🙂 I have a full day of pampering–from 9-12– then I have lazing about the pool this afternoon. Today I am totally worthless–don’t expect much out of me.
Kim ain’t never worthless. Just being there is worth a lot.
😦 We are losing one of our neighbors. They are moving close to their children near Chicago.
They were important in organizing community activities.
😦 Dr. Jones, our SS teacher is still out after his fall and broken collarbone.
🙂 Dale, another classmate, is teaching from Song of Solomon tomorrow. I’m glad. I don’t know how I would handle that.
I will be teaching Ezekiel in two weeks if Dr. Jones doesn’t get back. My first lesson, regardless of the text, will be “The Nature of the Prophet”.
🙂 Finally, some warmer weather – not seasonally warm yet but I will take what I can get
🙂 Greenhouse today!!! I love walking through all the houses picking out my plants
🙂 Lots of yard work today as well, but I’m going to get my fern bed – I love ferns
😦 Husband has to work this weekend (nights) as this is the first long weekend of the summer
🙂 Barbecue at an acquaintance’s tonight. I don’t know him, but my husband does and wives and kids are all invited (and we’re supposed to bring a salad or something as he doesn’t know what a salad is)
🙂 Spring! It’s so lovely to see trees in leaf, and blossoms, and green grass, and to hear birdsong everywhere.
😦 Allergies, rain, and chilly days. Yep, this is a Midwestern spring. Spring moved down the list of my favorite seasons last time I lived in the Midwest for just those reasons.
🙂 I’m finished with several pesky editing projects I’ve had back-to-back. (My last client confused “are” and “or.” Both directions, repeatedly. Among many other issues. Yikes!)
🙂 I have photographed ten new species of bird since the beginning of the year, though not all were “great” photos. I’m making a book of bird photos and bird facts that has gotten far more complicated than I intended. Fun, but far more work than I expected. And I keep getting photos of some new species, and having to rearrange the book to incorporate it. Hopefully once it is finished it will sell a few copies (it will be expensive, so it may not), but if not, we’ll enjoy it, and someday grandkids probably will too. And I may make a couple extra copies for Christmas gifts.
🙂 My husband has gotten through a season of being sick a lot and being super busy, and he finally is in good health with nothing “extra” on the schedule for a few days. (I’ve missed him! Even when he is here in the house, he has only been half here.)
🙂 Mom really liked the Mother’s Day card with a photo of a goldfinch taken in her yard. She showed it around to everyone.
🙂 I’ll counter kare with “finally, some cooler weather.” And, ahhh, it’s so wonderful.
🙂 Woke up this morning, opened my eyes, looked out the open east-facing window toward the harbor and saw — Gray Skies! Fog! Marine Layer! I can’t tell you how sweet that sight was after a week of triple-digit temperatures and glaring sun. My house was typically still in the mid-80s at 11 p.m. Now we’re back to more normal weather for us this time of year (our “May Gray” and “June Gloom” seasons — hated that when I was a teen and was so anxious for summer & to go to the beach. But now I love our coastal foggy shrouds).
😦 The fires south of us in San Diego.
🙂 Good week at work, lots of stories with more already lined up for Monday-Tuesday.
😦 Our newspaper company is hosting a bowling get-together that’s not mandatory but … I missed the last one so feel I really need to go to this one, if not to actually bowl, at least to be *seen* by management. It’s from 4-7 on Sunday, I’ll probably go at around 4:15 and plan to scoot out of there, if possible, by 5:30. It’ll probably be fun once I’m there & it’s close to home for me. Reporters & editors from all of our papers in LA/San Bernardino counties are invited, so it’s also a chance to meet folks you only know through twitter or g-chat or texts or frantic telephone calls when stories need fixing on deadline.
😦 Still, it’s kind of like a work assignment on a weekend. I know, I sound like a party-pooper, but I love my low-key Sunday afternoons following church — a nap, some reading, a late afternoon trip to the dog park. It’s my afternoon to completely shut down before Monday comes.
Donna, all these years I had figured you in San Diego. And I sympathized with you abut the heat. In returning from a business trip to SD years ago, I sat beside a lady from SD. She said you could choose your weather in SD. You want it hot, move inland, want it cool, move to the ocean. I don’t know how true that is.
I have made several trips to LA, really El Segundo, but that’s like someone visiting CIA saying he’s going to Washington when it’s really McLean, Va.
🙂 I am with Kare on finally having some decent weather. I finally got my gardens cleaned up. I will probably go to the greenhouse next week during the day.
🙂 One of the teachers of the school my son-in-law subbed in last fall, asked her students who they would trust enough to confide in and quite a few mentioned my son-in-law. This was a surprise, since he didn’t have a long association with the students. He will being doing three internships (which are required) for school counseling next fall. It will be a lot of unpaid work. He has passed one test for that and will have another big one at some point. It seems he has found the right vocation for him.
🙂 God’s amazing creation. I have enjoyed the pictures of it on here. I also have enjoyed watching the many birds pass through recently. The oriole feeding on the hummingbird feeder, which is close to the house, is especially beautiful.
