• Musings from a 40-year-old

    What does the world look like once you are in your 40’s? Pretty much like it did, for me, in my 30’s. Granted, it just the matter of a few weeks of comparison … But aside from that, one can take stock of their dreams and consider what they haven’t accomplished yet. That’s something I’ve…

  • Pre-birthday-ish stuff

    My birthday is tomorrow … so this is the last day for me to write when in my 30’s :veryshocked: I’ve had the ability to get a few “b-day presents” ahead of time, with me saying the other day “every day from now thru my birthday is my birthday” –meaning to “treat me nice” the…

  • Dog Days

    I was sitting at my laptop (which I am also doing right now) and noticed that it had been getting rather much darker … so absorbed in looking at something I didn’t notice it starting, as I usually do. It’s been a hard last few days, with DH out again, and him not supposed to…

  • Happy Birthday Sis!

    Happy Birthday to my sister Debbie! July is a big birthday month, we have other relatives with July birthdays, and in my family growing up it was our dad on the 9th, sister on the 11th, me on the 18th, and then there was my dad’s brother on the 4th, then one sister married another…

  • Hawklady’s Saga, and others

    My Hawklady went through a horrible time this past month, with first an egg-bound-like condition that I helped her get over (with attention and warm baths, in a cat carrier away from the others entirely) and then she went back outside to her normal space acting like her good old self, very chipper and active,…

  • Bird Nest Updates

    I was outside “checking nest sites” –bird nests in trees in our backyard. One nest that was in the very back has a Northern Mockingbird sitting (on some eggs, most likely) –it’s a high nest, too high to see into without a huge ladder. The Robin’s Eggs that I posted on June 29th are done…

  • News of the Dog

    I wanted to let anyone who knew that we had a new dog that we gave him back to the adoption folks. He wasn’t working out in our home. Thanks

  • Happy Birthday Greetings

    Happy Birthday to my Dh! He’s now two years older than me, for about a week in length. 😉 July is about Fireworks, Baseball, etc. The All-Star Game is always right before, on, or after this day of DH’s birth, so … for you … A Virtual Birthday Cake Enjoy!

  • Fixing my own printer – Epson CX4600

    I’m not the type to “do a Snoopy dance” i.e. dance around in glee about something as Snoopy the dog of The Peanuts fame. I have a virtual model of that going on though, I’m giddy inside with pleasure. I had troubles with printing on my Epson CX4600 in the last few months, but didn’t…

  • The 4th Fireworks 2006

    Last night (Fourth of July 2006) we had some ‘fireworks’ at our house. Firecrackers I had gotten last year for my birthday and hoarded most of them until this year (my birthday is two weeks after The 4th), and a package we had gotten from Costco this past week. They had TNT firework bundles, we…

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Sun in Fog

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Peak Full Solar Eclipse

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Partial Lunar Eclipse

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