I find that my best days are days when I laugh and cry, have all the emotions. I like having my emotions. I've been practicing the song Daniel by Elton John - which I find very heartfelt and it makes me tearful. The song goes: "Daniel is traveling tonight on a plane. I can see the red taillights heading for Spain. Oh, and I can see Daniel waving ( Read more... )

Here's some pictures that I took last Friday when Dave and I were scouting out places to view the upcoming eclipse. We wouldn't need to go that far north to get to a place to see totality (even Cochranton would do - 10 miles away) but we wanted to get as many minutes of totality as possible and that means getting as close to Lake Erie as possible. ( Read more... )

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Up at 4 am. Sat down and paid the real estate taxes, finally. I usually like to pay them early and get the discount for us but I didn't this year. Lost money because of that. I know better but have been in a (?) mood. A sluggish, depressed, escapist, avoidist place. Not getting any of the important things done - just frittering away my time on the ( Read more... )

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The question:
14 Would you rather know how you’re going to die or when you’re going to die?When ( Read more... )

The question:
20 Houseplants - yea or nay?I have a few. The Norfolk Island pine I have mentioned before that I use as a Christmas tree, a plant that I got from Sally when she was moving to a new smaller place and she was throwing it away (it looks like a tiny palm tree), a kalanchoe and 2 hanging philodendron plants I got from Nancy. I don't take ( Read more... )

The question:
19 What is your least favorite household chore?
Vacuuming. I hate the vacuum.

Lots of free time now so Candy and I went on a second hike this week. So yay! We went up to the Guys Mills area of the Erie National Wildlife Refuge and hiked both the Tsuga and the Beaver Run Trails. Lots of pictures: ( HERE... )

I really think I might have caught a cold. I usually always get one in March and it is March and I have a stuffy nose and gunk coming down the back of my throat. Was awake in the night with a sinus headache and my eyes ached all morning ( Read more... )