Some moving gifs, I hope, I hope!!! :-)))

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A week ago today/Mon., Gabe left "his little cold", with me.  I knew this, because 3 days later, on Thursday evening, I felt a sore throat.  (In my experience, a cold take 3 days to "incubate")  And a cold takes 7 days, to come, go, be gone.  Well 7 days won't be till this Thurs. evening.

And Gabe is coming, again today.  ,-)  Hope he doesn't have any "little thing," to leave with Nana, this week!!!!  :-))) 

I'm enjoying all the dragon pictures, from "Game Of Thrones"...  But of course!!!  ,-)

Addition:  If the pic doesn't MOVE right away, you may have to click on it......

Please click here........

And

Please click here...............

And

Please do click here........

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We don't get HBO.  So I won't be watching any.  Good thing, since it looks a wee bit gory...  Mmm, a LOT gory!

We just think, this is funny...........................    -grinnnnn-

Betcha' everyone knows what they are doing on Easter...  We, being unique (LOL), do not.

I surely hope my moving gifs, up above, worked.   Booo-hissssss, if they did not.  Needless to say, I have no idea how to properly imbed a moving gif.

Our snow is melting, but there still isn't much to photograph, outside.  So, I am stuck with uninspired indoor photos.  Sorrrrrrrry...  -grin-

Old post, from 2008

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We are moaning and groaning about a Lingering Winter.  I went back a few years, and found this March 28, 2008 blog entry...  Which I copy below...

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Friday, March 28, 2008

Me'thinks I 'jumped the gun'...

Tell me! What pray tell, is she looking sad about? Surrounded by lovely flowers, as she is?
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Here was the neighbor's cat, visiting yesterday. Over to have a drink of water from the bird bath pond. Click on photo and see it larger... to see the little bit of green growing between the rocks...

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This is what would greet her, today! 

And this...

And this...

And this...

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Where oh where did you go, Printemps????????????

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I forgot to add the only redeeming feature, to this snow.
There is an old saying, around these parts. "Spring snow is the poor man's manure."
Hope that helps those, with Spring Snow. 'Cause it's the best I can do. >,-) 
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So this copy of a 5 year old post, goes to show, that this kind of weather is normal, for "my neck of the woods".  And I should realize this! 

Perk up! Perk up! Perk up! :-) (And New Addition)

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Do the hands look out of proportion, to you?  They look smaller than they *should* be, to me.  The painter (Isaac Snowman) lived from 1874 - 1947.  My thought is, that small hands were a much-prized beauty effect, on a woman, during his lifetime.   Maybe...  ?  :-)

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I'm reading "Vampires in the Lemon Grove" by Karen Russell.  A collection of short stories, which are kinda' wild and crazy and unique and interesting and....   :-)  Have 7 read, just 1 more to finish.   Then I will post about it, on my book blog...  ("Auntie's Reads 2013")  
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With only snow-snow-snow photos presenting themselves here...  I think it's time to seek a better mood.  "Time To Get My Bunny On" or something.  -grin-  And where can we usually go, to get an upbeat post?  Why to S.B., of course!

See if you can keep a smile, from creeping onto your face, when you click right here.....  Please and thank you.
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New Addition... 

BLOGGER  WATCH

"BLOGGER STOLE OUR SLIDESHOW VIEWER... IT IS GONE GONE GONE... WAHHHH. YOU KNOW WHEN YOU CLICK TO ENLARGE AND THERE IS A SLIDE SHOW? GONE GONE GONE..WAHHHH"

Found on Sandra's blog.  Click here please...

Thank you Sandra, for the 'head's up'

I noticed this, but didn't have a Name for it.  She does.  Have you noticed this?

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Staying calm... Asking a QUESTION...

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More snow.  Nothing like others in the NE, are waking up to this morning, though.

Nope, I'm not moaning or groaning.

It's pretty useless, to moan and groan, about more snow.

We'll be happy to have the back-up supply of water, this summer.

I'm warm inside.  Perhaps I'll even BAKE the G/F MUFFINS, which I've "been-going-to" bake, for a week now.  Lol.

The Old Oak Tree is quite majestic, in this setting.

Puffy snow, like whipped cream, is pretty.

