07/2025 - Sábado the 19th - JOURNEY

 

These 2 photos of Mom & Dad were in my memories today.  Love the one of Dad taking a photo.  I added a pretty flower for fun.

 Today's Name Day:  Sara

Great name!!!  Have a cousin Sara in Denver.  I told her today is her name day!!!

    Had a good day today.  I promise not to have a melt down in my blog today.  I apologise for yesterday.  Responded to having all my tender feelings poked.

    Slept good until around 6am.  I was up briefly  & then could not get back to sleep.  But the kits made it interesting.  They do not play together with each other. Ever. As I am trying to go back to sleep suddenly the cats come chasing each other at a high rate of speed into my bedroom.  Sat for around 10 seconds,   Then they ran back to the living room super fast.  In a couple of minutes here they came again.  Running super fast into my bedroom.  Then they left a bit slower.  I was almost scared to see what the living room looked like.  All was ok.  Except the tv would not turn on.  Kisse sometimes steps on the power cord & turns it off.  I fixed it tonight after work.

    Worked at the Old Mill.  Poor LL was there alone.  Whenever someone came in she would run upstairs to take care of them.  She came down once & said a group of 20 just came in.  She moved upstairs then & stayed there.  I got lonely.

    Working on a group of photos that are boring.  Not enjoying them. But today I had a photo of 6 men who I either knew or figured out who they are.  Five of them had the first name of Ken.  I assume the one unknown man is also a Ken.  Will find out next week.  That was fun.

    Before supper I drove to the Swensson Park to see some flowers that I hoped were blooming.  They were & I took many photos.  Will share tonight,

    Then JR & I ate at Jalisco's.  MA stayed home today,  Good he got some time off.  I like the married couple who work there.  And their son who helps out in fluid Spanish & fluid English.  Very nice boy.  The husband talked to me & he even told me I looked good tonight.  Wow.  That was a surprise.  I sometimes never hear a nice compliment.  I enjoyed it.  Dessert was snow cones.  It will close when school starts. 

    Going home it looked like rain cloud to the west.  But totally missed us.  Of course.  The high today was a miserable 99F.  My friends in Sweden are having the same temps there like here.  They rarely see 85F.  We are all miserable.

    Got home & cleared a path to my tv plug in.  The tv was a total mess.  Took me a while to figure it out.  Then I got my jammies on.  Trying to feel comfy.  Trying.

    Watching Rachel Maddow & Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC.  I really like Nicolle.  Must watch her too.  Very great.  I enjoyed them talking to each other.

    Photos are a mix.  Nothing matches each other!!!

These 2 photos are art done by Eric Abraham.  Super artist & great guy.  He passed away several years ago.  Miss him.

Flowers in Swensson Park.

I ordered this tiny vase & a tiny bouquet for it.  It is in the Old Mill for me when I work.  Nice to have something pretty on my desk.

Next 2 photos have to do with my meltdown yesterday.  Not fun feelings.

My rooster from Sweden.

One of my Swedish friends said this in FB today.  Me too!!!

04 may, 2023 Wandering & Capturing Moments

    I took another Jammie Day.  Not sick, just lazy!!  And I swear I got hardly any sleep last night.  I know I dozed a bit now & then but no sleep.

    I saw lightning around 5am.  Of course, no rain.  I watched the radar.  A line of showers approached here.  When it got to my farm, it split & went all around us.  And they forecast severe weather tonight & there is nothing.  Our drought got worse here.  They have the map color coded.  We are one color worse.  No bueno.

    I rarely add a friend that I do not know.  But sometimes we have mutual friends.  So I added a friend of an artist friend.  What a mistake.  A man.  Constant text messages.  Lots of personal questions.  Answered few.  Had enough today.  Blocked him.  Sheesh.

    But I have been friends with a sweet young man in Bangladesh.  We have chatted for several years.  He calls me Mom.  Maybe a term of respect there.  His mother is fine.  He is on FB too.  He is just nice.  And never asked me for anything except friendship.

    It got hot today.  High was 81.5F.  Thankfully no humidity.  Our low was 57.2F.  Too warm.  Had the AC on all night.  Hotter weather coming.  Oh joy.

    Busy tomorrow.  No jammies!!!  I could but people would stare!!

    Been outside with Nico & Cinder a couple of times.

    Watching a tv show on WWII in Japan.  That is where Dad was.  Interesting.  And awful time in history.  Show is about abandoned places.  Always interesting.

    Photos are a mix again.  Did not take them all.  Nothing special.

                    

Sheltering in Place, Mood Of Silence, Day 184....

Had an OK day. Supposed to see my therapist but she called and is sick so she cancelled and was on her way home. Hopefully nothing serious.

My granddaughter who has Covid is mostly over it. She is no longer quarantined but her son who is not ill must be quarantined for 2 weeks. Hopefully he is ok. 

Still having hip pain, etc. It is what it is. No more to say.

Worked on genealogy this afternoon. I know on Dad's side there are some family buried in Wichita. I have been to see them. But I found that some of his family is buried in Jewel KS and Manhattan KS. Jewel is about 90 minutes away. And in Manhattan I have not been to that cemetery. Two road trips.

I went 24 hours without  a Pepsi from simple laziness. Drinking one now. Mmmm. My one true addiction.

I got a very pleasant shock just now. I have needed my glasses to read. Well, my laptop was a bit blurry. I figured my glasses were dirty. Nope. I can see!!! Very cool!! I can read sort of clear on my cell phone also. Now to sleep without the shield and wear makeup and life is good!

Photos are collages I have made. I went through all my collage apps. Many no longer work. Irritating.

       

The Plague, Day 168.....

It was a quiet day. My mood is sad. Too much thinking about family holidays that do not exist anymore. I have thought about Mom all day and last night. Mom never did any holiday like over board spectacular. But nice and homey. For one more day with bbq hamburgers, potato salad, and either ice cream or pumpkin pie. She would make pumpkin pie just for Willie. He liked it. And while she liked Cool Whip, Willie did not. She would always have real whipped cream just for him. Those days are long gone but I still miss them and my parents. 

JR and I ate at Jalisco's. They were pretty busy so chatting was at a minimun. JS did have time to take a photo though!!

Nico and I sat out for a long time. Nice nice weather this evening. Need more days like this.

Sitting on my sofa I looked out the window and there were turkeys!! I counted 8 and one large one that seemed to guard the others. Taking photos through dirty windows was a challenge. I have a ladder I climbed up on and got to a window with no upper screen. Better photos. I need to be more alert. They were fun to see.

Photos are mostly from today. All photos taken by me and edited by me.

     

Quarantine Day 98...... Happy Father's Day!

 A very nice day. It is Father's Day but no we had no celebrations. Should have visited 2 cemeteries but I just there a day or so ago. It is ok. Posting an old photos of my parents.  I miss them both more than I can say!

My brother and I ate at Jalisco's. I always feel at home there. One of the few places. But. Today they got far too busy for me. I finally put my mask on and then we left. No other masks were seen. Just selfish people. Every thing you hear or see says to wear a mask in public. And no one listens. Like the entire restaurant only cares about themselves. Ok. Off my soapbox. No one cares or listens. 

Warnings all afternoon of severe weather. And nada. NOW hours later it is raining. See how severe it gets. Was severe west of here.

Photos are from today. Just what I saw. Great clouds. My photos do not do them justice.