No makeup look – Lately a lot of celebrities are sporting a “no makeup” look. I was interested because that’s me almost all the time. Since I’ve retired there is no point in clogging my pores. They don’t wear eye makeup but their skin looks perfect – no discoloration or splotchiness. Hmmm…perhaps if you have laser treatments, makeup is optional. I also noticed that most had patent leather lips. Had to be lip gloss of some sort. No one is born like that. #falseadvertising
Eau de French fry – We went out to eat twice this week. Both times the food was good but the cooking exhaust fans weren’t working well enough. Both times I left smelling like a French fry. Not that I don’t like fries but I’d rather eat them than wear them. My fake leather purse also smells like fries. #pee-eau
Time capsule – I found a 1981 edition of Time magazine in my cat file. It was interesting to read. There were articles on the old Reagan era politics and ads for typewriters, booze and cigarettes. Lot of cigarette ads. Gosh those stud muffins were gorgeous! Aside from the shoulder pads, I liked the fashions better. The colors were prettier although you can’t beat today’s fabrics. Sadly the magazine is getting recycled. #oldtimesyes
Performance review time – There was a mouse in the mousetrap. Humane mousetrap, of course. He was re-homed to the neighbor’s yard. I knew there was a mouse in the house because I personally caught one about a month or so ago. They come here in pairs and we hadn’t caught the other one yet. Morgan (our mouser cat) was interested but not working hard enough. We will have to talk about this. She has one job (two, if you count being cute) and she’s not getting it done. #sleepingonthejob
Maybe it’s time – We have started the fall clean up and prepping the pond for winter. The weather is mild but one day it won’t be. For me it’s a sad time. It’s not like opening everything up. There is a lot of work and hard decisions. Pull stuff out now while the weather is pleasant or wait until it is freaking cold to work outside. #needacrystalball
So how was your week?
I always wear lipstick when I go out, and that’s about it. I never really learned to do eye makeup, and now I don’t have the skill or the eyesight to do it.
I’m not sure what was in style in 1981. As an expat in the Philippines, we had our own styles depending on fabric our husbands brought back from their business trips and the styles we drew for the dressmakers to put together–lots of colorful summer dresses, many of them long. It was lots of fun.
I love your window box!
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I’m the same way with eye makeup although I’ll make an attempt for a fancy event. The good news is that I don’t have any fancy events anymore! 🙂 I spent a month in Hawaii and comfort was the style with beautiful prints on summery dresses. I’d love to dress like that all the time. I find a lot of the current clothing colorless and dull. Muted tones, almost all neutrals. Back in the day people wore things that were attractive for their body shape. Now they wear anything and sometimes it’s just not pretty.
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That is a gorgeous window box! You have master level gardening skills!
This year I am looking forward to fall and winter. I did not enjoy the summer and just want to close the door on it. Of course I didn’t do any plants, so I don’t have to think about that aspect.
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There is work to fall but it can come with some of the best weather of the year.
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Yes. And it’s always so deeply satisfying to be digging about in a garden.
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I’m not sure about the digging part.
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The autumn cleanup keeps nudging me to get with it. So far I’ve managed to resist the temptation to give in. I know I need to, but just can’t seem to muster up. Then again, the weather is still in the low 90’s-not exactly conducive to putting the beds to bed. BTW, your window box is fabulously glorious. So jealous. I love seeing beautifully trailing flowering plants hanging from a planter.
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I couldn’t do it if it was 90 here. We are in the low 70s with a drop at night so it’s much easier to pull. The window box worked this year. Some years it’s better than others. I changed plants as one half gets a lot more shade than the other half. Makes for lopsided blooming.
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I love your window box, Kate! It’s so cheery! And I am really impressed with your attempt to “re-home” a mouse! I like to think of myself as humane, but apparently, given my record with rodents, I am not. Shame on me!
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We have re-homed 3 in the past week. This is the time of the year when they come in. We put them all in the same spot so hopefully they can find each other. We have a large water reservoir in back of our property so we put them back there (not really in the neighbor’s yard!).
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I used to come home from the diner smelling of grease – a pleasant smell, that was a mixture of bacon, sausage and burgers.
Before the diner, I worked a few weeks at a KFC before they discovered I would not be there full time in the Fall (I told them I’d be starting school and only available part-time – they didn’t pay attention) … I would come home reeking of fried chicken. This is because in those days, after the chicken was fried and taken out of the deep fryer, it was then put into these huge warming ovens on trays, sorted out by pieces (all the keels on one tray, wings, drums, ribs, etc. all had their own trays) … you had to open the tray and look into it and take your “grabbers” to get the pieces to fill the meal boxes/buckets. It was a problem for me as I wore wire-rimmed glasses at the time – they’d steam up and I couldn’t see anything for a few minutes, so I had to grab the pieces quickly before I couldn’t see a thing. The chicken smell went into my hair and skin and I’d walk in the door and had to take my clothes downstairs and wash them or risk stinking up the house with the smell.
