Good Morning!
I didn’t realize it when I took it, but I got a twofer! 🙂
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And this one is from Cheryl. I live in an area with lots of geese, but I have to tell you, I’ve never seen them on a roof before! It cracks me up. Thankfully they don’t do that around here. 🙂
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On this day in 1835 James Gordon Bennett published the “New York Herald” for the first time.
In 1851 the mechanical refrigerator was patented by Dr. John Gorrie.
In 1937 the German airship Hindenburg crashed and burned in Lakehurst, NJ. Thirty-six people (of the 97 on board) were killed.
And in 1957 U.S. Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book “Profiles in Courage”.
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Quote of the Day
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.” 🙂
Sigmund Freud
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Today is Georges Adolphe Hue’s birthday. From the very talented Amy Porter @ (porterflute)
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Wandering Views 
There is very strong evidence that Jackie really wrote Profiles in Courage.
Last week when AJ posted that a day was when air conditioning was patented, I made the comment that some say it forever changed the South.With refrigeration I have to think, where would we be without it. All you have to do is suffer through a few days without power to realize how much of our food depends on it.
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Sorry, my mistake Sorenson probably wrote it.
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HUMBUG!
Somebody in this house overslept this morning.
I have been running 30 minutes behind ever since.
We used to have lots of geese around here, but haven’t seen any lately.
What’s up?
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😯
Mary is in Central Park.
Every morning I check my “find friends” on my iPhone.to see if my people are where they’re supposed to be.
It says Mary is in Central Park
CENTRAL PARK!
Now what is Mary doing in Central Park?
Mary will be 30 tomorrow, so I suppose she can go to Central Park whenever she wants.
And It’s just like Mary.
I should call her.
Maybe tomorrow.
😉
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Chas, Canada geese used to be quite rare, to the point that they were reintroducing populations of them . . . this is according to Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s website (allaboutbirds.org, a great website): “The ‘giant’ Canada Goose, Branta canadensis maxima, bred from central Manitoba to Kentucky but was nearly driven extinct in the early 1900s. Programs to reestablish the subspecies to its original range were in many places so successful that the geese have become a nuisance in many urban and suburban areas.”
That’s most definitely the case here–they’re everywhere. The zoo has hundreds of them, with females on nests all over. (I think the keepers destroy eggs if they find the nests soon enough, but last year they had to wait to put the pelicans on display since Canada geese were nesting in their exhibit–they said there would be a bloody fight, and though the pelicans would probably win, they didn’t want them hurt in the process.) But if you want a photo of three zebras, there will be two or three geese in the photo too. When it rains, small temporary ponds collect in people’s yards and in farmer’s fields, and it isn’t uncommon to find geese swimming in someone’s front yard, or a dozen of them walking across the grass in the park. Unfortunately, one of the “activities for children” that the zoo has is putting in a quarter and getting a couple handfuls of feed for the geese . . . well, it’s counterproductive to feed them and consider them pests at the same time! But how do you take something away from children when they aren’t even your own children?
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If you visit Broadway at the Beach at Myrtle Beach, you can put a quarter in a machine and get a handful of stuff to feed the fish. Lots of people do that. Elvera has done that.
But not this tightwoad.
😉
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This year we don’t have the hoards of Canadian Geese that used to terrorize my dog at the park. It’s refreshing but a puzzle. Terribly messy and mean birds.
I should introduce my cat to them . . .
Except, two blue jays have decided my old cat is not welcome in their newly discovered back yard.
They must have a nest nearby, probably in the dense yew tree leaning over the fence, but they should get frantic when her highness deigns to step outside into the sunshine.
I’ve had to rescue the cat twice now . . .
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I have seen birds, I think they were mockingbirds, literally torment a cat. Whey (2) would swoop down from the back and peck it’s head. Then fly away for another attack.
The cat left the area/
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Nest guarding going on.
I have a big, tangly, tall bush next to the side of the house (that badly needs some serious trimming and chopping). Annie loves to sit inside and watch the birds in that bush in the mornings (I have a pair of tall French windows right there). We also have seen, at night, a raccoon scrambling up the bush. Annie likes watching him.
