🙂 Spring is here!
😦 A mixture of rain & snow is forecast for the mountains Tuesday night.
It just won’t go away. But it makes the apple growers happy.
Peach trees are blooming down the mountains. We went to Rutherfordton Thursday evening. Peach and dogwood were in full bloom.
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I expect to see this in next Friday’s funnies.
In the paper today, there is a bomber named CNN (Crash Non-News). It is dropping bombs named: Ratings, Dead Ends, Hair brained guesses, Conspiracies, Brainless Baloney, etc.
🙂 A husband gracious enough to get it for me, including doing the research for what accessories to buy.
😦 The learning curve involved, and the vast amount of reading stuff I don’t understand!
🙂 Finally had enough e-mail conversations over the last several weeks with a publisher to be able to get started on the book that was supposed to be my March edit.
🙂 The snow is melting, and we can see the grass in nearly all the front yard and maybe 75% of the backyard.
😦 Tuesday marked 11 straight weeks of snow on the ground, we had more snow arrive the second day of “spring,” and we still have many cubic yards of snow in the drift that extends all the way across our yard. And after today we won’t get back into the 40s and 50s until next Thursday . . . so minimally we will make it into the last week of April with snow on the ground, maybe to the last two days (the next time 50s are expected) or even into April. I guess at this point we might as well keep some of it to the end of March to say we had it for three months straight, huh? In January I was saying we might as well keep it to the end of the month! I never pictured still saying that two months later.
😦 Getting all the tax stuff gathered and dropped off today for 2 p.m. appointment. Next up: paying the April property taxes, which of course go up every year, and the homeowners’ insurance policy for 2014-15.
🙂 Productive week with some fun interviews.
😦 The workplace atmosphere remains the same.
😦 All the families of passengers on the missing airliner. Praying and hoping that the latest satellite images of large pieces of floating debris will bring some kind of closure soon.
🙂 Spring. Lots of birds singing. The other day I watched from the kitchen as Annie the cat sat motionless for the longest time at the bottom of the evergreen tree in the backyard, staring straight up at something in the tree.
🙂 The tree is down and cut up to be hauled away. Another day for that. I don’t dread that so much. I’m almost convinced that an 83 yr old man shouldn’t be messing with chain saws. Part of the problem is me, not the saw. One of the hard facts of life a man has to face is he isn’t the man he used to be.
A difficult fact of life. I suspect women face that too. Only sooner.
Another fact I’ve learned, but often ignore, is that Elvera takes small comments seriously.
I happened to mention yesterday that I’m going to look for another pair of jeans someday. I only have one good pair left. And another ragged pair, the would be stylish for some. But someday I’m going to buy another pair of jeans.
Suddenly, she has a project. She has already determined that I wouldn’t like those sold at SteinMart. She’s at Belk now.
But I have to try them on. That’s her problem.
🙂 Love-love-love online banking as paper organization is not among my strongest skill sets. I couldn’t find the property tax bill I needed to see what my first installment payment was in 2013 … so I did an online search of the checks I’d written from around that date last April and — voila! — there it was. Quick, easy and precise.
🙂 I seem to have everything I need for the tax man.
Yes, Donna, the editor compared it to what a newspaper reporter goes through. I thought of you. I knew the article was long, but did not know another article which will reinforce my article will be on same page. I rather enjoy the whittling process, but the Bosley factor makes it painful. Also, I don’t want to knock anyone out of being quoted because they will be watching for their names.
Bosley is quietly napping in my lap while the washing machine is running downstairs. She foiled my first attempt to sneak down to the laptop to revise.
😦
🙂 Purple violets and white clover blooms dot our shaggy spring lawn along with petal droppings from the Birthday tree. Pretty in a shabby chic (did I get that correct, Kim?) kind of way.
😦 Soon will have to mow them down.
😦 Pollen or something (Bosley?) is giving me a headache and nose is feeling cruddy
🙂 Getting LOTS of laundry done this week.
😦 Bosley is alert to my every move it seems. She wants to discover her new laptop toy.
Janice, at least they’re letting you do the cutting — what’s really painful is when you turn in a story then they run out of space and someone late at night just HACKS your story, usually from the bottom so your perfectly crafted ending is GONE and the piece ends in some really inappropriate spot that leaves the reader hanging.
🙂 I also have purple and yellow cute things sprouting in my front yard (it’s green but I can’t really call it “grass”).
🙂 Somehow Annie, who usually sleeps perched on top of me or curled up near my knees or head, wound up underneath one of the top quilt blankets last night. I didn’t know that but could feel her gently making her way up over my legs and toward my head … until … out pops her little black-and-white face from under the top of the blanket.
