May22

Show & Tell

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So pretty! This is part of a collection I have, but outside my home.

I have gardens with different flowers in them. This is my Iris garden. Iris grow almost anywhere, you just have to remember to separate them about every three years. I have one variety that disappeared-a small greenish one called Kiwi. Last fall, I did separate some, only a few look like they will bloom, but they are all there. I may need to add more dirt around them, but you only plant the roots and leave the rhizomes showing above the dirt.  I think I have at least 10-12 different varieties.

May21

Thursday Thunks

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I skipped last week as we were getting ready to head up to State College and Sean and I were phone shopping. Here’s today’s questions:

1. Have you seen the new Star Trek movie, and if so what did you think?
Not yet. I heard it good and my pals want to see it again.

2. Which popular sitcom character (past or present) are you most like?
Rhoda comes to mind. Maybe Carol Brady too.

3. What kind of dreams do you have?
I am lost in quite a few. Say my family and I are in Epcot and they wonder away and I can’t find them.

4. Bugger it. Go get a tattoo and come back. Right, now answer me this, what ees eet?
Oh-what is it! I think some kind of a moon-my name means ‘Goddess of the Moon’.

5. Do you think you could be on American Idol with the singing voice you have now without any voice training?
I can sing, maybe a bit of training is necessary.

6. How much wood, would a woodchuck chuck? If a woodchuck could chuck wood? Why is this divided in two questions? I’ve seen woodchucks- (we call them groundhogs) eat a ton of apples-so probably a lot of wood!

7. If you were a tree in a Dr. Seuss book, what would you look like? I would have the palest pink fluffy flowers and be very broad.

8. Twilight? I’m addicted/Who cares/What the hell is Twilight?
Never seen it.

9. Do you think Kimber and Berleen do a dube while writing these questions?
Maybe-some questions are way out in left field! ; )

10. What the worst injury you’ve ever had?
Head injury in a car accident. Passenger in a VW Bug-no seat belt. Had a fractured nose and busted lip.

11. What is your favorite dessert?
I love all kinds…Chocolate mousse is way up there at the top.

12. What do you prefer…beach or mountains?
Beach-so relaxing to watch the waves.

13. What movie have you seen that still makes you cry?
Born Free about the lioness Elsa.

14. Why are you making me submit a question? Are you too lazy to think of one yourself? LOL

15. how often do you do laundry?
I try for once a week. With my son living home again after graduating from college, it’s 2-3, but he does his own.

16. What is your favorite movie of all time, and why?
The Wizard of Oz as when I was young it was only on yearly (no videos back then) and I just loved all the characters, especially Dorothy.
17. If you won a million dollars in the lottery, would you keep working?
I don’t work now, I would say since my husband is 52, he could retire.

18. If there was a war of the gummies, would you be on the gummi bear side or the gummi worm side?
The bears! They are so cute and have arms to throw gummy grenades!

19. What’s your favorite comic strip?
Peanuts…love Snoopy and again most of the characters. Part of my childhood.

20. Close your eyes… imagine you are in the perfect room/place… describe it.
It looks very relaxing-tans and whites-has a view of the ocean. Enya is playing. In one area there is a huge place for me to do crafty things. There’s a dispenser for home brewed ice tea that is always flowing. Also there’s a computer on the window/glass like the Iron Man movie that is voice activated. A sauna and lap pool wouldn’t be a bad addition-and a big extra king size bed that someone else would make up for me.
What to play?

May20

Back in the day

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Another great reason to find old pals on Facebook is that they sometimes post their old photos and you may be in them!
This is probably 8th grade (1973) and those are two pals Bev and Cindy-I’m in the middle! Thanks to another Cindy for posting it.
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Sean and I went to see my mom and my brother and his Dalmation were there. My brother has off Wednesdays. First we picked up lunch and ate in a park with a little waterfall near a Grist Mill. There is also trout fishing there.
We hung around mom’s a bit and then went to check out flowers at a discount place and hit Home De*pot for a new bathroom faucet and shower head and also more flowers! We ate some Greek salad and white pizza at a new place-it was good. Headed over to another shopping center and a closed store had one of those ‘book warehouse sales’ there, but they had other things like greeting cards and gift packages of lotions, besides books. I got quite a few things including artist Nancy Noel cards and a jewelry book. Sean wanted to get goodies at Trader Joes too. It was a full day! Gardening tomorrow!

May19

Penn’s Cave Farm, PA

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Penn’s Cave Farm, PA, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.

About 13-15 miles from State College, in the valley of the Allegheny Mts.,we were looking for this attraction, but didn’t have time to walk down 48 steps and take a boat ride in the caves. We weren’t even sure where the entrance was. We enjoyed looking at the long horns and bison, both within the boundaries of electric fences. The church was down a bumpy road called ‘Swamp Church Road’ and was built in 1885. I like to take photos of churches in my travels. There is a website about it with some history, including a ghost story! A husband and wife that lived near the church saw a ghostly figure go by them in early May as they sat on their porch in the early evening (the house was razed and no longer there). It was a young woman and she entered the church.They could see the soft glow of candlelight after she entered. Then she went from pew to pew showing off a baby. It was known that a young woman had a baby 8 months after her sweetheart died in the Civil War. She was a member of this church and was shunned by the congregation. She disappeared and was never seen again.