Good Morning AMY. i am in for second time this Morning, we seniors are a lazey bunch. our weather says 20ºand clear, but we have lots of clouds in sight out of My ofice weindow. no matter we have no snow or bad weather, no wend either, we have dead flours I can see right out my weindow here and they are not moving nor the tree limbs either. all are dead still. I am up for the day now am going to eat a morning meal and then go out in the garuge and hull and crack and pick the gueddies out of more black walnuts and some hickery nuts also. they tell me the nuts are a good health food. take your time and stay safe today.

Lloyd

There was a dusting of snow when I got up this morning. It started snowing again in the last 15 minutes. We are not supposed to get much.

Oscar and Lucy got some kind of bug. First Oscar was not eating, looking like he had a headache, and stayed put. He got better after three days, just about the time I started panicking, and then Lucy stopped eating, pretty much looked out of it, and slept most of the time. She recovered last night, again, after I started panicking. She cannot afford not to eat or get her Thyroid meds. Have no clue what it was, but so far, Shan has not picked it up.

I bought several new pillows and pillow covers (both washable) for the sofa and the bed. Next I want to replace some of the more ratty blankets and throws. They do help keep little claws and the snots from damaging the furniture and my person. Washable is an absolute must.

Has anyone ever used homeopathic nose-drops for their pets? I wonder if they really work. I am currently putting a granulated L-lysine/brewer's yeast formula into their food, but it seems to have lost some effect after several years. 

Snow is expected here tonight and it is cold.  The weather people don't seem to be getting too excited.  They are saying that it won't be as bad as last weekend.  Hopefully, just snow and no sleet or ice this time.  Either way I'm stocked up and ready....I think.

Take care, All.

We had about 1 inch of new snow last night and the temp this morning was -14°F. Bright sunny day but one to look out at and hope not to be out in!!

Lots of little jobs waiting for me today.

Phyllis, I sure hope this is the end of it for boosters. He a to go to the hospital for an MRI and having that booster
 makes me not as concerned for Kyle.

MarsGal, read the reviews on this product, that  may help answer some questions for you.

https://www.chewy.com/homeopet-nose-relief-homeopathic/dp/138053

Shirley, how are you?

Patricia, we are still freezing here...need an Alberta clipper to change the weather.

Better get my rear is gear and get things done..

I was up early this morning to meet up with Cooper!  He arrived around 7 and I was dressed and ready.  I really slept well last night!

So far today, I've fed both me and Cooper, took Cooper (and me) for a walk, did a bunch of stuff on the computer.  My son was supposed to stop by after dropping my Gdaughter at school but it's snowing here so I'm guessing the school is on a delay and that means he won't be stopping because he has a store to run.  And without my car, I can't go in there and talkd to him and the phone is no good because he needs to hang up if a customer comes in or the store phone rings.  He's not an easy person to have a conference with. 

I'll be so glad when the decisions are made about my car.  I feel like I'm in limbo right now!

LLOYD, the "slam shut mode" for our eyes is my thing.  I got it from my Dad and remembered it back when I was having trouble keeping my eyes open.  He used to as us if our eyes slammed shut when we woke up from a nap in the car.

The haystack also came from me.  Daddy used to tell us it was time to "hit the haystack" when we were growing up and I used to use that on on my kids and I think they used it on theirs.

Gotta go get something done!  I haven't figured out what that will be yet but there's plenty hollering for help!

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

P.S.  LLOYD, save me some hazelnuts.  They're my absolute favorites!

PPS:  It's snowing here!

Jane..please keep the snow there!! Hope you soon hear some results on your auto..

Good morning everyone, Had a hard time getting to sleep last night again. Now here I am with my coffee and cannot stop yawning. My son called yesterday as I was reaching for the phone. Of course I jumped. I was going to tell him not to even think of coming here Saturday and he was calling to tell me he would come this morning. If he follows his Saturday routine he will be here in 45 minutes. If I read and not get gabby I should be finished reading in that time. Woke late and did not  hear the weather for today but it is a gray gloomy morning. I wonder how close to being the storm they re saying this storm will be. Used to be every time the guessers predicted a bad storm we would get a couple of inches.

