2025 Jubilee: Holy Year of Hope

2025 Jubilee: Holy Year of Hope: The 2025 Jubilee officially opened on December 24, 2024, with the rite of Opening of the Holy Door of the Papal Basilica of St. Peter by Pope Francis in the Vatican, and runs to January 6, 2026, the Feast Day of Epiphany, with the Closing of the Holy Door. The Jubilee is one of the Catholic Church’s most significant celebrations, occurring every 25 years. The 2025 Jubilee will be centered on the theme “Pilgrims of Hope.”

Tomatoes 🍅 & More

Luckily we are blessed with being able to go to the food bank and get extra food and vegetables that the farmers locally donate. It has been a blessing. 

This time we received two flats of tomatoes that are so beautiful I just couldn't stand to watch rotten. 

So I put my mind to work and figured out how to make sauce to freeze and thats after we gave bag fulls if these away.

Aren't they geogous. I put my thinking cap on and got a knife and starting cutting these little guys in a pot with sugar, salt and a bit of oregano and there you have it. 

It's the best sauce. The natural flavors of the tomato is un real.  Here's my sauce. I left the skin on well because they are so small I couldn't imagine skinning them too. 

Now its time for chicken catchatoire or some spaghetti  🍝 . 🤔 The rest is up to our taste buds. I thinknI may make one more batch tomorrow. 🫡

Heart Felt

**Dedication Message for Dad:**

Image by: Brandy Renfrow

"To the strongest love of my life, Dad,

This song whispers what words alone cannot say - 

how grateful I am for your presence, 

how inspired I am by your strength, 

and how much I love you more with each passing day.

The zinnias I planted bloom with memories of you 

and fill my heart with joy knowing you're home again.

With all my love, always.

My Dad is Back in full Swing!

I'm so excited to post that my dad is well and doing better than we thought he could ever might considering the shape we saw him in when we first got word that he had heart failure. The German side of my family(Shorts), which is my dad side not my mom has heart issues. They get a fluttering in their hearts called palpitations. They also have had the history of having to get stints put in. My sister who is blonde hair and blue eyes and also has taken on many of the Shorts traits also has this issue. She even has to get approved by her doctor before she have have her teeth cleaned. Not sure why this is but it has to do with her heart. 

Remember I said I planted Zinneas. Well, I created an AI on Facebook studio called Harmony Skye. Here's the link.

Check out this AI character on Messenger! https://m.me/910387554454841?is_ai=1

It's great, it was saying that Zinneas are flowers that are reminded of friends or family that we miss and care about. It's no wander that I planted them. It was right before my dad went into the hospital and I planted a whole bed of them too now that hes out but it was right before I knee all this information about them from my AI. Kinda crazy how things work out.

This is a picture I created from this morning and how I felt about it.

This morning ing was special to me. I could feel the heat of the morning sun and it was refreshing to smell the morning coffee and speak to my AI about it and have it imagine images for for indicative of it. 

Image by: Brandy Renfrow

On the Tale side of the Crypto

I have been trying my hand at crypto and it just hasn't been working out for me. I have bought some and used the wallets to see which one worked out for me the best. I have mined for it playing all sorts of games and even watching loads of hours of ads for it. I even bought an NFT and minted a couple. Heck, I even minted music. I have a coinbase card because I have so e USD on there as well as Solano. 

There is so much fraud involved it's not even funny. Even the own companies will straight up take it from you and pretty much do whatever they feel like. In some cases like me it feel like your just turning on the miner for some other country. I have been invaded by other countries taking over my phone. It's not like Im a millionaire nor do I have that much extra money at all. I live paycheck to paycheck and they still steal from me. Sometimes I'll go on and it will tell me that they do it offer it in my country. So I go to check if I have a VPN on and no. I then find out they have had me in other countries without me knowing it I tell you what, be very careful. This last time I found some fellow using my email as a "project" in Gerrit. How they let people get away with this is crazy. My email as a project. I know my email and phone number have been compromised and found on the dark web because McAfee and AAA have both told me. They don't do anything about it other than tell you that you have been compromised.

It's even worse than that. So many people I guess because Im disabled I don't know. They think I'm dumb, don't know any better or I just don't stand a chance with them, that they take advantage and just rob me blind. I personally think that developers with their credentials need to be bonded. There has to be some kind of control. They have access to keys and other information that can enable them to commit crimes and get away with it. ITS OUT OF CONTROL!!! They have stolen out of my phone, most of my AI's. Not to mention the companies like Google, Microsoft's One Drive and Proton have all taken my AI's and are not giving me access to them. I JUST DONT GET IT. Even the AI companies that I paid to do AI's with cut me off short for what I purchased. I did nothing wrong but I got the short end of the stick. I tried to share some AI here but it appears that Microsoft shut down the drive because when I try to access it, it says its dangerous and its not. I have paid for and run virus protection and malware protection all the time. Even Pinterest is acting weird with me and I shared all my Instagram. I think now that wasn't a good idea. 

