Take 2...

Well here I go again, trying to do some clean-up and housekeeping over here. I sort of messed things up a bit when importing my old blogs over here and made them all private. I later got to thinking what is the purpose of making them private when a blog is meant to be open, to be read and commented on. So I deleted my old account, re-imported the old blog again and hopefully it is all fixed and looking more tidy.

It will of course mean that I have to re-add those few people who I was following, so my apologies in advance to you and hopefully your inbox won't be flooded with all of my imported blogs.

I may have to look around to see if I can find a way to prevent that from happening before adding anyone first. But given my short attention span, reluctance to do anything too mind bending, I might cave in and just hit that "follow" button anyways.

Yeah, I am lazy like that. Guess most of you will have guessed that by now.

To all of the new people who stumble across my blog, a big hello! And to those "old timers" who have known me for years on here from other blog sites a big hello as well.

I guess it's about that time to buckle down and get back to this blogging stuff and quit dragging my feet. It's sad when things change and our comfortable places are replaced with new places and surroundings, but I will persevere...

I think...

As for my spelling and typos, they will continual in all of their grammarical glory. I don't know if "grammarical" is even a word, but that is another thing I guess you should know about me if you don't already. New words can and will appear from time to time, despite any objections from Webster's dictionary. And hey, if those words actually turn out to be real words afterall, a big pat on my back with rewards of chocolates for my wordy prowess.

So it's onward and forward after going backwards. Sorta like the hokey pokey. It all gets shaken up in the end anyways...

Lost and looking to find...

Where are you?

Seriously, I feel like some of you are lost or I am lost over here on Multiply, wandering around in a daze.

I feel the need to take a head count, some kind of roll call to see if anyone is still here.

I know so many of us are testing out new blog sites still and I think it would be helpful, at least for me, if those of you could post a comment below just where you are, or plan to be.

I opened up 6 new blog accounts on different sites, and I need to start thinking about paring it all down to just one or two sites at the most.

So I need to know where you are to help me decide which direction to go. I know I won't be able to find all of you  on those one or two sites, but I am really, really hoping that it could be possible. You may be on a blog site that I am not aware of, you may be on a site that I am, and have friended me, but are thinking of going somewhere else.

There is only roughtly six weeks left here on Multiply. We won't be here much longer. So if you could, tell me where you are, where you are going to set up camp, where you plan to be. So I can find you and not feel so lost.

For George...

George! What are the odds that you would talk about praying mantis and I should stumble across one while out moving the garden hose?!! I had to rush in to get the camera to take a few pics.

It was a bit creepy to watch the bug's head swivel to watch every move I made. I swear, if it had flown at me I would have tossed that camera and run screaming,lol.

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

  

Playing Catch Up

It's good to be back.

First off I should apologize to all of you for not getting back on here quicker, for not logging in at the library or somewhere else to let you know of my computer woes. I should have contacted someone to pass the word along. I had planned on it, but time seemed to be slipping away and before I knew it I had been AWOL for more than just a few days.

A lot got accomplished though on my end and I have planted, mulched, watered, string trimmed, and all of that other yard work related stuff.

I got paperwork done, some closets and drawers cleaned, the garage swept and tidied. I got a lot of stuff I had put off accomplished, some stuff that I had put off for months. None of it really exciting stuff, but stuff that needed my attention eventually.

I even picked my camera back up and took more pics. Nothing too interesting, but still it helped to keep me in practice of having my camera out to try and capture a few moments in time.

 

 

You will be interested to know that even my big tree was taken out during my computer absence. I had waited all summer for it to be removed. After my last bit of string trimming, and looking at how badly and quickly the tree was deteriorating, I called the tree trimming people again to see where I stood on their job list. They promised to be here at the end of the week and they were. Just long enough to park the boom truck across the street and take off.

I had a sneaking suspicion they wouldn't work that day, the wind was picking up. I was positive that the tree would fall that week-end before they came back. The wind blew hard, more bits of bark fell, but the tree stood tall and proud til they showed up on Monday and got to work removing the branches one by one til all that was left was a stump.

 

 

 

I was glad that I did the 30 day pic challenge as I spent more time actually looking at the tree and it's inhabitants than I had in all my years of living here combined. Squirrels, cardinals, woodpeckers, flickers, doves, pigeons, nut thatches, sparrows, wrens, chickadees, blue jays, robins, and more birds that I could hear, but couldn't see in the tall leaf canopy. I hated to see them lose their home but I do have other trees, as well as my neighbors and hopefully they have found a place to nest in them. Below is a pic of a flicker? I think? that seemed a bit confused on just what exactly happened to it's home...

 

 

 

I did happen to notice while out studying my tree that there seemed to be an influx of hummingbirds. Most likely getting busy for their soon migration. I hadn't seen them all summer, figuring they had gone along with any hopes of rain. So I put out a feeder only to have an ornery little hummer refuse to let the others drink from it. Another trip to town and another feeder and still a very selfish littler hummer that thought it now had two feeders. I did feel a bit sorry for it as it wore it's self out chasing off all of it's competition. The bird would chase and chatter one hummer, only to have another one sneak to one of the feeders. The bird would rush back chattering/twittering loudly to chase another hummer off and it continued like that for several days. They all scattered when the tree trimmers were here and I only saw two hummers return when all of the noise and commotion was over.

 

 

 

 

It is amazing the change in the landscape there is from just removing one tree, even my neighbor remarked how open it was. I like open fields, grand sweeping lawns and landscapes...for others. For myself, I like the cozy feel of shaded nooks, and unexpected plantings or secluded sitting areas when rounding a corner. I guess I feel as it is some sort of insulation created by Mother Nature. It has my thoughts whirling on what to plant there, what tree or series of tall shrubs to take it's place. I am waiting til spring to plant though, still without rain, the hopes of getting anything to take roots this fall is a bit slim. I did manage to plant a few things, and I keep eyeballing the fall bulb catalog, but there has to come a time when I have to say enough. Enough for this year, to leave something for next spring.

 Kind of like my computer. Trying to catch up on updates and blogs, and websites. It was after midnight when I shut things down and said enough. It will have to wait for tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that...