My Mushroom Box

Mushroom Box

June 10, 2012 @ 12 noon

Darling daughter of the oldest variety (that would be Remy, the one that's teaching in Haiti) sent me a mushroom box for Mother's Day this year. I followed the directions to a tee and then sat back and waited for the marvelous results. And waited. And waited....

Finally, just over a month after I'd set up my box, and as I was getting ready to throw it out, I noticed a bit of growth had occurred! I'd complained to the company as the box said it would take no more than 10 days for growth to happen. They sent me a fresh box and I was getting ready to throw this box out and start anew when - yippee - the mushrooms finally are growing! And growing. And growing...

June 12, 2012 @ 7:45pm

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xoabb

expecting sauteed mushrooms any day now!

Our Very Own Resident Hummer!

First time in 30 years our hummer feeder has been put to steady use!
And above's the proof!
Yippee!

After all these years

Our very first hummer has

Made our home her home!

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xoabb

expect anything!

We are Duck Herders!

Duck Herding Duties
(click the above link for more duck-herding photos)
I've discovered it's very hard to shoot a video and help herd ducks at the same time!

Mama mallard duck has flown into our school courtyard every spring for the last several years to hatch her babies. Only problem is...the courtyard is completely enclosed. So, a few days after the babies have hatched, our very own duck whisperer teacher (she's pictured above at the very first of the video) gathers a bunch of volunteer duck herders so we can help lead mama and her babies from the courtyard, through the school, across the grounds of the school to the very conveniently located creek by the side of our school.

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xoabb

quack quack!

Sunday Serenity - Good Mama

Enclosed courtyard of our school - 5th year in a row this mama has come back to hatch her babies there
Friday we duck herders led them through the school to the nearby stream...and freedom...

Good mama mallard

Protecting her babies from 

the murdering crows

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xoabb

Sting + "murdering crows" lyric = good song!

Peace Rose

In Sweet Memory

Of a dear friend's mother today

And a most cherished uncle Friday

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xoabb

may you both rest in the peace of your lives being very well lived!

GO 'WAY!

This is MY home!
photo taken 4/19/12
Columbia, MO


 This is my home,
So please just travel on thru
I plan to set up house here
And raise my babies blue

Do hope you find as nice a place
(Tho I don't think you will)
So if yours is not as good a home
Come back - visit me (from afar) - get your fill!

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xoabb
expect bird wonderfulness!

Sunday Serenity

Cody-dog checking to see if my dad and my bestest since child-hood friend (Bobbi) have fed the catfish properly.
Of course, Cody's judgement entirely depends on the number of treats she gets. Smart dog!
April 2012

When do friends become family

and family becomes friends?

When life is at its very best!

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xoabb

ahhh...it's all good!


A very wonderful Mother's Day to the best mom ever - my mom!
xoxoxoxoxoxo 

Weeping Crab (in more ways than one) :(

Weeping Crabapple Tree
3/31/12

"A tribute to a glorious tree that I'm sure is going to be torn down as its house has been torn down and the fence is in disrepair. The tree has been a welcome beauty spot for many many years...you will be missed!"

This lovely tree graced the yard directly across from the school where I work. The houses on the opposite side of the road are all on very small, but very expensive plots of land as they are in Westport and on the Saugatuck river. I went to work one morning about two weeks, and by the time I drove home seven hours later, the house was gone! This wonderful tree remained until the end of last week when, once again, it was there in all its glory when I came to work in the morning, and then, seven hours later was gone. I do believe this Spring was its most glorious bloom ever! It surely went out in a blaze of glory!

Progress will destroy beauty at times...ignore the orange cone, please. That's not at all beautiful!

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xoabb
expect unhappy events at times...

Sunday Serenity

Little Bear
April 2012

Little Bear drawing

His mama a masterpiece

(The first of many)

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xoabb

expect anything!

White Lilacs

Nothing more lovely

Than the smell of sweet lilacs

Wafting through spring air

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xoabb

expect beauty!