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Iris Scott via Sara Barnes, MyModernMet
Iris Scott via Sara Barnes, MyModernMet
Iris Scott via Sara Barnes, MyModernMet
Iris Scott via Sara Barnes, MyModernMet
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Eternally Sunny
I am back to the land of the living today, after sleeping half the day yesterday and then TEN hours last night! I have noticed that since I am a MATURE woman – aka “old broad” – it takes me a lot longer to bounce back after getting sick. (Another one of the many perks of getting older.) I actually feel some energy this morning!
I will still take it easy today, doing stuff in our home office, rather than doing yard work or heavy stuff inside.
I hope that YOU are having a good day and staying healthy.
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I’ve been under the weather for a day and a half, but am feeling mostly human now. I’m lucky that I have a husband who stepped up and took good care of me.
Needless to say, I have been a total sloth – not accomplishing anything. I’m going to continue that for the rest of today, at least, hoping to be back 100% in another day or so.
I received a nice note from a visitor to my Etsy shop for hand-painted wooden earrings Eyecatching Earrings on Etsy –
she wanted to know if I could make larger earrings. This pair is about 1″ in diameter, and she would prefer 2 to 3″. The largest ones I could find like this were just under 2″, and I have ordered those. I have asked her her color preferences. I’ll write her again when I have some painted and listed to see if she would like a pair or more. :0)
I KNOW I’m feeling better because I found some other shapes I haven’t used and ordered THEM, as well. My juices are starting to flow…
I hope you have a nice day.
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Billie-Bored Panda
“This Is Billie. She Never Understood Why I Had A Set Of Keys To Bring In The Car And She Didn’t. I Got Her A Set Of Her Own And Now She Insists On Bringing Them Anytime We Go For A Drive!”
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“My Dog Is 16, So I Figured It’s Time For Some Driving Lessons”
Filed under Amazing Animals, Favorite Pictures
What do you call a bee that can’t make up its mind? A maybe
The furniture store keeps calling me to come back. But all I wanted was one night stand
A cross-eyed teacher couldn’t control his pupils
What did the janitor say when he jumped out of the closet? SUPPLIES!
There was a kidnapping at school yesterday. Don’t worry, though – he woke up
My ex-wife still misses me. But her aim is starting to improve
What washes up on tiny beaches? Microwaves
The other day I tried to make a chemistry joke, but got no reaction.
Filed under Funny Signs - Humor, punny
Our forecast is ‘Downpours this morning and scattered thunderstorms this afternoon. Chance of rain 100%”
Jimmy Nyakora via Scene and Heard – Match Box Quotes
Other than the downpours and thunderstorms, I’m hoping for a quiet rain. I have no big projects for the day. I wanted to finish weeding my veggie garden, but it looks like that won’t be in the cards today. My husband planned to mow the lawn, but that probably won’t be happening, either. All that will be waiting for us when Mother Nature decides to cooperate.
Our DirecTV system has a nice feature where you can pause a program and it will record it for you until you want to resume watching later. This causes a ‘buffer’ to form, where you can then fast-forward through commercials. We are totally addicted to this feature.
My husband and I have a running ‘discussion’ about why the feature doesn’t always work the way he thinks it should. It will hold about 40 minutes on pause, and then it starts playing. (Hopefully, we have it muted, or else it sounds like the TV is possessed, coming on by itself and talking erupting in the living room while we are in our home office.) Either way, the buffer is filled up and the TV plays. Sometimes the buffer is retained and sometimes not. We cannot see a pattern.
It REALLY irks my husband. He is careful to set it up at night so that we have a full buffer in the morning and he is able to zip through commercials to his heart’s content. When, for some unknown reason, gremlins have done their work and the buffer is ‘gone,’ he gets frustrated and angry. Our ‘discussions’ haven’t solved the problem. He refuses to call DirecTV to try to get an answer. And so, the ‘discussions’ continue…
We MAY have another raccoon. This would be #6 this season.
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The sweet things won’t share, or we wouldn’t have a problem. They eat EVERY seed in EVERY feeder, and many time trash the feeder in their efforts to chow down. My husband will set our humane trap tonight and we’ll see if we capture another member of this year’s family to relocate with the others.
