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(Still trying to remain bright........)

As is our weather...  We seem to be in the middle of a lovely, long stretch of cool nights and sunny, beautiful days.  It's lovely to have windows open.  Especially to have bedroom windows open at night, to the coolness.  

(Flag flying...)

On Thursday, I made 'Uncle A.' his Apple Pie.  I took pics, during the making of it.  Yes me!  Me, who never takes pics of her cooking/baking.  Never!!!

And now, I wonder about making a post, containing them...........   I know I make a delicious home made Crust.  From a recipe I've been using for half  a century.  And I know that a lot of bloggers say, that making a home made pie crust, is daunting for them.    If you Dear Reader, are one who can't make a home made pie crust....   You are probably saying;  "Yes, yes, yes!  Show us!  Tell us!"

But when one (me) never, never, never feels secure enough, to give instructions, in her blog.......  Well, I don't know.    ♥ .  ♥  . ♥    I still have the pics.  But it's kind of a long process.  And some of it, is *by look*  or *by feel* or *etc.*    If I was trying to learn something, I'd be very aggravated by those kinds of instructions.  -sigh-

(More Old Roses, which will not quit.  :-)))))

Sooooooooooooo, I will have to wait and see...   If  I have the courage, to try to instruct anyone in Pretty Blog Land, in how to make a home made pie crust......

Obviously, the best way  is to have the *learner*, be present.   And they can feel what I mean, when I say "It should feeeeel like this."   And they can see what I mean, when I say it should "Look like this."  Can't do that, in blogging....

(Spider web...)

Purrrrrrrrfect decoration for Halloween!!!  ,-)

(Spider web...)

Halloween...  Ya' gotta' love a holiday, whose approach sezzzzzz, that spider webs in the house, are cool.   Spider webs are actually part of the decorations.  ,-)))))))))))))

But sighhhhhhhhh, my son doesn't "get-with-the-program."  He was complaining about my hanging spider webs!   Imagine that!?!  Young people....   Just don't understand...   -Heh, heh, heh-

(Old Roses, still blossoming...)

Btw, I do know that "all Hell is breaking lose," around the world.  Oh yes I do!  And I have my views, as to WHY it is breaking lose.    (Signs of Weakness, breed Disaster)

And it's hard for me to just keep chugging along in Pretty Blog Land....  Talking about baking, and flowers still blooming, and lovely weather, and decorating for holidays, etc....   -sigh-  

But on the other hand, I have no ability to influence, what is happening in the world, at large.  

Yesterday, we voted in a local Primary Election.  THAT we could do.

Other than that, to listen/read/discuss the 'World Horrors', does no good to alleviate the 'Horrors'.  And it certainly does no good, to/for me, myself.    No good, to/for me. 

And I believe in self care... 

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Misty morn here, on Thursday.  This is looking to the south...

And misty morn, looking to the west, also...

And look who is up and looking at me, this morning!  "BK"  :-)  Last week, she had her nails removed, and wasn't so perky.  But she certainly looks perky today.  Right up there, in old "Lucky's" (older cat) perch, again.   Tsk, tsk, tsk...

Well, at least now, they can duke-it-out, on an even-playing-field.  She had nails before, and he does not.  Now they are both fully in-door kitties. 

Another pretty house...    A BIG one this time, Babe!!!  -grin-

And another old house.....   Love the *gingerbread* trim.   And the colors...  Gray, pink, white...  Yummmmmmmmm...  :-)

This one, is very different.  It opens right out onto an Alley.  Because it's an old carriage house, which has been made over, to be a home...  The big old homes are in the front of the lot.  And the carriage houses are in the back of the lot.

Such carriages houses are prized, in town!  To be purchased and made over into a dwelling place.  Keeping as much of the original decor, as possible.  I doubt if there are any left, which have not been purchased and redone.   

Isn't that charming?  Kind of like "Old Town" in places like Marblehead Mass.  Where the doors/windows of the very old homes, open right onto the street/road.   :-)

I didn't finish the book.   I'm just not-that-into 'Domestic Diva' books.  But the cover is so, so, so, so, so, so cool for Halloween!!!!  ,-)  Btw, don't know what the main color of the book cover looks like, on your computer, but on the real book, it is ORANGE!!!  :-)

And in case you are wondering,  YES, the first part(s) of getting-a-hearing-aid went well.   The Ear Doc did a thorough examination!  All fine.   The very-nice Audiologist, in his office, did her noises/sounds/etc. testing, with me in the little booth.  -gigggles-

She explained her findings...  Will send them, to the Hearing Aid place of our choice.  Which will then contact me, to set up an appointment, for me to come in.  And for them to fill the Audiologist's Rx, etc., etc., etc.  Just like with the "Chuck It" Cleaning Out, it was sooooooooooooo wonderful, to have done that!!!!!!  I am officially on-my-way.  Again...

"Again" because about 30 years ago, I had aids.  With luck, they have improved, in 30 years.  Of course they have!