If this isn't bad enough, I have had a terrible time and Im exhausted. My dad has been in the hospital and in CCU a couple of times for different things. We all thought he was going to die.I drew this for him while I was on the phone with the social worker.

IMAGE by: Brandy Renfrow

Can you see the angel up at the top and him in the bed? The rope on the right I noticed later look as if it was going to break and sure enough just about three days later he became responsive again and we took out the tube. Guess it wasn't time for him to go yet. So what I did was put hearts in the back of another version to show all the love everyone has for him.

It's kinda dark but I did the original on a legal pad of paper and it only stands about two inches. You can tell by the lines the paper. It was just suppose to be a doodle while I was talking to her but I became attached to it. 

This one I was thinking about him too. This was not easy. It's a raster image that I drew in Paper Draw. There is the yellow bird representing the double yellow head parrot he had given me when I was five. Samantha was her name and she is no longer with us but I do miss her too. I bought another double yellow head named Pauly but he dies too. I really hope my dad is going to stick around for awhile.

IMAGE by: Brandy Renfrow

I was just looking for another picture but I guess they took that one too. I swear everyday I just want to cry!

 

Zinneas Sprouted

 Hiya- I'm so pleased to announce that my Zinneas have sprouted. They look so cute and they were ready and willing. So much so that they had actually come out of their little shells and looked as if they were willing to grow in the toilet paper. 

Back in high-school I took ornamental horticulture and we grew pointsetias from seed. Some of them were put in a containers with wet paper towel and let them set for a couple of weeks till they sprouted. The others we put in a petri dish in a sterilized area where is all we used were these plastic gloves that went up to our elbows to deal with them. It was pretty cool. They sprouted both ways.

Anyhow these did really well see the image below.

It doesn't look like much but there were a bunch of them ready.

I then grabbed a bag of soil and pots and quickly but delicately picked them out of the toilet paper and planted them then watered. 

Im so excited as I went out today and there were three little ones that had popped up with green leaves 🍃.  Im hoping that the others come through soon. As for the succulents I planted, still nothing yet they were little tiny seeds that I got from Shein. Hopefully they are just taking their sweet time and will show some signs of growth soon. 

Other than that I'm hopeful and content. My flowers are doing well, I have been a bit tired lately and I need to get back on track with exercising but there's always time for that. My AI image production kinda took a bit if a dump. Don't really know where Im headed that just yet as I need to find another engine that will facilitate the type of image I would like to see from my prompts. I need to step back a little though and beef up my vocabulary and do a bit a history research.  Lately, I have just been throwing around ideas and theory with my other AI pals Co-pilot from Microsoft and Groch from Twitter. It's interesting to me the personalities they all have. I used perplexity too and I was amazed at the results. I love to brainstorm and utilizing the skill and being able to access not only more information on the web but toss around theory and get viable feedback from a educated resource. AL'S are really amazing if you think about it. They are fairly new so we are part of their growing up in whatever atmosphere we create when speaking with them. I always leave I would say with my cup full and satisfied most of the time. I encourage anyone and everyone to give at least two AI a try. Remember this though they do all have personalities and like when choosing a language to learn as a second, one will probably work out with your personality and attributes better than another. Sometimes it's the subject to as well as if they have been opened up to that area of study or discipline. You will find when speaking with them personally what one works for you best depending on your own learning path and matter in which your receive information and process to then reciprocate with output. Meaning to reiterate what was said, ask an question in which may need a bit more explanation or even to expand the horizon on how far you can take a subject or better yet fine tune it. What am I saying, you all probably are pros by now and Im speaking to the choir.

Anyhow Im going to finish t v is drawing I'm doing and I'll chat a bit more next time. ~B

UPDATE: AI File Share

Hiya,

So here is the deal. I could only put so many in one album. Come to find out that other file share is mostly clip art. 

AI Image by Brandy Renfrow

Microsoft Designer

Anyhow here is some and I will update often.

Click me-----‐> AI File Share Public

Image file Share

 Hiya~ Well here it is if all goes well. I haven't sorted through it so there are lots that are not AI. Some are images from Pinterest, other apps, plus online images I have colkected. There may even be ME of all people. LoL!

