You’ll be relieved to hear that this week isn’t a selfie extravaganza.
It’s actually mostly flowers and pizza (with a side of Grim Reaper). Enjoy!
Sunday, August 16th
My Finch Selfcare app has a prompt where you pick an area you want to work on each week (remember the candle fiasco?). Anyway, this week I chose Take a Photo of Something You Love. Today’s photo was a zinnia with a butterfly (a Silver Spotted Skipper, according to The Google) and an azalea blossom. Happy sigh.
Sunday, August 16th
My Finch Selfcare app has a prompt where you pick an area you want to work on each week (remember the candle fiasco?). Anyway, this week I chose Take a Photo of Something You Love. Today’s photo was a zinnia with a butterfly (a Silver Spotted Skipper, according to The Google) and an azalea blossom. Happy sigh.
Look who I got behind today! I would love to know the story behind this. It’s a little early for Halloween, right?
I was washing my hands in the bathroom and caught sight of my hair in the mirror. I’m not sure what’s going on here, but as far as I know, it had been that way for a while.
Deck flowers! Ms. Pinky looking prehistoric, and the little buttonhole zinnias looking lovely. (Yes, Ms. Pinky, you’re lovely too.)
LOOK OH MY GOSH I CAN’T BELIEVE IT!!! This isn’t a great photo, but the bridge on the road that I like to take to work has been fixed! It was damaged during Hurricane Helene (October 2024) and it has felt like forever. This was small potatoes compared to the damage in the mountains, but it really made my day when I drove by & the Road Closed sign was gone.
Peaches is blooming up a storm!
This is my Photo of Something I Love from today. He has been working SO HARD to take care of his dad lately. He’s been the only person in charge of his dad’s care for 7 years now, and just recently that care has ramped up to an every day visit situation with the introduction of insulin into the mix. It’s been exhausting – physically and emotionally – and I’m so proud of how well Dr. M has handled things. He just works to figure things out and do what is in the best interest of his father.
What are you trying to get out of doing?
Both of your pizzas look great. Now I'm wishing I had leftover pizza to eat cold for breakfast. I don't usually favor blue flowers, but those morning glories are great. I'd be more than happy to have them around!
ReplyDeleteIf I'd seen that skeleton around here, there'd be no question where it came from. It's clearly someone who's been stuck on one of our horrendous freeway traffic tangles just a little too long. On the other hand, I noticed that the Halloween candy already's in the stores, and I do believe I saw some yard decorations at Home Depot a week or so ago. Too soon!
Stupid Blogger with their new signin procedures. That's me up there.
DeleteI'm sorry Blogger is giving you fits! I gave up trying to comment on blogs from my phone or iPad yonks ago because it wouldn't work (but I imagine you use your desktop computer, so that comment is irrelevant - ha!).
DeleteAlso, that comment about the traffic is why I'm glad I live out in the country. I told someone that my biggest hurdle getting to work is livestock in the road, or farm equipment.
I like the buttonhole zinnias. In fact I think I may have buttonhole zinnias too -- at least one of them!
ReplyDeleteGlad you got your bridge back! It's not Halloween yet but clearly someone is getting prepared early.
I'm REALLY happy about the bridge too!
DeleteI thought that the picture lower right with Dr, M's pizza was supposed to be yours. Um, Dana, that's not a pizza. Caring for an elderly parent is draining enough when you love them. Caring for my mother just pissed me off because she refused to do anything that would make it easier for me. Didn't help that I had a crappy relationship with her but I was the only sibling that still lived in the same state. Even so I was an hour and 15 minutes away.
ReplyDeleteDr. M has the same kind of relationship with his father - and his father definitely does things that make life harder. We can blame his dementia, but sometimes it really feels like it's on purpose!
DeletePeople around here have already put Halloween decorations out. One home even has an enormous inflatable jack-o-lantern. It's ridiculous! It's still summer.
ReplyDeleteIt IS ridiculous!
DeleteI once lived in a share house that had a few morning glories around - I thought them cute so didn't weed them when sorting the garden. Let it be a warning to young gardeners out there - Morning Glories LOVE being ignored and took over the whole garden!
ReplyDeleteHooray for the bridge back option! Our local one, vital to locals but hidden from many no doubt, was potentially damaged in floods earlier this year, so we had a 20km/h sign on it for months. Nothing has happened but its changed to a 40km/h sign - still slow (25mph)
I am forever roaming around pulling up morning glories from places they shouldn't be. Oof!
DeleteDo you reckon they just waited to see if a car was going to go crashing down before they increased the speed limit?