Most Exciting Thing First!

Little Bug

I'm so excited I want to say the last thing first. Tonight all the cats came in the cat house, even Ivan who has been missing for 4 days. So I set up the Have-a-Heart trap for the kitten, Little Bug, and caught him! I picked up the trap and put it in the cat house and let him go in there. Now he's in with his friends and has all the food and water he wants. So, so exciting!

Around 7:30 a.m., I went back up to the Craft Room and cleaned all the glass in the 3 new glass cabinets we bought. Then I picked up Mom so we could get our hair done as planned. Poor Mom had her hair done and then had to wait for me another couple of hours. Too much hair!

When we got back, I left Mom off. I thing she was tired. I was tired, too, so I did a little reading and fell asleep for an hour. Then, back to the Craft Room to put away some of my beads, etc. I think I may be able to get it all done in the next day or so.

Tonight when Dennis called I was working he Google 100th Anniversary Crossword Puzzle that was in the Google banner. Dennis helped me finish it.

5:00 A.M.

Not bad. I went up to the craft room at 4:30 to put away the remainder of the yarn and jewelry scarves. I scared Little Bug sleeping in the basket by the cat room--his place at night. Now all I have to do is put away all the beads, etc. The hardest part. I may have to get another bead cabinet before I'm through. We'll have to see.

I didn't sleep much last night. This morning Mom and I are getting our hair done at a new place in Descanso--new to us, that is. This is where Betsy and Joyce get their hair done, so it should be okay. I also found someone in Alpine who will do a Brazilian Blowout when I need it in about 10 or 12 weeks.

Life is good.

Rainy Day

It rained nearly all day--not hard, but pretty consistenly. Meanwhile, I got up early and started work in my new office, testing the printers, paying bills, preparing the Xmas lists for next year, and filing all the miscellaneous pieces of paper that landed up there. I'm still waiting for the 4-drawer lateral file that is, I hope, being trucked from Florida as I speak. But it all looks good. I worked from 5:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., then came in and started a fire in the fireplace, had soup for lunch, and took a little nap.

In the afternoon, I worked on the scarf I'm knitting while watching a little TV, clearing out some of the programs that have accumulated on the DVR. When I recovered from the morning, I went back up to the craft room and started in on unpacking a multitude of plastic boxes filled with yarn. I organized the yarn and started putting it all in the bookcase we bought from IKEA for this purpose. I got it down to 4 large plastic boxes when I realized I had reached my limitations. So, at 4:30 p.m., I went back to the house and fed the dog and the cats.

We bought a "Have-a-Heart" trap to capture Little Bug, our walk-on kitten and integrate him or her into the cat house. All the cats are in the cat house except Little Bug and Ivan. I think they are keeping company. They hide in the bushes on the hill above the back yard. Little Bug is super fast. We may have to rethink the kitten's name once we capture him/her. Unfortunately, I was unable to set up the trap and no one who was supposed to be here today showed up. No Toby, no Vivian, no Jorge, no Eugenio, no Homero--the last two were probably here but I didn't see them. So, no help.

Luckily Dennis is off skiing, so there's extra time to do all this. On the other hand, if he was here he could have set up the trap.

Xmas Letter

I was late in writing the Xmas Letter this year due to all the packing and moving and unpacking. I worked on it over the weekend but had problems because the computer in the office lost connection to the server and I couldn't place the photos. We finally figured out the problem late Sunday and I printed the letters from the iMac to the color laser printer. After that I started working on the labels and tried to print them from Outlook on the PC-Windows computer. They wouldn't print. The error messages said no printer connected. Yikes. I finally got Shannon in the office to print the labels from her computer to the black and white printer in the office. So no color on the labels. I was disappointed.

Today I called our IT people and the tech worked with me on fixing the printers. I had to reset the switch/router and then he installed the correct drivers for the PC. Everything works now, I think. I'm pretty sick of Christmas right now.

I did make my signature cookies (Russian Teacakes) tonight so I am done with that. Whew.

Oh, yeah...I still have presents to wrap.

More Craft Room Photos

New glass cabinets

Beading station with office behind

Yarn bowl 1

Yarn bowl 1

Bringing it home

Thursday was the day for the big move of the glass cabinets. First, Dennis, Toby, Jorge, Eugenio and Homero met in Pacific Beach to pick up the large curio cabinet and bring it home in the horse trailer. I stayed home because I couldn't watch. Then, later in the afternoon Dennis and Homero picked up the smaller cabinets in Del Cerro and brought those back and set them up in the craft room.

The large curio cabinet stayed in the horse trailer until Friday when we had a lot of people to help move it upstairs. It was a wonder nothing broke.

They drove the horse trailer around back and lifted the curio cabinet over the deck railing. It all went flawlessly...the cabinet is in one piece. Check it out.

Craigs List Shopping

On Wednesday, Dennis and I drove out to Pacific Beach and Del Cerro to look at some glass cabinets for the craftroom. We liked what we saw, left deposits and will be back tomorrow to pick them up. One is a beautiful, large curio cabinet which will be great to display my glass pieces and jewelry. It is all beveled glass on the front and sides, with glass shelves inside. The other two are identical low glass cabinets, also for displaying jewelry or other items. This is great because I really don't have any place to display my work. The hard part will be getting the furniture back here without breaking any of the glass.

We also went back to IKEA to buy another bookcase to put back to back with the other one we bought. I'll be using these pieces to store all my yarn. Anybody want yarn?