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Connection, A Sense Of in Everyday Ramblings
His Nibs, Carlo in the sun. Awww. So yesterday I wanted to write specifically about the response on the pushup challenge. After I wrote the post I went to church where I allowed myself to feel ...
Expectations and Expression in Everyday Ramblings
Because of the scheduled workshop yesterday and the fact that Mrs. Sherlock was at the annual Women’s Retreat in the Columbia River Gorge (I bet it was beautiful) we didn’t have our weekly hikin...
Allergies! Whoa Baby in Everyday Ramblings
The weather has been fabulous this week, easy to be out in and most hospitable. Well…except for the allergens. The other morning I was out on the track and after taking an antihistamine and some...
Hopeful Tinkering in Everyday Ramblings
On Sunday I took the train down to Salem to spend the day with Kes, Most Honorable and their cats. After lunch we went for a walk to see the new multi-use bridge (no cars or buses) that links th...
I Need A Proper Vacation in Everyday Ramblings
There. I said it. Mrs. Sherlock purchased a dinner for four; al fresco, on a farm out on Sauvie Island at an auction for this project that supports AIDS work in Africa. It was last night and she...
Sharing and a New Look at Abundance in Everyday Ramblings
Yesterday the weather was mild (as summer goes) and clear (there was valley haze) enough to see the mountains. I always think that hydrangeas symbolize the 4th of July, our big summer holiday, a...
The Best Kind of Adventure in Everyday Ramblings
Yesterday in our further quest to get to know certain neighborhoods in our fair city we went for a “hill walk” on my side of town out of a book. It was the cemetery loop. We started out at a pa...
In Which Noko Practices Being a Curmudgeon, Sort of in Everyday Ramblings
This is Heritage Tree #10; the white oak planted sometime around 1843 that is literally paces from Mrs. Sherlock’s house. I walked past it yesterday morning when I took a break from work and wal...
Developing Antidotes and Applying Others in Everyday Ramblings
In the older house across the street that no one lives in is a nest of starlings. The young ones are out and about now and providing much entertainment for the cats through the various ground vi...
A Romantic Farm House and a Couple of Rants in Everyday Ramblings
For our Saturday morning walk yesterday with Frida we started at a park not far from the last house Mr. Finch lived in; an area that used to be mostly farmland before it became mixed residential...
Better Late Than??? in Everyday Ramblings
The solstice! It was warm and windy and there was sun and clouds and glare out there. Mixed into my celebrations, (it is a big day in the yogic traditions), there was a bit of sorrow, as our day...
It’s My Birthday and I’ll… in Everyday Ramblings
…Run if I want to. You would run too if it appealed to you. Yesterday Kes and I were talking about the things we are passionate about and enjoy. I have a whole list of things. This morning I in...
A Break in the Action? in Everyday Ramblings
I just looked at a weather map of the United States and we are basically the only place not having summer. We have gloomy warmish glare but soon it will clear, they are saying later tonight or t...
Narwhal of the Plant Kingdom? in Everyday Ramblings
I took this Saturday morning out in the drizzle. The lilies are coming on. Yesterday I listened to an interview with a National Geographic photographer who specializes in the Arctic and the Ant...
A New Rabbit Hole, With Trees in Everyday Ramblings
We went for a 3½ mile walk in an intermittent drizzle partially in the neighborhood I used to live in this morning. Frida was full of energy even though we let her run a couple of times. She is ...
Getting Out My Hardhat and Constructing a New Reality in Everyday Ramblings
We had a break in the rain in the evening yesterday and instead of doing something practical like going to the grocery or the gym I went out with my headphones and my camera phone and wandered a...
Gray and Grey in All Sorts of Ways in Everyday Ramblings
It is quite hazy out here now and we are supposed to cloud up this afternoon and stay that way for over a week. That is a typical weather pattern here for June. I suspect that after our endless ...
From a Walk to a Trot in Everyday Ramblings
It is all about the color for me, experiencing color. And this late iris I shot yesterday just seems perfect. My inner pony and I did get out on the track on Saturday…and yesterday…and um, this...
The Pent Up Heart in Everyday Ramblings
It is overcast and Saturday here. I appreciate the weekends in such a deep way these days. It is just past noon and I have been to my Weight Watchers meeting, the Farmers Market, walked 6.27 mil...
A Little More Feet, an Awful Moment and Hope in Everyday Ramblings
It has been mostly overcast and cooler, a more typical June weather pattern for us that makes the flower colors pop in the gloom. This is the quote about shoes from the Dynamic Aging book… “Clo...
A Rose, A Meditation and Well...Feet in Everyday Ramblings
Kes was up Sunday helping her best friend sort and unpack some things she brought home from her father’s house in Toronto after his death last year. The friend has just completed an intensive re...
Poppies, A Light in the Heart and 65,000 Thoughts in Everyday Ramblings
From a little walk this morning, it is, after all, Memorial Day here in the States. Flanders Fields and all that… We are still pretty shaken up by the events here last Friday, with the racially ...
Yep, Sad to Say... in Everyday Ramblings
So yes, we made international news here in our barbarity. We get warmth and sunshine and a shirtless white supremacist goes berserk on a light rail train hurling insults at two young women that ...
For Us All in Everyday Ramblings
Yeah yeah I know this is kind of blurry and a bit of a mess but I love these dark orange brownish black irises and it is hard to get a decent shot based on where they are located on the hill acr...
All Fall Down in Everyday Ramblings
There are just a few days each year to capture the roses in the right light. I am grateful to be able to have been out with a camera for them at least here in my neighborhood. Everywhere there i...
