I've been popped in the mouth by a long term care resident and broken a tooth. hit in the mouth with a Great Pryanese paw and broke a tooth. today....today. (sigh) I was eating some moist, delicious pumpkin bread spread with butter since I'm a fat girl. all of a sudden I bit into a rock? I spit it out and it was a tooth. somebody at HyVee Bakery lost a tooth in my pumpkin bread? looked in the mirror. it was MY tooth. called dentist office. no immediate appointments. I can go in with Kevin on his next appointment so Dr. Paul can see what the situation is here. I'm not giving up bread. no way. no how.
picked up Rip, picked up Rx. vaccumed floor. delivered the wedding presents to farm.
the event was at a hotel, which was nice, since you could just take the elevator up to your room. I did makeup and hair with the bridal party, which was fun. the grands had a big time dancing. Cora danced with Papa, which melted my heart. Ann & KJ planned a special dance for us to one of our favorite songs since we didn't dance at our own wedding. it was a very sweet gesture. KJ looked very handsome and proud and happy. he got married on our 41st anniversary. Koren and family and Dave & Mel attended, along with some teachers from his school.
delivered KJ's meat and a package for Ann. burned their cardboard boxes. sold some silver. went to Hy-Vee. ice cream at Sonic. bumped into an old coworker, one of the most gungho company people I EVER worked with. she was fired in July. guy came and fixed a/c but it quit again. he'll be back tomorrow with more parts. it's lovely fall weather and I finally got to open some windows.
picked Rip up from vet. Kevin helped me hang the pumkpin buckets in tree. orange skeleton in position on porch.
came home to a/c trying valiantly and failing to kick on (insert eye roll here.)
there was a rainy day zoo trip. checkers. movie night. flashlights in the back yard. a walkabout the neighborhood.
Kevin took another early out. and did a long soak in the jacuzzi tub followed by a lap at the park. he's still hurting. but he got that tin back up on the roof, by God there.
I have such a long to do list and so many lazy days...but did make an executive decision to add 2 Barbies I had stashed in the trunk to my own Barbie house instead of saving for granddaughters for gifts...because, quite frankly, these girls have AMAZING Barbie collections. and I like to play Barbies, too....
on season 2 of Carrie from King of Queens Scientology doc. wow.
Kevin took an early out, crawled up on haybarn roof to replace tin that had blown off over the years. David stopped by on his way home from work just about the time Kevin ran out of screws. and crawled up on the roof to help him finish up. 6 sheets. then his friend from work Ian showed up to cut down the dead tree in KJ's yard. Kevin pushed the brush out of the driveway, Ian will come back later to cut it up. Kevin parked dump trailer back there to clean up.
I didn't realize there was no fridge in room. but the elegant and quite heavy silver ice bucket did keep ice frozen ALL night. there is no longer a room 1046. guess the rooms are larger now than they once were. there was an event on second floor so couldn't blunder about trying to spot the ghostly butler. took the stairs from 2-5th floor. no ghosties there. there was a powerful commotion coming from 5th floor elevators, sounded like talking, dishes clanging, etc. a party. door opens. crickets. so that was cool. was a beautiful classy grand old dame. reminded me a lot of the one Katie and I stayed in at Washington DC. excellent staff. valet. Kevin met a guy at concert who was part of renovation of hotel. no elecricity and full of pigeons.
used the Longhorn gift card from Chris and Tracy for lunch. ate lunch next day at Jack Stacks.
KJ, Ann, and Izzy over to watch the Chiefs game after we got home.
of course mine is more like " it's an old Barbie, you can't tell me I can't make it into a serial killer or infamous person...." . or it's the Barbie head I thrifted and some waaaaaay too big plastic Dollar General snakes "you can't tell me how to make Medusa." the long-awaited for Scooby Doo color book has arrived, and it is all I hoped. HUGE graphics that I am going to use for patterns to make my own version of The Scooby Doo Gang and Monsters for a quilt. I will pay homage to the original, but might get a bit funkytown with the fabric choices, since they will be coming from my fabric stash boxes. I am on a recently formed mission to use up my existing fabric. I might cave and buy something that is PERFECT, but not my original intention. I might get Scooby Doo FAbric for the backing????? time will tell. right now is the fun and exciting idea stage. which is followed by the equally exciting finding the fabric and piecing it together stage. then the overwhelming how do I make this work stage. THEN the perfect backing stage. and then the off to the quilter stage for quilting design. can I get GHOSTS?
so many projects. so much time I spend staring off into space. I should do something about that....need to finish up my Medusa. go see if that big head doll is still at thrift store in P-town. you know. the one in the box under the clothing rack. now I'm thinking she would make a perfect baby Beetlejuice. who says Beetlejuice has to be a boy?
John's birthday has come and gone. again. watching all kinds of weird thought provoking content. learning shit I quite honestly should've known but didn't. probably because I don't watch the news. we saw Beetlejuice Beetlejuice at the theater. a magical magical sequel. I. loved. it. Kevin has took early outs the last 2 days. today 'we' worked at the farm, sorted through stuff, pushing stuff into burn pile, digging up steel lodged in the ground. he also cleaned up in front of The Butler Barn. looking better out there all the time. Dr. Izzy started her practice today. Nurse Zerelda is assisting her. Kevin bought a slicer. he sliced the zuchinni. I did the fried potatoes. not realizing there is a safety deal to hold the product with. gashed my thumb but good. bled off and on all night. everytime I bumped it. next day was digging in fabric box and started bleeding. yesterday I was doing my usual round of local businesses (DG, Dollar Tree, Hy-Vee) while Rip was getting groomed. my thumb bumped against my leg walking across parking lot to DT, had to do emergency first aid with my glove box bandaids. working on crafty spooky stuff. have kind of started decorating for Halloween. as in up here. since The Creepy Corner is 100% Halloween All. The. Time. and started wasting vast amounts of time playing some game on my phone matching 3 objects on a shelf over and over and over and over till the low battery 10% warning comes on.....(insert eye roll emoji here.) still hooping. not losing tons of weight. haven't lost a link. but I feel accomplished. so there's that.
hit several city Walmarts looking for Tracy's sweatshirt, found it a size too big at Bethany Walmart on way home, so went ahead and bought it.
Kevin took an early out, picked up his Rx, picked up our eyeglasses, ate a late lunch/early supper, and went to Hy-Vee. the wonderful brisk weather continues. made a witches jar.
but sometimes they are a necessary evil. mowed our yard. Kevin thinks the motor on my lawnmower is locked up. it's always something, ain't it? my, my. made cornbread, beans, and fried potatoes for supper and as always, thought about my dad. mom would always make extra cornbread so he had plenty for cornmeal mush. milk on cornbread. ugh. he sure loved it. made Miss Hetty's hat. I think it is adorable. sure, it's not perfect. hot glue strands everywhere I need to trim off. I'm sure she'll look beautiful in it.
and assisted Kevin with transforming the front door to rusty white to Storm Gray with black doorknob. he also fixed other door to open and shut and replaced doorknob. and diagnosed garbage disposal. it works with extension cord. nothing plugged into that outlet will work. must need new outlet. passed that on to our local handy dandy fix it man.
