2 MONTHS AND COUNTING...


AGAIN.....WHERE HAVE I BEEN...................PART 2




I've been hugging my heating pad and we are now somewhat connected...?



The pain that was in my left side progressed to the right side and the muscles there are now feeling like hot knives stabbing me all over...

From my shoulders to my hips, I'm in constant pain! There is NO place or position where I am comfortable! Standing, sitting, working are hell after 5 minutes and forget sleeping longer than 3 hours!



I've tried all of the pain killers that I can handle and nothing eases it for very long!



PoD has magic fingers and has the natural capability to massage these sore muscles and has managed to break down quite a few of the older ones but this new area is too tender to touch so I have to wait out the pain until she can get to it. Hopefully there will be some relief...?



Sadly I have had to go back on the illegal stuff and it works better than the other crap the doc wants me to take!

I truly believe that going off of it 2 years ago was not a good thing for me. The illegal stuff makes one more relaxed and all of my back aches years ago [same ones as now] had disappeared long enough for me to forget why I was on the anti-inflammatory drugs in the first place! It took forever for me to get that drug into my system enough for it to do its job on those pains, so now it looks like I'm stuck in that hell again one way or another.


I haven't been able to sit at the computer long enough to try and keep up with my work load let alone whine on my blog so I have really appreciated the few that do try to encourage me to write. And I THANK YOU!


My Moods haven't been too good!


Did have the ultra sound done on the 14 but haven't heard anything as yet.


Was surprised to have the colonoscopy done on the 19 and they were able to tell me right then that NOTHING was happening in the large intestine and the pollops that were there 10 years ago are now gone! Finally some happy news! Dodged that bullet!



WORK:
Happily my business has picked up but it has added to keeping my stress factor in over drive! I've been busy designing and the sitting at the computer is a nightmare but has to be done. PoD has been a great help and even having BillyRoo home [still not working] to do the other stuff I can't do has helped keep the mood swings with these pains at an even level.



DECORATING:
Reporting on the wedding on the 15th will have to wait as it will be a LONG tale of what SHOULDN'T happen at a wedding. It's one that made me quit wanting to be a wedding planner as a side line!






This is as long as I can stand sitting here and I hope this doesn't sound too spacey. It's 3:00 am right now, in tons of pain and I need to sleep BADLY!


Here's hoping I can and that it's longer than 3 hours!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUTTONS

You would have been 57 today if you had only lived to see it...


Instead of tears of laughter, there is sadness...


I try to celebrate the short good memories but the sadness still gets in the way!


The rock I painted to lay on your grave was forgotten in the rush to do your son's wedding [to be posted about when I've recovered] so it will wait til next time I'm there.


Wishing you were here to celebrate your day....


All my LOVE.................Bones


;(

A TRIP DOWN A DIFFERENT KIND OF MEMORY LANE...


Finally went for the doctor's appointment that every woman hates to go to, on Friday...


And I now have to go through a really CRAPPY procedure AGAIN...



COLONOSCOPY - A direct visualization of the large intestine



Bowel cancer runs in the family and my IBS makes me a prime target!



It's a toss up between the actual procedure or the "cleansing" leading up to the procedure, on which is worse!



For 2 days you get to live next to the toilet then take a 45 minute drive on crappy roads to the hospital for your test.



The other part is the nausea after the test due to an adverse reaction ]happens ever time] to the anesthetic.



No wonder I waited so long to see this doc!



He finally saw that there might be more than a strained/inflamed muscle and noticed that the kidney was tender to the touch....



Means more blood work to be done and an ultra sound done on the kidney...





Wedding decor update...


Future couple finally made it to finalize the decor and take the larger stuff back to Coronation with them...




Which just happened to be in another thunder/lightning episode this afternoon!




Loading up their truck was exciting and we got soaked! The river ran deep as usual past my place so we had to stand in it. Their big dog was terrified of the thunder and kept wanting to hide in the house.


It was hard to believe that it was 38 yesterday with not a cloud in the sky...



And wouldn't you know it...as soon as they drove away it got nice again...?




Hope they made home safely....not to mention the CARDBOARD decor?



I have to get back to painting the goblets they dropped on me while they were at it....

HALLUCINATING...?


Ibprophen isn't working....the pain is getting worse!


The other pain reliever is Tylenol...suggestion by doctor




But.....I'm allergic to it


...it makes me hallucinate?




"Am I sure?" ask doctors






You tell me......




I was looking at this stone trying to see something in it. I wanted to paint another one for my sister's grave as the other one has been deteriorating since my last visit. My intention was to paint a horse [Buttons] and a skeleton [Bones]...


Nothing was there so I turned it over and this vision came screaming me....


So I painted what I saw...


That freaked me out so I added this....


And then this happened...


Total painting time 30 minutes...


Believe it or not...I don't remember painting much of it...

When I was done I was completely worn out....totally drained!




Was this an example of psychic writing/painting?




Or is this me on Tylenol!


Can we say WTF



PoD figures I should put this on her grave as my mind was going in that direction when I did it!



?

WHERE HAVE I BEEN.....YOU ASK?


In heating pad hell with weather temps around 35...!!!!





Why the heating pad?



Four weeks ago I started feeling this pain on one of my ribs, right under the left boob and it has slowly become worse and worse.

Knowing that I had done nothing damaging to it, figured that the bra's under wired had somehow bruised a rib while having too many naps/sleeps on the couch.

I did away with the under wire!



The pain has progressed from that spot and has traveled around to my backbone?



The pain got sooooo bad Tuesday morning that I had to drag BillyRoo out of bed at 4 to take me to the hospital...I thought I was having an angina attack because the pain was in my left shoulder and bicept like before!



Happily the heart is still beating and that wasn't it...!




Seems I might have an inflamed cartlige around that rib and it could have progressed into the backbone?


No cures...


Take 2 Ibprophen per day to try to relax the area and use a heating pad.



Through the years I get these flare-ups that happen to different parts of my body and it was suggested by a doctor in 1972 [after getting whip lash from a car accident] that I have arthris in my shoulders and back? As I get older the joints complain more and more...



So all I can do is hope for the best and get through the pain as best as I can...




Wait a minute...

Ibprophen is an anti-inflamatory drug!


I was taken off this type of medication due to the reactions from the other medication I'm taking for the heart problems I have?



Pain killers and prescribed medications?



Isn't there something about that in the news lately....?









All those years that I eased the pain through natural means.......?








Too bad the best pain relief for me is.......





AGAINST THE LAW!





I'm not a doctor so what do I know.....




I have to have faith that they know what they are doing....







