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Here it is! I promised it would be chill-ax-i-daxical! You can get it free for  leaving a comment on any blog post at Jodiann’s until the last day of January! See Prize List. If you missed this contest Huckleberry Heart Kit is now available for purchase.    Life Without Lemons Contest

I discovered Calm Radio.

Truth? Jack showed me, I resisted. He showed me anyway. *grin*

I often get distracted when I am designing. I hop up walk around come back, well sometimes I come back! LOL! This the house of distraction. Always a dog or cat to play with, a bright mind to get into a discussion with. Its great stuff, but its hard on my design time. It can take me all weekend to finish something this way if I sleep in and wake at the same time as my family. I mentioned to Jack I needed something running in the background, no words to stick in my head and not too familiar that I got caught up in following the music in my head. He fixed me up…

If you have ITunes ( oh no, not ITunes, that’s what I said)  you can get Calm Radio for free. There are commercials because they are free sample stations, but its just a woman’s voice talking quietly. If it bothers me its an easy click to another CR channel for a bit.  Click “Radio” in your ITunes Library>Classical

  The scroll down for Looking for Calm Radio Station Titles

I like the sleep channel actually! LOL! It just what I need after a coffee! HOOT!

If you sit down to be creative and all those other things you could be doing pop into your head…this works to banish those thoughts. I get more focused design time, finish or get to a good place to stop sooner and then go live it up with my family. Less frustration! More Family.  Just the same ITunes can bite me.

Speaking of less frustrations, we are about to ruffle the house up a bit.

I got this email yesterday from Midge at Great Dane Angel Network. We adopted our Ted, Harvey and Dove from this group over the years and fostered for them a few times. Of course when I get an email from Midge, who I love to hear from, I cringe a little. She is going to have pictures of a sad little Great Dane who needs a foster home.

This time its Gracie, 4+ year old Great Dane Girl with ribs showing and a lick sore she can’t stop messing with. 

I often pass on the danes Midge emails the group about because I know I can’t help them…they are too healthy! We are better suited to the sick ones, the skinny ones, the ones with long term care needs. We are just messed up like that, give us the ones no one else wants. They have a good life here for a little while. If they get better, they find forever homes. If they can’t be adopted because of their issues, they stay here. Gracie is going to take some time to get her weight up, her sore healed, but she is by far the healthiest “looking” Dane we will have fostered.

The wheels are in motion. Midge is picking up this cutie pie today, we get Gracie from Midge,  we swing by the vet for a quick look see by Dr Young. Then home to intro her to our crew and get her settled in.

Once she has been here a few days and knows we are not going to eat her for dinner she will get a real bath, ear cleaning and nail trim. The big job will be distracting her from her lick sore, which will never heal if she keeps picking. ( did your hear your mother, just then? I was sure… Mom! Mom? …outta my head please.  *grin*)

Heading off for more coffee, chaps! Last morning with the old-calm dane crew, tomorrow there is a new sheriff in town. They will be sniffing butts for a week! HOOT!

Jodiann