Pics~~~Flowers~~~Heat~~~Question~~~Etc.

Nasturtiums, planted at edge of garden, to ward off some *bug-critters.*  They are finally blooming! 

 

Our own Tiki Torches!  Another of my "marked-down-after-season" buys.  -grinnnn-  At least, I thought they were marked down.  Perhaps they never cost more.  :-))))

My next-door son/daughter-in-law have a lovely grouping of Daisies and ......  Oh, the name of the red ones, escapes me!  -pout-  But Dear Readers will know.

Every summer, they make a great Photo Opp!  They even made my Header pic. 

Just another silly pic.  :-)  I added the tiny bit of left-over Pomagranite Liquid, to the bottle...  And the Pink stayed at the top.  It must weigh less, than the more clear one.

This hot/humid weather is getting to me.  Don't feel like really doing much.  Hate to have to be cooped up, inside, in A/C.  Oh I am grateful that we have it.  But it's simply the idea that I *have to* stay inside.  What we can't do, we want to do.  Blahhhhh....  :-)

I think, I hope, I am "getting-a-handle" on posted picture size.....   The picture size, in this blog entry, looks big enough but not toooooo big, to me.  Hope, hope, hope they do to you too, Dear Reader.  If not.....  Tellllllllllllll....   :-)

Tiki Torches...!!! ,-) Etc. Etc. Etc.

ATTENTION CLASS:

My Click-able Links will now be in 

THIS COLOR...

Please and Thank You.

(Sun., still working on Work Bench...)

Today/Tues. is my day, to go to the Allergist.  The doctor's pamphlet says, that on the first visit, there will be Pulmonary Testing and Skin Testing.    

(Middle Grand-Son and Dad...)

This (allergy testing) is totally new to me.  I did not grow up with allergies.  Developed them, as I am getting older. 

(As far as they got, on Sun.  It's in Son's garage, but pegboard still to be gotten, when it's not raining...)

Finally have to admit to myself, that I have Allergies.  -pout-  Do any Dear Readers, have experience with being tested for Allergies?????? 

Son next door, put Tiki Torches up, on Sat.  But forgot lighter fluid.  Which we went out and got, Sun. morning.  Then came the Sun. rains.....

But after 7pm, it was still cloudy but no rain...  So they lit them.  And we came over to experience the First Tiki Torch Lighting Experience.  -grin-

Guess my Son was still chewing on something, when he came out...  -grin-

You can see 2 of their lovely gardens.  One more, is to the right, out of the line of this picture. 

Oh and, "Uncle A." didn't get bit, last evening, but I did.  While out there, in the humid evening.  A nasty bite, on a finger.  It hurt and was itchy and I had to keep putting Anti-Itch-Bite Cream on it.  -pout-  Why me?????   Why do all flying, biting insects zero in on ME????

And this is just a bird-in-flight, to the left...  And sunlight on a plane, way up in the sky.

Oh, oh...

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Oh, oh...  I think it's finally happening...

The *long-ness* of this Season, is setting in...

Dull...  Dull...  Dull...  Dull........................  The world outside my windows, looks dull, dull, dull, dull, dull, dull, dull.........

-sigh-

Look at those colors...    Dull, dark, flat, not uplifting...

Hardly any color, to speak of. 

(Source)

Color!!!!!!   That's what I need!!!!   Color!!!!

(Source)

Bright splashes of color.....

(Source)

I can't paint the trees or the bushes...   But I suppose I could paint lots of color, on paper.........

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Then again.......   What reason do I have, to be made sort-of-depressed, by the dullness of the late Season of Winter???  That is such a small *discomfort,* compared to all the possible endless real discomforts, in life.  So I should be put-out-at-myself, for even allowing my mood to be made sort-of-depressed, even for a small amount of time. 

So there!!!!!!!!!!!!

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♥ And here we are -- 2nd day of the *New Thingy*

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Isn't that cool????????  We have a prism, in one of the Den windows.   During the day, the sun flows into the Den windows.   Which are on the south side of the house.  I happened to notice that it was showing a lovely rainbow, on the back of the door, going into the kitchen.  Sooooo, naturally, I *dropped-everything*, and grabbed my camera and snapped away.  :-) 

Ahhhhh, the Joy of loving a camera!  :-)  ♥

Not sure if I put this photo of the Mums, into my blog, as yet.  I am using the Mums, as a Header Pic now.  And they are lovely.  (Thank you to the Dear Readers who have commented on how pretty a color, they are.  ♥  )  Since I change my Header Pic often, I like to keep a photo of what I used, right in my blog, so it is not "lost."  :-)

(Dark Mums...)

