tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90788587379131005642012-02-12T15:14:46.271-08:00"Auntie" sezzzzzz...http://www.blogger.com/profile/16170232476926222740noreply@blogger.comBlogger1761100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078858737913100564.post-62517146115293906902012-02-12T06:30:00.000-08:002012-02-12T07:00:12.545-08:00

 (A New "Once Upon A Time" is on tonight, for those who watch it...) (Source) I love illustrations in children's book.  Isn't that one above, by Sibylle von Olfers, just precious and wonderful?  I know her "Root Children" illustrations.  Must look for this book, also.  ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ (Source) ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ (Source) It seems that most of us, in the NE, need to be reading this book.  :-

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 ♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ I've always loved illustrations, even as a child.  Do you see the way the little girl (in my header pic), the way her hands are drawn?  It's a particular style.  Perhaps it was more popular, "back in my day" than now.  So delicate an appearance....  :-)  I always loved it. Ants!  Little ants!  We have been invaded with little ants.  Ugh...  Ugh...  Ugh...  I simply can't face the

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ADDITION: I asked if you could see my pics, because "BJ" told me she saw lots of little boxes on my post.  ~~~~  Think I have figured it out.   ~~~~  Think the little open-valentines  I use, to separate parts of my post, and at beginning and end of my posts, do not show up on her computer screen.   Just little boxes show up.  :-) ~~~~~~~~~  ♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡ In my yesterday's post, did my pictures

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 ♡♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡ I am better this morning... .♡. Mommy and baby Gabriel called me last night.  They could see the MOON, over our house.  And since "Nana" loves the MOON, they were thinking of me.  :-) .♡.  Gabriel loves to say MOON .♡.  But "Nana" didn't see it, till later.  By peeking right-over-head. .♡.  And no....  "Nana" made no attempt to photograph it.

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 ♡♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡(Source) February Full Moon Which I will name the Full Allergy Moon. Eyes watering... Nose running... Sneezing... No particular reason, to wake up thus.... And my computer quit also... Be Forewarned...! Run for the hills...! But don't forget to take a box of tissues with you...! Ugh..... ♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ "Every one is a moon, and has a dark

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~~~~~~~~~~~(Source) CONGRATULATIONS...!!! To Eli and all the Giants...!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~ Sorry, I wanted to turn comments off...  Don't feel you  have to comment, please... ♡♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡

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~~~~~~~~~~~ (Photo SOURCE) GO  ELI...!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~ (Photo SOURCE) I don't have anything *against* Brady.   :-) It's just that the Giants are the NEW YORK GIANTS.  :-)~~~~~And that we have liked to watch both Eli and his bro Payton,for a long time.  The Paytons are a nice football tradition family. ~~~~~ When there are less-than-nice men, playing Pro Football... Men who torture dogs... Men who

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♡♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡ Today  I am going to concentrate on cleaning my keyboard. :-) "Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task." ♡.♡.♡ ♡♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡

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♡♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡ Thank you Dear Readers, for your answers to my question of yesterday. .♡.Muffy suggested pics, around home.  For my posting.  Thank you Muffy, for pushing me. .♡. See, my pics are not posting well, of late.  -sighhhhhh-  They show up as too-dark, like Vee has been complaining talking about.  -grin-  And they don't show up, as cropped.  This has to

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♡♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡  (Source ) Please may I ask, what you like to find, in a post? Would like to find a post, like this one? Just showing pretty illustrations?  (Source ) Or do you really want to learn something, from each post you read? (Source )  Even if it is simply what-a-person-is-doing, in her life? Or a plan she has, for doing something, at a later time? Or

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 ♡♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡ 'Tis now February.  The Wheel of The Year turns.  Warm-ish (44 degrees) and rainy, in my neck of the woods.  Snow cover slowly receding.   .♡.Not very pretty.  Oh well, we can't always pick our outer-landscape.But we can pick our inner-landscape!!!.♡.    We can choose our outlook on the day.  I know I have lots more to read in my latest

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♡♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ ♡.♡.♡   (Source) Well, we counteracted yesterday morning's Fasting Vampire's work on me, by having Liver & Bacon & Onions & Home Fries for dinner last night.♡ We did this, because we like it.  So don't you let "Auntie" hear a chorus of "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeuuuuuu's."  :-)  Ever have this, prepared deliciously?♡.♡.♡.♡.♡   (Source) And "Gilmore Girls" fans out

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 ♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ (Source) Guess I just HAVE to post something this morning, to be able to show these delightful illustrations I found.  Guess they are mostly from the 1930's.  ♡.♡.♡  (Source) Oh my gracious, aren't they delightful??? I love these kinds of kind-of-stylized drawings. Is that what you would call them?????? ♡.♡.♡      (Source) Let's see......   Last night I read more in "A

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♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ I finished it!!!Oh my gracious-me-oh-my-oh-mercy!What a book!!!♡Muffy, you have it already, to take with you on vacation!  Wonnnnderful!  The other ladies are going to get jealous of the way you get *lost* in reading this book, and will want to steal-off-with it.  I'm warning you!  Be on guard!  :-)))))♡-happy sigh-  Do I say read this book?  Yes Ma'am I do.And I want to read more,

