What to post....

First of all, I want to state that both these pictures were taken by Roger. The first is of Lorelei yesterday after a short nap. That is a yawn and not her being funny. That is what I have felt like doing all day.
The one below is of Cougar...and this is what I should be doing now. He slept so sound...I change Lorelei on my bed, and he slept there the whole day and did not even move the whole time.
Last night after Lorelei went home, Roger and I got ready and I went on a hunt for a stove....I finally settled on one at the last store, Lowe's, that we went to. It has coils--two big burners and two small ones--and they are arranged the way I am used to.

We didn't take the truck last night, so this morn after Lorelei was here and settled in we took the old stove out and Roger took it to the salvage yard and went on and picked up the new one. But as we were getting the old one out, he took the knobs off, and under them there was this smoky black...like from a fire. I bet we don't even know how close it was to being a fire. Probably not one cause there was nothing to burn.

I was just so relieved to make a decision about the stove, but even more so that it is now here and in place. I didn't do any real cooking on it, but have had the burners on and the oven on. I don't have Lorelei in the morn, but go to her house tomorrow afternoon and watch her for a few hours.

It rained the entire day here, sometimes a lot and sometimes just a steady light rain. Anyway, it was on the cool side and every time we tried to sit outside, the wind would blow just enough to blow a little rain in. So Lorelei missed that. She really likes to go outside and sit and watch what goes on around. I am done wondering what we will do when it is really cold this winter.

I almost forgot...Lorelei and I were sitting out back after Sarah came to pick her up. She got to help me feed Mama Squirrel. Mama Squirrel did not seem to mind...but Lorelei was quiet.

Sarah and Jeremy are trying to find a good glider swing for their yard. One that Otto cannot tear up. He is so rough on stuff....so we have to find a sturdy one.

I will hush for now...need to settle down mentally till I can sleep.

She's a bright and shining star!

I just have to show some new pics of Little Bright Eyes, Lorelei--sorry for the drool, but we just couldn't seem to keep it wiped off. Soon as we would wipe it off, she would start blowing bubbles. The above is a cropped version of one of the ones below. I just love it like this....nothing to detract from her.
and I love this one Roger took out in the swing...
the rest of these were taken while she was watching a Barney video.
As you can see, Barney makes her happy!
You can hear her all over the house if he is on. And when she laughs, we can't help but look at each other and laugh.
Hope they get a smile from you, too! They should all enlarge.

Weary

A couple more pictures from last month! From the same day as the irises I posted yesterday. Enlarge the pictures, at least the one above and look at the old truck truck sitting under the overhang. Right after I took this picture, someone else posted a picture with a truck in it similar to this but I don't remember who.
I am weary again tonight...not so much from Lorelei as from not a good night of sleep last night, and then tonight when I went to fix supper, I was making some cornbread and I burned the first pan. I assumed it was my fault...but I actually thought the oven was hotter than it should be.

I quickly made another pan and stuck it in, and made sure I put the timer on this time. In just a bit, I thought it smells like something is burning. I ran in there and checked and it was burnt again! And the timer/temp area had codes. I took the bread out of the oven and turned everything off...only even with switching everything off, the oven stayed on. I told Roger to go flip the breaker.

He came and told me he was going to flip it back on again just to see...I said okay but I want it left off. He flipped it on, and there was a flash in the oven and the codes popped up again in the time/temp area. He flipped the breaker off again...and I can still vaguely smell the smell. Not really burnt cornbread, but more like plastic or something that has been burnt.

So I have been looking on consumer reports and a couple store sights trying to decide what stove to get. I think I am just going to have to go pick one out in person. I don't trust getting this one fixed...it is probably only 4 or 5 years old--if that. One of the smooth tops...and I have had things sort of 'funny' with it ever since I got it. One big burner cooks a lot slower than the other...or should I say cooler. One burner also had this button to push that was supposed to hold something to a simmer...sometimes I had to push it two or three times to get it to work, and sometimes I had to jiggle the knob that turns on the burner to get it to change temps.
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Those are the main reasons I am tired. But Lorelei was a blast today. This morn it was comfortably cool, and I took her out on the front porch to sit a while and had our old collie dog, Shelby, out there with us. Lorelei had sort of laughed at her when she first saw her while I was changing her diaper earlier. So, I thought it a good idea for her to go out with us.

I told her to bark, and Lorelei threw her head back and laughed when she did! So I would get Shelby to bark and she would laugh. Then some ladies when by on their morning walk, and Shelby don't just bark...she does this bark/talk thing. And Lorelei laughed and laughed! And no one was there to see it except me, though I just know the ladies had to hear her.

And have I told you that Shelby tends to go sleep in the room with Lorelei when I put her down for a nap...and if Lorelei cries, she comes and looks at me to let me know I need to go get that baby. I think she is finally realizing I can take care of her without her help, but that first week if I waited a minute to see if Lorelei would go back to sleep she would come look at me and look back in Lorelei's room.

Well, I definitely need to go to bed....good night.