😦 Squirrel knocked my hummingbird feeder into the pyracanthia bush. I thought he had destroyed it, but I found all the parts.
🙂 I finally got all the bushes in front of the house trimmed. If you look at the snow covered bushes on #11 on the sidebar, all of them had to be trimmed. Twenty years ago, I could have done that on a Saturday morning. Now it takes a couple of days.
😦 Not finished yet. I have some on the side and back to do. I will also need a ladder to get to some of them. It will be tough holding onto a ladder with one hand and a trimmer in the other.
First you should cut down the pyracanthia and poison the roots. Neither George nor my dad would cut down the one in front of my house. I had watched people swinging an axe. Thankfully they hauled it away for me once I got it down. 😉
😦 How fast evil has now become good. How fast those doing right are vilified. No surprise, since Jesus said it would be so. However, even my grown children are dismayed at the descent of our country’s values. They have no way of realizing the descent from when I was young and that was in the fifties and sixties.
🙂 That my grown up children DO realize it and fight it. That they seek to teach their children what is true and right. That they seek to lead them to the Lord.
😦 Family members who seek to vilify rather than give you the benefit of the doubt, although you give them that benefit.
🙂 A lovely birthday yesterday. Some great time with hubby (including an excellent meal at a new-to-us restaurant–my in-laws had been there more than once).
🙂 A husband who makes a layer cake when it is his wife’s birthday.
😦 My husband has been using one candle per decade, and he rounded up to five. (That’s three years away.)
🙂 I’ve had fun making the books of photos of the family reunion. I even made them in a way where people have choices which to buy. (Do you want the 40-page or 60-page version, big or small page size, in paperback or hardcover? Most of us are choosing the hardcover 60-page large-page size for the household and smaller 40-page paperbacks for each child.)
🙂 Happy resolution to a family crisis.
🙂 or 😦 My birthday dinner yesterday wasn’t exactly a “party” (though I did dress up and ask my husband to wear a tie), but if you count it as a party, it was the first of four days in a row of family parties. Brother-in-law’s retirement today, niece’s baby shower tomorrow, daughter’s college graduation (the only one we’re hosting) Monday. I’m the only one who “has to” go to all four, though my husband may go out with the family’s men during the baby shower, as they usually do during girl events.
🙂 I just went out to get the mail and took my camera since I knew we had some wildflowers blooming a little ways down the street. Well, not only did I get photos of wild roses and some lovely flowers I’ve never seen before, but two species of butterflies (and some bees) showed up and posed for me.
😦 I just saw the same snake again. Same place.
😦 If I see him again, I’ll have to kill him. No matter how harmless, I can’t have a snake hanging around my front door.
Front porch. The snake was on a bush just off the front porch.
Kim gave me an idea. My back deck/porch is 16 feet off the ground. From the back, it looked like four ugly posts hanging it up. So, I planted the pyracanthas as a visual shield. Later, I planted some cedars. The cedars now are huge. I wish they were half that size, but they completely shield the posts. So, I don’t need those pyracanthas. But the birds love to nest there. So, this fall, I will trim them severely. I do like the pretty berries in the fall.
Chas, can you set up a trap to catch the snake and let him out in a forest or call animal control (when the one who would be frightened is away for a bit)?
Husband had a nice suggestion that on our way to work we stop for breakfast at Old Hickory House. 🙂
While there we sat near a group of people with one dominating man who used offensive language including the “F” word numerous times. Also the one lady with the group had a grating laugh. At times I put my hands over my ears. I almost asked for another table. 😦 Finally they left.
😦 Canada thistle sounds as annoying and stubborn as our California foxtails. I’ve been fighting those for years in my backyard, but this year there were fewer than ever so maybe I’m winning the battle … ?
🙂 Annie’s never brought me a snake, only lizards. And mice/rats.