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♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡.♡ Tried switching back to Old Editor.  Tried placing pics to the right and to the left.Mmmmm, I've lost the knack.  IF I ever had the knack, that is.Back to New Editor, went I.And having to place my pics, *smack-dab-in-the-middle* of the post lines.♡.♡.♡  Anyway, above are pics of the G/F *Goodie* I made.  :-)Vee wanted me to take a pic of it, so I did. .♡. I mix up a package

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♡.♥.♡.♥.♡.♥.♡.♥.♡ (Source)  Thank you for the helpful suggestions, on how to place pics, to the right and to the left.  Instead of just *smack-dab-in-the-middle* of a line.  But I guess I need to go back to Old Editor, to easily do this.  And not sure I want to...  I've been pleased with New Editor.  So it's a matter of.......  Which aspects, mean the most to me? .♥. ♥. ♥. ♥. ♥. ♥. (Source:

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♡.♥.♡.♥.♡.♥.♡.♥.♡ .♥. (Source) "Deep within the winter forest,among the snowdrifts wide,you can find a magic placewhere all the fairies hide..." .♥. Isn't that delightful???I found it in my first issue of "Mary Jane's Farm" magazine.The Feb./Mar. issue..♥.Me'thinks "Mary Jane" and I will have a nice relationship.  :-).♥.The only other magazine I subscribe to, is "Victoria."  And I know, at

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 ♡.♥.♡.♥.♡.♥.♡ Gabriel comes in, lies down on the floor on his *tummy,* and waits for "Pop" to turn the train on. It's his little habit. He is amazingly calm, and not a bit "hurry-hurry-hurry," or "gimme-gimme-gimme." .♥. Gabe and "Pop"... Notice the matching red-tops-and-jeans??? NOT planned.  :-) .♥. Gabe and "Pop"... And Yes, before anyone says it, he is losing his curls.  -pout- And needs a

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♡.♥.♡.♥.♡.♥.♡ (Dullllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll) "Uga-muga-Daniel"...!!!  But it is getting into the dull, dull, dull days of January.  (Does anyone remember "Uga-muga-Daniel" from when their children were young...?  :-) ) .♥. It's not even cold or snowy, this week.  Just gray, and warm-ish, with water-covered-ice lying about.  And the pretty snow cover, melting slowly.  Uggggg... .♥.One

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♡.♥.♡.♥.♡.♥.♡ (The writing table at Jane Austen's home, Chawton Cottage in Hampshire Pic found in a 'Victoria' magazine book - "The Heart of England") My Background...  I find a picture of a fabric swatch, in whatever pattern I'm looking for.  Using New Editor, I go to 'Background' and make this pic, my Background.  That's a very basic telling, of how I do it.  More specifics available, if

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♡♫♡♫♡♫♡ (Source) Yes, we have snow this morning.  But the pictures I could take, would not be as precious as this illustration of bunnies in the snow, by Beatrix Potter of course.  :-). ♡♫♡♫♡ "Susanna Kearsley writes modern gothic novels, blending historical and modern-day suspense with romance and a touch of the mysterious.  Her books do not fit neatly into any category."♡♫♡Mmmmm,

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 ♡♫♡♫♡♫♡(My photos, Winter, '08) "January is a stretch of peace when one lives in the moment,forced by weather and whim to sit still and do some accounting. It's telling that this is a month named for a Roman god who looked both forward and back-ward.  If you can't go out, perhaps you can find yourself within."~Catherine Calvert ♡ Oh my gracious, isn't that lovely?  Oh to be a writer, and be

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 ♡♫♡♫♡♫♡ New pure white refrigerator.  Although the pic doesn't look pure white.  Trust me!  It is.  Now to keep it that way. ♡♫♡ Someone said that I had a kind of Comment Box, which was causing people to not be able to comment here.  She said to change to Pop Up, or another one.   I went to my Settings and clicked on Pop Up and Saved it. But!!!! The weird thing is!  I have thought I had Pop

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♡♫♡♫♡♫♡ Dear Ones,Did you pay attention to what "Auntie sezzzzzz" the other day?When I told you this...With a link to this...~~~If you did, you'd not have been surprised when your blogging friendsbegan to have trouble with commenting in your blog.  Or when you began to have trouble commenting in your friend's blogs.~~~Remember the *drill*?  Isn't this , how it goes?  A Blogger *New Thing* ~ 

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♡♫♡♫♡♫♡ Brrrrrrrrrr....  Interesting way to start the day!!!  Not!!!Woke up, got up, came down stairs.  Knew something was *wrong* because no warmth enveloped me, coming down the stairs.♡Looked at furnace settings and....  No little numbers showed.  And no real heat was coming from pipes.  Got "Uncle A." up, much earlier than usual.  Made him a cup of coffee and had it ready for him, when he

