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Just Saying in Everyday Ramblings
It is wet out there now having rained a bit the last few days, but I did take this on a walk last week. Mt. Hood from up on Terwilliger if you are keeping score. So nice to see as much of the ...
Things Done, Things Not Done in Everyday Ramblings
A much less drama filled week. We have had unusual weather. Sunny and dry but cold. Our snowpack is low low low and that is not good, not only for skiers but for our water supply. It looks lik...
Common Sense...Please in Everyday Ramblings
It was a week. Whoa. An extra class, a bunch of high intensity meetings that needed prepping for and a bit of a family drama that I am happy to say resolved into a good story and thankfully no...
Yet Again, It is Always Something in Everyday Ramblings
A garden neighbor’s plot a few days ago. It is only a matter of weeks now. Granted, winter weeks, so you know, the whole frozen thing but we do have daffodil shoots on the rise. A few more wee...
Flickering Images on a Cave Wall? in Everyday Ramblings
On this day 15 years ago. A park across the river with a wide assortment of waterfowl. We were testing our duck identification skills, ah, the enthusiasm of new bird watchers… It is wet and c...
Again, Wishes for a Better Year in Everyday Ramblings
From this afternoon, the last day of the year, the towering oak above my garden plot. I went down to say hello and think about spring. One of our former board members from “my” arts nonprofi...
From Chuffed to Relief (I hope) in Everyday Ramblings
The park across the way. There used to be an iron baron’s mansion there and then our county hospital up until the pandemic in 1918. A lot of the trees are from the mansion days. I took this a...
By and By in Everyday Ramblings
I took this last month a few blocks from here. I love the light and the festive color combination. Happy solstice and holiday week for those that can be happy this week. The holidays can be s...
Grateful and Dyspeptic. Yep. in Everyday Ramblings
A little outside bling. After the big storm we have had a few cloudy and weirdly warm days but later today we are headed back into our normal cooler wetter pattern. My waterproof boots, more...
Weaving My Own Rug in Everyday Ramblings
I will not confirm or deny that I had anything to do with this phrase in popular vernacular appearing on the sidewalk in front of my kitchen window. With the heavy rain we had yesterday it i...
Moderation? in Everyday Ramblings
They will have finished putting the lower branches on by now and the lighting ceremony is in a few hours. The tree was put up later this year than last, so I was happy to see it. We need thing...
What is Lost, What is Not in Everyday Ramblings
Carlo. The look. I get this every day. Excuse me, the look says, could it be possible you are paying attention to anything other than me? I took this picture on this day eleven years ago. He h...
Insufferably So in Everyday Ramblings
A little late garden cheer. Not mine, the “other” community garden. The Cosmo in my garden is thriving even if I did have to go shore it up with a brick today as there has been wind recently. ...
Recovering My Mojo in Everyday Ramblings
It is persimmon on the flower clock. Yes, I know that persimmons are not flowers, but I don’t have a fruit clock. Although it might not be a bad idea. Yum, persimmon salad. With a little walnu...
Crazy Town with Yellow Leaves in Everyday Ramblings
I took this midday yesterday from the 9th floor clinic where I had a mammogram. I feel incredibly lucky that I can walk to all these preventative tests. Anyway, the reason I am sharing this le...
Until He Gets Bored in Everyday Ramblings
The rainy season is upon us. As I have too much to do this weekend and I wanted to get my cardio in this morning, and as my Garmin fitness tracker told me that a 45-minute brisk walk was recom...
Procrastination, I Admit it in Everyday Ramblings
I am playing hooky (aka procrastinating) on some League work. It is not that I am not doing League work, I am just not doing some of it. The bits that I don’t exactly know how to do. This is m...
Inexplicable in Everyday Ramblings
Like many places, we were lucky to have dry mostly sunny weather for our No Kings rally and march. It is clouding up now and rain is on the way. The preliminary estimates are 40,000 people for...
Toast, Cats, and Quiet Resolve in Everyday Ramblings
The color palette sure changes with the change in seasons. This is an arbutus on the way to the garden this last week. We still don’t have Federalized troops here yet. I feel bad for the 200...
The Turn in Everyday Ramblings
In retrospect it was a crazy week. It feels like I am not giving 100% in my classes. That happens periodically, I get kind of flat. It also happens when my full attention is not in the room. T...
Hearing vs. Listening in Everyday Ramblings
I was thinking I had put up a similar picture taken from the same window here relatively recently but when I went back and looked it was 13 months ago. Wow. In so many ways my life is the same...
An Ideal Life in Everyday Ramblings
I need to see if I can write myself into a better mood. There is so much to be grateful for. My dermatologist told me yesterday, after zapping my face in three places with liquid nitrogen, th...
Not Going There in Everyday Ramblings
I don’t know why I took this picture Thursday. I walked by, looked, and went back and took the picture. It spoke to me on some subliminal level, and I was thinking maybe I could write a poem a...
Variations on Abundance in Everyday Ramblings
A delightful array of Zinnias in a parking strip garden last weekend. The person I work with the closest on the League stuff is a civil engineer for the city and she shared a spot on our loc...
Some Good Things in the Mix in Everyday Ramblings
It is that time of year here… Some personal good news items. My dental team is happy with my recovery. And if they are happy, I am happy. I have a follow-up in mid-November but am now able to...
