Blessed Be All of Thee

Jack Frost

Hibernation

Saturday afternoon, lazily nappin' after being out in the Tundra

(practice digital photo #2)

Tuffy just wanted Mom to leave him alone

His "human people" are getting

cabin fever and we'd better find something

to do, somewhere to go, before we

go stark raving mad or start being

meanies--take Tuffy's cue and

paw at each other with our claws out!

Oh, no!!

Be brave, bundle up, get outside, go for a ride!

maybe to Borders for MORE books,

or Blockbuster for MORE movies!

same old song and dance!

(cabin fever, cabin fever!)

And, Happy Birthday Edgar Alan Poe,

on Monday! 200 years, I hear!

Didn't see a Raven out there in the snow

but a HUGE Hawk is out there

trying to scare up some protein!

its gotta eat, too ;o(

Over and out!

SisSTAR

KLH

(keep laughin' honeys!)

xoxoxoxo

snug as a bug in a rug

EEEeeeee! my brother-in-law gave me what I thought was a teeny little piece of shit digital camera and Jeff and I were finally playing with it and this is my first photo. I wanted to see if it would be worth using, and turns out, I wish I would've saved the other 25 I just took - ha ha! But this is just a practice one of a part of a vase in the kitchen. Not bad...this could be fun for little photos for my bloggies. Wheeee! Fun!
Thanks, Ronald!!! (yeah, like you ever read my blog!)
SisSTAR (I call myself the Sister-Out-Law)
tee hee xoxo

Happy 1st Full Moon

I hauled the old coathanger peace sign I made many years ago with the blue lights wrapped around it and a few items of jewelry and ornaments (even a MSU hockey helmet in the center for Jeff ;o) It was one of our few holiday decorations. It would go for days and all of a sudden the lights would start blinking instead of holding steady. The little plate of a boy in the window at the left is called "Daddy's Home" and my nephew Dana gave it to me.
I'm not sure which position these photos will end up as I'm always surprised that things don't go the way I plan and then I either can't figure out how to edit them correctly or just say, what the hell!? but wanted to just share a few today. I use an old Canon T-50 35 mm and haven't delved into digital yet. I'm able to get one copy of prints and a CD to download for about $12 for 24 which is always a thrill for me.
Last night the Full Moon was out and we got over 10" of snow. The giant black walnut tree you can see behind the peace sign in the window was all covered, but the moon's shadow of it on the snow and the snow glinting like diamonds all over made me put on my pink Crocs with the fuzzy lining and go out in my nightgown so I could look at it all around 2 a.m. I need to figure out how to do night photography because it looked like constellations all over the ground. It was very surreal and I loved it so much.
OK, over and out for now. Much love, warmth, peace and joy from your SisSTAR xoxo


Kinda hard to see the full mystical branch of the Tree of Heaven here, but to the right there is an opening like two serpents kissing (or a Claddagh sp?) and to the left it seems to be a tuning fork or a dowsing rod, and the well is behind the original 50 foot tree to the right (not part of photo). Many branches fell years ago and we left them, and this one is so awesome. You can see how tall it was.

















The Angel Wing begonia was given to me by my "Other Mother" Margie less than a week before she died in her sleep Oct 1994 as a cutting. It tripled in size this year. Sits on top of the TV in the SE corner of the living room. To say I have orange walls and purple drapes makes some want to be ill, but I like to call it Terra Cotta and Raisin (actual names of paint/drapes). I have a southwestern thing going on in there which I love.

Saturday Morning

It's dumping snow on us again but it's Sat morning so, wheee! I was going to post one of last year's wintery photos then I found this from last spring's pond and it just felt "springy". Hey! I gotta dream! That little corkscrew in the middle is just having fun, being its self in the midst of chaos.

I am very excited about this being the 2nd Saturday of the new year. The past week with both docs back from their holiday vacations, let's just say I'm going to ignore my body's signs screaming at me, "What the hell?" doing stacks of typing and calling myriad patients wanting their meds and appts ... new people sounding desperate for something. I made it through and my "Cubbyhole Sweet Cubbyhole" along with one suite even got painted an awesome light caramel color. So much better than the pale aqua it had been (me being such an earthy person).

I am getting ready to type up a friend's Goddess reading I did for her at the crack of NY's day. It's a good one, she'll be happy. Call me a glutton, but when I'm typing, esp something I think is interesting, it is a joy for me-greased lightning. I'm going to keep them limber as long as they'll fly along and strive to figure out how to not feel so intense when I do so to give the old neck muscles a break. But! the real reason I'm lucky is that Mr. Wonderful is out in the kitchen, playing a really good Dixie Chicks CD while he's making us "hearty" eggs (a sweet 4-heart pan my brother and sister-in-law gave me many Xmases ago), potatoes, bacon and toast, throw in some fruit and, voila! I'll do the dishes ;oD and look out the corner window by the sink my dad built esp for my mom (who was 5' tall) and look out onto the winter wonderland scene of cedars, pine, trees of Heaven, grapevines, apple and pear trees, lilacs 30' tall, the giant black walnut, the special 3 cedars brother gave me as seedlings, as well as the "magic branch of the Tree of Heaven" which looks like the dowsing rod and Claddagh and is pointing to the Well. I always thought and still do that it is so awesome that my family name is Haswell and Kyle Has-a-well! It is a very old well which no doubt went with a huge farm before this old 1940s subdivision was divided up. I often dream of what it was like then. We have 2 of the 3-1/2 acres my dad had and even though there are more homes around us now, we still have a beautiful scene out the south windows, and the kitchen sink faces southwest (hello Arizona! ;oD)

Tuffy Boy is frisky with little to do for now. He tried to go outside and ran under the van since the snow is "ass deep to a tall indian" as my folks used to say. He saw some little birds under the van so he ran out there and I made a bunch of noise to upset the apple cart there. He decided it wasn't much fun scrunched up under the van peeking out at whiteness. Oops! spoke too soon. He was whining his Whinin' Boy catterwawling so he's back out, no doubt ready to scrunch under the van - ha! Not for long, I'm sure. I yelled out for all the birdies to beware, the Tuffster was coming.

You bloggie souls out there have a mighty fine 2009 Second Saturday and know I am sending you highest and best good wishes for wholeness in body, mind, spirit and soul.............poof!

(and I sign off listening to a raging How Will I Ever Get To Heaven Now? by the Chicks!)

Love from

SisSTAR xo

SisSTAR of the C.O.D.E.

Self Portrait/Bathroom Mirror

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Happy Birthday, Kahlil Gibran!

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Freezing rain/sleet outside--waiting for my honey to come home.

Nothing much to say, but I'll say it anyway,

the Cat went out in the snow, to meet Daddy when he

comes home...

Day 2 of the normal "back to the grind"

yet it's busier by far for this time

Hearty chilli and chocolate pie

can say I've made no resolutions, not just yet

Chinese New Year coming soon and I'll wait for that

I think the Ox will be stubborn

but probably kinder than the Rat

So I'm wishing you all a

Mighty Fine New Year!

Here's to you and here's to me

and if we disagree,

then I say here's to me

and here's to you!

A Mighty Fine 2009

Peace on Mother Earth,

the Universe

and Beyond!

Sending highest and best wishes

to you gods and goddeses out there!

You know who you are!!!

from

Your SisSTAR

xoxoXOXOxoxo

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