Road Id, Medical bracelet, why you need one?

 

 I have medical conditions that sometimes impact my life, which I totally embrace, and am thankful for the life the Lord has blessed me with.

 I think a little extra protection is smart. So I have a medical bracelet. If you are on medications or have allergies a medical ID is smart.

 Before I got one I used to think they all had to be bulky and red and frankly ugly. I thought that's all people would see of me and I thought they would be outrageously expensive, like hundreds of dollars!

Then I found "Laurens Hope" a great shop with beautiful interchangeable medical bracelets, at an affordable price. I had two of them over four years they kept getting caught on things and the chain would break. ( they are a great company with great products, but just not for my lifestyle) 

I was looking for something rugged and I found Road Id. They have all kinds. They are all-weather silicone which is good because I wear mine 24/7.

I'm back.

 I have not been keeping up with my postings. I hope you had a good fall. it is almost Thanksgiving can you believe it?

Traditions

Christmas is almost here. There are many ways people celebrate Christmas. What is your tradition? We have a lot of Christmas decorations in our town, so we go see the Christmas lights as a family. And open gifts and have a big dinner together.

Toothpick fun

I made a house out of toothpicks. I used a cardboard piece as the base.I used Elmer's Glue at the base to glue it together, but then I used Hot Glue at the top. Because Elmer's Glue was not strong enough to hold it up wile it dried. Then mad a bed and a couch and two people too put in there. It took me tree weeks to do everything. I left the walls off so you can see in, except for it has walls in the front of the house. And a window I made out of Plastic Wrap.

My Rock polishing Adventure

Today I am going to tell you about how I polished my rocks. I do not have any photos in the process of doing it but I think these photos are very interesting I hope you will like them. It took a whole month to do this process and we had to put four different kinds of grit in to clean them. But when they came out all finished they where smooth and shiny.

Polishing the rocks is hard on them. When the rocks came out of the rock polisher there were quite a few pieces that had broken off the rocks. One of the rocks went into the rock tumbler about the size of a penny and came out smaller than a dime.

Each time we rinsed the tumbler out to put new grit in. The water was gross with the dirt off the rocks. And each time we changed out the grit, the lid was a mess. During the process the lid came off and rocks fell out all over the ground. But all- in- all it is worth it, the rocks came out shinny and smooth after running 24-hours a day and 7-days a week for a month.

 

These are not the rocks I polished but they are some rocks that are not polished so I hope they give you an idea what they looked like before polishing.    

Giving a Bird Hope

We had a crow run into our window. It must have collided with a little bird because we had a little bird sitting on the ground not doing much. It was obvious it was hurt so we got our butterfly cage and put fatter and a little lint from the dryer in there. And brought the bird in. It stayed it there for two days then we released it. It seemed to be doing better and we figured it would be mean to keep it any longer. so we let it go. Sadly it died, the next day. But we gave it it's best chance. And it had one good day out with its friends. Where it would have died the first night if we didn't bring it in.

Snow in Spring?

It is March. It is usually raining but 40,50 60s.  Our highs have been in the high 40s  well reach 50 if we're lucky. The lows are in the 20s-30s. It is SNOWING and more in the forecast. I love snow, but it's two weeks till

Spring,
 When is it going to warm up? 

snow!

What is winter? When you think of winter you think of snow and cold  and maybe some winds. well that's usually what our winters are like too. but not this year..... in November in was cold. December and January it was like spring, lower 40s to upper 50s. we thought..."winter is over" we put all our winter gear away, we were about ready to turn on the hoses. Then this happened.......

We got snow! Winter is not over it is gust beginning. It went from 50 to 29 in two days. We are expected to have snow all week. And maybe up to a foot.

Decorations & O Holy Night!

We decorated our house for Christmas the day after thanksgiving. When do you do it? Some people like to decorate early, some wait till Christmas Eve.

It is almost Christmas! Make sure you don't forget the true meaning, in all the busyness and family (or whatever you do it Christmas). This is one of my favorite songs!

I hope you like this video. And have a good day and Christmas!

Face Paint

I like face paint do you? I got this face paint, I think it's fun. It has some gilder with it too. I am not very good at painting it on though. It has a small paint brush to apply it with.

 Some people can make elaborate face paintings.
But even if it's not perfect you can have fun! Remember whatever you choose to do have fun.

