2013 Project 365 – Week Nineteen

Happy Mother’s Day to all you mothers out there!

I decided to not overwhelm everyone with pictures this week. I mean, after all, my last post was a picture post. AND Dr. M has a nice post of this week’s pictures. So you can go here to see his pictures and here to see my 10 on 10 post if you would like.

Sunday, May 5^th    

Dr. M got us a new hanging basket for the year – so pretty! I’m sure you’ll see more pics of it as it fills out.

Monday, May 6^th

Our friend Linda calls these guys the Board of Directors – they are definitely in session these days!

Tuesday, May 7^th           

More birds in the hood.

Our dinner tonight. I was highly amused by the potato – doesn’t it look like an armadillo? It’s from one of those Facebook recipes that has been making the rounds. Really tasty. Oh, and that’s turkey Spam and asparagus in the background.

Wednesday, May 8^th   

Our neighbor’s flowers – love love love the bee sticking its nose in the wisteria.

Thursday, May 9^th    

More flowers – Pinky, our pet geranium, seems to be doing well.

And I LOVE poppies!

Saw this bumper sticker on my way home and it made me laugh out loud.

Friday, May 10^th  

The goldfinches are so bright these days!

The State of the Bug – listening to my audio book during a break at work (you didn’t think I was going to use that awful siesta picture again did you?).

  

Saturday, May 11^th    

I think this is my favorite picture of the week. Shoot – of the whole year! Silly puffed up windblown sparrow :)

The Weekly Squirrel is telling us it’s time to get out of here!

Go to Mamma Fran’s blog here to see the blogs of all the other Project 365 participants. Have a great week!

Most of our photos are taken with a 12 megapixel Nikon D5000 DSLR, using a 55-200mm zoom lens. This is the camera that Dr. M takes with him most days. He also takes pictures with our old reliable 7 megapixel Canon Powershot A710.  The Bug uses our new Nikon Coolpix S6200 most of the time. If you’re interested in which camera was used for a particular shot, just ask! 

10 on 10

This is one of those things that I always mean to do each month & for one reason or another I never get 'er done. Not this month! I grabbed this day by the horns & took pictures! Of course, as per usual around here, there are more than 10 pictures.

7ish

I remember hearing a thunderstorm sometime towards dawn - it was nice & wet as I was getting ready to leave for work.

9ish

I got a new monitor at work - 22 inches. Woot woot!

10ish

One of the things I have to do as part of my job is listen to call recordings (we really DO monitor for quality assurance!). I often crochet while I'm listening. Makes a tedious task much more bearable!

Mid-morning snack - we pulled out the Irish Soda Bread that we had frozen back in March. Heated it for about 12 seconds in the microwave - yum!

12ish

I was going to go for a walk around the parking lot, but it did this most of the day.

1ish

I don't understand why we can't have siestas in the afternoons at work...

2ish

Playing with my afternoon snack. Reminds me of the fish on Steve Reed's sidebar :)

5ish

Why, look what I saw on my way home from work!

Sky still looks pretty ominous. Good thing I plan to do housework tomorrow!

6ish

Dessert!

7ish

The Braves don't play until 10:15, so we'll watch the Reds until then (assuming I can stay awake for the Braves game. If I had a Magic 8 Ball it would say "Outlook not so good!").

That is one saturated flag!

8ish

Papa cardinal showing up for his nightly feed. Makes me smile every time to see that bright red in the green green grass.

Little Miss Goody Two Shoes

Little Miss Goody Two Shoes*

Today I took a curve

a little lot too fast,

and my heart thumped

and my cheeks flushed

and I remembered

a different curve

(in a different town)

driven by the girl I was.

She knew what it meant

to take a chance or two.

I, in my Goody Two Shoes,

with my cruise control
and my bottle of vitamins,
can only consider her in wonder.

But only for a second,
because she's already
around the bend,
out of sight.

[Note: After I had calmed back down again this song came on & I sang it at the top of my lungs. Seemed appropriate to share it here.]

*Origin of Goody Two Shoes here.