TOMEREADER1  lately I am wondering about my Keurig and the Kcups. I don't remember the brand name of the coffee I have is, my CNA gets it at a discount store and a Colombian coffee, have enjoyed it till the last box of the cups I opened.Very weak, like colored water. My older son and DIL have  taken many cruises in the Caribbean and of course had a lot of different coffee on some of the islands. He now orders 2 different beans and grinds them and mixes them together. I enjoyed 3 cups of it on Christmas. I have been thinking if I gave him the money the next time he orders the beans if he would get me some. Knowing him he will get the beans, grind them and give it to me and not take the money. I don't like that. I am too used to paying for everything I get.

AMY  I did see cardinals and bluejays together at the feeder I had but that was before a storm when they were getting their fill before staying in their nests while we had snow. The cardinals looked small next to the bluejays.

BILL was here and now on his way home. He came with goodies he made this past week. Eggplant parm and stuffed shells. He sure is a good cook, those are 2 things I never made and enjoy. He had help with the shells, he did all the work except his wife filled the shells. Wonder if she sat down while doing that hard job.

PHYLLIS  I read someplace that we may end up having a shot for Covid every year like we do with the flu shots.

LLOYD  it is said nuts are healthy for us, some more than others. Heck I will eat nuts just because I like them, all of them.

JANE  no white stuff falling from the clouds here yet. The weather guessers say tonight around midnight until same time on Saturday night. At times falling at the rate of 3 inches an hour. If that is in daylight hours I will be sitting looking out at it.

Almost noon and with waking late and my son here I still have not had breakfast. Better have something to stop my tummy growling at me.

Have a good day and stay safe.

Had some light snow earlier but it has stopped. Supposed to snow from this afternoon till late tomorrow afternoon.  Our temp. is right at 32°.  Time will tell.

I think of my mother saying, "it's too cold to snow" and wonder if that is true. I never questioned those old sayings, just parked it in the brain to pull up later. What we hear about your eastern storm would scare me into stocking up on all the necessities, Rick!

Amy, I have cardinals & bluejays at my feeder, even a pic thru the window of a male feeding his lover. Wonder if that one is in my gallery. I baby-sat a nest of cardinals when we lived in the KC area of Leawood and raised a blue jay for 7 years. Raised a couple starlings & meadowlark as well as fostered a few others over the years.

Gloria, one of my sons does most of the cooking AND cleaning plus being retired & working 2 jobs and watching their grands many hours every week. Got to admit it does rub me the wrong way now & then, that his wife doesn't seem to appreciate all he does. Did your ears burn yesterday?  I was talking about you. Friend was laughing about a birthday card she got, of the Flintstones... and that always reminds me of the photo you posted of your son-in-law standing inside the frame of the car with engine removed. Funny how some images never leave & that is one of them!

I've been swinging from cleaning the bedroom Tom stayed in the last few days & the family room & kitchen the all mess up. Got half that room done but needed for it to warm up enought for Callie to go outside to finish the job. Still cold but sun is warm so I booted her out & sat down at this computer which is right by the door. Not much wind. Have the sweepers ready to roll, but notice the bird feeder in front that I see from the kitchen sink, is empty so will bring dumpster from the street (trash day) & fill the feeder. I really want a nap but think I am getting lazy. 

Lloyd, I remember using Clorox to get those brown stains off my fingers after picking walnuts. I think the hardest part was getting the tiny pieces of shells out of the nutmeats. We used to pick them up every fall until Dad got a tree started in the back yard & then he & the squirrels would fight over them. He always saved a bushel basket full for them & would put some out during the winter. Before he did that he discovered they found their own way into the "garage out back" and were raiding the baskets themselves! 

Wishing all a Fantastic Friday (hey, Callie, you here?)

Good morning everyone, plus four here now, but we're due to drop into some severe minuses next week. Amy, I think your clipper chased my chinook away! 

There is nothing new here but basic chores and perhaps some PSP play now that I got my filters working again. I posted a few last night that I enjoyed doing.

Joanne, perhaps their systems have gotten used to the yeast, is that possible or a possible brand switch?

Shirley, it takes moisture and humidity to make snow, and if you have dry conditions, you won't have any snow, just cold. Your mother was right. Before climate change, we rarely had much snow, but January and February could see long stretches of minus thirties and even minus sixties and some seventies. That has changed, and usually, we may have perhaps a day of being minus thirty and perhaps two or three of minus twenties.