Time to wrap myself in the heating pad, take A pill and listen to the drone of the air-conditioner while I sit at my chair trying to do some work....





The wedding is in 23 days....but who's counting

TORNADO WARNING...

Yesterdays weather matched my mood and even felt a bit satisfying while scary at the same time!

The morning started out fairly muggy as we have had nothing but rain since the last weekend, which I had been griping about how dry it had been. Then by afternoon was changed to a tornado watch!

PoD had finished up her work here and went home.

The first lightning show started around 4:00 or so and became quite a sight to behold...

We had the green sky and terrific wind to add to its drama. BillyRoo and I watched all of its excitement while thunder shook the house....

It was SCARY and exciting all wrapped together!

PoD had emptied my rain gauge earlier, so it was very surprising to see it FULL [40mm] around a hour later! That's how fast and hard the rain came down!

We watched the clouds swirl and were both amazed to see how fast and low they were traveling! We had bets on the huge tree across the street not surviving this storm, as half of it was dead and should have been cut down.

As it turned out we had nothing to worry about... its still standing!

The other exciting part was watching the torrents of water coming down the street!

The photo below shows BillyRoo's car and the roadway which by then was completely covered! The dark stripe is the dirt and gravel being washed from the neighbor's driveway across the street from where ever it was coming from.

We live near the bottom of the hill [PoD lives near the top] and get a lot of the water run-off going by the place. Happily our place kind of sits on a hill so there was no worry of flooding from the run-off but others at the end of the street weren't so lucky...
The poor guy at the corner [white garage] was busy trying to use his truck tires to divert the river away from his house but found it futile as it was coming down the hill to his place too fast to be directed elsewhere. You can see by the photo that the streets are full! You can't see the curb at his place! It didn't help him much that people kept driving by and making large wakes of water as they motored through it.

BillyRoo just had to go join the thrill seeker too and I was able to get a shot of the driveway with the gravel run-off.


I had to use two cameras as one [BillyRoos] kept focusing on the rain drops making the shots dark and blurry looking. My camera caught all of the "Orbs" dancing in the rain...;)

The storm decided to let up for a bit so PoD & Trebor called and we decided to check out the rest of the town to see how things faired...
Everywhere we had pot holes the water had added to the damage!

The top of the hill was clean with surprisingly hardly any tree damage. But as you drove downward you could see the pavement heaved all over the place! Big chunks of concrete pavement had washed up all over and was laying in the middle of the roads!

We have pipeline workers living in trailer courts around town and they had LOTS of water and muck to contend with. We saw many a resident busy digging trenches worried that the rain wasn't going to stop. We saw lots of low-lying spots full of water and who knows how their gardens faired? We never planted one so we were smiling!

We even drove out to the reservior to see how the run-off faired there and was amazed at the massive amount of water in the fields surrounding it! I know the rain did some major damage to crops!

This was NOT the kind of rain the farmers were asking for! I think some of them had been praying for rain too hard!

Finishing our tour, PoD dropped BillyRoo & me back home only to be met by a cop vehicle parked across the street from my next door neighbors? He was there for a good 10 minutes before another cop car parked behind PoD's car!

What the hell?

The one across the street got out and went to my neighbor place but was stopped by the barking of the mean dog [remember previous story about that dog] and he stopped dead. Mean while the other cop got out of his vehicle and they both stood at the gate keeping their distance from the dog as they yelled for the guy to come out! Which he finally did. The cop patted him down and put him into his vehicle and drove away...

What that was all about....who knows?

They did drop him off 3 hours later?

So that was our exciting evening...


Getting up this morning [4:30] to the sound of wind rattling the window and thought...here we go again...but NOT

It's just windy right now...which I'd rather have than HOT & MUGGY!

My rain gauge registered another 20 mm since the last emptying so the total is now 60mm in less than a 24 hour period!

I did take another shot of the pavement near my place...

48 Years GONE......but NOT FORGOTTEN!

The date stamped on the photo said Apr 1961 [she was 38]...


Who knew that three months later, the smile on my face would be altered forever....


Life as I knew it was never the same....


This was also the day that I found out that I was also different from the rest of my family in that I foresaw her death in a dream...


This was my start into another strange part of my life...


I still can't celebrate "Mother's Day"....it only brings on tears...


I can celebrate that there is a fact that I did have a mother for 10 short years and partly I do...


Yet the sadness stays....



My younger sister [Buttons] and I did honor my step mother....after awhile [when the pain of the loss ebbed]


Until her death 5 years ago when her will stated that everything goes to HER daughter and her only thoughts were of her....


Buttons and I were alone again....



Now she's gone too....





NOT A GOOD DAY.......



SORRY

HAPPY 10th ANNIVERSARY

PoD & Trebor

It's hard to believe that it's been 10 years that they have been married!

Where has time gone?

HERE'S HOPING THERE IS MANY, MANY, MANY MORE YEARS!

Keep up the loving....

A HUNTING WE WILL GO...?

Well, it's been a few days [10] since I last posted...it's taken me that long to recover from grad decorating!


No.....not really


Just been busy catching up with the other parts of my life...like trying to make money in this crappy economy! The work I have right now is keeping me busy but once that's done and nothing else comes in...I will be pooched! Being self employed guarantees that there will be NO EI for me!


Sadly, BillyRoo's job has been at a stand still and the A-holes have been keeping him hanging on with promises of future work. His position and years put in made him want to stick with his company but now he has realized that he has to move on. Selfishly, I've enjoyed the time he has off as he was seldom around when he was working. For his sake I hope things change soon!


What amazed me is that the world has always said that we are depleting our fossil fuel resources and in my mind that should make oil and such, a rare commodity, making it more expensive to buy. Yet here we sit...with oil at an all time low?


Me thinks the MAN is making money by holding the lowly workers a bay without having to pay them...letting unemployment go sky rocketing!


Not much one can do but hold you head above water and hope it changes.....that sucks!


Anyways....


What I have been doing between jobs, is more stuff for the wedding coming up in August. Most of what I have done is on hold until the future couple come here to okay whats been done so far. That has been the hardest part of working for someone who lives a province away [only 2 hrs away] yet been too busy to come see. I have been sending pictures by email but pics seldom do the stuff justice. Hopefully they don't wait too long....I hate rush jobs.


I did have a weekend to look forward to...July 4th!


The Saskatchewan Ghost Hunters Society from Saskatoon arrived here on Saturday around 4:30 to investigate another old building in town, the town Library. Their group this time was made up of their leader Miles and two investigators [from last time here], Yancy and Chad. They also had their new member with them, Dave, who came along to learn the ropes of "ghost hunting".