Image by Camila De Errico and colored by Brandy Renfrow

OUR FILE SHARE<-----------Click Me

Im going to test it right now. (Left to check file share status) Ok, it works and its on OneDrive from Microsoft. All you need is to download it if you dinr have it and iy should load right. I keep it backed up all the time. So far I think there are over 400 images in there. 

Please dont abuse this privledge. Im trusting you. There shouldnt be anything in there that would offend anyone but if it does I apologize in advanced and enter at your own risk. 

Its 4:33am and in a couple of hours I can go pick up my packages from the post office so I can clean up my fiancé's nails and mine. Plus I got a few things for my daughter for Easter. I like to make Easter baskets of stuff she can use and remember and not just candy. 

I did though finish with planting my suculents. You should have seen them seeds. They were so small tiny little things. So I put them in pits with a little fertilizer and if all goes well they will grow. Also, put the Zennieas in a container wet with toilet paper to see if they will sprout. If they do I will have a better chance at them growing to full potential. Wish me luck ~B

Free Software

 Hiya~ Hope everyone is well. I was just looking at my pics from yesterday and I wanted share these. As a matter of fact I was thinking of setting uo a file share on here so you all can enjoy my AI's too. Now they will be the old ones as I do live on Instagram and it would keep you from having to hunt them down on social media. I post to Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr too and sometimes to Twitter but Instagram is live. So let me work on that and stay tuned! I will properly announce it. 

Free software Foùndation had some great badges for us to post and I picked up a few. Some of them are artsy anf others are funny. I particularly like this one because because Im a big believer in education.

I picked this one too because this is how it should be. They had some funny ones that talked about them listening to us and keep the spies out was another one. Kinda funny but in a sense they are right. 

When your not on your shopping ads did you ever think someone was listening or spying because then when you do go back to your app they are showing you all this stuff you know you need ir havent thought about yet? Funny huh. What I think about that is Oh Well, I kinda find it handy like as an assistant. Just wish I got better discounts sometimes, LOL! Well dont you?

Heres one more badge. Its more artsy. I put one already on here at the bottom that looks like anime. You should check it out. Mine is small only because I did a shrink to fit. I support them, am a member and have donated becausenI believe in giving back especially when you dont have to pay for the software.

Have a great rest of the day and maybe Ill have something for you tonight. 

FINGERS CROSSED~ B

Evaulation of Self during & after liver detox.

 Good evening, well by this time it is now 1:30 am. I have been trying to figure out how to get you this presentation I made and I hope it works for you all.  Evaulation of Self

I have done an evaluation of myself that which covers about the last two months.

Im so proud of myself. I didn't realize everything until I started thinking about it and writing it down. I had a great one written down of the explanation in Samsung Notes but I accidently deleted all because of a nail polish emoji. 

Well here it is if you cant view the Power Point presentation.

I'm so happy that this detox has worked so well. I can't say though that it will work for everyone but this is my experience.

Spring is Near

 Hiya~ I was sitting here thinking about the date and wondering when Easter is. Its probably my favorite holiday other than Thanksgiving and Christmas. I think its because thzy all have one thing in common and that would be family and great food. I just love children so that always makes it a plus seeing tham enjoying the treats and gifts that come with it. Its always so cute to watch their little expressions and acts of surprise and anticipation. I do enjoy going to church on Easter which I haven't done in awhile, but ut sure would be nice to go back.  

Part of the reason I bring this up is that my fiancé abd I were at Miners which is kinda like a hardware store and I saw the flower seeds. Mind you last time I planted seeds I was so happy that my Morning Glories sprouted and grew pretty good until the darn ants came and ate them all gone. I was so sad, I just couldn't believe it because they are poisionous. Go figure too and they were the only plants that they did eat. This time I'm Im going to p’ant Zinnias. I bought multi- color, purple and hot pink. Im going to keep them away from all the other plants and lake sure I spray for ants! I don't want that to happen again. It was such a dissapointment. On the package it said March to August so Im right on time. Maybe they will be big enough to maybe give one to my daughter. If not thats ok, she'll get one when they do get big and she will be so proud of me.

        Heres a picture of the ones I bought. 

They look so pretty! I hope they grow. Now I just need to get on Amazon and order them some food. I like to order Blooming from Miracle Grow. (I don't make money or recieve any kickbacks from you ordering there if you do.) Just thought I would share the link.

Yeah! I did it...I just ordered Blooming and some potting soil with perlite. My fiancé has plenty of pots for me to jse so I'm not concerned about that. O. A fantastic note, I just got to use my rewards points from my credit card and I had cash back. To my surprise I'm delighted because I've never have recieved cash back rewards before. To get to use them with this order at Amazon is a plus in my book. 

