Yes, Autumn again walks the land...

 

Yes, Autumn again walks the land.  Lovely Season.  Lovely.  Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!

But...  I know...  My blog-look does not mirror it.  Oh well, I just wanted a change to...  This pretty, pretty, pretty... 

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There!  This is more Auntumn-y!

Look around you!

Find the Magic! 

Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!

Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!

Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!

And please don't forget to visit "Auntie's Reads 2013" blog...  I'm up to #56 reviews now, and have another fun "cozy" to add, later today!!! 

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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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Report~~~Baking~~~Midsummer Night~~~Coming~~~

ATTENTION CLASS:

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Please and Thank You.

(Added this again, just in case someone missed it...)

Got a kick out of Gabe's shirt.  Sounds like a fancy vacation!  But it just came, from his other Grandmother.

About my doc visit.  Seems I have what is called Non-Allergic Rhinitis.  Vasomotor / Irritant rhinitis is not caused by an allergen and does not involve an immune mechanism.  But it seems to cause chronic year round symptoms.  Lining of the nasal passages seems to be extra sensitive to irritants (dust, tobacco smoke, perfumes, detergents, odors), temp changes, humidity and air pressure.  Patients have an exaggerated response to ordinary conditions, that most people tolerate without symptoms.

No apparent seasonal pattern of symptoms.  Allergy skin test are negative.

In other words, she can't do anything for me.  Other than give me samples of different nose sprays and inhalants, which she feels may work better, than what I have been using. 

But the diagnosis in itself, is very, very helpful.  When you know what's going on, you can handle it better.

Happy I went, though!!!

Did baking, for both of us.  :-)

Took a pic of this Good Fats/Bad Fats chart, in one of the library books I have out.  In case anyone is interested in some of the advice, about being Paleo.  :-)

(Midsummer Eve was created in 1908 by Edward Robert Hughes, a Pre-Raphaelite. This turn-of-the-century art movement focused on the natural world.)

Don't forget!!!

June 20th, Thursday night, is 'Midsummer Night's Eve.' 

Celebration takes place...  Romance is in the air...  It's the time of Summer Solstice...  The time of the longest day and shortest night of the year...  There are many festivals with the theme of fire...  Giving thanks for the return of the Sun...  As the earth shifts from winter to summer...

Shakespeare left us, his delightful "Midsummer Night's Dream."  Watch the film compact disc, if possible.  Or listen to the music from the film, on CD.

Read my 37th book...  "Brownies and Broomsticks"...  Delightful first book, in new series of cozy mysteries.  The "Magical Bakery Mysteries"...  So glad there are more!

You can read more of my review, by clicking here, and going to my "Auntie's Reads 2013" blog...

Welcome June...!!! :-)

Susan Branch's Mini Calendar, make a lovely way to Welcome June...  :-)

Another gadget!  Which "Uncle A." has been wanting.  :-)  A French Press for a smaller afternoon cup of coffee.  We often watch "As Time Goes By," and they are always making coffee with a French Press.  So he wanted one, too.  -grin-   That's just the coffee cup, which comes with our dishes.  He wanted a different one, for his afternoon coffee, so we found one this morning.  We'll see how it "fits."  

Yes, we lead a very quiet life...  -gigggles-  When we can get *hepped-up* about Kitchen Gadgets!

When one can only eat Goat Cheese, one keeps looking for new and different kinds of it.  Found this Maple Chèvre.  Nice...  And there is also Goat Cheddar Cheese to be found.  That's got a *punch* to it!!!! 

Just some bubbles in the Bird Bath Fountain Pond, on a very hot afternoon...

And last but not least.....

Whoooo-hoooooo!  According to park rangers in New South Wales, Australia, dozens of giant, fluorescent pink slugs have been popping up on a mountaintop there.

Click here, to read!!!

I'm not a slug lover but!!!  Wow!  What a gorgeous addition to a garden?!?  -giggggle-

 

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Perhaps it's again time, for a wee Update.  Yes, I am getting better.  But slowly.  ~~~~~~~  I know!  Could the fact that I waited till DAY 5, of this "Cold From Hell", to go seek medical help?  Could this delay, have something to do with the lack of speed, of my recovery?  ~~~~~~~    Yeahhhhhh....  Very well could be!