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♡♫♡♫♡♫♡♫♡ It's COLD up here in the Northern Hemisphere, where I live.   So perhaps I want to kinda' generate-some-heat, by asking Questions.   ,-)♡♫♡♫♡♫♡ Question:What do you LIKE to read about, in Dear Reader's posts?Oh yes, I know.  We can post exactly what we WANT to.But I'm asking YOU Dear Reader...  What do you like to find in posts????♡ Myself...I love to get glimpses into the Dear

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♡♫♡♫♡♫♡♫♡ (Link) Two Level Commenting Now Available, For Blogger Blogs. I'm familiar with this, because Live Journal had it, years ago.This lets the blog owner REPLY to questions asked,right on the post, they were asked on. ♡♫♡ (Link) But!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I never return to comments on a blog post, once I have read that post.Do you? Do you reply to questions asked of you, right in the

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 ♡♫♡♫♡♫♡♫♡ Saturday - highs in mid 20s. Saturday night - mostly clear - lows around 2 below.Sunday - mostly sunny - highs around 18Sunday night - mostly clear - lows around 4 above♡ Are you familiar with the art of Jackie Morris?  Lovely....... Imaginative....... Lyrical...... ♡The combination of weather and her artsort of inspired a winter fantasy...♡ I'd like to drink Champagne from a

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♡♫♡♫♡♫♡♫♡ Just look at that fallllllllllllllling barometer, in my Header pic, Folks!Between that, this morning...  And it being Friday the 13th...  Brrrrrr...-giggles-Nope, I don't believe in any *Hex On Fri. The 13th.*  Other than people who do believe in some *evil omen* on this day, and do crazy things, because of this belief.  ,-) ♡♫♡ But, the neighbor next door, does have some sort of a

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♡♫♡♫♡♫♡♫♡ Well, I whined long/and/loud enough, and I got some! SNOW!!! Now I will have a chance to wear... My new red plaid boots.-grin- Which picture is NOT showing in cropped way but... You can see them...:-) ♡♫♡♫♡♫♡♫♡ “Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.” ~L.M. Montgomery, "Anne of Green Gables" ♡♫♡♫♡♫♡♫♡♡♫♡♫♡♫♡♡♫♡♫♡♡♫♡

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♡♫♡♫♡♫♡♫♡ (Link) -sigh-  Read 124 pages of a 370 page book, and can't get *that into it.*  Guess it's time to give up.  :-)♡  "Neverwhere" has a interesting premise, and I'm sure many people have been enthralled by it.  Being a "Best Seller" and all....   But!  I need my *Other Worlds* to be more like the picture above...  Pretty, pretty, pretty...  Even if they contain both the Seelie and

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♡♫♡♫♡♫♡ Grrrrr...  I still have an issue.  My cropped pics show up in my iPhoto Program.  But will not move into my post, in their cropped form.  Only in their original big, dark form.  I'm beginning to wonder if I need a new iPhoto Program...????  My OLD iMac still does what I want it to do (with its new orange cord).  But...  Perhaps this Program needs an update?  Will have to look into this.

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 ♡♫♡♫♡♫♡♫♡ We got a new (orange) cable, he attached it,  to the back of the computer *works.* And the other end, to the back of my surge protector.  And everything seems *fixed.* -clapping hands- Of course, like my friend said; "Don't crow yet...The Full Wolf Moon is still tonight."But I am holding-good-thoughts!!!  :-))))))))))))♡♫♡  (Link) Are you Dear Reader, *itching* to decorate your blog,

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♡♫♡♫♡♫♡♫♡We are narrowing in on the computer-Net-hookup issue.  Seems to be a cord which runs from my computer to an important *box.*  The plug does not stay installed tightly anymore.  So, we're going to take it off, take it to a store, and get a replacement cord.This black screen isn't *earth-shaking,* but it's a *pain-in-the-neck.*  :-)♡It seems to be acting up again...  My pics won't post in

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ADDITION: MORE COMPUTER & NET PROBLEMS If I disappear, that is why...  ♡♫♡♫♡♫♡♫♡~-~-~-~-~(Link) "Heads up everyone!"  The Full Wolf Moon of January will be Jan. 9th.  :-)Are you ready??????  ,-)So happy that I was reminded to look for the Full Moon.My silly calendar doesn't show it, so I have to get used to noticing it, for myself. Just love this month's name....  Full Wolf Moon!  Isn't that

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♡♫♡♫♡♫♡♫♡~-~-~-~-~ Hmmmmmmmm, bad dreams last night.Oh I know, we dream every night.  But I certainly don't remember all of my dreams.But when I remember bad dreams, I know it's time to "stop and think."What is too-much-on-my-mind?What's worrying me? What am I driven to fix?What am I trying-to-fix, in someone else?~It is oh-so-silly to want to, or try, to fix other. Because the only one who can

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 ♡♫♡♫♡♫♡♫♡~-~-~-~-~~-~-~-~  Well that was interesting.   I tried to put up a new header pic, a photo of my own.And it would not place-properly.  It was to-the-left.  I finally discovered that my regular blog and my private-just-for-"playing" blog, showed that they were "cropping my header pic" to different sizes.   ????????   I have them both set alike.  How did that change happen???? ~-~-~-~ 

