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Month: May 2008
Indiana Jones
Well, I was worried about whether this movie would work. After all, Harrison Ford is the same generation as my parents! Some of the reviews I read seemed to pan the movie. Others enjoyed it. We took our children and one of their friends yesterday. It was a lovely evening! They DID have a lot […]
Today in the Garden…
When I woke up this morning (I slept in — luxury!), I noticed there were white spots all over the medlar. Sure enough, it’s in bloom all of a sudden! And the snowball bush has REAL snowballs again (though still a bit green). And the viburnum my neighbor planted in the gap in our hedgerow: […]
Something Pretty Mid-week
This is the tulip that I accidentally knocked off its stem last week. I put it on the kitchen windowsill, and it really brightens the space. The pretty blue dolphin is a box the elder stidkid made me last year. And a somber note, the nectarine’s leaves were truly shriveled and it just looked sick. […]
Yup, Spring!
The termites are flying. Big, ungainly, black, ant-like, winged reminders of the real rulers of the earth. I don’t mind them any more, but when I was a child, I was quite “freaked out” the first time I saw them. They mean SPRING is really here — life is looking for places to appear, the […]
My brilliant kids… and their great performance!
Okay, proud mama moment… this is one of the songs the kids played last Saturday at the local school’s Spring Swing. Sorry about the picture quality, and the sound isn’t that great either, because the battery on the video camera went dead and I finished recording the concert on my little Photosmart camera. Unfortunately, in […]
More Garden Pics
These were actually taken the day after the tree pics, but I am only just getting them pulled together! It has been a busy week (again). These first two are the pretty Lewisia in the stidkid’s rock garden. Later in the year, they stop blooming and the plants in the cement blocks begin. And this […]
Garden update
I want to boast about the later-blooming fruit trees: cherry (might actually produce enough for a pie this year), pear, apple and nectarine (though not much hope for fruit there… it has peach-leaf curl). Here are a couple pics of the blossoms. You can tell the family resemblance, I think! From the top: the european […]
Color Update
Okay, since I was home sick today anyway (stay back, you really don’t want this virus)… Here is a slightly updated look. On my browser, the light green and pink on the side works well with the new pink (I did change it a bit to make it less peachy-orange) of the header. I also […]
What is wrong with people?
TOO MANY people these days are afraid to get involved. Too many people suspect things are not right in various places and don’t investigate further, don’t ask authorities to check, don’t keep an eye out to verify or disprove suspicions. The rest of this is an emotional rant… read on if you dare!