Funky tomatoes and other thoughts

 I took pictures of these the other day...not all my tomatoes look like these

but a big portion of them do.  At least these bottom two.

Have you ever seen anything quite like them?  The bottom two are from my Brandywines....and all my plants are Brandywine except four. 

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I still have a lot of decluttering to do.  Just have not been doing much of it.  However, the other day I got in the mood to spend some time at it.  When I start, I always end up getting a bag for things I want to donate and one for things I want to throw away.  I got rid of old VCR tapes, some college textbooks, other books, boxes...I cannot even think of all I got rid of.

Well, some of it has actually been picked up when the trash service ran yesterday morn.  And I have a big bag just full of stuff to be donated.  And have another bag started of things for donation.  And you know with all we have donated, and all that has found its way to the trash, you cannot tell that anything is gone.  I tell Roger all the time that we are rich....we have to be to be able to get rid of so much and not even miss it.

Granted, some of it is things that have been given to me.  And I got rid of a pair of my jeans that were threadbare almost.  One of my pairs for mowing the yard in.  A pair that most women would not be seen dead in.   And I got rid of things that I have not worn in ages.

anyway, the point of this is I got in this one tote that had some of the girls school work...notes, etc.  And then there was a spiral notebook and I opened it and there was a 'journal' I had started when we lived in Tennessee.  I sat down to read a little bit in it and came across where I had been to the grocery store.

This was back in 1978.  I spent $28 plus some change and here is what I got for that amount:

3 chuck blade steaks

10 pk chops

2-3 lbs of hamburger

gallon of milk

16 slices of cheese

lunchmeat ( I didn't say how much--probably one of those variety packages they used to have)

tea

toilet paper (I am sure that was back when we always got a 4-roll package)

and some canned goods.

That is just how I wrote it back then, except for the part in the parenthesis.  I wonder what that would cost now?

 

 

A girl and her kitty

Sarah sent me this a few nights ago...

and followed it with this one an hour or two later....

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Not much has been going on since I last posted...we decided on the spur of the moment to go to Sarah's the last Sunday of July.  Our anniversary was a couple days later, but that Sunday was a good day for them to take us out to eat.  It was also the last weekend before Lorelei started school.  We got to play with Kitty Soft Paws and fell in love with her, too.

I wish I had gotten some pics of her but she was just always busy.  She is the cutest, funniest little kitty ever.  So very petite.  Her tail is the longest tail compared to body of any cat I have ever seen.  And I have seen a lot of cats.  It is also fluffy like a bottle brush...reminds people of a lemur.  Her face is tiny, but she has great big ears with long fur that comes out of them.

I want to encourage you to click on these pics...all four of her feet are white...and her tail is tipped in white.  And notice the white on her chest....oh, it is hard to give an adequate description of her.  But I would like to add that her personality is as lovely as her appearance.
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I had back troubles for a while...after a trip to the chiropractor and a bit more time that was taken care of.  In the meantime, I developed a cough...no sore throat...just a cough.  And even that is not horrible, just have spells of coughing and coughing and coughing.  Life is fun!

I have accomplished nothing to speak of in the sewing world...have barely started the quilting on the quilt I pin basted a while back.  I don't really like what I have done, but am trying to look on it as a learning experience.

Goldfinches...hanging around

I guess the little sunflowers are maturing...

the goldfinches are starting to hang around...

Right side up....

And upside down.

I would love to have a birdbath for them but our Puss Puss would commit murder too often then.  She is the little huntress of the the three cats.  She gets out there and hides, and lays waiting.

I talked to one of my friends the other day...I had not talked to her in a while, but had ran down to take her a couple of tomatoes from our garden.  It was late evening and she was so sound asleep she did not hear me when I knocked on the door two or three times, nor when I walked in and set the tomatoes down.

She has two girl kitties.  Neither are lap cats...they won't let me near them.  Neither of them even like to sit in her lap, but one of them does come and get in bed with her when she goes to bed.

She has a cat door for them till they can come and go as they please.  She was telling me that the other night before I was down there, she had went to bed and went to sleep.  About 3:00a.m. they woke her up coming in...they came to her bedroom just meowing to each other and went under the bed.  Which was weird.  Then they started growling at each other.

So she rolled over, and I assume turned on a light.  They came out from under her bed and one of them had a bird.  Alive.  So she jumps up and takes it away from them...and while holding it in one hand, had to get her clothes on with the other.  Then took it out to behind her house to set it free.  (she shut their cat door till the kitties could not get back out.)  I got so tickled when she told  me all of that.

She said they were always bringing her things...that this was the 7th bird this summer, besides, moths, butterflies and a dragonfly....