OK, all of you talking about spring flowers, you’re making me jealous. 😦 But we are going to really earn our spring this year, and I intend to fully enjoy it!
Today has been a very pleasant day. Started out with the morning house cleaning when one of the boys came out complaining because somebody had pooped in the boys’ trash can. It is suspected to be the twelve year old. But who knows and does it really matter? Anyway, the day went on. I had a nice visit with my friend in jail while the children played across the street in the park. Then we walked around town so the other twelve year old could practice crossing streets in the crosswalk. She did not know how, though we have practiced many times. If she sees a car a mile away, she races back to the curb. I explained it was not necessary and in our town we only saw one moving car and it was not headed our direction. Anyway, then we got home and an elderly friend arrived with goodies. A good day all in all.
🙂 Interesting conversation tonight at the dog park with a young teen boy & his dad (I’ve known the son and the mom for a while, but this was the first time I’d talked with the dad for any length) … Seems the son, a very articulate high school freshman theater major, is somewhat conservative politically while parents are your ‘traditional’ liberals. 🙂 Kid’s a rebel.
🙂 Lee is relieved to be getting refunds from both federal & state tax returns.
🙂 Daughters went dress shopping today, for their cousin’s wedding next week, & they both found very nice dresses that are tastefully elegant but not too expensive.
😦 My little guy has a cold, making him kind of grumpy.
🙂 But he’s outside playing right now with his mommy, so he’s not too sick.
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🙂 Spring is here!
😦 A mixture of rain & snow is forecast for the mountains Tuesday night.
It just won’t go away. But it makes the apple growers happy.
Peach trees are blooming down the mountains. We went to Rutherfordton Thursday evening. Peach and dogwood were in full bloom.
🙂
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🙂 Term 3 ended well. The family of my student who is leaving had their teachers over for dinner. Conferences coming up on Monday and Tuesday.
😦 covered in bites, I am suspecting fleas or something. Praying for missionaries, you can always pray for things that are bugging them!
🙂 🙂 Next grandbaby is due to be born on Tuesday. Right when our term break begins so there will be lots of time to do skype and facetime
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I expect to see this in next Friday’s funnies.
In the paper today, there is a bomber named CNN (Crash Non-News). It is dropping bombs named: Ratings, Dead Ends, Hair brained guesses, Conspiracies, Brainless Baloney, etc.
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:-(A chain saw will beat you to death.
🙂 It would take a week without it.
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🙂 Finished the article for Christian Library International despite Bosley and her ever growing manner of distracting.
:- )Received phone call from son this week and he is doing well.
😦 Tax season drags us down.
🙂 Still enjoying birthday tree blooms. Even the petals fallen to the ground have their own special beauty.
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🙂 My new camera.
🙂 A husband gracious enough to get it for me, including doing the research for what accessories to buy.
😦 The learning curve involved, and the vast amount of reading stuff I don’t understand!
🙂 Finally had enough e-mail conversations over the last several weeks with a publisher to be able to get started on the book that was supposed to be my March edit.
🙂 The snow is melting, and we can see the grass in nearly all the front yard and maybe 75% of the backyard.
😦 Tuesday marked 11 straight weeks of snow on the ground, we had more snow arrive the second day of “spring,” and we still have many cubic yards of snow in the drift that extends all the way across our yard. And after today we won’t get back into the 40s and 50s until next Thursday . . . so minimally we will make it into the last week of April with snow on the ground, maybe to the last two days (the next time 50s are expected) or even into April. I guess at this point we might as well keep some of it to the end of March to say we had it for three months straight, huh? In January I was saying we might as well keep it to the end of the month! I never pictured still saying that two months later.
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🙂 Saturday
😦 Getting all the tax stuff gathered and dropped off today for 2 p.m. appointment. Next up: paying the April property taxes, which of course go up every year, and the homeowners’ insurance policy for 2014-15.
🙂 Productive week with some fun interviews.
😦 The workplace atmosphere remains the same.
😦 All the families of passengers on the missing airliner. Praying and hoping that the latest satellite images of large pieces of floating debris will bring some kind of closure soon.
🙂 Spring. Lots of birds singing. The other day I watched from the kitchen as Annie the cat sat motionless for the longest time at the bottom of the evergreen tree in the backyard, staring straight up at something in the tree.
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🙂 The tree is down and cut up to be hauled away. Another day for that. I don’t dread that so much. I’m almost convinced that an 83 yr old man shouldn’t be messing with chain saws. Part of the problem is me, not the saw. One of the hard facts of life a man has to face is he isn’t the man he used to be.