But I fully know that hearing aids are not purrrrrrrfect.  They are NOT like putting on glasses, which have been made to your  Rx, for your eyes.  So that you can see wonderfully again!!!  NOT SO with putting in hearing aids.  They are not purrrrrrfect and one must KNOW / ACCEPT this reality.  :-)  I do.

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:-)  And I close out today, with a picture of Ryan Monroe, 'rockin'-out' with "Band of Horses," on summer tour...  :-)))))

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After Uncle A. being so accommodating, driving me around to take pics of pretty houses....

I figured I'd better get showing some more of them.  Or it will already be time to drive around, taking pics of the cute Halloween decorations, on houses.  ,-)

Sandra asked to see a pic of the whole hanging lamp, and I sent her one.  But I figured, as long as I took it, why not post it too?  ,-)  Kinda' dark picture but...  It's a dark, cloudy day.  But hardly any rain.  We were supposed to be getting rain, Mon. night and Tues.  But only a bit fell.

But luckily, it is not really humid or hot here.  Sorry, for Dear Bloggers who are still in heat/humidity.   -sigh-

 

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Today...

Begins my journey...

To a Hearing Aid...  :-)

And I am excited.

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Flying the Flag...

Broadway...  Looking up...  At the tops of buildings...

The interesting thing in this photo, is that the deeper red building on the right, is a NEW building.

But see how wonderfully the builder made sure that the looks of his new building, blended in with the looks of the old ones, to the left.    Now this is our idea of wonderful building, and a form of preservation.

Thanks Tom!!!

'Bunting'!!!  I love 'bunting'!!!

More looking-up, at the top of old buildings, down street...

Ohhhhh don't-cha' love that old fashioned wrap-around porch????  :-)

More flag flying, on a beautiful old home/porch...

Yet another older home......  Prettied-up for summer.......  With flowers, and hanging greens,
and porch furniture...

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"These old buildings do not belong to us only, they belong to our forefathers and they will belong to our descendants unless we play them false.  They are not in any sense our own property to do with as we like with them.  We are only trustees for those that come after us."

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♥ A book...and 'cuteness'...and opinion... ,-)

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"Between The Lines"

by Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer (mother and daughter)

Simply delightful YA (Young Adult) book!!!

I'm 75, and I had fun with it.  ,-)  And I could recommend it to any teen and be relaxed with the recommendation.  And recommended it, to my soon-to-be 14 Granddaughter.  

I've read a lot of YA books...  Some are simply, kind of ditzy-teen-stuff.  Some have characters experiencing things, which are beyond what a teen should read, in my humble opinion.    But this one is fun, and unique, and with a catchy ending.  :-)  Without the addition of sex-sex-sex.  ,-)

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 More *watering* being done.  -giggles-  Sometimes it seems that a "Gardner," just has to water, and water, and water, and water, and water...  ,-)  With Daddy on hand, of course.

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A couple of Cosmos peeking out, among the "Faerie Bells," of the Hosta in bloom.  :-)  I love the Hosta blossoms, which remind me of Faerie Bells or Faerie dresses or some such.  "Anything Fairy" is wonnnnnnnnnnderful, to me, of course!  :-)

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(Just the Post Office...  Across the street from the Bank, which I showed you the other day.  Look on the left of the pic, and you'll see the 'bunting' and flags, on the side of the Bank...)


Excellent "Ear News"!!!  :-)))))  For a while now, "Uncle A." has been experiencing a plugged up right ear.  It didn't hurt.  Just felt 'plugged' and he couldn't hear out of it.  So he used whatever he got in the drug store, to help clear out ear wax.  But.........  To no avail.

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I said, call our doc Paul.  He did.  Paul worked him in the next day, today.  If it was painful, he'd have been in yesterday, but it was not.  Soooo, Paul looked in and said a cleaning out of ear wax was needed.  But done there, in the office.  By a very nice expert nurse.  For good measure, she did the other ear too.  And he is soooooooooooooooo happppppppppy.  Naturally.

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He can hear again!  All the nutty sounds-in-his-ear have ceased, toooooo.  Etc.  Hooooray!!!!  :-)
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Another pretty house, in my city.  Love, love, love porches!

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  Love the old brick.

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 Love the pretty way the trim and shutters are painted.

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Love the flag flying.

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  Love the old wooden door.
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But sad to say, not all houses in my town, are pleasing to my eye.  This relatively new one, is ugly in my estimation.  Ugly, modern, boxes piled on top of one another, blahhhhhh color scheme, etc.

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Yes, he is flying an American Flag.  But on equal footing with another country's flag!  Yish...  If he likes that other country so well, why doesn't he go, live there?!?

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Is "Auntie" grumpy, when looking at this ugly Box?  Yes Ma'am, she is.  But this is my blog, and my pictures in it, and I can decide what architecture pleases me, and what does not.   :-)))))))) 

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"When a man gives his opinion, he's a man.  

When a woman give her opinion, she's a bitch."

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