Testing, testing, 1,2,3. Here is our kitty, Stinky, the sweetest cat ever and the last cat standing in our household. We had 3 geriatric cats, a twenty year old, a fifteen year old, and Stinky, the 17 year old. Two have passed on in the past couple of years, hence the last cat standing. Why am I posting about our sweet kitty tonight? Because I finally have a smart phone and wanted to see how…
Every year, for as long as we have been in this house (20+ years), probably longer, the grape vines, which seem to originate at the back of the yard near the shed, take over. They snake across the clothes lines and up into the trees, dominating small bushes so that we can’t see them. In at least one (maybe two) areas of the yard, the vines are so thick over the bushes that you could…
When I went online this evening, I checked out Google News, as I often do, just to get a handle on the major news of the day. Under the section for U.S. news, these are the headlines I was greeted with: Only four headlines were provided under the U.S. news section and every one of them deals with violent death. It’s enough to make me want to crawl under a rock. Certainly there was some…
In mid-June, I posted a bunch of photos of the top of a lily. This was prior to the lily blooming and I couldn’t remember what sort of lily was going to pop out. Now I know. It was a tiger lily. We’ve got a bunch and they are gorgeous and tall, as are all the lilies this year. Have a look …
This morning, while walking Doggle Woggle, I was bit by a mosquito in the crook of my arm. I smashed the mosquito and went on my way. The bite swelled up, as mosquito bites normally do, and it itched a little. Here’s the interesting thing about my mosquito bites. Ever since I developed eczema a number of years ago, I’ve noticed that mosquito bites do not last long on me. Where they typically remained…