Nanea Hoffman – SweatpantsAndCoffee.com via Desiree Angelique Hackett
Filed under Attitude, Encouragement
Nature via Cathy Ruggiero
Filed under Awe-Inspiring Photography, Mother Nature, Waterfall gifs
Alina CiuCiu – LinkedIn
I’ve just started re-reading a truly important book – The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. It’s about a Jewish girl in Nazi Germany who steals a book and begins a life of book stealing and learning, helping others survive. That’s a really simplistic description of a book reminiscent of The Diary of Anne Frank, creating characters you’ll always remember. It’s one of my favorites. If you haven’t read it, you’re missing out on a wonderful experience.
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
Jeff Jett – LinkedIn
Jeff Jett – LinkedIn
Jeff Jett – LinkedIn
*The work of several wonderful photographers are displayed here and reposted on LinkedIn in an effort to make everyone aware of how special these animals are and how important it is to do what we can to preserve them and their habitats.
psychologies
Feeling a bit overwhelmed lately with a longer and longer to-do list no matter how many things I manage to remove. It seems as if every direction I look has things saying, “Fix me next!”
I just moved heavy coats from our utility room hooks area to the front hall closet, since it had no space available and I was having to dig or move things to find what I was looking for, so I feel good that is done. But on the way to the utility room, I saw little wisps of dog/cat hair moving along with the breeze on the tiled area. And the poor fishes’ water is cloudy again, and the table by my chair in the living room is piled up….
So – I’m doing a bit here – which I truly love – and then going and doing something else on the list before I allow myself to return here. This way I’m having some fun between chores.
How do you handle too-long to-do lists?
Brian Tracy – http://www.pinterest.com
Filed under Attitude, Challenges
Jeff Jett – LinkedIn
LessonPix
I’ve been a good girl today, doing some of the things I hate most – balancing checkbooks, filing, and tax prep for 2019.
I have the equivalent of a doctorate – plus in the fine art of procrastination. For years I have paid for it and the end of the year/beginning of the next year – being buried in receipts. I HATE tax prep and my husband calmly washed his hands of it years ago. He does bring me cups of coffee every once in a while, as encouragement, but that’s as involved as he gets.
When I finally could dump all of the organized receipts for 2018 on our wonderful CPA, I promised myself I would do things differently from now on. (Truth be told, I promise myself a LOT of things, only to procrastinate until the promises become meaningless.)
This year, though, I’m happy to tell you I have just finished
Instead of cramming all the monthly receipts into monthly folders and then trying to make sense of things at the end of the year, I am going through the monthly receipts, listing things on the proper spreadsheet, then putting the receipts into a folder labeled for that deduction. No monthly folder anymore once the month is over. This way, at the end of the year I can simply total each category on the various spreadsheets, print them, list the information on the tax form booklet our CPA provides, already having the receipts ready to take!
I have officially finished 1/4 of 2019 now – can you see my grin?
Since 2 of our 8-foot brick planters in the front collapsed and have to be rebuilt, we’re very short on sprouts and blooms this spring. The exception to this, though, is a lovely display of bloom from the redbud trees that Mother Nature dotted around. We love each of them and cut away things around them that might encroach, encouraging them to be healthy and happy.
The tree in the first picture faces the south of our property where we can pretend we own all we can see. :0) This one is facing in the opposite direction.
Another one on the south.
And a close up of some of the blooms.
I go outside and walk around every day just to enjoy these!
Filed under Mother Nature, Seasons
Joe Bailey – Tiger Cub
Joe Bailey – March Hare
Filed under Joe Bailey Art, sculpture
Inna Kashkovar
Inna has a wonderful talent – she takes already ‘nice’ images and then adds life (like the rain here), bringing them to an art form. I just love her work!
Filed under .gifs I Love, The Art of .gifs
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