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 ♡♫♡♫♡♫♡♫♡~-~-~-~-~~-~-~-~(Link) On my yesterday's post... Thank you!  Thank you so much.  Thanks especially to the Dear Readerswho took the time, to leave a comment.  :-)Thank you also, to the double number, who stopped/read my post, without a comment.~WE-DO-LOVE-OUR-STORE...  :-)~And WE-LOVE-OUR-SON, for keeping it going.~-~-~-~-~ Today, I'll switch gears and talk a bit, about books. "Uncle A

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 ♡♫♡♫♡♫♡♫♡~-~-~-~-~~-~-~-~I explain the photos, at the bottom of this post. (Pic 1) My gracious but it is funny, to hear people say such nice things, about where we live and etc!!!  I think most of us feel that our life is *dull-as-dishwater,* don't we?  And that's why new bloggers, sometimes wonder WHAT will they write about????  ......  But even though most of our lives are quiet.  They are

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♡♫♡♫♡♫♡♫♡~-~-~-~-~~-~-~-~(Gabe - This Year) Since I just love that pic of Gabe, above...  I'll put it at the top of my first post of 2012.  That has to be a *Token of Good Luck*.  :-)))) ~-~-~Yes, I wanted a Red, White & Black Blog Look for now.  As we have no snow, I copied (and linked to, of course) this beautiful photo from a beautiful photo blog.  With luck, we will get some snow, and I can

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♫♡♫  ♫♡♫  ♫♡♫~-~-~-~-~~-~-~-~ (Link)  Wishing a Very Happy New Year... (Link)  To all my Dear, Dear Readers... (Link) Thank you so much, for being my Dear Blogging Friends, in 2011. (Link) With hope, that we will continue to enjoy Pretty Blog Land, together... (Link) In the coming New Year of 2012... ♫♡♫  ♫♡♫  ♫♡♫  "Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which

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 ♫♡♫  ♫♡♫  ♫♡♫~-~-~-~-~~-~-~-~(Source)  Thank you Dear Readers, for sharing your New Year's Eve plans!!! Looks as if we are all *Stay-At-Homes*, around this branch of Pretty Blog Land.  :-) Except! Vickie!  The *Honey-Bun* over at Sand Flat Farm blog. She says they are going to New Year's COSTUME party! How about that?!? :-)  Good for her!!!  She is gonna' go partayyyyyyyyyyy.  :-) But I told

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♫♡♫  ♫♡♫  ♫♡♫~-~-~-~-~~-~-~-~ I love the Jessica Verday books,  "The Hollow" Trilogy.Since her on-line "Abbey's Hollow" Shop will close, 12/31/11...And I had wanted one of the scents...I had "Uncle A." get one for me for Christmas.What with fighting off that silly cold, and the stuffy nose-etc., I had not opened the scent bottle, till this morning.♡ Finally opened it and I love it.  Now we will

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♫♡♫  ♫♡♫  ♫♡♫ Guess what magazine has (probably) hooked me?  :-) ♡ But Grrrrrrrrrrr...  My pics will NOT show up, cropped and lightened.  They show properly in my iPhoto Program.  But when I try to put them in my post, ONLY the big, dark, original versions come up.  -pout-  Bahhh-humbug-   I know, I am the only one who cares.  But I do care!!!!!!!  I only want to show my *best* pics.  -sniffle-

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 ♫♡♫  ♫♡♫  ♫♡♫ "Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true." ~~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson  Oh-gracious, here we are at last!  Heading soon into 2012...  L'année de grands incidents! (The year of large happenings!) ~ The End Of The World, according to the Mayan Calendar...  ~ Another History-Shaking US

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♫♡♫  ♫♡♫  ♫♡♫ Happy Boxing Day!!! Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated in Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.  It falls on December 26th, which is also St. Stephen's Day..You can read all about it, by clicking on and going to Elaine's Boxing Day Page.~-~ I hope you had a lovely Celebration of... Christmas,Hanukkah,Yule,whatever your Winter Celebration.~-~Ours was warm, calm, loving,

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♫♡♫  ♫♡♫  ♫♡♫~-~-~-~-~ I only write today, like in (my-own) Journal, because most everyone is  *up to their ear-lobes* in *doooooing-things.*   :-)))))   Understood.  I too will soon be *doooing-things,* although mine are so much less, at this time of my life.   Mothers/Fathers with young children are trying not to *fall-into-frantic.*  ,-)  Ladies who have "The Whole Family" coming to Dinner, 

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♫♡♫  ♫♡♫  ♫♡♫ My photos are kind-of dark, but it's ambiance lighting.  :-)  Those are the 4 Santa Claus' which "Uncle A." carved/painted this year.  Because of eye issues, he has no depth perception left, so it gets harder and harder for him to do  his beloved carving.  But he keeps at it, because he loves to do it.  ~-~ Oh and the Oxen is to go with the Nativity Scene, he carved for son long-ago