I know El Segundo well, it’s only about 15 miles north straight up the coast from me — and I grew up near there (near LAX actually), one set of cousins lived in El Segundo.
🙂 My firstborn, Emily, turned 25 (a quarter of a century!) today. She made dinner for us – pasta with sausage, peas, & sliced black olives in homemade Alfredo sauce. To go with that, Chrissy cut up some tomatoes & tossed them with balsamic vinaigrette. Dessert was Chrissy’s Apple Pan-dowdy with Vanilla Bean ice cream.
I remember being 25, seemed like I was old and didn’t have a girl friend. I knew Elvera, but she didn’t much know me. Al my friends got together and bought me a car battery for my BD.
They were tired of pushing my car to start it. 😆
I didn’t realize how much life was ahead of me at the time.
I also remember 25. I am not looking back on it from the length Chas is…but getting closer every day. I was amazed that I had lived a quarter of a CENTURY! Now I am closer to the HALF Century mark. Of course my baby is almost 17! That doesn’t seem possible. I just brought her home from the hospital not too long ago. She was here last night and we snuggled up in the queen sized rice bed and watched a movie.
Please tell Emily that lots of your friends wish her a Happy Birthday
🙂 I did get to meet a few editors from the other papers which was good as they’re the ones writing headlines on our copy, etc. And one editor was so kind in going on at some length about what a good writer I was, very nice to hear.
🙂 But since I wasn’t bowling (didn’t want to tempt fate with my neck kinks I get from time to time), it was kind of boring after a while, so I scooted out knowing I’d been seen and greeted by the head editor and so was dutifully marked as “present.” 🙂 Just not much of a partier I’m afraid.
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🙂 I have a full day of pampering–from 9-12– then I have lazing about the pool this afternoon. Today I am totally worthless–don’t expect much out of me.
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Kim ain’t never worthless. Just being there is worth a lot.
😦 We are losing one of our neighbors. They are moving close to their children near Chicago.
They were important in organizing community activities.
😦 Dr. Jones, our SS teacher is still out after his fall and broken collarbone.
🙂 Dale, another classmate, is teaching from Song of Solomon tomorrow. I’m glad. I don’t know how I would handle that.
I will be teaching Ezekiel in two weeks if Dr. Jones doesn’t get back. My first lesson, regardless of the text, will be “The Nature of the Prophet”.
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😀 My twins are graduating next Saturday
🙂 I get to hand them their diplomas
😦 My twins are graduating next Saturday
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🙂 Finally, some warmer weather – not seasonally warm yet but I will take what I can get
🙂 Greenhouse today!!! I love walking through all the houses picking out my plants
🙂 Lots of yard work today as well, but I’m going to get my fern bed – I love ferns
😦 Husband has to work this weekend (nights) as this is the first long weekend of the summer
🙂 Barbecue at an acquaintance’s tonight. I don’t know him, but my husband does and wives and kids are all invited (and we’re supposed to bring a salad or something as he doesn’t know what a salad is)
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🙂 Spring! It’s so lovely to see trees in leaf, and blossoms, and green grass, and to hear birdsong everywhere.
😦 Allergies, rain, and chilly days. Yep, this is a Midwestern spring. Spring moved down the list of my favorite seasons last time I lived in the Midwest for just those reasons.
🙂 I’m finished with several pesky editing projects I’ve had back-to-back. (My last client confused “are” and “or.” Both directions, repeatedly. Among many other issues. Yikes!)
🙂 I have photographed ten new species of bird since the beginning of the year, though not all were “great” photos. I’m making a book of bird photos and bird facts that has gotten far more complicated than I intended. Fun, but far more work than I expected. And I keep getting photos of some new species, and having to rearrange the book to incorporate it. Hopefully once it is finished it will sell a few copies (it will be expensive, so it may not), but if not, we’ll enjoy it, and someday grandkids probably will too. And I may make a couple extra copies for Christmas gifts.
🙂 My husband has gotten through a season of being sick a lot and being super busy, and he finally is in good health with nothing “extra” on the schedule for a few days. (I’ve missed him! Even when he is here in the house, he has only been half here.)
🙂 Mom really liked the Mother’s Day card with a photo of a goldfinch taken in her yard. She showed it around to everyone.
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🙂 I’ll counter kare with “finally, some cooler weather.” And, ahhh, it’s so wonderful.
🙂 Woke up this morning, opened my eyes, looked out the open east-facing window toward the harbor and saw — Gray Skies! Fog! Marine Layer! I can’t tell you how sweet that sight was after a week of triple-digit temperatures and glaring sun. My house was typically still in the mid-80s at 11 p.m. Now we’re back to more normal weather for us this time of year (our “May Gray” and “June Gloom” seasons — hated that when I was a teen and was so anxious for summer & to go to the beach. But now I love our coastal foggy shrouds).
😦 The fires south of us in San Diego.
🙂 Good week at work, lots of stories with more already lined up for Monday-Tuesday.
