Unfussy

  I wish I could say that it's a "happy" Tuesday morning, but it's NOT...LOL. We have been without air conditioning for going on our 2nd day. I'm absolutely dying of heat---no kidding. Having NO air in Las Vegas is the worst nightmare you could ever have in my opinion. Personally I can take a lot of things, except certain bugs, but the heat I can't. Right now it's 6 AM and parts of my home are well over 90' degrees. We did have a wonderful company come out and figure out what the problem is (mother & housing----expensive, but we don't' have to pay---our sweet landlord does) He gave her a fair, low estimate and will be here at 8 AM today to fix it. He could have got it fixed yesterday, but when he arrived to make the repairs a thunderstorm with lighting started which made it very unsafe for the tech. We are on the top priority for today. I also want to mention that Bob and I got so desperate and so hot that we went to Home Depot and bought ($327.00) an air conditioner on wheels. Works great. right now I have it blowing in my room and it's tolerable. Shhhh, but we plan to return the unit back to Home Depot today!!!! It's in excellent shape, we took good care of it and it's going back! We have no need for this once our air is fixed, plus we can't afford it. My awesome landlord even offered to put not only hubby and I up in a nice Inn until this was repaired, but also offered to put both Yager and Hershey in a nice kennel-----air conditioned :). Isn't that the sweetest thing? Not to many landlords would do this. She is wonderful!!! We totally lucked out when we got this house. I'm glad that we decided not to buy this home with the market the way it is. Not to say that won't happen because it just might. Ya' never know. So, that is my dilemma for today. Until the repair men show up, I plan to stay in my room where it's cool and I'm NOT leaving! LOL    This is oh so true!!! many species of ants, roaches, scorpions, wind scorpions and other icky bugs in Las Vegas :(.

    I can't wait to open my blinds and let the sun in for my plants. I miss looking outside and enjoying looking at the trees and watching my birdhouses with the birds. But no way am I opening my blinds until this air is fixed.

UPDATE: It is now 9:15 and I have not heard word one from this company. And, it's also getting VERY cloudy out and could start to rain any minute now. So if that happens, it will be another miserable day without air. I am on the phone right now to my landlord to get this taken care of ASAP!!! They were suppose to be here dam near 2 hours ago! Also, no phone call from them to let me know if something may have happened. ERRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

 Right now while I'm trying to reach my landlord, I'm going to have me a nice cup of java and chocolate ice cream pie!!!!

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Now that things have settled down a bit in my life,  I can jump back into my blog and get caught back up! I have missed you ALL so very much and hope you all are still with me? Not visiting with you on a regular basis and commenting makes me feel so bad. Many of you have taken time out of "your" busy day (s) to stop and say Hi to me and I will make a better effort to do the same. Oh, and THANK YOU ALWAYS for doing that

I guess I underestimated how hard it was going to be going back to work. WM has really wore me out and taken up a lot of my free time. Not to mention not working for close to 7 months....LOL It's been a huge under-taking, but I love it so much! It of course has it's bad points just like any other job in retail, but I still believe in my heart-of-hearts that I DID pick the right company for me. Plus the things going on here at home have added to my "busyness" (don't think that is a word-lol-but I'm making it one). Things are better now and calmer. I just keep plugging along and doing my very best at work and at home. What else can I do? I truly can't go into detail but most of you who read me KNOW the situation and I thank you for your support

The weather here has been so HOT for the last several weeks. Every single year in Las Vegas it feels like it goes from a tolerable 75' to a blistering, dry and hot 113' overnight. And one of the worst things here is that it typically does NOT cool off at night. That' what I miss about Reno--it always cools off nice at night. It may get down to around 85' (if your lucky..lol) but the usual is around 90' and up. There are days, many days where it is completely unbearable. Like today for instance. I have no desire to go for a walk, either does Hershey or Yager. Oh I suppose if I said the magic word "leash" they would both go nutso, but why take them out in this heat. It just doesn't seem fair and not to mention dangerous. I always carry my backpack with me with water for them, both to drink and spray them off with. :) I'm a good Mama. Tomorrow I plan to get up early and start waking them around 4AM or 5AM so it isn't so hot for them. But some days that gets tough when I work night and really don't get to sleep until around 2 or 3 in the AM. But I know that Hershey & Yager can get bored out of their minds so walking them is VERY important. I also needto get out and do some "clean-up' work in the backyard and front yard, but I will get it done this week .