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~-~-~-~-~(Link) HAPPY YULE...And Happy Winter Solstice...~-~-~-~   Thank you Dear Readers/Commenters, for the warm and accepting reception you gave my post of yesterday.   Thank you very much.  At another time, it would not necessarily have gotten only "hugs," or gently been ignored.  ,-)  It might have gotten some kind-of-nasty-threats-disguised-as-loving-caring.  ~-~-~-~ (Link)  And also

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♫♡♫  ♫♡♫  ♫♡♫~-~-~-~-~~-~-~-~  After I paid for something in a store, the clerk said; "Merry Christmas."  And I was so pleased, to hear a clerk say; "Merry Christmas," that I told her, I was pleased.  And this gutsy lady said; "And I don't care if I get in trouble."~-~   You know, how the *Politically Correct Police* tell us we have to say; "Happy Holidays."  And how the *Politically Correct

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(Source) Happy Hanukkah!!!  ~-~-~-~-~ 7AM ~~  The Old Oak Tree ~~  Pic taken, to the south, out our Patio door.~-~-~-~-~ (Source) Our oldest 'Grand', our beautiful Kate, arrived home from college, late yesterday afternoon.  -happy sigh-  Now we are all in our "Home Town."  :-)  She has been taking exams...  The last one was Mon. morning.  Now she can R-E-L-A-X...  :-)~-~-~-~-~ (Source) I finally

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On this "Monday Before Hanuka, Yule and Christmas", are you as happy and jolly as  'Mrs. Santa Claus' above???~-~I'm not quite as happy/jolly as she.  But Echinechea seems to be doing a wonderful job of *cutting-my-cold-off-at-the-pass*.  Thank you Dear Vee.  (How *bad* is that?  2 pharmacists in the family, and I have not tried it before!)  ~-~  (About 7AM -  23 degrees -  The Old Oak Tree)~-~

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Dear Readers, I guess it's OFFICIAL!  .  My computer access is coming and going..  Some plug fell out, and I could not connect to server.. Got that fixed, and my whole screen went BLACK..And I have a Week-Before-Christmas-COLD.. Fun!  Fun!  Fun!. NOT!. But what's to do?. "Keep Calm and Carry On". :-) ♫♡♫  ♫♡♫  ♫♡♫~-~-~-~-~~-~-~-~-~~-~-~-~-~

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♫♡♫  ♫♡♫  ♫♡♫  (Source) "Uncle A." (also known as "Pop," to the Grands)  set up his little train the other night.  Not using all the tracks...  'Cause he wants it just to go around the wee little Christmas Tree.  He already had lots of fun, just doing this, and getting it running.  :-) And yes, this picture is too dark... And thankfully, the music it plays, is NOT LOUD.  (I'm very happy about

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♫♡♫  ♫♡♫  ♫♡♫(Gabriel Michael - 19 1/2 months) Have you ever heard the term "Halcyon Days"?  I had known it was something GOOD.  But not what it really means.  Well Mary on her "Moontides" blog, explained! And you can read the whole myth, there. ~-~-~-~-~  Anyway, "Halcyon Days" refers to 7 days prior and 7 days following the Winter Solstice.  It's a sea-faring myth, telling of 2 weeks period of

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~-~-~-~-~ Yes "Dear Marigold", dust issssssssss a protective coating on furniture!  Guess it works differently, inside our computer *guts* though.  Who knew, hu?!?!?!?  -grin-~-~-~-~-~ Ignore those numbers and that hand, and this is how my original iMac "Flower Pot" looks.  But with a bigggggggger monitor screen.  The *guts* of the computer, is in the "pot".  The monitor is the "flower-on-top." 

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~-~-~-~-~ Thank you Dear Readers, for your concern... ~-~-~-~-~ My friend suggested it could be dust accumulation, so we vacuumed the air vent holes, in the computer.   And so far, so good.  We've had this computer for years and years and years, and never did this.  How could it hurt, hu???  ,-)  Think of all the dust which accumulates in our homes, in a month.  Let alone years and years.  So

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MY COMPUTER KEEPS GOING BLACK. I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON. BUT IF I DISAPPEAR FROM PRETTY BLOG LAND, THIS WILL BE THE REASON. -SIGH-  -WHIMPER-  -POUT- Just when I'd found lots of lovely new Blogging Friends too. -sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh- With luck, all will be well.......    But we do have an OLD Mac and it just might be ........  Ready to kick the bucket.  EEEEEK! Happy Christmas and

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~-~-~-~-~ (Source - Vic. Trading Co.)  First things first......  Thank you!!! . I work hard on my blog, because it is FUN for me.  And because at my Olden Age, I have the time to do so.  So, first of all, I have fun with this *work.* . But it is the lovely  *icing on the cake*, when Dear Readers tell me that they enjoy my blog look.  Even though I have FUN doing it, it warms my heart, when you

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REPEATSPOILER ALERTFor "ONCE UPON A TIME" TV program-------------OK, you have been *warned*.  :-)))~~~~~Oh my goodness gracious, did you see "OUAT" last night?  (Sun. 12/11) -Did you know that one of the characters was going to be eliminated????   Yes -Did you guess who?  Yes & No  (I considered the Sheriff,  but really wanted it to be Karen, King Midas' snooty daughter and wife of Charming,

