Jeff Jett – LinkedIn
I never really thought about it until I saw this photo, but I LOVE duckling feet. :0)
Art Attack
Keetonsonline.com via Sherry Dell’aria McGrath
I finally gave myself the gift of time in my art room this morning.
I’ve admitted before that I’m terrible about getting stains on my tees that won’t come out. I also suddenly find a hole or two… I’ve found I can have fun – AND give new life to tees that are otherwise, ruined, by painting them.
SO –
I stitched up the hole in the front of a black tee and then started painting. I ended up painting daisies all over the shirt.
The paint is still wet, so it’ll have to wait until tomorrow at least before it’s wearable.
Filed under fun in my art room, playing in my art room
Paintings I Love
“Friends of the Woods” -Fiore Cagnetti – LinkedIn
Gleb Goloubetski – via Elena (Livia) D. – LinkedIn
Joseph Zbukvic Via Sissy Johns – LinkedIn
Maria Ilieva-via-Ana Loreta Baicu – LinkedIn
Filed under paintings I love
Wonderful Pet Portraits
“Rocco” – Gary Wing – LinkedIn
Portrait on Ceramic – Fulvio Taccini – LinkedIn
Crabbing About the Heat
Brightside
I just spent half an hour or so trying to prune roses and weed flower planters. I’m embarrassed that some of the weeds are taller than the flowers! Of COURSE it’s hot outside – it IS August and this IS Arkansas, but the humidity makes the heat index 103 and it is still morning! So, I’m TRYING to spend a bit of time outside each morning to try to get things under control. So far, the weeds are winning….
Filed under Gardening, Mother Nature
Laughter
Nicolas Chamfort-via Carla Stafford-LinkedIn
“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
Filed under Attitude, Awe-Inspiring Photography, Childlike Fun, Favorite Quotes
Wise Words
Advice from An Old Farmer
- Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.
- Keep skunks and bankers at a distance.
- Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.
- A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.
- Words that soak into your ears are whispered… not yelled.
- Meanness don’t jes’ happen overnight.
- Forgive your enemies; it messes up their heads.
- Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.
- It don’t take a very big person to carry a grudge.
- You cannot unsay a cruel word.
- Every path has a few puddles.
- When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.
- The best sermons are lived, not preached.
- Most of the stuff people worry about ain’t never gonna happen anyway.
- Don’t judge folks by their relatives.
- Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Live a good, honorable life… Then when you get older and think back, you’ll enjoy it a second time.
- Don ‘t interfere with somethin’ that ain’t bothering you none.
- Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a Rain dance.
- If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin’.
- Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.
- The biggest troublemaker you’ll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin’.
- Always drink upstream from the herd.
*Posted by Rick Ferran (Tank) on LinkedIn
Filed under Blog Repost - Wonderful Posts, Favorite Quotes
Rain!
Alma Maghakyan-imgend.com-LinkedIn
It was really muggy and hot when we went grocery shopping this morning. I had pretty much decided to stay inside today when all of a sudden the sky got dark, the wind was whipping the trees’ branches around and it started to rain!
AHHHHHHHH! This is refreshing for the mind and spirit, if not actually resulting in lower temperature and humidity.
I LOVE IT!
Filed under Mother Nature
CHILLIN’
That Guy Steve
The second load of laundry is in, the groceries are put away. We’re going to devote ourselves to CHILLIN’ today.
Hope YOUR day is wonderful, too.
Filed under Cherishing the Quiet Day, Family, taking care of yourself
Poor Plants
DripDepot
When I went outside to check on the tomatoes and weed a bit in our flower planters, I noticed that everything suddenly looked really wilted.
I got my husband and we turned on each section of the irrigation system, and went around to all the planters, making sure all was getting water. Some weren’t getting anything at all, others were getting too much – it varied all over the place. Once we got the back finished – with a lot of the things you see in the picture above, we switched to the front, where it’s mainly actual hoses and controls.
We think we got everything going. We are inside now, drinking ice water and resting. The heat index this afternoon is between 106 and 110. We’ll stay inside until at least dinner time before trying to do anything more out there.
I hope that YOU and your PLANTS are getting enough water today!
Filed under Gardening
Wonderful Pet Portraits by Niki Firmin
NikiFirmin.com
NikiFirmin.com
NikiFirmin.com
Filed under drawings, Niki Firmin - Pet Portraits
Happy Saturday
Brightside
We are enjoying a nice, quiet Saturday. Our most stressful thing today has been trying to program our thermostats upstairs and downstairs. :0) We THINK we have it done now.
We don’t have anywhere we have to be, so we can do a clean-up of details. I’m going to try to do a quick session or two of weeding flower planters and pruning roses, plus checking on the garden. I’ll keep the sessions short and drink lots of water in-between.
It’s good to be able to enjoy the calm today. Our son is with us. All is good.
