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The unexpected.....
Sometimes I just want to shout “Wait! This isn’t what I expected to happen.” It seems like the last few months have been full of the unexpected.
- I didn’t expect to be in Medicine Hat, Canada, the last week of October. And I certainly didn’t expect to wake up the first morning there to see their first snow of the year falling.
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Random thoughts:
Fall has arrived in Florida. We’ve actually had a week of not running the AC. -In early October. This is unprecedented!
The hummingbirds are making their last forages for nectar in the flowerbed outside the kitchen window before they head across the Caribbean.
The two yard cats have now been trained to eat at their own feeding stations and ( Read more... ) -
It’s not my story but I have to share it….
So two of my sisters went to the grocery store together. Pepsi was on sale and they were going to stock up. They pushed their carts to the Pepsi aisle and started to load them up.
As Ruthanne was lifting a two liter bottle from the top shelf, it slipped from her grasp and smashed to the floor, bursting the top off. When Diane turned to see what ( Read more... ) -
Don’t let the bedbugs bite!
When I was a kid, my mother had a little sing-song poem she would sometimes say to us at bed time: “Good night. Sleep tight. Don’t let the bedbugs bite.” It never occurred to me that there were such things as real insects called bedbugs. As a child, I always thought they were cute imaginary bugs in a poem. Turns out I was wrong.
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On yard cats and veterinarians….
Ginger, a beautiful orange tabby, started frequenting our yard about year ago. When I would put out a bowl of dry food, skittish Ginger would run away and wait at a distance until I left before eating.
I had been feeding Ginger for about two months when yard cat #2 showed up. This cat was a disaster. He looked like an old dirty mop. His ( Read more... ) -
Saturday morning.....
It's a late July Saturday morning. As I sit down at the kitchen table to eat breakfast, I hear a soft "purr-ow." I glance under my chair. "Good morning, Hallie," I say.
Several birds are flitting around on the bird feeders outside the window--cardinals, a tufted titmouse, a painted bunting. I can hear cat #2, Georgie, doing his "bird talking" ( Read more... ) -
Technology is going to be the undoing of me…..
Maybe I was sensing trouble ahead on Sunday morning when I arrived for the 8:00 a.m. practice. For some reason I asked the leader if I could play the piano instead of the keyboard. We weren’t far into the first song when the drummer called a halt. It seems that the piano was lagging behind the beat. This has to do with the fact that the piano ( Read more... ) -
Molly and McGee: It was amazing and I was there!
I first found out about “The Owl Box” around March 4. A southern California a retiree named Carlos Royal was streaming video on the internet of a mother barn owl sitting on six eggs in an owl box in his backyard. Molly (the owl) was totally oblivious to the fact that she was being watched by people all over the world 24/7 via a web cam ( Read more... ) -
So excited.....
For some time, I have been wanting to upgrade my keyboard playing for the worship team. Taking an old classical hymn piano player and making her into a POP style worship team keyboard player is a bit of a challenge. I don’t think it would have been doable at all without my Sansa Clip player. From the very beginning, I would record the practices ( Read more... ) -
The great dog chase…
It started out as a normal Monday. I was on my way to a meeting and stopped to pick up a friend and her daughters. When I walked up to the house, she and the girls were in the front yard in total panic. “The dog got out!” they yelled ( Read more... )