Okay. I might as well post my eclipse pictures. I already posted them on the blog's Facebook page, (Which you can find HERE. I repost extra stuff from elsewhere sometimes, so check it out.)    We were really lucky. It was supposed to be cloudy and overcast, but instead we had a beautiful, sunny, blue sky-ed day. That meant we were able to see the eclipse perfectly. We left town and went about a half hour away to get a few extra seconds of totality. It was almost four minutes, but it seemed much shorter. Here in this hunk of Ohio we got total eclipse, but it wasn't pitch dark li ..read more

   My birthday was last month. I turned 62. Ken says we get to enjoy the whole month as part of our birthday. So I did a lot of stuff last month. And of course, Tammy World wanted to come along for the fun. (She didn't have to age though. She's still ten years old.)   On my birthday we went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to see the new enductees exhibit just for the Kate Bush part. "Bit windy!"  I've loved Kate Bush since 1978, and I was so glad she got into the Hall of Fame. Me with the Kate exhibit. She's there, sandwiched between Willie Nelson and Geor ..read more

   Happy St. Patrick's Day.  I was going to take a new St. Patrick's Day picture this year, but I misplaced Tammy World's hat. So this picture is from 10 years ago. I figured that's a long time, and you won't remember it. I'm not one of those people who make a big fuss over St. Patrick's Day, but I like to take part!  There will be a new post about my doll show purchases soon, as well as another doll-centric post on somewhere else I went recently.  ..read more

   As usual, I am behind in things. I haven't shown you what I got at the doll show yet. I didn't get many things, since I was trying to be good, both with money and space. I was trying to make it all the way around the show before I bought anything, because I had a limited budget and you never know what you might find farther on. (Of course, you risk it not being there when you go back for it too.)  But I found this beautiful little guy for only $10. I had to snap him up!   He's a Lotte Sievers Hahn doll. You may have seen my others HERE, HERE, and HERE. This guy is a di ..read more

   Recently I went to my first doll show of the year. I tried to be good. I don't need more dolls right now, and we have loads of things that require money to be done. But Ken gave me some money to be used at the show for birthday presents if I wanted, because my birthday is fats approaching. I was comparitively really good. I spent almost the whole show having spent only $11. Then it turned to $13 when I bought a $2 doll just to steal the clothes for Tammy World. (Hey, she has to get something, right? At least she thinks she does.) The show was almost over, and I decided to go back ..read more

   I'm back again. I can't claim to have been busy working on the house, because I haven't gotten nearly as much done with the house as I should have. I have sanded part of the bathroom to get rid of the soot, because it wasn't scrubbing off. But then Ken stole my step ladder. I took down some of the sooty wallpaper. I have been going through stuff in the bedroom and cleaning soot off it. I have cleaned some books and DVDs off that were in there. We've been slowly washing sheets and pillow cases out of the linen cupboard.     I have been doing some stuff with family pi ..read more

   It's time I caught up a little bit here, and delivered last month's Doll Book of the Month Club entry. It's "The Bad Times of Irma Baumlein", also produced in a Scholastic version as "Irma's Big Lie".  That's the version I have from when I was a kid. That's the version I read to my kids when they were little. For my refresh to my memory, since I was at Emma's, I used a second hand hardback copy I rescued from the books from the fire. Luckily it didn't suffer any damage, and is in really nice shape.   Whichever title you want to use, I always liked this book. It's by Ca ..read more

   Hi everybody! I'm back! Back to the blog, back to our house, back in spasm... Yes, my back is in spasm. That's why I didn't write this last night when we got our internet back.    You see, when we were still at Emma's, we lost internet when she was moving to their new house, (They have bought a house.), and she took the router to the new house. Ken hooked ours up, and he was able to get internet on his computer, but not mine, but only for about half an hour. Then it disappeared and he wasn't able to get it back again. I had my phone, but I couldn't get into my blog on it ..read more

   Guess who has electricity and gas at their house! The same person who also has Covid! And that's me! One thing goes right, and another goes wrong. Add to that the crazy cold spell we are coming into. It's currently 26 degrees Fahrenheit, and due to get much colder.    I was the last to get Covid here. I was coughing occasionally, but I never know whether to attribute that to eating things I shouldn't with my LPR. I was getting cold and my back was hurting from the cold quicker than normal on Wednesday. Then Wednesday evening, I wasn't feeling very good, had a backache an ..read more

   Here's a little winter cheer for you all. Meet Suzy Snowflake, and wonder what doll they used.  ..read more