They had been asked by the mayor and town administrator to investigate this building due to reports of moving chairs by the librarian's operating the place.

The photo below is taken from our town's history book.

Not much is listed there concerning this building, other than the fact it was called a "federal building" and that it was a bank first then the depression hit and all bank joined together. This one became the town post office in 1934. The post office moved in 1961 and it's now the Wheatland Library.


Nothing is mentioned about the residence above the building.

It houses 3 small bedrooms, with the master bedroom having an old access door to what used to be the old fire escape stairs, this was screwed shut as the stairs had long since been replaced by an iron fire escape accessed by a window. The bath/clothes dryer was separate from the toilet by a separate room, which I found strange as the sink was located with the bath? These were located at the back of the building. The front was a living room/kitchen with a fireplace [that had been closed off due to change in the heating system. The windows held a beautiful view of the country side, which was hard to see through all of the grime on them.


I surmise that bankers and their families lived there first, then it became open to other residents after becoming a post office then a library.


Sadly this building is in need of repair from top to bottom.


One of the interesting spots to me was the attic space with the access to it was by a step ladder! This very bad for me as I am not too crazy about heights, let alone standing on the top end of the ladder to see but I just had to get a shot of what was up there!

Anybody see the movie "the Grudge"?


Well there is one scene where the victim does the same thing that I had to do and that was poke my head up [while thinking of that scene] through the hole and hope that when I turned around nothing scary was facing me! Of course that only happens in movies...;) [phew]

I did take a shot....

Upon looking at the results I thought I saw a large ball shaped object [orb?] in the pic [right side], so I quickly took two more shots of the same area....nothing

What was amazing was the lack of stuff in the attic. Aside from an exercise bike and a few old gas lantern holders, an old bug zapper, it was quite empty and not too dusty. The most scary part was the old insulation that was exposed all over in between the floor beams.

So where were all of the "dust motes"?



I say the creepiest area to me was the basement!


I'm not too crazy about basements in the first place and this one held some creepy little rooms. One room was named the "paintball room" as it was obviously used for that! The weird thing about this room was the huge black cross painted on the wall beside the door. Someone had screwed a shelf to the upper half and it was only upon closer inspection showed the painted cross part? The walls surrounding were decorated with the "Blair Witch" symbols? It was a strange room and upheld the creepy end of the scale!

We took lots of photos of the basement and again no large amount of "dust motes" showed? I did find that it wasn't dusty enough to bother my allergies which being an old place it should have?

After the initial tour it was time to set-up the equipment. This being a much smaller space areas than the court house, coverage should be much better. One of the drawbacks was the street lighting around the place and traffic lights not to mention the outside noise.

They set up a camera in the library because of reports of the moving chairs. In the old vault they placed old vintage money with a game camera to catch any activity? That never happened or if it did it wasn't noticeable to the naked eye...maybe the camera might show something?

They set the main command post up in the foyer which really isn't very large but worked out okay. The previous tenant had recently moved out but hadn't cleaned it up and there was this evil crap oozing from the garbage bag! Living just down the street I went home to get a mop/pail/hot water/cleaner to clean the foyer enough so we could venture around without having to walk through it. That messy clean-up was handled by PoD who added her own gagging noises while she did it. It was funny at the time...but not really?

That grossness done we started the hunting.

As I've said before, this group does only the technical end of paranormal hunting, relying only on machines/equipment to tell it's tale! No psychic feelings! For myself, I felt nothing in the place except for this one moment?

The guys did their routine first and PoD and I manned [wommaned] the command center while they researched the basement. When they were done it was our turn and PoD wanted to do the attic which I wasn't too crazy about as that meant actually going INTO the attic! Going up was much easier than coming down!

One thing I do have to add, is the fact that they still had the heat on! It was registering at 90? So it was hot in there! Upon PoDs and my arrival, we had opened windows to let the heat out but only ended in making the heat come on more. Plus we CANNOT have open window during the research due to it causing unwanted contamination to the info.

So imagine the heat in the attic!

I mentioned earlier that there was loose insulation all over up there and I wasn't going to sit in it! PoD wasn't as fussy as me so she sat on the floor while I perched on the exercise bike. We tried to move around as little as possible in order NOT to stir up too much dust as I wanted to take still shots while up there. I found it creepy at first but later became bored as I got NO feelings what so ever. Then after me asking a question...which I can't remember, I suddenly became COLD! I haven't had menopausal [hot flashes, I never got cold ones] feelings in a couple of years, yet this never felt like it!

One moment I was boiling then I went completely COLD!

I told PoD and got her to quickly feel BOTH my arms which were cold to the touch and she could feel goosebumps all over them....then it was gone and I was back to feeling hot again? It never happened again? And NO I didn't have goosebumps when I felt any creepiness about the place! That was the only time that it happened and if I HAD been creeped out enough about it I should have been creeped out constantly after that episode but I WASN'T!

I KNOW IT WASN'T A MENAPAUSE MOMENT!

When a person has had those enough one can tell when it is one or not!

Was I scared at that moment?

NO

Other than that moment all was quiet for me again.

It's this feeling that I was waiting for...it's the response that I go by!


The rest of the evening was uneventful.

There was a few moments where some of the guys heard soft sounds of something, but might be explained away by outside interference. This is where the machines come in handy...hopefully it registers on them?

No chairs moved while we were there!

Around midnight we decided to pack it in!

Before leaving PoD and I both tried to take night shots of the building but the camera wouldn't comply with our wishes and most shots came out blurry? The one shot I did get shows PoD's car window reflecting the flowers on the stairs? Can anyone explain why they appear there when the angle is all wrong?

*DEBUNKED....this is a slap the side of your head moment! Thanks to PoD's memory the flowers in the car window is no mystery...stupid me didn't remember about the flower planter just below the library window on the other side of the car, just happens to hold the same kind of flowers...color my face red!



The guys went home and now have to wade through hours of footage to see if they were successful or not.




Ghost hunting isn't always gratify...it's kind of like watching paint dry. But one does hope for something to appear before ones eyes...yet if it does, one hopes the camera was on because NOBODY believes you otherwise! It's getting the tangible proof that is hard!

So...do I find the boring hours gratify while waiting to see or be touched?

YES!

The unknown is addicting and my curiosity knows no boundary!

I WILL KEEP HUNTING!


My conclusion on whether it's a haunted building is...

YES


But NOT a strong one!


I do believe there is something there, as I used to live next door to the place and many a night I would look out my kitchen window and wave to the imaginary person that I hoped would appear at the library window to wave back at me!

It never did...





THAT I COULD SEE............

