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School District of Philadelphia
Newest Earring Design
I just listed these on EyecatchingEarrings.
There are three hand-painted discs put together to make these earrings. The length of the earring is 2.5″. They have a French hook.
They are super light-weight. I love it that you can almost forget you have them on!
Each is one-of-a-kind.
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“God Bless the USA”
My friend, Marsha, sent me this. I had to share –
God Bless the U.S.A featuring Lee Greenwood, Home Free and The Singing Sergeants*
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Thoughts on a Sunday 7-5-2020
My husband and I had a wonderful celebration for Independence Day.
Chicago Steak Company
It rained off and on all day, but then cleared up. We started the grill on the deck and sat outside, waiting for the coals to be ready. (The potatoes were in the oven). It started to rain. It was a quiet rain, though, so we held our breaths, crossed our fingers and hoped we could get the steaks cooked. (I was ready if we had to use the broiler inside, but they taste better with the charcoal flavor.)
The rain stopped, and then –
It didn’t last long, but the rainbow was absolutely beautiful.
About the same time –
Video Hive
I didn’t get pics of our own, but this gives you an idea. He – or they – (we’re not sure if we had one or two) kept coming back over and over until he/they were tanked up. :0)
We enjoyed a bird singing, and MANY birds coming and going from our feeders. A road runner ran across the yard, and a white-tailed bunny showed up briefly.
We had two squirrels – one on the hanging feeder and the other at the feeder that has a gallon bottle in the window – scurrying around.
Amber, our 95-pound yellow lab, was happily checking out everything in the yard, playing in the rain, coming back up on the deck to be with us, and then doing it all over again.
We went in and ate our dinner, hoping our neighbors would shoot off fireworks later.
The rains came again – really HEAVILY this time – about 8:45. I thought that was the end of any chance of fireworks. But, as we were watching a movie (we are enjoying a marathon of our Jason Bourne movies), we heard the distinctive sound. We went out to the deck. The moon was coming out of the clouds – gleaming brightly. And the fireworks began!
BestAnimations.com
We watched them for several minutes before going inside to continue with our movie.
What a wonderful celebration we had!
Filed under Family, Favorite Things, holidays
Today’s Tomatoes
Our weather has been so weird this year that I don’t know what to expect on our ‘crops.’ Today’s tomatoes look as if I planted cherry tomato plants. I planted the normal tomato brands and types that are supposed to be happy with the climate of Arkansas (read HOT and sporadic water). We try to even this out with our irrigation system, but it gets to the point that the plants simply boil away when it gets to be too much.
We have lots of green tomatoes coming, though, so I’m hopeful we will get several more regular-sized tomatoes to enjoy this season.
Clean for the Holiday
My fish aren’t particularly patriotic, but I thought they would appreciate having a clean tank for the Independence Day celebrations today.
JD Houston via YouTube
We have had a quiet day, other than someone in the valley below us practicing with his gun this afternoon. I was settling down for a cat nap, but decided it wasn’t in the cards when the shooting started. I may get another chance before the evening begins.
The rain has stopped for now, and I’m hopeful we can have our cookout on the deck tonight and enjoy the neighbor’s fireworks.
Filed under Amazing Animals, Family, Housekeeping - Maintenance
New Earring Ideas
Green Sparkly Teardrop Earrings
Purple Sparkly Teardrop Earrings
Red Sparkly Teardrop Earrings
Red and White Trapezoid Earrings
Purple and White Trapezoid Earrings
Green and White Trapezoid Earrings
Blue and White Trapezoid Earrings
The new earrings are listed on Eyecatching Earrings
I have a third different type of earring in the works today. I’ll try to show it to you later.
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Wonderful Watercolor
Watercolor Painting
“Blue Haze” – Steve B. – ArtRage
Heidi Willis – Udemy
YouTube
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Thoughts on a Saturday 7-4-2020
We are having a quite dark, rainy Independence Day so far. I don’t know how long it has been raining, but the ground was really saturated when I took Molly out for her morning walk. I sank down into some mud at one point walking around the back of the well house. We live on top of a ridge line, so it takes quite a bit of rain to make our ground soggy. It’s a quiet rain, rather than a severe storm, so we have the doors open, enjoying a nice breeze, as well as the lovely sound of the rain.
I do hope that it stops by evening, though. We have become quite spoiled here because a couple of neighbors down in the valley behind our home put on quite a fireworks show most years. One of my favorite things in the world is fireworks. I especially love the big orange streaky ones that seem to cover the whole sky. I love ALL of them that sparkle!
