If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.
 -Oprah Winfrey

   
"All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it."
-- John Berger

   
I'll Never Smile Again

I'll never smile again
Until I smile at you
I'll never laugh again
What good would it do?

For tears would fill my eyes
My heart would realize
That our romance is through

I'll never love again
I'm so in love with you
I'll never thrill again
To somebody new

Within my heart
I know I will never start
To smile again
Until I smile at you

Within my heart
I know I will never start
To smile again
Until I smile at you

Until I smile at you

   
During a lesson about adjectives, my friend, an elementary school teacher, asked her class to describe their mothers. One boy described his mother's hair as auburn.
Impressed by his sophisticated word choice, my friend asked, "How do you know her hair color is auburn?" Her student replied, "Because that's what it says on the box."

Good Morning my dear friends.

BUBBLE, Thank you for your time and talent in keeping us informed and together in this place!  You do such a great job all the time and sometimes I forget just how talented you are!

Now I have a silly confession!  I was a day ahead of myself this week!  My eye appointment isn't today!  It's tomorrow!  Now I have to rethink things and get through another day before I have the eye surgery!  Sometimes I wonder if I still actually have a brain operating in my head.  But I am grateful for all the good wishes!  I'll just be using them tomorrow instead of today!

Cooper will be arriving soon and I'm pretty sure my Maryland daughter will be arriving sometime today!  Otherwise, the day will be normal and tomorrow will be busy and different!

I wish you all a good day...better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow!  Go for it!

Good morning..

Crows were telling me it IS time for their breakfast. 
Vehicle is back home and the ribs on my wallet are pronounced!! Rides and drives much better now... We will go visit sil today and then check at the Mennonites for small cucumbers for Kyle's dill pickles.

Bubble, ditto on what Jane said

Jane,I find it is so easy to get days mixed up.Sooner or later we get all our ducks in a row.

Patricia, hope you had a great birday yesterday and enjoyed your cake.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Bubble, I agree; you are very talented and take such good care of us!

Jane, I'm very good at confusing dates and times. I think at this stage, we all become experts. Enjoy your day with Cooper and your time with him and your daughter.

Amy, we have a Mennonite community in Big Delta, just south of us. They have stalls at their community center along with some Old Believers similar to Amish, except they split from the Russian Orthodox Church about the same period the Amish separated in 1536. The Amish, Mennonites, and Old Believers share common, if distinct, roots.

 It was a good birthday with not one but two cakes, even if one was the size of an extra-large cupcake! I had surprise company all day, and seeing them was such a gift. I'm unsure if Farrah thought so because one visit included a friend's grandkids. It was a good day, sunny with only a hint of haze.

Ditto what Patricia said to Bubble and Jane

Belated  to Patricia

Rather than sound like an echo, I'll  just say "Same old same old" daily life around my house.

Nice to see some action in here today!  However, my action is just about over for today.  Tomorrow really is my appointment with the eye dr. so I'm off to bed to rest my eyes and the rest of me if it's possible.

I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow.  God bless!

If the regular lurkers would post it would be more interesting. I make no excuse for myself 

Good Morning Everyfriend!  This might be my last post for a while.  I'm not sure what to expect from the eye dr.  But he did mention a patch on whichever eye he works on!

Cooper will be arriving in about a half hour and his Granny (my daughter Christy) will be arriving sometime this morning.  She's supposed to text me when she leaves her Maryland home!  As for me, once Cooper is taken care of and has his walk, I'll be getting ready for the dr. 

I wish you all a good day...better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow!

Good morning...

Jane, prayers that all goes well today for you. Nice that Christy will be there to take care of you. Cooper will likely be right by your side till you are at your up and attem.

Not sure what today will bring will know better tonight.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Jane, I will join Amy in hopes of a good outcome for your doctor's visit and any recovery time. It'll be nice to have Christy there and Cooper too!

Amy, I've been slacking off and only doing the day-to-day chores, and it's beginning to show, at least for me, and I'm struggling between the things I need to do and a feeling of manana, on the other hand.

Just popping in to say goodnight..
Been a long day with  work around home but I did get some sewing in

Jane, get a good nights rest..

Patricia, I have so many things on the back burner that sooner or later I will get at. Next is my pickles to do and after that maybe the back burner will get done.

Night..

I'll say good night here and join my Kindle on the couch with a mystery set in Hawaii during the lead-up to WWII.

Amy, We have a lightening caused bush fire about 48 miles from here, and the three close rivers are still running at flood stage with some minor puddling.

Now, we're told that these days of the mid-eighties are going to morph into the nineties until Tuesday when the weather should start the regular August cooldown.

I hesitate to think of what the coming winter will be like...

Jane, I hope you're ready for tomorrow, and all cozied up in Dreamland since it's half past six here, which means it must be past ten PM your time.

Amy and everyone else must be in the arms of Morpheus, and I'm still listening to one of the softball announcers from across the river.

Goodnight everyone and hope to see you again tomorrow!

Good morning...

Boy, we had a hum ding of a storm last night. , not a hum dinger as it wasn't too bad. Around 2.24 am rain started then the music with the light show but it didn't last too long. Long enough that I now have to go and set the clocks.
Kyle has an appointment with the Dr today , an afternoon appointment so will just go there and back home. Long weekend starts and trafic could be nasty!

Jane, good morning..now it is your turn to let others wait on you for a change as you have lovingly waited on them in the past.

