IS IT LEGAL TO STEAL PHOTOS TO PUT IN MY BLOG????

Pianos! I was surfing the net, as they used to say, and came across painted pianos. I was agape! Agape means: (Of a person's mouth) wide open in surprise or wonder. I thought to myself, I thought, "These would make a fantastic blog". Then went about doing various and sundry things. Sundry means: of various kinds; several and……in Australia it's a cricket term for extra. (Didn't know you were going to get a lesson in English Grammar 101, did you?)
Well, I digress. Digress means: leave the main subject temporarily. I unfortunately forgot where I saw the pianos! So off to The Google to search "painted pianos" and there they were and I want to share them with you. I know you will be agape!

                               

I like the chotski's on top of the piano, too.

How somber and elegant in it's simplicity!

Just stuck this in here to make you ponder.

Name that composer. Beethoven??

Joyous and gay and happy!

And, just for fun!

YARN, YARN, YARN, YARN, YARN AND MORE YARN

I have a couple other yarn blogs but this one has some new pictures. Here we go.

Yarn at the head of the bed. Oh, me!

  

Yarn at the foot of the bed. Oh, my!

Yarn in the middle of the bed. Oh, me, oh my!

How true! Or maybe a big glass of wine!

 The elephant says, "Great! They've discovered sweaters!

Words at bottom: The beginning of the end for the "wool"y mammoth.

Words: Leonard was hopeful.

(Feet at bottom are mine!)

The lady is knitting!

And there we have a yarn, yarn yarn blog. Ciao!!

LOL, AS IN LAUGH OUT LOUD!!!

I know how to drag pictures into iPhoto from e-mails, pictures on the Google, etc. I came across these
funnies on a knitting site and just had to put them in here so I can see them again and have a good
laugh! So here goes.

If this is hard to read, he's saying, "No Grandma. Listen, double-click

the Internet Explorer icon".

Caption says, "I'm joking! You are NOT adopted!!"

I love this one!

This is my favorite!

ENJOY!!

THANKSGIVING 2014 WITH BILL, JIM AND CHRIS @ BILL'S IN CLEVELAND, OH

My dear friend, Bill, came to Sylvania and took me back to his home in Cleveland so I could spend
Thanksgiving with him, Chris and Jim. (Chris and Jim were also @ the wild 'n crazy birthday party
@ the river in July). Here's our Thanksgiving in pictures.

I'm sorry that Chris is in the dark. There is a better picture coming up. We are relaxing while the bird cooks.

Judi, Bill and Jim are taking a quiz about what to do and not do

at holiday parties. We, of course, aced the quiz!

These three men live sans women but when a woman is around, guess who has to

do the ironing? The empty table and my coffee mug.

I should have had Bill take a picture of me slaving away ironing 

that blasted HUGE tablecloth!

The tablecloth with nary a wrinkle to be seen!

Isn't this lovely! Just waiting for the bird!

Turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry chutney, succotash, green bean casserole

and four hungry people.

Here's a nice picture of Chris, out of the dark -

and Jim in his colorful shirt.

Drinks were wine, milk and/or ice water.

Bill is a collector of sorts. LOL! LOL!

These are salt cellars - placed by your plate for your sole use.

Aren't they wonderful! I can count five sets. Bill will

correct me if I'm wrong. We used the chickens @ Thanksgiving.

The dregs………...

and the half-turkey.

And………..last but not least, the pumpkin pie.

It had whipped cream on the side and we added

it in heaps!

A wonderful Thanksgiving - good friends

and wonderful food! And Bill drove me home again.

The day before Thanksgiving we four went to the Cleveland Art Museum.

I was hesitant to go because I had walked outside for 45 minutes

and my back was hurting bad. But, good old Bill, said, "Chris is going

to push Jim in a wheelchair because of his knee so I will

push you in a wheelchair". And that we did. I had

my own private docent to show me all the wonders of that

marvelous museum! Along the way we came across a

????? - don't know what to call it

(Oops - tis is a pic of me in front of the "art" screen).

but will explain it this way -

A picture would come up of a painting - words about the artist - then a

blank screen (the size of a BIG tv screen) and using your finger, you could

"create" your painting using 2-4 colors. I did the red, green and yellow

one by myself. You can see, on the left the letters "JU".

The blue , white and black one was created by Bill and me. This is

my favorite of the two. We were then told we could e-mail our

pictures, which we did. I then took them from the e-mail into

my iPhoto and, lastly, into this blog. Oh, the wonders

of a computer! How I love it!.

I found this pic of me in front of the screen we used to do our art.

POTPOURRI

Potpourri is a bit of this and a bit of that - or dried sweet-smelling things stuffed into a fabric bag.
This potpourri is a bit  of this and that in photo form. Hope you enjoy!

Every year I have someone take a picture of me near some Christmas decos - me wearing something red - and I send it by e-mail to lots of people - as my Christmas card. This is Christmas 2014 - taken at
Fran's, my upstairs neighbor/friend, in front of her Christmas tree, Santa, angel and an almost-empty bottle of wine.

For fun, I decided to send a "Happy New Year" picture, also. (I want you to know that this is a posed
picture! I am not inebriated)!!! Fran and I went to the Olive Garden for dinner on January 30th, then came back here for Kahlua and cream. Notice I am still wearing red!

When I was in my mid-twenties and Matt was 3-4 years old, we lived in Livonia, MI. Joel, my husband, bought me this car, used and not looking near as pristine as this photo. Matt and I would toddle around, having a lot of fun in our little Sportsie, which is what we called it. Years and years
later when I was in my late 70's, I was getting gas here in Sylvania and I saw a car like my Sportsie. I found the driver/owner inside the station and asked him about his car. It is a Nash Metropolitan and I went to The Google to check it out. That's where I got this picture. Would sure like to have this car!

Incidentally, I have already posed for my 2015 Christmas picture - after extensive

re-construction surgery. (How many of you know who this is?)

I have a Bucket List and one of the things on my list is - Put a purple streak in your hair. It took me quite awhile to talk my hairdresser into doing it for me. (See hairdresser below).

This is Keith, who has been cutting my hair for over 20 years. When he was a young man, just starting
out in the "beauty parlor" (that's what we called it years ago) business, I worked with his mom, and his sister was my babysitter. I have decided to do another streak next summer and have a bigger and wider streak. This one was hard to see as it was on the top of my head. I will put the new do in a blog this summer.

Now……. look at the picture…..read the caption……and make the connection!*See answer below.

Last, BUT DEFINITELY NOT LEAST, this is my apartment neighbor, Fran. We have
become friends over the years - we enjoy eating dinners with each other - or maybe just having a glass of wine and chatting. Fran is the one who takes such good care of our yard.

*Moo - The booties are cows and cows say "moo".
  Shoe - When we get older we wear shoes (not booties)
  Pork - What do we call the meat from a pig?