  Not much else to report here on the home front. I have been keeping myself busy (when I'm not working) with planning my quilt. I know before I had made a decision on which pattern I was going to use. But then I see another one that is so much prettier, could be easier for a beginner to make and turn out nice and I fall in love with the color layout. I have pretty much narrowed it down to two. These patterns are fairly easy and the quilt will turn out awesome! Another thing that has helped me learn is participating in the FabShopHop. If you are a quilter or even a sew, this is a lot of fun and they give away some really fantastic prizes. And it's not to late to sign up for the July shop-hop. I have shop-hopped all of them this year and have won a $25 gift certificate which was pretty cool. And most of the fabric stores they take you to are terrific, with some really great bargains. Every week or few days after you sign up to participate in the shop-hop, some of the retailers (participating stores) will have special sales just for shop-hoppers. I'm talking sometimes as high as 30 and 40% off!!! Tonight that is exactly what I'm doing: shopping! I need to buy the backing for my quilt and nothing around town impresses me at all. And I also would like to buy a couple of kits/patterns that are on sale. If I find any bundles that are reasonable I will get one of those too .

OK, so I am off to do some "hopping" (lol) and maybe a nap too. Again, I have missed you all so very much and I promise I am doing fine. I'm glad to be back from my break and looking forward to getting caught up on everything with you all. I have lots more to tell--just little tid bits about daily life but why put them all into one entry? Take care and have a great day and evening. STAY COOL!

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       Hi Everyone! This is going to be a very quick and sweet entry. I am absolutely exhausted. I worked really hard today and it was a fantastic day at work :) But when I got home, all hell broke lose with you-know-who. Not to get to personal (lol) but I'm so done with this crap. I just got to hang in there a little bit longer so I can transfer and NOT lose my status at my new job which I adore.

The GREAT news is that Theodosia (our alpaca boarded in MO) gave birth to a healthy baby boy! He is so precious. At the ranch they were all calling him "Choco", but I want to name him after my loving companion of 10 1/2 years Hershey. It fits him perfect! Now what his "long" name is going to be I'm not to sure yet and I'm still thinking about it. Plus, Oreo is really getting big. He is now 8 months old and oh so cute :). So below, here is a little picture show I put together for you all. I have more pictures on the way. The pictures of Hershey are when he was only about an hour old. ENJOY!

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    Hi Everyone! I apologize for the long absence but I've been working HARD..lol. I come home and take care of the dogs and collapse. I was off this weekend, but we had so much to do and get done I felt like I was still at work...haa haa. Today I have a bit of reprieve but only by accident.

Briefly I will explain we have had some issues with "creatures" at our home. What's new. Hubby handles this with a grain of salt, I do not. For me at times I have to take medication just to get through the night. Things wouldn't have been so bad if it wouldn't have been for my long time pest control company (Delco) deciding to NOT give good customer service, nor honor their "written" contract. Best thing for me to do after arguing with them for close to 2 weeks, and all the while having "creature" problems that are NOT getting fixed or addressed was to begin interviewing other companies. And that's just what I did. I am now with a new company--family owned and operated and have been in this area for over 45+ years. They came today and did an awesome job. Plus told me thing that made, much more sense echonomonically and common sense wise. I'm very happy, extremely happy with this company.

 I'm so sorry to make this entry so short, but I have a lot to do today and ya-da- ya-da ya-da. The tomatoes at one point I thought were goners, all of em'. I got all the way down to only 20 tomatoes and they weren't looking too good. I was very upset :( Now, this week I have about 18 to 25 new tomatoes (babies--more on the way) and several of my big ones that survived are growing even bigger and turning red!!!! I'm going to include some pictures for you to see. OK. They are really cool.

Have a great day!!!

