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.

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*...

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...

Where could we...? Where? Where? Where?

I am not saying this, in a complaining way...  Just, that it is interesting...  With the approach of warmer weather, Blogging Visits go down.  :-)  Using "Site Meter," my recent Visits were:

March, '13 --------  2,013
April, '13 ----------  1,846
May, '13 ------------- 1,620
So far in June, '13 -- 1,253

Interesting dropping trend.  Do you find this happening, with your Blog Statistics, too?  Again, NOT COMPLAINING!  Just noticing a trend.  :-)

Hot summer weather has arrived, in my neck of the woods.  As I compose this, we have a really hot day, forecast today/Mon.  90 degrees with T-storms.  Yes, I am glad we have the wall A/C units.  No, I am not happy, with having to live, closed up in the house.

Do I hear whispers of; "Never satisfied..."  -grin-  Yes, it's so true.  So true. 

This hot summer weather could make one wish to have a place to travel to...  To escape to, actually.  Well, I don't have any.  We just don't drive far, anymore, due to his eye sight. 

But!!!!

I live in "Pretty Blog Land"!  And Dear Bloggers have lovely ways of looking at many things.

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"Older But Better" blog has a delightful "place" to visit.  It's a wonderful Virtual Reality place!  Doesn't that sound interesting?  Please click on her blog name above, and go find out about her "Bailey's Cove"...  Betcha' it might inspire some of us, to make one, of our own.  :-)

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And then, there is "The House In The Roses" blog, where she often shares her delightful imagination, with us.  Taking us places, we'd probably never go, on our own.

Like her "Gitanos" posting.  Which you can visit....  By clicking here......  And by clicking here................  And by clicking here...........  ....Delightful, yes???

Soooooo, where could we go????

Where could you Dear Reader, use your imagination, to travel to?

Either using just imagination, like the Virtual Reality escape?

Or actually making delightful imagination, into reality?

Where?

Where?

Where?

:-)

I'm getting behind, in leaving links here, to the books I've been reading.  By clicking here.....  You can read more about the last "Cozy," which I had fun reading.

Friday this and that and this again...

It's been rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain.

But Fri. is sunny.  May cloud up later but...

 

It's sunny now.

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Today is for watching Esther Williams old movies, most all day long.

And try to make Elana's Paleo Bread.   Which recipe you can find, by clicking here....  Will mine look like hers, above?  Probably not, but....  I'll try.  :-)

Yes, it's selling Coke, below.  But in a nice and uplifting way.  Found this featred on "The Deepest Well" blog.  Thank you, Aine.

Please click here....   Thank you.  It's very short.

 

SUN!!!~~~Paleo Baking~~~More sun~~~Books~~~Etc.

Is this frog smiling??????  He ought to be.  We've had so much rain!

When the sun came out on Tues., evening, I had to take pics of it!!!!

Look at that!  Real sun!  Shining into my camera!

And this picture.  Complete with sun spots!!!!

My G/F and sugar free bread... Made in a bunt pan.

And here it is, turned over, with an orange glaze on it.  It makes a very moist and good nutty bread.  ~~~~~   Took some next door.  Per usual, "Gabe" loved it.  ~~~~~     Mommy and "Gabe" just came over for a short visit, and I gave them more.  If a 3 year old likes it, it has passed THE  TEST!  -grin- 

More sun-after-rain pictures...

Everything looks just beautiful....

Reflection, of the wild roses, in the pool...

Longer shot...

Do you see that spot of Red?  It's a Cardinal, on a green  branch, against the over-cast sky.

Cropped...

 More cropped...  -grin-

NOT  my  PIC!!!!!!  :-)
But wow!  Anyone who thinks eating Paleo, has to be Icky, well.....  Just look at that pic, above.  :-) 

It's a Gluten-Free recipe; Rhubarb Coconut Honey Tart...  Found on "The Kitchen" blog.  Please click here, to go see the entry, in all its *glory.*  :-)

:-)

I enjoyed my 36th book, this year!  I enjoyed "A Killer Read" to pieces!  A cozy mystery of course.  The heroine, the setting, the mystery itself, all of it....  I loved it!  And want to read the 2nd book in this Series.  

If you enjoy a Cozy, please, please, please find this book and enjoy it.  

By clicking here, you can read more about it, at my "Auntie's Reads 2013" blog.