but I doubt this will get done before Saturday, the optimist that I am.........

It's been hectic here today but that usually is the case. The computer man was here all morning as he was going to set up my new computer BUT I had 50 gazillion pictures that had to be moved to my Maxtor drive so that I wouldn't lose them and it took FER-ever! Poor guy, I felt bad for him as I'm sure he must have had other appointments to make. In the mean time he showed me how to do several nifty things that I will be incorporating into future blogs. As it turned out my keyboard and mouse aren't compatible to the new computer so he had to hook my old computer back up and order the needed parts. I don't care as long as I have a computer otherwise I would be going through withdrawal right now. You all know the feeling I'm sure! :o)

We trapped the barn kitty yesterday in the Have A Heart trap. We put her food in there and she was in there in about 10 minutes. I brought her in the house to put her in the basement bathroom until I could make arrangements to have her checked out at the vets. I let her out of the cage and the poor thing went totally ballistic! She went up the walls, knocked down the mirror over the sink, went in the shower and tried to climb those walls, went up on a wicker towel shelf, into the sink and finally down between the vanity and the wall. I had on heavy gloves and a jacket and was a wash of sweat trying to catch her to calm her down. Finally I just left her there with some food and water to let her calm down. That was not to be. I tried several more times to catch her to check her out but she was so scared she just went bonkers every time. Finally I decided to just let her go back to the barn and catch her another day when I had the vet appointment all set up. I opened the door to the bathroom and the two outside doors and left. A couple hours later I went back down and she was still wedged in the same place, poor thing. She was all teeth and claws when I tried to get her out so I took the flush brush and tried to push her out that way and then threw a towel over her and picked her up. She is now back in the barn. I'm wondering if the vet can give me something to put in her food to quiet her down enough to get her there where there are people trained in handling such situations. She is beautiful, all black with a white patch on her belly, big pretty eyes and isn't a kitten any more, she has grown in the month since she started coming around. To be continued.......

I have been scurrying around getting things hidden in closets that haven't been wrapped yet as T and D are spending the night tonight. Son and DIL have a birthday party to go to out of town. Funsize has a recital tonight at church and we are going to that. I'm going to try to get some pictures if I can do it without being too much of a spectacle! Funsize did an amazing job at the recital! Her songs were beautifully played and she seemed totally at ease. The other gal did the singing and did a lovely job too. These two have the same name and are great friends. After the concert they put on this size 7X shirt for some fun pictures.

Last Sunday night at church the Sparks group which Son and DIL head up had their Christmas party. One of the fun things that they did was decorate Son and the Awana Commander Rob. Notice the ornaments hanging from Rob's glasses!

I think he makes quite a nice Christmas tree!

Even the other leaders got into the fun!

A nice group picture.

T putting an ornament on her Daddy.

Awana is such a good program, they learn so much and have fun doing it!

We have been fighting the war of the Christmas lights. Our yard man put them up for us and everything is on a timer so that I don't have to go out and plug them in every night and unplug them in the morning. The first night they blew the breaker after they had been on for a few minutes so that was the end of that. The next day Dad went out and plugged some things into other spaces so that it was spread out a bit and that took care of that. The yard man came back to check on them the next night and tried to get the timers closer together so tonight some things came on and others didn't so Dad went out and unplugged everything until it was dark and then plugged them all in again. I guess the timers need a bit more tweaking. Sigh.......

I now have both Christmas trees up in the house so hopefully the kids will help me decorate them this weekend. We have fake trees as we are all allergic to the real ones. I still need to get my villages set up so I think I will make use of those nice strong energetic legs on T and D to help me carry them all up from the basement. :o)

It's now Saturday night. We had our office Christmas party this afternoon and had a really nice time. I have lots of pictures but think I will put them in my next post as this is getting rather long. We had our first major snow storm today and it looks like a winter wonderland outside. I wish I had counted the number of cars that went by tonight looking at all the lights in the neighborhood. Even a Hummer Limo went by! Pretty big stuff for our small little town! Don't see that every day! The picture at the beginning of this is from the party today overlooking the golf course. It was so pretty with the snow softly coming down. There is something so exciting about that first snowfall. :o) This last pic is of one of the gingerbread men that T and D decorated at the party. The kids LOVED doing this!