D’source
I love snakes and sparklers, too.
GIPHY
A memory that will always fill my heart and make me tear up is a year before my husband and I were married. We were celebrating at my parents’ house. Their house sat on an acre and a quarter of land in a neighborhood of two mile-long streets, 24th Street and 25th Place, that each had the same amount of land between Sheridan Avenue and Memorial Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma. My dad had bad cataracts and the medical community was JUST to the point where removal of them wasn’t such a huge issue. My dad was living with his, even though he had had to give up a lot of things, not being able to see well enough to enjoy them. The 4th of July was his favorite holiday. He LOVED fireworks. My husband-to-be bought a bunch and brought them with him when he came to share dinner. When night fell, we were all sitting on the patio. My husband brought out the bag of fireworks, a complete surprise for my dad, and proceeded to give my dad the best of all Independence Day celebrations. HE COULD SEE THE FIREWORKS and was like a little kid, joy on his face at each one. It was a hot night and my husband practically worked himself to death to give my dad his personal fireworks display. (I am teared up remembering this. I just went across the room to give my husband a big hug, kiss the top of his head, and tell him again how MUCH that gift meant to my whole family.)
I am hoping that we can cook out tonight. We bought some steak and baking potatoes – a total splurge for us. If not tonight, my fingers will be crossed we can do it tomorrow night.
I hope you are having a happy day, too.
Happy Independence Day 2020
May your day and evening be filled with family, friends, fun, food, and fireworks!
Filed under holidays
I Love Giraffes
Animal Fact Guide
“Well as giraffes say, you don’t get no leaves unless you stick your neck out.” – Sid Waddell
Animals | HowStuffWorks
“I’d hate to be a giraffe with a sore throat.” – Mitch Hedberg
CNN.com
“A giraffe has a black tongue 27 inches long and no vocal chords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.” – Robert Fulghum
“A bit of advice: never read a pop-up book about giraffes.” – Sean Lock
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High Hopes
Emily Dickinson-keepinspiring.me
Each time I go up to my art room, I’m filled with the desire to make something I like. My head starts working overtime, swirling with the possibilities of what I can play with.
Lately I have been playing the game of, “Cleaning up my Art Room.” What this ACTUALLY means – unless someone is coming who wants to SEE it – is that I START gathering things up to clear off my drafting table and quickly get caught up by an idea for making something. “Cleaning” drops off quickly as I get out even more things in order to play.
Yesterday the cleaning up stopped as I started a new group of earrings. I found some things I want to try, plus I have a couple of new shapes, so I spent about half the afternoon up there, first painting one side of the earring shapes, letting them dry, then painting the second side. Last night I sprayed the glaze fixative on the side that was ‘up.’ This morning I sprayed the second side. Today I’ll do a bit more work on them in the art room, and then bring them downstairs, here to the office, where I put them together.
I love the fact that I have enough supplies to try a lot of things, ‘dwelling in the possibilities.’ Even though things never turn out the way I envision, my time in the art room is priceless. Possibilities abound. I can escape from any stress. I can lose myself in the joy of the game, ‘What If…”
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More Pencil Art I Love
APKPure.com
Art & Drawing Community-Trend Today
Buzzz Hippy
Everything About Art
Painting Valley
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Commercial?
Tail and Fur
We are one step closer to having our ability to take as long a hot shower as we would like.
Our wonderful plumber – Travis Hawkins, 479-461-8347 – came and looked at things. He is looking for a replacement for our water pressure tank in the well house. (It has lasted for over 30 years, so I guess we got our money’s worth.) He will get back to us when he is ready to install it for us.
Meanwhile, he suggested that we try CLR on our shower head, just in case it was clogged, slowing the water flow. (Good pressure is essential for the tankless water heater to function and continue to function.)
The directions said to dilute it by 50%, immerse the head in the liquid for 2 minutes, then rinse thoroughly. I did this three times, then put it back up. We have a rain water shower head, that is large and has a lot of holes. The treatment helped, but we still had a lot of clogged holes.
I took the head down again and this time immersed the head all morning. This seems to have helped significantly. I had hot water for my WHOLE shower this time! The water pressure is still low, though, so we will replace the tank when Travis can find one and install it for us, so that we won’t be on the borderline of functionality.
But CLR is a good product!
Wonderful Pencil Drawings
Drawing and Painting for Kids
fatima_t_i-Reddit
FAVPNG.com
portugese.fanshare.com
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Ownership
Good Housekeeping
We have two cats who own us.
