Showing posts with label Kitties. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kitties. Show all posts

Friday, July 12, 2013

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!!!!!!



Wednesday, July 10, 2013

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.


Monday, June 24, 2013

Pretty weekend... But hot, hot, hot this week beginning...

He wanted the taste, of grilling over REAL old charcoal...  So he got this itty-tibby-charcoal-BBQ.  Isn't it the cutest thing?!?  :-)
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Daughter and Gabe, squinting in the Sat. afternoon sun.  She is nearly 54, btw. 
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Took this picture, through the blinds, window and screen.  :-)
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Another pic of "BK," for Sandra...  Who loves pics of critters.  :-)

See how she ("BK") is looking right at me?  I go out, and tell her, that I'm taking a picture of her, for my friend in FL.  :-)........  Looks like she's posing, doesn't it?
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His small yellow and blush 'Old Roses'....
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Another pic of the little-bitty BBQ.  Just enough room for 2 free-range Hamburgers.  :-)
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Back-lit, by late afternoon sun...
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Gorgeous Peonies...
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I like to get pics of these flowers, while they are lovely.  Then, make sure to 'dead-head' them, when they are past prime.  In bloom-Peonies look so pretty.  But past-prime Peonies do not look lovely at all.  Sad but true....  :-)

But!  The flowers on the left of this picture...  I think they are so pretty, past-prime.  So delicate and almost lacy looking.  :-)  I don't dead-head them!!!
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Saturday, June 22, 2013

Don't forget! Full Strawberry Moon! :-)


First Moss Rose, planted by the back patio door...

Reflection...

First "Old Rose," in little rose garden, by pool fence, in back yard.
 
Just over the back fence, which looked pretty, when I was sitting out there.

Pink Forsithia
 
"Old Roses" by next door fence
"BK" again.  And yes, I call her "BK" for "Bad Kitty"...  Because when she first came, she used to "steal" the older cat's seat, at the corner of the porch windows.  ,-)

(Source)

Don't forget the June Strawberry Full Moon!!!

According to Native American folklore, this full Moon is called a Strawberry Moon, because the short season for harvesting strawberries, comes during the month of June.

Other names for the first full Moon in June, are Rose Moon, and Flower Moon.

You can read more about it, by clicking here.  Please and thank you.



Monday, June 17, 2013

Happy Monday...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"BK" next door...  Up close and personal...

"BK" and "Lucky" on their porch...

'Wild' Queen Ann's Lace and cultivated Peonies...

My view, thru the windshield, while "Uncle A." was getting gas...  A "Because I Can" shot, if there ever was one!  -grin-

Big frog, with his butt to the camera, this time.  ,-)

Installing the Tiki Torches, on Sat.  Got torches, didn't get lighter fluid.  So no "lights" on lovely Sat. night.

Showing how I've gone VERY  BRIGHT, in clothing this summer!  It's just a cotton dress, but it really "makes a statement."  lol...

Showing what's left, of the beautiful "Joseph's Coat Of Many Colors" Old Rose, this year.  -sighhhh-  Just a wee bit of green, at the bottom of dead-looking stalks.  -repeat sigh-  We love, love, love this Old Rose.  Don't know what happened to it, this Winter.  -sigh-

 But our Pink Spirea bush is coming beautifully, in back yard.  And even going through the fence, to show pretty flowers, in son's yard.

 More wild flowers, in the front garden...  Prettttty....