CountryMouse's Refuge

Hey, when I said the "I will never say the word 'procrastinate'", that was a quote from a They Might Be Giants song, not ME saying that. :-P

So I am putting off doing dishes, other household chores, making the grocery list, etc. I'd rather be online.

On the productive side, though, I did finish cleaning up all those messy little artifacts/pixels in the banner for my Father's Day page. Which is not ready yet. I am working on it slowly. Don't expect anything really fancy, though. I mean, compared to others' pages, this is simple. I still haven't thought of the words I want to say. I know the captions to photos will come to me when I put them on the page, though. :-)

Time to read comments and find out what others have been up to. :-)

I think Teddy wants me to tell you about some of the amazing things he has been through.

Teddy is my knitted Mr. Bean teddy bear. He's dark brown, has googly white eyes, and is cute and rambunctious. :-)

When he hadn't been here very long, he fell over the pillows/back through the headboard of the bed (it's wrought iron, not a solid headboard). He stayed there on the (dusty) floor overnight. I guess he thought it was funny hiding out like that and having an adventure. However, I retrieved him the next day, gave him a good vacuuming, and also a trim with a "sweater shaver" (trims off the "pills" that happen on knitted materials). While I was doing this, I noticed a tiny little worm-y thing under one of his arms. Ewwwwww.

Okay, that did it. I put Teddy in a pillowcase and sent him through the washer, then the dryer. To be sure he was really dry all the way through, I let him, uh, rest on a cookie rack. Of course, HE tells it as if I stretched him on the RACK! Talk! Information! We want information! etc. :-P

But I still wasn't feeling that I had done everything possible to make him "safe" to put back on his, uh, the bed. A friend online who also collects lots of stuffed animals told me that putting him in the freezer for a couple weeks would kill ANYthing (and any eggs too) that might be inside him. So I put Teddy in a big Ziploc bag and popped him in the freezer.

NOTE TO SELF: Be sure to put pic of Teddy in the freezer on fuzzy peoples' pages in (eventual) new section of website.

Of course, after he came out of cryogenic suspension, he needed to thaw out...ON THE RACK (again?!). I think I have a pic of him there too. :-D

And he has had to go through the washer and dryer one other time also, later on. I forget why. But that's when his back seam came undone and his stuffing started spilling out! So I did some quick surgery then, and he was good as new. Well, pretty much. :-P

Teddy's legs tend to look a little "bunchy" and malformed these days. I think it's from all the trampolining he does. :-P As I said somewhere else, he's a very acrobatic bear. :-)

Here is the true account of Teddy's adventures, as he related them to atholbrose! Read all about it! :-)

So I finally did get around to doing the things I needed to: grocery list, doing dishes, cooking, etc.

This morning, while I was procrastinating, I "won" an auction on Yahoo! auctions--it was one of those bid-and-buy things. But it was Kogepan stationery, very cute, a big set, for a fairly good price, and from a seller I have dealt with before. So since I hadn't bought myself anything for a while, I thought, "Why not?!" and got it. :-)

This evening: dating and putting away groceries (I use freezer tape and put the date purchased on all items, so we know how old things are and when to use them up or toss them); freezing ground beef (I know, how fascinating); then taking care of some email.

I haven't shown Teddy the entries about himself yet; but Christopher is here with me. :-)

Well, off to see what LJers have been up to today. :-)

Liz Fraser's voice just carries me away........::happy sigh::