Bringing back an Annual Floral Parade... :-)

Old photo...  Isn't that the sweetest thing???  An old picture, from an earlier "Floral Parade."  For our 150th Ann. of Racing (this Season), we are resurrecting the "Floral Parade."  :-)  The First was held in 1894, and continued for years, until it got tooooo big, according to reports.  :-)

 According to an official program, the Third Annual Floral Parade, consisted of "magnificently decorated private equipages," over 2 thousand bicycles decorated with flowers, and "the famous Olympic Bicycle Band on wheels."  Whooo-hooooo...  That must have been fun.

 Certainly hope our resurrected one, will be pretty and fun too.  It ends with an Ice Cream Social in the Park.  Ice Cream donated by a local company.  :-)

And back to the present...  3 "Grands" over, to have "Pop" fix their bikes...

Still trying to get my picture size, big enough.  But not too big....

"Grands" showing us, some ripe wee, little tomatoes.

 

According to comments, my blog is now *working* for some, who had problems before.  Not so, for others.  -sigh-

Please keep telling me, of problems you have, with accessing and reading my blog.  With luck, all will smooth out eventually.  I'll keep this setting of only 1 entry showing...  And keep working on the pic size issue.  Keeping them nice-and-big, but not too-big.  :-)

Re: Yesterday's questions........

THANK YOU to all, who replied to my question(s)!!!

And if my blog looks too wide, on your screen...  Thanks to some of my Dear Readers, I may have solutions for this.

Sandra commented:

"last week ..........., told me my blog was to big for her screen and she had to scroll to look at it. i told her to check her zoom tool. she had accidentally zoomed her screen. your blog is fine on my PC and on my laptop"

Vee commented:

"Your blog loads beautifully for me and is wide, but then I have my settings on wide and vastly prefer wide.

Anyone can adjust quickly and easily, if using a PC, by pressing control and the plus (or minus) sign simultaneously."

I also know that I post big pictures.  Because I love to find big pics, on blogs I access.  But I am trying to cut their size, some.  Plus, I have Settings to just 1 entry showing, now.  So when someone accesses my blog, they only have to wait for 1 blog entry's worth of pics, to load.  I hope these changes, will help, with the load time issue.

Any time, anything (on my blog) doesn't seem to show-up-well, on your screen...  Please feel free to tell me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I won't feel like you are chastising me.  :-))))  We never know, how our blog looks, to Dear Readers, if they don't tell us!!!!!!

Another misty, moisty morning...

Wed. dawns another gray morning, but I do have the windows open, and can hear bird song.  :-)
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The man from the Security Co. came on Mon.  Lots of parts were basically worn out.  And he replaced them.  We've had this Security System for more than 12 years.  So guess one should call for checks on things, perhaps after 10 years...  This "stuff-worn-out" thing, happened with the cable too. 

How did we exist, before A/C?  I saw that question posed, and I wonder it, myself.  

Actually, I do remember summer days, when I could not do a thing!  It was just too hot/humid to move.  And it was awful.  And I was younger then, too!!!!!!!

What I wonder is how people carried on, in the South, way-back-then???  The rich could sit around, and have servants do everything.  But what about the servants?  And the people who did not have them, and had to keep their own lives running, themselves?  How did they manage...?

Do you think, that my changing my Blog Look, from all the references to "What To Do When It's Hot, Hot, Hot"....   Will change my weather pattern?  -grin-  I doubt it.  If only it were that easy, hu?

  Went out the patio door, and noticed "BK" on her porch, next door.  She was cleaning her front paws and looked sooooooooooooo cute.   I ran back inside to get my camera, to take another pic, for Sandra.  ~~~  When I got back, she had ceased cleaning her paws.  -pout-

No amount of cajoling by me, would convince her to wash her paws again.  In fact, she lay down and turned the other way, to watch something going on, on her porch.  

Hehhhhh...  So much for my convincing abilities.  ,-)

Cone Flowers are coming into their own, now...  But you can still see the drops of rain, on the leaves.  At least these flowers are a bit stronger, and can hold up better, to rain, rain, rain.  So far anyway...

Read my 40th book of the year.  Who could resist that cover art????  Not I!  :-)    To read more about this book, please click here......  And go to my book reviews blog.

So far, so good... :-)

Well, it seems as if most of us, are still OK...  With our ways, of seeing new posts, on the blogs we love.

My new lace kitchen curtains.  I've had them quite a while, and finally got them up.  I am soooo slowwww...

The little Moss Roses, beside the patio door, continue to thrive and  blossom.

New boyfriend was over...

Not a good pic, but he is cute.

"A" and "E"...  :-)

Don't say it...   I have no *shame*!   -grin-  Taking pics behind the curtain and etc.  -giggggles-  Awww come on, that's what "Nana's" doooooooooo.  :-) 

"The Ocean at The End of the Lane"

by

Neil Gaiman

I'm still "playing catch-up," with getting my book reviews written, and linked to.  

