Pretty Cool Junk

*Click on pictures to enlarge them*

 I was cleaning out my closets the other day and found some pretty cool junk. I keep things for a reason and I have no intentions of getting rid of any of this "junk". So what most of you don't know is my dad's whole side of the family are Mormon's. My dad gave me some genealogy paperwork he had in a box and along with those papers were these things. This paper is from Feb. 9th 1941. It's the certification my grandfather received when he became an Elder in the Mormon church.   

There was also this, what I am guessing is some sort of mormon map as to how to get into heaven. The top path is the Freeway "The right way" that they think every mormon should be taking to get into heaven. Along the bottom of the road it says, "The straight and narrow way"

The second path is "Broadway" and it has pictures of cigarettes and what I believe to be coffee, which are both no no's. And the little sign on that path says, " The good & honorable but blinded by the craftiness of men."

The last path, highlighted in red is the "low way" and on that path there is a wine bottle and wine glass and a sign that reads, "Go back, you are going the wrong way!" and right after that sign is another sign...

That says, "Detour 1000 years in hell" Wow, that's kinda harsh for having a few drinks, don't ya think?

I don't see a year on this map but it's safe to say that it's old. Everything that was in the box my dad gave me hasn't been looked at in years and most of it belonged to my dad's parents. I wonder if the Mormon's still hand out maps like this?

Then I found this little gem in the same box. It's The New Mining laws...

From 1956

The little booklet is only about 6 pages long but I found it to be really interesting and it's awesome that it's so old. 

Funny Things To Do

1. Put vanilla pudding in a mayonnaise jar and eat it in public.
2. Hire two private detectives to investigate each other.
3. Walk up to a small child that resembles you, and tell them you're them from the future.
4. Go to Petsmart and buy a bag of bird seed and ask the cashier how long it will take the birds to grow.
5. Go to McDonalds and ask for a Happy Meal with extra Happy.
6. Glue quarters to the sidewalk with crazy glue and watch people try to pick them up.
7. Tell a random person they have beautiful ears.
8. While in any store, walk away with someone else's cart and park it two isles away.
9. Hide a walkie talkie under a family members bed and scare them when they go to bed.
10. Hide all of your families left shoes...just the left one.

Book Review: Wicked Wind by Sharon Kay

Hey all, I was a guest reviewer on I Smell Sheep today, where I reviewed Wicked Wind by Sharon Kay. Come find out why I liked it so much! If you like Paranormal Romance, demons and hot sex scenes...this is a book you must read.

Weekly Rat Facts: Rat Temple in India

Picture from Wikimedia Commons: Photo Credit: 4ocima and en:User:Zappernapper.

India's Karni Mata Rat Temple

National Geographic did a great article and video of the rat temple in India, which you can find here.

According to the video there are over 15,000 rats inside and people come from all over to sit, eat and just be with the rats. Inside this temple the rats are considered sacred and are protected, pampered even. They are fed milk and in the pictures I've seen they are brought food to eat. People come to the temple to pray to the Goddess Karni Mata. The rats are considered a form of the goddess and they are worshiped by some of the people. Some of the people there believe in reincarnation and they believe that when they die they become rats and when a rat dies they are reborn as humans.

In order to go into the temple, you must remove your shoes so you don't squish the rats. Since there is just one person who scoops up the rat feces, if you go there you will be stepping in rat urine and feces. But after you are done, you can wash it off, so I wouldn't let that stop me. Some people are afraid to go in at first but once there as you can see from the video, they are laughing and loving the interaction with the rats. And it looks like the rats really enjoy the interaction as well.

I found a site that has great close up pictures of the rats. Be aware that if you click on this link, you will be going to a site with many pictures of the rats. So if rats aren't your thing, you might night want to click here.

If I traveled and found myself there, I would definitely go there and visit the rats. I can't imagine a place that I would like more than sitting around with more than 15,000 rats who are used to being around people who treat them really well.

So tell me, would you ever visit a place like this?

Freebie Friday!

Welcome to another edition of Freebie Friday, where I tell you what free samples and full sized products I received in the mail and how you can get them too. Someone asked me why I do a 'Freebie Friday" each week, so I'll tell you.

A while back I listed all the free samples and wins that I had received that previous year and so many people didn't believe that I could have gotten so many free things. So I decided to prove it by taking a picture every week and sharing the sites that I found the links to the freebies at. So now you too can get great free samples coming to your mailbox each week.