🙂 It’s 82 today and there was a “pre-” 4th of July celebration at the harbor last night, complete with professional fireworks and a classic car show. Even so, I noticed all the fall/harvest crafty things (pumpkins, scarecrows) out on the shelves at the local fabric/craft store today. I suppose the 4th of July things were out at least 1-2 months ago and are long gone. By August, there should be the first hints of Christmas there.
🙂 The 4th of July holiday is on a Friday this year. That’s much appreciated by us working folk. Nothing worse than when holidays land on a Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday and become an awkward “orphan” holiday smack in the middle of the week.
🙂 We have an awkward Tuesday holiday this week. My work decided coming back to work for just one day on Monday did not make sense, so extra long weekend! 🙂
I have NEVER understood why US Thanksgiving was not on a Monday or Friday like Canada’s. At least we always have a long weekend, even if we have to check which one in October it is. 🙂
I think there has been talk about moving Thanksgiving to a Friday, but most everyone gets a 4-day weekend out of it nowadays so they’d get short-changed if that happened.
Businesses that need to operate 24/7 require employees to drag in for that single Friday-after work day (and at least need a few folks to work even on Thursday as well to keep things running). 😦
Wonder what day of the week Christmas & New Year’s fall on this year?
That works out well for Canada, as we get the 26th as a statutory holiday as well! 🙂
I once had to make hotel reservations and got their answering machine. They said the hours they were open, when the were closed, “including statuary holidays”. I wondered which statues had holidays 🙂
Seriously Donna. None of you know how it is to have been doing something important all your life. He pastored churches in Ky. & SC, and taught here and worked at the genealogy society. Suddenly, he’s useless, in the way, his kids are debating what to do with him. HIs kids want to do what is best. But they can’t keep him here and he can’t live alone. And it’s just as tough on the kids. I went through the “What are we going to do about dad?” thing. Only it was both parents. Some of you may be experiencing that about now. It isn’t pleasant.
One of the reasons I didn’t want to leave Virginia was because I was afraid I wouldn’t have anything to do. Well, I have plenty to do. Not that I want to do all of it. But plenty to do.
But the decision to move turned out well. I’m glad I’m not up there now.
Both my parents died before those kinds of decisions had to be made, though I’ve seen other family members & older friends go through it close-up.
I remember my mom telling me once (I think we were talking about someone turning 100) that she had no desire to ever live that long. I thought she was being morbid at the time. But I “get it” now.
Still, good to know that the number of our days, be they many or few, are in the Lord’s hands and will have a divine purpose, that he can and will use us, regardless of the physical or mental weaknesses that may come.
My folks are both gone and my mom died at 54, which is why I never mind telling folks my age, I am blessed to be 65. It is another way that God gave me the freedom to come and to stay for so long.
I was in the process of making the decision “what to do about Mom” when she died. I was researching assisted living near me (she liked that idea), but hadn’t even received the brochures in the mail after making the phone calls, and she was gone. It was a better ending, to die of a quick heart attack. And I knew that she actually didn’t want to leave Phoenix, though she was reconciled that she probably had to do so; so I was at peace with it, even though it was in one sense sudden. (I didn’t think she would live much longer, so it was actually more of a “surprise” to my sister, who had read that women who bear children over 40 have a greatly increased chance of living to be 100, so she thought that Mom, with three children past 40, was likely to be in that camp. But no, by God’s numbering, she was in the live-to-be-78 camp.)
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😦 Squirrel knocked my hummingbird feeder into the pyracanthia bush. I thought he had destroyed it, but I found all the parts.
🙂 I finally got all the bushes in front of the house trimmed. If you look at the snow covered bushes on #11 on the sidebar, all of them had to be trimmed. Twenty years ago, I could have done that on a Saturday morning. Now it takes a couple of days.
😦 Not finished yet. I have some on the side and back to do. I will also need a ladder to get to some of them. It will be tough holding onto a ladder with one hand and a trimmer in the other.
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“It will be tough holding onto a ladder with one hand and a trimmer in the other.” 😮
Exactly. What could go wrong?
