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| cut leaf cone flowers |
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| sun flower family. note dark centers. |
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| false sunflowers. you do see these along the highways. |
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| orange/yellow centers. |
bucks county
farm field
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
More yellow things
I did not realize how many different types of daisy shaped flowers in yellow there are. Sun flowers and their relatives. these are from my garden, all native flowers.
Green things......
They're here, Violet's first litter.
Born September 25th, 2012 approx 2p.m.
North Penn animal hospital, Lansdale PA
Vet attending: Dr. Joe Rossi.
5
PUPPIES
3 BOYS: ONE
B&T, 2 RED
5.3, 6,2,
5.3
2 GIRLS: ONE
b&t, 1 RED.
6.3,
5.6
puppies all
seem strong, crying and moving from the get go.
mom was looking
at puppies as if they are aliens. after an arm wrestling contest which I won, violet is in
the box and turning into super mom. she seems tired, but not anxious.
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| and then there were five! |
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| glad to meet ya! |
Expecting....
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| Ultra violet |
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| looks like more on one side than the other. |
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| 57 days |
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| cat has been following us on walks. dogs are finally accepting of her, (or else) |
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
hibiscus from heaven
The strangest thing...........I saw this plant growing in the
garden. I thought it was a weed... pulled one, left one (just in
case). The first flower opened, but I missed it. I have been checking and
today another bud was finally open. it is in the mallow family.
I took some photos, and as I was posting to facebook...I
realized....
this is swamp mallow....hardy hibiscus. seems as if the ‘’swamp’’ variety of anything is hardy.
strange that this is great for bogs and wet areas, and it is growing in a very
dry area.. where I am trying to cultivate iris.
My now deceased friend, Maryann, used to send me Hibiscus
plants while she was living in Florida. Maryann died 2007. I thought of
‘’pennies from heaven”.
I wonder if this is from her....
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Just laying on the ground.
But it's not just a penny,
this little coin I've found.
Found pennies come from heaven,
That's what my Grandpa told me.
He said Angels toss them down.
Oh, how I loved that story.
He said when an Angel misses you,
They toss a penny down.
Sometimes just to cheer you up,
To make a smile out of your frown.
So, don't pass by that penny,
When you're feeling blue. It may be a penny from heaven,
that an Angel's tossed to you.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
why i do not make dinner at dinner time.....between (5;30 and 7:30):::::
it was 5 p.m. Too early to start dinner, so I walked the dogs. Afterwards, I spent a few minutes combing the picker stickers out of their
ears and coats. It was 5:40, still early. I decided to give everyone a snack and
contemplate dinner. On the way back to house I noticed some weeds that
could easily be pulled in the back yard, so I pulled them.
(walk, comb out picker sticker, snack, weed pulling)
I took pulled weeds, a
good armful, to the compost pile. on the way home I came across a basket to use
for future weed pulling. Picked it up and continued home to start dinner...On
the way....I noted the same easy weeds on the opposite side of the dog
yard..filled the basket to overflowing and walked back to the compost pile and
dumped the basket. This time on the way back home I stopped to checked out
some odd weed with big pink flowers..Mallow? (will try for a photo mid week.)
looked at the tomatoes and cantaloupe in the veggie garden , and pulled a few
more easy weeds again. (Yes and back to the compost pile.)
now I am home.. lost the bag of rice I was going to use, found it...and it
is now 7:40..... 7:40!!!
just 10 minutes to cook rice, but it is now at 8:10. I have the beginning
of dinner, garlic butter rice.... and nothing else.
.-walk, comb out picker sticker, snack, weed pulling 3 times, three trips
to the compost pile. wool gathering (daydreaming) at the garden. finally at 8:10 dinner is started. notice I
say started.... not finished. this is why I never have dinner ready at a
decent time. just too many distractions in life.
Saturday, July 14, 2012
little known facts.....
yes,
still searching for the link to that video and music. I came across this and had to share::
1. The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
2. If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
3. Money can't buy happiness. But it sure makes misery easier to live with.
4. Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before.
5. Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people are mentally ill. Check the three people around
you, if they're OK, you're it.
6. Nothing in the known universe travels faster than a bad check.
7. A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.
8. It has recently been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
9. It is better to pillage BEFORE you burn.
10. If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book.
11. COROLLARY: If you are given a take-home test, you will forget where you live.
12. The trouble with doing something right the first time is that no one appreciates
how difficult it was.
13. It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as an example to others.
14. Paul's Law: You can't fall off the floor.
15. The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the man can
see better than he can think.
16. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
17. Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by moving from where you left them to
where you can't find them.
18. Law of Probability Dispersal: Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.
still searching for the link to that video and music. I came across this and had to share::
1. The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
2. If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
3. Money can't buy happiness. But it sure makes misery easier to live with.
4. Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before.
5. Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people are mentally ill. Check the three people around
you, if they're OK, you're it.
6. Nothing in the known universe travels faster than a bad check.
7. A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.
8. It has recently been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
9. It is better to pillage BEFORE you burn.
10. If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book.
11. COROLLARY: If you are given a take-home test, you will forget where you live.
12. The trouble with doing something right the first time is that no one appreciates
how difficult it was.
13. It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as an example to others.
14. Paul's Law: You can't fall off the floor.
15. The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the man can
see better than he can think.
16. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
17. Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by moving from where you left them to
where you can't find them.
18. Law of Probability Dispersal: Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.
a blast from the past. May 2002
I have been looking for a specific video i watched many times in the not so distant past.. or maybe it was in the distant past. i spent an hour so far and while i found many video's that were similar, not the one with the particular music i wanted.
Still not daunted but slightly off the task at hand, i was searching through old saved e-mails when i came across this funny start to a day in May 2002.
enjoy!
"Well here it is Wednesday morning, the first day of May 2002!! Happy May friends! I think i mentioned that the starter went on my car. Hubby push started it from the state of Indiana to here, eastern PA, a total of at least 700 miles, probably more.. because the starter quit as he arrived in Indiana, (Indianapolis speedway?) on Saturday afternoon for a bike racing event.
He spent Saturday and Sunday going hither and yon (via push start) before the long trip home.
Today booboo bear ('85 Nissan stanza) goes to see Stan and brad,
the turnpike mechanic guys. Been at least 6 months since she was there, for a similar or related problem.
so why am i even bringing this up again??
imagine...
very foggy, cool, damp morning of 40 degrees, here on the ridge just above q-town.
Rush hour is pretty much under way here from 6;30 to 8;30. Long lines of cars traveling up hill, and down dale. Headlights on to cut the fog. 2 lane highway. 55 m.p.h. at least. Everyone keeping the peddle to the metal to avoid being stuck behind a school bus. Now, 7 a.m., trash cans lined up at the tops of some driveways. kids walking on the shoulder of the highway to assigned school bus stops.
Between the fog, and that early morning sun, burning through the fog....it is difficult to see what is going on up ahead.. and reaction time is definitely ....a little off. This is one of those mornings.. you hope people will slow down.
and at our house...
sigh.....
we are all assembled in the driveway. Going over hubby's plan to push start the car. We are going to push it UP the driveway to the highway.. and out onto the shoulder, and head west, toward town.
????????????
(at least he is not going to try to push it ACROSS the highway,
which.. if there was not so much traffic would be a wonderful down hill, and probably easy start.)
who is driving the garden tractor. who is steering the car. who is pushing. How to avoid the trash cans at the top of the driveway and the telephone poll and the traffic coming up over the hill.
Andrew is going to steer the car.. and i keep telling him to abort if he
feels it is unsafe.. (as if any part of pushing a car partly onto a busy highway,
on a blind hill is going to be safe.)
sigh....
with some work.. we get the car out onto the shoulder. Snow plow on the garden tractor is at the perfect height to.... caress the bumper for a good push. Hubby's engineering mind is ticking away.. as i point out the enormous traffic flow, the kids on the side of the road waiting for the bus..
the approaching bus..
sheesh.
hubby finally agrees...... maybe pushing it toward town is not the best idea..
