Julie's Vacation

We get to go on vacation with our good friend Julie, who lives in Australia! Wonderful pictures of oceans and lighthouses and and and . . . dolphins! And it is autumn (see I can use that as well as fall, Julie) in Oz.

Wild Life

One of the benefits of living in the country is all the wildlife. A few nights ago, I looked south out of the kitchen window and saw a stream of deer heading up to the road. There were ten in all. They gathered at the road, then crossed it single-file. I wondered if one of them was the safety, saying cross now, kiddos. (Let's see, that's anthropomorphism, isn't it?)

This morning I looked out the same window, and darned if there wasn't a flock of turkeys coming single file down the same area. Twenty of them. A couple of them were puffed up, showing their tail feathers. I grabbed some jeans (I was in PJs) and hurriedly got dressed, raced out the door with my camera, and . . . they were gone! Sheesh. Not a peep out of them. How do 20 turkeys move so fast???

Oh. I bet you thought the title was about my wild life, right? **chuckle**

Ruins

We have ruins in Lansing. This historic warehouse burned a few months ago. The fire department is still trying to determine how the fire started, so it stands as is near downtown. A small set of pictures of the building is here.

Blog Trail

You know how it is. You visit someone on your bloglist. You click on someone in their bloglist. A whole world opens up.

Boomer Chronicles to
Amish America to
Martyrs Mirror and Bill Coleman's Amish Photography (other-worldly and wow)

Spring

Isn't quite here yet. We had a week of 25 degree F weather. We had two inches of snow, followed by rain, yesterday. Mush. The daffodils and tulips and jonquils were all knocked down by the cold weather, but are struggling back to their feet.

Cleaning windows: I'm usually a windex kind of person, but I know folks have recipes they swear by for sparkling windows. Anyone care to share?

WD-40. Don't stay home without it. 2000 uses here.

Gail has returned from vacation. One of the great things of blogging is that you get to see vacation pictures from places near and far. These are awesome, Gail!

Now back to Monday Monday

I hope everyone had a nice weekend. We shirley did. There were 24 of us at my mother's house. Now, her house is rather tiny, but somehow it can hold an awesome number of people.

The star of the show was the newest member of the clan. It has been thirteen years since the tribe has had a new little one to dote on. Caleb is a sunny happy interactive baby, and he made caused many smiles.

Next Easter there will be two little ones. Caleb's Mom's sister is expecting now. Isn't that the way things go?

The Star of Easter Dinner

Caleb is three months old now!

It's so cool to have a little one at family events now. He's a good boy, let us pass him around and hug and coo over him to our hearts' content.

Happy Easter!!!!

This is my favorite holy day. Death, burial, and . . . Resurrection!

If I come up missing

You have a 33% chance of being abducted You have a fairly good chance of being abducted. You may be somewhat skeptical about the existence of aliens, but you know that they could exist… somewhere. Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

This just in, as I visited Alice's.

Unconscious Mutterings

I say ... and you think ... ?

1. Freak :: of Nature
2. Open :: the door
3. Important :: Lesson
4. Magnetism :: Animal
5. Lap :: Top
6. Anything :: Goes
7. Match :: Light
8. Father :: Mother
9. Idea :: Thought
10. Mirror :: Mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Hope the snow won't slow the Easter Bunny down too much.

A little night music

My sleeping patterns have been out-of-whack since the nieces were here last weekend. So here I am, at 3:52 a.m., quite awake. Oops. Let's do some quizzes.

This first one I spotted over at Cindy's, and we are blog twins again!

You Are Incredibly Logical

Move over Spock - you're the new master of logic You think rationally, clearly, and quickly. A seasoned problem solver, your mind is like a computer!

How Logical Are You?

Well, this isn't a quiz, but:



Put The Big Red Button on your site

The Princess says hello

Princess Sierra Pinknose

My favorite relaxation: sitting on either of my porches, reading, letting the cats bask in the sun. There is something pretty cool about porch light.

So Happy It's Thursday!*

or S.H.I.T.*, as Susan says.

I work for a heating and air conditioning company. On Thursdays I work with our service technicians to realign their trucks to a stand inventory. It's quite a long process as we check products off on a master sheet. We have nine techs, and we're down to the last three. I normally work with the installers, so this has been a unique opportunity to work with the techs and understand their philosophies of keeping our customers happy.

Bad thing: it's cold again today. It will take awhile to warm the warehouse up to a comfortable temperature!

More fun with flickr and dumpr

With flickr and dumpr, you can make cool things like these spring eggs. Click through for the dumpr link.

Oh My! I Won!

This morning I checked my flickr mail, and had a wonderful surprise email from Paola at The Year of Living Gorgeously. My goosey picture had won their March contest which they sponsored through flickr groups. Judging was by the talented Abigail Percy. What a great way to start the week!

Big big congratulations!!!!

Kathryn, at A Mindful Life, has shared her life with us for many years now. And this weekend she has the grandest announcement: she and her husband are expecting their first child. They have passed the danger zone, and all systems are go for their little girl. What a blessing!

I bonsai'd my daffodills??!!!!

I bonsai'd my Daffodils! I didn't mean to, but I planted them Very close together. They are about 4-6 inches tall. That's a clothespin standing amongst them!

State Capitol

Capitol Dome on the way home, Wednesday, March 28th.

Unconsciously Muttering

I say ... and you think ... ?

1. Trembling :: shaking
2. Shut up :: utoh. When we were kids, "shut up" was a high no-no. You would lose your allowance for the day for uttering it. It just wasn't considered respectful. It didn't matter if you said it to a parent or a sibling . . . zip went the allowance.
3. Heights :: Mountains
4. Monica :: Lewinski
5. Delicious :: Tasty
6. Joint :: Pain
7. Ferry :: Boat, road (my brother lived on Ferry Road for 12 years)
8. Bliss :: Sublime
9. Rejection :: Hurts
10. Satisfying :: Needs are met