It's Thursday - It Really Is...

This week I'm on Winter break so I have lots of time to get into trouble! I intentionally did NOT go visit my sis or parents or anyone/place else as I wanted to get loads of cr*p either purged out of our home or just taken care of. Must say I've been fairly successful in this endeavor - but MAN, it depresses astounds me how much there is yet to be done! How the hell did we collect all this stuff???

On other fronts, I saw the most bizarre thing today. As anyone who is obsessed with the weather like me knows, New England has been blanketed with snow for most of our winter. It's been mild enough lately, relatively speaking, that under our home eaves there's no snow. As I was coming down the driveway, there had to be at least 30 robins on the snowless ground. I quickly drove in the garage and went upstairs to get my camera which wasn't in my purse, dammit, as I'd forgotten it, dammit! I snuck out the front door, barely put just my camera around the corner, snapped off a pic...and got...nuthin'. Little buggers had flown, one and all, to the area around our mail box. I was not happy. I won't be sharing that particular photo.

On another note, I'm quite pleased with our Olympic ladies! Lindsey Vonn and Julia Mancuso - you two ROCK! Thanks for making us Americans so very proud! Oh, and that snow boarder, too - he was good!

On the next note, wasn't the dog show wonderful?? That Scotty dog was just the best - but I LOVED that doberman - oh what do I know???

Last note on a very sorta nice day - played bridge tonight. Let's just leave it that I was not, repeat, was not in the winner's circle. POOH!

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xoabb

expect anything!

Photo: 8:30am, 2/16/10

Snow Fort

Some things never change
A good snow fort is timeless
Whenever it's built

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xoabb
expect anything!

Photo: Nephew Connor-man & friends building a pine-bough enhanced snow fort. 2/14/10

Sunday Serenity

Cardinal Within the Storm

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xoabb
expect anything!

Sky Before the Storm

Golden limbs against

A beautiful turquoise sky

Then the clouds rolled in.

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xoabb

expect blue skies!

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O My How Things have Changed!

Storm Barbara's Falling Snow, originally uploaded by annbumbly.

Well, we've had a bit of a change since midnight. Snow is coming down fast and furiously. Roads are terrible, wind is picking up. A good good day to cozy up next to a fire with a good book. Oh, and popcorn!

Not A Single Midnight Snow Flake

I bring you what we have none of thus far!

It is after midnight and nary a flake has fallen!

I'll let you know if there's flake fallage tomorrow...

Till the a.m., my friends -

xoabb

expect anything!

Photo courtesy of:

Scott Kroeker (Scott Kroeker [Artographer]),

Beauty Before the Storm

Some of you may remember that my eldest daughter, Remy, and I had a community garden plot last spring and summer. To say we two were the blind leading the blind would be an understatement of epic proportions! We made mistakes, we had successes, and we definitely will plant again come this spring. Our two most obvious mishaps were planting 20 pepper plants - where were we thinking?? - and planting three strawberry plants. Strawberry plants spread at an alarming rate. When your entire garden plot is 4' x 20', this really isn't a good thing. So...Remy dug up the strawberry plants and replanted them in a pot that now resides in the sunroom off our kitchen. One plant got mad and just up and died, another is struggling to stay alive until replanting time this spring, and the last is blooming profusely and setting strawberries! Yum!

So very lovely to have a breath of spring deep in the February doldrums and with a big old nasty snow storm headed our way.

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xoabb

expect anything!

Sunday Serenity

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.

A persistent simplification will create

an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

~ Peace Pilgrim

Friends of Peace Pilgrim

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xoabb

expect anything!

A Shy Wolf Moon

The moon a week ago tonight was simply perfection and beauty for those of us who were fortunate to live where cloud cover happened to be nonexistent.

While I was able to take a photo or two that were...uh...kinda good...there were others who got simply magnificent shots. Much to my chagrin...

Three of my very favorites:

Hilary - incredible photos one and all

&

Ms. Hannibal - the only way this photo could possibly be better would be if those geese were replaced by a witch or two.

It's just a magical wonderful photograph!

&

My Ms. Daryl - whose commentary is just the best read around...only to be outdone by that last of her Wolf Moon photos

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xoabb

expect a loverly Wolf Moon once a year!

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TREY-YOU! BE GONE!

(I swear I'm going to publish a cocktail table book called "Where Cats Sleep.")

While this is far from the oddest place I've found Trey-You bedding down for a nap, it's one of the more irritating. Trey has clawed the quilt down from the railing to make his cozy little pied-a-terre. Of course, the quilt was freshly washed and had been hung on the railing to dry, not for Trey's sleeping comfort. Of course, it's now covered in cat hair. Lovely. (That'll teach me to put quilts and clothes away the second they're dry!)

Must admit, this is slightly better than the times he gets into the linen closet and burrows a hole into the clean towels. Nothing finer than taking a shower in the morning and drying yourself off to discover you are covered with orangish cat hairs. You truly have not lived until you've experienced this.

Well, come on over! I'm sure Trey-you will be glad to burrow for you! And I'll supply that towel!

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xoabb

expect anything!