 This week I received: So much that I had to take two pictures!

From the first picture:

I received a surprise box from Vocalpoint that contained 2 full size Secret Clinical Strength Deodorants and a coupon for another full size product. 

From the second picture: 

BzzAgent sent me coupons for three full products..a bag meal, salad and bread as well as other coupons to use on my next purchases. 

I also received three tea bag samples from Twinings. I found the links for this great freebie at Freebieshark and Hey It's Free

If you click on any of the links in this post they will take you to the websites where you can either sign up and can start getting free products or you can find links to some great free samples. 

What Are You Doing For Thanksgiving?

This year my family is coming over and I'm making dinner. Or I should say brunch as we eat really early so my 80 year old dad can come over. He has a really weird sleep schedule and had to be home by 1pm so he can go to bed for the day. He'll get back up around midnight and stay up all night and go to sleep around 1pm again. So we'll be eating Thanksgiving 'dinner' around 11am. lol 

That's ok, it'll be early enough that my daughter and her boyfriend can go to his parents house later on and have dinner again. 

So what are you doing for Thanksgiving? Having family over? Going to visit family?

Whatever you're doing, have a good time.

Thought For The Day

What's On Your Shelf

Last month a fb group I belong too did a post about, "What's in your pantry". I thought I would expand upon that and do a post about what's on your shelf...or shelves..

As you can see, 2 of my book shelves are over flowing. So much so that I really need to box some of these books up until I have more room for more book shelves or these shelves might topple over.

Thankfully my living room bookshelves aren't like this, these are in my bedroom and when I finish a book I just put it on one of these shelves. I don't like giving away books, most of the books I have now I want to keep...I just don't have the room unless hubby builds me some wall shelves and he would rather have me box up the books. lol 

So, what's in your cupboard? This week, I have tea bags, seasoned green beans, more cans of vegies, white rice, rice a roni, and gravy. I'm sure there's more stuff in the back but that's the stuff you can see. 

It's interesting what we keep for long periods of time in our cabinet shelves. I know for a fact that I have a jar of wheat germ in that cabinet that's been there for about 3 years and I don't even like wheat germ. I also bought a small can of marzipan, with the idea in mind to make some marzipan animal figurines out of them. But then I fiddled with some clay and tried making a little mouse...it looked like a monster so I didn't even open the can of marzipan.

Do you have anything on your shelf that you haven't used in years?

My Recipe For Homemade Guacamole

For a small portion enough for 2 or 3 people, I use three large ripe avocados. Just use a fork to smash them in a bowl and add a tablespoon of lemon juice and a tablespoon of mayonnaise. Mix well. 

Add a little salt to taste and refrigerate until chilled. I serve it with potato chips or use it instead of mayo on sandwiches. This also goes really good on tacos. 

Weekly Rat Facts: Sprains and Strains

Because Lucky only had 3 legs I am more careful with him and how I let him jump around when he is out for play time. I don't want him to land too hard on his 1 front paw and sprain it. 

Because rats have such small bones in their bodies and limbs, sprains do happen if they fall out of your hands from a tall height and land in such a way that it hurts their legs. If your rat starts limping after a fall or jump it's a good bet that he has either sprained his leg, hurt his paw or has a break in a bone. For most sprains there's not much you can do other than make sure they don't do any jumping or climbing for a while. So taking out all ledges, ropes, ladders and any other things you have in their cage that could get them high enough that they'd have to jump down from, is a good idea. You can also give them children's motrin for the pain but if this is your first time administering this medication, it's wise to get a veterinarian to give you dosages for your rat. 

If however your rat has broken their leg and your vet thinks they can fix it. They can try a cast or they can amputate the leg. Because their bones are so small it's harder for a vet to set their limbs and put a cast on it so that the bones won't move. I have a 3 legged rat who was born that way and he does fine, running, jumping and it doesn't slow him down at all. 

The best thing you can do to make sure a break or sprain doesn't happen is to always make sure you are holding your rat securely when you have them in your hands so they don't jump down on the floor while you are holding them. If you are standing up when they jump, that is a very high landing for such a small animal and it will surely at the very least sprain or bruise a leg. Younger rats are more agile and can handle having ropes, sticks and ladders in their cage but as rats get older and cannot keep their balance as well, those things should come out of their cage so they don't get hurt.

Freebie Friday!

Welcome to another edition of Freebie Friday, where I tell you what free samples and full sized products I received in the mail and how you can get them too. Someone asked me why I do a 'Freebie Friday" each week, so I'll tell you.