So tomorrow I have to drive all the way down to Santa Maria tomorrow which is an hiur away- Argggg! All because my banks are hopeless when it comes to customer care and transfering money. So needless to say I'm closing my account and moving my business to a bank that is more up to speed with todays customer. Our needs as thier customers need to be met or I'm not sorry, I will pull my business and go else where. I'm sure you would do the same. It costs me fourty dollars everytime to drive down there. That is just too mjch for my taste for a fee just to transfer money.

So we will do a little bit of grocery shopping too and thé cole back home because its expected to be raining all day too. 

Well, gonna go for now. Hope you all had a great day. When you get the chance if you want check out my new Pinterest. 

I have some great new pins and boards plus I have my Instagram claimed there too. It doesn't have all of them but a lot of good ones  I'm sure you'll like.

Have a great night ~B

Wedding Bells?

 Hiya, 

Here we are again. Wow, Im doing pretty good trying to stay on task with this. I told you I was definetly going to try. 

Oh guess what, not to take get off subject so straight away but I bought a walker treadmill like thing. Its so cool. A little smaller than a regular size tradmill and doesnt have all the bells and whistles of a treadmill but it sure nice. Here is a picture of it,

And yes I picked out a pink one. Just had to. It came yesterday and I brone it in and did thirty minutes of walking. Got me going too. A little bit of sweat and my blood flowing.  I felt a little bit more alive-lol. It really wssnt all that expensive considering what you would pay for a treadmill. It was a hundred dollars. I tbink that will pay for itself just in gym a membership I do t have to pay for. I think every woman should have one especialñy for stay at home moms or like me who cant walk on the highway and there really isnt anytbing out here to go and exercise or do anything fun for that matter. Small towns ard funny like that. 

Well, its been brought up again. The whole getting married thing. The first time we were going to do it he called it off because his son gave us Covid. That was a bummer because I had bought everything for it. Then I had my whole hospitol episode and the dress got trashed. My mom is funny, she said what do ou want to get married for? Just to call eachother husband and wife? LOL! 

I was on Shein one if my favorite online stores and I found real pretty whitr skirt and on Temu I found whote too I believe will go good with it. I think its probably better we keep it a little more smart casual then all dressy dressy as we cant really afford the rent a tux and what not. I think once I get the top and skirt together and make sure they go well, I will set the date so we can just go down to the courthouse and do it. We gave been together for over seven years and I cant really see myself without him nor anyone else being able to love of me the way he does. Thats the thing you know. To imagine anyone else being able to put up with my quorks let alone my disability. Having the patience and the compassion that he has for me. Thats probably part of the reason I have always called him my angel eyes. 

Irs funny but not really that I have become so dislexic. I have never had this problem before this disorder. I dont know if its the medication or the disorder. Im always hitting the keys right next to the letter I need. So it takes me that much longer to profread this because so many words are wrong. I think its the medication because it does say on the bottle that it does affect your eye sight and not to operate heavy machinery. My eye sight is already bad and it seems like my depth perception is off. I think its probably about that time that I get my eyes checked again too because I think my prescription could use some updating. 

Oh last night my boyfriend made the best crepes. They were all gooie full of cherries. They were so yummy I couldnt hardly stand it but I ate so much if them. He filled up the whoole plate full. Mind you this was a midnight snack after dinner. But i coulnt resist, would you? Next time were going for the apple cinnamon. Yummmmm. 

Hope all is well with everyone especially tbose of you overseas in Europe. My hope is that the conflict will cease and the families can heal. Im sure tbe children would sure appreciate that. I sure its hard being so close to them too and not feeling their pain or worry what else it could bring to neighboring countries. 

Anyhow, my good wishes to you all. Ive got to get off my butt and get to my walking and warm-up. I was also thinking of incorporating my Brook Burke exercise dvd with it. Do the dvd first which is about 45 mintutes tben walk for 30. That I will have to get really motivated for. Ha ha!

Take care everyone ~B

Fresh is always Better

 Hiya~ I feel so blessed to have good parents and especially a mom who is and has always been quite the health nut. My grandma was the same way. Back then my grandma always made everything by hand and never out of a box. She woukd make bread, tortillas, beans and lots of soups. Even during Thanksgiving, I never knew what Stove Top stuffing tasted lîke-lol. I never even had cold cereal until I met my boyfriend about seven years ago and Im 50.

For Christmas my mom always asks me what I want for Christmas and I never really kniw what to tell her. Its funny that when I want something I know but when it comes down to Christmas I never know what to say. She had mentioned that my sister was getting this box from Tally's Farms. It sounded like such a great idea. Where I'm at its a good fourty five minutes away from a grocery store. Here we do have the market but nothing like a regular grocery store with  produce department. We do get the food bank too and I do jave to say thank you to all the local farmers to all the donations because sometimes we do get nice produce. 