IT'S BEEN 40 YEARS!


Since I graduated from high school!


I remember my graduation day celebration just like it was yesterday...



No..........not really


But I do have a few moments:

-50.00 [guess-tament] bride's maid dress [worn the year before paid for by parents], that I made, designed a wrap from left over material and [I] bought long gloves. I made the flowers for my hair. Parents paid for the hair-do. All the accessories were from the wedding. So maybe 100.00 was spent to cover both occasions. When PoD graduated dresses were going from 300.00 to LOTS more!

- I was from a large school so there was no classroom pictures and I really didn't know too many of the kids that were in my grade. I started with a new school in grade 10 so it was hard fitting in. The diploma event was held in the school's gym....my parents never showed up. They never did take a picture of my BIG DAY and they only one who did was my escort's parents....they made a big fuss
Man was I ever skinny back then....yet I always felt like I was too fat?


The gala event was at a fancy hotel, it was a super and dance. My escort paid for the ticket or otherwise I wouldn't have been able to go. My close friends had planned to drive out to this beach and have our own private party, so we skipped the dance. I had permission to stay out all night so it was supposed to be the most exciting night of my life!


That was the night I had decided that I was going to learn how to drive!



No, I didn't get drunk and drive around crazy like...



I sat watching all of my friends get TOTALLY S___FACED and PASS OUT!


There I sat tending the fire all alone, nursing beer after beer, yet never got drunk...

Trying to stay warm....

Mosquitoes eating me alive every time I had to take a "bush" break...

Monsters and wild animals in the dark threatening me when I did...

All I could think of is how I could get back home without hitch hiking...that was too scary even way back then!


As for the gifts, partying with relatives and friends...nothing.


This was my first BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT and our family's only graduate that actually finished school and GRADUATED when they were supposed to!


;(


I made sure that both my kids got what I didn't when they graduated...with in reason of course...;)


Full filling the wishes on this day is very important to me and I like seeing the glow of happiness from the grads faces when they enter their special world...



IT IS WORTH ALL OF MY WHINING!




P.S.

Here's what my dress would look like today...
Wish the face was as wrinkle/sag free as well...


;)

WHAT HAVE I BEEN UP TO....?

June 12...

The Oilmen"s Association finally got their act together and dumped a huge sign order that had to be completed by the eighteenth, for their annual golf tournament.

I love the order! Just hate the haste in which they had to be done!
Will be making sure that I give it to them at the last minute...



Grad decor set up is 12 days away!

-4 wrought iron trelises need to be painted black [which makes me sick every time I try]
-4 pillars still need to be put together/painted/ribbon
-5 lamps need to be assembled with lights/ivy/ribbon
-5 pole lamps need lights/ivy/ribbon
-2 candelabras need to be polished

All to be done by just me....?

Why just by me...?

All of the decor is being kept by me and I will be renting them out for other functions. It's a new sideline that I hope to be able to continue with, that will involve designing/building decor for special events.

PoD's slaved over the massive work load helping to keep the business end going while I struggled to accomplish my "Super QoH" endeavors. She managed to squeeze in the wrought iron painting which involved them having to be done outside, yet be protected from our crazy weather. Happily her dad loaned the use of his car port and he lived right across the street from her so she could go home during drying times.

THANK YOU POD for painting those trelises!



June 18....8:30 am we are to meet with the Saskatchewan Ghost Hunters Society that did a paranormal research of our courthouse awhile back and watch their reveal on what transpired during their last session.

Our first mission that morning was to drop off the sign order at the golf course.

We got to visit a bit with the girls that work at the town office in the courthouse while we waited for SGHS to arrive. They were all excited to see what was going to be revealed and jokes were made about moving the town office to another building if it was haunted...;)

The reveal turned out to have special FX added?

By the time the two from SGHS showed up, the weather had started to turn quite ugly!

As we watched/listened to the reveal, the silent moments were filled with crashes of thunder and lightning!

One huge crash caused the phones to go dead on my side of town! Seems lightning hit one of their stations!

SGHS showed us more evidence of things that go "bump in the night" in the courthouse!

You must visit their site [link on side bar] and see what's happening there. Hope they have it on soon. It's hard with all of the footage that they have to go through, have a job, family, etc.

Revealed...

-Chad [investigator] is at the vault door [basement] and as he stood there, he felt something touch him and he said so on the film. The film shows a dark shape [the width of an arm] come out from the vault and connect with him!


-A ball sitting on the basement floor between the two vault doors. Suddenly you see this small shape appear next to it and the shape of it makes it look like something wants to kick it?


-A strange light the goes of and on in the old ladies jail cell [basement] and is caught on two different camera so they corroberate each other.


-In the courtroom a strange light [orb] is recorded coming from the window area, cross over to a big armchair, curve around, head back towards the camera and do a 90 degree turn and heads under the tables across from the window from where it came!


-The infra red light that was positioned in the back lawyer office, to light the area for the camera stationed down the hallway from it to take pictures of anything crossing the doorway, kept going off and on! It was plugged into the electricity, so nothing could drain any batteries! All of the wiring in the courthouse has been checked, so it's not faulty wiring!

-EVP's [electronic voice phenominon]:
-"Get out you f__king kids"...this was during one of our noisy sessions
-"Thank You"
-"I'll try"

During all of this reveal one of the new workers voices some concern on whether she should be worried or not and we assured her that all we have found so far has been nothing but good and NO evil!

All were pleased with the results and will go great towards our Centennial Celebration in 2011!


SGHS are also going to be coming back to our town [July 4th] to record anything that might be in the other historical building here, the old bank building which is now houses library. They will be able to record the whole building as the upper floor tenants will be moved out by then. There has been a few stories on chairs being moved from where they were placed and feelings of being watched...so hopefully we find something of substance.


After that enjoyable time it was back to grad.....

June 25....12:45 pm

The boys arrive with 2 trucks to pick up their Grad Decor and the day begins....

Set-up was "speed-set-up" in the heat!

Someone had the heat on?

Happy someone came to turn it off!


Grade 12 Graduates and their parents...

It was like.......HERDING CATS!

What more can I say!

As usual it got done! 4 hours later!

I was happy to see that they did have some talented people there besides me and PoD so they did manage to do the head table area themselves...I just provided the materials.

The final results....

The "Grand Entrance"....
The "Tables"...


The final project looked like...

I got tons of compliments and LOTS of offers in the future for other grads & weddings...


FUTURE....?

June 26......up at 3:30 am...can't sleep need to get more designing work done...


9:00 am til 2:00 pm

We prepared and installed this...
Did more designing work......


