.....and other random stuff......

Monday, December 27, 2021

Monday, December 20, 2021

Monday, December 13, 2021

Monday, December 6, 2021

Monday, November 29, 2021

Monday, November 22, 2021

Monday, November 15, 2021

Monday, November 8, 2021

Monday, November 1, 2021

Monday, October 25, 2021

Monday, October 18, 2021

Monday, October 11, 2021

Monday, October 4, 2021

Monday, September 27, 2021

Monday, September 20, 2021

Monday, September 13, 2021

Monday, September 6, 2021

Monday, August 30, 2021

Monday, August 23, 2021

Monday, August 16, 2021

Monday, August 9, 2021

Monday, August 2, 2021

Monday, July 26, 2021

Monday, July 19, 2021

Friday, July 16, 2021

Can YOU Say Naïve?

I was well into my mumble mumble mumble (insert age when I should have known better) when we got Sammy.  It wasn’t the first time I had a dog but it WAS the first time where I was a major part of the decision making and care for the animal.

Sammy was a purebred Golden Retriever and there was much discussion about neutering. We had no ambitions of breeding him so after a few heartfelt talks we decided it was for the best.

On a bright and sunny day we drove him to the vet and after a few belly rubs and kisses we left him in the capable and loving hands of Dr. Kramer. The next day we picked him up…..complete with the cone of shame.

(I can’t prove it but I THINK he gave us the ‘stink eye’ as we put him in the car……)

When we got home I made a comfy, cushy bed for him (to assuage my guilt) and he climbed tentatively onto the pile of blankets I had assembled.  But, as he did his circling routine before lying down I noticed something…...or rather I noticed a LACK of something.

I must have audibly gasped because Husband looked at me quizzically and asked what was wrong. I was in such shock I couldn’t even articulate what I was seeing…..or rather what I was NOT seeing.

You see, Husband had had a vasectomy a few years earlier and I THOUGHT I knew the procedure pretty well. I thought that was the way they did it for animals too. SNIP SNIP all done! Easy peasy!

But apparently it’s different in the animal kingdom. They don’t just snip the vas deferens. Nope. They remove the testicles COMPLETELY!!!!!

I was…..surprised. No, I was aghast! And I felt so guilty that for the weeks following the ‘procedure’ I gave Sammy so many extra treats Dr. Kramer admonished me about his weight!

 

(Keep in mind while reading this that we had all of our cats neutered (before we got Sammy) and I didn’t think twice about THEM! Go figure…….LOL)

 

Throcky had a similar experience……



Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Monday, July 12, 2021

Tuesday, July 6, 2021

And Here Comes The ‘Letdown’……

I get so excited about an idea in the beginning. I go into it with everything I’ve got. I work with gusto and excitement.  The muse is humming along with me and all is right with the world…….

Then I start to lose interest. I can see the finish line but I start to question every move, every line, every decision……

And I get to a point where I just don’t want to work on it anymore.

It’s garbage.

It was a lousy idea from the start.

But there are hours and hours of WORK in there! It deserves to be shown! Or does it?

And so it goes…..time after time…..and here I am again at the ‘letdown’ stage.

But I promised myself I’d finish it (to the best of my ability and patience) and I’d post it!





Put them all together and you get this:
I still see places where it could use some 'tweaking' and I haven't decided if the last four panels need a background color......should it be a 'board book' instead?...... a 'flip book'?......am I having delusions of grandeur?????? 
Right now I'm just tired of it......the letdown stage......

BUT.....I did finish it!!!!! (to the best of my ability and attention span.....at least there's that....)


I need to lie down now.
































Monday, July 5, 2021

Friday, July 2, 2021

What I've Been Up To

It may seem like I have fallen off the face of the earth lately but I assure you I'm still here. 

Quiet.....but here. 

I've been working on an idea.......


It might turn into a comic.....or a 'board book'......not sure where it's going. 

BUT.......

I am DETERMINED  to FINISH!!!

We'll see..........

(and I'm surprised at how hesitant I am to show it.....lol. I wonder what that's all about....?)








Monday, June 28, 2021

Wednesday, June 23, 2021

♫♪♫♪♫♪….Day is done

Gone the sun, Safely rest, Go to sleep……♫♪♫♪♫♪ (slightly paraphrased but you get the idea)

TableyOne has shuffled off this mortal coil…..He was a good Tabley. He served me well and long. I’m saddened but glad I still have backups and my SD card.

Not sure what the protocol is for burial though……..





Monday, June 21, 2021

Monday, June 14, 2021

Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Riddle Me This

When I boil eggs on my induction cooktop the eggs start to march around the pot. They never did this on any of my old stove tops.

It’s interesting to watch. They start s-l-o-w-l-y……as if they need to talk it over with one another and decide how and when and what direction to go.

You can tell they’re moving deliberately. They know EXACTLY what they’re doing.

I just don’t know WHY they’re doing it!

It happens every single time.….in a tight little circle. And always counter-clockwise.

ALWAYS.

Which makes me wonder…….is it like water going down the drain? You know the whole clockwise/counter clockwise, northern hemisphere/southern hemisphere thing:

“Objects not attached to the surface of the earth (water in a sink going down a drain) will create a vortex going the opposite direction. So in the Northern hemisphere, it moves clockwise. In the Southern hemisphere, it moves counter clockwise. On the equator, water goes straight down.”

We’ve ALL heard this right? (I’ve also read this is a fallacy….but let’s just put on our tin foil hats and believe it’s true for the moment.)

I live in the northern hemisphere so water going down the drain rotates clockwise.

But apparently, the water in the pot when I’m boiling eggs on my induction cook top goes COUNTER-CLOCKWISE!

Which throws my whole theory out the window….but we’ll ignore that part….lol.

My question is: Do the eggs boiling in a pot on an induction cooktop in the southern hemisphere rotate CLOCKWISE?????

Inquiring minds want to know!



Monday, June 7, 2021

Friday, June 4, 2021

Caricature

I'm reading a book on caricature. Not that I want to DO caricatures....but I thought it might loosen up my faces a bit. They start to all look the same to me after a while. I thought it would help. 

Maybe......maybe not......lol.


Monday, May 31, 2021

Thursday, May 27, 2021

Sweet AND Hysterical

How many times in your life can you put those two words together?

My online pal CJ (of CJ & Ink fame) posted about her Godzilla pen ‘helper’ and I thought it was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. I commented that I coveted him.

The next thing I know a box shows up on my doorstep and there he is in all his glory!


THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!!!!!!!!!

 

That expression! 

Here's soooooo excited to hold my pen! LOL 



(I’ll have to watch myself when I say I covet something of a friend’s from now on…..lol)

Monday, May 24, 2021

Monday, May 17, 2021

Monday, May 10, 2021