As long as it doesn't take down power lines....

Got a new Fireplace Screen, on clearance, yesterday.  We built this house about 45 years ago.  Got a pretty Fireplace Screen and have never replaced it.  For years, it's been deteriorating...  Screen coming out of frame and biting my fingers, when it's moved.  Seeeeeeeeeeeee???  We do take a long time, to dooooooooooo some things, around here!  LOL.

QUESTION...

Can you easily read, the Font, I am using???????????

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Cold! Books... Chair!!! :-)))

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I am so tired of being cold...

I repeat, I am so tired of being cold...

But I shouldn't complain too loudly.  This latest NE storm, has not even moved our barometer. Nor dropped a flake of snow.  I'll take it!  Although the Weather Report says it's still coming.
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Upstairs, I found a book which I got, when our oldest "Grand" was a little girl, and I was taking "Nana-Day-Care" of her.  "The Fantastic Drawings of Danielle," written and illustrated by Barbara McClintock.  From the art work on the cover, you can see why I loved, loved, loved this book.

Soft!  Imaginative!  Precious!

You know where I'm going, with this, don't you?????  Such perfect illustrations, to try to draw myself!  And water color...  :-)

I readily admit, I just don't have the imagination, to think up interesting drawing topics.  And neither do I have the particular talent, to look at reality, and draw it on paper.  (As Susan Branch seems to have)  So, I do a form of copying.  A form of!!!!!  If I laid tracing paper over the pic and copied it and passed it off, as my own, THAT  would be really COPYING.  I simply look at an illustration, and try to do it, myself.
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I've been working my way through a few books, which I don't read-cover-to-cover.  So they don't go on my "Auntie's Reads 2013" blog.  These books, I skim over.  Reading here and there, gathering the information, which I want.  Non-fiction, of course.  For me, it's fun to have a couple of those, to dip into, when not in the mood for deep immersion into fiction.  :-)
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The Chair!!!  "Uncle A." looks like a happy man, does he not???  :-))))))))))))))

It's Mission Style and I dislike Mission Style.  But that doesn't matter!  The only thing which matters is, that he sat in many, and this was the most comfortable to him.  !!!!!!!!
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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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Still unsure... Of blog-look preference... ,-))))

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Yes, I'm still going crazy here, with COLOR!  -grin-

And still using Blogger Backgrounds.

Which is about as crazy, as all this COLOR! is!!!  Because I rarely use Blogger Backgrounds.

Actually, I don't know WHAT I want my Blog Look to be, right now.

Nor have I tried to do even-any-water-color-dots-or-splatters.  

Plus, it has been and is still SNOWING in my world.  Everything looks like a Cosmic Baker is sprinkling Powdered Sugar about, with wild abandon!  Everything is covered with *it*.....   

-chuckle-

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 I am really NOT longing for Spring.  I'm not.  I'm simply, a wee bit tired of Winter.

Those 2 things, are not the same thing.  ,-)   Not in "Auntie's" mind, at least.

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I WENT CRAZY!!! With color!!! LOL!!!!!

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LOL...

OK, I admit I went *crazzzzzzzzy* with color here...

After my last post about...  dull, dull, dull, dull, dull, dulllllllllllllllllll...

Worry not!

I will resume calm colors on my blog, soon....

-gigggggles-

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Oh, oh...

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Oh, oh...  I think it's finally happening...

The *long-ness* of this Season, is setting in...

Dull...  Dull...  Dull...  Dull........................  The world outside my windows, looks dull, dull, dull, dull, dull, dull, dull.........

-sigh-

Look at those colors...    Dull, dark, flat, not uplifting...

Hardly any color, to speak of. 

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Color!!!!!!   That's what I need!!!!   Color!!!!

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Bright splashes of color.....

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I can't paint the trees or the bushes...   But I suppose I could paint lots of color, on paper.........

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Then again.......   What reason do I have, to be made sort-of-depressed, by the dullness of the late Season of Winter???  That is such a small *discomfort,* compared to all the possible endless real discomforts, in life.  So I should be put-out-at-myself, for even allowing my mood to be made sort-of-depressed, even for a small amount of time. 

So there!!!!!!!!!!!!

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