Fell asleep 3:30.....

5:30 pm...slept in planned to be ther at 5:00, quickly rush to hall to plug in all of the lights and make sure all was well....people already filing in!

9:30 pm I get to the hall early for grad take-down, expecting to have sometime for more photos, seeing as the crew wasn't going to be there until 10:30. Only to be met by people leaving!

There is always this big deal about a dance after the grand march only it never happens! The grads just want to go have their party and get smashed!

I hate speed take downs!

Between the torrents of rain/mosquitoes, 3 men and me, we got all of my decor back into my place.

Happy Grad 2009 is DONE!....:)

WEEKEND GARAGE SALES

It was scorching hot out this weekend!

There were two sales in two days...a wild weekend for me...;)

Saturday found me driving around the small town north east of us [20 min drive] looking for their sales. Amazingly there were 8 places to go. Alas there really wasn't anything for the wedding/grad decor that I could use. I did find 2 cute dragons for the goth wedding.

For my Xmas collections, I found a large Santa [same size as my big fancy santa which was over 200.00] for only 2.00 still in its original box! Other than that my only other buy of interest was 2 metal Egyptian vases for PoD. I did find lots of little things to add to my other necessities and there was even some goodies that I brought home for BillyRoo.

In all I spent around 25.00.

I had spent my morning trying to paint the wrought iron from this old ugly green gazebo [bought in a garage sale], black. Well this paint is making me sick! It is an oil base so it stinks, that's why I have it outside. Between the early morning heat, the rapid eye movement [using roller & brush] and the smell...ended with me throwing up! No warning, nothing! Happily it was just dry heaves...but bad enough to make me quit!

A little rest, some food and I was back to normal...?;)


So Sunday morning found me trying to paint again!

This time I was a little smarter. I had tried to paint the wrought iron while it was standing when I should have laid it down. It worked much better and I was able to paint one more corner before the sun decided to do it`s thing to me! Again I had to go in and lay down.

Sunday`s garage sale was in another town south east of us another 20 min. This one had just as many sales but nothing of interest to me. Lots of baked goodies so BillyRoo as got his sugar fix and something for AJ but boy stuff for JD wasn`t to be found! I got something for Trebor so he should be happy...

In all I may have spent 35.00 (40.00 in gas) this weekend and did enjoy the driving around. I even enjoyed talking with all of those who participated in these sales, which aside from work I never get out to see that many people.

The downside...I think I got too much sun!

No sunburn...I was prepared for that!

I feel like I have a touch sun stroke as my first waking thought this morning was to go throw up!

I`m writing this in my well moments but do feel the need to go lay down again!







I just have one more thing to do before I do.....

Hopefully you are feeling more like your OLD self SOON!

HAVE A GREAT DAY WILMA!

WHERE'S THE FIRE?


DODGE'S NEW FIRE & RESCUE TRUCK!

Isn't this a pretty cool looking fire truck!
To all you big city people it may mean nothing and you probably see them everyday but this is a big thing for a small town to be able to afford to do. Thank you to contributors!

This is what one of the old ones look like...

It's taken awhile but they finally got the new one and we get to do the lettering on it & a new logo!

You should have seen the gawkers drive slowly by to see what was going on at my place, while I was busy taking pics & measurements...;) hard to tell we don't get much excitement!



Hope we never have the need to use it!

AH...GRAD!

Well it's nearing that time again.... THE GRAD DECORATING FIASCO!

This year has been no different than all of the others!

You'd think that there being only 14 graduating, with 5 of them being girls, that things would have gone smoother?

NOPE!

From the beginning those 5 girls could not come up with ideas that they ALL could decide on, besides the most impossible [even for me] ones! I blame the girls because the guys were smart and bowed out early.

Grad's inspiration this year: "Every Mile A Memory" and usually the decor follows the theme except this one. They wanted a ballroom, pillars, a hanging chandelier with candelabras on every table. The tables were also to have cloth tablecloths instead of the usual paper or plastic. Knowing their budget it will be plastic...;)

I've been through this tirade before so I'll not bore you with the details...the woman in charge finally TOOK charge and all the decisions are now hers!

FINALLY!

The girls are going to get what they get...

Not to worry I KNOW THEY WILL LIKE IT!

I'M GOOD AT WHAT I DO...




Enough ego boosting...


Time to go make that impossible dream come true...


Stay tuned for pics just as soon as I figure out why I can't again?

I DID MY BEST!

It's Saturday...8:45 am

All that build-up for our town wide garage sales turned out to be mildly disappointing for me!

The "land of loose" managed to scrape up 33 places to go to...ours was a dismal 16! I kept telling myself that it was better than the 3 last weekend...;)

But we are larger than them! Our businesses weren't advertised as participating, but they sure got to profit from the increased customer traffic! The odd thing was, they normally do? I thought it bad that they had more sales inside that day than normal!

They didn't get any of my money!

The morning turned out to be ARCTIC COLD! I would even include a wind chill factor! There were times that I wished I'd brought mini mitts with me! I felt sorry for the sellers who had to brave the cold [it stayed cold too] until 4:00!

Our only "treat/baking sellers", that I saw, was this child around the age of 6 or 7. He sat there shivering, trying to sell his cookies and iced tea. Not one to pass up any sugar on these ventures [excitement/over exercising makes mine go low] I bought 10...2 FOR ME and two each for PoD's family [who happened to be there at the same time]. It was too cold for the iced tea! There wasn't any baking like cakes/squares any such either? My son, BillyRoo, likes these as his treats...so nothing for him. The cookies weren't that great.

PoD's day [we crossed paths fairly often] went from smiles to..."do you want to take my husband with you...he's like you", kind of day! She said that the next time she goes, it's by herself! The kids are like him/me too...:)

BUT, I KNOW WHAT SHE MEANS!

I had fun doing it alone, but it would have been nice to go with someone who understood the nature of the "garage sale beast" and had it in them also...like my sis "Buttons" did. I did find two small "Halloweenie Beanie" collectibles; a black "Fraidy" [me], me & an orange "Scard-e" [her] cats that sat on the dash as I did my journey...I know...I'm crazy...


I did find some real steals and deals!
The majority sales this time were ones that WANTED to get rid of their stuff AT ANY PRICE!

[I've been trying to add pics and can't...?]

I was able to pick-up a cut-off saw, belt sander and small hand router for 19.00...these went to Trebor. I paid 2.00 for a rolling cart that guys use while working under vehicles & 50 cents for a small dolly for the business. I tried to find sewing stuff and materials for AJ [12, she's taking up sewing and wants to design clothes] because she got a sewing machine for her birthday. Found some doll/toy patterns for her to practice on. There wasn't much for boys so JD missed out again. PoD got some exercise stuff [joke] for her "gym" collection...;)

As for stuff for grad & wedding.....10 cents for a large plastic blood-red vase.