We are going to have to push the car at least a 1/4 of a mile before the ridge ends, and falls off to the next little valley, the down hill we probably need to get up a little speed.
so we decide to see if we can aim the car toward the garage and push it DOWN the driveway.
of course.. first we have to push backwards on the shoulder, to the opposite side of the driveway...
so we push.. down it goes..
(the driveway is just about 80 ft? long.) slight slop. hubby pops the clutch.
nope..
2nd time.. almost catches but he is just about IN the garage and has to slam on the breaks.
so here we are at 7;15.. pushing the car back UP the driveway to try again.
(at least the school bus has come and gone.. (the bus ross gets))
Down the driveway the car sails for a second time. First time hubby pops the clutch,,,we see a puff of
exhaust. he engage the clutch again...the engine starts just as he is running out of space.
we had moved the other cars.. so he could ,at least, turn into a parking space.. a few more added feet for the run. instead of the garage or the garden tractor.
With a little coaxing the car keeps running.
second flurry of activity, while i write a note for ross' late arrival
at school. Andrew gets ready to drive, and hubby is brushing his teeth.
finally everyone has gone..and i can breathe a BIG sigh of relief.
15 minutes pass.. hubby is at the door.......'no bike lock'.
(because he is biking from the repair shop to work.)
anyway..
Ross made it to school.
Andrew is back in bed (works 10p.m. to 6a.m.)
Got a call from rich, so car is at the mechanics,
and he made it to work.
what a morning!"
Still not daunted but slightly off the task at hand, i was searching through old saved e-mails when i came across this funny start to a day in May 2002.
enjoy!
"Well here it is Wednesday morning, the first day of May 2002!! Happy May friends! I think i mentioned that the starter went on my car. Hubby push started it from the state of Indiana to here, eastern PA, a total of at least 700 miles, probably more.. because the starter quit as he arrived in Indiana, (Indianapolis speedway?) on Saturday afternoon for a bike racing event.
He spent Saturday and Sunday going hither and yon (via push start) before the long trip home.
Today booboo bear ('85 Nissan stanza) goes to see Stan and brad,
the turnpike mechanic guys. Been at least 6 months since she was there, for a similar or related problem.
so why am i even bringing this up again??
imagine...
very foggy, cool, damp morning of 40 degrees, here on the ridge just above q-town.
Rush hour is pretty much under way here from 6;30 to 8;30. Long lines of cars traveling up hill, and down dale. Headlights on to cut the fog. 2 lane highway. 55 m.p.h. at least. Everyone keeping the peddle to the metal to avoid being stuck behind a school bus. Now, 7 a.m., trash cans lined up at the tops of some driveways. kids walking on the shoulder of the highway to assigned school bus stops.
Between the fog, and that early morning sun, burning through the fog....it is difficult to see what is going on up ahead.. and reaction time is definitely ....a little off. This is one of those mornings.. you hope people will slow down.
and at our house...
sigh.....
we are all assembled in the driveway. Going over hubby's plan to push start the car. We are going to push it UP the driveway to the highway.. and out onto the shoulder, and head west, toward town.
????????????
(at least he is not going to try to push it ACROSS the highway,
which.. if there was not so much traffic would be a wonderful down hill, and probably easy start.)
who is driving the garden tractor. who is steering the car. who is pushing. How to avoid the trash cans at the top of the driveway and the telephone poll and the traffic coming up over the hill.
Andrew is going to steer the car.. and i keep telling him to abort if he
feels it is unsafe.. (as if any part of pushing a car partly onto a busy highway,
on a blind hill is going to be safe.)
sigh....
with some work.. we get the car out onto the shoulder. Snow plow on the garden tractor is at the perfect height to.... caress the bumper for a good push. Hubby's engineering mind is ticking away.. as i point out the enormous traffic flow, the kids on the side of the road waiting for the bus..
the approaching bus..
sheesh.
hubby finally agrees...... maybe pushing it toward town is not the best idea..