I had the weirdest dreams last night — think space ships, end of the world & my having to pause before boarding because I was looking for my Excedrin in my bag. I had such a headache over all of it.
Really kind of creepy.
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I am dreading today, I have a late assignment — school board meeting at 5 followed by a speech — so I’ll be writing on deadline from home or from the hotel where it’s all being held. (anyone else using that personal wifi hotspot you can access through your phone now? What a great invention.)
There could be some drama or fireworks — or, more likely I think, because it will be pretty well staged — it could be a real yawner. That would make the story easier to write.
Still, I wish I didn’t have to go at all …
Where’s that escape-the-world spaceship when I need it?
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Living so close to the river means being on the migration route. We have hoards of geese flying overhead, making lots of noise. The worst thing is the state park nearby. They go there and leave their calling cards everywhere, meaning one has to watch where the foot goes. The state has allowed open hunting of them since they are causing too much damage to the tundra. But I’m not sure if it’s the snow geese or the Canada geese that anyone can hunt.
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Lyme Disease
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/05/06/lyme-disease-debate-can-condition-be-chronic/?intcmp=ob_homepage_dont_miss&intcmp=obnetwork
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Long ago, our first fall in New England, I went out at dusk to the garbage pail. Suddenly the air filled with an odd honking, squawking sound.
Honestly, my mind went to Close Encounters of the Third Kind (which had just come out) and I glanced around at all the other garbage can lids wondering if they would begin to rattle.
So eerie.
Then again, the sound and I looked up: a vee line of geese flying south and calling among themselves!
I like to watch them now, but like Peter, hate to walk through where they’ve been at the park.
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We have geese in our area, but not so many as to feel invaded. I love to hear them fly over.
I never knew that Freud was a cat person. Quite sensible!
I went to our WMU meeting this a.m. We had a program about Israel by our former state director who had just returned from there. She had lovely photos from her travels.
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Hubby is well-known at the local auto parts store, where he frequently buys parts to make repairs on our vehicles.
A bill came recently for the latest charges he’d made, and because the mail is so slow and the bill due date soon, I stopped by the store yesterday to pay it right then.
I went up to the service desk, told them my purpose in being there, and identified who my husband is.
The man I spoke to replied, “Oh, and you’re willing to admit to that?” 😀
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6 Arrows. That’s a guy thing. I wouldn’t take it seriously.
It’s really an affectionate stab.
Next time he see’s your husband, he’s likely to say, “How did you get a woman like that?”
Mel was my friend years ago. He met Polly through me.
I mention. “He blames me for all that”.
Or. “He used to be a friend, now he’s kin.”
When I grow up, I want to be the man who says telephone numbers on TV.
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You guys are all funny. 😉 The guy who said it had a big grin on his face — it was definitely all in fun.
Hubby chuckled, too, when I told him about it later. He knows those guys and their sense of humor, and they’re probably quite familiar with hubby’s. 🙂
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Off to give a piano lesson now.
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I just mowed the lawn and taking a break before getting cleaned up to go to church. My eyes are burning from allergies and salt. I am all sweaty and you know who thinks it’s time to cuddle. Now my knee is aching. I will definitely need prayer at prayer group!
Husband and I went to Outback last night. I think it was our first meal out at a restaurant this year. We might have to start doing that more often, and maybe we can get back to the movies I was getting from the library.
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I am thinking i will have a happy hour drink of water with aspirin right away! Then I can at least feel like smiling at church! 🙂
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Great piano lesson. Yesterday’s was, too.
My student today was dropped off by his grandmother and picked up by the mom of yesterday’s student. 🙂 (My students’ dads are first cousins.)
The boy (today’s student) was putting on his shoes in the entryway after his lesson was over, and the girl (yesterday’s student) and her little brother came running onto my porch and opened my front door, all excited to pick up their cousin. Fun kids. 😉
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I mowed today, also, for about three hours. But It will be a long time before the lawn is done. If I mow several hours every day but Sunday, I can keep up with it. Husband bought me a riding mower but I am currently using it as a tractor, carting my Christmas dirt around so it does not have the blades. But walking behind the mower is much more therapeutic and does a better job so for now, that is what I am doing. And….I am still of the blood pressure meds!