One real find [for me] were the 12 glasses [prairiegold box for 2.00] to add to my "blood red" glass set! These will house my LED tealights for the head table decor in the "goth" wedding.

Added to my Santa, Snowman, Masks & Halloween collectibles...5.00

I even bought a cute [used once] 40.00 purse for 2.00!

All this and a few odds & ends for under 40.00!


The wierd thing on the day was PoD's and my timing on our meet-ups?

I was sitting in my [son's] vehicle getting ready to pull out to start the day... to go get the map. She pulls up beside me and we both head for the map start point. We then went our seperate ways.

She drove away I stayed for the three booths that were right there. I had already cased the others out and felt this was the better deal. Turned out I was right!

We met up again at the cookie place in time for them to get cookies.

We didn't meet again until my last stop which also turned out to be theirs!

11:30 am...done?

The start point was selling coffee, hamburgers, hot dogs & pop so we had lunch in the cold!

Boy was I happy to get home and after putting the stuff away [sort of] I tried to find some heat!

Spent the rest of the day trying!

My plans had me needing to paint the metal on my archway, black, [it's an ugly green right now] today! That was out of the question....to frigging cold for it to dry outside and I've no room in to paint it, plus it's oil based & smelly! I could have strung vines on lights for my poles...too cold in garage...too hard to work with coat on! No room inside!

Took the rest of the day off and huddled under a blanket in front of the electric heater!

I did enjoy the garage sales and seeing the people...


Maybe next year's will be better...?

A GSALE-ING I WILL GO!

It's our Town-Wide Garage Sale today!

This time I'm going by myself!

Not that I didn't like going with GSBuddy...she's got company today and it's family related.

PoD doesn't like my demands on driving/parking/hurrying.....


BESIDES... I JUST LIKE MY OWN COMPANY SOMETIMES!


Will be leaving shortly [7:00am] to drive around and scope out my plan of action....


STAY TUNED FOR THE TREASURES....

INTO THE UNKNOWN ONCE AGAIN!

It's finally Saturday [pretend] and it's time to do what I love to do for fun!

?

My quote:

Some get off on riding roller coasters...
That scares the crap out of me!

I get off on the thrill of the unknown...
All that goes bump in the night!


Early Saturday morning saw me doing more building on grad/wedding decor.
The problem of the moment was the archway...something that would suit both functions. Both need one for entrance and one for photo op. Happily I came up with solution to both!


Next thing I knew it was Garage sailing time! 3 places! Not bad for a small town! Got lots more NEEDED stuff [spent 4.00 on my project & 16.00 on PoD's family].....:)


Moving around helped with the aches & pains [be happy you didn't have to put up with all my crabbing like I had to] and made me tired enough to take a nap...needed to be ready for the long night/morning ahead!

Nap turned out to be sporadic because the PHONE kept ringing!





Next thoughts were of excitement.....is it time yet?

Got all of my supplies/equipment [camera]/snacks, ready for the night's adventure by the time PoD arrived to pick me up at 3:00. We spent the next hour pumping up ourselves for the evenings events by watching the videos taken by the kids last weekend. They both did really good with their filming...better than I would have done!


Our group for this weekend is the Saskatchewan Ghost Hunters Society out of Saskatoon [http:/www.saskghost-hunterssociety.ca]. They were here April 17 and are coming back to accumulate more data and clear up some questionable sounds from the last time.


Not being able to wait any longer we decided to wait at the courthouse and maybe get the "feel" of it before they arrived.

I didn't feel apprehension like I normally do when entering this time.

I did feel like it was waiting and the being "watched" feeling was still present.

PoD & I did some clearing of space in the "Council Chambers" where the command post was to be set up and removed most of the huge chairs to the front foyer. Before we knew it, they had arrived!

It was great seeing the familiar faces of: Miles, founder/lead investigator, Jen, pr/research/investigator, Chad, investigator/research, Yancy, investigator/researcher.

PoD and I got our first look at the process that involves setting up to record our court house "Phantoms"....

First, the unloading of equipment...more stairs...;[

Next, was discussion on where to set up which involved MORE stairs...

Leaving that with PoD [she's our techie], I thought I'd conduct a little experiment on my own, with this rubber ball that they had brought with them.



The foyer in front of the main staircase seemed to be a great place to place it, hopefully out of the way of any traffic. I made sure that there wasn't any dirt around the ball that might impede it's ability to move freely, placed it with the logo facing upward. Satisfied that the ball wasn't going to roll on it's own [the floor slopes gentle downward towards the entrance] I cautiously stepped back far enough to take a shot to record the position of the ball/logo with the background. That's when I realized that the camera setting was on "movie" and was filming it. What I had wanted was to take still shots...

While I was mucking with the camera trying to change the settings...


two feet in front of me...


The ball gently rolled towards the entrance way for a foot & half, curved and continued rolling for about 6 inches, then stopped!


I SAW THIS WITH MY OWN EYES!!!!

You can't imagine how excited I was at that moment!

Short of jumping up and down I managed to remember to take more shots in case it moved again!


I've tried to recreate in drawing form to show what happened from the 2 photos I was able to take...


I have the short movie clip that shows the ball being still and not tottering, plus the 2 after. Note the background for placement and positioning of it. There is no way I could have reposition the ball and got the same placement/level...etc. if I was to do the moving myself!


I WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED....where was the movie camera when it happened? Oh yeah...I could have got it on movie myself if I'd only left the settings alone.....


Of course I had to tell someone...


No one around to tell....

All are busy...


I finally got a hold of PoD, then Miles, who immediately had to see whether it was de-bunkable or not....? Far as I'm concerned the shots prove it and my eyes agree...


After that wee bit of excitement [for me] we got down to equipment placement.

Here's some of the places:

The third shot in the photo above was the best out of three take of this set-up. Every shot was dark yet all others in the other places were brighter? The flash on the camera wouldn't work either while in there yet worked for other rooms?

I pushed the button just like the other times...


Jen set up a motion detector against this courtroom door just inside of the creepy hallway that Judge Orr said sounded like someone/thing was walking up & down it, when he was locked in overnight that one time.

Good thing from the looks of this photo that I wasn't too close to it or I would have set it off...;)


My quality of shots are usually better than the ones taken that night and after awhile I stopped taking them so there won't be many. I had to change cameras often, one would stopped working only to have to switch back when that one it would quit...?