Yesterday Abby –
Abby
sat in the exact middle of our dog Amber’s –
Amber
bed. Not only would she NOT allow Amber to share the bed, she rubbed it in, stretching and flaunting her position while Amber looked unhappily on.
Another example of our cats owning us –
I sit at my computer answering email, researching things, writing blog posts, etc. Smoke –
Plops herself down in the middle of my area, keyboard, or work, the fact that she is interrupting meaning nothing to her.
Filed under Amazing Animals, Family
Fingers Crossed
Our good plumber is supposed to come today to help us figure out why the hot water in our shower is cutting off mid-shower.
We have a tankless water heater. This allows us to have all the hot water we need, regardless of how many things we run during the day or even at the same time. We are getting all the hot water we want downstairs, and in the sinks upstairs – but not the shower.
With the pandemic – plus the hot weather and working outside , we are taking even more showers than our usual one a day. My husband thinks we need a new water pressure tank in our well house. The job is too large for the two of us, so we have called our wonderful plumber to come take a look and see what he thinks will solve the problem.
I’m hoping that tonight I will be able to take a nice shower with hot water to rinse with, rather than cold… Fingers crossed!
Exquisite Sculpture
“Hair” – Yuanxing Liang – Colossal Art & Design
Jooinn
“The_Fisherman’s Daughter” – Phillipe Faraut
Yuanxing – Liang- MyModernMet
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It’s Today!
Pooh and Piglet, Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne, via PictureQuotes.com
Filed under Attitude, Favorite Authors & Books
Happy July 2020 !
Australia Firefighters Calendar 2020
Brendan and Hatch of the Australian Firefighters Calendar help us welcome the month of July.
I have really enjoyed welcoming each month this year. This is such a great idea for a fundraiser and a win/win for everyone. I hope they have sold out and have all the money needed to protect their beautiful country.
I want you to know that I – in a character-building exercise – have NOT looked ahead in any month so far. :0)
Feeling It!
PictureQuotes.com via THEMETAPICTURE.COM
One of my favorite things these days while we’re home so much more due to COVID-19 is listening to some of my favorite tunes on YouTube. I have kind of a mini-concert centering on the best songs of one of my favorite artists, or create my own concert, switching from one wonderful song to another from multiple artists. It really lifts my spirits.
I have long thought that music is a kind of magic.
No words are needed – languages aren’t important – age and gender are not important factors – when we hear music, it speaks to us. It fills us up, affects us emotionally, transports us to another part of our life, makes current troubles fade into the background for awhile. It makes us relax, or want to leap up and dance. It makes us nostalgic or brings huge grins to our faces. Years fall off. Aches and pains are soothed or even forgotten.
I absolutely LOVE putting on my earphones while I’m here at the computer, choosing what songs I would like to listen to, and spending the next half hour or so caught up in the treasure of music!
Filed under music
I Love Owls
The Express
“A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren’t we like that wise old bird?” ~ Unknown
Alan Walker – Getty Images – Discover Wildlife
Owl
Wiser than can be
Seeing great at night
Flying quieter over the sea
Making hope shine bright ~ Unknown
BrightSide
“He respects Owl, because you can’t help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn’t spell it right.” A.A. Milne
Discovery Place Nature
“Alone and warming his five wits, the white owl in the belfry sits.” Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Eagle Mountain Utah News
“I rejoice that there are owls…. They represent the stark twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have.” – Henry David Thoreau
Earth.com
“I think I’m a tiny bit like Harry ‘cos I’d like to have an owl. Yeah, that’s the tiny bit, actually.” ~ Daniel Radcliffe
The Spruce Pets
“The owl,” he was saying, “is one of the most curious creatures. A bird that stays awake when the rest of the world sleeps. They can see in the dark. I find that so interesting, to be mired in reality when the rest of the world is dreaming. What does he see and what does he know that the rest of the world is missing?” ~ M.J. Rose
Source Unknown
“Owls seem to have always been a bird that sparks the creative imagination. They have been seen as symbols of victory, wisdom, or solitude. In more recent decades, owls have also been associated with Halloween.” – Rebecca Ludens
Source Unknown
“Old being, old thing,
so stout and wise.
You look down from the tree,
Knowing that I am here.
You stare long
You stare hard
And never look away.
You remember don’t you.
Peer at something else and
This spirit you see standing,
May well disappear.”
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Two feathery tufts rise off a building
Next to an open park.
Powerful large eyes sight-fully gliding
Over the grass and dark.
These striking yellows gaze,
This view they take.
Dusk has left its haze.
It is good to be awake.
Filed under Amazing Animals, Favorite Things
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