Seems the residents of Willistown, PA didn’t like film maker M. Night Shyamalan’s 8 foot deer fence around his sprawling property and made a stink about it last year. Hey, I wouldn’t mind having a deer fence around a big portion of my yard, but I don’t have 123 acres either. Yesterday, Shyamalan (who lives about 18 miles from here) was allowed to keep it. I guess he was getting tired of redoing his landscaping. Glad it wasn’t an issue about crop circles!
All the ‘major’ stations are broadcasting a citywide prayer service right now. Over the last week, two police officers have been gunned down, the latest on Halloween as he walked into a Dunkin Donuts at the wrong time during a robbery. He was shot in the head and died the next day. Officer Chuck Cassidy was a popular guy and served for 25 yrs in the city. I guess we need something like this, so sad. I’m really touched by what the various ministers are saying.
All I can say is, Longwood Gardens saved me again!
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Mom came back from my uncle’s house and we headed over to Longwood Gardens. Most of the pretty beds that were there in September are gone. Not to say there wasn’t a lot to look at! We were there about 3 hours as it was in the high 70s.We got a wheelchair and I definitely worked out every muscle in my bod! Mom did get up a lot. I let her use my Power Shot digital and she had a blast using that until the battery died. We had some food in the restaurant (Mom a full lunch at 3! and me a half of pita with hummus and portabella mushrooms) The following photos are mine (out of 75!)
Mom looking lovely in her floral print top-perfect for today!
Bulbs laid out for spring. They really plant them heavily!
Awesome carved pumpkins 
Autumnal display at the Pierre DuPont house
Bee on butterfly weed? 
Waterlily gardens outside the conservatory. They were absolutely stunning this year!
Close up of waterlily
I will be uploading more photos to Flickr soon. There are some awesome orchids shots too.
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So I’ve been told (and I know-lol) that I am curvy. But you ain’t seeing me in a bathing suit. ; )
So instead, here is a knot garden at Longwood Gardens:
By the way, I added some of the pictures I’ve been editing in paint shop pro over in my Flickr account if you’d like to take a look. There are over 2k photos there now (I’ve been adding to it for at least 8 years or more). It’s not a free account, but I don’t have to pay up for another few weeks. You can upload any size photo you want, join groups, have contacts, etc.! It’s fun to see art trading cards that others do as they inspire me.
Hope you are having a nice Saturday. Bri and I both seem to have tummy issues, but I think I narrowed mine down to eating these cheddar ‘whale’ snacks that are very orange, but oh so good. They are a rip off of the Pepperidge Farm fish. I ate some at bedtime and had heartburn around 3 am. I’ve been cutting back on peppermint products too. I still think Sean has something to do with how we feel. You’ll see what I mean soon.
My mom is at a fair that she has gone to with I’ve been a kid. A bum tranmission (her car is on it’s last legs) didn’t deter her from attending today. It’s in a ritzy area, so they usually have great knick knacks and clothes. I have gone in the past, but it’s over an hour to get there and you know the early bird gets the worm and I am not an early bird by any means. Tomorrow is a big flea market at the Delco campus of Penn State where Sean use to attend. We’re going to try to go there at least and before noon. ; )
The Phillies are having a hard time with the Colorado Rockies, meaning they have lost 2 out of 2 games so far. They are in Colorado now. I learned not to get my hopes up when it comes to our teams winning the big games. I guess that’s why we were over the moon when the Phils won the World Series in 1980. As the late Tug McGraw use to say, ‘You’ve gotta believe’.
It was a sad past week-the anniversary of the Nickel Mines shooting in Amish country was a year ago. Two guards in Abington (part of Philly) were assassinated as they added money to an ATM machine (I believe this is what happened). The killer didn’t just ask them to surrender the money, he shot them in cold blood. Both had been police officers for many years. And my friend Lisa lost her young dad, only 54, last Oct. 6th. God bless her.
College boy update-
He is doing well; got some good grades this past week. He is still struggling with Statistics and needs to pull that grade up. He got an ‘A’ on a paper I proof read about surveillance and a ‘B’ on one about two South American countries and their weather. He would have gotten an ‘A’ on that one also, but he forgot a map of the countries.
He is learning the hard way when it comes to parties. Let’s just say he isn’t going to drink ‘punch’ anymore, just beverages that are in cans. It seems after he was sick last weekend, my tummy acted up-see!!-it is Sean!
And congrats to singer Sally Taylor and her husband Dean on the arrival of their son born on the 4th of Oct. No name was given, but he’s a cutie and makes James a grandfather for the first time. If that boy doesn’t have curly hair, I’ll be surprised! I didn’t know her husband’s hair was so curly and Sal has a head of curls herself. Neat, I got credit for telling celebrity baby blog about the little guy’s arrival. I just love the Taylors!
So I’m jumping on the bandwagon! Well, it’s been 14 long years since they won the National League East Championship. My guys watch a lot of the games. It was fun to watch the last few minutes of the game today and see the excitement in the players eyes and the fans spinning around their shirts or whatever they were.
Funny thing, I asked Bri to bring up a box out of the basement thinking it was my old stuff and it was full of Sean’s old books. Right on top though was an old banner that I made post the 1980 World’s Series for the first time I went to the ballpark. It read ‘Media, PA….home of Tug McGraw and Mike Schmidt!’ (My hometown) I guess it fell out of my Phillies memorabilia bag!