The more moisture we have, the more storms we have, such as the one over our holidays. Ideally, we have plenty of cloud cover that holds in the heat. I find our weather people to be very accurate, probably due to the University headquarters here and the space exploration supercomputer and multiple Magna-telescopes used to forecast our weather. We're part of numerous northern nations' weather and space studies, which also helps.

The only winter birds I see are ravens. We have large flocks of smaller overwintering sparrows, grosbeaks, juncos, wrens, redpolls, and chickadees, but those tend to overwinter in the scrub bush. You tend to see those in spring and fall when they break up into separate species flocks or combine into larger multiple species flocks to protect during winter. There are owls,  grouse, and ptarmigan in the woods but I never see them.

Gloria, I also slept in after a very sleepless night. Sometimes I need to stop my busy brain enough to sleep, and it is never easy! After many years of working late shifts, I'm still eating on a late schedule. I'll eat in the late morning or early afternoon and then my main meal in the late afternoon with a late-night snack. I drink my coffee black and lots of it, at least twelve cups daily. I use a dark roast and put two scoops of coffee in.  And a total of thirty-two ounces of water daily per my allergist.

I don't really like sweets in anything, and I'm more of a carb lover. There are certain foods (besides my off diet ones) that I don't keep in the house because I can't stay away from them, such as spaghetti. I grew up on fresh-caught fish and am having difficulty finding a commercial fish that I like and will eat.

Jane, my dad used to say time to hit the hay when I was growing up. My sister is ten years younger than my older sister and me, so she was barely four when we left home. Her memories are very different from ours as our folks retired during her childhood. She was quite a surprise for everyone!


2,492 new covid cases in the last seven day here

Attack of the killer squirrels!   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfQhurh7wuk

Episode 1 Bluebirds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3auU2OIe_gA

 

Patricia, love the links & copied for my grands/great-grands to make!  Had a photo from my son last year or year before, of his grands sitting in their driveway in what looked like bushels of acorns from the tree in their front yard, a bumper year! My daughter's oldest son has a wife that grew up on a farm, loves outdoors (sadly she in a financial/book keeper type that still works part time (so in demand by her boss she sets her own hours)... while raising 3 kids & enjoying the outdoor with them. Anyway, they feed all types of birds & created a wilderness behind their house so will also enjoy. My other gr-daughter with kids live back east & they do "adventures" every weekend of all the national parks/monuments in that part of the country, so do a lot of bird watching & creating in their lives, too. Thanks, I enjoyed the links as well!

Shirley, you're welcome. I subscribed after my sister sent it to me, as this video is part of an entire series.

Dora and Alan, my friends, live on a northern foothill in a long-established neighborhood. Someone had the long ago urge to organize the community to buy a central pair of lots as a group purchase. One of their neighbors, a lawyer, set up a legal agreement as part of the purchase to preserve the two central lots as wilderness perpetually.

After they all agreed to put in the final touches, they now have a lovely spot to enjoy forever for themselves and their families. Any outsider purchasing or inheriting one of the surrounding homes cannot inherit or purchase without legally signing the agreement.

Patricia, I really enjoyed that link on the bluebirds.  We have a bluebird house in our backyard and have had several bluebird families over the years.  The photography was so good in that video.

Thanks, Jean; I think his original Legos job influenced him.

We don't have bluebirds here that I know of, unfortunately.

The majority of the smaller and songbirds here are forest birds that while singing sweetly, remain mostly unseen.

Good Night, Everyfriend!  I loved all the posts and all the links!  I'm really tired and ready to hit the haystack!  I sure hope it's loaded with zzzzs!  I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow!  And may God bless us, every one!

for Shirley

https://www.seniorsandfriends.org/index.php?topic=11.msg212073#msg212073

Good morning..

Chilly one again with a temp of -36°.No hanging laundry out today!
Yesterday flew by fast, odds and ends of jobs needing looked after including cutting neighbour's dog nails.

Gloria and Shirley, seeing both the birds together would be lovely, We do have a lot of Blue Jays here and I enjoy watching their antics.

Patricia, that fellow has a lot of patience and nimble fingers! Sending both links on for others to enjoy.