Carring for A Hurt Butterfly

Once I raised butterflies. I had five beautiful butterflies. Four flew away But one had a hurt wing and it could not fly. So I card for it in the house until it's death. Pore thing, it's wing fell off and always dragged, but it seemed happy. I would get it new food every day. It would climb on my finger and sit there sometimes I would bring a flower in the house and it would sit on it.

It had become my pet. So naturally, a was sad when it died. I had cared and feed it it's whole life since a worm. It had to have a name, so I named it. I gave it the name of Sandy, I thought it was a very fitting name for it, it was also my grandma's name. I will always remember Sandy butterfly.   

Why do I Have a Pet snail?

Why do I have a snail as a pet? Some people, when I say have a snail they even laugh or say ewhhhhhh. And it is kind of an odd (and even gross to some people) pet.

So why do I have a snail? Well, I kind of inherited it, and saved it. I'm sure you're saying what?.......

I love animals, We frequently bring insects in the house for one or two days to watch them, and then release them.

So when my dad brought home a snail he found, I  couldn't resist, we don't find many snails. Exspeshaly, when I heard it, was stuck drying out the hot sun, going to die. So we made a home for it and has had it ever since.

Helping dogs

I love animals, do You?  we were out in the car. We saw guide dogs and their owner's training together.  it was so touching to see. the dong would guide the blind man, and a designated color would drive right in front of them!  I would think will the dog stop him in time or not?  Every time they die song stop the person and jerked him back out of danger. they lacked the block 3 or 4 times. we saw several people training with their dogs.

I love to see When Animals help people. When people think of a service dog what do you think, you think of a guide dog for the blind…. right? That is not always the case though there are lots of other kinds of services Dogs. It does not even always have to be a dog.

Now or Latter?

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Be honest we all have that drawer that is a mess, and we just shove stuff into because we don't want to take the time to organize it. Every one of my drawers is like that I can tell you that. If you let them go too long you will have a huge mess and a bigger job. If you do it a little at a time and take your time each time you put it away to make it look nice there won't be a big job. But of course, none of us do that right. I know I don't.
 So today I'm going to show you the difference it can make by just putting stuff away properly. I had a huge mess in my shirt drawer. I had to take it out and organize everything. But I'll tell you what when I was done or was that drawer beautiful and organized. I could actually open and close the drawer without struggling now…. Amazing.
 And you ask well what did you get rid of?  You have to get rid of something to fit them all back in there since they wouldn't fit before. But no I didn't I just organized……. like I should have done before. And now it is all neat and tidy and all fits in nicely.

Teaching a Dog

basic commands
I taught all of the basic commands first, come is a very important command.

Come: you need your dog to come right away when your dog is called in case it gets into a dangerous situation. for this one you kind of need 2 people you can do it with 1 but 2 is easier. With two people you will want one person to sit at one end of the room or yarn and one at the other. place the dog with one person. the other person needs to have some treats that person will call the dog and hold out the treat the dawn will come running to the person. in turn you will reward the dog with a treat and lots of pets and then the other person will call the dog back and do the same. you will keep repeating this process several times daily. With one person. you will want to have a Long Leash on your dog. And a treat in your hand. You will want to play the dunk in front of you and run back as quick as you can still facing the dog. And say catching him we can get on the saying Come As You Are. when the dog comes you give them the treat and several pets reward them heavily.

 Sit: To teach this command you will want to have treats again. making it fun for your pooch. You will want to raise the treat above your dog's head an. If the dog doesn't automatically sit you will want to gently push on the rump of your dog to make him sit.
Stay: You will want to put them on a leash again. stand in front of them holding the leash having treats in your hand. You will want to step back a few steps wait for a second, then go back to the dog and reward them with the treat and as your dog gets better with staying. you will want to make it farther back and staying there longer each time.

Lie down: put a treat in front of the dog's nose, as you lower it to the ground.  as you say "lie down". If needed put a hand on the dogs back and lightly push down.

Wait: this is a politeness manner. I a treat in front of their nose and tell them to wait. if they go for it tell them no and tap them on their side.

Leave it: To teach this you may want a leash, so you can control them more. get a threat and through it ways away. If your dog starts to go for it say "leave it" then "come". This is where the leash may come in handy. 

To teach the dog to walk next to you. You will want to put the dog on a leash, and walk the dog as normal. Do not pull the leash tight, let it be loose in your hand.
    walk the dog right next to you. If the dog starts to get too far away, give the leash a little jerk and bring him back. As soon as he is beside you again relax the leash.

