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Sunday, May 29, 2016

Fly-about

It started out a quiet day, warm and sunny outside, so I opened a couple of doors and windows to let it in. Then, while doing about of housekeeping about the keets' house, our Matilda took a chance and was suddenly flying around the house! I flew around closing doors and windows! It was sweet how Bonzer hollered after her, and how she flew here and there, but kept coming back to sit on the cage. The cage has several doors, including a roof opening. I opened that one part way as it looked like... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, May 27, 2016

The other spring

Today we have the spring of 40s temps, F, and rain and possibly thunderstormings. The thunderstorms are a sign of spring moving towards summer. The not-snowing means winter has finally given in. But we did get some considerable hail yesterday--I had to suddenly cover or bring inside precious new sprouts and my zonal geranium hanging baskets. Other parts of the Springs had a lot more hail than my back porch where some bits were bigger than 1/4 inch across. All the rain, though, is great for the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

The poem I promised over among the prompts...

At CCT's suggestion, I am copying it over to this blog. When I am a ghost Freed of body hungers and gravity and time… I will stay to tread and swim and fly Where in life I could gaze only, deaf and blind, With my inadequate human heart And boundaried human mind. I will soar on wings of dream Over vasty desert dunes Great swathes etched and shaped Undulating long and slow And traveling by wind As gradual as time can flow… I will measure mountain crags Weaving through among between And playing... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, May 23, 2016

Spring winds

Every year I have planted sugar snap peas or snow peas to grow vining up the string trellis at the end of the deck. Every year they have gotten high enough to reach over the pots, and have been defeated by the dry winds that come gusting through this area, beating things down and drying them out. Well, I have got a nice little crop of peas growing again, but this year I am paying attention to those winds, and shifting the little seedlings across the deck to a more protected corner. They don't... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, May 22, 2016

Right now... Lucky me!

Live broadcast of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony! With the volume turned way up! There is not a bar of this music that doesn't move and delight me! And the Ninth Symphony was my very first classical concert, back in 1970. Twice in one week, with good seats, because my date loved classical music and had season tickets--then bought two more for this performance. Sign in to see full entry.

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How many bubbles is a drink?

Watching Crumpet taking a drink from the water tube... It is a test-tube, basically, with a cork in it. There is a curved glass pipe that extends through a hole in the cork to connect the water supply to the gerbil's eager mouth. The gerbil licks at the opening of the pipe and laps out the water. Every so often, a bubble of air rises through the pipe, as air is exchanged for water. It occurred to me that Crumpet 'pays' for his drink with that bubble. Silly thought maybe... it's that kind of a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, May 20, 2016

lilacs and stuff

There are lilacs, white ones, along the fence line between my back yard and Charlie's. They are blooming now as they do every spring, but this is the first spring in several years that I've been here to enjoy them. They have a sweet, light scent, and the flower clusters are not as lush as many I've seen, but there are lots of them! In the two previous years I have also missed the sudden transforming of the maple tree off the west end of the deck from bare branches to misty green to a wall of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, May 19, 2016

Menage of many

I hope you and spring are finding each other! It is sunny, working up towards warm with 80s promised for Sunday. But we all know the reliability of such promises. It has become apparent that my gerbils either were mistaken as two females, or are decidedly lesbian. Time will tell. If the former is the case, there will have to be great changes in housing before pups come along: a simple, smaller tank without things that young pups might fall off of. I have been reading up on the breeding of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, May 17, 2016

The day is grey...

with drizzle here and there. I still have going out to do. There is stuff I can't tell you out loud yet, and please don't speculate over on Facebook, if you go there, as it is too public, but I can tell you that I am sending off a 3lb box of saltines to my daughter in England as they can't get them there. In fact, I am sending them to her husband who is in Virginia for a few days, and he will lug them through 4 countries before getting home. They are well-packed, so should make the trip intact.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, May 14, 2016

...and continues...

The weather has turned cooler and greyer and rather windy which could have repercussions on the canopy and tent. Yes, there is a tent to go with the stage, staging area for the actors. Our plan is to lay out the picnic goodies there, and a rack of costuming for anyone who wants to dress up. Today we need to sand down the bottom of one of the doors so it can open and close smoothly over the stage even when it isn't perfectly leveled. I want to drape some garlands around the front curtain pole,... Sign in to see full entry.

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