Time for Some Pix

This one I call "ditto"

I made this! It's a cherry clafoutis and I used a recipe from Smitten Kitchen. Go. Look it up. Enjoy! there is a part of this photo that is in focus. amuse yourselves by trying to find it. i did.

Produce from the front yard, and I use this next term loosely, garden.

More front yard produce.

Gratuitous muzzle shot.

Happy Hump Day!

Birthday Bullets

• I once worked with a woman named Becky who believed that one should celebrate their birthday all month. This is the same Becky who put on one black and one brown shoe with different heel heights but didn't figure it out until she got to work.
• My lovely family and friends have been overwhelming me with happy birthday wishes.
• I'm really blessed with my family and friends.
• Went to get my emissions test and the blown fuses in my car prevented the test. So that's why the mirrors won't work...
• It's wonderful to be out of town and return to Gus and Cotton's little yellow, fuzzy, black nosed faces.
• My trip out of town with girlfriends was a great time. The trip home ended in adventure: S's car thumped and stopped responding in the passing lane at 75 miles an hour about 47 miles from home. Bummer. We steered to the side of the road and called her husband and a family friend w/a tow service named, appropriately enough, Tow Jam. We passed the time by chatting. After I got home I realized we were in the general area where the missing former parole officer had been abducted.
• If you forget to lock your car, someone will come along and try the door, find it open and take whatever they can find, except for the 11 cents in plain sight. Just sayin'.
• I remember one of my birthdays from childhood that included "fishing" where you put your line with a clothespin on it into a space behind a partition and caught a prize.
• Another birthday was at my great aunt Nadine's house. She gave me a fishbowl with goldfish like she kept. They died in week, I think.
• Fish seem to figure prominently in my birthdays, don't they?
• If the security patrol in your neighborhood gets the dates a little mixed up and check your door Sunday morning to be sure it's locked, you will levitate from your sound sleep to the living room. Prepared to do what, I'm not sure. Hello, security patrol!
• The wind is gusty and thunderstorms are predicted.
• The stray black cat is in my front yard. Cotton and Gus have not heard or spotted her, thank goodness!
• It would be a lovely gift if said stray kitty would eliminate the voles killing the plants at my mailbox.
• If you're an August baby, Happy Birthday to you, too!

Perspective

You cannot trust your eyes

when

your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain

You Rock!

So I've been in a bit of a slump. But! Things Are Looking Up. I've won an award from an awfully lovely blogger*, Merry Me (on the right above). And that's a pick-me-up!

This is what she wrote: Please know that your blog has become a daily part of my life. Your words and photos lift me up when I am down. Sometimes they make me smile, sometimes make me cry, but always make me feel less alone and perhaps less crazy! Like many others around the world I am touched by the generosity of your spirit. Keep up the good work.

I would encourage you to visit Random Thoughts, her blog, so you can get to know her too. She cares for her dad, has a Sweetie, and is making quilts for servicemen and women.

If you ask me, Merry Me rocks! THANKS!!!

[Of course this reminds me of an award that I got that in my early blogging inexperience wasn't sure I was supposed to assume was for me, so - and you know who you are - please don't feel slighted, I simply didn't know blog etiquette!]

TTFN!

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*I've always wanted to use this phrase - it's British, or at least British cozy mysteries - they're all terribly good this and frightfully wonderful that, pip pip. :)

Cruisin'

This could be my old bike. It's been about that long since I've had a bike. Yesterday I saw a bike called a Cruiser.

It came in many colors and styles.

And it had a larger seat than that dratted bike in my gym!

It was really tempting to think I would use it to ride to pickup groceries.

Hmmm. Maybe I would.

I'll keep you posted.