😦 Our newspaper company is hosting a bowling get-together that’s not mandatory but … I missed the last one so feel I really need to go to this one, if not to actually bowl, at least to be *seen* by management. It’s from 4-7 on Sunday, I’ll probably go at around 4:15 and plan to scoot out of there, if possible, by 5:30. It’ll probably be fun once I’m there & it’s close to home for me. Reporters & editors from all of our papers in LA/San Bernardino counties are invited, so it’s also a chance to meet folks you only know through twitter or g-chat or texts or frantic telephone calls when stories need fixing on deadline.
😦 Still, it’s kind of like a work assignment on a weekend. I know, I sound like a party-pooper, but I love my low-key Sunday afternoons following church — a nap, some reading, a late afternoon trip to the dog park. It’s my afternoon to completely shut down before Monday comes.
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🙂 We have a cute little duck couple hanging out every day in and around the concrete fountain outside our office building. Waiting for ducklings… ?
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😦 Rewriting is hard work.
🙂 It goes better when I have a week off from the job
🙂 Bizarre writing opportunity fell into my lap
😦 I have to work on it today, taking me away for a third day from the rewriting
🙂 Cooler weather.
🙂 Family birthday party season starts tonight (and goes for six weeks at two week intervals)
🙂 Lovely day playing hooky at Point Reyes National Seashore.
🙂 I should be back to Zumba on Monday
😦 Why am I complaining?
🙂 God is good!
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Donna, I thought all this time that you were in San Diego.
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Nope. That’s Adios. I’m LA. 🙂
🙂 Calmer winds today, by the way, are finally giving firefighters a break in getting those fires under control.
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Donna, all these years I had figured you in San Diego. And I sympathized with you abut the heat. In returning from a business trip to SD years ago, I sat beside a lady from SD. She said you could choose your weather in SD. You want it hot, move inland, want it cool, move to the ocean. I don’t know how true that is.
I have made several trips to LA, really El Segundo, but that’s like someone visiting CIA saying he’s going to Washington when it’s really McLean, Va.
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🙂 Got to walk across tha Mississippi on two different bridges!
🙂 Walked a 5k in 50 minutes. When I was a runner I could have run it in 35-40 minutes. But that was 35 or more years ago.
🙂 Only two weeks left of school! (I’ve been ready since February for this. Makes it hard to teach.)
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🙂 I am with Kare on finally having some decent weather. I finally got my gardens cleaned up. I will probably go to the greenhouse next week during the day.
🙂 One of the teachers of the school my son-in-law subbed in last fall, asked her students who they would trust enough to confide in and quite a few mentioned my son-in-law. This was a surprise, since he didn’t have a long association with the students. He will being doing three internships (which are required) for school counseling next fall. It will be a lot of unpaid work. He has passed one test for that and will have another big one at some point. It seems he has found the right vocation for him.
🙂 God’s amazing creation. I have enjoyed the pictures of it on here. I also have enjoyed watching the many birds pass through recently. The oriole feeding on the hummingbird feeder, which is close to the house, is especially beautiful.
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I know El Segundo well, it’s only about 15 miles north straight up the coast from me — and I grew up near there (near LAX actually), one set of cousins lived in El Segundo.
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🙂 My firstborn, Emily, turned 25 (a quarter of a century!) today. She made dinner for us – pasta with sausage, peas, & sliced black olives in homemade Alfredo sauce. To go with that, Chrissy cut up some tomatoes & tossed them with balsamic vinaigrette. Dessert was Chrissy’s Apple Pan-dowdy with Vanilla Bean ice cream.
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I remember being 25, seemed like I was old and didn’t have a girl friend. I knew Elvera, but she didn’t much know me. Al my friends got together and bought me a car battery for my BD.
They were tired of pushing my car to start it. 😆
I didn’t realize how much life was ahead of me at the time.
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I also remember 25. I am not looking back on it from the length Chas is…but getting closer every day. I was amazed that I had lived a quarter of a CENTURY! Now I am closer to the HALF Century mark. Of course my baby is almost 17! That doesn’t seem possible. I just brought her home from the hospital not too long ago. She was here last night and we snuggled up in the queen sized rice bed and watched a movie.
Please tell Emily that lots of your friends wish her a Happy Birthday
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🙂 I’m still 25 🙂 or at least I think that I am
🙂 Planted the first portion of the fern bed – the rest will wait until after we’ve built the back deck
🙂 Planted 6 of my planters as well, and spread fertilizer on the two gardens
🙂 🙂 🙂 It’s supposed to get to 84F later this week – wow, from winter almost straight to summer, but I’ll take it 🙂 🙂 🙂
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🙂 “Escaped” the work bowling party after an hour.
🙂 I did get to meet a few editors from the other papers which was good as they’re the ones writing headlines on our copy, etc. And one editor was so kind in going on at some length about what a good writer I was, very nice to hear.
🙂 But since I wasn’t bowling (didn’t want to tempt fate with my neck kinks I get from time to time), it was kind of boring after a while, so I scooted out knowing I’d been seen and greeted by the head editor and so was dutifully marked as “present.” 🙂 Just not much of a partier I’m afraid.
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