Happy Halloween

Sunshine Autumn Morning

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 Good morning to everyone. Hard to believe this is the last week of October. It is definitely beginning to feel like fall, especially in the mornings. 

I have been busy on fall designs and starting on Christmas. But I have so many made I shouldn't even do 1 more. But I enjoy it so much.

I wrote about a threatening letter I recieved from another designer a few blogs ago. Well, I recently got 2 more from her. I won't post her name but if you want to find out who she is you could just search for one of her designs and she should pop up! One is called A Little Sweetness in Spoon. I probably shouldn't post her last letter to me on line, but it bothered me so much I am going to. 

" You bitch - What a wonderful notice - I'm glad I didn't see this before I posted - Or I would have fought you tooth and nail - None of your stuff in copy-righted just because you wrote some doesn't mean a damn thing. Check it out with whoever makes up your fucken paperwork!

Yeah you're a little old lady - you try to cause old kinds of trouble and you sit back and have your little minions do your dirty work for you... Stay away from me bitch cause I'm the one who wll come after you - This is now the second warning - Take this one to Amy too - you see who she stood up for before! I'm not the one causing all the trouble - You are and they see that!

Don't threaten me Madonna I don't take to it very well - I'm on disability for hurting on person who tried this shit - lets not make it 2..."

I don't even know if this can be posted on a blog because of her language but if Google removes it, so be it.  I won't even mention her spelling! This was just one of her last emails to me. You can tell she has some "problems". I refuse to get into a confrontation with her so don't answer he emails. I don't even know half of what she is talking about!  But this just goes to show making persona themes is not all fun and games. She uses my wallpapers to make designs and when I ask her to remove them she  sends these kind of emails.

I am beginning to think about Thanksgiving and looking forward to it. All 3 of our kids will be here and some of the grandkids.  

The last school shooting at Marysville Pilchuck High School was a little too close to home. My nieces children attend that school and one of them was very close to the shooting. I can't imagine what the parents were going through when they heard the news. When our kids were in school we didn't have to worry about such things because nothing like that happened. When I was in high school, the boys had rifles in racks in the back window of their pick ups. And no one thought anything about it. You can't help but worry about your kids, grandkids and great grandkids now. School should be a safe place. 

I haven't been designing any new themes for Brand Thunder. They closed their submissions. They still have themes of the week but I have so many on their site they are just going back and using some of them. I see this week it is Famous Music Artists. 

We have been having fresh strawberries up until lst week. The plants my husband planted have strawberris all summer. But it is getting chilly at night and we have had so much rain, that will be it for the summer.

I had an eye appt. last week and I will have to have my cataracts removed next year. Something to look forward to!

Have you been inundated with political phone calls? I will be glad when the election is over because of phone calls and junk mail. 

Time to start lunch. Have a good week and a great Halloween.

New Venture

Stunning Pathway to Fall

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Cold, dreary fall Friday. I am already tired of it. Ready for 85° again.

I told you about making my own laundry detergent several months ago. I have used one whole batch now and am loving it. I can't believe how much money it saves. It gets the clothes clean and that is what is important. I have learned to make my own fragrance crystals to match the detergent and that works every bit as well as the one on the store shelves. Now I am going to "try" making my own liquid hand soap. I have some ingredients on the way from Amazon and picking up the rest at our local community co-op. I will let you know how it works out. I have decided to try the foaming dispensers because it makes the soap go father and isn't as messy. I have researched a lot of recipes on line and have put my own together so we shall see.

 Harvest Pumpkin House

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The theme above has been doing very well. It was a lot of work. Had to add all the little critters, etc. but think it was worth it. 

It is funny about submitting a design. I "never" know what will be popular and what will flop. Several I have put on I think are not very good and for some reason they will catch on and be quite popular. I guess it is good everyone doesn't like the same thing.

Well, I am going to get back to work. Friday is a busy cleaning day for me, so back to work.

