stella and tina time, Monday

That Stella!

She is such a crazy dog!

She insisted this morning that she gets TWO scoops of food in her morning meal and TWO scoops of food in her evening meal, not TWO scoops for the whole day.

Dawn said to me, "Don't let her con you!", when I told her.

I gave Stella a chewy bone instead of an extra scoop and she was fine with that substitute.

(smile!)

Meanwhile, guess what I found?

An October 2024 special edition of MAD magazine!!!!

I had not noticed it before in the bathroom and was just thrilled!!!

I was even happier when I found that this collection of special bits from past issues had a pristine back page.

Remember, that "fold-in" page - recalled so fondly from my youth - was the inspiration for the design of the first part (dealing with the Representative Elements) of my invention, the tactile Periodic Table For Blind.

The question asked was, "What special spirit seems to inspire today's nutty fashions?"

As this was not my magazine, I could not leave creases at marks "A" and "B", as I would have done in the past.

Instead, I had to carefully move the page so the two marks would align temporarily...

and the answer was revealed!

The smiling face of the Jack O'Lantern, with its orange, peach, and green tones, had been the basis of those harlequin fashions! 

I am just so thrilled to have found this magazine in the house - many thanks, Chris the Koz!

Back to work I then went this afternoon on de-animating the ghouls around me.

I had noticed others in the dining room and the front foyer, so into the "operating room" they went for their battery-ectomy!

For some, I let them have one last hurrah before rendering them lifeless, as I loved their dancing, but none were reprieved.

Now, here they wait on the living room floor for Dawn to put them into bins.

From the walking Frankenstein at the far left to the dancing mariachi man and the trio of prison escape artists on the right, these were added to the list of once-again dead.

Bwah ha ha, my pretties!!!

(smile!)

Then I did something totally out of character for me:

I went outside.

On purpose...

to hang out with other people...

also out there on purpose...

in weather in the low 50's...

just because it was 5 PM.

Susan had showed off the fire pit yesterday and this time we put it to good use!

Not only did Terry stay the whole hour, but so did Ken.

And what did these ex-Northerners talk about?

Ridiculous amounts of snow!
(smile!)

Now, Stella is back inside from her play date with Coco during my hour with the neighbors...

my Red Baron Meat-Lover's Pizza is hot and ready from the oven...

and "Name That Tune" is about to come on.

That'll have to be an adequate substituent for "Music Bingo", as I've had my social time for this Monday and am definitely not leaving this warm house again.

This has certainly been a better day of cold than I had expected, that's for sure!

i thank You, God!