howling coyotes

Sunday is the usual day for chores - and that includes grocery shopping. Never my favorite chore, for sure, as I'm not much of a shopper. I'm more the kind who has 'the basics' memorized for a location, and can shop -- zip, zip, zip -- up and down all the aisles and be done in 20 minutes. But most times, I take my son with me, and sometimes we shop - the real kind of shopping, where you look at new things, old things, clearance things.

Today, for some reason, I felt like I should go check out the cactus in my BigBox store. Which I don't normally do on a grocery trip, cuz dirt and food doesn't mix so well! But. I went out among the fall flowers and saw this concrete coyote and thought, man, I just gotta HAVE THAT! *hehehe* Took it to the register to check the price, it had an original sticker of $32 on it. But it was the last one, and they thought it had been marked down at one time. So, she suggested $10, so I took it!! reallllly fast. Some days, you just can't pass up a bargain!

When I got home, I had my son put it on the fence for me,
I wanted an awesome picture of it!
Now I'll have to give him a name - any suggestions?
he can guard my yard for me!

... I wonder if he'll keep neighborhood cats out??

HUGS to everyone!!

R&R Saturday

Today was the first Saturday, the first weekend day in fact, in a very long time where I didn't have to get up for any reason, nothing planned, nothing necessary on the agenda. It was really nice to be able to lounge around, read a book, play a little computer game or two, read some more, all the while huddled under the covers on a chilly fall morning. (well, chilly by desert standards!)

Then 8am arrived, and I knew it was time to get up. *hahaha* I'm an early morning riser, so lounging til 8, that's an extra 3 hours!! I can't say that I overdid myself regarding the usual weekend chores. We had a storm roll through last night, chilled us off, left us with some rain, and cleaning the yard when its still wet and muddy just wasn't going to be on my list.

So I decided to try a new photo editing program, Gimp. Like it fairly well; and thanks to my best friend, learned a lot about layering things, which is only one of the many many features it has. Plus its free :) Check out what I was able to do with my photo:

gotta love the before and after shots of something :)

Here's hoping that no matter what was on your agenda for today, that you enjoyed yourself, and found time to get some of your own well needed R&R as well!

HUGS to everyone!