0Days #366 Happy New Year!!

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This one slept while her older brother bounced off the ceiling. This year she is struggling to stay awake until midnight. I think she’ll make it, but she is struggling. What a difference a year makes. They grow up so quickly. It been a very good year in many respects, the important one, which is […]

1Day #365 Ducks

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Outside the kitchen window this morning, I saw a pair of mallard ducks and a pair of green wing teal. The teal hang around for a month or two before heading off to their breeding grounds. The pair of mallard are here year round. In the spring they fight to run off the other ducks. […]

2Days #364 Two Last Photos

Yesterday I had a bit of time between watching birds, getting poor quality photos of them because they are so busy and area blur of non-stop movements. I turned my attention to inanimate objects. Knowing these all need to come down this weekend, and the natural boughs on the table need to be put in […]

3Days #363 Christmas Memories

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There is something special about having everything ready for guests. For me the special part is I am ready, that happens about once a decade, no matter how hard I plan. I admit I do think I can add two or ten more things to my list of things to do the closer the day […]

4Days #362 Cattle Country

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This was such a beautiful sight to see the cattle peacefully grazing in the light snow. Cheers to peaceful scenes, Shez

6Days #360 Making Mice

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Finally I present a couple of the photoz from my two granddaughter’s making Christmas Chocolate Cherry Mice. What fun they had, though we discovered they take a huge amount of time. It cut into our cookie making. Next year, we will make candy one day and make cookies on another.

7Days #395 Wood Stove

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We went to visit my “step” mother-in-law on Christmas Eve. She is a sweetheart and a remarkable woman, one of the people I cherish. Her “real” family, including children, spouses, grandchildren and a dozen great-grandchildren out grew her house years ago. She and her son converted an oversize double garage into a combination workshop and […]

8Days #358 The Mushroom

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Another fascination of mine has been the huge variety of shape, forms and colors of mushroom. This particular one I spotted from the window of our third floor. The only place I could get a clear photo was from a small balcony. It is growing about 30 feet above the ground. While I have heard […]

9Days #357Mice Invassion

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My two granddaughters came to make cookies, but instead of cookies what appeared was an invasion of mice. The mice apparently ate all the Hershey Kisses, because right after they arrived we discovered the empty Kisses bag. It was quite the mystery. It was a great project, though it might have been a little easier […]

10Days #356 Raccoon

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In the many years we have lived in the same house we have had a multitude of animals both our domestic ones and the wild ones who have adopted us. One of our favorite little creatures was a very small raccoon. The first time we saw her she was soaking wet, cold and emaciated. We […]