BRRR!!! January in Minnesota, -21.5°.

Good riddance to 2009. It was a year of pain, emotional and physical. Enough said.

Welcome, 2010. Here’s hoping it ends with more fun than it started. Get up, let the dogs out, beat the kittens away from the front door because they like to chase my birds, start the fire in the wood stove (-2 out there, it’s nippy), break up a fight between Frankie and Baby (cats), hear some yowling coming from my studio, go in there to find Peaches has wormed her way into the ferret cage (door is wired shut with a 2“ opening to keep the cats out of there) and Fang (the ferret) has her helpless by grabbing the nape of her neck. Amazing how a ferret 1/6 the size can disable a cat. So I have to get the door unwired (how the heck did she get it there?!?) and pry Fang off of her. So while I’m there, I might as well clean the cage, then both the litter boxes. Then I finally get to sit down with a cup of coffee. Might as well add a dash of buttershots to it. :)

A good start for the new year, more stupid pet and bead photos. This one is of S.C. (Scaredy Cat) watching my embroidery machine move by itself. She is just fascinated with this machine. Last night I had to chase her away from it because she was trying to bat the needle as it was moving.

Some of my favorite beads:

Here’s wishing a peaceful and loving upcoming year to all.

Yup, it’s winter. It was -6° this morning. Just a little crisp. At least the sun was shining.

The latest on the lawsuit against Ullja for defamation: her lawyer filed a motion to have the deposition quashed, but the court denied it and ordered her to present herself for the deposition. I just read a copy of the discovery questionnaire, and I’m shaking my head (again) in disbelief. How can she deny so many things that can so very easily be proved. One glaring example is denying she sold beads claiming she had made them herself. That was all hashed over last year with Etsy. They were reluctant to do anything, but they were presented with too much proof to ignore it. So that’s all evidence sitting there just waiting to be presented at court. I just don’t understand her reasoning.

On January 11th, the court will hear her motion for change of venue.

Enough of the icky stuff of life, now it’s the fun part of my blog, Stupid Pet Photos!
This is my most favorite pet, Fang the ferret. She is SUCH a character! Here she is diving into a dishpan of snow.

Another togetherness photo, Frankie curled up to Chester:

And while I do hate the snow, I have to admit it makes nice photos,

Just thoughts for the day:

Watching the news about the health care bill being passed. They said the Republicans are saying that it’s unconstitutional to require everyone to have health insurance. Ah, excuse me, but doesn’t our government require us to have car insurance? I know Minnesota requires it. Is that unconstitutional? I don’t hear anyone in Congress complaining about that. And considering that I just used our car insurance to get a jump for our van, and that it’s the first time in years that I’ve put in a claim, I KNOW that we have claims for our health insurance (what little they pay for, ha ha), a lot more than that.

Another thought, driving at night with prism glasses is just as bad as driving at night without them. My left eye is going wonkers, so the eye doctor gave me a pair of prism glasses to help me see to drive, which they do. But after getting stuck down in the cities because the van wouldn’t start and then having to drive home in the dark, I discovered that those little prisms in the glass act just like prisms, they make oncoming headlights show up as flashing rainbows.

And the final thought for now, I CANNOT have my new embroidery machine and the cat litter box on the same end of the room. When the kittens hear the embroidery machine going, they like to come and watch it move by itself, and it seems like all that action stimulates their bowels. You get my drift?

Oh, the final, final thought: I HATE WINTER!!!! 12-18“ of snow today.

Well, I think it’s finally sunk into Wacko that she can’t go around calling 224 people frauds without suffering some kind of consequences. The lawsuit is in progress, with the usual jockeying between the lawyers. Her lawyer requested a change of venue, the AGLF lawyer requested a deposition, her lawyer requested the deposition be ‘quashed,’ and so on. The court denied the motion to quash and ordered her to present herself within 20 days for deposition, and the court will decide on the 11th of Jan. about the change of venue. She hasn’t posted any new names for over a week now.

The AGLF calendar is done and is being mailed out now. It’s things like this that will beat the nastiness of the Wacko. The artisan community came together and supported each other, financially and emotionally. What did all of this gain her? Some momentary pleasure of revenge against what in her mind were injustices? Compared to destroying any online reputation and chance of selling, dragging her and her mother’s names through the mud, wasting huge amounts of time researching people and filing false reports against them, and finally being sued by dozens of people and having to waste more time and money on lawyers and courts. What a colossal waste!

Enough of that!! Time for more stupid (and cute) pet photos.
This is Pickle sleeping in the recliner. I love the way she has her paws crossed.
Another togetherness photo:
And here’s the stupid pet photos. It all started out with Tiger jumping into a box that was on top of another box in the foyer. It fell over, which scared him, so he took off running, which got the little dogs all excited so they had to chase him. Then I heard a crash in the kitchen and the next thing I see is Peaches running into the living room tangled up in the plant stand. Don’t ask me how the heck she did it! After taking photos, Christian held her while I pushed her shoulder blades in and back through the wire leg of the plant stand. As my sister says, live entertainment.

