Akie Nakata – via Emma Taggart – MyModernMet
Akie Nakata – via Emma Taggart – MyModernMet
Akie Nakata – via Emma Taggart – MyModernMet
Akie Nakata – via Emma Taggart – MyModernMet
Akie Nakata – via Emma Taggart – MyModernMet
Filed under Rock Art, Stone/Pebble Art
“Bouquet of Roses” – Paul Militaru Photography – photopaulm.com
“Perfect Symbiosis Between Black and White Swans – 1” – Paul Militaru Photography – photopaulm.com
“Perfect Symbiosis Between Black and White Swans – 2” – Paul Militaru Photography – photopaulm.com
Lunch Bunch began over 17 years ago. We meet every Friday to share lunch, laughs, and news. The core group is Linda, Kay, and me. We have other wonderful people join us from time to time as they can, but the core is the basis.
This is Linda.
“Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.” – Swedish Proverb
This is Kay.
“When you cherish the value of the gift of FRIENDSHIP, it can never be lost, for what you always carry in your hearts is yours to keep forever and your friends’ too!”
This is Bud, Linda’s Husband – an honorary Lunch Bunch member.
“A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.” – Fr. Jerome Cummings
And this is my husband, another honorary Lunch Bunch member. (He refused to cooperate with my taking his picture.)
“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.” – Anonymous
We are now eating at a picnic table in the parking lot of the restaurant, rather than inside, due to the pandemic. Our wonderful waitress/friends, Susan and Mikey come outside to take our orders and bring our food, chatting for a minute, even though they are really busy. We are very grateful to be able to once again share what is happening in our lives.
“The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love, do not require coupons.”
Filed under Friendship, quality of life
Molly
We took our sweet Molly to the vet’s office this morning for a sudden nasty place on the side of her mouth. I thought she had been bitten or stung. The vet called, telling me that it looked like cancer, wanting to know what we wanted him to do. We had an honest, blunt discussion. I finally asked him to look at the place carefully, decide if he thought she was ‘fixable,’ and to call us back.
He called back, saying he was 99% sure it was malignant cancer. She is 15 years old, mostly deaf and has cataracts, as well as cysts, lumps, warts all over now. I asked if he thought she might have any good, fun, doggy time left to enjoy. He said, “yes,” with antibiotics and pain meds to get her back to the best place possible.
We picked her up about 3 pm this afternoon. She is agitating for food, but we can’t feed her until tomorrow morning. We will then add an antibiotic pill and a pain pill for the day.
We knew this was coming, but the suddenness of this is a shock. We will make sure that we make every day we have left count, giving her as much joy as we can in whatever time remains.
(She is resting comfortably at my feet as I type this.) We have been so lucky to share her life.
Filed under Amazing Animals, Family, love
How Stuff Works
I don’t suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it
What do you call an alligator in a vest? An investigator
Sleeping comes so naturally to me, I could do it with my eyes closed
What do you call the ghost of a chicken? A poultry-geist
Why are frogs so happy? They eat whatever bugs them
The machine at the coin factory just suddenly stopped working, with no explanation. It doesn’t make any cents
What did the grape say when it got stepped on? Nothing – but it let out a little whine
What do you call a super articulate dinosaur? A Thesaurus
Somebody stole all my lamps… I couldn’t be more de-lighted!
What did one flag say to the other? Nothing, it just waved.
I’m not a doctor but I’m losing my patience.
Filed under Funny Signs - Humor, punny
Akie-Nakata-via My Modern Met
Akie-Nakata-via My Modern Met
Akie-Nakata-via My Modern Met
Akie-Nakata-via My Modern Met
Akie-Nakata-via My Modern Met
Filed under Rock Art, Stone/Pebble Art
Sunrise- Tirza Pijnenburg via John Steed via Penny Yaffe Krakow
Filed under Awe-Inspiring Photography
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I’m leaving in about 20 minutes to get my massage for the month. I couldn’t be looking forward to it more.
I lucked into Lynn Moody, one of the best massage therapists – and people – on the planet. She finds all my sore areas – and they are legion right now – and kneads them out of me. The only problem is that once I’m like a bowl of jelly on the table, I have to get up and drive home.
If you are in the Greenwood, Arkansas area, call Lynn Moody, 479-629-7601 and prepare to be healed.
Warning: It’s addictive.
Filed under taking care of yourself
Akie Nakata via Emma Taggart – MyModernMet
Akie Nakata via Emma Taggart – MyModernMet
Akie Nakata via Emma Taggart – MyModernMet
Akie Nakata via Emma Taggart – MyModernMet
Akie Nakata via Emma Taggart – MyModernMet
Filed under Rock Art, Stone/Pebble Art
AskIdeas.com
Light travels faster than sound. That’s why some people appear bright until you hear them speak
I Renamed my iPod The Titanic, so when I plug it in, it says “The Titanic is syncing.”