Don’t forget to put a board over your pond so the heron does not help himself to the fish in the pond like last year.
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I won’t put a board over it as that would block light but I’ll put a small piece of chicken wire over it in the center. That way animals can continue to come and take a drink but a big heron can’t walk in.
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That’ll work – I remember you said he was making himself at home fishing.
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I haven’t seen him since the early spring. My pond gets overgrown with lily pads and he doesn’t like that. He prefers clear water to walk into so he usually comes during winter or before the lilies have started to push up.
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Oh, your window box is perfect! Such a house accessory. Always wanted one, but all I get are screams of “In this climate? Dirt up against the house? Mold. Mildew. Termites.” Sigh. Unfair you have a pond too…(at the next house I own…..)
No make-up…just tinted…heavily tinted?…sunblock perhaps, but the lips are so another story. You’re right false advertising.
Here you could have sold that vintage magazine – people collect/decorate/frame with the most unusual things. I miss the days of high fashion designers and styles ( and the searches we made for something similar in our price range). Today’s fabrics are great but miss that elegance that was.
I guess it’s the shorter days, but some of the tropicals – while still blooming in the heat – are also signaling a shift to fall/winter gathering of resources by discarding yellowing leaves.
Fall already?
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I miss the elegance too. I may be the only person who enjoyed dressing up for work. Fall next week whether you are ready or not!
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Your window box flowers are really beautiful, Kate! Funny you mention stars without makeup: we’re in the middle of watching “Prime Suspect” right now, and my wife has been on a Helen Mirren tear lately because of it (it’s the second time around for me, but her first time seeing it). Just yesterday she showed me some recent pics of her without makeup. I thought of your blog because you’ve mentioned Helen a bit here. – Marty
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I’ve seen Helen without makeup and at least she has wrinkles so it’s believable!
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Oh dear, you should’ve called the guys from American Pickers, they may have liked that antique Time Magazine. Ads for typewriters. Wow. I would’ve liked to have seen that. The IBM electric ones with that backspace automatic white-out were the best. But, if you found the typo after it was finished, you were outta luck and had to start all over. Thank God I don’t go back further than that and never had to type on those manual ones where you had to slam each key.
Good luck with the weather-proofing.
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I learned on a manual in high school!
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Thank God for Word programs now.
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Amen!
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I said when I retired that I’d go without makeup but I got tired of looking at my “monotone” face every morning AND looking a bit like I’d been dead a few weeks. I have never had ANY natural color in my face so I need SOMETHING so I use a bit of makeup. One thing I haven’t done that I thought I would though is color my hair to get rid of the grays and instead I’m kind of enjoying the gray. Teddy hasn’t ever tried to catch a mouse but he’s good at skinks. They come into our garage and he “eliminates” them quite efficiently! Old mags are fun – I have one from my birth month/year and it absolutely makes me feel ancient when I look at it – prices in particular! WOW….we’ve come a long way baby!
Hugs, Pam
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Good for you! I wear makeup if I’m meeting up with people but other than that I have a tinted sunscreen and that’s it. I’d love to be able to wear eye makeup because that’s what I really could use! We don’t have skinks (at least I don’t think so. If we do we call them something else.) The trap caught another mouse last night. That’s 2 for the trap and 0 for Morgan. She must be easing into retirement.
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Hah! I am a big fan of the “what? I just woke up looking like this” look these days. My “flawless” complexion and “rosy good health” needs a bit of help to get that way before I get out the door for work each morning. But on the weekends now (and I think for upcoming retirement as well) I will be sporting the au natural (I mean REALLY this time) look most days. But I do love playing with makeup (the frustrated artist in me I suppose) so maybe not? I’m interested to find out.
Deb
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Retirement is a whole new thing. I thought I would sleep in but found that my internal clock was set permanently. There were things I thought I would do but haven’t yet (after 8 years) and other things that I accidentally did and liked. The best part is that no one is directing you. Don’t like something, you can stop doing it!
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Ha, my lazy cats don’t know what a mouse is. I do occasionally get one in the garage. Sometimes I can trap it and sometimes it outsmarts me. They are very clever and can eat peanut butter right off the trigger without setting it off.
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I’ve caught some with my hands (they were terrified) and they are very cute. Not as fast as they should be but they can be crafty.
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Eeek! I would never touch one! It might bite!
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They don’t bite. The one I caught was really frightened.
