Musings

Often kids accept that the household practices of their home are what happens in the other homes around them. I remember thinking how odd it was that none of the neighbors changed out their living room rugs so that there was a winter one and a summer one. Of course, many of them had wall-to-wall carpeting and that complicated my pattern observation. Turns out, I’ve yet to meet someone who changed out the rugs like my mom insisted we do. Was that a Victorian practice?

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I walked around the corner to a local shop to do an errand, and today’s gully-washer hit! This was the view out into the back parking lot.

It wasn’t all bad, because I waited in a bookstore!

When I left, it hadn’t totally quit raining, but I had a broad-brimmed sunhat on so I was (largely) covered.

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Apologies for delayed post. I just got too yawn-y too early to have sufficient thought to post before crashing.

I’m fine (she indicates while sipping her morning coffee).

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Like gardenias and camellias, I was unfamiliar with caladiums when I moved to the deep south. I’ve never grown caladiums, although one time I planted them at the new house of friends.

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I mentioned dahlias two days back; here’s one from the R-garden over in Athens. Yup, we took a wee road trip—great fun and many laughs.

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It’s a wild weekend here in the ATL, with Beyonce doing cowboy hat concerts downtown, and the baseball folks congregating on the north-side ahead of the All-Star game on Tuesday. I’m glad we’re just outside of those orbits.

Posted at 9:56 PM | Comments Off on On edge

Last night as I began to get ready to sleep, the fireworks kicked off, boom boom pause boom [repeat]. I figured I’d lie awake listening, and wondering when the festivities would end. Nope; instead, I went straight to sleep.

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Some days are just a blur; today was one. I’m good, though…leftovers make it easy (for example).

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This was a sunny afternoon five days ago. I’m over a thousand miles south of this beach, no lakes or sandy shores nearby. I’m torn about relocating, but quite glad to no longer be on the road. 😅

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The storm the other day brought this lupin down across the path, and my eye was caught by the complex patterns in in the blossoms.

I can’t know, of course, but perhaps when I stopped to take this picture the seed tick I found inside my elbow a couple hours later crawled onto me…ick. I quickly removed it, then took a shower with lots of soaping, followed by a complete towel scrubbing.

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