IS it POSSIBLE??????????????

(One blossom fell off...)

Saturday, we both woke up nice and early and got an early start.  Went out to store to get a bigger pot, for the beautiful Tuberous Begonias we got, for the front step.  

They had expensive ones, at the Garden Shop, so we went elsewhere....  And found one, not so expensive.  -grin-

It gives the beautiful Tuberous Begonias, more room to grow!  We always have them here, on the edge of the front step.  The spot is less sunny, and they thrive there.

(First of his "Old Roses" to blossom...) 

He planted in front.  We had gotten PINK Wave Petunias, for on the patio.  He planted them, too.  I puttered and pottered around, sweeping up potting soil which had fallen and etc., etc.   

(Checking out the frogs , in the pond...)

THEN, I began to WEED in his front perennial garden!  ME!  I weeded!!!!!  Walked around in the garden and pulled up rogue weeds.  Cut 'em off if I couldn't pull them up.  IT WAS AMAZING!!! 

(*BK*)

I have so much more energy and get-up-and-go!!!  I've been saying it's a residual effect of the Prednisone I had to take, when sick.  But by now...  A week later....  Doesn't seem that much P., can still be in my system.  So maybe, it is the Healthy Eating Effect!  Which those who Juice and etc., tell of?!?!?!? 

(One big frog, so far...)

I hadn't though of this possibility (due to Healthy Eating) before.  As I have said, people who push Juicing and Healthy Eating SAY that they began to feel better...  Doing it.  But these claims sound kind of "far fetched."

So one does not want to believe too much hype.  I just wanted to remain arthritis pain free and know I am eating in a more healthy way.  But wow!  If Healthy Eating really is giving me more pep, I'll take it!!!!!!!!!!!

Twin Houses~~~Yard Work~~~Fun link~~~"What I meant..."~~~Etc.

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(A mirror-twin house...)

Yesterday {click-->} I blogged, that I wanted to do some yard-clean-up.  And I did!!!  The out-the-patio-doors view looks better, and it was good exercise.

(Separate Twin houses...)

Lovely weather continues here, so far.  And "Uncle A's" little seeds are sprouting and growning.  They are growing enough, that he has to turn them.  Since they grow RIGHT AT the sun.  :-)

"In my neck of the woods," we can't be sure of no random frosts, until Memorial Day Weekend, though.  So planting is late, compared to other bloggers.

(Built in 1900, by a father, for his 2 daughters)

If you like Cozy Mysteries, like I do, here is a cute list posted on "The Cozy Mystery List Blog"...   Please click here, to be taken to her list... "Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for May 2013" on Turner Classic Movies Ch..  :-)

(When they were built, they were probably decorated alike.  For a while, anyway.  To show-them-off.  -smile-  )

When I wrote of Catherine Herridge's book {click-->} "The Next Wave," I didn't mean that would-be-terrorists need her book, to learn anything.  They have all that information, on the Net.  I meant that WE need her information.  So we remember to be on the look-out for things like, abandoned back packs, in public places, etc.  And report them, to authorities.

 

"Healthy"... And a grrrrreat book!

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A new food store opened, at the mall.  (Healthy Living)  We went for the first time, today.  It is HUGE!  We walked the perimeter and up and down isles.  Between that, and getting to it, in the mall, and walking back from it, in the mall, we got in about 45 min.  That, and the rainy morning weather, had my legs aching.  LOL.  Yes,  wimp-I-am.

Other son and his wife, are very into "healthy eating," which is wonderful!    This store only has Organic items for sale, so it's much easier to bring more healthy food, into the house.  Needless to say, we have only "scratched the surface" of what they offer, there.  

  Son/wife even got a Juicer, and make some of those veggie/fruit Drinks.  Which I have yet to try, but I will.  And we have yet to get a Juicer, because I looked, and there are a LOT of different kinds, to choose from.  Don't want to just go-out-and-get-one, without some more "looking."

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"Healthy eating son" has linked me to a couple of on line sites, which tout healthy eating, etc.  Like most things, there is "some wheat and some chaff", shall we say.  ,-)  It probably would be WONDERFUL, to go-all-the-way with such Healthy Eating.  But it also seems a bit UNLIKELY, that I will.