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     The weekend and this week so far has been good and weird. (lol). I hope all of you that were off this past weekend has a great one. But lately to me, every weekend is off for me. That is going to change VERY soon. I start my new job (orientation) on Wednesday and I'm guessing I will start my work schedule right after that, which would be either Thursday or Friday. I'm so excited!!! We went to Wal-Mart today and I got some nice Khaki colored pants/jeans and a few really cute navy blue tops. The jeans are really cute and are boot-cut and fit low on the waist--I won't wear anything else! Having to wear pants that fit above my belly button are just so uncomfortable. There not too low where they look trashy, but they are attractive and cute. And oh so comfy! They have that stretch stuff in them which I have never worn before, but I like it! I have no idea but I'm so dam nervous about tomorrow. Everyone is so friendly, helpful and eager to welcome me aboard. So ALL those nasty rumors you have heard about WM are simply not true. I'm sure there are ex-employees that have nothing good to say about this company, but so far I feel GOOD about my decision. You know me, I investigated this company thoroughly and I'm fairly certain I made the right decision. And the benefits? Oh my gosh, there are fantastic! Oh, and in the future I will have to be VERY, very careful about what I talk about. So on this journal I won't talk about the details of work a whole lot, but have set up a private journal for that. (http://journals.aol.com/schoolgal040/unfussylove/ ). The name is "Unfussy Love". I have already added a bunch of people to it, but if I somehow forgot to add you by mistake please email me and I will add you.

Although today it's just a little breezy right now, the last week and a half it's been so extremely windy here. What the hell is going on? I'm so completely sick of it. I'm sick of the dust, it's been really hard on my tomato plant (sniff, sniff), the dogs hate it, hubby most of the week has had to be outside in it-loading and unloading materials (metal, HUGE copper cooking pots for some of the ritziest restaurants in LV, and other very heavy materials) and it's constantly blowing garbage into my front yard. ARGHHHH! Not to mention that the wind makes me a nervous dam wreck. Since I was a child, I've always been afraid of the wind---high winds. My Mother was the same way. It just makes me so very nervous and on highly on edge too Now;we have gone from high temps last week of 95' to 106' to around the 60's. I'm not sure what the temperatures were last night, but it was chilly. And it's very outcast today and they are predicting thunderstorms and rain for today and the probably off and on the rest of the week. You can just feel it in the air. If it stays like this, without the wind, I will be very happy :) I'm just not ready for the summer heat and I'm NOT ever ready for the wind. (lol)

One more thing I want to say before I close. It's about the families in Texas from the sect FLDS and what they have all been through, especially the children. I do not agree with this religion in many ways but I won't get into it because it would make this entry way too long. Lets just say that I am familiar with Mormons and have done extensive research on the both LDS and FLDS years ago. But this is the US and freedom of religion is one of our privileges. As long as no laws have been broken, abuses happening, emotional abuse and so on. With all that said I will say again, that I do NOT agree with this religion or the LDS in anyway shape or form. But, I feel what has been done to these children and families is a tragedy. Can you just imagine having 468 children uprooted and taken away? And they still have not found the "alleged" girl who made the phone call. I hope and pray that this all works out for the best for those children and families. The children are the innocents here and the MAIN reason for me posting this. It just breaks my heart that this whole thing has happened.

Have a great Memorial weekend :) 

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  Happy Sunday to you all. I want to wish each and every one of you Mother's out there a very, very special Mother's Day. So many of you here in J-Land I consider not only my friend, but my family. You ALL mean so much to me. I don't have enough fingers and toes to count the special Mom's out there, and in no particular order: Linda, Sonya, Joyce, Lyn, Sandra, Donna (Texas), Kelly (chicken lady...lol), Brandy, "J", Karen, Nelishia, Donna (Kansas City),  life-on-a-bison-farm wwfbison journals.aol.com>Jeanette, Derasta, Donna (Hockey!), Brenda, Pauline, Rosemary, Monica. I am sure there are some people I missed and for that I am sorry. I've kind of wrote this in a rush, but I love each and every one of you and wish you and very, very Happy Mother's Day! 

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Happy Wednesday to you all. Sorry for the long delay in posting en entry. I've actually been busy. That' something new. Hubby's son, daughter-in-law and grand baby stayed over at  hubby's parent's house (just a few miles away) for a week, I've been caring for the neighbors animals (2 horses, a Cockatoo that I've fallen in love with and about 8 outside cats (cute!), I have had two awesome interviews at WM and got a job! (scored very high on aptitude tests which will qualify me for a lead/supervisor position--plus help me if I ever want to move and transfer) I will be starting off in the shoe department for now to get my feet wet in retail and go from there. Very big department! And my co-workers are so sweet and overall this is such a friendly store. I can't wait to get started.