Filed under Cherishing the Quiet Day, Family, taking care of yourself
Amazing Drawings
Fiore Cagnetti – “Piccola Elfa” – LinkedIn
Saverio Scoleri – LinkedIn
Filed under drawings, Fiore Cagnetti, Saverio Scoleri Art
So Cute – But Not Here
Via Jeff Jett – LinkedIn
Via Jeff Jett – LinkedIn
I’m definitely of two minds about raccoons. On the one hand, I melt into a puddle when I see pictures like this. Awwww.
The other half of me has to deal with the problems they cause us when a whole family decides that our deck is a wonderful place to eat us out of house and home. Not only do they eat every single seed of any type in our feeders, they trash the feeders! If we had raccoons who understood the concept of sharing, or eating without leaving the feeders needing to be replaced, we would welcome them.
We saw one of our long time friends at the store recently. He had a possum on his shoulder! It was really cute, and super affectionate. He had had the possum since he/she was a baby. He also told us he had a raccoon and a squirrel who both traveled with him and his wife, and were trained to walk on leashes! He also mentioned he had 7 deer…. Such a rich, full life!
We have a humane trap that we use on a regular basis after we have clear evidence of more raccoons. We bait it with apples or crackers and peanut butter. We have to be careful where we put the trap because they do everything they can to get out of the trap – of course – and have trashed our barbecue grill cover, plants in pots, etc.
When we catch one, we put the cage into the back of our truck and drive about 5 miles away, relocating the raccoon into a nice creek that flows under the road. Hopefully, this gives him/her another chance at a happy life, reunion with other relocated raccoons – far enough away that they don’t find their way back to us….
Filed under Amazing Animals, Mother Nature
Glorious Water 4
Painting by Carsten Dahl – “September’s Ocean” – LinkedIn
Painting by Dmitry Levin via Ana Loreta Baicu – LinkedIn
Gif by Padmaja Mandali -LinkedIn
Painting by Stephen McGuinness – Cavan -Ireland – LinkedIn
Filed under .gifs I Love, water paintings
Glorious Water 3
“The Maine Coast” – Paul Crimi – LinkedIn
Jeff Rowland Art via Elena (Livia) D. – LinkedIn
“Silence – Oasis” – Paul Militaru Photography
Roy Gonzalez Tabora Via Elena (Livia) D. – LinkedIn
Filed under water paintings
Annette Schreiber Photography – Take 2
Photo by Annette Schreiber – annetteschreiberphotography.com
Photo by Annette Schreiber – annetteschreiberphotography.com
Filed under Annette Schreiber, Awe-Inspiring Photography
Excitement
We went to do errands this morning with Catbert in the back of the truck to put up on the mailbox as we left. When we got out to change the decoration, we found 8,011 (more or less) wasps had taken up residence inside the supporting pole that is between the back of the mailbox and the decorations. It is filled with a bunch of holes in line vertically so that we can attach the decorations with bolts and nuts.
This has never happened before, and they were really swarming. We decided to do our errands, add a stop at Yeager’s Hardware for some cans of wasp spray, and then see what we could do when we got back.
They were having a buy one, get one free sale on wasp spray, so we took advantage of that. We parked at the bottom of the driveway and my husband hosed down one side of the pole after telling me to ‘stay in the truck.’ I thought of all the movies we’ve seen where a character tells someone else to ‘stay in the car’ and they never do, resulting in all kinds of bad things. I also thought of created a cheesy horror movie – naming it, “Revenge of the Wasps” in my head as I watched. He had to use almost one whole can in order to get things under enough control that we were able to
- rush over and get the “Fritz the Cat” decoration down and into the back of the truck. He then sprayed two persistent wasps who kept reappearing.
- We then rushed over and put up “Catbert, the evil HR Director” from Dilbert cartoons, spraying one more time before we drove up the driveway again.
We left the partial can and the 2nd full can of wasp spray in the truck so that we are armed to get our mail tomorrow. I also want to make sure the wasps are gone so they don’t sting our wonderful mailman.
When I told my husband it was time to change mailbox decorations, I really wasn’t expecting such an ordeal.
Reprieve?
Animal Wallpapers – Desktop Nexus
Mother Nature is giving us a reprieve today – the heat index is ONLY 100 right now.
SO – my husband is out mowing the lawn and I’ve been weed whacking around the garden and behind the shop where his riding mower won’t go. It’s going to take several sessions to do what I need to do today. I work for 20 minutes to half an hour, then come in, rest, and drink water. I’ll keep doing that until the job is done or I decide to give it another day. The sun is behind a cloud right now. As soon as I go back out there, the sun will show its face again…
I hope the weather where you are today is comfortable, or that you have a good place to rest.
Filed under Gardening
Glorious Water 2 – Two Paintings and Two Photos
Painiting by Serguei Toutounov Via Elena (Livia) D. – LinkedIn
Svetlana Milenkovic – LinkedIn
Svetlana Milenkovic – LinkedIn
“Spring Morning – Windermere – Cumbria” – Painting by Graham Colthorpe – LinkedIn
Filed under Awe-Inspiring Photography, water paintings
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