Jan, PoD and I took some of the "toys" the group had brought and placed them in various locations throughout the courtroom for the phantoms to play with and be recorded on different devices. It takes LOTS of energy building to do this and hopefully their Electromagnetic field meters will record any spikes in their areas? See their site on the tech terms...;)

Pictured is:
-the ball...hopefully something will try to move it again!
-a bell that can be moved or maybe rang...there's even dust to write in..;)
-corn starch with a "loonie"/two other small objects [can't remember] in it and will mark movement or maybe spirit writing?
-a LED candle for them to turn on.

The guys put a stuffed rabbit on a chair in front of the camera in the vault in the basement and the ball sat just outside of it on the floor.

Visually we never got to see anything move and no one mentioned hearing anything either from these objects...that doesn't mean to say that nothing was recorded.

While we were doing this we stopped by the "witness room" to take shots of the "Hanbidge" display of his lawyer's office. I found a pipe/tobacco pouch lying beside a metal ashtray stand. the ash bowl was missing and was found to be lying under an easel. It looked like someone/thing had hit the pouch or pipe, knocking it to the floor at the base of the stand and the bowl part rolled under the easel 3 feet away. This could have happened at any time so we set it back up to see if it had been a ghostly act then or maybe it might happen again?

It didn't...


It seems these guys have read my blog [welcome] and now bug Miles about my "Rack Russell Terrier" traits and did note my apprehensions about being back after my last weekend's experience. They gave me a laminated card that read about an invocation of Arch Angel Michael. This is to the read/spoken before entering into our type of ventures. I'm not religious [this is not meant to be] but I figured I'd cover all bases anyways just to NOT repeat that experience again!

Invoking the Arch Angel Michael

Michael to the right of me,
Michael to the left of me,
Michael above me,
Michael below me,
Michael within me,
Michael, with your flaming sword of cobalt blue,
Please protect me.

I put it next to my heart...

I can happily say I wasn't bothered at all that night/morn by any weird thoughts/feelings. Granted I didn't ask for them to either!

Did it help?



PoD and I received this real nice surprise...
We are both now official "Associate Members"!

How cool is that!

THANKS GUYS/GALS!


We are truly honored!



PoD was in her glory as she wasn't the only smoker and we got to have lots of breaks during the night/morning...;) This is the ONLY time that I'm happy she does...just kidding It gives us much needed excuse to get out for awhile, plus FRESH air!

While they were busy doing their thing I went around taking shots of our wonderful place while it was still light out...

This one is kind of cool with the half moon in it...
We were also waiting for Mike [?], the guy from CTV News out of Saskatoon, to come!
The station was doing a news bit on the group and on it's recording of the courthouse!

He did eventually get there [9:00ish] and we still had some daylight left for him to film the outside.

All decided to go on the tour except for me...NO more excessive stairs if I could help it! Besides, I liked watching the action through the camera's eye. They had six split screens to view at once...which can make you go bug-eyed after awhile.

I hate being on camera!

Guess what?

I had to do an interview on why I like doing this!Need I say More!

Did I mention that I freeze when in the spot light!

I'm sure I'm going to come off like a startled deer in vehicle headlights!


THAT over with and the news guy gone, we got down to the night's events...

We all had missions to do, which was one on the more tech end of the scale. I was happy with that fact...I didn't want to use my "sensors" after last time. This is the nice fact about the difference ways that these groups use to do their research... me, I'm a watcher/listener and like to observe.

I'm recording also...them! We are compiling a history of the building's phenomenon and on who are doing it. This will go the the museum also when done.



Of the few pic we got, PoD got some of the better shots...

Here's Chad, multi tasking and Yancy going bug eyed watching all of the cameras...


The ONLY ORB taken all night between the both of us was this one by PoD...


Has anyone noticed that there is no ORBS or DUST MOTES in ANY SHOTS taken by us...

?

In all, it was a quiet night [while we were there] and no visual stuff except my episode with the ball.


PoD and I decided to call it quits at 3:30 am.


The others were going to sleep in different locations throughout the building?


Where they nuts!


Jen was going to sleep in the basement next to the vault doors...!



NOT THIS CHICK!



I had no trouble in falling asleep where I lived!



And boy did I sleep!


My intention was to get up early [I slept in and didn't get up until 9:30] and go see and TRY to help take down...not to mention curious to see how it all went?

They were already gone!


Later that day, PoD and I went back to make sure all was okay [had no reason to think otherwise] and found a thank you note from them. They had been to excited to sleep and wanted to get back quickly to see their results...this was at 5:15 am.

All was quite in the building once again and I swear it was smiling as we left...;)



P.S. Update...

Received a phone call the other night from Jen on whether I had seen the news broad cast or not. Sadly we can't, as neither of us have TV channels. It seems their story was aired in Regina & Saskatoon on the 3rd and it was the 3rd story [?]. Happily nobody mentioned my headlight stare...;) [PoD's neighbors kids came over to see their neighbourhood celebrity after seeing it]. Jen also said that they had gotten LOTS of stuff on what they had gone through so far and it was only 2 hours of it! Can hardly wait for their reveal some time soon! Keep track of their progress on their site...



Well thanks for sitting through this epic tale [I tell no short stories] and hope I have made some of you skeptics into believers....

DAY TWO...Finally


It's been hard for me to write this part of the paranormal experience...


The biggest reason, is the agony I am in, from all of the sitting on hard chairs, going up & down 3 flights of stairs numerous times and standing on cement/marble floors! My backbone is now screaming from the shoulder area to the base of my spine [I want to walk around hunched over], the right hip joint feels like its disjointed, my ass cheeks feel like they've been kicked, both ankles are now "cankles" and my arches feel like they've fallen!

I've been living on muscle relaxants and hugging/laying/sitting on a heating pad!

Sleeping, sitting at the computer, watching TV, for any length of time, is out of the question!

I am just SOOOOO over-weight & SOOOOO out of shape!


Must add the SINUS HELL to the list!

I can't go into museums unless they have thoroughly cleaned their stuff! Old smells in that place now that the museum stuff is in there, has killed my sinuses! The nasal pain is so bad, I had to see the doc for nasal spray!



The other reason was my evening experience!

I've been trying to NOT think of what happened, but in turn have been trying to figure out what, when, why and...who?


Saturday morning saw me blurry eyed from lack of sleep due to memories of Friday's excitement and in some discomfort from the activities. Managed to do some grad decor and get in a nap or two. My mood was good and happier knowing Nicky could attend that night.

We let the paranormal group do their thing during the day [they went shopping in the town next to us] and PoD, Nicky and kids interviewed the group after supper.