Way to go team!
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The favorite of the 67 I took:
I lasted an hour, but I did a ton of walking. It’s the first time I felt relaxed in a long time. I wasn’t ever really alone. People said ‘hello’ or made comments about things. There is an outdoor train set up featuring Thomas the Train and the little ones were going ga ga!
I bought myself some nasturtium seeds and a little boxed display of speckled eggs-so cute. Watch for a slide show and a video!
It would be a nice day to go to Longwood Gardens and use up some of that pass I bought in January. I’ve been there only twice this year. Bad girl! I was going to walk for exercise around this scenic area and get snap happy with the camera. That doesn’t mean I can’t go every week now until the end of the year or until the pass runs out. And I don’t have to stay 4 hours. I could stay 1/2 hour. The thing for me is going alone. I know, I thought this out. I was hoping there was a walking group there and I need to look into that. Most of the people I know around here are acquaintances. Believe me, I tried for BFF with some people who turned out to be jerks. It’s easier with acquaintances. I have my family to think about first anyway.
Thanks for the 10 or so visitors to my neighborhood yesterday. I actually thought of adding more photos, but those who know me, know I have tons of photos in flickr(see side bar). Speaking of Longwood Gardens, I have a slideshow of that at slide.com (if you go there, click ‘original view’). And over in Vodpod is a little movie of my yard. I haven’t made any new movies lately. I have to think about what to make a movie of. Maybe I should take two cameras with me to LG!
So my private caller didn’t call back…yet. It’s almost noon. I’m thinking it’s an organization that is always calling here for money(who have called again and again) and I do believe they had a private number. The day isn’t over yet, but I am not going to fret about it.
I’m trying out flax seed capsules for my triglycerides. I need to get them checked out as it’s been 14 months since my last bloodwork was done. I read that salmon and fish oil is better and it helped Bri. I really dislike burping the fishy taste. My pal at tribe.net said there is another type of fish oil that isn’t as burpy. I’d rather eat salmon! Blackened salmon cajun style-yum!
Update of the college guy-he sent me his first paper to proof read about surveillance. I think he had trouble writing two pages about that. He mentioned where he worked-there was a camera pointed on the registers at all times-where he spent most of his time at Big Lots. He also mentioned the web cams he has seen around the beach resorts and NYC. He got his second goody package from me yesterday which included two boxes of individually wrapped ‘Wet Ones’. He said he wouldn’t mind having some of those. ; )
I thought I’d play along. I don’t have the great photos that Pea and her pal Kathleen Marie (and others) have and some of mine are from last year. We have lived in SE Pennsylvania and in this house for 21 years now. We have watched a lot of cornfields give way to housing developments, especially across the road and around the corner. Our road just gets busier and busier, though you do look like you are on a country road-it’s just a thoroughfare to get the two supermarkets (and shopping centers) about a mile away from here.
It’s really hard to stop and take photos on my busy back road. I live on the west end of the road and these were taken last week on the east end where there is more scenery:
Around this same area, the movie ‘The Village’ was filmed a few years ago.
Along our road, which stretches many miles, there are also mushroom houses as that’s the main industry around these parts. You can check out more photos from our outing last weekend.
So this is my house and side yard. You aren’t seeing the family room windows(left) or two of the three bedroom windows (right).
That is my new front window, installed May, 2006. Bri added the brick sidewalk about 12 or so years ago.
This is one of the Chestnut trees that I don’t care for as they are so messy throughout the year. I have 3 round gardens further back. The nearest garden has irises, the dinner plate hibiscus and hollyhock and is surrounded by little round box hedges. To the right of that (not shown) is a small rose bed I added last fall. Just recently, something made a snack of all the buds! The next garden back is my ‘seed’ garden where I plant sunflowers, cosmos and zinnias. You see that grape arbor? It gets full of sticky wild roses and the grapes are diseased. I want to tear it down and add an array of different color azaleas there. We have an old tractor tire garden where Bri mainly plants hot peppers. Beyond that is the veggie patch. I noticed that the apple tree that fell down a few weeks ago looks pretty good in this photo. We have a lot of yard that is just a grassy extension.
I may be adding more photos, who knows?
We live closer to ‘the next town’ then we do our actual mailing address town, so I feel more of a bond with ‘that’ town. Bri also works on the main street of that town now. I like the town a lot. My maternal great grandfather lived there for a year and he always talked about KS fondly. And we have Longwood Gardens about 8 minutes away! Philadelphia is about 35 miles away and we don’t venture there at often. Down the road about five miles, is the turn off toward Wilmington, DE. That is a beautiful road. And we go to Wilmington a little more often then we go to Philly.
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Here’s something completely different. I was home all day until 4 pm and ran down to the grocery store. Bri and I went out to grab a quick dinner. I picked up the phone to look at the caller ID around 8:30 and some ‘private caller’ had called here at 4:22 and didn’t say anything. I had just scheduled a vet visit for the kitty and a mammogram, so maybe one of them was calling back. But I had also been to the gyn and had a test done. Of course I got nervous. I went online and it said it takes up to 3 weeks to get the results for a pap. I couldn’t help but think about that. I guess they will call tomorrow.
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