When life gives you melons, you’re dyslexic
It’s hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs because they always take things literally
I lost my job at the bank on my very first day. A woman asked me to check her balance, so I pushed her over
What’s the difference between a hippo and a zippo? One is really heavy and the other is a little lighter
I can’t believe I got fired from the calendar factory. All I did was take a day off
Hear about the new restaurant called Karma? There’s no menu – you get what you deserve
Filed under Funny Signs - Humor, punny
Fred Michel, Horticultural Art
Akie Nakata via Joe-ks.com
Akie Nakata via Joe-ks.com
Akie Nakata via Joe-ks.com
Akie Nakata via Joe-ks.com
Akie Nakata via Joe-ks.com
Akie Nakata via Joe-ks.com
Akie Nakata via Joe-ks.com
Filed under Rock Art, Stone/Pebble Art
With the virus and rioting, it’s hard not to drown in despair for our country. Walking around the yard, seeing what is coming up and blooming its head off, helps me keep hope alive.
I hope these give YOU hope, too. Stay safe and strong.
Yesterday I planted three yellow crookneck squash plants and 4 zucchini plants in the garden after weeding and prepping since I pulled the spinach and lettuce plants out. I gave the new plants LOTS of room because the vines of all of these spread out all over the planters. I want to give them all the room they need. I have developed a taste for both of these since I spiralize them to use in place of pasta and rice on my keto eating plan.
I can clean and use the spiralizer on them, put them in individual serving sandwich bags, and then put the bags into a gallon freezer bag. I can then pull out what I need and quickly microwave MY ‘pasta’ or ‘rice,’ and cook the regular stuff for my husband when I making spaghetti or one of my ‘sauce over pasta or rice dishes.
I listened to a video that taught me more about growing and storing onions. He said that the ones that grow tall and make a flower are not good for long-term (over the winter) storage. Those should be eaten whenever you’re ready, but should be eaten soon after pulling. The others are fine to try to dry for storage. (You can see my onions in this picture.)
Here you can see that some have a ‘bulb’ on top. These are the ones the man was talking about that should be pulled and eaten soon after harvesting, rather than trying to prep for storage.
With all the rain we’ve had, the tomatoes got really big and bushy quickly. They do have some bright yellow blossoms, and if you look carefully, you can see a tiny green tomato. At this point, I’m just going to prop them up the best way I can and hope for the best.
This is the ‘nook’ planter, where 4 plants have also exploded in growth. With three weeks or so of pretty steady, heavy rain, things got out of hand. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that we actually get tomatoes, rather than just a whole lot of greenery.
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Our tomato plants are looking good, with several bright yellow blossoms, but no green tomatoes yet.
Today while we were out, we went to the co-op to see if they had any good plants. I’m delighted that we found yellow crookneck squash and zucchini!
We have finished lunch and I just finished cleaning the aquarium, so I’m having a cup of coffee before going out to make the garden ready for summer plants and then planting our treasures. I’ll try to get pics before I come in. :0)
Filed under Square Foot Gardening - Raised Beds
These fish may LOOK innocent, but the two of them are having a contest to see which of them can mess up their water more. Their water looks pretty good until the week mark arrives and then they redouble their efforts, causing the water to go from merely murky to downright yellow-green overnight.
I have just finished emptying everything out, scrubbing everything, and putting things back together with different decorations.
Maybe they are trying to tell me they want their decorations changed?
If so, it would be MUCH nicer to blow bubbles at me in a pattern, or do body language, rather than making their wants known in such a blatant bid for attention.
Their water is now sparkling. The glass beads are squeaky clean and sparkling in the aquarium light. The filter is fresh and all is right with their world, although I DID ignore them just now as they collected in the corner, wriggled their little bodies and blew bubbles at me, clearly indicated they wanted to be fed THREE times today, rather than just morning and evening…
Filed under Family, Housekeeping - Maintenance
Akie Nakata via Joe-ks.com
Akie Nakata via Joe-ks.com
Akie Nakata via Joe-ks.com
Akie Nakata via Joe-ks.com
Akie Nakata via Joe-ks.com
Filed under Rock Art, Stone/Pebble Art
In the midst of all that is happening in our country and around the world, I grab onto things that lift my spirits – that give me hope for the future – even if they are only small things.
One very happy thing is the calendar I bought for 2020 put out by the firefighters in Australia. They came up with a wonderful fundraising idea – to take pics of firefighters with dogs. Of course the firefighters are GORGEOUS, and the dogs are really great, too. Out of the immense goodness of my heart, I bought a calendar. :0) Each month I am thankful. (I may be older than dirt, but I ain’t dead yet!)
Here we welcome JUNE 2020 –
Lincoln and Chippy – June 2020
Happy June!
Filed under Challenges, hope
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