Patricia,I also have misgivings of what is to come this winter. Need to get the snowblower in for a tune up before the dances begin.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Not as hot today but just as humid.  But, one day closer to a cool, dry Autumn.  I just need to be patient.

Sorry I missed your birthday, Angel.  I hope it was a good one and that you will have even better ones to come.
 
Best wishes that the eye surgery goes well, Jane.

I was surprised by news from Canada about the prime minister's marital troubles.
 I feel sorry for any family having to go through this.  They seemed so suited to each other.  Were you surprised, too, Amy?

David is off to pick up the grocery order so that chore will be done for the week.
 I was going to bake a cake but it is so sticky humid I really don't want to turn on the oven.  Maybe I'll try some cup cakes in the air fryer.....hmmmmm, thinking.

Take care, All.  And hello to all of the lurkers here today.

Oh dear, I do have my work cut out  ,went to the Mennonite  market and came home with a bushel of cucumbers. Some will go into Kyles dill pickles   and the rest will go into bread and butter pickles and sweet pickles. Hope this will do all that I want but we shall see.

Phyllis, no surprise..

Let us know how the cupcakes work in the a/f.sure beats heating up the house with the oven.

Good morning from another sunny, albeit smoky, Interior day. Typically August is rainy, bringing temperatures down into Fall, while September is very cool but beautiful.

Not this year, as the prognosis is for a slightly cooler, less rainy month. I don't believe I've ever spent a sunny August in the Interior, so I'm skeptical. And to have a summer fire season begin in late July? Someone got their days mixed up.

Thank you, Phyllis, it was a nice one.

Jane, I hope you're relaxed and being waited on today.

Amy, are you seeing more wildlife on the roads, or have they all settled in already? They are usually more active here as they enter winter preparations, but I no longer see or hear them. This is when the birds that don't head south will break up from single-species flocks and into huge multispecies flocks for better protection.

It's when the ravens return from the mountains and the swans, geese, ducks, and cranes start coming from the far reaches of the wildlife, refuge, and sanctuary and gorge on the grain laid down for them while they prepare for the long trip to winter quarters.

It also happens when many moose, caribou, and others follow the rivers into the town outskirts to escape the wolves harrying them.

Today will be spent giving away my money, bringing food and receipts home. I was going to go to the last week of the state fair but decided against it. Everyone is busy today, so I must take the bus and a taxi home. I'd rather stay home and save money, but when has that ever worked?

I was reading where Facebook will no longer carry news from Canada.  Also, Google may do this too.

well good evening everyone. well I had big probblems with this computer. it got a bug in it and wanted me to type in a address it was giving me. I could not get it to where i could type there? so went in to the liveing room and got on that phone and was typing. but the man kept telling me somengthing. I could not understand what he was saying, I kept telling him I could not here what he was saying. so he hung up on me.when my grand deaughtet got home , i went out and ask her to come help me. and instead of her talking to hem she googled marcksoft. and they told her it was a good thing that they hung up on me, it was a scam steeling ideanty. I had tried severial times to hang up on it but it would not let me.they was trying to get enough info to steel my ideanty and get into my bank acount. I do no give that info out. so my grand deaughter was smaret enough to get microft on in a safey place and get it fixed. thank GOD for smart grand children and other people.

Lloyd

Lloyd, tis good to see you. There are too many scams willing to take a hard working persons money. Glad your grand daughter got you on line with no problems,

Lloyd! How nice to see you back online!

Why Facebook and Google are upset that Journalists and news agencies expect to be paid for their content;

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/facebook-now-blocking-news-in-canada-and-google-may-follow-what-to-do/

Now's the time to say goodnight  to all--------------

Lloyd...
...welcome back...So glad to hear your granddaughter was " savvy " enough to pick up on this scam...There are some nasty - greedy people about, that all they are interested in is getting hold of innocents money..they dont care who they do it to..or how it will affect them..just callous..

Good morning...

Weather wise we were lucky in this area,areas to the south weren't so lucky. Flooding in some areas and hail in others while we we just had rain and the lightening show wih music.

Today will be a busy one, picking up new meds for  and then home to get started on the pickles.

Talked with Jane last night and she is doing great. She is going back to the Dr today and I will call her again this evening.


Patricia, I hope you can home with all you needed and not so slim wallet. My car repairs have given my wallet a starvation diet!

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

 

Good morning; the unusual August weather continues with both fire and flood warnings. Instead of rain, we're having highs in the eighties and nineties with lightening caused fires the north and west of us. We have our highest summer temperatures instead of cooling down and August rains.

Amy, I also have a thinned-out wallet from yesterday. Thanks for letting us know how Jane's doing and letting her know we're thinking of her.

Today will be spent in the kitchen preparing chopped vegetables and different cuts of meat. I have some prepared freezer containers of soups and stews, but I need more.

Otherwise, more of the basics.

Just waiting on the canner to time out and there will be 33 pints of dill pickles for Kyle. Next will be chop and get ready peppers,onions and cucumber for the bread and butter pickles....miht do that tonight but may do it tomorrow. Will see how much steam I have left.

Patricia, you asked about the wildlife and not many   other than a few raccoons, one porcupine and one deer have I seen. My heart went out to the mother raccoon as she checked her two babies that were killed on the road. Hate seeing animals killed on the highway.

I will tell Janie you were asking about her. When I talked with her last night I asked where Cooper was and she said right at my feet.

 

Just talked with Jane,Dr is pleased with the way things are going and wants to see her back later next week. Will let her explain the procedure. Patricia, Jane said thank you for thinking of her.