OK, my sister has been nagging me to get busy and post something, she’s bored with opening up my blog and seeing the same old, same old. So here’s more silly pet photos:
This is Pickle. She is fascinated with watching the fire through the vent of the wood stove. (This stove is an heirloom. My mother’s family used it to heat their house when she was a child.)
This is Tiger, showing an excellent use of the exercise bike:
And here is Peaches, just looking silly:

One step forward, two steps back. The AGLF calendar is all finished, and Lukas’ computer died.

Yippee, the AGLF calendar is done (singing ‘Dancing in the Streets)!

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Next step, off to the printers.

The titles of these photos need to be ‘Togetherness.’

Lukas discovered Peaches likes to play with the feather duster:
I was looking for photos to put in the AGLF calendar and this bead just hit me.

You have GOT to be kidding!! There was just a piece on the news about a police drug sniffing dog that escaped from his kennel, got picked up by the dog catcher and was euthanized because he didn’t have tags and he WASN’T microchipped. Then they went on to say that neither the Minneapolis or St. Paul police departments microchip their dogs.

It cost $50-$75 to have a dog microchipped! How stupid and short-sighted can you be? Maybe if they had kept closer oversight on their Metro Gang Strike Force, they would have had money to do it, instead of it going into shady cops’ pockets.

Gads, has it been that long since I updated?

Well, I have an excuse. Been busy laying out a calendar that we’re setting up to sell for fundraising. The Wacko hired a lawyer and has asked for a change of venue and proof of our accusations. LOL, oh, that won’t be difficult at all. She is the one who said, ‘Google is forever.’ Must not have thought about all those cookie and bead sales from Etsy that she had the last couple of years, the ones that show her selling beads that she claimed she was making in Italy (ones she had bought from other lampworkers), and the screenshops of her cookie shop saying she was baking cookies in her bakery in Waco, Texas. Plus the screenshots of the fraud website being registered to her address. Still shaking my head in disbelief.

Oh, well, I’ve got better things to do than shake my head. Like making beads!
My favorite glass, Aurae:
A Galaxy bead with a touch of Aurae:
And be darned if I can remember what was in this one besides Olympic Rain:
OK, off to make some more.

Really trying to get the energy to do something. Started the day with a headache and earache again.

I worked on our genealogy a bit. We can trace back our family on my Mom’s side to my great-great-grandmother, Wilhelmina, who was born in 1825 in Germany. My great-grandfather on my Dad’s side was born in Germany in 1845. Amazing, when you think about these dates.

Got a cute pet photo. This is Squeak with Peaches using her as a nice warm pillow,
Finally got some more beads listed on Etsy and Artfire. I love this one. It’s on a golden amber translucent base, and it just glows.

I might try making some more like this one, with a lighter plunge. The photo doesn’t show it well, but it has metallic copper and brass layers. Really neat and shiny.
As to the latest on the Wacko ordeal, we’re all waiting to see what happens tomorrow. That’s the date she has to respond to the lawsuit by. She’s up to 207 people on her fraud blog. You would think after getting slapped with a lawsuit for defamation by 70+ people, she would quit posting, but not her. She’s posted close to 60 people since getting served. Just shaking my head in disbelief...

Friday, Nov. 13th, 1953
Our dad was killed in a farming accident. How different things would have been if that hadn’t happened. He was only 36.

If anyone is wondering why I haven’t been posting much about the Wacko, it’s because since the 26th of October, she posted 42 more people on her blog, and I just gave up trying to keep up with her. Coincidentally, that was the day she was served in regards to the lawsuit. It’s like she has a complete disregard for the law. She’s totally ignored cease and desist letters. I wonder what’s going to happen.

Got the news today, the Wacko was served on the 26th of October in regards to the lawsuit, so she has until the 16th of November to respond. If she doesn’t respond, we win a default judgement, whatever the judge decides.

I am so tired of coughing until I gag. I am not used to this anymore, not since Lukas got out of school. Then it was an annual winter rite, get sick, cough until you gag, get well, get sick, etc. etc. all winter long. I sure don’t miss those days! But my grandnephew was up weekend before last, and he was standing right over my shoulder, watching me, and sniffling, and sniffling, and sniffling. I should have just handed him the box of kleenix and chased him away.

The kittens found a nice warm spot to sit last night. Good thing the kiln had been turned off for a while.

Another nail in the Wacko’s coffin, whois.com’s domain tools, http://whois.domaintools.com/onlinefraudinvestigation.com, shows the owner of onlinefraudinvestigation.com, the Wacko’s fraud website that was closed yesterday by Yahoo because of her posting people’s private information. Goodness sake, it was registered under Ullja’s address. Can’t get any better proof that she’s the author than that.

ETA: The domain tools has changed it to show Yahoo! Security Lock on that domain name. But plenty of us got screenshots of it showing her as the owner.

Goodness, it’s going to be a bad day for the Wacko. It appears that Yahoo finally listened to all of the complaints and shut down her fraud website, onlinefraudinvestigation.com. One more step to justice.

Well, I see that it’s been announced on LE that the petition has been filed, so now I can say it too. There has been a lawsuit filed against Ullja Kuntze for defamation in calling almost 200 people tax evaders and frauds on her fraud blog and fraud website. It’s been a long 3 months, and it’s not finished yet, but hopefully, it will be soon.