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                                                                               TRIM THE TREE

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It is hard to realize that 2024 is almost over. It has been a very disruptive year. Anyway, it has for us. My health went to pot and my husband will be 89 this month and he is not as strong as he was last winter. He still works outside, except when it is raining or real cold. He is out now getting firewood in and dumping ashes from our stove. I will be 86 in 2 months! Which is hard to believe. I am still going fairly strong. Have managed to set up a new computer with Windows 11. And I REALLY do not like Windows 11. My old faithful one finally gave out. So I did lose a lot of themes, etc. I had made. So am trying to catch up with that. 

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Also keeping our big house up is a lot of work. I am afraid we don't need one this big but have lived here going on 58 years so here is HOME! We're lucky our kids are all close, within 10 minutes of our house. Two grandsons and 3 great grand kids. The farthest away is our grand daughter and she lives in Olympia. And we have twin grandsons that live close to Seattle.And our only granddaughter is expecting a baby boy this month! We are thrilled because they have had 5 miscarriages so this one is a miracle child. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving at our sons home and some great grand kids. We ate too much and then after dinner we played Uno till time to leave. It was different not to have to fix so much food, just the sweet potatoes but our daughter in law is a fantastic cook and everything was so delicious. 

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I have been busy making themes and cell phone wallpapers so am going to put some on here for you to save if you like. My only great grand daughter loves them!

                                     RED CHAPEL

                                   CHRISTMAS TREE

                                   REINDEER SANTA

                             CHRISTMAS GNOME

                                        CHRISTMAS BUNNY

                                FOUR CANDLES

                               FOLLOW THE STAR

                                          SANTA

                                 FIRST CHRISTMAS

                                      STAR LIGHT

                            SAD CHRISTMAS KITTY

Have a great Christmas and I may be back with more!

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🦃🦃🍂NOVEMBER🍂🦃🦃

 TURKEY TIME

FIRST DINNER

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Thanksgiving is coming up soon. I have had the family dinner for 65 years and I decided I just had to hand it off. I am just not up to it this year so our daughter in law is doing it from now on. Everyone brings a dish the hostess asks for so that helps a lot. I have to make my Grandma's candied sweet potatoes. 

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My health has certainly gone downhill this year. And I really feel it. I just can't do all I used to but I am going to be 86 soon so guess I shouldn't try to do everything I did 20 years ago, but it's hard for me. I have been busy making themes and wallpapers for cell phones and will post a few more of the wallpapers I liked. 

                                        AUTUMN WATER WHEEL

                                                    RUSTIC WINTER  CABIN

                                    BLUE BELL ANGEL

                                      WINTER CHAPEL

It's time for me to start lunch so I better get my rear end in the kitchen. 

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Enjoy the season.
 

 

🦊🎃CELL PHONE WALLPAPERS 🎃🦊

                                                                AUTUMN LAKE SUNRISE

                                                                                HALLOWEEN HOUSE

                                                                        JACKS WITCH HOUSE

                                                                                     SCARY BAT JACK

                          
                                                                                         WOMAN & WOLF 

I have been slowly getting my new desktop set up with my programs, etc. but Windows 11 does not make it easy. I spent one day working on themes to start getting a backload to submit, but when I woke up the computer the next morning, they were no where to be found. Then later I found them...so it is a mystery. 

I just wanted to put in a few cell phone wallpapers I have been making, mostly because my great grand daughter loves them. And she comes first.  

My legs are getting tired so I think I am going to publish this and sit for awhile. I hopea you like my cell phone wallpapers and they are working well for you. Please let me know if they aren't, or the wrong size. You wouldn't believe how many different sizes different phones have. I make them 1 size and they work with my Samsung Android so hopefully they are working for y'all!

If not, please let me know! Have a good week and a H🎃PPY H🎃LLOWEEN!

 

🦊🎃HAPPY HALLOWEEN🎃🦊

 Coffee Cafe by M♥Donna

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 Well I had really bad luck with the new computer I got to replace my good old standby that my grandson built and kept updated. But he had said he couldn't update it anymore for Windows 11. It just wasn't worth it. I lost tons of themes, wallpapers & even all of the cell phone wallpapers I was going to submit.

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Back to the new computer. I could not get it set up, so I finally did a factory reset and took it back. Got a cheaper one, same brand and had no problem setting it up, getting my programs in, etc. Plus I saved $800! I had been saving up for years knowing I would have to eventually replace it, plus I had sold all my old gold jewelry! So it is paid for and everything is good! 

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I am beginning to feel like my old self after the stroke, dehydration, etc. But my memory is still off. I try to think of a word and it won't come when I want it to, but eventually I get it. It amazes me that I haven''t had a problem with Photoshop because it is kind of a difficult program. I got it in the new Dell, after I remembered my code, etc. so I didn't have to buy a newer version. There are still a couple things I can't remember how to do but "search" is good. I go tomorrow for a new blood test and hope my iron level is back up to at least a low normal. I hate taking iron pills! 