October Thoughts

Autumn Winter Wolves

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This year has gone way too fast for this old lady. Summer was great and now we are into fall. I think we had one of the nicest summers we have had in a long time. I know we broke both heat records and rainfall in one day records! But for some reason this summer the weather was usually nice on the week ends and that usually doesn't happen in WA state. When we were riding our bikes it seemed like we were always waiting for good weather. Now that we don't ride anymore...the weather was great. Sad to get old and not do the things you want to do. The only time I felt free and really good was when I was riding. I really miss it. I found the graphic of an old lady on a motorycycle and had to use it for my avatar on both Desktop Nexus and Firefox Themes. She makes me feel happy every time I see it!

 

She even has a white puppy dog behind her and the last dog we had was a white fluffy one. We lost him in 1991 and I haven't been able to open my heart up to get another one. I know my husband would love a dog, but I get too attached to them and it just hurts too much to lose them. I am not very good at losing things or people, so the easiest way to prevent loss for me, is to just not replace. 

I am really dreading winter. I have Raynaud's Phenomenon so when I get chilly my fingers turn white and lose their feeling. It used to happen when I was riding and sometimes was hard to even pull the clutch in on my bike. The Dr. told me you have to keep your core warm so I wear hooded sweatsirts and vests in the winter. When I start working with food they will turn white. We have always had wood heat but can't get out to get wood anymore so we haved to use the furnace and you just don't get the same kind of heat out of that as you do wood.

I have been working on fall and Halloween themes and really have enough made but I still keep working. I really like the autumn winter wolves I highlighted in todays blog. It is a mixture of the wolves that I love to work with and the fall leaves blowing in the snow. 

My husband and I read quite a bit and it can get expensive if you aren't careful. I wrote about FreeBook Sifter a couple blogs ago but I found another place called BookBub that emails you every day with free or low cost books from

 Amazon's Kindle store, Barnes & Noble's Nook store, Apple's iBookstore. You can even specify what genre and format you want and that is what they send you information on. My problem is I find too many I want so have lots of books in the "cloud". I signed up for the Amazon Unlimited for a free 30 days but the problem with that is, you choose the 10 books from a list and if you don't get them all read during the "free" period they take them back, so you end up and have to pay for at least one month, which I did, so we can finish reading the series we were reading. BUT when this month is up, I am closing that account. 

I am going to get back to work. Have a great week and hope everyone is doing well. 

Threatening Letter

Early Sunday Morning

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Well, I had a first this morning. I opened my emails and found a threatening letter from a theme designer. I have had a bit of trouble with her before because she uses some of my wallpapers for her designs. I think I mentioned her before...but anyway...I had posted a review on one of her themes that was quite distorted, (just to let her know so she could/should edit it). Well, she didn't like that so this is the exact email she sent me. 

"What the hell is the matter with you!!! Don't I have enough people attacking me without you starting up too. You have some theme I don't like at all but I would NEVER put one - or two stars on yours even if I though you deserve it. I give a 4 and then explain why that's the way a theme should be rated! How much time and effort do we put in making a theme - you don't think just that is worth more than two stars!/? I can understand the 4 ass-holes rated my work with 1 star THEY HAVE NEVER MADE A THEME - I though you were better than that... Don't attack me again "Friend" I'm not someone you want to make an enemy  of - I have a lot of friends on here and if you want to have a bunch of one stars on your themes - you keep attacking me!!

Apparently she didn't take time to proof read her email before she sent it or doesn't use spell check! I think this person has a mental problem because she feels she has to threaten someone that makes a comment. I have recieved reviews that were not very complimentary and I either delete or edit the theme. I certainly don't threaten anyone or call them names.Rather petty!

OK. Enough venting. We had a super week end. The weather was perfect for the last days of summer. Our daughter came over Saturday afternoon and her Dad put new brakes on her car. The shop wanted $600 to do them and she can't affored that.  Our oldest son stopped by for a short visit Sat. afternoon, also. We got to have our 1 year old great grandson for the entire day yesterday and we had so much fun with him. His Dad got tickets to the Seahawks game for his birthday so the little ones were doled out to relatives. And the Seahawks won....but was pretty scary there for awhile.

Well, I will get back to work. Just had to vent a bit and that is what friends are for, right?

