NOTHING MUCH TO REPORT

i haven't had much of a creative side lately.  i have been a bit down and the heat is killing us all.  i think i might have been bitten by a brown recluse spider.  i have a large black spot on my lower abdomen which is filled with black blood.  i know brown recluse spider venom usually destroys the flesh around the bite.  so far it hasn't done so, but i found what looked like a brown recluse coiled up dead next to the bed the next day after i found the bite.  i am watching it closely, but currently don't have the money or the insurance to have it seen to.  they are prevalent this year due to the heat.  it has been in the mid to upper 90's here the past few days.  and no promise of letting up.

the wild bunch is mad at me because i was too tired and feeling sickly to feed them the other night, so they did without.  so last night, only two came up to eat.  but i noticed that there were three of them laying on the back porch this morning, enjoying a cooler place.  maybe they will come back for their hot dogs tonight.  i think mama kitty is getting ready for another family.  sad, i know, but i cannot do anything about it.  i wish i could have her fixed.

there is a lot going on in my life right now that i cannot share with you, but please keep me in your prayers and thoughts. 

for those who read my earlier entry about michael and randy rhoads' grave site, i think i have fixed the problem with the pictures.  try going there again and let me know if they show up.  sorry for the inconvenience.

and once again, thanks to my die hard readers, as well as the new ones that i have managed to pick up along the way.  i don't get to the computer often enough these days and it does me good to see someone has come by and visited. 

a shot of my car out my front guest/craft room window.  i haven't taken any new pics lately, so added this one from a couple of months ago before the newby moved in.

as to the newby, she is doing better as far as interfering with my life.  she is odd, but then so am i.  i helped her put her microwave on her shelving unit last night, and in the process i guess i was speaking too loudly and she admonished me to "not yell".  of course, i wasn't yelling.........i am partially deaf in one ear and don't realize how loudly i am talking.  but..........she isn't the first to admonish me to stop talking too loudly.  it was just her way of doing it that surprised me.  also, i told her how the microwave had to be sitting to work properly without falling off, and she said no, that wasn't correct.  then she eventually saw it was correct, and admitted to being wrong.  i didn't gloat........i didn't......ok ok, maybe a little, on the inside. 

i have to work today, so better get out of this journal for now.