good afternoon campers......it's terrific tuesday!!!  how fabulous is that??!!....another day to do something amazing!......so i'm back to trying to streamline my art marketing, which kinda flows into my life in general too.....what??!!....my problem is, cause of the quarantine thing, i end up focusing on general life instead of doing my art......alas and alak.....what is alak?...let's look it up...pause ........and back......so first off alak is spelled alack....cause alak is a language spoken in southern laos or a beer.....i'm just getting yall ready for jeopardy.............so it seems...alack, or lack is regret or sadness...alas, or las is weariness ....and when you say them together and add the a....it's kinda like a sigh and then the word....so it comes out as a whole theatrical feeling of words...groovy......so i was wondering why there was a little black line under the word "sigh" and thinking this is different from my red lines under misspelled words, when looking closer realized it was dirt on my computer screen.......ha ha.....anyway back to alas and alack.....maybe more words should be said like that....ya know add a letter words.....so "a" means to sigh, maybe "w" means to add a wow like feeling in front......like w-amazing, or w-fantastic, maybe "gr" means an angry feeling kinda like a dog growling.....gr-why, gr-no......and then what if you combined all those to say something like....a-you, gr-see, w-llamas..... ha ha....try it,  it's an acting class online...ha ha ha......if you are at home doing this you're kids are probably thinking you've lost your mind....
         speaking of losing your mind...... the dog got a bath the other day....kada the great pyrennes.....she smelled so bad and i really put off giving her a bath....why you ask?....well cause she hates water....or more to the point, she hates to be put in water by someone other than herself......by herself she will run through water, play in water, etc......but if i make her do it, well, it's a standoff......i mean i stand kinda firm and she runs off.........so i usually take her somewhere to be groomed, but it's kinda pricey....and it's a challenge taking her there too....i had to tighten her collar, not choking, but just under that and then have the leash attached before i let her out of the back of the car, cause she will slip right out of her collar and run for the hills....tightening her collar is kinda like tightening a saddle on a horse....you think it's tight until the horse unbloats and you fall under the horse still in the saddle......that happened to the evil older sister once.....i was the one who tightened the saddle and sent her off......ha ha....i had to hide out from her for days till her evil wrath was over....it was worth it.........back to the dog.... even when i tighten her collar, there is so much hair there, that it's hard to tell where her neck really is.......so.... i get her out of the back of the car and then after i have been dragged all over the parking lot to the enjoyment of the grooming staff.....it's quite a show....i finally get her to the door, which is like trying to get a cat in a crate....ya know all 4 legs are stretched out with razor sharp claws grabbing on to anything so the cat won't go in the crate....so the grooming staff has the door opened, i'm dragging her through the door, she has 4 legs stretched out against the door jam,  when out of her collar she goes again, i'm launched into the groomers on top of the staff and off to the hills goes kada......good times....
            i tried one of those self serve dog baths at a pet store........well i had to climb into the bath to get her into it, and then i jumped  out and quickly turn on the water, where she launched herself over me and numerous terrified dog owners, ....who thanked their lucky stars they owned a chihuahua, ...with water spraying everywhere and a crazed dog tearing up the store.......soooo not allowed there anymore.....
           so with the help of my husband, we cornered her by means of 2 leashes and the deck and a fence on the other side and proceeded to turn on the water, which sent her into a frenzy.....while we had her kind of sequestered against the deck, i started pouring shampoo and scrubbing, which ended up mostly on myself and my husband and the cat, and hank the beagle, who doesn't know enough to get out of the rain so he was up in everyone's business cause , well,  why not..... it's hank the beagle.......so i'm trying to scrub her....of course i get the cat and hank the beagle too....the cat jumps to my back, which you might think, how nice the cats gonna give me a massage.....with claws......the dog has somehow houdinied herself under my husband and myself, it's like playing twister with dog leashes.....i try to hold her with my knees and  get a thorough rinse in....which by now shes laying under the deck in the mud...the cat is now a permanent fixture on my back, hank the beagle is under my legs wagging his tail, my husband is under the dog  under the deck in the mud,.....kada has the leashes stretched tight around us....we fear for our lives so we release her by cutting the leashes ......  and off she runs ........my husband has been tarred and feathered....well mudded and white furred..... i am covered in mud, soap, the infamous white dog hair, and a cat....hank the beagle looks pretty clean.....kada is off playing in water.......i think it went well......
           so alas and alack, the cat's off my back,
           the beagle is in a fine humour;
​           the bath's been completed, 10 stitches were needed,
           from now on we're back to the groomer.............................sweet streamlining heaven.......be groovy!