Autumn Butterfly Song

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September and feels like fall!

Winds of Autumn

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September has arrived in it's cold, clammy fashion in the Pacific Northwest! Rain showers and much cooler. I DON'T like it at all. The weather man says it will be in the 80's this week end, so am keeping my fingers crossed.

We had a nice Labor Day week end. Of course we both labored some but it was still nice. Got to visit with our daughter and grandkids on Sat. night. Had delicious tacos and lots of laughs. Have to admit we got a bit loud but it wasn't long before half of her neighbors were as loud as we were. Don't get to see these grandkids as often, so was very special. I feel so fortunate to have such a "nice" family. Everyone seems to get along and enjoys being with one another. I think if more people would make an effort, more families would be happier. 

But who am I to judge?

Mozilla finally got their user count fixed so designers can actually see if their work is getting used. For a whole month we didn't know if anyone was using any of our work. So thanks, Mozilla. I kind of think most of them take their vacations in August because I remember other problems in past August's.

My very favorite television program is Sons of Anarchy. Yes, I know there is a lot of violence in it but I love the show. Have from the very beginning. We started watching Season One (for the 7th time) on Netflix the first part of August and are on the last episode of Season 5 now. Then we can watch Season 6 which I got on DVD last Tues. I can't wait to watch it but season 7 is beginning on TV and it is the last season for SOA. We don't watch it on the TV but wait till it is out on DVD.  So am hoping since this will be the last season they won't wait till next fall to put the DVD out. I will have to be very careful about not hearing or reading anything about the last season cause I don't want to know anything! But then at my age, by the time the DVD is out, I will probably have forgotten what I heard or read.

It is time for me to begin dinner and since I don't know anything I will sign off for this time.

Have a good week and drop  in again.

 

Time Going Too Fast

Deer in Fall Aspen Forest

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This week went by so quickly I can't believe it. September is just around the corner. I am not ready for cold weather. I love this warm sunny weather and if our kids, grandkids, and great grandkids didn't live here we would be somewhere where it is warm all the time. I know my husband dreads it, too.  But at least we can enjoy the warmth while it lasts, I guess. 

I love the theme I am featuring today. It looks like it does around here in the fall. It is from a painting by Rosemary Millett and I used it as the base for my design.

Mozilla still hasn't gotten the user count fixed, Up and Coming nor Most Popular. It has been "broken" for almost a month now.

In eastern WA where they have been having all the terrible forest fires are now having flash floods and slides. So if it isn't one thing it is the other.

Got to spend some time with some of the great grandkids this week. I don't see how I used to do it with 3 little ones! I guess it was because I was more than 50 years younger than I am now! But it is great to be around little ones and see how they grow and change every week.

 This time of year when our kids were small I was busy canning peaches, apricots, plums, dill pickles with hot peppers, and making jams for the winter. I  baked 4 loaves of home made sourdough bread from scratch every few days. (I got the "starter" for it from an old woman that lived farther up in the mountains than we did). Plus we would be getting our wood in for the winter since the only heat we had was a wood stove. Diapers were not throw aways back then. They were flannel diapers that I had made and had to wash in a wringer washer I had to pull in from the porch and hook up to the sink! For about a year we had 2 in diapers at the same time and that was a lot of diapers to wash and hang up every other day. But I would go back to that time if I could. The world was a better place, people were friendlier and less judgemental. Gas was 29¢ a gallon and we thought that was high! 

Thanks for stopping in. 

Another Great Week End

Cones of Tomorrow

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We had another great week end. Weather was pretty good so we got to be outside a lot.

Remember when I said I didn't want to go to my husband's 60th class reunion? Well, we went and we both had such a good time. I got to visit with several old friends. One I was best friends with in grade school so had lots to talk about, especially old friends. Some not around anymore. 

Yesterday the weather was beautiful so we sat outside and talked most of the day about old friends. Our daughter showed up with her super macaroni salad so we got out hot dogs and had a wiener roast. Good old summer time!

I am not submitting very many themes right now because the system is still broken. Plus I want to enjoy the sunshine. Which I am going to do right now.

♥ More later ♥