How is it Friday already? It has been such a busy time around here that I could swear it was just Monday. Your mama buns really did great...that's a lot of babies! Your unicorn story is so sweet, no wonder you still have it today.

QOTD: I always wanted a fancy, articulated soft teddy bear. But being doll crazy that didn't happen. Dad brought home a rock-hard 'plush' brown and white beagle (he said it was named Snoopy but everybody knows Snoopy is black and white, lol) after yearly training school in Dayton. That was my only stuffed animal until someone gave me one of those carnival-prize bears when I was a snotty teenager. Hubby came through though...as newlyweds he gifted me 7 Steiff bears while we lived in Germany.

Food was:

B: a cup of coffee with a treat...a tablespoon of powdered creamer. It tasted like desert.

L: My protein/collagen shake.

Snack: one wedge of Laughing Cow Lite

D:2 cups zucchini and 1 cup mushrooms cooked in 1 cup of no-sodium chicken broth and topped with 1 tablespoon shakey Parm.

Might have 10 shrimp for a late snack.

Have a fun weekend everybody! If you barbecue, enjoy delicious food. It's going to be a preserving weekend, so glad for a wall-unit a/c in the kitchen. The regular a/c can't keep up with that much heat in that room.

When I was growing up, girls did not usually have stuffed animals. Girls got dolls, often with diapers and baby bottles so we could prepare to be mothers. My brothers had teddy bears. It was part of giving kids the "correct" toys. Stuffed animals for girls were a big thing in the 70s and some girls had a bedroom overflowing with them.

Happy Friday Gang. I'm glad to have this week over with and a long weekend ahead, but then next week there are trainings here at work all week and I have to finish getting the worksheets ready for them.

We are registering the Jeep that Irvin got tomorrow so now he'll have something better on gas than the big trucks. Other than that, I'm not 100% sure what else the weekend has in store for us.

QOTD: What was your favorite stuffed animal you had as a kid? Mine was a unicorn that my brother got me when he was in college in Jacksonville, FL. He came home for Christmas break and woke me up since it was late at night to give me the unicorn. He said he had to chase it around for a few hours until he could catch it. As a 6-year-old I believed him and still have Uni to this day.

B: coffee and ham/egg sandwich

L: burritos from a local Mexican food truck

D: homemade fish and chips

Here's some bunny pictures. I was finally able to count and see how many each Doe had. The cream one had 8 and the black one had 7 not too bad for first time moms.

Have a great day and weekend everyone!!!

Love the meme!

I feel you on the taxes, it's not just that but my homeowners insurance jumped $500 this year. I'm afraid when they do the escrow analysis in a couple of months my payments are going to go up again. At this point I don't think I can ever retire. My house payment eats almost all of my SS and pension. I would have $591 a month left for everything else. So until I can refinance my house to a lower rate I'm stuck. I've worked all of my adult life and picked berries when I was a kid. It is sad that I can't retire.

My state wants to increase taxes for roads, not sure I can pay anymore. I hardly drive, and yes we have a gas tax, and an income tax, we are one of the highest tax rate states. They want a sales tax too but we've voted it down 9 times so I doubt they can pu**** through. I have to live within a budget, why can't the states? Oh and they just took money from schools for the homeless. I have no solutions for this, but I believe the homeless problem exploded when they closed the state mental hospital and just shoved those people out on the streets.

QOTD- I don't know if I would move to another country. I moved to Maui and that was another country. I'm not going very far from here.

Have a great day everyone!

Good mornin y?all.

we did a thing. My brother is going to take in one of the stray kittens. We caught him yesterday. He was timid and terrified for 2 hours then completely melted. He is such a sweet little guy! I wish to goodness we could keep him but we can?t. We also bought a live trap to help get the others fixed and we might?ve found a place for them to go after they get fixed.

As for politics. I could go deeper but it?s something I think we all have strong opinions on. Politicians, professional ones especially, have only their interests in mind. I live in a very very red state. Our property taxes go up like that too. If it were not for my mom being a senior citizen and having them frozen we wouldn?t be able to afford it. It seems to be a politician is to be corrupt. Maybe I?m jaded. I?m on a fixed income and on disability. They want to take my health coverage away. I have never been this terrified of this stuff.

QOTD: Canada, somewhere in Alberta west of Calgary. I loved it there and the people were extremely friendly and polite.

food is unplanned but here it is so far,

B: eggs, sausage, cheese and coffee

L: maybe some chicken?

D: ????

Mr.Carl(my brother might rename him?I like Magoo).