Better get going.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

for Shirley

https://www.seniorsandfriends.org/index.php?topic=11.msg212096#msg212096

Thank you, Bubble... and you didn't tell everyone I screwed up & sent the hawk twice... and screwed up AGAIN just now by telling you they are tiger lilies and they are Surprise Lilies instead. I was thinking one thing & typing another. I seem to do that more often (brain & fingers not working together.) The leaves of the surprise lily die down & later the blooms come up & because there is no green left, many people call them "Naked Ladies".... No doubt these will freeze back since Feb is normally our coldest month. Long link, will try this... https://www.redbubble.com/i/notebook/Surprise-Lilies-in-Full-Bloom-by-KristinaRSmiley/16067746.WX3NH?country_code=US&gclid=Cj0KCQiA6NOPBhCPARIsAHAy2zBZlHe2C2YwBwqMkmm0gdBjQiyNQEgQ6I8RbALA05v5NIfc8bE1DiMaAvGvEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

IT WORKED!  By the way, Bubble, love the new you avatar!

Good morning everyone. Looking outside it is all white. Looks like 10 inches on the roof over the porch. The snow is almost up to the windows of the apartment there on the second floor. Have not  heard any plows yet and only saw 2 cars go by. Of course I was at the window watching the snow. at times very fine and then a few minutes of bigger flakes. The maintenance man is here clearing the walk and the front of the building -that is in case of an emergency-ambulance and a fire truck and police car always come when the ambulance does. The CBS channel is still on the news, the Lt. Governor is speaking and it sounds like I have a Spanish channel on. Pretty sad when we born here want to hear news updates and it is not in English. Only English is scrolling along the bottom of the screen All the bridges are closed, already cancelling church services for today and tomorrow. I cannot see the trees for the thickness of the snow coming down so cannot tell about the wind. 17° here and that is not windchill.

SHIRLEY  I come across that Gary Flintstone photo when looking through old pictures. One I snitched from Photos, think it was back in SN of your ducks called Bottoms Up. Every time I come across that one I have to laugh. Just like those ducks practiced to look for fish at the same time. 2 of my 3 kids have good mates so guesss 2 out of 3 is good but my poor son is the thoughtful, kindest and most helpful person I ever knew. He does not deserve what he gets at home.

PATRICIA  I have my coffee wile her in the SS in the mornings and it san take me an hour and more reading ang typing here. I will then go get dressed for the day and then have breakfast. I will eat main meal 3-3:30 most days and then a light snack (something sweet) about 7pm. Will watch those links after I finish. I have never seen a Bluebird, of course bluejays but not them.

SHIRLEY  love seeing that Rhode Island chicken. You could call her Little Rhody. Regina was telling me someone where they live started raising chickens and wanted to give some eggs away so brought her 2 dozen eggs. She said they are the brown shells she has not seen in years, most in that part of the country are white ones. The neighbor told her she was raising RI Reds. Then she told her they will taste extra good because she is from RI. Her neighbor laughed at that.

Have a good day and stay safe.
Just looked outside again. Those windows above the porch are now covered with snow about 2 inches. More than a foot of snow already.

Shirley, I never heard of Surprise Lillies but I looked at the link and they sure are pretty.

Good morning, minus seventeen here as we head back into the frigid minuses. I found I was wrong about some birds when I looked to see if we have either blue jays or bluebirds in this state.

We have a rufous hummingbird and a northwestern crow in the southeast, but they've never made it here. We don't have a blue jay or bluebird, but for blue jay types, we have a Steller's jay and a gray jay. Does an American dipper (partially blue) or a great blue heron count?

Love the pictures and comments about different birds...I have red birds as I call them and blue jays....a friend of mine has green jays comes to her Feeder I have only seen them 1 time....it's fun to me to feed and see what shows up to ear...hummingbirds come in March...the dove are always around..also a woodpecker comes for water....have a great day ....CC

CC, I had not heard of green jays and had to go look. They are beautiful!!! Thank you...enjoyed looking at these..


https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Green_Jay/id

I've never seen a green jay, forgot to check their range. We used to see lots of Stellar Jays when camping in CO but not so many the last few years. In fact, not so many any kind of critters the last few years. On our first trip to CO many years ago we stopped at an information station & a mountain bluebird sat right in front of the car on a bush, I took a couple shots without opening the car door & thought they must be a common sight so would get better photos later. WRONG! Only one I saw that year & most years! My brother had families of the Eastern Bluebirds at his house, in central MO we saw quite a few, I love the color blue in birds or flowers!

