Well, it is the day before my birthday and things are going okay for now. Got a card from my daughter last week when she sent her dads out she sent mine too. She knew she would forget if she didn't. I got a card from my parents yesterday and will add a little bit to what they sent me $ and buy me a new swimming suit for this year. Of course it all will wait till next week when I get paid.

I am kitty sitting this weekend or at least till Tuesday. These guys just got their eyes open on Thursday and have already won my heart and Scott's too. If I had the camera over here I'd take a pic of them but Scott has the camera over there right now. One little black one which I am calling Might Moe.....now this can be for Mighty Mouth cause it is the loudest or for Mighty Motor cause his motor runs nearly the whole time it is nursing on the bottle. The other 2 are grey and one has a bit more lighter grey around its face and I have been calling it Smokey Jo. The other has just been being called Baby for now, it is the most content during feeding time....but the hardest to get the bottle away from when it is time to quit. The other 2 pretty much quit on their own but the last one has to be told it is time to stop. Yes, I am enjoying myself doing this.

I've also learned a new name for an art thing I use to do all the time and just thought it was junk but now I see it as ZENTANGLE. Want to know more about it look here
http://www.zentangle.com/about-what-is--1.php
You never know you might be an artist and didn't even know it! It is a lot like doodling or as is pointed out in some of the material I have read about it it is also a form of meditation. I use to do things like this all the time but was told all I was doing was wasting paper......NO I was making ART.

Grumman the Wonder Cat

Just had to share this pic of Grumman the Wonder Cat......he is so funny to watch. You wouldn't believe by watching him play that back before Thanksgiving he was rescued from being an almost roadkill cat. He was in such bad shape, 2 or 3 breaks in his pelvic area, a break in his tail close to the pelvic and since then we have decided he has had a break in the tip of his tail. Also he had major nerve damage to his left leg where he was dragging it behind him......well as you can see in these pics he is now getting that leg up under him very nicely now. He also is beginning to put weight on that leg when he is moving around. You can definitely tell however, when he is tired as the leg get more lazy about pulling up under him.....there are times when Scott has to refuse to play games with him when he is like that.

Grumman has gotten where he will come up to Scott and hunch his back and act like he is going to come at him the turn around and run, it seems to be his way of trying to get Scott to play chase with him. Another thing Grumman does is when you are playing with something you are pulling and he is chasing, he has a habit of going in front of the object where he thinks it will come out at......he loves waiting for things to come out the other side. We now have several "tubes", like toilet paper tubes and paper towel tubes and even a gift wrap tube that you put a small ball on the edge of them and he will literally knock the ball trying to get it to the other end. We have pics of him with his leg up to the body in the tube......he also loves looking down the tubes to see you at the other end.

The other night when Grumman was here I went into my bedroom to put up my laundry and he came to the door and talked at me like he was asking permission to come in so I told him "sure come on in". Then he went over to the bed and again like he was asking permission to get up on the bed....."sure you can get up there", so he jumped up and then came the fun part. He walked over to the pillow I use between my knees when I sleep and tried to put his head under it.......ah I thought I know what he wants. So I took a couple more pillows and made him a bridge and sure enough he dove under it. Then I went to the other side and peaked in the small tunnel and he jumped out at me. You see that is a game he and Scott play all the time of "where is the kitty" and then you look under where ever he is and he jumps out at you.....even though we know he has no front claws you can't help but jump back some when he does it......but he looks so proud of himself when it happens. Later Scott came in and played with us so even the comforter got into the act as Grumman figured out how to burrow under it so only his nose or an eye could be seen.

He is Grumman, our Wonder Cat......thank you to those who saved him from being road kill and becoming an important part of the family.

Grrrr

Well it is no wonder everyone keeps getting sick........one day it is in the 30's and then like yesterday we had the windows open. In fact I left them open all night and looks like it will be another good day weather wise. Go Figure!

I'm a bit frustrated today as I feel like I need a means of transportation of my own. I have needed to go a couple of places recently and have had to wait till Scott feels like getting out to get there......I'm sure it is part of my control issues.......wait did I really write that about control issues? I have been wanting a vehicle of my own for some time now but just don't have the bucks to get one just yet. I do feel like God has a plan for it all but you know how it is when things just seem like they are standing still and not moving at all..... Think I will get outside here in a bit and see if that doesn't help.

sitting in the "MIDDLE" of Missouri

ya know it has been really funny so far this week, and yes I know that this is just Tuesday........but here we sit in the "MIDDLE" of Missouri and yesterday while we were out we saw all kinds of chunks of packed snow in parking lots. It didn't come from Boonville......I know Aunt Judy said they got some snow in Smithton and the guy at the new local hobby shop lives in Arrow Rock and he said they got inches of snow. However, here in Boonville, I looked out and said oh it is snowing cause I saw the snow on the roof tops and then I looked out again and said......it's quit and still only a scuff on the roof tops.....and that was gone by night time.
Not complaining because we didn't get any but just think it funny how it went clear around us here. My daughter offered to package some up and send it to me from Omaha but that's okay........this gal is ready for SPRING!! Got CABIN FEVER setting in bad some days. I had it so bad the other day I walked down the way a bit and got a candy bar at In and OUT, the local convenient store over by the Casino.......then got caught in a small rain shower and had to sit over there to wait out the rain. No big deal only lasted half hour and the walked back to our building and felt good for having been out.....it was in the 60's that day.

Earlier that week Scott and I had been over to the Ft. Kemper Park, which is the grounds where Kemper Military School was, and he flew some kits while I just sat and soaked up the sun. I'm ready for good weather and some picnics..........was thinking would love to see our family......I mean the whole BIG family get together some time soon for an old fashion "GRANPA COEN" get together. I sure miss not seeing the family and I am sure there will be those that I won't even recognise any more!!

Well, time to get dressed and do something today......not sure what yet, maybe I'll go work on the train layout in the other room.

Monday!!!

Well the title should say it all, but for us it was also laundry day so I am BEAT!
We stopped by so Scott could take his laundry up to his place and he brought his cat with him to take to my house. We have so much fun messing with this poor cats head as we have all kinds of sounds coming thru the one good speaker I have on my computer. Tonight it was frog sounds from the Missouri Conservation sight of frogs from Missouri http://mdc.mo.gov/nathis/herpetol/frog/id.htm this is such a cool site not only can you see the frogs and what the look like, you can listen and if you wish download thier sounds. It is a wonder I have a speaker left when Grumman finally found the speaker where it was coming from!! I'll have to add some of the pics we took later of him trying to catch the arrow on the cursor also......so funny, Grumman would even run around and try to see the arrow in the back when we could get it off far enough from the front of the monitor.

Scott and Grumman have gone home now and I need to take meds so I can come down and get some sleep tonight. I just wasn't sleepy last night so it was almost light outside before I fell asleep. Can't let that happen very often or it just throws everything off.

I am very happy with the way my hip is healing. A little tender tonight but look for the Dr to tell me to get off the cane when I see him on the 17th of this month.
Good night all!!