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~-~-~-~-~ (Pic source - Graphics Fairy) I love 'Old English Christmas' writings, by Washington Irving.  :-)  Like my Quote Of The Day below.~-~-~-~-~   I finally put this Holiday Decoration together!!!  It's Faerie Lights and sparkly balls, in a glass bowl.  It does make a pretty display, but it's HARD to DO.  All parts of it, seem to *have a mind of their own.*  The Faerie Lights don't want to

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(Store front on Broadway)We were down-town, mid day.  Must get down-town to take pictures, later in the day.  When it's getting darker and the lights are turned on, and really show up.  "Geewilikers" is the name of this children toys store, and their display windows always make anyone what to say; ""Geewilikers"!  :-) *-:~*-:~*-:~* (I put my too-bright Faerie Lights, around the doorway from Den

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Please tell me, that these Faerie Lights are not quite as brrrrright.  :-)  Nahhhh,  you don't have to *perjure* yourself and say that.  I'm fine with them, because I have convinced myself, that they are not as, as, as, as, as bright.  ("Auntie" sezzzzzz...)  :-) *-:~*-:~*-:~*-:~* I see, that I hit a nerve, mentioning LED lights yesterday.  :-)  If something is truly better, than we must

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 (Source - Vintage Catnip) Yes Dear Ones, the "Faerie Lights" (above) which I don't like, are new LED ones.  And eventually, that is all we will be able to buy.  -sigh-  I don't like the coolness of them.  I do not like the bright, blue-whiteness of them.  You can find some, less B-R-I-G-H-T.  And I did.  And I replaced those above, on my mantle.  Just haven't yet taken new pics yet.  I will put

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7 December 1941 I was born in 1937.  I was only a child, in WWII, but I have my memories.  I have to remember.Because when we (olden ones) have passed...Who will remember?............................................................... ADDITION:  My husband was 8 years old, and family was at his Grandparent's house, for Christmas.  His Mother, Brother and he.  His Father would come later. He

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♫♡♫  ♫♡♫  ♫♡♫I noticed these Old Roses, when we came home from grocery shopping.  This Old Rose is called "Joseph's Coat Of Many Colors,"  because the color of the petals changes, as the rose matures.  Just lovely.  ♫♡♫  ♫♡♫ The one in back (or to the left) is gone.  But the other one is actually still holding on, a bit.  A bit *beat up*, but still *plucky*.  :-)  Our weather has been

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 Source of Red Elf - Vintage Catnip My Kitchen Window decoration View is not as pretty as Vee's is!  For sure.  But with her photos of hers, she set me off on doing something to mine.  :-)  Here it is, in late afternoon.  Oh and the "Decorating The Tree Saga" is nearly over.  "Uncle A." put some decorations on, after he had figured out the "One-String-Won't-Light" issue.  Then Sat. afternoon,

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I don't like negative stuff on my blog.  I like prettttty stuff on my blog.  So let's try a new post today, shall we?  :-) But as I'm still having difficulties with my photos, I'll use lovely Seasonal pics from Vintage Catnip...  Where all is free to take/use.  ♫♡♫ I just noticed.   Susan Branch make a comment in my last post, and explained about "the free stuff,"  etc.  Thank you. You can

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Explanation below...~=~=~ UPDATE:UPDATE:UPDATE: Picture which was here, removed (Btw, Susan Branch is giving some "Free-bee'es" on her blog.  Above, is one.  :-)  ~=~=~I posted the above, yesterday.  But crossed it out, in today's update.  Because... I have been informed by a Dear Blogging Friend, that once, she thought she could use Susan Branch free stuff on her own blog.  But S.B.

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~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ UPDATE: UPDATE: UPDATE: below   Are you ready for my excitement?  ,-)  Do you see the *punch-of-red* which has me sooooooo excited?  ,-)  My *Don't-Fall-When-Traversing-Snow* booties!!!  Isn't that exciting???  Are they beeeeeeutiful, or what???  And the *punch* of "Lumber-Jack-Red-Plaid" just finishes off the EFFECT!!!  -grin-~=~=~ But!!!  No!!!!!!!!!!!!  Before anyone

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"Blessings of the Season! Through the eyes of a child--that is how we always see Christmas.  And no matter how familiar the traditions we renew year after year, our joy is as glorious as it was the first time we looked up at the smiling angel atop our tree.For Christmas is, after all, wonderment."(From an old "Victoria" magazine) ♫♡♫    No, our weather doesn't *look like* Christmas yet.  (No

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'Uncle A.' was up-and-down the ladder yesterday, putting up garland and wreaths and the wee little tree.  ~.~.~  We are seriously considering my idea (which he never could see doing, before), that of covering the ding-dang-tree with something, after Christmas is over, and putting it upstairs.  We have 3 rooms not being used up there.  Why not?!?  ~.~.~  A Net friend of mine (waving to Wilma)

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Son's family next door got their tree yesterday/Sun.  The weather was marvelous for doing so.  Not really *Seasonal,* but warm enough to have fun taking a horse-drawn wagon around, looking for trees, etc.  Usually it's sooooooooooo cold/windy that they hurry around, with the kids bundled against the cold, and it's not-so-fun. ...  And they came home and put up nearly all their decorations!!! 

