Some people get very sentimental about trees in the abstract: if it's a tree, they think it is special. But there are trees, and then there are trees, and wisdom lies in knowing when they are causing more problems than they are worth.
That would be something to see, all those years in one place. Did you hang them in chronological order, or by themes?
Compared to what you turn out, I'm ashamed to call what I do knitting. There should be a term to indicate superlative knitting, Knit-ti-que (that last is pronounced KAY), and as the practitioner, you are the knittiqueista. You can say to people, "Oh, my no. I'm not merely a knitter, I'm a knitti-Kay-EESTA. There is a huge difference between the two." and then sniff loudly in disdain.
Yes, we have mountain lions, and there are reports of one being seen down the road about 5 miles. Our May cabin guests say they saw one up the side stream when they were hiking up there. They are always out there watching us, and I warn people who bring small children and dogs here to be careful about letting them roam.
We used to have better motion sensor lights, and I miss them alerting us to look outdoors in the middle of the night to see what form of wildlife set them off.
What creeped me out the most was they retreated to the back edge of the yard and sat there watching the door of the house as if they expected me to come out and refill the bird feeders so they could come back. Meanwhile the four remaining hummingbirds were so upset to have lost their food source, flying frantically around the feeder. It was a rock and a hard place for me, and I expected the bears to return any minute after I took care of the birds.
I don't know if it's heaven-related, but many of us have felt our loved ones' spirits visit us after they are gone. The sense of my Dad used to come around in October, it lasted 4 or 5 years after he died, and then it faded out, and I miss it.
The mood change photo reminds me of a caption on a similar picture: Middle Child: "If I was so great, why'd they have to have another one?"
We've been thinking of you, Teal. Does the barometric pressure change also affect your inner ear?
Good luck with it. I'll be thinking about you.
How exciting. Congratulations to all of you.
One of your best.
Very suspenseful, and we're not the ones experiencing it first hand. Here in Colorado, a change in barometric pressure gets things moving so there are a lot of babies born when we have a big snowstorm. Sending best wishes.
It wasn't me talking about freezing tomatoes a couple of years ago. I've never gotten enough ripe tomatoes that I didn't know what to do with them. I always end up with lots of green tomatoes and I wait weeks and weeks for them to ripen. I just now googled 'freeze tomatoes from the garden' and found an instructive extension site Univ of Nebraska at Lincoln: https://food.unl.edu/preservation/freezing-tomatoes They say don't bother peeling them first, the skins slip right off when you remove them from the freezer.
It's so nice to see your beautiful paintings again, Dottie. I'm in the same thing you are with regard to Facebook, I'm administering two groups related to the flood recovery in my area, and spend 1 - 2 hours every day finding interesting things to post on them in order to keep people coming back. It's gratifying to go to some event and have people come tell me how much they appreciate the information. That online community is going to be vital during the next disaster, probably a wildfire, in our area, but in the meantime we have to keep everyone engaged so they remember to share information on those FB groups when something happens.
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