Please Pass the Painkillers

Don’t know what happened to the first version of this posting, so here is the rewrite!
So Saturday was it.  No more excuses, no more procrastinating, no more dilly dallying, it was time.  I raked leaves.
I recruited help in the form of B and NoMH.  Told them I’d be starting right at 8am, they said there [...]

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Pluto Rocks!

With full apologies to Jason Kotkke, as I found this on his website.  I thought it was a riot, and yes, he did the right thing!  I have copied in its entirety:
Bringing Pluto back to the solar system
Meg bought Ollie this ball a couple of weeks ago. It’s got all the planets of the solar [...]

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The one time I don’t have my camera with me . . . .

So today I was out running errands.  [Since I am unemployed, it's become a task in efficiency for me--see how many places I can get to with the shortest amount of driving to accomplish the maximum amount of things on my list.  I even made it 3 1/2 weeks without filling my gas tank--a new [...]

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Thought for the day

Drizzly rain outside + snoring dog and cat = little motivation to do anything yourself.

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Anything for the kids!

So it was 102 degrees outside today, with a heat index of another seven degrees I think.  So what did I do?
Worked outside all day.
Today was a fund raising golf tournament for Prevent Blindness.  I have worked it for six or seven years now, and it’s a fantastic cause.  I would have gone regardless.  But [...]

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Special Olympics and Best Friends

So today was the hottest day of the year. I don’t do hot weather, that’s a given, yet for some reason a few weeks ago I decided to sign myself and B up to cheer at the Special Olympics for the tennis matches. The AC must have been off at work that day [...]

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Waiting for the rain

So I have this thing . . . I love thunderstorms.  Good, old fashioned thunderstorms, especially if they’re during the day.  I could spend the day on the porch in a rocking chair enjoying the weather.  Well, I could if I had a porch.  Or a rocking chair for that matter.
Tonight I’m enjoying the twilight [...]

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Busy Saturday!

Finally! A Saturday with absolutely gorgeous weather, light breeze, no clouds, and not too hot. So this morning, after I had breakfast, I picked up B and NoMH for a trip “to the middle of nowhere” according to NoMH. Actually, we just went to the other side of the river and west [...]

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Before and After

Tonight I came home from work and noticed that the Iris by the mailbox had flowered. Note I said the Iris, not the irises. There’s supposed to be a half dozen or more, this year I got just one. Isn’t it pretty?

Now, the Iris is not my favorite flower.

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Thunder, Lightning, and no Rain

I’m sitting in my recliner, typing away, and there is the most fantastic thunderstorm going on outside.  Only there is no rain.  Lightning, rumbling, heavy claps of thunder, and not a drop of water anywhere.  Still kind of cool, though!  Plus it made the temperature drop by several degrees, which I always like!  The thunder [...]

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Rainy Day Sunday

Around 2am, we heard thunder. I had to stop and think about it because, well, we haven’t had a decent rainstorm in quite awhile much less a thunderstorm. It is now 8pm and it’s still raining. It’s the kind of day that makes you want to stay in, lounge around in sweatpants, [...]

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Musings on Mother Nature

Let’s make one thing perfectly clear.
I do not like hot weather.
I am all for sunshine-y days and the flowers of spring, the winds of change, the foliage of fall, and snow is a beautiful thing. But hot weather is not my thing. Let’s face it–in the winter, if you are cold, you simply add [...]

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