Dog Days of Summer II

I love to curl up in my porch chair... I'm so relaxed... sometimes a cool breeze comes when the sun goes down...

Happy Birthday Mom!!!

Happy Birthday mom!!!  love Dixie 

Coon Huntress

I am a treeing Walker coonhound... I was trained to hunt raccoons... at night.  I haven't hunted since moving to Maine February of 2010.  I haven't scented any either... until this summer.  There's been a raccoon across the street in the neighbor's garden... and he's come around on Wednesday nights a couple of times because it's trash collection day. 

Last night he was around - I could smell him!  I was restless and kept trying to get my folks to take me out... but all they'd let me do was go to the backyard to pee.  I humored them and peed but I wanted to go look for that coon - chase him a bit before I got him up a tree!

I howled and kept my folks awake all night!  My poor dad had to get up at 3:30 to go to work... but I needed to catch that raccoon! 

I did this to my folks a couple of weeks ago and did the same thing to my auntie in July.  Now they know the raccoon was around!  Dad suspected it was a raccoon because when he took me out at 1 a.m. this morning, I was pointing.  He told my mom, and mom saw the poor little fella on the side of the road across the street early this afternoon - he was hit by a car. 

I didn't get to run after him... I'm sad about that.  And there will be peace for my folks for a while... unless there are more...

Rhinestone Sunglasses

My mom and dad got me a new pair of sunglasses... not just any sunglasses either - rhinestone studded ones with big round lenses like my idol Elton would wear!!!

Eyeglasses for the Kid in All of Us...

This post never got published with my other fashion eyeglass advice...

Let's be frank... there's a kid in all of us, even if we are eligible for Medicare!  We all want to look youthful and modern.  Save the heavy, dark-colored, retro eyeglasses for the non-seniors making a fashion statement!  Get rid of your oversized, heavy frames!  Donate them to charity...

Think about uplifting shapes and styles... hopefully your optician can give you some advice if you are at a loss of what to choose.  Or bring a younger friend to help.  Don't avoid colors... just stay away from the fluorescent ones like hot pink and lime green.  Coordinate tones with your hair color... nice gold and copper metals, dark reds and violets... 

And, I read somewhere that shinier frames add life to the face, especially for women ... Us girls have to stick together! 

xo Dixie

Dog Days of Summer I

I love the summer... the heat... the sun... the warmth... curled up in my porch chair!

Fashionista Eye Wear...

Show your fashion sense and put a little glitz in your style with more modern shaped lenses.  Circles, squares, hexagons, and go for large, colorful, chunky frames.   Express yourself!  These are my favorite glasses!!!  They're a taste of retro with an air of Cruella de Vil!  

Choose more 'you', more out-of-the-box colors - hot pink, royal blue, lime-green and red-violet.  or you could go one step further and get multi-colored frames like mine or go for flower-power patterns or animal prints and stripes. 

xo Dixie