A difficult fact of life. I suspect women face that too. Only sooner.
LikeLike
Another fact I’ve learned, but often ignore, is that Elvera takes small comments seriously.
I happened to mention yesterday that I’m going to look for another pair of jeans someday. I only have one good pair left. And another ragged pair, the would be stylish for some. But someday I’m going to buy another pair of jeans.
Suddenly, she has a project. She has already determined that I wouldn’t like those sold at SteinMart. She’s at Belk now.
But I have to try them on. That’s her problem.
😉
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😦 Heard from editor and have to cut article by half.
🙂 At least I don’t have to fluff it up!
🙂 I don’t have to go clothes shopping and to fitting rooms like Chas.
😦 I have to again find ways to keep Bosley away while I work on article.
🙂 My friend is actively reading the Bible I got for her!!!
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Janice, that’s always painful!
🙂 Love-love-love online banking as paper organization is not among my strongest skill sets. I couldn’t find the property tax bill I needed to see what my first installment payment was in 2013 … so I did an online search of the checks I’d written from around that date last April and — voila! — there it was. Quick, easy and precise.
🙂 I seem to have everything I need for the tax man.
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Yes, Donna, the editor compared it to what a newspaper reporter goes through. I thought of you. I knew the article was long, but did not know another article which will reinforce my article will be on same page. I rather enjoy the whittling process, but the Bosley factor makes it painful. Also, I don’t want to knock anyone out of being quoted because they will be watching for their names.
Bosley is quietly napping in my lap while the washing machine is running downstairs. She foiled my first attempt to sneak down to the laptop to revise.
😦
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😦 Horrible, horrible migraine this morning – still lingering.
🙂 Daughter is coming today (she needs Dad to help with her income tax)
🙂 Our taxes are done and the refund should be on its way.
🙂 Beautiful sunshine outside
😦 Bitterly cold wind
🙂 Hubby says its a beautiful day for mid-January. 😦
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🙂 Purple violets and white clover blooms dot our shaggy spring lawn along with petal droppings from the Birthday tree. Pretty in a shabby chic (did I get that correct, Kim?) kind of way.
😦 Soon will have to mow them down.
😦 Pollen or something (Bosley?) is giving me a headache and nose is feeling cruddy
🙂 Getting LOTS of laundry done this week.
😦 Bosley is alert to my every move it seems. She wants to discover her new laptop toy.
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🙂 Tax documents turned in.
Janice, at least they’re letting you do the cutting — what’s really painful is when you turn in a story then they run out of space and someone late at night just HACKS your story, usually from the bottom so your perfectly crafted ending is GONE and the piece ends in some really inappropriate spot that leaves the reader hanging.
🙂 I also have purple and yellow cute things sprouting in my front yard (it’s green but I can’t really call it “grass”).
🙂 Somehow Annie, who usually sleeps perched on top of me or curled up near my knees or head, wound up underneath one of the top quilt blankets last night. I didn’t know that but could feel her gently making her way up over my legs and toward my head … until … out pops her little black-and-white face from under the top of the blanket.
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🙂 several shades of pink azaleas blooming in my yard
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OK, all of you talking about spring flowers, you’re making me jealous. 😦 But we are going to really earn our spring this year, and I intend to fully enjoy it!
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Today has been a very pleasant day. Started out with the morning house cleaning when one of the boys came out complaining because somebody had pooped in the boys’ trash can. It is suspected to be the twelve year old. But who knows and does it really matter? Anyway, the day went on. I had a nice visit with my friend in jail while the children played across the street in the park. Then we walked around town so the other twelve year old could practice crossing streets in the crosswalk. She did not know how, though we have practiced many times. If she sees a car a mile away, she races back to the curb. I explained it was not necessary and in our town we only saw one moving car and it was not headed our direction. Anyway, then we got home and an elderly friend arrived with goodies. A good day all in all.
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Poop happens.
🙂 Interesting conversation tonight at the dog park with a young teen boy & his dad (I’ve known the son and the mom for a while, but this was the first time I’d talked with the dad for any length) … Seems the son, a very articulate high school freshman theater major, is somewhat conservative politically while parents are your ‘traditional’ liberals. 🙂 Kid’s a rebel.
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May his tribe increase
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🙂 Lee is relieved to be getting refunds from both federal & state tax returns.
🙂 Daughters went dress shopping today, for their cousin’s wedding next week, & they both found very nice dresses that are tastefully elegant but not too expensive.
😦 My little guy has a cold, making him kind of grumpy.
🙂 But he’s outside playing right now with his mommy, so he’s not too sick.
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