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I mentioned that it MIGHT be the squirrel family we have this year. Yesterday I saw THREE squirrels at once being quite active and athletic on the feeders. That’s the first time I have seen three at one time. One was sitting in the shovel bird feeder, eating the seeds we leave there every day. A second was at the main bird feeder, hanging from his back legs as he avidly ate as much as possible using both hands to grab seeds. A third was in the gallon-sized clear bottle that sits on another feeder in our window. He was all the way inside the bottle, filling his cheeks.
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We usually have a pair of doves who sit on one of the electrical lines that cross the back of our yard. I haven’t seen them lately. I hope they are okay.
I hope that you are having a really nice day.
Filed under Amazing Animals, Challenges, Mother Nature, Thoughts on a ________
Last night was one for the record books.
We took the dogs out for their last outing at around midnight. I was good and sleepy. We set up to have the attic fan on, opening the bathroom window, the bathroom door and our bedroom door, then turning on the fan. AHHHHHH! Deliciously cool air!
At a little after 1 a.m., Abby, one of our cats, was on my stomach, having jumped up to loudly announce that she – who did not show up to go out when we went to bed – and, in fact, HID – NOW wanted to go out. I got up, went downstairs, and put her out.
A little after 2:30 a.m., I woke up as my husband was moving around. I found out that he was returning from going downstairs because of leg twitches. He had had some tea and was ready to try to sleep again.
At about 3:15 a.m., one of the doors slammed shut. (We apparently were lax in our efforts to make sure the doors were secure and wouldn’t be pulled shut by the fan. The door slamming was so loud, I was thoroughly awake. I went downstairs and read for about an hour before I was sleepy enough to try again.
At about 4:30 a.m., I had JUST dozed off when Amber, our 3-year-old, 95-pound yellow lab, barked downstairs. She didn’t bark again, so I dozed off.
At 5:16 a.m., I heard the SHRIEK of the little alarm my husband built that we put on the open window sill in the bathroom to let us know if it is raining in. It WAS. My husband was unaware of the loud shrieking, but woke up when I turned on the light to deal with it. I ended up ripping the battery out of it.
SO – all was calm from 5:18a.m. until 8:00 a.m., when our alarm went off….
I see a nap in my future sometime today.
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Z.L. Feng – Webneel.com
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Yesterday I spent about an hour weeding in my raised bed, square foot veggie garden. We built six 4’x4′ boxes and installed them on metal supports, so they are like tables. They are about my chest height, so I can do almost everything I need to do, from planting, feeding, weeding, and harvesting, without having to bend over double or get down on my hands and knees.
We mix up “Mel’s Mix,” a soil alternative that is a combination of peat moss, vermiculite, and as many different kinds of compost as we can find or create.
The garden is as protected from critters as we can make it, having a high fence around the perimeter, and then chicken wire around the bottom. We have a door gate.
We fixed an irrigation system on a timer, so the veggies are watered each day for a specified time.
Right now I’m trying to grow yellow crookneck squash, zucchini, and sweet red onions. I will also try some radishes soon. Yesterday I planted some celery that I started in my kitchen.
I got three of the six planters weeded yesterday, and will try to finish the job today. So far, the plants look happy.
This is one of the two celery plants. I never really thought of celery as “cute,” but I think these are. :0)
We also have the two brick planters of tomatoes. We have bright yellow blossoms and lots of small green tomatoes. We are hoping for a good crop, because fresh, sliced tomatoes from our garden is one of our favorite things.
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Things are quiet so far today, and for that I am truly thankful.
I’m planning to head out to my garden after lunch to catch up on the weeding in my veggie planter boxes. I’m going to TRY to transplant two celery plants I started in the kitchen recently. If I have time and energy, I’ll do more weed killer spraying. This is all dependent on our weather cooperating, though.
Our forecast is for 100% chance of rain this afternoon. We had a good shower yesterday, and more is forecast for tomorrow. I should have expected all this rain. We just finished repairing our irrigation system. :0)
Yesterday I vacuumed the first floor tiled areas (kitchen, pantry, utility room, dining area, and two half-baths.) I also did PART of the carpeted first floor area yesterday, finishing it up this morning. I’m always amazed and disgusted at how MUCH dog and cat hair, plus dirt, plus ‘whatever’ I get every time. I’m lucky to have good vacuums. I refuse to vacuum more than every other day, though, so animal hair reigns here.