Who could resist that Title, and Cover Art?  Not I.  Plus, I've read a book by him, before.  

Please click on this link, and go to my "Auntie's Reads 2013" blog, to read reviews.

#39 books read this year
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Another post on "In Dragonfly Hollow"...  :-)   I am only reminding those, who might want to be reminded.  Not pushing.  Not pushing.  :-))))

July 1st.... All we all, still here...?????????

First of all, I have my Dear Readers, on "Bloglovin."  But hope that my private "My Little Posse" blog, will still work, for me.    

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We will know, at the stroke of midnight!  -gigggles-  Geee, that should sound like fun.  But it doesn't, in this instance.  -pout-

In looking for an illustration, for "The Stroke Of Midnight," I came across some delightful blogs.  Mostly devoted to reading.  :-)  Which was VERY delightful for me.  I'm always looking for more suggestions, for books to read.  :-)

It's almost overwhelming, how many lovely blogs there are "out there."  And all of us, are pressed for time, in one way or the other.  -sigh-  So many Book Blogs...  So little Real Reading Time, to find them all, and follow them.  -repeat sigh-

HAPPY JULY!
Hope we all, are *still here*...

"Look Changes"~~~City~~~Repairs~~~Etc.

(Urns, in the Park...)

As you can see, I did "Blog Look Work"!  :-)  I didn't intend to do all this.  But I messed up, some how...  And had to "fix" many things...

(Interesting tree roots, in the Park...)

So I figured, as long as I got started, I might as well continue.

(Ballet Slipper, in front of Drink Hall)

This summer, our city has quite a few of these Ballet Slipper sculptures, here and there...  This one, is on the lawn, in front of the old Drink Hall.  (The drinking referred to, is that of various Mineral Waters, of the area.)  :-)

 

(Closer look at Ballet Slipper, in front of Drink Hall)

And here is a cropped look, at it.  Needless to say, you'll be seeing more pics of these...  :-) 

In summer, we have wildly painted Horse sculptures, here and there.  And this year, the addition of the Ballet Slipper sculptures. 

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This year is the Celebration of 150 Years of Thoroughbred Racing, in this city.  Lots of special events are planned. 

We've been unable to get a local channel, on our tv.  So we called, and they tried to fix it, by whatever "magic" they use.  This time, it didn't work.  So they sent a repair man over, this morning. 

Not only do we have our local channel back....  He fixed old cable, inside and outside.  He showed us the way squirrels had chewed on the outside cable.  Yikes!  And this messes with reception.

And really, we could see clearer colors on the TV!   We have the phone, tv and Internet connection Package.  He said my computer, may work faster also.

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Did anyone ever think to request that their outside cable connection wires be checked, for stuff like squirrels chewing on them?  

Imaginative decorating........

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Oh my gracious!  I want to jump into that illustration, above.  -happy sigh-  And follow those Faeries to the 'Pixie Dust Tree'.  Oh I do.  I do.  I do.

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I love all such....  Fey, Pixie dust, Faerie dust, sparkles, fireflies, lace curtains, lace table cloths, sheer white curtains, blowing in a breeze, magical, imaginative, more sparkles, garden paths, deep woods (without mosquitoes), etc., etc., etc.

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 But ordinary reading of my blog, one might not know it.  MY home decorating, doesn't have aspects, of many of those things. Unlike the lovely blogs, I am showing you pictures from...     

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 And I don't think, that many of my Dear Readers share such likes.  :-)   Yes?  No?  Maybe?  Please tell me...
  

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We each have our own tastes.  It's interesting to see how our tastes, match up (or not) with our Dear Readers, though.  

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 Not that I am creative enough, to do much "Magical Decorating" in my own life.  Nope, I'm not.  I love it, in the blogs of others though...  -sigh-  Like in the lovely and magical blogs, from which I borrowed these pic.  With click-able links back to the blogs, of course!  

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So how come I don't try to incorporate more, into my own home?  How come?????  ~~~  Well for one thing, one has to consider the tastes of others, living in our homes.  I'd love more, more, more Faerie Lights...  But 'Uncle A.'s' eyesight, makes them difficult, for him to live with...

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So I have one string of Faerie Lights, on the mantle.  I'd have more of them, hanging here and there.  But they would bother his eyes. 
    

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 So, do I need a separate blog?  Where I could *drool* over such?  :-)  A blog for all-things-Fey-and-shimmering-and-softly-white-and-twinkleing...?  And with the separate blog, go out to find other bloggers, who love such...?

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Oh sigh...  Separate blogs can get so difficult though...  -pout-

I have one now...  My "Auntie's Reads 2013" blog.  But I simply post reviews on it.  No comments allowed, so I don't have to deal with checking comments for SPAM, etc., all the time.  ~~~  But that (no comments) feels cut off, from Dear Readers...  -sigh-  -pout-
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What to do?  Go for more lace myself?  Even without more Faerie Lights?
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Your ideas??????????

Please?

And thank you...