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I would like to thank the people that have recently sent me Amazon gift cards. I didn't want to set up an account for people to put money in so several months ago I added on my profile that I would accept Amazon gift cards for any amount and a few wonderful people have seen it and done so. I appreciated it so much because we buy all of our supplements from them and we take quite a few so there is always money going out. So thank you again, from the bottom of my heart!

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If any of you want me to continue to add cell phone wallpapers to my blog, please let me know and I will make some more. Luckily I had added the ones I liked to use to my phone gallery so didn't lose them! I am continuing to work with AI for my themes and have a lot of fun with it. I hope you have got to see some of my new Halloween ones as they are quite different from the old style. I still have to put them through Photoshop and re-do them for a theme because I can't make them that size. Not that talented or smart enough!

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I hope you all have a wonderful Halloween and get lots of goodies. Or give lots of goodies out to the little ones. 

Till next time!

😒😍NEW COMPUTER 🥲🥲

Jacks Black Cat
 

 

Well my poor, old, wonderful computer that my grandson built for me and kept updated finally wouldn't come on a couple weeks ago! He said it wasn't worth it and couldn't be updated for Windows 11, which I totally hate, so I ordered one from Costco. Got it quickly but just could not get it set up right. I had it so screwed up and I was a mess, tired and hurting and frustrated! My grandson came over and he even had a hard time and said that he thought Microsoft really screwed up with Windows 11. No one at the college he is the IT guy for like it, either. Why Microsoft just didn't do some updating to 10 and leave it alone. It was great. Anyway after about 4 solid days of working on it, I did a factory reset and took it back. I ordered a cheaper one, a Dell and have it mostly set up. But I can't get any sound out of IT! I have used all my brain power and still no sound and no place to plug in my old speakers. I don't want to bother my grandson because he just moved into a new townhouse and his brand new dryer went out after 1 week and he had a car accident, but wasn't hurt. So I will wait till Monday and call the Costco help people! I sure don't want to take this back because I have it pretty well set up with Firefox, Photoshop, etc. And I have made a few themes on it already, like the Fighting Duck. I don't have all of the Photoshop brushes in yet, but I have to find out where they go in 11. It is so much harder to navigate than 10. Enough complaining. But setting up a new computer after a stroke is no joke and it is very hard. 

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 We are still having fairly good weather with bright sunshine today but the southeast is getting battered. I heard today Trump thinks the government is doing it to the Republican area! OMG! I didn't realize that kind of power was available yet!

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In the process of losing my wonderful old computer I lost hundreds and hundreds of themes and wallpapers I had made. I had Sync and PCloud for some of my back ups but I couldn't remember all my passwords, etc. so they are out there in a cloud somewhere. I had made and saved a bunch of really great cell phone wallpapers, too. Gone! All that time and energy wasted, but that is life!

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So I have nothing to add to this silly blog so will sign off and get supper around. I will be back after I get this computer figured out! 

Have a great Halloween if I don't get back on here.

 

📱📲📴CELL WALLPAPERS📱📳📱

 Made a few new cell wallpapers and since fall is coming up fast wanted to get them on line for you:

    I hope you enjoy these. The top two are not autumn images but I liked them so included them.

Still not feeling very good but I continue to work, which may be part of the problem, but...

🍁🍁SEPTEMBER REMEMBER🍁🍁

September is coming in like a cold shower! It makes you remember we live in the Pacific Northwest. It was cold and rainy yesterday and today. But the weather people say it will be in the 80's next weekend, but I have to see it to believe it. This has been the coldest summer up here in a long time, seems like. Or maybe my bones just feel it. I am still working on themes and wallpapers and having more fun with AI making cell phone wallpapers, too. I really don't know if anyone is using them or not, but I am. My great grand daughter likes them, too! I make some for her that are the team she plays fast pitch and volley ball for. Sometimes I start to think maybe I am just wasting time, but then again I am enjoying it, so I guess that is not wasting time! 

I have been cleaning  out drawers and closets and getting rid of stuff that should have been gotten rid of years ago. But it is hard to do that, especially when no one really wants some of the old stuff. I treasure the things my grandmothers gave me, but no one else does and that hurts. But what hurts my heart even more, is when I come across something that my mother put hours and hours of work in and gave to me. I treasured it, but no one wants it. So what do you do with it? Put it back in the drawer? Or give it to a thrift shop? Well that is still for me to decide at this point!

Here are just a few cell phone wallpapers I have come up with:

 

 

     I didn't bother to title these as you can call them what you want. 

 

Have a good September and let's hope for a little bit more sunshine up here in the PNW.

 

Enjoy!