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On a recent ride, I noticed this kind-of-a-rainbow in the sky.  Actually, just a wee bit of a rainbow.  The late sun must have been *just right* to catch a patch of moisture in the sky, and make this pretty happening.  :-)♫♡♫   Lego playtime, on Thanksgiving. Patio Pumpkin...  Thanksgiving. Emma ("Grand") and Kiara (from Italy)...  Thanksgiving. ♫♡♫ "In a large bowl, combine........"   Aren't

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 ♫♡♫   "Pop" and our beautiful oldest Granddaughter Kate, making the *famous* "Newman's Creamed Potatoes" which go with every Family Holiday Meal.  They are kind-of a *heart-attack-in-a-serving-bowl*, with all the butter and cream.  (Eeeeeeeeeek!)  But Holiday Meals are not that often.  :-) "Newman's Creamed Potatoes" is a recipe from a famous old (and now gone) Newman's Lake House and

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♫ ♡ ♪ ♡ ♫ ♡ ♪ ♡ ♫ ♡ ♪ ♡    Just had to put up a Christmas Holidays Blog Look here.  Even before the day after Thanksgiving.  I've been playing around with different new-looks, on my Test Blog.  And I just had to do it here.  :-) ♫♡♫   I'm sure I'll change the Blog Look, often, during this Holiday Season.  Unless I can find  a Background, which is all-purpose...  For the Christmas Season... 

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♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡    Today is the *Day Before The Feast*!!! . Hope you are well on the way, to being all set and prepared. On *The Day Of The Feast* --  It would be lovely to wake, and know all is prepared. .Even if there are things, which have, have, have to be done, on Thanksgiving Day itself, 'twould be lovely if all was set, to do them... Is the idea of the Hostess and Cook,

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(Source) Blog Decorating Warning... "So, as this years holiday season starts, we'll advise everybody to beware of any animated accessory, such as (but not limited to) Falling Leaves / Snow / Hearts. Install any third party accessory with care and discrimination. And remember everything installed, for a long time afterwards." Please...........    NO Falling Snow... Please......... But I know

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 ♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡That's Sun. Family Dinner dessert...  Cherry and Chocolate Chip Crisp.  The regular size one, for the rest of the family. *♡*♡* And above is a small Gluten Free (Dairy Free) one, for myself and my daughter-in-law.  It looks big, because of the angle. *♡*♡*    This photo shows them side-by-side and you can better see that one is large and one is small. *♡*♡* For

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  ♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡ Today really looks like a November day, as well it should, of course.  :-) I hope all your Thanksgiving Plans are falling into place.  We have to make the Dressing and Apple Pie, but that will be late on the day before.   ~"Uncle A." and Son and "Grands" combine to make the Dressing, late in the early evening of Wed.  It's fully cooked, and placed in the refrigerator, over

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 ♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡(Some intricate Art Work Of Nature...)  :-) HELP!!!Now my *beloved* Google Reader has changed.I can't figure it out.I can't get to any blogs, to read or to comment.Why does everything have to try to change/improve?!?Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...♡*♡*♡ Perhaps I will have to learn to make use of Blogger Follower Thing, again. ♡*♡*♡ But first, I have to learn how to do that, all over

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♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡ My back is hurting again.  In same place I landed on it, when I fell on the stairs, years ago.  Sitting at the computer hurts it, when it flares up.  Therefore, I must regain my ability to not stay on computer, for as long, as I've gotten back into the habit of doing.  Duhhhhhhhhhhhh me... ♡*♡*♡ Feel free to copy what I posted yesterday...  ("What Christmas Gifting is

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♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡* Vee had a marvelous post, yesterday.  And you probably saw it already.  But in case you didn't...  I must copy the wonderful article, which she found in a blog (by 'Diane' who has a private blog).  So I/we can not leave a click-able link to her blog.  -sigh- Christmas 2011 -- Birth of a New Tradition As the holidays approach, the giant Asian factories are kicking into

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♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡ (There!  Does this pic, look less *grumpy*?  Yes it does...) Thank you to all you Dear Readers, who told me, that lovely red tree, a Japanese Maple..Oh yes, "Uncle A." participates in the house cleaning.  Oh yes!  And we both LUV it, when everything looks neat/clean.  :-) *♡*♡* Isn't he the cutest thing?!?  He ran across in front of us, and popped up through the stone

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 ♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡   Isn't this tree, a *show stopper*?  Still vibrantly RED.  The leaves, not yet faded.  I just had to stop and take a picture.  ~~~~  Wish I knew what the tree is.  It's so, so, so, so, so beautiful...  -happy sigh- ♡*♡ (It's by a carriage house, up the alley.) -Shushhhhhhhhhhhhhh-  I'm going to be a wee bit Un-PC here, perhaps.  Well, for "Pretty Blog Land," that is.  ,-

