This is a picture of our fireplace decorations. Yes there is a long unused fireplace hiding beneath all of that. I wouldn't put it past the cats to attempt a mighty leap in order to investigate all the fascinating new stuff up there but you never know; a few new angels, a bottle of wine. Hey, that sounds like a title for a Country Western song! Yeeeeehaw!



Secondly, after donating a set of older bed clothes to our deserving family at work, I decided to encourage the economy by purchasing some new ones. These are courtesy of Freddy's on sale naturally and green tones go with the room.



This is a big old glass finger nail file ordered on line and it was so huge that I initially thought it would be fairly worthless.



In the normal course of events my nails have a tendency to flare out and start to warp to the right or left. Use of this glass file has all but eliminated that tendency, probably because I can file at a single angle in one or two uniform swoops. Blow off dust, light lotion to cuticles and I'm ready to type all day. I also have a theory that the constant pounding at the keyboard may actually encourage nail growth but that is not based on any research for which the government paid.