1. This is the time of year when I haven’t finished planting and am already harvesting. We’re eating swiss chard, summer squash, broccoli, beans, and blueberries. 2. Hours of time are eaten up in the garden so that we can eat. 3. When I go out to weed and find myself picking with nothing to […]
1. “I feel like bluebirds are carrying pieces of silk fabric and floating them around my head when I’m with her.” ~ My son Josh about his girlfriend Katie. 2. We have a wren’s nest in our tree birdhouse, a phoebe nest on our porch rafter and an unknown nest inside the hardhat helmet worn […]
1. I love this: Jeff Beck says he pretends he doesn’t know how to play the guitar everyday when he picks it up to play. 2. I just noticed that Bill Gates first name is in the word Billion. 3. Time to find something else to do besides renting movies in Floyd. The end of […]
1. It took going to the National Music Festival solo classical musical performances at the Floyd Country Store last Thursday night to force me to figure out how to mute the beep on my camera. 2. We have a computer chair in my office room that’s adjustable for height, which allows me to shout out […]
1. I call THIS the Gravy Train. 2. My husband Joe’s workaholic nature has taken a toll. He’s promised to change his ways and I think the fact that he bought an adjustable lounge chair and a blow-up bed over the Memorial Day weekend is a good start. 3. The bed, which Joe put on […]
1. Here at our Getaway in the Outer Banks of North Carolina mailboxes are shaped like whales and dolphins and oversized crabs, mermaids, and flip flops are stapled to the sides of houses. 2. I’m wondering why the names of towns here sound like horror movie titles: Nags Head and Kill Devil. 3. I love […]
1. This is my 289th Thirteen Thursday (TT). My first TT was posted on October 2005, five months after I started blogging. The only blog category that comes close to the number of TT posts are my photography posts at 270. 2. Some of the titles of my various Thirteen Thursdays have included: Thirteen Lines […]
1. On mother’ Day I received a virtual greeting from my son Josh in Tasmania, Australia. He posted a photo on my Facebook wall of a message he wrote in the sand on a beach there. It said Hi Mum. 2. He also posted a picture of him interacting with a Tasmanian wombat, which is […]
1. I know I’m co-dependent with the birds when I go out the cellar door rather than the front door so I won’t disturb them nesting and eating at the feeder. 2. I left Roanoke after babysitting baby Liam and Bryce on Wednesday with dried baby biscuit goop up and down my pants and purple […]
1. My son Josh calls this photo of him in Australia “Swimming in Succulents.” I call it “Andrew Wyeth Painting on Acid. 2. I need professional help and by that I mean a hairstylist. 3. Every time I drive home from town and go up the dirt hill on Woods Gap Road, I think of […]
1. Babysitting my grandsons yesterday: I don’t know why they call it babysitting when there is no sitting involved. 2. Seven month old Liam’s t-shirt read: “Sorry, I’m taken.” My favorite t-shirt of his almost 3-year old brother Bryce says: “I do my own stunts.” 3. When I was a girl I thought the old […]
1. It’s a wake-up call when your birdseed costs more than any other single item on your grocery list. 2. But maybe getting THESE shots makes it worth it. 3. Speaking of wake-up calls, the ocean takes another big hit. First we had the BP oil spill and now Japan is dumping millions of gallons […]
