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Gosh, what an difference 24 hours can make...I can't hardly beleive it, my arm was bothering me yesterday after cooking dinner, so I laid down an bit and while sleeping, there was an 7.2 mag. earthquake just over the Mexico border of California,,,they are still having them but not the magnitude..felt it in three states. Right now all the little transfer faults are pinging off and on through southern California. Anyway, I woke up and I'm watching "Jesus of Nazarth" and in comes my hubby with the news that my widowed sister in-law's old boss, whom they were likewise freinds with, use to come to even family outtings, died one month to the day that my brother in-law died. No more working for him I guess. Laid down and something caught my eye, so got up to look at an "cat" that looked like one we had that passed way some time back..on the roof and I felt it was an "Omen" that something was "astray"...as that was what she was..and stray cat when I took her in.I went back down to sleep for the second time this week, and I'm dreaming of making houses for other people, and they are the most unsual ones. Arm is better today..but been sleepy a bit, so no pushing it, slowly taking down the Easter items for putting up Mother's Day..but very lightly on that one, as it's not until May.

Ron, hope your cold gets better. Hubby checked on his older sister by phone last night also.

Micheal...yes, I had one business supervisory class and I ended up the only woman in it...they started "Leveling" with so many guys there as to why "do" their secretaries get so emotional on them...and then looked at me. I said,... I'm not an secretary, but maybe its because ladies are "allowed" to cry..where men look like "wimps" if they cry..... so on our finals test, the last question was, what grade do you expect to get, and why....so I said, I'd like an "A", probably get an "B".... and I'll cry if I get anything less. He smiled at me an gave me an "B+"...as he handed back the test. I grew up sandwhitched (?)in age between two guys, and was supervisor of my own depatment, not an time to "cry" exactly if things go wrong..cause they don't get solved, and then went into my own son and all the boys around here plus the Boy Scouts through the years. So I am more "comfortable" around guys most the time then I am women. It's like one boss of mine referring to an gorgal going the otehr way as an L-LBT...(Long-legged Bed thrasher)..I've gotten use to the shop talk of guys. I have always had to be an kind of "Leader" to others in ways. It's not womanly "gentle" at times in what needs to be done to get things solved...like when one of the patients slapped one of my girls on the rump because he could see purple buttierflies on her underwear through her clothes(he says) ...I had to tell him to keep his hands off my workers or I'd see him through the wall possibly from the same kind of treatment...from being so "cute"..he got the message.  Then there was chopping firewood. My hubby says I do it all wrong. So I tried it his way...broke the handle off the axe...so he went an got an axe with an steel handle, made me do it "his" way, I broke that also, by then he's saying, I don't beleive it..and stell axe?...so he made me stack wood to help instead...while I was feeling rather "smug" being correct. Now my son helps him and I don't have to do firewood for winter. My son sends me out to buy chains for his saw instead.."ouchy"..can be expensive. You get the rift though..in being tom-boyish seemingly...but I'm not really. 

So far I have taken hand genades and thrown them into an rock out cropping for "rooms" and made an house that way, with formed glass poured into the sides for windows, up to the roof...and grantie all over for tables built out to fthe rock, we leveled off the rock with cement for flooring an carpeted over it.....last night I was buidling an pole barn and about 30 feet by 30 feet, and half the upstairs was an loft, and down stairs on one side there was an nice bathroom, utilty room/walk in closet.., and on the other side an 20 by 20 bedroom with private patio off it toward the back. Walk in fireplace in one kitchen wall, with an wall tyep kictchen in the back...and table out front, then an long bar for 8 people, separated the kitchen/dinging room from the livingroom...and patio doors for the front of it...with an break front proch kind of. Garge off the side of the bedroom..facing the house in an L shape.  With big screen TV set in the center of both patio doors on an wall unit.Library off to one side, stairway up the other end to the loft as an bedroom for three little boys. I built this thing most of last night.You see why I wake up so tired soemtimes in the morning.  This is definately "labor intensive"...not restful exactly. though I am tremedously pleased in the end. We put in an small hole in the rock of the first one for an swimming pool. it was in rock, but over looked an six lane freeway at the bottom of this rock formation. All I reember of it now pretty much was the pinkish-yellowish kid of rock and all the marble and granite through it with carpeting and soft flowing drapes.It definatetly had an "view" to it. Wiht this I go an leave you people alone for an bit..everyone looks like they are getting back in the swing after the Easter festivities yesterday. (Maybe I was in Afghanistan?..LOL)

Gosh Shirley - quite an eventful time you have had!!! lol

POE was very quiet yesterday on the Forum front but busy with lots of new pictures - I suppose that speaks for itself?

Have a great birthday Cathy E, hope your boxes are slowly reducing Stephanie - soon feel like home I'm sure, and I hope the move was not too traumatic.  Ron I hope you and Anna are now recovered. 

We have had a most unusual Easter - it has rained everyday and my studio has sprung two leaks in the roof.  Another job for the "handyman" around the house (otherwise known as hubby, lol).

I do hope you will all have a great day today

Welcome back Rick!Good to see you again my friend.

Welcome back Richard.

Hi everyone!

Good to see you back RickyRickyRooRoo!