I discovered that I CAN know my partially composed posts, are "somewhere."  But not totally sure *where,*  at this moment.  -sigh-   This is how I blog...   I put some of a post, in Draft (it used to be called Draft) and come back to it, and tweak it, until it is ready.  At first, I didn't know *the how* of doing this, in this "New thingy."  Now I do.  I guess.  I hope.   LOL.  I'm not sure!!!!  -moan-

Just a pic of a moth, which was on the screen door, when I went out to take pics...

Yet another *spectacularly fetching* self-portrait.  LOL!!!!!

No one can say, that "Auntie" is not brave!!!

-giggggles-

Orrrrrr....   Would some term it, that "Auntie" is a wee, bit stupid?   ,-)

LOOK who was out on the porch, next door???  I his old spot!!!  "LUCKY"!!!  I had to take a pic of him!  And tell him, how happy I was, to see him in his old spot!!!  :-))))))

Needless to say, in a little while, "you-know-who" was up there.  "BK"  "Bad Kitty"  ,-))))

Just an example of the gorgeous sun light, we had on Wednesday...

And it's now early morn on Sept. 20th.  Sad to say, I did not figure out how to "leave-my-unfinished-post-over-night."  Bahhh-humbug.  Must *Conquer* this part of the New Thingy, today!  Must!  It is my Quest!

-chuckle-  Well, that's a better way of saying it...  Than saying; "This ding-dang-new-thingy" is driving-me-up-a-wall."...

-pout-

-mumble-

-grumble-

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♥ Does "size matter"...? And other *riveting* matters... ,-)

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Since I prefer to see BIG PICS in blogs I read, I want them BIG here in my blog.  I have changed Width Settings, to give me more "posting" space, and less "Background" space.

I'm on a big screen iMac, so it's fine here.  And it's fine, on other big screen Macs.  And probably fine, on big screen Pcs too.  But no one knows what our blog looks like, on any other blogger's computer.

ADDITION:

Sandra at "Mad Snapper" blog sezzzz/commented; "your blog look perfect on my 15 inch lap top and on my big screen desk top. fits perfect on either one."

 So I'm wondering, how-come some are having so much trouble? 

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I seem to be WAS in a "Magical-Forest-Setting" sort of a Blog Look Phase.  ,-)   Rather dark-all-over.  This makes viewing my photos, more difficult, for some...    I'll probably move on, "Out-Of-The-Forest" eventually, though. 

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Do you notice that your "My-Blog-Look" preferences change, over time.  Do you move from a darker look, to a lighter look?  Etc.?

Or perhaps, you don't change your Blog Look much, at all.  Which is a personal choice.

Or perhaps, you have a kind of a Theme, to your "Blog-Look"?  As in, always made up of soft colors?  Or always a version of  a "Mostly-White-Blog-Look"?  Or always a version of  a "Mostly-Bright-Blog-Colors"?

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I wonder why I like a dark blog ambiance, at times?  And then, why do I like a lighter blog ambiance, at times?  Why do I tend to tiny, soft, flowers for Background, sometimes...?   Why do I want to switch to a bright red/and/white/plaid Background, sometimes...?  :-)

Do you ever wonder about "The Why" of your own personal Blog Look Choice?????????

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"Uncle A.'s" Spider Plants from seed, are going marvelously.   We always used to have Spider Plant flowers.  Then we couldn't get them, in plants.  So he grew his own.  And he'll save the seeds, for next year.  :-)

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Next door, daugher-in-law's Daisies and Bee Balm are blossoming. 

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BOOKS!

"43 old Cemetery Road...  Over My Dead Body"  by Kate Klise.  Kids book, but so, so, so cute. 

"Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn...   NOT a kids book.   But it seems to be very popular now, so I thought I'd give it a chance.   At first, I was bored.  And I don't  really LIKE either of the main characters.  But then, I kept going...  And now.....  I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE HOW IT ENDS!!!  :-)   So, that makes for a good read.  To me anyway.

Anyone else out there, reading this?  I don't want to discuss it yet, as I have a bit more to go.  Just, are any Dear Readers reading it or have read it???     

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Also next door, do you see *Bad Kitty*?  Why do I call her *Bad Kitty*?  Because she is brand new there, and has usurped *Lucky's* watching-spot in the porch window.  Grrrrrr.....

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Old "Lucky" is their FIRST cat.  "Uncle A." made a little triangular sitting-spot, for "Lucky" to watch-the-world-go-by.  Ding-dang *Bad Kitty* just walked in and took "Lucky's" sitting-spot over.    Grrrrrr....

You know how "Auntie" is incensed by what she perceives, as being UNFAIR!!!  Grrrrrrr....
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Wellllllllllllllllllllllll...  It IS unfair!  -pout-

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"...but for my own part, 

if a book is well written, 

I always find it too short."

~Jane Austen

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