Weather~~~Words~~~Meaning~~~Moods~~~Music~~~

Gabe and Daddy...  "Making" faces, sitting together, at edge of the pool...

 -chuckle-  Just noticed that the above picture, should have been rotated.  :-)  Oh well...

Gabe (3 years) seems to have discovered a "new" mood, and how to "display" it.   SAD...

"Pop" ran out of cookies, in his work-shop stash of Cookies.  Now this isn't earth-shaking.  But seems as if Gabe latched onto this fact, and became SAD. 

Here is another example, of Gabe, showing SADNESS.  He would come in, stand there, just look SAD...  :-)  I DID NOT just tell him; "Oh you don't have to be sad."

Children have a right to "own" their feelings/emotions.  I don't like to tell kids, they *should not* be/feel this, or be/feel that.  I told him it was OK to feel SAD, sometimes.

"Nana" is a great believer in watching what one says to small kids.  At least, I try to be.  Think before one speaks, etc.  "Listen" to the message, we are REALLY sending, to a child.

Our understanding of words, and their understanding of them, differ greatly...  Especially when very young.  Care-givers need to keep this in mind.  In my humble opinion.   

Another steamy weekend...  On Sunday, we had A/C on inside.  I went out to take pics of family, in the pool.  My camera lens got fogged up.

Cold camera + hot outside = steam-effect.

This picture, shows how our weather pattern has been going.  Sun - Rain - Sun - Rain - Sun - Rain.  When the rain is heavy, it knocks the flowers down.  -sigh-

Ever  start reading a book, and decide you can't really read all of it?  But you have to know "what's going on"  and "what happens"?  So you keep skimming ahead, until you have answered those 2 questions?

Hope so....  Because then, you can comprehend what I did, with "Room."    If you are intrigued, and want to know more about this book...  You can click on the click-able link....  "Room" .

Actually, this book, is an excellent example of what I said above....   That small children's understanding of "words," depends on what they have so-far-learned, in their short life-time.

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Happy New Moon!  Or Happy Dark Of The Moon!

Tonight is what is referred to as the New Moon.  A New Moon occurs when the moon is positioned between earth and sun.  The entire illuminated portion of the moon, is on the back side, the half of the moon, that we cannot see.
From: Lunar Phases Explained

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Remember the old song...  Which goes like...  "No moon at all, it's so dark, ..."  :-)

Click here, to hear Nat King Cole sing it...

Spring has flown~~~Greens~~~Possible Ratio~~~

First flower to bloom, in "Uncle A's" front garden.  A Stella Doro.

It's cold up here.  Spring blew away, on all the wind, we've been having.  With frost temps possible at night, if one has plants planted outside, they had better be covered, at night.  To be on the safe side.

The ferns are coming up.

We are mostly sticking to the usual plan of not planting much, till Memorial Day.

Lily Of The Valley,

But as I have showed you, next door has their gardens well planted.

See the little white "bits," and "stuff" scattered around on the green leaves?  They are things falling, from spring- time trees.  ~~~~~~~~  Some pale green "bits," get all over the car, and make a mess.  Ahhhhh spring......

Well, the Creepy News is, that the Government targeted groups of citizens, by (click-->) using the IRS.  

And that the Government has  (click-->) obtained AP News phone records. 

But the &*^&%$#%^&*^%^% Abortion  (click-->) Doc got convicted. 

What's that?  Lose 2 and Win 1...???  Here in The Land Of The Free and The Home Of The Brave...

 

Juicing~~~'Critters'~~~New Info~~~Musing~~~Etc.

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Need a duck feather?  :-)  See the white feather, floating right in the middle of the pic, ON the pool cover?  There were 2 ducks on the pool, this morning.  I scared them away, when opening the blind.  Just as well.  I don't like them floating around (and pooooping) on the pool cover.  Even if that water is pumped off...

Brand new Juicer!