A while back I listed all the free samples and wins that I had received that previous year and so many people didn't believe that I could have gotten so many free things. So I decided to prove it by taking a picture every week and sharing the sites that I found the links to the freebies at. So now you too can get great free samples coming to your mailbox each week.

This week I received:

5 samples of Loreal Youth Code Serum

Sample of Tums Chewy Delights

Sample bottle of Simple moisturizer

I found all the links to these freebies at Freebie Shark and Hey Its Free

I also won a giveaway from I Smell Sheep! I won an I Smell Sheep T-shirt, mousepad and box of moonpies! 

My Rat, Marbles

I took a little video of my rat, Marbles eating a little rice and potato salad. I hardly ever get good pictures of Marbles because he won't sit still. For a 3 1/2 year old boy, he still runs around all over the place. The life span of a rat is around 3 years old so Marbles and Bandit, also seen in the video...are old men by rat standards.

Book Review: Eternal Flame by Valerie Twombly

Hey you guys, today I'm a guest reviewer at I Smell Sheep. I would love it if you stopped by and checked out my review of Eternal Flame by Valerie Twombly.

A Day in The Life Of A Rat

This is my boy, Marbles. He has continuous respiratory problems as well as mental problems it seems. He does the strangest things like snort at us if we try to pick him up. He does not like to be handled and instead of kisses his likes to nibble our fingers. I think that's his way of saying hi. We put our hands in the cage and he'll run over and nibble/bite all of our fingers.

He also likes to tell us when it's time for a Yogi treat. He comes over to the corner of the cage closest to the couch and stares at whoever is sitting there. He'll snort or sneeze or get you're attention and then hop up and down until you give him a yogi. Once you give him a yogi, he retreats and eats it and goes back to sleep or bothers his brother. 

Marbles also has a weird thing about pudding...he'll stick his paw in the spoon and rub his paws on the fleece. Then come back and 'bap bap bap' the spoon with his paw. I think he's trying to slap the pudding into submission so it will stop getting his paws wet, but it doesn't work. lol 

I'm sure both of these two probably thinks they names are "Where's your brother?" Every time I go to their large cage and see one of them, I seem to say, "Where's your brother" to whomever is the first one I see. They probably go back to their bed and try to figure out what their human is talking about. 

It has become my goal in life to find a food that this little guy Won't eat. He's not picky like the other two at all. He will beg, climb the bars of his cage and stare at you until you give him a bite and then no matter what it is...he'll devour it and come back for more. I can't shovel the food in his cage fast enough for him. He wants to try everything I make so I give him little bits of whatever I make for dinner. He appreciates it. 

He's my kissy rat too. He gives kisses all the time. Okay so maybe to me they are kisses and to him he is grooming me. But I call it kisses..He was giving Ken kisses on his forehead here. 

Bandit and Marbles have a big cage to play around in. It's hard being a rat, it sure is. 

They follow each other around and make sure that one doesn't get more treats, petting or cuddles than the other one does. Bandit will actually shove poor Marbles around and up against the cage with his butt when he wants to act like the alpha rat and show Marbles who is boss.

But they play with their toys together with no problems. 

After a hard day of eating and playing with the rat toys, it's nice to have a soft place to take a nap. 

"Are you stalking me?" Marbles meant business. I was just trying to take a few more pictures but he wasn't having it. He grabbed my fingers with his teeth and pushed me right out of the cage. lol 

Bandit resting after hard day of bullying his brother and making sure he got the best resting spot in the cage. 

When Marbles took over the fleece cube in the background..Bandit decided to photo bomb me while I was trying to take a picture. Yeah, they are jokers like that. 

One of my old guys that has since passed away. He liked sleeping with a rubber ducky. It's so hard being a rat...

Two of the biggest rats I've ever had. Both were 3 lbs but Jasper, the tan and white one was 19" long from nose to the end of his tail. I think he must have had ancestors at the Nuclear testing facility.

And more playing...It's hard being a rat.

Have You Started Your Holiday Shopping Yet?

ViewSonic 8-Inch Digital Photo Frame

On Amazon

I have started getting some things already. Actually I started buying things about 4 months ago because if I don't, I'll never be able to afford to get some things. So I do a little bit of shopping each month that I can. I bought this for my dad. I have no idea what to get for the man but he likes pictures of his great grand kids and of the rest of us, so I figured this might be a good gift. 

