Nothing To Write Home About

There was definitely nothing going on around here on a blah Monday.  Happy to still be around, but this day was nothing to write home about.  EXCEPT ... I AI'd my little buddy again.  He's so darn cute!!! 

It was another 3:30 am day.  I will be ever so happy when I can actually sleep past 4:30.  It makes for a very LONG morning with nothing for company but a Kitty Cat.  

The sunrise was spectacular ... much better than this picture.  I thought about going for a walk-run, but Hobby Lobby won out.

Miss Kitters has taken up roost on my bed.  In fact, on Mr. Cooper's blanket.  For the longest time, she would not even WALK on the bed.  I think maybe Cooper's spirit was still there.  At least I like to think his spirit is always there.

With nothing else going on other than the most exciting project of putting away the laundry, I experimented with AI once again.  I don't like AI actually ... I think they gather too much information about you without your permission.  I asked it to decorate my fireplace mantle.  Here's what it came up with.  They cheated because the kerosene lamps and the stuffed bears were already there, as were the outside candles.  I just remembered they had automatic lights inside ... and a nice smell to boot.

And THAT my friends is how I ended up at Hobby Lobby at 9:30 in the morning.  Gosh, does no one work any more?  The parking lot and the store was PACKED!!  I actually skipped all the Thanksgiving stuff, which was half of the store.  I just headed right on over three aisles to CHRISTMAS.  

Wow ... Christmas overload!!!  I've never seen so much stuff EVER.  Of course everything is 50% off, a lie since they already inflated the price 200%.  It's okay though ... it's cheap ... and there's nowhere else to shop Christmas around here.  

I was actually looking for a few small things that would turn my Thanksgiving tree into a Christmas tree.  

If I had a 50' x 50' barn to store stuff in, I would have bought out the store.  SO much cute stuff.  Alas, you are looking at the total haul.

I started with these four white items that I had and will add to it later ... after Thanksgiving.  In the meantime, that meant I had to do something with eight of those oil lamps.  Some were my Grandmothers, some my Mom's and some mine. 

Back in the day, we had lamps on every table.  Electricity was actually fairly cheap, but it kept going out all the time.  Kerosene lamps smell terrible, but the light they provide is awesome!

I spent the next three hours moving things around on the two big shelving units on either side.  That's when I spotted the problem.  I know I know ..... and you know too ..... I don't dust often enough.  Good grief, I could have grown tomatoes and squash up there.  

I got another slightly damp rag and began to wipe it all down while replacing the soil with oil lamps. Once again, it was so bad I had to throw the rag away.  I am just a TERRIBLE housekeeper.  The great news is it's now done for the next FIVE YEARS!!!  Just kidding .... sort of.

It's Election Day, so let's all get out and vote ... NOT for communism or socialism please.  I prefer a normal life doing what I want with the money I have saved all my life.  By the way, if anyone but Hilton wins in California, I will be spending Christmas in Arizona looking for a new house.  I am NOT paying tax on the miles I drive my vehicles.  Before I get carried away on that matter, I better just sign off for today.

It's ARMOR time!!!  Yessiree ..... Bingo once again.  I'm counting the Tuesdays!!!