Wordless Wednesday

The French Revolution, Christmas, & the Good Old Days

As I was heading to bed last night I had a question for Dr. M:

The Bug: Why did Robespierre get the guillotine? Short answer! (Knowing who she was speaking to & wishing to get to bed before 11:00).

Dr. M: Because.

The Bug: Too short!

Dr. M: [maniacal laughter]

Historians are weird. [Note: the short answer is that he started putting the Revolution over the needs of the people of France. For whom he had helped start the revolution.]

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This morning on my way to work I had just finished rocking out to the Indigo Girls (as we white middle aged women do), when Silent Night came barreling out of my speakers. Wait, what? Apparently I got a little confused when I was loading the MP3 player. Made me laugh – which was a good thing on a rainy Monday morning.

After Silent Night a Kevin Welch song came on and that made me think of Kieran Kane and that reminded me of this song:

I got a little crush on Kieran when I first saw the video (on MTV or CMT back when they did videos?) and I remember trying to find his CD every time we went to the record store. I never did find it. What a different world that was! We had to just really enjoy the heck out of whatever we were listening to because we couldn’t just go to Amazon & download the single, or go to Youtube & watch the video over & over. I’m sure there’s some “Good Old Days” moral in there somewhere, but frankly I’m more of an instant gratification type of a person.

I think I’m going to go click “play” on that video again. Isn’t he dreamy?

2013 Project 365 – Week Eighteen

I had such a busy week, but I tried to take at least ONE picture each day my own self. So this week you have Dr. M’s gorgeous photos & then my stuff. Because you know you need to have more stuff in your life.

Sunday, April 28^th    

Dr. M & I cleaned out our closets to make a donation. I was going to say that we were going to need a bigger box, but he managed to get everything crammed in there & taped it up.

Stuff from the back yard. I especially love the squirrel tea party :)

Monday, April 29^th

Heron!

Squirrel antics!

Tuesday, April 30^th           

Gorgeousness!

The herd.

I had to have the sheep & penguin – they’re from Walgreens (.99!). Too cute!

Wednesday, May 1^st   

This guy was on my monitor – yikes! He was kind of alarming to me, but looking at this close up all I can see is a cute monkey face :)

Pretty flowers…

Birds in the back yard.

Pinky the geranium (and her cardinal companion) finally got to go outside.

Thursday, May 2^nd    

Grackle taking a bath.

Friday, May 3^rd  

The State of the Bug – TGIF! And the first toe color of the season…

Geese.

This house is near Dr. M’s university. It was on the market forever. I had fantasies of winning the lottery & snapping that puppy up.

  

Saturday, May 4^th    

Today I went over to church to help do some weeding (& then came home & mowed – I was practically in tears thinking about how this day would have been inconceivable two years ago). I decided to take a few pictures of the flowers while I was there.

While I was doing that Dr. M was at graduation. On his way up there he drove by the puppy-cow daycare – they weren’t really awake yet.

Lovely blooming things…

After graduation Dr. M saw this Swallow-tailed Kite – a very rare sight in Ohio!

Go to Mamma Fran’s blog here to see the blogs of all the other Project 365 participants. Have a great week!

Most of our photos are taken with a 12 megapixel Nikon D5000 DSLR, using a 55-200mm zoom lens. This is the camera that Dr. M takes with him most days. He also takes pictures with our old reliable 7 megapixel Canon Powershot A710.  The Bug uses our new Nikon Coolpix S6200 most of the time. If you’re interested in which camera was used for a particular shot, just ask! 

Mutter Mutter Mutter...

I have been SO BUSY this week. Work work work. Stay up too late watching baseball (or more accurately having it on in the background while I do other stuff). Mow. I must have looked like I was having a stroke because one of our neighbors came over & offered to do it for free - he probably couldn't stand to watch.

I was going to try to write a poem but my head is full of all these other kinds of words. I think I'll just veg out with some puzzles & crochet tonight.

Speaking of crochet - remember this picture?

I mostly finished the project last weekend, but didn't want to share it until I had attached the button - which I did in about five minutes today during my lunch break.

See - it's a bag! It was so much fun to make. I'm going to experiment with other sizes. But maybe not tonight. Maybe I'll just put the bag back into its pouch & use it as a pillow...

Wordless Wednesday