Next door decided to keep their Juicer.  But had a coupon for money-off a new one.  So we got the new one.  Off to get green veggies, at the Farmer's Market today.  :-)  ~~~~~~   Thing is, fruit is easy, and delicious to Juice.  I need to learn to get all kinds of veggies, into our Juice.

 

Can you see the old cat, right in the middle of the pic?  You'll see 'Snowflake' easier, in the next 2 pics.  Old and movin' slow.  Don't think the birds have much to worry about, from her, anymore.  :-)

I'm reading/enjoying another of the "Ruth Galloway Mysteries."  You find lots of interesting things, in these books!  One I learned was ....  That a group of ravens can be called 'An unkindness of ravens.'  ~~~~~~~  I knew that a group of crows is called 'A murder of crows".  But the raven group name, was new to me.

 

Learned another couple of new words...  "Normalcy Bias".  A mental state people enter, when facing a disaster.  The assumption is made, that since a disaster never has occurred, then it will never occur.  -sigh-
Normalcy Bias link...

I might also call it "Living In La La Land"...  Ya' know, that attitude that everything will work out fine, and everything is "taken care of"...  Which, from reading here, you know, is NOT my natural view.  -chuckle-

 

I'll drink Mead tonight, regardless of the SNOW!

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Ahhhh yes, we have a weird bunch of Winter Weather going on, here in "my neck of the woods". 

When I got up, it had stopped snowing.  But by now, it is snowing again, "to-beat-the-band," as they used to say. 

Gabe was a little under-the-weather yesterday.  So he wasn't quite as fast-moving.  And a wee bit more pensive.  But!  Even being a bit under-the-weather...  He stays mellow!  And we (all of us) really appreciate this fact.  :-)

Well, even with all this very Winter weather, I will still drink some Mead tonight, on the Eve of the Vernal Equinox or Eostara.  :-))))))))))))))))  Spring begins tomorrow, in the Northern Hemisphere.  At the Equinox, days and nights are approximately equal everywhere, and the sun rises and sets due east and west.

In my neck of the woods...

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Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

 And it was all melted, the other day.....

The Old Oak Tree........   Which is always beautiful.......

Ugh......  But!!!   I know!!!   See the pristine beauty.  Enjoy the clarity, of few competing colors.  Drink in the crystal stillness.  ~~~~~~~~~  Yeah, yeah, yeah...  -pout-

Happy St. Patrick's Day Weekend, to you!!!

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Ugh...Eeeeek...Books, books, books... :-)))

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Ugh...   

Look what's coming again...  

Soon...  

March 10th...

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DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME

But since the *real* time change, is during our sleeping hours, we have to remember to set the clocks back, on 3/09 Saturday night.  -sigh-   Here we go again!!!

Oh I know, that some people are very happy with Spring-time DST.  But I'm not happy, with any messing with Nature's Time.  I am a creature of this Universe.  I wish to live, in harmony with the rhythms of this planet Earth.  I wish to live by the movement of the sun and the moon.  If I "had-my-druthers", I'd cover every clock, and pay no attention to them.

But in this modern world, of keeping appointments and etc....  We can't just live on Nature's  Time...  Unless we are totally off the grid...  

But!  For all the days/nights we don't have appointments on the calendar, I can do just that!  Live on Nature's Time!!!  "Auntie" sezzzzzz...   ,-)   

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Are you Dear Reader, noticing lots of Blogger Error Messages?  Here and there and here and there?  Mmmmmm...  Should we  be worried?!?  What is going on with Blogger?  To cause these *scary* messages to keep popping up?!?

Finished "The Fifth Assassin" by Brad Meltzer.  Fascinating.
Read more by clicking this link...  To go to "Auntie's Reads 2013."

Also finished another book this weekend, but I'll wait, to put that review, on "Auntie's Reads 2013."

So far in 2013, I've read 18 books.

That's 18 books in 10 weeks, if I calculate correctly.

Kind of goes to show, the lack of compelling-things-on-tv, doesn't it?  ,-)


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