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image from Beeb Designsnice cuppa indeed on this blustery day!

Hi.  Its funny on Blogger.  It shows you how many people 'follow' you (followers).  I have one.  Hi to Ria if you are indeed following me.  I think perhaps more people read this Blog.  I am glad I don't really know as it is less pressure off of me to present things with an 'audience' in mind - even though when I write this I talk to both myself and to the reader out in the wide world of the web.  So bizarre these Blogs.  Forever to be found via a computer long after I am gone.  Kind of cool to think of it in that way too.  Leaving my literal 'mark' on the world - as we all do in different ways.  Cool 'naners.  So if you do pop in to read me - comment sometime as I'd love to hear from you.  :)

It has been a blustery day.  I took Bernardi (current nickname for Benny my husky-rotty - Dan found a picture of a husky-rottweiler mix while researching what breed Ben could be a mix of and he said that is what he be - vs - German shepherd.  Its the square head. )for a long walk and myself as well.  I was all hiked up on java.  Huzzy was glad I went to vent some steam.  Dear Huzzy.  I am a force to be reckoned with.  I believe Ninja told me this and you know, I LIKE to be a force to be reckoned with.  I like to be powerful in my own way.  It's in the harnessing of the 'force' that can be tricky :)  Lord give us all compassion, empathy and patience.  We sure need it.  :)

I then came home to clean madly - place needed a good vacuum, floor scrub and tub scrub.  Ah.  Well done.  Very satisfied now.  I did this while Huzz went to groc-shop.  It is our Saturday Ritual.  Gives us both a chance to do our own 'thang' in our own 'way'.  I put the groc's away.

  I also put the summery flowers at the front door away and replaced them with a wreath of fall-ness (leaves and acorns) and a wine bottle with a black outline of a tree (that is 'naked) with a similar looking branch placed inside of it as the 'flowers' so to speak....and added to that a black cat holding pumpkins that is on a stick and a pumpkin on a stick.  That is my table centrepiece.  I have a half-table at the front door and  I change it up seasonally.  The wreath hangs on the wall above the centrepiece.  This is what you see when you walk in the front door (which we use seldomly b/c it is squishy to navigate and it is carpeted).  I have two yellow chairs on either side of the table that belong to the yellow table this laptop sits on (came from Edna's place when she moved into her room at the Elders' place).  I've posted pics of this in the past, I think with an Easter display on it so you can scroll back to check it out.  Or I just may take a picture of it right now and post it.  Be right back............

There you go.  Is it what you imagined?  Ha. 

Its 4:06 pm already!  I've got a pork-loined-long thing (are they called pork loins?) - it looks like a tongue but its pork - there is a visual for you (ack) - anyway, that is a'cookin' in the crock pot.  Should be ready to turn on low for the last hour.  Pulled pork - perhaps on a bun - with a salad and not sure what else.  This blustery and cool weather (12 degrees or so) gets me in the mood for soups and stews and chili and the like.  yum.  Watch a movie tonight perhaps?  Sept 11th today.  Dan put the news on this morning - the service being held in New York and around the States for Sept 11th victims.  I'm not sure what was going on Canada-side.  Still gives me the shivers, as it does most - as well is should.  O this world is such a mixed up place.

I also put up some 'fairy lights' (white Xmas lights on brown cord) around my su-dio door (they were on the window but it reflects into the big-ass TV screen and Huzz from his angle sees this big time....)I also bought a spare set on sale last year and so those are up on the window.  I like the glow they bring to these darkening days. 

I did not go to Market today.  Needed a break plus with this wind!  and was to rain......so opted out.  I am thinking about doing an Xmas show in Brandon. Is it worth the investment - because indeed with a Hotel for two nights, that is what it will be.  But 7000 people go.  It was recommended to me by Bisou -Angela.  She has been in 'biz for awhile and knows what she talks about.  I have to get a good grip on what exactly that would mean for my time and energy and supplies and cash flow.  Stay tuned.  It would be fun though I think.  It is October 23 and 24 in Brandon.

Over and out from this cowpoke.  Got to go and wrassle that 'tongue' in the crock pot :)  Keep cosy.