Yesterday..
 

Barber visit.

Hotel booking.

Iced brew.

A well worth it cab ride.

some sanity? (yes, yes and yes!)

The other day, when I mailed off the Blue Bird painting to my mom, I bought 3 pages of special edition postage stamps. They're minted after the Dragon Boat race boats that we see during the Rose Festival. Every single one of them is gorgeous and although it was spendy, at least I'm stocked up for the next few months for cards to send during the holidays, this year. :hk2:

I did not buy it but have been looking at a Lincoln Electric welder.

Been reading this book: Fabrication and Welding Engineering by Roger Timings

plus couple of other books on welding

I have not ever done any welding but have wanted to learn for a years. Be a very useful skill for me to acquire. No less than once a month, something comes up around here and I wish I already had a welder and the experience to use it.

One day when I am all finished with this pine tree mess and have my yards like I want them, I will have time to leisurely do many other things that will be whole lots of fun.
:)

I hope I never lose my desire to learn how to do new things. Sometime in the future, I will make a dragger to hook to the truck ... it will scrape the forest floor. The idea is already formulating. Something along the lines of:

fill 5 gallon water bottle with concrete and put many strands of rebar through it ... the rebar will need to stick out from the concrete several inches for it to be effective

I have watched numerous cool DIY videos on this but they all require welding. I believe the concrete and rebar thing I came up with will work too. Be interesting to make and find out.

I gassed up my 'new' car ($3.17/gal - Supreme)

I named her Ruby Tuesday cause she's all pretty; she's all dolled up now and she's got Pacific Wonderland plates with just the purrfect set of numbers.

I dropped by Music Millennium and bought a few CD's (Marvin Gaye, Carl McIntosh of Loose Ends, The Whispers, The Charmel's and a few other choice artist/musician's like Stevie Ray Vaughan).

And I mailed off an art project and dropped by Trader Joe's to see if I could find an Vegan friendly ice cream in Lime Sherbet Cheesecake, but couldn't find any. I may have to make my own. :eyebat:

A kind bar, a makeup pencil sharpener, and two things of gauze foot wrap.

A sun dress w/ties @ the shoulder, fruit salad, music

A big soda and some sweets I later regretted ad weren't worth it. I'm learning

My plan is..to buy
 

Postage

A 2018/2019 Planner

Misc. groceries

Nothing yet!!!

Last night...

I finally got a tent canopy. I’ve needed one for going to farmer’s markets and they can be used camping also. Maybe it’s not too late to get my business started....

I cannot come home today without buying a box of ALPO treats. My three dogs were frumpy at me last night because we did not have any. They look forward to a "cookie" right after last pee call at night just before bedtime.

I took an neighbor friend with me today, on an long drive out in the country, where I hoped to find really nice plants for my patio deck. I bought three lovely plants, very big plants, and my neighbor helped me get them upstairs and out onto my patio deck. They're so gorgeous. :stillheart:

One plant has yellow foilage -- Escallonia Gold Brian; another plant is an big flowering Echinacea cone flower plant, with big Sombrero Salsa Red flowers; and the other plant is three plants in one -- Kong Empire Mix (huge foilage leaves with unique patterns).

I have them staged on the patio deck so they provide privacy to my third floor quarters from the street level.

Me neither neither ... what's up with this day?! :blink:

I meant to purchase stuff today. I really did. I never got there. :blink:

Tomorrow is another day.

I bought...
 

Time at a parking garage, and a green smoothie.

A planner.

A 2-pk. of Gelocity pens (one can never have to many writing instruments)

Postage.

Prescription.

(that is all for the moment, there might be more later)

Jackie had the day off today, so we rendezvous'd up at Goose Hollow Inn and I treated us to a lazy lunch (we both had amazing split pea soup and salad).

We had an lovely time...so pretty today, trees are changing colors and the clouds snuggled the West Hilss and brought misting rain. :balloon:

Nada.........

Ordered from eBay a few days ago ... all but one item arrived today ...

wedge bed bolster for legs ... my physical therapist has one and it reduces the sciatic pain when he puts it under my legs .. I had bought one but it turned out crummy ... I can tell these are THE ONES

9 quart 3-tier vegetable steamer ... I loved my old one but cannot remember if I lost it or broke it when I moved ... since it was acrylic, I probably broke it ... good thing this one's baskets feel rubberized ... going to begin eating fresh vegetables all the time ... enough already Beanie Weenie and cardboard pizzas ... *waving bye bye* LOL!

pair of Ralph Lauren cargo pants

stubby 12 gauge vertical forend grip (deal at $9.99) <<-- did the install as soon as I unwrapped it ... love it, no wobble, solid as a rock

let see...on ebay-a antique Poppy Florentine glass creamerhttps://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/33275...1/s-l140/p.jpg, La Vigne grapefruit spoonshttps://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/14139...1/s-l140/p.jpg & antique ruffled cookie cuttershttps://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/32317...1/s-l140/p.jpg

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Oh cool, grapefruit spoons! :)

They are so useful for getting all the fruit out of the sections. I am going to buy a set too. I had some about 30 years ago but they disappeared. I did not realize they were gone until now when I saw your comment.

Thanks for your post!

Used Krogers CLICK LIST service... they shop for you and you pick it up or have it delivered ... for the first time today. I like It! Very convenient :koolaid:

Perhaps Lyte prefers someone else to squeeze her melons! *wiggling eyebrows*

La Vigne dinner forks
Flannel lap quilt
coffee mug w/lid:hangloose:

They say you should never go grocery shopping if you haven't eaten before you go, but like a good swimmer, I didn't eat and I spent spent spent. :blush:

I got some helleva good deals on plant protein powders (for smoothies or to add so an soup base), bought three cartons of Think Thin bars (the zero sugar, 20 mg protein types), and bought lots of blackeye'd peas, split peas, split chick peas (all organic, non-GMO, etc), and then I bought several small bags of Pearled Barley and Farrow, for an variety of different meals.

I also picked up another month's supply of meds....


And, some different types of herbal tea blends ( I stopped by an small shoppe to buy it there -- out on Hawthorne Blvd).

<<<<<~~ got all the way home and forgot to buy my favorite Margherita Cauliflower pizza in the frozen section. It's too warm here today, so that's probably why I forgot to buy it. :sock:

I bought...
 

A Laptop battery, an AC adapter, and an Ethernet patch cable.