I have yet to download the pictures to the darn thing, I still have to do that because my dad doesn't have a computer, wouldn't know how to use one and has no use for them frankly. He's 80 years old so I guess I can understand that. 

I also bought him a table book on the Golden Gate Bridge because he is obsessed with that bridge for some reason. He just loves pictures of that bridge. I bought him a clock with the golden gate bridge on it last year for his birthday and he loved it. 

The reason I'm only talking about what I got my dad is he's the only person I know that doesn't have a computer and can't look online at this post to see what I've bought. lol 

So have you started shopping yet? When do you start Christmas shopping? I would start in January but Ken thinks that a bit soon. LOL 

Pot For Pets?

Now Who in the hell thought this was a good idea?

Pot For Pets

"After seventeen years of research and development, and five years of clinical trials, these supplements are now available directly to the public, over-the-counter and without a prescription."

Canna-Pet? Really? Haven't these people read the articles about how dogs can and have died from ingesting medical marijuana from their pot head humans? No? Well, here ya go...

Dogs Dying After Eating Medical Marijuana  

It happened. It's a fact.

I wouldn't give my animals anything made from marijuana. If they are in pain, give them pain pills and if you are afraid they will get addicted like a human *I know, can you say pain killers anonymous for dogs, right?* give them Tramadol. It's not addictive and my sister in law is giving it to her dog who is old and in pain and it helps.

If I have a headache, I'm not gonna smoke a joint..I'm going to take some tylenol..because it works.

Guest Post Book Review: Crazy Ex-Ghoulfriend by Angel Roquet

I did a guest post book review over at I Smell Sheep for a YA (Young Adult) book called Crazy Ex-Ghoulfriend by Angela Roquet.

I'd love it if you went over and read my review at I Smell Sheep.

Weekly Rat Facts: How To Get A Sick Rat To Eat

This is Brodie, I had him a few years ago and he lived to be 2 years old. He was extremely picky when he got an upper respiratory infection but I was able to find a few foods that he would eat. But only a little at a time, so I had to hand feed him from a spoon 6 times a day for about a month. 

Over the last 10 years I've had 12 rats and for the most part they have all been healthy and died of old age. Old age for a rat is usually around 3 year old. But rats do get upper respiratory infections and can become quite sick very fast, which is why I always have antibiotics on hand to give them when they get sick. The sooner you can get them on antibiotics, the better chance they have of getting better sooner. 

When rats get old or sick, they tend not to want to eat. Which can make them even sicker since they will lose weight and even become dehydrated very fast. Sometimes we rat parents have to come up with strange combinations of foods in order to get our sick little buddies to eat. So I thought I would let you know some of the foods I have personally found that my rats would eat when they were sick or getting old. 

If this is your first sick or old rat, you should take them to a Veterinarian and have the vet let you know what medicine's they will need. You may also need to help them drink more water by bringing the water to them on a spoon or by bringing the water bottle closer to where they lay. 

Here's Brodie on the right, looking right into the camera. Hades is the black and white one and in the back was Ares. On the left you can see Jasper's butt. lol 

They are all eating a little chocolate cereal here but Brodie got very picky in his old age and especially when he got sick. I also had a rat that lived to be 4 years old but when she was around 3.6 years old, she stopped eating the hard seeds and hard rat blocks and got a little skinny. So I fed her other things.

Here's are foods my old and sick rats would eat. Keep in mind, sick and old rats will usually only eat a little at a time and sometimes you will have to hand feed them these foods 6 times or more a day because if they are like mine and you just leave it on a plate in their cage, they won't bother eating it. I would sometimes have to scoop a little onto my finger and let Brodie lick it off until he wouldn't eat anymore. You will have to have a lot of patience with them. 

Mashed boiled eggs mixed with ripe mashed avocados. This should be mashed very well with very little chunks or they might not eat it. *This is good for rats that need to put on some weight as well because avocados are a fattening food*

Mashed potatoes that have been thinned out with gravy, milk, butter and/or sour cream. If the mashed potatoes are too thick, they can choke on them. 

Pudding

baby food

egg salad

yogurt

ice cream

Nutri-Cal *A high calorie nutritional supplement for pets you can get from your vet*

Ensure

baby formula

whip cream

mashed ripe fruits like watermelon, cantaloupe, strawberry and peaches

cottage cheese

cream cheese

I hope some of this information helps anyone out there nursing a sick rat back to health. 

Freebie Friday!

