Festus

Hello All! I FINALLY feel better today - two full weeks of feeling bad. I'm still congested but the antibiotic is kicking it. Props to a great PA that my sister uses, Jennifer Bisson, here in Navarre. I saw her last Friday. She's also a pharmacist so can answer a lot of medication questions. She prescribed the antibiotic and a new antidepressant, keeping them both in $4.00 Walmart list. Yipee.

The pic is of Festus, another of three dogs that live here. He was my brother Eddie's. Great name, huh? His lovely girlfriend, Olga, is not a dog person, so Festus lives with the animal colony here - three dogs and two cats.

Today I got to take care of lots of errands that were piling up. Made some changes to phone and tv service I've needed to do. Ended up adding more channels for the same price. Oh yeah, we got a big screen TV from one of Cheryl's friends. They updated to HD so we got their giant 4'x3' TV. Sense and Sensibility is playing at the moment. You can see every detail! Really cool!

To my two grand librarian followers: Mardi,there's an update:). I will add your blog so I can check it more often. Do you update it? Hey Amy, I missed your call and wasn't able to call back. I hope I can catch you tomorrow.

Peace

Coco

Coco is an 8 y/o Miniature Pincher. She is actually my sister Joy's dog, or her son Matt's. She has been living in FL, though, for most of her life because Wyoming was too cold.

I love this pic of her. It was taken the same time as the other close up picture posted on an earler day. She was really sleepy and here looks goofy with one eye half closed.

I have a sinus infection I think and still feel awful. Prayers please.

Peace

More of the Powerhouse, Vestal Goodman

Had to post one more video of a more recent Vestal Goodman. RIP, Vestal!

floridapanhandlegal.blogspot.com is now nwflgal.blogspot.com

Quick note and a funky video for y'all. I decided to change the name of my blog after it came to my attention that it looked like florida panhand legal.blogspot.com. So the new name hopefully will do me for the duration.

I fnally got the lawn mowed today. The back yard had not been done yet this year. See earlier blog from 3 weeks ago! Dad happened to be by one day and by some sort of magic touch was able to start it and he mowed the front yard.

Satisfied indeed was I when after disasembling the dadblame carburetor, cleaning it (flushing my eye for 10 minutes after getting dangerous carb cleaning chemical spewed into eye), putting it all back together and it STARTED! Finally, after trying everything under the sun, it starts every time now. Cool!

Here's a funky video of Vestal Goodman (great old gospel singer now passed) as requested by cousin Joan:

Sick Days

I went to bed at 10pm last night, after a day at my backbreaking cleaning job (it was better - I totally have a system now). This pic is what I woke to at 11:30 am. A picture speaks 1000 words. I'll leave it at that. Dogs are great aren't they? Ever present comfort. Other comforts: Jesus, advil, pseudofed, Mama Gladys, Cousin Joan, iced green tea with honey/lemon...


What's on my mind today:

All of these shootings are sad and scary. Here's a prayer for all involved, the souls of the murdered, the shooters, the folks that are contemplating such acts, etc. Please include all those dealing with the Swine Flu outbreak here and our neighbors in Mexico, their families, Mexican brothers and sisters here in the US.
Prayer is from this link -> http://www.scborromeo.org/prayers/guadalup.htm:

Our Lady of Guadalupe, mystical rose, intercede for the Church, protect the Holy Father, help all who invoke You in their necessities. Since You are the ever Virgin Mary and Mother of the True God, obtain for us from Your Most Holy Son the grace of a firm and sure hope amid bitterness of life, as well as an ardent love and the precious gift of final perseverance.

Dearest Lady, fruitful Mother of Holiness, teach me Your ways of gentleness and strength. Hear my prayer, offered with deep felt confidence to beg this favor.

O Mary, conceived without sin, I come to your throne of grace to share the fervent devotion of your faithful Mexican children who call to Thee under the glorious title "Guadalupe" - the Virgin who crushed the serpent.

Queen of Martyrs, whose Immaculate Heart was pierced by seven swords of grief, help me to walk valiantly amid the sharp thorns strewn across my path. Invoke the Holy Spirit of Wisdom to fortify my will to frequent the Sacraments so that, thus enlightened and strengthened, I may prefer God to all creatures and shun every occasion of sin.

Help me, as a living branch of the Vine that is Jesus Christ, to exemplify His divine charity always seeking the good of others. Queen of Apostles, aid me to win souls for the Sacred Heart of my Savior. Keep my apostolate fearless, dynamic, and articulate, to proclaim the loving solitude of Our Father in Heaven so that the wayward may heed His pleading and obtain pardon, through the merits of Your Merciful Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Amen.

Our Lady of Guadalupe is the patron Saint of North America.

Puppy Linux 4.1.2 Barebones Retro

Pic is from photobucket and, of course, is of some super old computer gizmo, not the one I'm speaking about below.

Hello All. It's been a couple of days since I posted I think. On top of all my unemployment disappointments, I have a sore throat and feel blicky! Waaahhhh!

I've spent this sick day working on (read killing time, playing, etc) getting this old Toshiba 1625cdt/4.3 laptop going with linux. I am a total linux newbie and came across it when I was trying to reload windows 98se with a boot disk. Now I know that can't be done. I messed up the hard drive partitions, basically. Other facts about this laptop: around 400 mhz, 192 ram, 20 gig hard drive. I'm posting from it right now!

Puppy Linux os has been interesting to take a look at today. It comes bundled sort of like windows and it's free. You make bootable disks from the internet and it runs from your cdrom. After messing with it a bit I got it to save settings, boot faster, and cdrom is usable. I still have to boot with cdrom. It's been fun fiddling with it. Seamonkey browser seems to work ok. It's a bit slow, though. I can't get video to work and not sure about sound. I finally got a word processor to work and I think it's called Text master or something to that effect. It is free also. Linux Puppy was the only Linux thang that wasn't over my head and people use it on old machines. It will be great for camping (lots of koa's have wifi), using in my car, etc.

Being Earth Day and all, I decided to get this old thing going because I know what great machines they are. It's about 8-10 years old, clunky, and has been used very little. I hate to throw it out. Happy Earth day to all!

Oh, thanks to Amy for the comments. I also wanted to mention how great it is to be around my neices - watching Natalie get ready for the prom, and Casey navigating young adulthood/college. They're great girlies! I miss that Matty (nephew) in WY immensely!