July 25, 2009
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A few photos from my bedroom window…
This was taken a couple of weeks ago, early morning, as Faron was leaving for work. I enjoyed the play of light and shadow on the neighbors’ lawn.
Oh, and that IS our driveway. All through the spring we were desperate to have grass growing on our lawn, with little success in time for the party. Faron seeded the lawn about 5 times. I think most of it ended up in the driveway. Despite the fact that it’s only been a year since we added stones to the driveway, just looked at that fine crop of grass! We don’t think we can afford enough “Roundup” to kill it all.
This series of photos was snapped out my window a last week one morning when I didn’t sleep all night. I started taking them around 4:15 am, and continued through sun up.
A couple in which the moon shows very clearly as a crescent were with telephoto.
Sorry – couldn’t do anything about the screen.
These two are in the correct order – the darker blue illusion is just because I used the telephoto and the shot didn’t take in the ridge and the brighter sky there.
They’re not nearly as beautiful as the actual events.
My feet are giving me fits again, bleeding whenever I walk on them, although they are better today than yesterday, after a liberal slathering of Vaseline with Aloe. I’ve been in bed since Thursday.
The weekend warriors are busy again, trimming trees today and tomorrow they’ll burn the trimmings and a bunch of stuff Jason and Tiana have eliminated from their worldly goods. Faron bought a set of forks for his tractor’s bucket this past week with money he got from selling his old rider mower. They are a wonderful thing, coming in real handy as they cut tree branches and dropped them right ono the forks, driving them right out onto the burn pile behind the pole barn. Saved a LOT of steps for those poor men! (Only semi-sarcastic. I know it’s a good thing, especially with Faron’s bum right knee and bummer left ankle. I just can’t muster up nearly the enthusiam that he can get going over the tractor and its assorted “accessories.”
And this is a cute story as much against Amy and me as amused by Derek. I bought a book for them last year which teaches early reading skills for small children, on the recommendation of a couple of friends. Actually, I hooked Stacy up with it a few years ago for Magaly and Magaly is reading extremely well as she heads to kindergarten next month. So Amy and I were looking forward to Derek being the right age – 2 – to start. He had his 2nd birthday last week, as regular readers know, so Amy sat him down one day this week, and tried to do the first simple lesson. Derek very politely took the book from her and put it back on the shelf.
I guess he’s not ready yet?
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Comments (5)
Cindy, try sprinkling rock salt on the driveway, I heard it works. And not very costly.
Oh, your poor feet! Have you tried Vitamin E cream or oil? Love you!
love that picture of the morning light through the trees. Nicely proportioned space, beautiful colors.
Grass is great at coming up where you don’t want it, and resisting all efforts to get it where you want it.
Sorry about the feet!
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He tried salt. It worked on a couple of spots on the walkway, but the large places must have needed a lot more! So we talked a bit and he switched to pure bleach. I did some research and found warnings about being careful not to get the bleach in areas where you will be planting anything. No problem there! If things go as planned, we’ll be paving over there in a few years at the latest.
My feet – oh, my they are giving me fits. I am going to soon have to break down and get a refill of the prescribed ointment, but it has a $70 co-pay and I lost nearly a full tube in Minnesota. (Faron wasn’t happy with me.) I’ve been putting it off just to avoid that discussion again…he’s a wonderful man but even he has a few small weaknesses!
Now there’s a little guy who knows his own mind! Boys are usually developmentally unable to read as soon as girls, something about their myalin (sp?) sheath. About 4 I start saying, “Would you like to have a reading lesson? Or a nap?” Works great!