 I had planned on going to Reno today for one week before I started my job. I wanted to see my sister and my Dad really bad. Man I miss them. My sister and "J" are moving to Colorado on the 22nd so who knows when I'm going to get to see them. I can re-use my ticket and fly up there for 4 days once they get settled in. We have already talked about it. Maybe I will like it there? They have plenty of room for me. A beautiful house on 170 acres!! I'm so happy for them. It's hard to go into detail why I cancelled my trip. I even started packing, but realized that I would be at such unease leaving here after having my interviews at WM. I would worry about Hershey and Yager so much, I would worry about the neighbors animals (the usual kid that she uses is suppose to show up on Sat to take care of them until Tues. when "J" gets back) are being cared for and loved. I asked hubby if he would please, please just check on them until Tuesday to make sure there ok. I would quickly show himwhere everything was and it's easy to care for them. And he wouldn't! I was so MAD. They live 100 ft from us and I would just die if anything happened to those animals. Not to mention that I've gotten extremely attached to all of them, most especially that beautiful Cockatoo Peggy.      She now comes out of her cage every time I go over (which is only suppose to be twice, but I usually go about 4 times..lol) every time, gently taking my arm. She loves to sit in my lap and let me pet her or preen her. Loves to be talked to. Peggy then either gets up on my shoulder or my head to check the world out while she stretches her feathers. So cute! Never tries to get away from me or bite me. She even gives me kisses on my face and hands. At first she would make this kind purring noise and was opening and closing her beak softly. Couldn't figure out what the hell was going on..lol. Well Peggy was wanting to give me a kiss I finally figured out a few days ago :). And she lets me kiss her right back---very gentle cockatoo!  

   I give the horses apples everyday when I got over now. When they here me coming they snicker and get real excited. The brown one jumps up and down. It's so cute! The brown one is really friendly. He is like a dog...lol.  The other day I even hunted down the brushes and stuff to help keep the flies away. Last night I even bathed the brown one and he was so happy!!! I know he felt like a million bucks. And the stuff to help keep the flies off them was great! "J" has ordered "fly predators" (comes in the mail and these "predators" or other good flying bugs eat flies--that's all they do and that's all they eat) and they will be here on Wednesday. But the other stuff is helping so at least they can have some peace. I felt so sorry for them until I could get that other stuff on them. And when I go to leave, the brown one always stops whatever he is doing and follows me, calling for me to come back. Makes me cry. I think these animals may be a little on the lonely side. But "J" has told me I can come over and visit anytime. I'm glad that she and I have gotten to know each other better. I really like her. We might even go riding together. YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

  Ohhhhh, and the best news for last. Officially today, I have 17 tomatoes on my little Early Girl plants!!!! Can you even believe it? Plus, there are oodles  and oodles of flowers and other tomatoes ready to pop out. I have had a problem with those dam fruit flies and I did buy some good bacterial soap/insect killer but it's not working like it should. When "J" pays me, I'm going to go get some Neem. It's the best stuff. But what I do for now is about 5 times a day, especially at dusk, is I go out and pick them off. And Ialways get them before they do damage to the plant. I'm sure it would be much, much worse if I had not sprayed it. But I'm so excited over 17 tomatoes. And their healthy!They seem to get bigger everyday :)

  Right now I have over 400 emails and who knows how many alerts. Tonight I am going to do my best to get caught up on everything. Just might take me the whole weekend...LOL But I will get caught up :)

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If you click on the graphic above it will give all the details of the challenge :) The trick is, the photos must be in black & white and can be a landscape or a photo. My understanding is you can enter both. Which is what I will do. At the bottom of this entry, will be my two B & W photos.

PLEASE NOTE: My Black & White photos are at the bottom of this entry. Thank you :)

 I decided with some time on my hands and such fun stuff out there in J-Land I would participate in this callenge.Im' sure I do NOT have as fancy a camera as some. It's just a little old (well 2 years old? JVC/Video/Stills digital camera but takes really great photos! As for landscapes I had to think, get creative. I have such a love for trees and their shadows they cast. And that's what I photographed.

I also photographed-----drum roll please---dddd ddddd ddddd TSH! My very first ever in my life time tomato plant! And, I have my very first tomato! Saw this the little fella this morning. There are many more, about 7. But way to small to get a picture yet. Here is one of the color pictures.

Photo Challenge-Landscapes

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;A very happy Saturday to you all. I'm hoping and praying that my eyeballs will stay open long enough to get this quick entry in. I've basically been awake all night (again). Finally at 4 AM I decided to mop all the floors in the house and get them ready for waxing, a light wax i plan on dong later today. Now I'm tired but more than anything it's a "mind" tired. But it Saturday and as soon as I finish this entry it's off to sleepy land for me. I truly don't think I will have a problem falling and staying asleep..LOL. So far here in Vegas the sun is just coming up and it's so beautiful. Total eye-candy.