Tricks
Now I started teaching some tricks.

Roll over: take a treat. Tell the dog to roll over. Pat at the floor on the opposite side you started on. Guide the dog if needed.

shake: put a treat in one hand, put your other hand in front of the dog. Tell him to "shake". If your pet doesn't get it right away. lift the pets paw and place it in your hand. then give the treat.

Now I know it sounds hokey too but it works. your adatood makes a different, in how your dog listens to you. 

you must be {to quote Cesar Millan}"calm and assertive". Stand up straight and be the leader.
We've taught our dogs that good enough, now we can control them pretty well. Dogs need boundaries if you don't give them that or seem weak they will become the leader.


here are the videos I follow and used for training I hope they will help you too.

Zak George's Dog Training rEvolution

Cesar Millan

kikopup

youtube video

But most of all even through all the discipline and rules. Your dog must have some time to be reworded and play.

Please feel free to add anything in the comments below, thank you.

Posts soon

I'm sorry I have not had any posts for so long. I have been busy with school and summer fun. I will be posting soon. 

Panic

I had a whole post written and then I deleted it be mistake.  I kept hitting undo, undo, undo! But it won't work!

so you get an in-promed-do post.

like when you have a paper due the next morning, you stayed up half the night working on it. and then something spilled all over it.


Now on top of that I can't spell anything right.

Caring for Triops (How I Did It)

 

I had a kit of triops. They did not hatch I even did a review on them. But I wanted to try once more so I got a refill pack. They hatched! I do not know if I didn’t keep them warm enough last time or if the old eggs were too old. I don’t know, all I know is it worked this time. So I will tell you how I cared for my Triops.

I hate it when I have to go to 2, 3, 4 or sometimes more websites to find the information I want. I want to find all the information I

Mess

I love to paint my nails. I found a video on YouTube, that showed you how to make marble nails. I thought I would give it a try with my own nail polish, it looked pretty easy in the video.

But look how it turned out. it is quite a mess.

I tried it two times and both times it did not turn out I ended up dumping it all outside. You can not trust everything you see on YouTube, will work for you. I don’t know if i did something wrong or what not but…. The lesson is not to assume evrything you see will work for you.

Hair Calk Review

Today I am going to review a product. this is a kit I got called hair chalk. I got it off of Amazon. Amazon is a very widely known Internet store. I had a gift card for there. My grandma always gives me gift cards for birthdays and Christmases, she does not like to shop for anything.

this product is nice if you like to color your hair but do not like the permanent effect of the coloring you might find at a salon.  or the idea of chemicals being put on your head and having it stink as they put it on comma I've never had hair coloring done but I've had people tell me it just stinks awfully bad.

I do like the idea of a little streak of coloring in your hair though. I it looks quite pretty. But I do not want it to be there all the time because some my mood changes or I want a different color. So if you're like me this is a great product for you. it goes on very nicely it is a  little messy if you get it on your hands or anything like that and do not get it on your clothes because it will not wash out, even though it washes out of your hair I found that out the hard way.

So anyway let's get started with  the thoughts on this product. I rambled on enough already, haven't I?

so this kit (Hair Chalk) Is a great product in my perspective. It is great for a middle-aged girl teenager to even a young adult. It comes with 5 colors I believe. and it also comes with some beads hair and a beading tool which is plastic and I will warn you it will break easy after use for a while or if pulled on hard. You can make a new one out of a paperclip or any wire even string, anything lying around. It comes with instructions to do both of the the hair chalk and the hair beading oh and it comes with (what's those things called duh I can't remember) rubber bands (okay hello what was I saying Again I remember okay) it comes with rubber bands that you can wrap around the piece of hair under the beads to keep them on but I have pretty think hair and I actually found you don't really need the rubber bands.You can use the rubber bands if you want to not, just try them see what works best for you. This kit came with pink purple blue orange and one other color of hair chalk. I like the pink and purple the best you can pick your favorite.

And when you put it in you can put it in one day and take when you take a shower at night it washes right out. So if your mood changes you just want to do it again for fun you want a different color sing like that. you can change it that's what I like about this product it isn't permanent. I do not like anything permanent. I a person who likes to change things even in my room I'm constantly trying to think of new stuff to make and to try.

I have a video here, of me using the product. you can watch the video if you would like to see how it works.