Jean, the surprise lilies (or naked ladies) look a lot like Amaryllis blooms, 4 to a stalk & no green. Can't remember if it was my father or brother that dug up the lilies after the leaves died down, thinking that was it, no blooms!  These have been in that spot for 33 years (since we bought the house, same year Mother died). I have a forsythia bush brought from another house, that outgrew the lilies so have to keep trimming it back to share the sun. In that same section of the berm is a flowering almond bush that came from the first home we owned. I've shared starts of it with 2 of the kids, oldest remembers it & next kid was born right before we sold the house. My mother had flowers that were from various family members so named for them, I had some of her "Annie's Poppies" that went wild at the house we built, but sadly, no start of them anywhere.

Gloria, I've tried all names for that chicken & so far nothing has stuck. When we were talking over the fence (next door neighbors) last week the guy had just collected eggs so insisted I take some... 2 brown & a very large white one. They offered the whole pan full but I declined, had just bought 2 cartons of 18 each. My son asked me to see if he could buy a few for his last camping trip since they don't have to be refrigerated... of course they wouldn't let me pay & gave more than he asked for. They are the couple I painted their dog because my yard guy ran his mower over their soft ground & dug a big rut in new grass. I think I sent a photo of the painting for Bubble to post, maybe?

Oh, my, better get a move on, sun is warm & not a twig moving in the trees. Need to get outside and run that generator & whatever else (like water the small trees & flowers that won't make it thru the winter otherwise). Supposed to get snow mid week ... promises-promises!

Thanks for the comments about the photos, and thanks to Bubble for posting.

Good Afternoon,    It's sunny and 70º.  Wind is a bit nippy but it was lovely to be outside for a little while.

Shirley, loved the photos. I've never seen chickens but looked out one time to see ten wild turkeys perched on the fence and sitting on the grass.  Apparently, they'd been going up and down the creek that runs along one side of the complex.  I live at the other end of the street from that area so don't know if they flew or "strolled" up.

Amy, we had Stellar jays come to our window feeder we lived in the Colorado mountains.  They are so beautifully different than the regular old blue jays I'd grown up with in Oklahoma - and that come to my feeder here.
Also had a robin that arrived earlier than it should have and perched in the corner of the feeder with ruffled feathers and a grumpy expression that said, "Why am I here and what are you going to do about this cold white stuff ? My feet are freezing!" 

I always have at least two or three pairs of cardinals during the winter - and more in the summer.  Saw 5 pairs on and around the feeder recently.
 Ordinarily, I'd have Carolina wrens, rosy finches, titmice and a variety of others now and then. However, a big flock of sparrow more or less took over last summer and chased many of the small birds away. Hope those sparrows find somewhere else to be this year - but I doubt they will.

I love watching the birds interact. One time, there was a female finch on the feeder with a male on either side.  She'd pick up a seed and give it to the one on her right - then pick up another one and give it to the one on her left.  Couldn't help but think that she was having herself a good time flirting with both of them!   

There's a pond on the complex property and, in the summer, we have a Great Blue Heron, another smaller heron and quite a few ducks. A Mama duck had 8 ducklings the same year that CA woman made the news by having 8 babies; the news referred to her as "Octo-Mom"  so we nicknamed ours "Octo-Duck."  Usually have some Canada Geese, too.  They can get aggressive when the babies are small!!!!

This morning I put ingredients for Beef Veggie Soup in the slow cooker and it really smells good in here.  May make cornbread muffins to go with it for supper.  Recipe calls for a 46 oz bottle of V8 juice so I had to use the big slow cooker instead of my quart-and-a-half one.  Looks as if I'll have enough to share with family and several neighbors.  I'd given all my jars to dil who cans and makes jelly all summer so not sure what I'll put it in for sharing.
And that's what's going on in my world.



 

I'm just here to say "Good Night Everyfriend".  I've managed to stay awake all evening so I could put ice on my sore nose.  I took another spill today...scraped my forehead and my nose but didn't hurt anything else.  My nose was all swollen and I looked a bit like my grandfather in his older days.  A friend suggested that cold cloths might help and I added ice to the cold cloths and it did help.  Now I'm going to sleep! 

I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow and may God bless us, every one!