We are going to have to push the car at least a 1/4 of a mile before the ridge ends, and falls off to the next little valley, the down hill we probably need to get up a little speed.
so we decide to see if we can aim the car toward the garage and push it DOWN the driveway.
of course.. first we have to push backwards on the shoulder, to the opposite side of the driveway...
so we push.. down it goes..
(the driveway is just about 80 ft? long.) slight slop. hubby pops the clutch.
nope..
2nd time.. almost catches but he is just about IN the garage and has to slam on the breaks.
so here we are at 7;15.. pushing the car back UP the driveway to try again.
(at least the school bus has come and gone.. (the bus ross gets))
Down the driveway the car sails for a second time. First time hubby pops the clutch,,,we see a puff of
exhaust. he engage the clutch again...the engine starts just as he is running out of space.
we had moved the other cars.. so he could ,at least, turn into a parking space.. a few more added feet for the run. instead of the garage or the garden tractor.
With a little coaxing the car keeps running.
second flurry of activity, while i write a note for ross' late arrival
at school. Andrew gets ready to drive, and hubby is brushing his teeth.
finally everyone has gone..and i can breathe a BIG sigh of relief.
15 minutes pass.. hubby is at the door.......'no bike lock'.
(because he is biking from the repair shop to work.)
anyway..
Ross made it to school.
Andrew is back in bed (works 10p.m. to 6a.m.)
Got a call from rich, so car is at the mechanics,
and he made it to work.
what a morning!"
| ye old car. 1986 Nissan Stanza |
Thursday, July 5, 2012
summer lilies
I did not realize the number of different varieties of day lilies and Stella Doro lilies that i have planted over the years. . here are all but 3, which i will have to photograph when the flowers open again.
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Third weekend in June, 2012
What happened to May?
I seem to spend my days early to late being busy, resting from being busy, and being busy again!
So what has been going on, since May escaped me, and June is 1/2 over????
First....We have had the most interesting weather all spring. Cool when it should have been cold. Warm days sprinkled in when we expected damp and chilly. We have had lots of rain too. After the rains, it has NOT been humid but cool and breezy. Between rain and more moderate temperatures, The gardens have come alive earlier this year with one of the best crop of flowers i can remember in my 30+ years here.
What fabulous, enjoyable weather we are having!!
Today is fathers day too. Thinking about all the Dads' now gone and those yet to come.
Let me get started thinking about catching up with photo's and thought.
Sunday morning.
Mid June....
Breakfast time in the country!
I seem to spend my days early to late being busy, resting from being busy, and being busy again!
So what has been going on, since May escaped me, and June is 1/2 over????
First....We have had the most interesting weather all spring. Cool when it should have been cold. Warm days sprinkled in when we expected damp and chilly. We have had lots of rain too. After the rains, it has NOT been humid but cool and breezy. Between rain and more moderate temperatures, The gardens have come alive earlier this year with one of the best crop of flowers i can remember in my 30+ years here.
What fabulous, enjoyable weather we are having!!
Today is fathers day too. Thinking about all the Dads' now gone and those yet to come.
Let me get started thinking about catching up with photo's and thought.
Sunday morning.
Mid June....
Breakfast time in the country!
Sunday, April 22, 2012
weekend in april 2012
Saturday was a stellar day in eastern PA. windows open, warm breeze into the evening.... we had some gorgeous weather. Then, the front arrived and temps dropped. Thunder and lightning, some rain (finally).
Sunday dawned overcast and damp. temps are only expected to be around 50 or just below, with rain, rain and more rain which we desperately need. Imagine...snow forecast for western PA! Strange weather for sure.
enjoying a wet Sunday inside sewing and watching TV.
stay dry!
Sunday dawned overcast and damp. temps are only expected to be around 50 or just below, with rain, rain and more rain which we desperately need. Imagine...snow forecast for western PA! Strange weather for sure.
enjoying a wet Sunday inside sewing and watching TV.
stay dry!
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
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