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 ♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡ Thank you for replies to my (reading related) questions. The question of: "Are you a person who lives life, and a person who observes your living of life?"  I don't have recollection of observing my life.  But it sounds like an interesting idea.  ~~~~~~~~~~  As long as it wasn't a form of "self-judgment."  As long as it entailed just observing/looking on.  No "shoulda' done

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"Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for -- annually, not oftener -- if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians.  Thanksgiving Day became a

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 ♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡ "I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time. ....  I find it so soothing to have another mind I can just hop into by opening a book."~~Diane Setterfield  'A conversation with Diane Setterfield'  In the back of "The Thirteenth Tale"**************Are you familiar with this

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*   *     *   *     *   *     *   *     *   * "Those with less of a sense of service to the nation never understand it when men and women of character step forward to look danger and adversity straight in the eye, refusing to blink, or give ground, even to their own deaths. The protected can’t begin to understand the price paid so they and their families can sleep safe and free at night. No,

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♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡(Shadows...  I love shadows, for a Photo Op.)  This is the back (alley) view, of a carriage house, north of our home.  ~~~~~~  It's a bit odd, how buildings go, near us.  All the homes on our block, were built on the land which was once a big estate.  Around us, are big estates, which are still in use.  Needless to say, the 13 houses (ours being one) which were built on our

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♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡We were married 53 years ago today. ~~ Gotta' go vote!!! (Picture Source) ♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡

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 ♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡"Uncle A." discovered that a bunch of red roses, though fallen down nearly to the ground, were still alive.  So he pulled them up, away from the ground.  With the frosty nights, I got my *Frosted Roses* photos, again this year.  :-)♡*♡*♡ You see what I mean, about frosty nights.  The birdbath above, is frozen.♡*♡*♡ No Sun. family dinner this last weekend, so "Uncle A." had the

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♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡(Someone should trim some growth, from in front of the "Big Red Bug," or soon, "BRB" won't be able to be seen at all.)♡*♡ By now, you must have heard the breaking Brit news!  :-)  Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, sparked pregnancy rumors during a Denmark appearance, after turning down peanut paste.  Did anyone consider, that perhaps, she just doesn't LIKE peanut butter?

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 ♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡I was able to make this photo, into a centered Header pic, because I used my original photo...  Cropped to a rectangular shape...  And used the "Crop To Fit" box...  Which crops width to 900.  Ta-dahhhhhhhhh... ♡*♡The previous pic which I tried to use (for Header pic), was too small in Width, to start with.  I can crop pics "down" but can't make pics "bigger."  :-)♡*♡On Thurs.

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♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡(Another old photo, of mine) Got to get a different Header Pic!!!  This unclear and fuzzy one, is driving me up a wall.  *♡*♡*♡* Insert on Fri.--->I did get new Header. But since it's an old photo, I can't make it proper size, to be centered. But at least, it's more clear.  :-) *♡*♡*♡* Of course, if I had NOT gone over to New Editor Templates, I'd not have this issue at all

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♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡ -chuckle-  Welllllllllllll, I went all-the-way to excessive perking-up of my Blog Look.  -grin-  Yuppp, I even switched to the New Editor, to make my own Background and have access to the newer Fonts.  *♡*♡*♡*  (My photo, from another Autumn) My original size of my old photo of The Frosted Rose, was too small.   So I tried to do what I could to *enlarge* it.  It didn't work

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♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡OK, I'm trying to not sound so grumpy.  -grin-♡ It's silly to be grumpy, just because I didn't have any inspiration for a new blog look, yesterday.♡ It is harder to find something to take pictures of, when the weather goes cold.♡So, I simply grabbed some of my oldddddddddd photos, from my Picasa Album.  :-)♡ "November comes And November goes, With the last red berries

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♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡   Yup....November.... . Ughhhhh... . Pardon me while I go *eat worms*... . OK...  OK...  Yes, he is cute-as-a-button. .   But look at that moon... . Seen through bare leaves of a tree... .  And I can't even make the proper version of it, show up here. . -pout- ♡*♡*♡ OK...  OK...  I go try to find some great picture, to perk-up my view of November. . As well as to perk-up

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♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡*♡A Halloween Party for the "Grands" and their friends, was held next door on Sat. night.  When I brought the Mac & Cheese over, I took pics.  :-) Family Room Play Room down cellar, with 'Black Light' and decorations.  'Vampire' pinyata (spelling?) Cute 'P,B&J' sandwiches Littlest "Grand" and his first Halloween Party Hope you very much enjoy your All Hallows Eve/Samhain 

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♡*♡*♡*♡I picture my husband's beautiful "Old Roses."  Since I'll soon have to change my Header pic, to show the present season.  Because...♡This is what happened on Thursday. ♡And by Friday, when the sun came out, our last-of-the-"Old Roses" was drooped to the ground.  -sigh-  I'd hoped to get a last pic of them, touched by frost.  But, not this year...♡Silly snow...  ♡ Pic taken to the South,

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