     This is a little slide show I made just a few minutes ago. As you can see from the first picture, you  can see "Bob's rage" and he basically kicked those beautiful plants right off our deck and they landed way out on the far side of our back yard What a yerk!So I quickly jumped into action to save them. I mean they were scattered everywhere. I was told to leave it alone and my reply of course was "Screw you the horse you rode in on." (excuse my french) And as you can see from the pictures they are thriving and doing very well. I spend every minute enjoying taking special care of my Early Girls and my other plants of course.  I watch constantly for undesirables and other critters that I not want on my babies. And the blooms? My gosh, there seem to be a new group or new bloom every morning. And as we all know each of those blooms represents a tomato, it all goes well.  But even those hubby did something very stupid that he isn't even sorry for, at lease the story has a good ending. And they already smell so good! I'm just crossing my fingers that I've done everything right and we will have lots and lots of delicious tomatoes.

Have a wonderful day and enjoy your Saturday! :)

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  Today is Earth Day and even though I'm a smoker (Bad, bad), I still feel this is an important day. I also year for everyday to be "Earth Day". Just like my lungs, it's the only earth we have and it's in serious trouble. If anybody doubts global warming or "being green in lifestyle" just watch and watch it again "An Inconvenient Truth"  (<<ClimateCrisis.net) or go to Mr. Al Gore's website and read some of the littlest things and biggest, that you can do to help with our climate crises. You, me, us and everybody can make a difference. Sorry to sound like a preacher or an expert because I am neither (lol). I'm just passionate about this, and of course other things in life. There is also a LOT of information on Google's homepage today when you click on the banner above. It takes you to blogs full of information about the climate crisis, websites celebrating Earth Day, website after website of information and your's and my questions answered. It's really extensive and terrific. I have saved so many websites that I plan to go back over and save important notes and information to my great program called Microsoft One Note. So, Happy Earth Day to you all! :)

  This little slideshow I made has pictures of my Early Girl tomato plant and a beautiful bush in front of my house. If anyone knows what this bush is, please let me know. Please? (lol) For the life of me I can't figure out what it is! It's all flowered now and it's just beautiful. Before it flowered in the last week or two, it had those red berries all over it. Ifthat helps anybody who can identify it. And then yesterday as the shade was just starting to cover the bush, I took these great photos with bees on them.      I just can't believe how great they turned out with my camera. I used my digital video camera that also shoots stills. It's only got like 5 or 6 megapixels, but it has a 32x optical hyper zoom on it. It's funny because I called JVC when I first bought the camera to ask a question about the DV wire (this is for hooking it up to your PC to transfer pictures. I have about 5 different ways that I can transfer pics to anything: PC, laptop, phone, iPod and my other "new" SanDisk MP3) and we got to talking about taking still pictures with it. And he told me because of the "low" megapixels it would take really bad pictures that woultn's be that great. Boy was he WRONG! This camera takes unbelievably clear, stunning photos. And what kind of bee is that? (lol) Another question I have and would like answered...ha ha ha! Oh, you know me. I will sit down and do a search until I figure it out. Exhausting ALL and every research I find to figure it out :)

Not too much else to write about today. I'm just chillin' and reflecting on a few things. And of course I'm anxiously awating my call from "V" for my work schedule. I was told it would be this week, but their seems to be a bit of miscommunication between the manager (really nice guy, I like him) and my supervisor "J". She is trying to get answers and hopefully I will hear from her today or tomorrow. The manager "M" is at a week long conference so she is trying to get the assistant store manager to give her permission to get me going! I'm sure she will.

Right now I am off to color my hair and get rid of thedam gray!. I'm trying a new color called "Chocolate Caramel", which is a medium mahogany brown. I've always wanted my Mother's haircolor which was this beautiful, deep and shiny dark auburn. It was awesome! So now I'm going to try it. I have been using Garnier Nutrisse haircolor since it came out and would try nothing else, except when I go to the beauty parlor...LOL. Garnier and Neutrogena is a truly good products. I use nothing on my face but these two. I use them to cleanse, moisturize and my nightly face creme (with Retinol + Anti-oxidants).Wish me luck! :)

Have a great Tuesday all...........

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