Five-plus hours on the lawnmower brought me the weekly gift of homegrown beauty last night.
After taking a bath and changing my clothes to avoid the allergy itch from mowing grass, I headed outside.
After taking a bath and changing my clothes to avoid the allergy itch from mowing grass, I headed outside.
The trio of "best friends" immediately joined me, as I strolled around the place enjoying pleasant temperatures, beautiful skies, the freshly mowed lawn, Golden-hour rays and the newest floral gifts at different spots around the place.
It was Heavenly-----at least until the bugs got hungry.
Happily, they held off last night and allowed me a little extra time to enjoy being outdoors.
Throwback Thursday
Some snippets from the "time flies when you're having fun" category this morning.
With 15-plus years of daily blog postings, it's becoming more fun than ever to reflect on what was important in our Love Lives in past years.
Nice to have those written words of the good ol' days.
Today, a couple of entries and a cartoon from my brother Jim provide samples of just that.
Enjoy.
Saturday, June 11, 2005
Lazy brain
There's
not much activity upstairs this morning. I guess all that mountain
air and that 17 miles worth of bike riding yesterday drained too much
energy from my brain. The reserves remain in slumber mode, stubbornly
refusing to come alive.
We had a great day on the Hiawatha bike
ride. Our group of six kids---Katie, Hannah, Mike, Travis, Joey, and
Dillon---made our jobs as chaperones easy. Cooperative, enthusiastic,
polite, energetic, these ten-year-olds thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
Whether we were rolling through the dark tunnels or standing high above
the treetops on Old Milwaukee trestles, the kids made the most of every
minute.
Everyone took turns reading the trail-side stories about
the 1910 forest fires which wiped out old-growth timber, the wild and
woolly towns once located along the passageway or explanations of how
the Milwaukee route was constructed by laborers representing nearly 20
nationalities in the early 1900s.
The kids particularly enjoyed
the occasional mule deer walking through tunnels and a healthy
population of fat chipmunks who've strangely discovered that educational
panels where those two-legged humans stop to read also translate into
sumptuous supplies of donated edibles. In our kids' case, the trail mix
served as a great enticer to as many as half a dozen chipmunks at a
time.
Bill and I had a great day. Now, we're getting ready for a
busy Saturday, and I've gotta get off this blog to call Laura who's
heading up from Plummer this morning. Happy Saturday to all.
~~~~
from younger brother Jim's cartoon collection "Slight Detour," which inspired this blog 15.5 years ago.
Ten Years Ago . . . .
Friday, June 11, 2010
Red eyes and Annie
Well, it's three minutes into soccer's World Cup in South Africa.
Somewhere in Chicago, Annie is watching the first match pitting South
Africa against Mexico. She's pulling for Mexico.
This is the same Annie who stood in
the rowdy part of the stands at Quest Field in Seattle last night,
watching the Sounders go down in a surprising defeat to the DC United. I
know my friend Bryant is thrilled cuz his United finally pulled off a
victory. Annie doesn't want to talk about last night's game.
She wants to concentrate on the World
Cup. She'll be doing that for most of the day and then attending a
Chicago Cubs baseball game tonight. She's not happy cuz it's raining in
Chicago.
I know she's there because eight
hours ago she said she was on a plane. Three hours ago, she said she
was on a train. I'm assuming that was from O'Hare into the city. I
know all this cuz I read Facebook and cuz Annie likes to let her friends
and family know what she's up to.
I said to Bill this morning, "What did we do before there was email? And, how did we ever survive life without Facebook?"
"We'd have to wait until we read it in the Sandpoint Daily Bee,"
he said. Knowing that some kudos show up on the local paper's front
page six months after the fact, our source for up-to-date happenings
surely kept us in the dark on such items as when and where people were
riding around in trains, planes and automobiles in distant cities.
Thank you, Facebook. I need to check
in to see if Annie ever found a television to watch that first World
Cup soccer match. After all, she reported in 37 minutes before its
start, so certainly she's letting the world know if she found a TV.
Be back in a second . . . . .
"Yup, I'm at the Globe Pub, about 20 TVs," she posted at 7:06 PDT.
Well, I can rest, knowing my daughter
has taken a brief stint to drown her sorrows about the Sounders,
boarded a plane at Sea-Tac, safely arrived in Chicago, taken the train
and found a pub, all before I've finished my morning latte.
I know she's safe and happy watching soccer.
I'm sure we'll get continued reports
throughout the day, and I'll probably nudge her to give her grandma a
call once she's sitting at Wrigley Field watching the Cubs. Mother
would like that, cuz, as a Chicago native, she's always loved her
Cubbies.
Annie's in Chicago on real business.
Tomorrow she'll be at Lincoln Park Zoo, along with two other staffers
from Seattle's Groundspeak. It's National Get Outdoors Day, and the
group is going to give guidance on geocaching during their day at the
zoo. More information at
We've told a few of our many Irish
cousins in Chicago that she's going to be around, and maybe some of the
rest of them can read this posting and pass the word, especially if
they're curious about geocaching and wanting to learn more.
I did pick up on that one comment
Annie made on Facebook about the rain, and I'm so in the habit of
talking about it, I have to say to all the folks in the Windy City to
enjoy it. We're glad to be sending it your way and to know that within
the next 24 hours we'll be missing the droplets for almost a week.
Maybe Rain (not you, Raine) ought to join Facebook, so it can post
updates every few minutes or hours and we can track where it goes once
it leaves North Idaho on its eastward journey. And, every time we see
that it's busy dropping its load somewhere far, far away, we post a
comment that says, "Good Riddance."
As for Annie, when she adds updates
about her weekend experience in Chicago, I'll probably post of few
comments, but they'll more along the lines of "Cool . . . have fun . . .
I envy you, etc."
In the meantime, good times and dry skies are coming to a place near us. Bring 'em on.
Back to Now: Favorite Tweet Reply seen this morning by a well-known Jeopardy Champ
I want everyone to know my family got out safely before Seattle fell. I am starting a government-in-exile here in New Seattle, which is what I call the parking lot of the Issaquah Costco.
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That's all. Happy Thursday
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