So one message, in the video, resonated wit me.  It was....  Add as many healthy eating foods/drinks to your life style, as you can.  Probably so doing, will increase your HEALTHY eating a lot, just adding in.   With a lot of luck, you'll push out, a lot of the un-healthy eating, you have been doing.  

"Standing In Another Man's Grave"

by

Ian Rankin

I've never read a book by Ian Rankin.  But this book, which is 18th in  a Series, has made me want to go back and read the very first in the Series.  

Read more about "Standing In Another Man's Grave," by clicking here and going to my book reviews.  Please and thank you...

Outside work!!! Finally!!!

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On Monday, after taking care of Gabe for awhile...  We went down back, to attack the "Sleeping Beauty Castle" aspects, there.  Before they get leafing out, and before all the other ground stuff has begun to re-grow, and make it nearly impossible to move around down there.  ~~~~~~~~~~  "Down there" is what shows, out the Den windows.   It's the south/east corner of our property...  Where the pool "works" are located...  To the west of this little area, is the pool.  And to the west of the pool, is the wee little back yard we have.

Anyway, we grabbed our machete, 2 different sized clippers, and "Went On Our Quest".  He hacked and I clipped.  Then he clipped, what he couldn't hack.  We did wonderfully.  But still have rogue trees to chop/saw down, another day.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~    Plus, another day, we have to gather up and drag out, all the branches/trees/vines, we culled.

Don't know how long we were out there, but for exercise, it sure beat our Sat. walk stroll.  -grin-  I went to sleep last night at 9PM, and didn't get up till 12 hours later, this morning.  -chuckle-

 It's super, when you have been wanting and wanting to do some project.  And you finally get at it. 

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Some-a-this and some-a-that... :-)

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Yes, another "Because I Can" pic!  -grin-

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Tonight is the Dark Moon or the New Moon...  The Full Moon is always beautiful, and I love it.  But I am becoming more and more interested in, and drawn to, the Dark Moon...  The New Moon...

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Read half of "The Bouncing Grandma" last night.   -sigh-  Half was all I could get through.  Not my kind of Cozy Mystery with a Grandmother in it.  Too slow.  The Grandma is too young.  Did I say, too slow?  People were not that intriguing.  Oh well, there are plenty more Cozy Mysteries out there.  With plenty more older ladies, whom I'd enjoy more.  

Plus, I guess I've gotten quite "spoiled."  I can't enjoy any small town now, unless it's set in the rural UK .  :-)

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But, while I may like my "Grandmas In Books," to be older.......

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I want my music (and musicians) to be younger...  In their 30's and from the USA.  "Band Of Horses" latest CD "Mirage Rock"...

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There's *my man* Ryan, laughing and rockin' out and having a great time, while making this CD.

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Believe-you-me!  Dance and move to this CD, and get over a half hour of GREAT exercise!  Fun!  Fun!  Fun!  ,-)  MY Kind of EXERCISE!!!  ,-)))))))

And the best part is (to me, anyway...), for this latest CD, they just went into the studio and played!  So it's much more like a live performance, than CD's which have been totally over-laid and mixed.

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"Some censuring Readers will scornfully say, why
hath this lady writ her own life?  Since none cares to 
know whose daughter she was or whose wife she is, 
or how she was bred, or what fortunes she had, 
or how she lived or what humor or disposition she was of?
I answer that it is true, that 'tis to no purpose to the readers, 
but it is to the authoress, because I write
it for my own sake, not theirs."
~~Margaret Cavendish in 1655

Isn't this, a rather neat description, of our blogging...  tooooo? ♥

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"It takes 6 months to get into shape and 2 weeks
to get out of shape.  Once you know
this you can stop being angry about other
things in life and only be angry about this." ♥
~~Rita Rudner

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I own all of Gladys Taber's books.   (Except the ones about pets) When we were looking for the recipe for her "Cranberry Island Stew," I had the thought;  "I ought to look in her recipe book."  But typically, I forgot to look.

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A Dear Reader let me know, that this recipe is right in Glady's Cookbook.  Which is right on my shelf.    Thank you Dear Reader!  From now on, I should get back to paying attention to my "Maybe-you-ought-to-Thoughts"!!!  Duhhhhhhhhhhh me!

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