I am letting my hair grow out in its natural, but presently unknown, color. That would be some mixture of white and grey and feeble light brown. I don’t have to remember that I am doing this. People tell me about it in my family; non-family members avert their eyes. It doesn’t matter to me; heck, I’m short enough most people look right over me. I am a front row group picture person. Always have been.

Actually, lately when someone is talking with me and, of necessity, looking down, I wonder if the straight line of dye vs. roots makes them think of a drafting table, sea-floor spreading or, perhaps, the Prime Meridian or Dan Brown’s Rose Line.

It is not that I don’t want to color my hair; it is just that I can’t seem to really feel like me. One time I walked out with a color that my husband said was me and I felt was me, but now we can’t recreate it – and there is the matter of the “color?” of my roots.

It’s summer; I sweat a lot and wash my hair a lot; I wear baseball caps a lot anyway. I’m going to find out just what I dealing with coming out of my head now and then consider my options. Is there such thing a growing-out grey highlighted color?

I could spray paint my roots. Maybe a nice purple. Then people would know it was me: There goes Crazy AmeliaJake . . . making a statement again. I would probably feel like me.

Lilio is not the only one needing to talk to Rose. She’ll be here tomorrow, thank heavens.

Gosh darn, we can’t show you pictures now because we don’t think she’d want to be seen with the restraints on her wrists and ankles and the hospital nightie replacing her grass skirt. Calm down, it’s not that bad; at least, that’s what the chief psych doc says – just little post traumatic stress.

It was so silly, actually. She saw the dandelion stems magically reappear in multitudes – tall, tall multitudes – and went out in our new warm humidity to get some sense of the land of swaying palm trees. Then she started to concentrate on the grass, since you know her grass skirt had been temporarily bent recently. She concentrated Sooooo hard she didn’t hear the mower.

IT’S OKAY. It was a close call, but it’s okay – except that she’s a little, oh, what would you say? agitated? Emily and all the others in the Cafe & Roadhouse circle have rallied around her. (To tell the truth, they’ve hung big flat screen TV over her bed and signed up for Netflix . . . but they do care. Really. You know I’m just joking, right? Of course, you do.)

Yes, I am a veteran of the Dandelion War, defeated by a juggernaut of flying dandelion seeds and the Garden Gnome Alliance and even nibbling now and then at a Dandelion medicinal supplement. Now it’s the cat. My mother took in a cat, Tiffy, and when she died, Alison and Summer and Robert welcomed her here. I tolerated her for Mother’s sake, although I have had suspicions about her.

Well, this morning, on MY computer, comes this image from Robert at Scott’s:

His grandma would be happy.

A couple of posts down, I pointed out that Gaby De La Cruz was trying to win a van for transportation since he has Chiari Malformation, a condition that allows his brain stem to drop down into the spinal canal opening . . . and, in his case, keeps him from being able to sit up. It is incredibly painful.

Today, in my email is the usual alert from Amazon.com about the Kindle Deal and when I clicked on the link, I saw this off to the side.

I don’t want to spoil the surprise, so please click HERE.

Now, I don’t have anything against a well-made fountain pen. In fact, I had one that was about a hundred dollars. I think I bought it out of nostalgia for the fountain pens of my parent’s day; I also bought it because I was interviewing relative VIP’s at the time. I would imagine them thinking, “She’s dowdy but she has some taste.”
Still I lost it.

But let’s say someone would like a pen of crafted workmanship to write with while at a desk. I have a hunch the inner workings with a stainless steel outside would be considerable less than the $60,000 one that is on sale for $48,000.

Uh, ummm, ah . . . so, yes, we haven’t posted any pictures of Cousin Liliokauna. She is fine, just a little freaked out by the hard freeze warnings we have been experiencing. Emily and I have been telling her there is no need for her to crawl inside an overturned flower pot and have someone cover it with a blanket. However, we find she sleeps more contented that way.

It is possible to bend a grass skirt. We had no idea until she burrowed so deeply in a crease in the sofa that she was sort of sat on. It was a “bad skirt” day, but we got things smoothed out. These overseas adoptions have their little quirks, don’tcha know?

We promise, promise, promise we will have some pictures in a day or two.

Okay, I don’t usually do this, but I’m making an exception here. Years ago I wrote an article on CarePages and CaringBridge pages, and while doing the research started following a few people. Gaby was one of them; he has a condition in which his brain is not fully supported and can slip down – Chiari’s Malformation. It is terribly painful and limiting – most of the time he can only be in a prone position.

His mother posted this on his page:

I have entered Gaby in a national contest where he could win one of three handicap accessible vans. This would allow his electric wheelchair to be loaded and secured into the van. Gaby could then lie the chair all the way flat and be securely buckled up. Right now, Gaby lies on the floor of our van to be transported to school and everywhere we go.

How can you help? It is as easy as 1, 2, 3

1) You can vote online, daily, until May 13th. Here is the link (copy and paste in your address box). You can vote once a day from each IP address (each router provides an IP address)

http://www.nmeda.com/mobility-awareness-month/heroes/illinois/naperville/1435/gaby-de-la-cruz

The first time you vote, enter promo code 889 and your vote will count for 5. That’s easy!

2) Share, Share, Share Use the link to post on your facebook, twitter, send emails to friends.

His CarePage address is http://www.carepages.com/carepages/FAILUREISNOTANOPTION/updates/3289698