Sorry I can’t remember where I got this picture but it made me laugh and I wanted to share it here with everyone. We have dozens of gray squirrels in our neighborhood and I like to watch them bury the acorns in my yard every autumn. They come to get them later, too. But they aggravate the hell out of my dogs when they come in the yard!
If the picture is yours and you have a problem with me putting it on my blog, shoot me an email and I’ll take it down. If it’s yours and you like it on my blog, then thanks!
Around Here, Environment, Just for Fun
I’ve read a few things about Mother’s Day that I never knew, by poking around on some of the cards and florist web sites. I think it is a nice holiday, very American, and appropriate to honor mothers this month and then fathers next month.
I wanted to send a nice gift to my mother and decided on a nice fresh flower arrangement. Small enough that she can keep it on the counter at her shop, or she might prefer to take it home and put it on her dresser. The Teleflora arrangements were really pretty this year, and ordering it on the internet was very easy. I could even select the florist shop that i preferred from a list that served the area where she works.
I liked this flower arrangement so much I almost ordered one for myself! I did receive flowers on Mother’s Day, our grandson brought a nice little pot of yellow mums that he picked out, just for me. He insisted on yellow because he knows that yellow is my favorite color. What a sweetie at just 5 years old!
Would have been nice to be able to visit with my mother on Mother’s Day, but this year it was just too complicated to get away. And word got back to me that she didn’t really want to have all the children come visit. She had made plans with my youngest brother and his family, and she said that the rest of us would have been too much on her. So the rest of us enjoyed the day with our own children and I’m sure we all had a nice day in our own ways.
Celebrations, Family
Got your Harley yet? I figure we’ll see a big increase in the number of guys on motorcycles this summer. With the price of gasoline rocketing upward, this gives every middle aged crisis guy the perfect excuse to buy a motorcycle using the excuse of great gas mileage.
A lot of guys ride the Japanese made bikes that tear through my neighborhood on Saturdays and Sundays on their way to the Lake. Those guys are the dummies who ride with sandals instead of good leather boots, and ride shirtless instead of a leather jacket or vest. They ride too fast for the road conditions, dart in between cars, burn rubber at stop signs, and eventually get hurt because they are reckless and stupid.
Harley riders are different. Guys on the Jap bikes are the ones who ruin it for the rest of us. These idiots are the reason we have helmet laws. The serious bikers know to protect themselves and how to handle a motorcycle. But the idiots don’t even have enough sense to wear a helmet unless we force them to do it.
Around Here, Opinion, Wheels or Wings
Way back when I was a little girl, we celebrated May Day at my school. It was a huge event that all the classes prepared for with weeks of planning and practice. The entire school campus was turned into a festival for the day.
We bought special costumes and I’ll always remember mine. It was a darling dress and bonnet with a Victorian floral pattern. I had to wear a special hoop slip and pantaloons with rows of lace ruffles. We also had to carry a matching parasol, and all of us were all dressed up for our Maypole dance in front of all the other children, their parents and all the teachers and staff.
Celebrations, General Living, Memories
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