Bug's Eye View

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

10 on 10

We're in NC visiting our folks & I had a very lazy 10th day of the month. Just the kind of day off I like best!

1. Baked beans & BBQ - it's what's for breakfast!

2. Spent some time watching this John Oliver clip about how it's time to give our U.S. territories voting rights.

3. Lunch! Strawberry rhubarb jelly, peanut butter, & banana on homemade bread.

4. Watched my dad fix the switch on a lamp. And by watch, I mean I took his picture before going & doing other things.

5. My daily walk! Just a brief photo journey around the yard.

6. Came back in & read some blogs.

7. "Let" my dad beat me in Horse. Heh.

8. Dinner! That's a salad plate, but I still ate WAY TOO MUCH crockpot mac & cheese. Urgh.

9. This is what I did off & on today. Finished the 4th square after dinner & then wove in all the loose ends. I had quite a pile when I was done! I usually do this as I go along, but figured this was a nice mindless task to do while talking to people. My brother, for example, who came by for a little while. I'm a terrible blogger - I forgot to get his picture.

10. Not really a picture, but I just wanted to show why we're enjoying our time down south - it's 46 degrees in Xenia right now :)

Saturday, March 7, 2015

2015 Project 365 – Week Ten

Lots of pictures this week – more snow, my birthday (tulips!!), and a couple of selfies. I’m thinking about reinstituting the State of the Bug – ha!

Sunday, March 1^st

Dark Eyed Juncos – love them!

I’ve been writing notes as part of my Lenten practice this year. What have I learned? I have TERRIBLE handwriting! It’ll be a wonder if anyone can read these things!

Monday, March 2^nd

Things Dr. M saw today.

Tuesday, March 3^rd – my birthday!

From my coworkers – yum!

I had told Dr. M that I would probably have something sweet at work & he said, “So you don’t need a cake?” I gave him the pouty face to end all pouty faces. It probably looked like this – ha!

So I got cake – and tulips!

Wednesday, March 4^th

So so pretty…

I came inside out of the wind & used my phone to make sure my hair was back in place. Ha!

Yes, still very cold…

Gift for a coworker. I had the wrapping paper, but forgot to see if I had any ribbons, so I improvised.

Thursday, March 5^th

More things Dr. M saw…

For more pictures of the frozen creek, check out Dr. M's blog here.

The moon!

Friday, March 6^th

Pinky…

My Valentine’s roses & birthday tulips, making some sort of commentary on the nature of life…

The moon!

I was fiddling around trying to get a selfie with these reading glasses when I noticed something interesting about the picture…

Saturday, March 7^th

Our albino squirrel made an appearance today. So cute!

Hey, there’s actual non-frozen water in the cement pond!

Afghan update – terrible photos (one of these days I’m really going to work on taking better pictures of my work), but you can sort of see what’s going on with the four different blankets. One square has turned out a lot bigger than the other ones – we’ll see what I have to do about that when I put them all together.

Hope everyone has a great week!

Sunday, March 1, 2015

2015 Project 365 – Week Nine

Lest I sound like a broken record, I won’t mention the weather. Although, as you can clearly see from the pictures, it was widely scattered rude again. Dr. M has been on his “A” game this week & took some really good pictures. He’s posted them on his blog here, here, here, and here. It’s well worth your time to check them out!

Sunday, February 22^nd

The Squirrel King!

Monday, February 23^rd

I’ve been a bad mom & forgetting to open the blinds in the morning for Pinky – so I made myself a note.

The trail to the bird feeder…

See – widely scattered rude!!

Dueling cardinals.

The moon!

Tuesday, February 24^th

I was so very tempted, but since I didn’t think they would actually cause spring to happen, I went with the Skinny Cow ice cream bars instead :)

Turkey in the snow…

Wednesday, February 25^th

I love these little sweet peppers – so tasty & actually somewhat good for me.

I can’t believe I didn’t mention it at the time. You would have thought that I would make Huge Deal of the Occasion, but no… I have let several weeks pass without mentioning that we got rid of Old Blue & there’s a new ~~monster~~ vacuum in town! Meet Orange Betty (I just made that up right this minute – we’ll see if it sticks).

The rude might still be widely scattered, but it sure is purty…

The moon!

Thursday, February 26^th

One of my favorite pictures of the week.

Friday, February 27^th

Campus sunrise.

Campus squirrel – sneaky little dude.

My boss was out of the office at a seminar so I decided to spring myself early from work (note: I drove home & worked from there). Such a lovely day! Here is a picture of me having a hot flash, and of my favorite tree (note 2: I have my phone set up in a cradle on the dash & open the camera program so that all I have to do is poke it to get a picture).