I was really tired when it was time to fix dinner. My husband twisted my arm :0) and we called in and picked up fried rice for each of us. The restaurant is still on take-out only, and has simplified to offer only the medium size, so we have plenty for dinner tonight, too. That said, I’m planning to make a loaf of keto bread this afternoon.
I hope you’re having a fine day today and doing something FUN.
Iris Scott – via Sara Barnes, MyModernMet
Iris Scott – via Sara Barnes, MyModernMet
Iris Scott – via Sara Barnes, MyModernMet
Iris Scott – via Sara Barnes, MyModernMet
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Slaveika Aladjova
Slaveika Aladjova
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These are wave petunias. They give me particular hope this year because I didn’t plant anything on the deck this year due to the pandemic. These have come up from what was left behind after we cleaned out the planters last fall. They lived through the winter and are blooming on their own, despite everything that is going on in the world.
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“He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.” ~Clarence Budington Kelland
“A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.” ~Author Unknown
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” – Jim Valvano
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“A dad is someone who
wants to catch you before you fall
but instead picks you up,
brushes you off,
and lets you try again.
A dad is someone who
wants to keep you from making mistakes
but instead lets you find your own way,
even though his heart breaks in silence
when you get hurt.
A dad is someone who
holds you when you cry,
scolds you when you break the rules,
shines with pride when you succeed,
and has faith in you even when you fail…” ~ Unknown
This is my dad, Jim Wheaton. He and my mother gave me a happy childhood. While I was growing up, I didn’t realize how very special he was. I just loved him and tried to please him. I learned so much from him.
If you can enjoy your dad today, let him know how very special he is to you. Give him a HUGE hug and big kiss. Start making EVERY day Fathers Day.
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Iris Scott – via Sara Barnes – MyModernMet
Iris Scott – via Sara Barnes – MyModernMet
Iris Scott – via Sara Barnes – MyModernMet
Iris Scott – via Sara Barnes – MyModernMet
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Hazel – Sites at Dartmouth
Ethel – Sam Dolman
Bonding – Sam Dolman
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“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.” — James Dent
The sun was out earlier here, but now it’s overcast. We have an 80% chance of storms today – the first day of summer. All people and animals are good today, and we’re hoping for a quiet weekend.
I pre-ordered the latest paperback “In Death” series book by J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts) awhile back. It comes out in July. To celebrate this, I’m enjoying my dive into the world of Eve Dallas, Lieutenant in the NYPSD in the year 2058+. I’m picking up details I missed the first time, as well as just enjoying inhabiting her world – so different from mine. I’m re-reading book # 23 right now (out of 50) and will be ready to add the newest book to my collection when it arrives. (I’ve also pre-ordered the paperback of #51 which will be out at the end of December.)
We are due for a rainy weekend. I’ve been working hard in the yard, trying to keep the weeds at bay. I see evidence that the ‘wild’ would simply take back the land we have enjoyed for over 30 years now if I lost my determination to win the war. The civilized part of our yard looks pretty good now. My next focus will be on weeding my veggie garden and my flower planters around the yard. I’ll enjoy it if I get a bit of a break from the work this weekend.
I heated up the leftover spaghetti with meat sauce I made this week for dinner last night. I used the spaghetti made from chickpeas (brand name Banza) that has half the carbs of regular pasta. It’s still a splurge, but I sure enjoyed it. I made garlic toast for my husband with hot dog buns, and used the keto bread I made for mine.) My husband said, “This was delicious. Thank you!” :0) We will have leftover pork chops tonight with a side salad.
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I will continue the longer, slower sessions of gentle yoga I started yesterday. I’m concentrating on relaxing – harder to do these days – and S_T_R_E_T_C_H_I_N _G everything I have slowly and thoroughly. I’m feeling better because of it.
I hope your first day of summer is a nice one, too. ENJOY.
Even though things are not normal this year due to the pandemic, I feel hopeful when I walk around the yard, seeing the things that are coming up on their own. Fuchsia Phlox here.
Deep Pink Phlox here
Red roses
Rio Samba roses
Filed under Delightful Surprises, Favorite Things, Gardening
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