A Couple of Gotcha Days

Since I have not been writing on my blog every day I will just update y’all as to what I have been doing the past couple of days.

First of all, today, Monday, is Miss Penny’s Gotcha Day.  One year ago today Miss Penny was rescued from PAWS and become a member of our family.  She has been a joy.  She is also a little s**t.  She still loves to climb.  I find her on top of just about everything I own.  She can’t get on the wall bird cages now because I took them off the wall.  She still climbs on top of the television and watches it upside down.  I have not been able to break her habit of doing that.  The water squirt bottle doesn’t help because she thinks I am playing with her.  As you can tell she is spoiled rotten, but I wouldn’t want her any other way. 

I have finished my Christmas ornaments.  I have cut my material for my Christmas pillows.  I have cut the material for my tree skirt and pinned it together.  I also purchased material for an autumn hanging. 

Yesterday we celebrated my birthday at Kevin and Renea’s.  Ryan and Stephanie were also there along with all four dogs.  Such a mad house!  Anyway, supper was great and so was my birthday cake.  My family, including Brian’s family, gave me a purple martin house.  It is one of those consisting of gourds.  Now I have to decide where to put it.

Today I mowed my front grass.  A couple of days ago I finished weeding the area around my birdbath.  It sure looks good.  Now I have to buy more rocks for around the birdbath and the deck. 

Kevin spent the past couple of days working on clearing the woods of weeds, vines and dead trees.  It is really looking good.  We figure we will all be dead before he finishes.  He is finding a real assortment of trees; oak, walnut, hickory, birch, and a lot of magnolia.  There are several pine trees that look terrible so he is cutting them down.  The people that owned this property before us used this area for a dump and he is finding all types of “stuff” including tires, fencing, railroad ties and just plain old junk.  Renea noticed a rather large nest in the arm of one of the trees.  Since we have hawks in the woods we think maybe it belongs to them.

The weather has been gorgeous; lows in the 50’s at night and highs in the upper 70’s and low 80’s during the day.  Perfect!

I haven’t been doing much outside.  I have been getting my house ready for Jana.  I am making room for her and Smoky.  We are going to be packed in here, but that’s okay. 

I have been working on my Christmas tree skirt.  It is almost finished.  I think I am doing something wrong with the bobbin on my sewing machine.  I need to review the CD they sent me with instructions.  I have read the book and I just can’t quite figure out what I need to do.  I thought I understood it, but I cannot put it into practice. 

I have also been working on the website for Landmark Academy.  This is slow going because I am using a free site and it won’t let me do what I want.  I will succeed!