Pictures

Check out my BEFORE and DURING pictures HERE. I had to REALLY dig to find BEFORE pictures because I rarely ever allowed my picture to be taken.

Well, today was the day! It was rainy and nasty outside but nothing was going to stop me from picking out some "HALFWAY THERE" clothes. Halfway there, of course, meaning halfway to my goal of 60 lbs. lost, total.

I went into JC Penney's and immediately felt overwhelmed. There were so many choices that I almost couldn't breathe. Before, I would simply skip the first floor altogether and head straight for the teeny tiny Plus Size section upstairs. There were two types ...

And now we come to our newest baby. Just before Halloween this year my husband called me out to the garage to see this gorgeous Seal Point Himalayan that had decided to come and visit us. She was gentle and docile and ridiculously clean for a stray long-hair. We assumed that she belonged to someone and that she had just gotten out of the house. Because it was such a bitterly cold night though we closed up the garage and let her stay in until morning. Ever since then she's been hanging out with ...

I have an incredible urge to show off my fur babies today. I love, love, love animals like you could not possibly believe. I am SUCH a sucker for an animal in need and can't even tell you the number of critters we've housed over the years, both domestic and wild. Let's just say, a baby snapping turtle showed up in my driveway half-dead and we took her in and nursed her into a beautiful sub-adult snapper which we then released in a stream where we think she originally came from (twice, in fact, ...