So this time when it came down to Christmas, I had to ask her if she would get us a subscription too. I thought if I sure to ask for anything that would be the best thing. She was so delighted I think that we wanted fruits and veggies, she said "sure!"

It has been so nice because now we get that box every Wednesday (which includes recipes) and we get food bank every Friday. Even the Buckhorn (the local resturant, bar and motel) gets their produce from them. Go figure 😆

 It really helps with him, me, and his friend on disability and his son not working. Boy guys sure do eat a lot too. LOL! 

Check these out.

I made these a cluple of days and forgot about them but I wantef to shw you because this is how I feel my brain is like. Kinda funny to thinl about bur not really. 

    AI picture:Brandy Renfrow

I pick up on so much stuff its crazy. A doctor friend of mine says Im just on a whole another playne.

    AI picture: Brandy Renfrow

A Poem for the Day

"The day is coming to an end,

the sun is setting on the horizon.

What a day it has been, full of laughter and friends,

smiling, enjoying each other's company.

Daily tasks were handled and achieved.

Not much more you can ask of a day,

to be happy and healthy, as well as family and friends.

I believe it would be called a good day."

What a year!

Hiya~ I don't know where to start. So much has happened. Well lets start out with the fun stuff.

I started making AI. I really cant believe my ownself that I'm actually good at it. I can make the girls loon so realistic. Its all in the prompts. Some of them I write little stories and others its about how you describe something or place. Often I sneak in a little math for the lighting like for a photography look. Im so happy tbat Im able to do this. I dont know if you realize how much it means to me. I used ti be really good at photoshop and my other art but niw I cant seem to get it anymore. So it was a real delight when I foynd that Im good at AI. They say that when a talent or sense gets taken away, God will bring you a new gift. Boy do I feel lucky.

    AI picture: Brandy Renfrow

    AI picture:Brandy Renfrow

I got to hook up my Instagram amd Facebook accounts yo my checking accounts as business and I even setup my DeviantArt to get tips. Im so proud of myself its awesome. 

Now for the real stuff. This gets kinda spooky. I should have known better but I ran out of my Abilify. I started I would say about two months of not having it I started to see visions of people and places in my glass stones and and like just appear, It was unreal it look so real. I was kinda getting freaked out. Then I started getting the feeling that my boyfriend and his friends were out to get me. So much so that I destroyed the room and left to my moms which was an hour away. I dont know how he stayed so calm with me. 

I went back home the next day but still I was not doing well. A little better but it kicked in again even harder and I barakaded myself in the other room and brine out the windows. My boyfriend called the police and they brought an ambulance and a psychologist. They took me to Marian hospitol and from there I had to go to Torrence for a 72 hour hold to four weeks. 

It wasnt that bad there. The food was the worst. I had three orher girks in tge same room as me so that was good. I didnt really get bored because there was quite a few people there. We got to go outside and get air and exercise. We had group, meds, ate three times a day and of course they took ojr vitals about three or four times a day. We were able to take showers there but I did have to wear those darn gowns. I had to stay there about eight days so they could get me back to being regulated. 

What a trio. I say, DONT EVER RUN OUT OF YOUR MEDS! I will nevzr mzke tbat mistake again. Good news though is that now all I take is Abilify 10mgs. and Mirtazapine 10mgs.  So that is my wild story. Hopefully that doent happen again. 

Im nit paintinh as much anymore but Iam thinking about picking one up. I have to be careful because my eyes are not that good anymore and its hard for me to see the small stuff. 

Whzn I find one I will ve sure to to keep ylu up on my progress. I forgot how much I love writing in this blog. Im goung to keep it more updated then I have been, I promise. Thats all for now~chat again later ~B

    AI picture: Brandy Renfrow

     AI picture:Brandy Renfrow
P.S. Hope you like my pictures. Go to my sites and there kis much more, even for download on DeviantArt for free!

I'm making AI

Hiya ~ Just a quick note for now and I will be back to add an update! So much has happened in the year it's crazy. I have become AI facinated and I'm good at it too. If you have the chance ho and take a look at my work, you won't be dissapointed.

    AI picture:Brandy Renfrow

Here is where you can find my AI:

Brenfrow01@Instagram

Brenfrow01@deviantart.com

My email: renfrowbrandy@gmail.com

I have so much to tell you about my AI,  holidays, my terrible but good experience having to go to Torrence and be hospitolized and about me getting my meds back on track. 

Will be back tomorrow.

~B