It's Awww Monday! September 28, 2015

Video credit to Just Eat Real Food 

 

Cats truly are awesome and annoying delights!!! Enjoy and do thank

Sandee for Awww Mondays!

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Magpie Tales 287 Lucky Ducks

Photo credit: Gerrit Photography

 

Men Seeking Women

 

Personal ads from the 80's 

No electronic emails then

Only newsprint pages rustling

Heard while riding on the bus 

 

I read "Genuinely nice man"

No mention of "fireside talks"

Or "walks on the beach"

Straight forward honest words

Serendipity.

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Well over 25 years ago we managed

to find each other. We are lucky ducks.

 

 

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for Magpie Tales !

Six Words and Sunday Shadows September 26-27, 2015

Can you guess what these are???

 

 

 

Sitting at a picnic table we saw these....

 

 

All lined up ....

 

 

When we looked up we had the answer!

 

And it is...

 

 

Here's a photo of the tiny seeds found inside!

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Have a great weekend!

Don't forget to check out

Six Words and Sunday Shadows! 

Feline Friday!!! September 25, 2015

 

One of my favorite cats!

 

 

Thanks to Steve of BFDude

for Feline Friday!

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One Lucky California Acorn Woodpecker....

This little woodpecker*** slammed

into one of our front windows as

it was being chased by a local hawk.

Fortunately we heard the "thud"

and went outside to see what had happened... 

Russell held this beautiful bird to keep it warm for about 30 minutes while it regained

it's senses and was able to fly away.

Hopefully it was okay. 

We do love our wildlife.

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***California Acorn Woodpecker

It's Awww Monday! September 21, 2015

Our Awesome Day...
Yesterday we drove up to Jacksonville   

which is close to Ashland Oregon.

I had signed us up for an afternoon

of wine tasting. Here are a few photos:

 

There were several Trolley buses

that shuttled us from winery to winery....

 

The Daisy Creek winery was especially

pleasant with a grape arbor and lamas

nearby. They raise the lamas for

the wool and I bet the fertilizer helps

grow all the luscious grapes.

 

This lama was especially friendly as

I was feeding him fallen apples

from their orchard.

 

 

There were also oodles of different butterflies.

 

 

After touring 5 wineries we opted

to get a bite to eat at Deja Vu .

 

 

Fred insisted on joining us....

 

 

Needless to say we had to tuck him

into bed once we got to our B and B!

We stayed at The Bybee Historic Inn .

It was only a little bit out of town and

was a beautiful place to stay. It was

incredibly gorgeous and was built in 1857.

Two years before Oregon became a state! 

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and don't forget

to thank Sandee of Comedy Plus!

 

Six Words and Sunday Shadows! September 19-20, 2015

Five shadowy photos for six words.

 

Russell keeps painting....

 

 

I keep shadowing....

 

 

Finding silly shots....

 



 

Stacking more wood....

 

Spotting small objects....

 

 

Hah I gotcha!

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Time for Feline Friday! September 18, 2015

 

Blissful pose.....

 

 

Blissful toes.....

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Let's all thank Steve of BFDude

for Feline Friday and for heavens sake

have a happily blissful day!!!
 

Wednesday's surprise!

 

Mama mia !!!  Tacchinos !!!***

 

 

Wild turkeys !!!***

I know they are here because

it isn't Thanksgiving!

( it's a joke - we do not hunt )

It's Monday! Awwww! September 14, 2015

 We love all the animals

we see on our 10.5 acres. 

 

 

After all they were here first!

 

 

 

 

 

We've learned to expect that they

will periodically eat some plant we

wanted to keep- but we've learned to

either accept those vegetative losses

or plant them where they cannot

get to them. That's why our veggie

garden is totally fenced!

 

 

Have a totally awesome day!

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Thanks Sandee for Awww Mondays!



Magpie Tales #285 Once Upon a Time

Aline Smithson

 

Once upon a time

in a land far away

A dollhouse sat alone

No children there to stay

 

The nursery was empty

Babies grown and left

And the lonely dollhouse

Was really quite bereft

 

She sits there dreaming

Waiting for that day

When little hands once again

Will come to her to play.

 

 

Aline Smithson

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Thanks once again to Tess Kincaid

for Magpie Tales and this

enigmatic image to inspire us!

Saturday Six Words and Sunday Shadows September 12-13, 2015

 

I will never forget that day...

nor should you.

 

September 11, 2015

7:42am PDT

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Fourteen years ago almost to the

minute I first heard about the

World Trade Center. By the end

of that day my innocence and

 trust in humanity was shattered.

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Click on these links to see more

Six Words and Sunday Shadows.  

Feline Friday September 11, 2015 Lucy's Dream

Lucy is dreaming of a more peaceful and kinder world than what we are living in now. Since September 11, 2001 there have been   more wars, more disrupted countries and more deaths all in the name of one god or another.

Lucy and I dream of a world that is peaceful and where we are all respectful of each others

differences. Right now we live in a very precarious time. 

 

 

Just imagine what we humans could

accomplish if there were no wars. 

 

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It's Awww Monday! 9-7-2015

 

The Oak trees have not even begun to change color, but we had to build a fire two nights ago!

 

 

Lucy did not mind in the least!

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Big thanks to Sandee of Comedy Plus

for giving us Awww Mondays!

 

Magpie Tales #284

Image provided by Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales

Few came home
From that sodden bloody battlefield
Where James died

Image borrowed from internet
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"Where have all the flowers gone?"

It's Feline Friday! September 4, 2015 Oh Lucy !!!

 

Lucy looks so innocent....

 

But she is far from it....

She is pretending to smell the flower....

 

But look closely and you will see

something yellow in her mouth....

Success for Lucy!
 Now I'll just move the flower

where she cannot reach it!

Lucy is pretty hilarious!

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Have a great Feline Friday and

remember to thank Steve of

BFDude for starting Feline Friday

to prove he really loves cats!

 

 

Magpie Tales #283

Peonies, William Merritt Chase, 1897

On our wedding day
You gave me hope
You opened the door
To our wonderful life
And I have never been disappointed
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Thanks to Tess Kincaid for Magpie Tales
Have a great day!