Saturday, April 13, 2013

DRAB:((

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ALWAYS NICE SEEING BLUE JAYS AT OUR FEEDER STATION

Afraid I’m having myself another one of ‘those’ days. Couldn’t seem to get my blogging mind into gear again. Happens to me every Spring upon returning home. Just kind of get myself into a blogging funk until I can get myself re-interested in where I am & what I’m doing.

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LOOKS LIKE WE MAY HAVE SOME BABY GEESE ON THE POND THIS SPRING & IF IT EVER WARMS UP SOME DAY AROUND HERE THESE DAFFODILS MIGHT EVEN BLOOM

Power is still off over a wide area east of us from Thursday night’s ice & wind storm & that includes Aunt Jean’s Motel in Shakespeare Ontario. This afternoon she ran into snow squalls driving her newly rented car from Stratford to Tavistock. Looks like she will have to spend another night on Mary Ann’s couch & she told Kelly on the phone this afternoon this will definitely be her last time in Canada!!  I remember last year at this time the flowers were blooming, buds were out on the shrubs & trees & everything looked & felt so nice.  Right now our front yard looks like it would around the first week in March.  Drab:((

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IT WAS JUST A YEAR AGO AROUND NOW THAT PHEEBS MET A BABY:))

We barely made 40F today but at least the rain stayed away. Just a few drops followed by some lost snow flakes. Amazingly enough we even had ourselves half a dozen brief sun splashes later this afternoon before the cloud cover solidly socked us in again. I was able to make a dent in the outside yard clean-up today taking a trailer load of pine needles & branches to our yard waste recycle area.  Tonight I am hobbling around like a really old Geezer.  And that happens every Spring as well when unused leg & back muscles are once again pressed into service.  Seems to get a little harder every year now though…………:((

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NEARLY GOT THE JEEP ANCHORED HERE THIS AFTERNOON 

Had meant to include a couple photos in Fridays blog & forgot.  The Sunseeker undergoing it’s ‘Import’ inspection at Canadian Tire & getting the bike started after 5 months in storage.

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GROANER’S CORNER:(( A college boy takes his girlfriend to a football game. It's the first football game she's ever seen, and afterwards he asks her how she liked it. "Oh, I really liked it," she says, "but I just couldn't understand though why they were killing each other for 25 cents." "What do you mean?" "All they kept screaming was: Get the quarter back. Get the quarter back."
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- Tourists see the world, travelers experience it.
- Home is where your pet is:))
- "If having a soul means being able to feel
love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals
are better off than a lot of humans."
(James Herriot)
- The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails -William Arthur Ward
- The only thing better than right now will someday be the memories of right now...AL.
- It is not so much having nothing to do as it is not having the interest to do something....AL.

9 comments:

  1. Cool, drizzly spring days makes it hard to get motivated to do anything. Remember them well from our days east. Hope you finally get some sun and it warms your spirit!

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  2. Those blue jays aren't drab at least! Very nice. I remember when you posted those photos of Pheebs and the baby. So cute.

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  3. Yep Drab it is here to, but at least we have power just down the road from Tavi.
    It will get better soon!
    Yep it will!!!

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  4. Gosh Al, its just beautiful here in Congress, AZ,,, But heck, you already knew that...:-)

    You can always put the ole Blog on suspension,,,, Man, I'm having a ball and enjoying the freedom. That Blog had me trapped and was almost controlling my Life...

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  5. Ha..Mike beat me to it! Gorgeous day here in Congress...we had a HUGE flea market at Judy's at the Congress Depot..fun! Kelli would have loved it!

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  6. See if you can get some one year later pictures of the baby... Sould be up and running around by now.....

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  7. nothing wrong with a drab day once in a while! hopefully the sun will come out soon!!
    we had a wild weather day today too!

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  8. Well, I'll say it...I HATE drab, dreary days. Really, all I want to do on a rainy day is curl up in bed and sleep. That's why I LOVE the desert! :-) It was 86 here Friday and yesterday...perfect weather!
    ~~Cheryl Ann~~

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  9. I used to like just a few of those cold drab days to build a nice fire in the stove, have a few good drinks and lazy around. But only a few, then warm it up & get outside. Unfortunately we too are having the lingering cold and too many grey days. Oh well, it will change soon, when it does, ooooh it will be too hot too fast. Been here before!
    Hang in there,

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