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Saturday, July 31, 2021

Silly me!

In fact, I was counting on loading photos over on flickr which wasn't having it yesterday, and never noticed I had not mentioned exactly who my first caller was! It was a chipmunk! I have never spotted one in this neighborhood before! I will try flickr again, it was a real cutie and really close! I saw my first chipmunks when I was 4, when we went up to a cabin at Mount Lassen National Park. (My first volcano, too, in fact, though it was a presence always to the east, as Shasta was to the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 30, 2021

Garden Visitors

New visitors today! In the front deck garden, I spotted a little creature I've rarely seen in the neighborhood at all, let alone on my very own deck! I had to run for the camera, and in that time, the little thing started hollering indignantly, possibly because the bird feeder was beyond its reach. I was wondering how on earth it got up to the deck, and as I watched, the answer to that was revealed: It climbed the rough brickwork on the side of the house! There are photos, but Flickr today is... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 29, 2021

For those following the Dove Family News...

This latest brood is doing new things I've never seen them do before: Coming back to the nest while a parent is there keeping the eggs warm... With much kerfuffling, one at least can get settled on the edge. There is some degree of rivalry over that, it must be said. The deck is having more little visitors, too. I've been hearing and seeing the house finches and some other similar sized 'dickie birds.' When my brother-in-law was a grad student studying birds, he worked for Audubon, and they sent... Sign in to see full entry.

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Garden breakfast

It's going to be hot... It's already over 80, and headed to the 90s today, according to one forecast, but there is the hope of thunder and rain--by Saturday. It so depends on which weather forecast you look at, and it changes day by day. I like the one that says only to high 80s today! Breakfast this morning was eggs with zucchini from the garden, and a couple of bright red cherry tomatoes on the side. Very satisfying, this breakfast! I've joined two photography groups over on Facebook. One... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 26, 2021

The Summer Slump

In all the years I've been with Blogit, there seems always to be a slow-down in writing and reading in the summer. And so it is again this year. That several of the people I visit with most have shifted a lot of their attention to Facebook has had some effect, too. I'm over there, too, and will write a piece there (or here) and copy/paste it over to here (or there), and also sometimes also to my Wordpress blog (which borrowed its name from my "Loosely Speaking" blog here). Of course, every time,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 25, 2021

today's addition to the album of my summer garden

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Sunday, already?

Sleepy morning, here... woke a bit early, got up and fuzzled around a while, anyway. Friday and Saturday were taken up with housekeeping, including going out and renting a carpet shampooer, due to a bad, staining kind of spill on the bad old beige carpet in the dining room. I'd tried dealing with it the night before with very limited success, so... $30 for the shampooer, well-worth the cost. And thanks, big, huge thanks to Charlie who could wrangle the hardware! He also helped with a deck... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Transitions

Here it is, Wednesday again... The doves are back on the nest, the first of the tomatoes has gone red, and yesterday evening we dumped out all the water-catchers on the back porch and replanted the biggest tomato plant and the pepper plants. Why the replanting, you wonder? Well, they both were potted up in big pots with insufficient drainage, and were drowning. Overwatered plants can die, their leaves sagging and going yellow... I dug out the core of the tomato plant and settled the soggy lump... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Sleep, sleeping, and sleepiness

Inspired by Pat's post today... It is so frustrating to wake after only 3 hours, and not be able to get back to sleep! I have a decorative light that throws moving color across the ceiling--like my own private Lights! It runs for 4 hours, so when I wake, and it's still flowing across my 'sky' I know it's one of those naps. Sleep comes easier, though, both getting to sleep and getting back to sleep, with the gentle background provided by 'Alexa's' nature sounds app: Crickets and Frogs of Florida,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 18, 2021

Sunday Morning Poetry

Waking and showering on this Sunday morning, starting a load of washing after I've used what hot water I want... Waking the laptop, it opens to a page of our CC's poetry which I was reading yesterday. Reading, then following down into older posts, and doing a 'search' to find something referenced just lately, and finding the lost bits... Today, scrolling down and reading out of the past, I'm reminded what treasures lurk in our forgotten pages. The sun is bright this morning, the air pretty clean... Sign in to see full entry.

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I'm doubtful the events of my life will be of great general interest, but I'd like to share a little more of me to the several of you on Blogit I've come to feel are real friends, and the many I imagine are potentially real friends. We'll see how it works out. ______________________ all my words and images posted on Blogit are copyright 2005-present, all rights reserved.

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