I'd say it was around 8:00ish when we arrive to start the hunt.

The group had just finished doing a "mock court" session as we arrived and our first mission was to break groups, one going upstairs to do a "circle" session and the other down to encourage spirits to join the ones upstairs....this is where the Alzheimer had kicked in Friday's story.


My allergies got the best of me and I stopped going down to the basement. The basement will ALWAYS be creepy but the feeling I normally got wasn't there, so I felt I wasn't missing anything by not doing the mission.

Besides it's fun to watch the stuff happening on the cameras in the control center!

Our next mission as a group together was to do a "mock trial" in hopes something would either agree or show an objection. This is kind of an impromptu stage production. Our first attempt was about someone being accused of boot legging. We wanted to try a scenario from a possible trial that might have occurred here and maybe affected a spirit that might be hanging around still? We tried to make it as real as possible which is hard when its impromptu. Cameras, monitors and sensors recorded it all as we did it. Hopefully they got some results!

That was the fun part... lots of laughs and pics. Cast was: PoD as the Judge, Jan, the Prosecutor, Nicky was the accused & defended herself, I was the witness/camera person and Brett & Diane sat in the jury, mannequin was the steno Amy & John was the audience...


This is a shot where you see the strong tree ring style orb by Nicky's hand...that's supposed to be a dust mote, whereas the orbs by the door should be classed as spirits or energy bursts...?



Then we switched up making it a murder trial and use the scenario of the "Beechy Murder Trial"and the cast was: Me as the Judge, Pod the Prosecutor, Jan the accused, Nicky the witness with the others the same...note the huge orb in all of the shots?

This where one must say that the dust mote theory is evident here in this shot. The "dust mote" people say that the perfectly round orbs with what looks like tree rings in them are supposed to be the dust motes. The "orb" people say that the "energy orbs/spirits" are the bright and sometimes colorful ones...

This is what the camera caught as I was trying to agitate what was hanging around. I banged the gavel quite a bit, so it's possible that I riled up the dust. What I want to note is the variance of the images of dust mote/orbs. The blacked out spots are of PoD & Jan.

It was when we did MY final sitting in the protective circle that it happened...


All was going as usual...I was feeling just a bit bored, my mind wandering, hard seat making my body ache...when this feeling of INTENSE SADNESS slowly came over me! I found it odd that all I wanted to do at that moment was cry! I wasn't in that much agony from sitting that would warrant the crying sensation! I had felt this feeling once before when PoD and I toured the Moose Jaw Tunnels - the Chinese ones! I felt immense sadness in the opium den and the ending made me cry. I had marked that one down to feeling sorry for what had happened to them. I am an emotional person.

With these two feeling to compare, has made me wonder if I empathetically felt someone's ghostly emotion during that session? The sadness rates right around the level of anguish that I still feel over my sister's death. So much so, that it makes me reluctant to want to attend this Saturday's adventure!


Anyways, while this feeling is washing over me, PoD, sitting one person away from me, suddenly asked [in the dark mind you] "Mom, what's wrong"? She obviously couldn't see that I was in distress! We weren't holding hands so she couldn't feel my grip tighten?

I answered back..."nothing"...even though I WAS feeling odd.

The feeling got stronger and each time that it did, she asked what was wrong!

This went on for a few minutes and the feeling got so intense, that I felt I was going to embarass myself by bursting out crying, so I decided to get out of there as soon as possible.

I couldn't get downstairs and into the "safe" room quick enough!

Jan did a protective smudging around me after that episode and the feeling had disapated enough for me to relax.

I can't empasize enough how CREEPY that sad feeling felt!

I had always thought [TV didn't help] that one felt "posession" come over them...you know...the violent writhing of the body...?

This didn't happen that way! I just felt myself get sadder and sadder!

I think I tried another sitting after that but decided to stay and watch the monitors instead!


It was during the last sitting of the group in the courtroom that both Nicky and I, watching the monitors, saw the same shadow crawl up the wall!


The camera showed a person sitting across from John turn on their flashlight thus illuminating him.

What I saw next made me go from mild boredom to amazement!

When the light came it caused a shadow affect on the wall behind him. The shadow then elongated up the wall [like the light was moving downward] until it got to the clock [I could see it through the shadow] and then opened it's arms like it was going to surround something in a big hug?

Then it was gone!

Thats when I saw that John was sitting slouched in a big chair and couldn't have possibly made that shadow let alone have exposed arms. His chair made that impossible!


Could Nicky and I have imagine the same thing at the same time? I DON'T THINK SO!


Another thing that we all noticed was our lack of energy! All of us felt DRAINED! Our emotions were of excitement on what transpired in the two days and of possible film footage but body wise, we could barely move?


We had also gone through a LOT of batteries for 24 hrs of film/photo time?


The courthouse's temperature was also quite cool inside which is odd seeing as it generally runs warm to hot? The wind did pick up around 2:30ish and might have caused some drafting/temp drop?

According to the paranormal researchers, these points cover the manifestation requirements to make ghosts/phantoms appear! ?

I think it was around 3:30 am by the time I got home.

Getting to sleep was hard! My thoughts were very emotional and silly me should have just cried and got it out of my system so I could relax.

I still feel that way!


The next morning was better and trying to be not too early, went to see if they had survived the night. The only one up was John and I found him sitting outside listening to the early birds. I guess it's just us old people who LIKE getting up early! It was nice having a chat with him and exchange life stories. Finally the lazy heads got their butts moving!

The courthouse in the daylight is very manageable!

I feel the shadow people still hang around in the daytime [hence the being watched feeling] doing their thing and why were aren't scared is the fact that is is DAYLIGHT and WE feel safe.

The basement is a DIFFERENT STORY!

It was sad to see them go for I know it will be awhile [Sept] before we see them again.


It was hard for me to let them drive away after seeing that photo of Amy & Gwen in the mirror. The eerie feeling of dread in the start of the research and tingly feelings of danger when I saw the shot and I couldn't control the flash though of "their heads are away from their bodies!"

Previous thoughts like these have come true and I wanted to be so wrong about this one!


Happily I was and they made it home safe!...


Did I enjoy the weekend?

Yes and No!

Do I want to go ghost hunting again?



YES!


But will my body make it...?


Will be doing a Micheal Jackson.....



got to go pick up some masks.....



meanwhile stay tuned for the "SASK GHOST HUNTERS SOCIETY" hunt...



PS: A part of the day not to be forgotten...HAPPY BIRTHDAY TREBOR! Mom-in-law wishing you a happy day Friday May 29 th! Love yah!