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First you should cut down the pyracanthia and poison the roots. Neither George nor my dad would cut down the one in front of my house. I had watched people swinging an axe. Thankfully they hauled it away for me once I got it down. 😉
Oh, and I still have all my toes.
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😦 How fast evil has now become good. How fast those doing right are vilified. No surprise, since Jesus said it would be so. However, even my grown children are dismayed at the descent of our country’s values. They have no way of realizing the descent from when I was young and that was in the fifties and sixties.
🙂 That my grown up children DO realize it and fight it. That they seek to teach their children what is true and right. That they seek to lead them to the Lord.
😦 Family members who seek to vilify rather than give you the benefit of the doubt, although you give them that benefit.
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🙂 A lovely birthday yesterday. Some great time with hubby (including an excellent meal at a new-to-us restaurant–my in-laws had been there more than once).
🙂 A husband who makes a layer cake when it is his wife’s birthday.
😦 My husband has been using one candle per decade, and he rounded up to five. (That’s three years away.)
🙂 I’ve had fun making the books of photos of the family reunion. I even made them in a way where people have choices which to buy. (Do you want the 40-page or 60-page version, big or small page size, in paperback or hardcover? Most of us are choosing the hardcover 60-page large-page size for the household and smaller 40-page paperbacks for each child.)
🙂 Happy resolution to a family crisis.
🙂 or 😦 My birthday dinner yesterday wasn’t exactly a “party” (though I did dress up and ask my husband to wear a tie), but if you count it as a party, it was the first of four days in a row of family parties. Brother-in-law’s retirement today, niece’s baby shower tomorrow, daughter’s college graduation (the only one we’re hosting) Monday. I’m the only one who “has to” go to all four, though my husband may go out with the family’s men during the baby shower, as they usually do during girl events.
🙂 I just went out to get the mail and took my camera since I knew we had some wildflowers blooming a little ways down the street. Well, not only did I get photos of wild roses and some lovely flowers I’ve never seen before, but two species of butterflies (and some bees) showed up and posed for me.
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😦 I just saw the same snake again. Same place.
😦 If I see him again, I’ll have to kill him. No matter how harmless, I can’t have a snake hanging around my front door.
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Front porch. The snake was on a bush just off the front porch.
Kim gave me an idea. My back deck/porch is 16 feet off the ground. From the back, it looked like four ugly posts hanging it up. So, I planted the pyracanthas as a visual shield. Later, I planted some cedars. The cedars now are huge. I wish they were half that size, but they completely shield the posts. So, I don’t need those pyracanthas. But the birds love to nest there. So, this fall, I will trim them severely. I do like the pretty berries in the fall.
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Chas, can you set up a trap to catch the snake and let him out in a forest or call animal control (when the one who would be frightened is away for a bit)?
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Husband had a nice suggestion that on our way to work we stop for breakfast at Old Hickory House. 🙂
While there we sat near a group of people with one dominating man who used offensive language including the “F” word numerous times. Also the one lady with the group had a grating laugh. At times I put my hands over my ears. I almost asked for another table. 😦 Finally they left.
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I would rather have a nonvenomous snake by my front door than the mice it eats or the poisonous one that would replace it.
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🙂 What Mumsee said about the snake – me too.
🙂 Hottest day of the summer, so far
🙂 Lawn is mowed and trimmed
🙂 Garden has been fully weeded
🙂 Enjoying the heat
🙂 Cooling off and drinking lots of water right now
😦 Husband is napping as he is on nights this long weekend
🙂 Long weekend!!!
🙂 Not one Canada thistle in my garden!!!! This is amazing as we have been fighting a huge infection since we moved here.
😦 Lots of chickweed, however.
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Infestation, not infection 😦
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😦 Canada thistle sounds as annoying and stubborn as our California foxtails. I’ve been fighting those for years in my backyard, but this year there were fewer than ever so maybe I’m winning the battle … ?
🙂 Annie’s never brought me a snake, only lizards. And mice/rats.
