We set up a new feeding station and photo studio for the birds yesterday and look what we got this AM.
Not bad for day 1. The sky was so blue….How blue was it? It was so blue the blue birds looked grey.
Last night it was so windy…..How windy was it? I thought it would blow the flag down. I expected big trees in the road and perhaps the loss of electricity. But today only a few strewn branches, the sun is peeking through the blue sky and the birds are flying, should be a good one.
Tennis was last night. The rain pounding on the metal roof. The thunder sounded like a bulldozer driving over the roof. Little drips on the court. Driving was a bit testy, but I was in the passenger seat. We had a great set.
We use to play on Wednesday and wondered why the bad weather was always on our night. The puddles on court 4 were much bigger. Last night was our first Monday storm this year. Rain on a metal roof, echoing through a large metal building, just sounds more intense. Guess it can rain on any day of the week.
Three days of back breaking, eye straining, stay in your pjs and get rid of your cold…fun. 
I can’t believe it…Curt Shilling… the ex Red Sox ace pitcher… the reason they won the 2007 World Series…red sock Curt Shilling just called me. He wanted to know if I was as up set as he was about the negative campaign Martha Coakley was running. He’s endorsing Scott Brown. He can’t believe she called him a Yankee fan. Wow this senate race is kicking into high gear. Three to four mailings and phone calls a day….Yah I agree with Curt and Scott Brown…Martha Coakley has gone too far. Let’s vote and get it over with….
I’ve had my laptop for over a year and the touch pad and keyboard have been at odds with each other and me ever since. My typing skills are not good but I usually get what I need done with little difficulty. I guess I have lazy thumbs; that hover over and then hit the pad so as to move the cursor to another spot and type in some other language; so nothing makes sense. In reading some of my posts I know you’ve thought where is she going with this. Well often it was not me but my touch pad that was in control.
I will no longer be able to use that as an excuse as my son and his family got me an optical mouse for my birthday. Look how much I have typed and no jumping cursor. It stays were I type and I can now mouse my way to icons and menus and pages and search boxes OH MY. What fun!
The troubles of 2009 have been as bothersome as this puzzle.
It is an older puzzle from around 2000, we had a few with this format (nine pieces that make a 3×3 square). I found it and brought it out because of the animal theme, the boys and I would play match, and Luke has chewed it a bit but I continued to work on it often. I searched my computer photos as much as I had worked on the puzzle as I knew I had the answer somewhere. Today I solved it! The puzzle not the photo search. So I took another answer photo. That’s a nice way to start this cold week.
With A Little Helper
The vacuum doesn’t even have to be plugged in, but we got all those needles from the tree. Well almost all the needles I found some of last year’s too.
Then I washed and waxed the wood floor, it doesn’t look like much but be careful in your stocking feet. 
There have been a few mysterious happening here lately and I’ve been taking the heat for it. Just a few things that have disappeared and were chalked up to my filing system. You see I like a place for everything and everything in its place….you might not realize this as you walk into my home but that’s the way it is in my head. Well over the holidays my daughter sent me a recipe for Sparkling Pomegranate Cocktail. I shopped for the ingredients and then posted the recipe on my refrigerator.
Christmas afternoon the recipe was nowhere be found and although we could easily look online, its disappearance made me wonder. My daughter even commented on her effort to mail it to me and then I lose it.
Well this week while watching the boys another missing item….a baby Pteranodon (a dinosaur that goes with the Christmas lego set). Now dinosaurs are not just terrible lizards that roamed th earth millions of years ago, they are the new reason to live if you’re a 2-3 year old and the biggest fans of PBS Dinosaur Train. So being the ever attentive Memere I set out to find the missing Pteranodon and set the world back on its axis.
In the process I find the Sparkling Pomegranate Cocktail recipe: it was in kitchen footstool. 
See the handle hole on top….that’s a favorite hiding place for all things small. The Pteranodon was not there but the recipe was and now I know when you leave things in the reach of a two-year old they probably won’t be there when next you look.
Another mystery is the coat closet light. M has reminded me numerous times; not to leave it on. As I am the only one to hang coats in the closet it must be me that leaves the light on causing a larger carbon footprint( no one wants that).
So though I’m no Sherlock Holmes I have figured out a few of life’s little mysteries here at the homestead, but I’ll never tell.
Oh, the Pteranodon was found about three hours later by sheer accident. It was under the dinosaur cave lair.
This means if the flakes are small it will snow alot and if the flakes are big it will snow a little.
Right now we have the tiniest flakes we’ll see if it adds up. It’s expected to go all day into the night so there should be some plowing.