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Your window box is gorgeous! Our week has been very windy. I have been fighting the dry eye. I use very little makeup and I have never worn eye makeup so that’s something I don’t feel sad over. I’m missing Fall. It’s hard to believe you are preparing the pond for winter. It seems like summer just flew by. Morgan is in training for mousing… laughing!
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I think Morgan is in training for retirement! Yesterday was a bad dry eye day for me but I blamed it on too much screen time. So far fall has been pretty good. Mid 70s to low 80s with low humidity. Just like spring and early summer should be! The window box is tough. Half is in shade and half in sun. You may not notice it but the left geranium is not blooming like the right one. Nothing I can do about it.
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MY week wasnt as interesting as yours but I love how you laid it all out like that. Just got dr apts in order for the little ones and had two nervous breakdowns
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Sounds like a busy week!
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We have that French fry smell often — every time grandson David comes home from work. (Burger King). It’s not bad, considering he is immersed in that smell for hours.
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Yes, exactly! I’m not a fan of it except when I’m hungry.
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Our cat Nami brought home a dead mouse on Sunday. I hope it came from the back yard and wasn’t from the house, but neither of them told me. Tuesday, she brought in a dead snake. She’s working overtime! I explained that snakes like that one were helpful and next time, give it a break. I think she was offended that I did not appreciate the offering. We’re just glad none of the dogs chose to eat it. 🤮
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You’ve got quite the hunter there. Morgan doesn’t go out so all she has are the indoor mice and insects (which she as bequeathed to Sasha). I remember Jake and his parade of dead chipmunks!
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I remember many years ago watching my tiny, demure kitty eating a chipmunk head first. It really grossed me out….
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That would gross me out too. My cat Jake would leave different body parts. Not sure if he ate the head or not.
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It ruins my internal vision of them. I don’t want to think of my sweet kitties as serial killers! But then, we do praise their mousing abilities, understanding their inherent ability to hunt. I just get grossed out by the wreckage they leave behind.
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I think that Morgan totally deserves a break. After all, her cuteness factor is very, very high!
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Yes but I need a mouser!
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I sport the no makeup look just about every day too. I really don’t think I look very different either way (although without a little help, I have almost no eyebrows anymore, so there’s that). Not sure what patent leather lips look like but I’m pretty sure I don’t have them… more like wrinkled and cracked Naugahyde.
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Naugahyde, yes!
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With temps near 90, our summer is hanging on. Sadly, the hummies are beginning to migrate…only the females remain. 😦
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We’ve dropped quite a bit. Low 80s today but mid 70s all week. How can you tell just the females stay? Color?
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Your flowers look great. Having a mouse in the house is annoying. Maybe it was a friend of Morgan’s.
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I was thinking there was a tuna bribe involved.
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And I’m with you in no longer wearing much makeup. Now, putting on a face is a touch of foundation, more for its SPF value and to even out my skin tone. I no longer do the eye makeup thing.
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I have dry eye so eye makeup is irritating and saved for very special occasions. I was surprised at the “perfect” skin those make-up-less celebrities had.
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No kidding 😊
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I get a kick out of your hashtags.
My favorite this post: #pee-eau
Signed,
A non-tweeter
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I’m not really a tweeter either but I love hashtags!
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That is quite the random title, Kate:) The time capsule made me extra smile. My daughters were making fun of me (in a loving way, of course:) when they commented on a pair of shoes displayed at our museum a few years ago. Lo and behold, the next item in the display was a Cabbage Patch Doll. Not much was said after that:) It sounds like Morgan is on probation for awhile😊
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Morgan is signed up for mouse training!
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You saying about an old magazine……….. this isn’t exactly the same but last time we looked at a TV magazine, we were surprised that there appeared to be nothing new! One of the many reasons we gave up having a TV (in 2007!) was because nothing interested us. Guess we’re boring people, though some people still find us a novelty!
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In a TV world, you are a novelty!
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ha! I suppose we are. 🙂
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Those old magazines are a treasure trove of outdated ideas. I like to see the ads if for no other reason than to congratulate myself on making it this far in life, often because I didn’t buy into what the ad was trying to sell me.
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Especially good for the cigarette ads!
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Did you get extra love from the cats when you smelled like French fries? Or is that just a dog thing?
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Just a dog thing, at least here. Now if I came home from the seafood restaurant, all bets may be off.
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I await your report after Red Lobster.
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Oh darn! We’ll have to go out to eat again!
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P.S. It’s hard work enough just being cute all the time! I should know, I’m adorable.
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Obviously cuteness is overtaking mousing these days. This is the same cat who caught 8 mice indoors last year.
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Wow! quite impressive.
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Maybe Morgan is holding out for a raise?
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I have to check her contract. Maybe it expired?
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