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I probably haven’t mowed in the last half of my life.
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I enjoy mowing. It is relaxing and easy. And it looks like I actually have accomplished something at the end of the day. It also looks like I have a lot to do tomorrow. A purpose in life. Protecting my family from rattle snakes.
We ought to have lots of rattlesnakes this year as we are being inundated with mice and voles and gophers this year. Ugh.
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We don’t get enough moisture to warrant mowing. If grass or weeds get tall, I just stake a cow out nearby and let them take care of the problem.
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The goats take care of about half of my yard, but the other half has things I want to grow so they are not allowed there.
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I just went out and rescued the snowball again. Put him in the garage. I used a fence post to fight off the other one.
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Long day at work…lots of Mother’s day shoppers 🙂 We have had rain, hail, thunder and lightening today….Sunday…we are supposed to get 1-3 inches of snow….it snowed last year on Mother’s Day….it’s becoming a tradition around these parts 🙂
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Re the photo of the geese on the roof (one flying off it, and one still on): that was the hospital in Indianapolis, where I went with a family member a few weeks ago. Geese were apparently migrating through, and all day I could hear them and see them flying by, or landing for a while, in pairs. We actually had quite a few pairs on the roof over the course of the day, and no, I hadn’t seen them on a roof before either, but something about that flat roof must have attracted them. I also saw one male Mallard land on the roof, though I didn’t send AJ any photos of that. (I did send him a close-up or two of the duck taken after it landed on the ground, but the ones on the roof weren’t that great.) The photo of the bee on the azalea was taken that same day.
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I have never mowed a yard, or anything else for that matter. But both my daughters have, & my husband, of course.
Since she moved back home with Forrest, about three & a half years ago, it has been Emily who usually mows the lawn. She greatly enjoys yard/outdoor work in all seasons. That has been such a blessing for us. Forrest likes to help as much as he can, too.
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The house I own here has no lawn! Lots of rosemary planted on the hillside
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I mowed lawns a few times as a child–I hated it. I think I was allergic to the grass we had, since I would get a really awful headache afterward. I never said anything about it, since I thought it would be heard as an excuse, but I really hated doing it. Didn’t mind it too much in Nashville . . . but was happy enough to marry and hand that job over! My husband sometimes does it, and our younger daughter sometimes does it, but do far I haven’t had to learn to use the riding mower. (Someday I will, but with two people in the house who use it, I don’t have to and I don’t want to. Not really my thing.)
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I have a Mexican gardener who takes care of just the basics (mowing, some trimming) twice month.
But most everyone here now has let their lawns die due to the drought and water restrictions, so there’s not as much to take care of. His price went up recently though.
I made it through the night assignment which was longer than expected — but happily I didn’t have to file the story tonight on deadline, I’ll turn it in tomorrow. That helped. I got mentioned a couple times in the speech & meeting I was covering, which was weird.
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I used to help my dad mow sometimes, but I knew when I moved in here that I’d be lax at doing it. So having a gardener made sense.
Nancyjill’s post reminds me I still need to find some kind of a Mother’s Day story to go with a larger piece on foster moms. Mine has to be local (with local people quoted and featured), it doesn’t have to be on fosters, but that would make the most sense.
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Donna are there families who attend your church that foster children….or is there a local adoption agency that could put you in contact with a foster family? …. too bad you can’t make Mumsee a “local” and get a quote from her 🙂
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I know of one family who were long-term fosters — planning to adopt if possible — but wound up losing the children when the parents in Mexico decided they wanted them back. Hard, because the situation the young children were going back into was not a good one (drug issues, etc.), but not much they could do. Still, it was a very sad parting.
I can probably find someone, just not feeling the energy this week I guess, plus I have a couple other stories to finish up today and tomorrow …
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