Monday, April 28, 2014
The Bloomy Rind Of Life
Baltimore Sis got home from Australia and now has three days for catch-up sleep and recuperation before she has to go back to work. She did a really good job of keeping up with her twenty-eight year old son, but now she is temporarily paying for doing the Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb and then...
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Saturday, April 26, 2014
No Onion Patch Here
Look what I brought home and hung above my other plants on my deck. Yes, they are petunias. Every spring I take the easy way out, and instead of starting them from seed, I buy the hanging pots already loaded with colorful flowers. Did you know that they get their name because of their kin. Their...
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Friday, April 25, 2014
The Woof And Warp Of Life
Big jobs that never used to bother me at all, now tire me out so quickly that I can't believe I'm the same person that I was ten years ago. OK, OK, I know that no one at all likes cleaning windows. On top of not liking to do it, mine had not been really cleaned since last year about this time. My...
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Thursday, April 24, 2014
No No Not Me
Thunderstorms. Thick gray cloud cover. Rolling booms across the sky. Rain pouring on the roof and streams running down the street. Definitely the kind of weather that cats hate (well at least cats that I have known). Yesterday I was thinking about doing my weekly grocery shopping today. Today I have...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Denuded
U.S. SENDING TROOPS TO EASTERN EUROPE “Hundreds of U.S. troops are headed for maneuvers in Eastern Europe through year's end, the Pentagon announced, new deployments intended to reassure allies on Russia's borders as violence took a sinister turn Tuesday in embattled Ukraine.” This follows the...
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