I am finally here, ready to post the photos I have of Mr. Sparkles! Please excuse the photo dump, I will try and be more timely with my posts from now on.
Mr. Sparkles in front of the claw machine at another diner (yes, we eat out a lot). He wanted to stop b/c he thought he recognized one of his friends in the machine!
I am SO sorry! Echo and I have been having adventures, but I haven’t posted anything in the new forums.
I had some sickness, and then was in a car accident in January. No one was hurt, but it was traumatic and my car was totalled, which meant CAR SHOPPING. So my life got turned around. I’ve finally bought a used car, and things are pretty much back to normal now, so I will get some pics posted soon.
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Whoa, what a new year. Sooo glad you are ok! Sorry about the totaled car. I hope the rest of the year goes better.
Sorry I haven’t been posting, I’ve been going to a bunch of doctor’s appointments (not sure what’s wrong with my back/leg and now there’s another issue I hope to find out is okay on Wednesday) so it’s been super-boring here. Someone did bring in a King Cake to work and guess what Peanut got?!
It’s a Mardi Gras thing, where they bake a small plastic baby into the cake and whoever finds it has good luck? Other than that it’s a very brightly colored cinnamon roll thing - smelled better than it tasted, unfortunately…
So sorry we’ve been absent. We were up north for two weeks (Perri got to experience -22F temperatures ) then as soon as we got back both my kids got sick
But my Aunt’s heart surgery went well and she is healing quickly. They did 5 bypasses!
While we were waiting for her to come home from the hospital, we did a little bit of sightseeing on the Kenai Peninsula. Here is Perri at the entrance to the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge
This is Turnagain Arm just outside of Anchorage, home to the largest bore tide in the US. At it’s biggest it comes in as a 7’ wall of water moving about 12 mph. You can kind of see the current in the photo, but we were too late to see the water coming in. A lot of people have become stuck in the quicksand-like silt and drowned when the tide came roaring in
Back in Sitka we’ve been walking the totem park and appreciating some of Sitka’s winter residents- Trumpeter Swans. This guy had been rooting around in the mud and seaweed so he isn’t very white. I’ll try to get better photos this week.
So glad your aunt’s doing ok. I bet Perri was glad she had a scarf.
Just today, I finally got Elias in to the store to see some of the work I do. I’ve worked 3rd shift last night (actually, I’m on break right now)and the night before putting up the new tags. We have some big sales this week and I’m sure we haven’t put 1/2 of them up. He’s doing a good job of supervising.
I am bugging DH that we need to go to one particular place with Mr. Sparkles and then I will be working on his scrapbook. I’m thinking maybe not this weekend, but the next. Otherwise I’m cutting it way close.
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I’ve finally taken SusieQ everywhere I wanted to take her, so she will be ready to make her return trip home soon. That is, if I can tear her away from this new mirror I just finished.
Audania - Oh my goodness, that “it’s a small world” bag is adorable. I don’t own any Dooney bags, but I always eyed the Haunted Mansion one…and now this!
Thanks everyone. I appreciate the support. As an update, My surgeon is looking at May 27th right now. He decided that he needed me to heal more from my last surgery and he needed to also find a day where I can take up all his surgery slots. The good news is that doesn’t effect this swap, so I am not feeling like I have to finish earlier than planned. I am not sure if I mentioned it or not, but when I ended up in the ER the first weekend this swap started with chest pains (which I have gotten for a year, but it was paired with heart palpitations that night), it may be in relation to this disease spreading further. May sound scary, but to me that is a relief to have some possible answers for unexplained things.
Didn’t expect to have my health issues suddenly get worse during this swap, but surprisingly I had more than required done in the first month! I realized this when I started the scrapbook and started printing photos off. I have so much more I want to do too. I guess there are just so many things I wish to share from my state!
I don’t know what I have and have not shared yet between health issues, website switches, and surgery nonsense. I believe I have not shared Daisy’s adventures to The Mount Washington Hotel.
Hello everyone! I hope you are all well. Things are so crazy lately, I hope this swap is still going ahead. I miss Vic and Nessie is anxious to see their family at the end of the month.
Well our girl scout camping trip for this weekend was cancelled. So bummed. And now our school (where I work) is out for 4 weeks. We are due for a huge winter storm this weekend but I am hoping to get a good hiking trip in this week with some more pictures of Amelia before finishing up the scrapbook.
) then as soon as we got back both my kids got sick 
Between the adorable hat and coat you made her, the mirror, the orange colors, her smiley face…you just put a big smile on my face!