🙂 It’s 82 today and there was a “pre-” 4th of July celebration at the harbor last night, complete with professional fireworks and a classic car show. Even so, I noticed all the fall/harvest crafty things (pumpkins, scarecrows) out on the shelves at the local fabric/craft store today. I suppose the 4th of July things were out at least 1-2 months ago and are long gone. By August, there should be the first hints of Christmas there.
🙂 The 4th of July holiday is on a Friday this year. That’s much appreciated by us working folk. Nothing worse than when holidays land on a Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday and become an awkward “orphan” holiday smack in the middle of the week.
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🙂 We have an awkward Tuesday holiday this week. My work decided coming back to work for just one day on Monday did not make sense, so extra long weekend! 🙂
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🙂 Working on my resume
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Long weekend — good for you, Kare. We never get those. One of the hardest days to work is the Friday after Thanksgiving. 😦
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I have NEVER understood why US Thanksgiving was not on a Monday or Friday like Canada’s. At least we always have a long weekend, even if we have to check which one in October it is. 🙂
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I think there has been talk about moving Thanksgiving to a Friday, but most everyone gets a 4-day weekend out of it nowadays so they’d get short-changed if that happened.
Businesses that need to operate 24/7 require employees to drag in for that single Friday-after work day (and at least need a few folks to work even on Thursday as well to keep things running). 😦
Wonder what day of the week Christmas & New Year’s fall on this year?
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Ah. Thursday. Of course.
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That works out well for Canada, as we get the 26th as a statutory holiday as well! 🙂
I once had to make hotel reservations and got their answering machine. They said the hours they were open, when the were closed, “including statuary holidays”. I wondered which statues had holidays 🙂
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😦 Dr. Jones taught his last SS lesson today. The kids are trying to decide what to do with him.
😦 I am the new SS teacher. I could see it coming.
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Someone suggested changing “The Washington Redskins” to “The Washington Talking Heads”.
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Blessings Chas. You’ll do good. 🙂
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And prayers for Dr. Jones.
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Seriously Donna. None of you know how it is to have been doing something important all your life. He pastored churches in Ky. & SC, and taught here and worked at the genealogy society. Suddenly, he’s useless, in the way, his kids are debating what to do with him. HIs kids want to do what is best. But they can’t keep him here and he can’t live alone. And it’s just as tough on the kids. I went through the “What are we going to do about dad?” thing. Only it was both parents. Some of you may be experiencing that about now. It isn’t pleasant.
One of the reasons I didn’t want to leave Virginia was because I was afraid I wouldn’t have anything to do. Well, I have plenty to do. Not that I want to do all of it. But plenty to do.
But the decision to move turned out well. I’m glad I’m not up there now.
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Both my parents died before those kinds of decisions had to be made, though I’ve seen other family members & older friends go through it close-up.
I remember my mom telling me once (I think we were talking about someone turning 100) that she had no desire to ever live that long. I thought she was being morbid at the time. But I “get it” now.
Still, good to know that the number of our days, be they many or few, are in the Lord’s hands and will have a divine purpose, that he can and will use us, regardless of the physical or mental weaknesses that may come.
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My folks are both gone and my mom died at 54, which is why I never mind telling folks my age, I am blessed to be 65. It is another way that God gave me the freedom to come and to stay for so long.
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I was in the process of making the decision “what to do about Mom” when she died. I was researching assisted living near me (she liked that idea), but hadn’t even received the brochures in the mail after making the phone calls, and she was gone. It was a better ending, to die of a quick heart attack. And I knew that she actually didn’t want to leave Phoenix, though she was reconciled that she probably had to do so; so I was at peace with it, even though it was in one sense sudden. (I didn’t think she would live much longer, so it was actually more of a “surprise” to my sister, who had read that women who bear children over 40 have a greatly increased chance of living to be 100, so she thought that Mom, with three children past 40, was likely to be in that camp. But no, by God’s numbering, she was in the live-to-be-78 camp.)
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