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Free May 2013 Desktop Calendars
I was beginning to wonder if this post was ever going to happen….one issue after another kept popping up. I had actually decided that if I couldn’t get this done tonight it just wasn’t going to happen this month. Fortunately ~ the powers that be let the stars align, the heavens sang and it all came about….the free May 2013 desktop calendars are here….finally. To download a zip file of this calendar, click here. There are six high resolution images available so you can select the one that best fits your screen. To download a zip file of this calendar, click here. There are six high resolution images available so…
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Outside My Window ~ 4.17.11
Outside My Window…is bright blue skies….lots of sunshine….some wind….and about 59°F at 11:15 a.m. this fine Sunday morning. Our forecast high is 67°F with lots of sunshine and wind. That is to be expected after a cold front moves through the area I suppose..the wind. Yesterday was quite different ~ I woke up to cloudy skies, the kind that are dark and heavy and move quietly over you. I don’t believe the sun made an appearance at all yesterday. Later, the television began a series of warning alerts with advisories that we had severe thunderstorms and possible tornadoes moving our way. As the sun set, the alerts came more often…the skies…
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House Hunting
Our resident duck couple appeared to be house hunting the other day….. What do you think of this one dear? I don’t know…..it seems kind of small. But the yard looks great ~ full of bugs and such…. No, too small…..let’s keep looking. Yea, I know….my kids tell me I’m weird sometimes. 🙂
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Outside My Window ~ 4.25.10
Outside My Window…right now the sun is trying to break through and disrupt our cloudy day. Temperature is 72º with 77% humidity…..in other words, muggy! Our forecast high is 81º with a chance of scattered thunderstorms this afternoon. It has been cloudy all weekend with rain off and on. Not terrible weather, but I have held off on planting the flower seeds this weekend. I didn’t want a down pour to wash them away. Hopefully I can get them in the ground later this week. I am thinking…that I wish I was still on vacation and relaxing here…. Granted, that means I would have been there for three weeks and probably…
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Ready To Explode
Azalea buds ~ ready to explode…….a whole bunch of them! 🙂
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Outside My Window ~ 4.11.10
Outside My Window…is the end of a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Mid 70’s…..sunshine…..blue skies….just a slight breeze ~ simply beautiful. I spent the better part of today working outside, weeding and trimming. Combined with the hauling and work I did today with the mad house cleaning from yesterday, I probably won’t be able to move tomorrow. 🙂 I am thinking…I’m going to share with you the greatest and most economical weed block I have ever used. Last year in Mother Earth News someone wrote about using newspaper as weed block. The method is to lay down newspaper in the area you want to block weeds and wet it thoroughly. Cover the wet…
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Progress
Progress…..movement, as toward a goal; advance. Progress has been made on the side flower bed. I worked about 8 hours yesterday on it and still have a little bit to go. I was contemplating finishing it off this afternoon but that will not happen. Thunderstorms are forecasted so that little bit will have to wait. And I caved……..I was going to turn most of it back into grass ~ but when I began to pull up the weed block, I noticed no weeds underneath, they were all on top of the little bit of old mulch I had there. So I tried pulling a few weeds, they came up very easily. Then I got…
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Outside My Window ~ 4.19.09
Outside My Window…partly sunny at the moment, but more clouds are expected to build throughout the day. It is about 60 degrees right now with a forecasted high of 71. Oddly enough, our air quality is “good”……..I would think with all the pollen coating everything, not so much in the good range. If you want to get an idea of what I’m talking about, I posted a couple of photos of my Jeep coated in pollen on my blog yesterday ~ “Welcome to Virginia“. I am thinking…about all the things I want to get accomplished today. It is quite a list so I’m hopeful I can get through most…
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Welcome to Virginia
Welcome to Virginia……..and specifically Newport News. The city, while developing quite a bit in the last several years, still has a lot of trees. And lots of trees = lots of pollen. Check out the greenish-yellow powder covering my Jeep this morning…. and another angle……. Everything is coated with this powder and the air is filled with it……and will be until probably Monday when the rains are suppose to come. During this time of year, rain every couple of days is a welcome sight……washes the pollen away and clears the air. Oh, by the way, my neighbors car isn’t really clown orange, I guess the reflection from the sun caused the color to look…
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Skippity Doo Dah
It’s finally Friday…….Skippity Doo Dah!! 🙂 I don’t know about anyone else, but for me one of the hardest weeks at work are the ones that immediately follow time off. The clock couldn’t have moved any slower today ~ by 11 it felt like it should have been time to go! Needless to say, the plans to prep the kitchen for painting never happened this week. I did get some things accomplished, but not that. This weekend will be too nice to stay indoors anyhow so it is probably a good thing I didn’t. I plan to finish the outside flower bed by making it much smaller. Right now it…