Welcome to another edition of Freebie Friday, where I tell you what free samples and full sized products I received in the mail and how you can get them too. Someone asked me why I do a 'Freebie Friday" each week, so I'll tell you.

A while back I listed all the free samples and wins that I had received that previous year and so many people didn't believe that I could have gotten so many free things. So I decided to prove it by taking a picture every week and sharing the sites that I found the links to the freebies at. So now you too can get great free samples coming to your mailbox each week.

This week I received:

A box with 2 samples of Lipton Tea K cups. 

Tyson dipping cup (From a fb promotion)

Nature Valley protein bar

Scotch tabs (for putting pictures and things on the wall)

I found the links to these freebies at Freebie Shark and Hey Its Free

Clairol Nice 'n Easy Root Touch Up Hair Color Giveaway!

Vocal Point was nice enough to offer a few bloggers the chance to giveaway coupons for Clairol Nice 'n Easy Root Touch Up Hair Color. So I have 3 coupons for free boxes to give away to you and if you color your hair like I do, you know you want this. 

As you can see in my before and after photos, I do color my hair and within a few weeks of coloring my hair, the roots start to show. By using the Clairol Nice 'n Easy Root Touch Up Hair Color I can do a quick touch up to just the parts of my hair that need it instead of coloring all of my hair which takes a lot longer. 

Here are my before and after pics. This is the picture before I used Clairol Nice 'n Easy Root Touch Up Hair Color, and you can clearly see a few gray hairs up there on top.

This is my 'after' picture. After Using Clairol Nice 'n Easy Root Touch Up Hair Color the gray hairs are no longer there and my hair is once again all the same shade of dark brown.

If you'd like to win a coupon for a FREE box of Clairol Nice 'n Easy Root Touch Up Hair Color, all you have to do is leave a comment on this blog post with your email address so I can get in touch with you if you're the winner. I will pick a winner on November 14th and they will have 24 hours to respond to my email or another winner will be picked. USA only please.

Thanks to Vocal Point I will be giving away 3 of these coupons for a FREE box of  Clairol Nice 'n Easy Root Touch Up Hair Color. Just leave a comment and your email address so I can get in touch with you if you are one of the winners. 

Update: This giveaway is now over. All winners have been notified. 

Taking A Couple of Days Off

Sorry I haven't been around lately, my family and I all got the stomach flu. And it's a bad one. My daughter and I got it first and now hubby has it. It seems like every muscle in my body hurts right now so I am just going to be resting today. Hopefully I will fell better tomorrow and I'll be visiting all your blogs again.

Until then, stay away from the sick people. lol

Mozzarella Pasta Bake Recipe

So this is what we had for dinner the other night. I call it Mozzarella Pasta Bake. 

What you will need:

2lbs of browned hamburger

4 cups of cooked spiral pasta

I jar of spaghetti sauce (I used Prego)

2 cups of shredded mozzarella cheese

Place the browned hamburger, cooked pasta and jar of spaghetti sauce in a casserole dish and mix well so that all the pasta is coated with the pasta sauce. Add in 1 cup of the mozzarella cheese and mix. Add the other cup of mozzarella cheese to the top of the casserole and cover. Bake for 25 minutes on 350 or until cheese is completely melted. 

You can use Chicken or leave the meat completely out if you're a vegetarian. Add other things to it like sautéed green bell peppers and onions (I did that one time and it was really good) or use cheddar cheese. I like that too. 

Because Some People Just Need Something To Complain About

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Are people really debating whether or not the sports teams names of Redskins, Braves and Chiefs...are somehow dishonoring the Native American people?

Is this a real debate? A real problem?

Is it somehow racist to refer to a team as the braves? I don't think so and there's a lot of people out there that don't think so either...and some of those people are Native Americans. Just take a look at any forum or news article about this subject and you'll see most of the people all up in arms about these names...aren't Native Americans. 

Just look at this article.

In it the person even says that leaders of Native American tribes have written to the owner of the redskins and asked him not to change the name of the team.."

“I would be offended if they did change,” he quoted Patawomeck Tribe retired Chief Robert Green as saying. “Completely remove the Indian identity from anything and pretty soon, you have a wipeout in society of any reference to Indian people.”"

So why is this in the news? Why is it a big deal? Because the media likes to start drama where there isn't any. A few people have voiced an opinion about how teams names are racist and should not be used, so now the media is making it seem like a big deal when in reality, it's not. Also there are some pseudo native Americans *people who claim to be but aren't* who are raising a stink over the names. They are causing drama where none exists. 

