See my flowers?

Biggafy for a nicer view.  

I bid on these flowers at an auction for the benefit of the local animal shelter...no kill.  I thought I lost the one bid, so I bid on the second one.  I won both.  Didn't mean to.  But aren't they pretty?  That's Admiral there on the chest of drawers next to the pink flowers and the little girl holding a cat in front of the urn. 

About Micah.  I saw the tire light staying on, on the dash after I got back from over the mountains. I took him to his hospital, Car Fix, and they easily found why his tire light stayed lit on my dashboard.  It is the sensors.  So they will have to be replaced.  The cost is more than I wished for, of course.  Somewhere in the 300's.  I will call to make an appointment today sometime.  Maybe they will have time next week before the holiday.  Still trying to get a video to load right.  Not sure what's going wrong.  Meanwhile the temperature has struggled up to 30 F so after getting myself situated with dressing, combing my hair and etc, I will go out to freeze for a few miles.  You're always grateful to open that door to the house and feel the warmth envelope you. 

Not getting out the door any faster sitting here with you, though I love to do that.  So, think I had better go finish my self up to be ready for forming an ice film on my face and ears as I trot around the track.  Wanna join me?  

Video failed again.  Sigh. 

Oh my GOSH!

 We were looking forward to taking the train and heading to uptown Charlotte.  There are some new sky- scrapers and I wanted to see them.  So we drove to one of the stations and bought our three tickets. 

In order to do that we parked the car of course and walked to the elevator to ride up to the ticket buying area.  (I couldn't do the stairs unless I had to, as my knees were painful).  We got to the Smellavater 😷.  We called it that, as it reeked extremely strongly of urine.  Someone-or several  people had urinated on the floor; but since the elevater was already in motion so...we covered our noses and powered through it.  I used the stairs when we got back to the station later for the trip back home so as to go down to the parking area...you can be sure of that.

When we had ridden uptown, the street lights were starting to come on so it was late afternoon.  We had just gotten out and started to walk when within 10 minutes or so, it rained all over us.  Having no gear for rain, we chose to give up for the day, catch the train that had just gotten there and go back to where our car was.  BIG disappointment. 

Shopping- and the spending of money took place however early in the day.  My friend and I, taken by my son to all my fave places, spent money and lots of it, in the last place we shopped.  I got an area rug, a present of a jute and sisal rug for Katie and 3 kitchen rugs for me that MATCHED.  Not that nightmare I had on the kitchen floor up to now. Several hundreds later I stopped roaming in the store.  My friend bought sheets, comforter, pillows, decorative pillows too. Seems like something else.  Towels!  The consignment store I love going to didn't have anything that made me  want to fork over my wallet.  That's new!  Nor anywere else we went.  We went to an Applebees for lunch.  We only went back to his home after another hour or so and then, headed out to catch the train for uptown.  That was a bust as I said, because of rain.  There's always next time.   I'd loved to have bought these deer though.  That's my friend looking at the tag.  

If I had somewere to put these I would have bought them.  They had some Waterford Crystal too.  Not too bad in price.  An entire set of dinner ware..Lennox, for $500. 00. Now that I would have bought if I could make myself do it.  It was gorgeous. I just don't have enough people eating often enough here to warrent that expense. 

Well, this blog is longer than usual.  Micah, my Toyota, is ailing some.  His tire light on the dash won't go out even though all four tires were filled up yesterday- so he's going to his hospital by noon today.  $$$$$ I am sure.  

By the way, it rained like a hurricane was coming through. There was tornado watch for all of western NC and man, we paid for that with blinding rain, constant construction stoppages and more.  It was horrible getting the Charlotte. Worth it to see Bruce. 

XXOO