      good afternoon campers!!!...who is up and adam....well i guess all adam's would be up, unless the adam lives in say australia...."australia" (sound effects...maybe echoey....is that a word?)....., and then they might be going to sleep ....or maybe they work night shift, so i suppose they could be going to sleep too.....well anyway....where did that phrase come from?....pause a minute....be right back......and you can be left front....ha ha ha......anyway pause..........................i'm back....oh my gosh i'm laughing so hard....kind of like tom hanks laughing during the money pit....that blast of laughing, cause i'm so goofy....so i looked up the phrase and it is really "up and at em".....ha ha ha....adam, at em......there's even an up and atom.....oh my gosh that just started my day off on the right track!!!
     speaking of tracks....linda.....my mom's cousin who was talking about tracks....trains to be precise...but it was all about losing your train of thought......captain courageous.....sorry my mind jumped the track..that book just came to mind.....i've been reading that book,..... why?....well cause i've read all the others i have numerous times....even acted out a couple to make them more interesting....made them into operas, mystery theatre, puppet shows....sometimes your feet have to be puppets too when acting out some books, like "the good earth"....i mean when all the charactors are trying to find food cause they are starving, well i was using my feet, i attached puppets to the dogs and cats, my drum kit had puppets attached to it....it was very intense....bert and ernie played the main charactors...... so anyway i'm trying to read "captain courageous".....i do not speak fisherman......it is crazy hard to follow....well for me.....it's kind of like shakespeare lived in massachusetts (that is a hard word to spell...it's kinda like you say "mass", then you sneeze, then you set the ts down....actually......ha ha my youngest daughter used to say "actually" all the time when she was about 3....very british acting...too funny, .....but actually.....that whole thing works for spelling massachusetts....try it....you'll see! )....so massachusetts shakespeare fished on a boat where they only spoke pig latin......by the way, what is pig latin.....pigs that speak latin?.....i really have never heard them, doesn't mean they don't exist....my twins took latin, i asked one of them "how do you know if you are speaking it correctly ...i mean it is a dead language"....i believe she said something to me in latin............so really you could say it anyway you want and gather that it's correct, unless you go to rome.....where i believe they still speak it, so then it isn't a dead language after all, just a regional language......which is kinda the way most languages are i gather.....what is it i am gathering?....oh yeah my thought......and there they go again.......boy i'm a bad speller today...you should see all the red lines.........so back to jumping train tracks......i think i've made myself clear....
          so now that all trains are on the track.....or a track....or b track....possibly even d track.....ha ha.....like dee track.......anyway, and we are all "up and adam"....even adam!...........shake your quarantine dust off and let's rock this day!!! have a super terrific  tuesday!!!...be groovy yall!!
             

        good afternoon campers!!!  how are those goals going?....now we have alot of time on our hands, we should be able to get everything done and more......so it seems......but time seems to slip right on through our fingers  like wet paint.....well at least that's the case here....definitely the wet paint part..........crazy man...
      so alot of times...back to time again.....i have these ideas....kind of like a submarine being pinged.....not that i have ever experienced being in a submarine....but i have seen alot of movies with them being pinged...which absolutely qualifies...right?!.....like the radio person says in a british accent" captain, we've just been pinged"....and everyone listens and looks around and then they say...."we're running silent"....which is kind of ironic because if you were running silent you would be silent......and you probably just got pinged again because you said "we're running silent".....of course i would probably be trying to hold back a major laugh at that point....which wouldn't be silent......then they would have to resurface and find a deserted island to drop me off at.......me and my submarine world....interesting....
      anyway so i have these ideas that that just ping in my head at random times......ideas about anything....art ideas, dino ideas, submarine ideas, 3 dimensional tree limb ideas, llama ideas, etc......i think people used to call it daydreams......anyway....so i thought it was always me and my brain thinking these up....but now i'm not so sure....cause today i had this idea ping and it was while i was watching charles stanley....just love him, hes pretty groovy....honest and to the point.....but had this ping run through my head .... about a burning bush... ...and i'm like what?....then i see this on a t-shirt (what came to my mind is the drawing below)....i'm thinking, hey, this wasn't my idea this was God's idea!... maybe some of these other pings i got were God pings© too?......or maybe not,  just me and my crazy brain..........but anyway.......love this idea....so God wants me to design a t-shirt message board for Him.....groovy i'm in......
          and more on the God front....ha ha that's where the message board would be....or could be God back........must focus......focusing is not my strong suit......and by the way who came up with that saying, what is a strong suit?....maybe armor....or someone got carried away with the starch when ironing....well not on the armor...of course armor and iron are kinda similar.....oh my...........moving on.............my dad passed away 1 year ago today, which will be yesterday tomorrow...cause i write this on mon....which is today, but not tomorrow, which will be yesterday........are you confused yet?..i think i am........anyway i was thinking....always scary and unnerving.............how yes i miss him, alot..... but from my dads perspective, that was his best day ever.....i mean wow, going to heaven to be with Jesus....sweet....well for him....and bittersweet for our family....so today, which will be yesterday tomorrow, is celebrate dad day.....doing things that my dad  liked or would have done! so it's definitely corny joke day!
              so hope you are having a fabulous time dad, i'm gonna draw up some message boards, and this is bobbi , running silent........ha ha ha....not....enjoy this beautiful day yall!  be groovy!