C'mon media...get onto some real news. 

Also I read in another article that Native Americans are upset because kids were able to buy Indian costumes for Halloween? Are you kidding me? Kids have been playing cowboys and indians for as long as I can remember but I guess that's racist too now? Are we really going to tell our kids that dressing up like a Native American Princess is a bad thing? That a 6 yr old dressing in an indian costume for Halloween is somehow dissing the Native American culture as a whole and by her dressing in that costume she is making fun of a whole society of people that now consider her and her parents racist for letting her dress in that costume?

Have things gone too far? Yes, they have. The whining and crying of of these asshats who are crying racist around every corner needs to be quieted, stopped and drowned out by people who aren't trying to bring us back to the days of the knuckle dragging troglodyte's who were dragging their females back to the cave by their hair. 

This isn't a real problem people. Find something else to complain about.

Weekly Rat Facts: Bathing

I've been asked this question a couple of times recently and my answer is always the same...No, rats do not need a bath. But there are a couple of exceptions to this rule. 

1. Older rats can lose the ability to clean themselves as they get older and may urinate where they sleep instead of getting up and going over to the potty corner of the cage. A rat with hide Leg Degeneration will also need help keeping clean and in these cases you may have to bathe your rat. 

2. If you let your rat on the floor for free range time, meaning you have rat proofed your room and you let them run around to get exercise but they find a dust ball and roll in it and get dirty. In this case you can either take a baby wipe and clean them off with that or you give them a bath. 

Some rats like water and some do not. 

When giving your rat a bath they may do what I call a stress poop, meaning they start pooping in the water. Just take a paper towel and scoop the poo out of the water and finish your bath. You should only put enough water in the bottom of the tub so that it reaches just above the legs of your rat and their belly is just touching the water. You don't want the water to be very deep that way it doesn't scare the rats too much if they don't like water. 

Use a shampoo for rats or you can use Dawn. Most times though just using water is enough unless they are really dirty/stinky. Using shampoo or detergent can dry their skin out so you don't want to bathe them unless you have to. Never use a flea and tick shampoo because of the harmful chemicals they contain.

Don't make your rat stay in the water for too long and wrap them in a fluffy clean towel and let them snuggle with you afterwards. Don't forget to give them a treat like a yogie to reinforce this being a positive experience. 

Get Out My House! *My Neighbors Had An Argument*

So this morning my neighbors were arguing and I started filming them through my screen door. I didn't want to stand outside because that woman was so mad she might have kicked my ass. LOL

It filmed through my screen door so you can't see really well, but you can sure hear what they were saying and that was the funniest part anyway.

Wtf does, "get ratchet" mean anyway?

Freebie Friday!

Welcome to another edition of Freebie Friday, where I tell you what free samples and full sized products I received in the mail and how you can get them too. Someone asked me why I do a 'Freebie Friday" each week, so I'll tell you.

A while back I listed all the free samples and wins that I had received that previous year and so many people didn't believe that I could have gotten so many free things. So I decided to prove it by taking a picture every week and sharing the sites that I found the links to the freebies at. So now you too can get great free samples coming to your mailbox each week.

This week I received:

A free pair of Hanes Pure Bliss panty hose

A coupon for a free box of Clairol Root Touch Up by Nice 'N Easy and two $2 off coupons

Cascade dish washer pod

Pantene shampoo and conditioner sample

Prilosec sample

Gain Scent Boosters

I found the link for most of these free samples at Freebie Shark and Hey it's Free

I was given the Coupon for a free box of Clairol Root Touch up from Vocal Point 

Happy Halloween!

Hope those of you that trick or treat or take the kids trick or treating have a great time and get lots of candy.

Skulls, Not Just For Halloween

When my brother and sister in law came for a visit this month, they brought me a little present. This skull statue with a cactus growing out of its head. 

They obviously know me pretty well, because this is the perfect type of gift for me. I love skulls. 

The skull even has a little dagger going through its eye and mouth.

And because it has a cactus, I'm not likely to kill this plant. I'm really bad with plants but cactus I can usually keep alive.

That skull statue goes well with two other skull statues I have. The little one is a pink quartz stone carved into a skull.  The other used to be a skull air freshener that hung in my car, but I liked it so I kept it. 

I couldn't get a good picture of this pink quartz skull but it really is pretty. 

And they all look great on my shelf.