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Reading is helping, when I even feel like doing that.  I have 2 new book reviews, on my "Auntie's Reads 2013," if anyone wants a possible book reading suggestion.    Click here, for one.   And click here, for the second.

I'm Not missing, spending mornings on the computer.  I'm enjoying having my decaf, and looking out the patio door/windows.  I'm noticing Spring!     ~~~~~~~    And perhaps, even more surprising, I'm enjoying the Beauty of Spring, for itself.   Meaning, not simply as a "Photo Op."    ~~~~~~~    It would seem that I have carried my "Photo Op Obsession" a bit too far.  I'm like the tourist, who never sees her trip, till she comes home and looks at the pictures she took.  In other words,  "Auntie" has been being rather stupid.  And I'm glad of a forced-noticing, how I have been acting.    ~~~~~~~    There is much to be said, of simply looking at, the changing play-of-light, on leaves...  Without running for my camera.    ~~~~~~~ 
 Imagine that?!?

I'm still NOT on the Net much.  Not commenting on blogs.  So you know I hate to leave my Comments Turned On.  But then, some Dear Readers may just *blow their lids,* if I turn Comments Off again.  Sooooo...  They are on.  But you have NO NO NO duty to make one. 

Hugs...

Blooming~~~"Mike"~~~Moving Gargoyles~~~

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Lilac trees are coming into bloom...

Fruit trees are a mass of lovely blossoms...

"Mike" will be back, next week...  Well, his ghost will...

A Broadway corner...

Gargoyles on top of a building, are moving...

They have to be secured, so they don't fall on anyone...

Betcha' thought stuff like this, only happens in Paris...

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Duck~~~Diff Pesto~~~"Stop Complaining"~~~

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My point here, wasn't about Comments-Per-Say.  It was about having *zillions* more Visits, than Comments.  Which is pretty common around here.  But still "bugs" me a bit.  If people have the time to Visit/Read a blog (even on busy weekends), how come so few Visitors/Readers bother to even leave a tiny Comment?  ~~~~~~~~~   NO  ANSWER, I KNOW. 

Duck on pool cover...

I found how to increase the size of how all print, shows up on my computer.  But now, I wonder if my Blog Print is showing up, as tooooooooo big????  In YOUR BLOG?  I know.  We can increase/decrease how blog print looks, on our screens...  But...  I still wonder....?  ~~~~~~~~~   And do you find it easy to increase/decrease all print, when you are on the computer?

We wanted to have Pesto And Pasta on Mon.   But didn't have the fresh stuff, one usually uses for Pesto.  Had Argula, so he made it, with that.  :-)  Interesting different taste.  :-)  He wants to try making Pesto with black olives too, which sounds yummy to me.     ~~~~~~~~~     And somewhere, it suggested putting Pesto on a baked potato.  Yessss!  No need for him to use butter!  :-)  Tonight, one of our 2 weekly fresh fish dinners, with a salad and 1/2 a baked potato, topped with Pesto. 

(Pretty little walk-way, up the alley...)

-grin-  I begin this blog entry, by complaining.  And now I add...  STOP  COMPLAINING.  It's one of those "Hey-how-come-I-didn't-think-of-that" sayings!  ,-)

 From Pg. 185 in "Clean" by A. Junger, M.D.

"Stop complaining" ........  I saw with a jolt how any complaint is really the expression of a negative emotion or state.  It gives the complainer a sense of immediate relief, even pleasure.........Complaining is like an exhaust pipe in a car, it lets out the pressure, relieving the complainer in the short term..........this negative energy pollutes your environment and is doubly toxic to the people  who are listening............Most complainers expect you to join them in their complaint. .............The apparent camaraderie that is generated by this interaction gives the one who joins the complainer a sense of immediate pleasure as well."

"...almost without exception, complainers and those who join them later on, when alone, feel depleted, somewhat depressed.  Most never put these two dots together and have no way of ever breaking this cycle of quantum toxicity, both personal and environmental."

Remind me of this, the next time I get *grumpy*!!!  -chuckle-

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