Sunday Scenery

This is a favorite spot for locals to go, sit back, relax and enjoy the ducks and various birds
It's always changing, depending on the time of year and the weather. We caught this on a beautiful, crisp, cool fall day.

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Sunday Scenery!

Camera Critters - Mr. Cranky Pants

Here's the orneriest Road Runner ever! I dubbed him "Mr. Cranky Pants." If he could've figured out a way to get through that glass and get a hold of hubman's fingers, he would've been one happy bird! He flew into the glass, ran around his area and came back and had a go at the glass again! He was truly funny.

We are just a couple of miles away from C.A.L.M., California Living Museum, where all the animals, birds and greenery are native. It's a great place to visit, even the cranky birds.

Camera Critters is a great place to visit!

Photo Hunt - Space

This is the space behind us. It is subdivided for modular homes. When this development happened, we were totally flummoxed, as it totally took away our view. You see, in order
to see the space behind us, I am standing on the retaining way, approximately 6' off the ground, and I still can't see over the fence! I took the picture by holding my camera over my head. I'm 5'6".



Otherwise, this is what we see! I've gussied it up with some shrubbery but I'd much rather be able to see the hills and the clouds. (For those of you who have heard me gripe about this, sorry for the repeat!)

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Family - It's Truly a Blessing!

We got to see our darling great-granddaughter and great-grandson today! Will post photos later - but they are so adorable. Am I gushing just a little?
Tomorrow, my oldest and her husband and our Marine will join us. Our Marine leaves for Iraq in a couple of weeks. He's been in Okinawa training and learning all the stuff they need to know to keep us safe. I can hardly wait to see him...
I'll post photos of the tribe when I can!

~~~Blessings~~~

Looking at the Sky on Friday

I took this from the car as my daughter was driving through the Oklahoma countryside. It was hot and the clouds were banked up in the sky.

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Thursday Nonsense

Gary Brookins, Virginia -- The Richmond Times-Dispatch

Is anyone else sick and tired of the crap going on in Washington with our elected officials? I'm beginning to wonder if my migraines haven't been brought on by the idiocy taking place, such as signing a gazillion dollar stimulus/spending bill that couldn't be read in time for the signing?

I heard a terrific line today: "The last time I was in a hurry I wound up with 4 cases of ShamWow." (Penn, of Penn & Teller fame, talking about the spending package) I think we've just been handed a whole wad of ShamWow...

Wordless Wednesday - Blazing Roses

Some of last summer's roses...

Run over to Wordless Wednesday, please?

The Chicken Pie That Bit Me!

Little Jack Horner
Sat in a corner,
Eating a mincemeat pie.
He stuck in his thumb
And pulled out a plum,
And said, "What a good boy am I!"

The day started off on a rough note. I needed to reheat my coffee in the microwave and in so doing, I bumped my cup and spilled the whole cup inside the mic! Cleaned up that mess...
Made another cup of coffee - spilled the cup all over the counter top. I would've quit at that point, but darn, did I need that coffee! Coffee quest completed.

For dinner, I threw a Marie Calendar's chicken pie in the microwave. (I fixed hubman burritos but my stomach wasn't up to that). When the buzzer went off, I opened the door and reached for the box (you leave the pie in the box), it slipped, I grabbed the box, only to have the chicken pie slide out of the box! I grabbed it without thinking, and my pinkie finger went smack-dab into the boiling hot pie! OUCH!!! I stuck it under cold water immediately and then kept ice on it. I still have huge blisters on my finger.

I bet when Little Jack Horner stuck his thumb in the pie and pulled out a plum, it hadn't been in a bloomin' microwave!

I'm so much fun...

Why on Earth???

Lee Redmond shows off her fingernails, which are about 30 inches long, in Salt Lake City, Aug. 8, 2006. Redmonds fingernails were broken off in a traffic accident Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009. Her injuries were serious but not life threatening, according to Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office. (AP Photo/

First of all, this chick's about 80 years old and trying to look like a, what , teenager? And what about the obvious - personal hygiene! Things like this gross me out.

Manic Monday - Waffle

1: equivocate , vacillate <waffled on the important issues> ; also : yo-yo , flip-flop
2: to talk or write foolishly : blather waffle…tiresomely off the point

Sadly, Burris is just one of many that I could have chosen - both sides of the political fence. If people could just learn to tell the truth... But our politicians have become such "wafflers" that we can no longer believe them.

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He doesn't ever waffle!!!