Black thumbs

Okay, I admit it. When it comes to outdoor gardening, what I know would fit on the tip of my black thumb. Weeds never have to worry. If there are flowers involved - I do recognize dandelions - I assume they should be there, decorating my garden.

Now that we have a half acre of land that has been neglected for years, the weeds are taking over. :wall:At least I think they’re weeds. Are they? Anybody know?

At first, they looked like a ground cover that the previous owner had planted. But now, they’re out of control. .

Suddenly, flowers appeared, shooting out of the top. Are they really flowers? Weeds? Are the two even connected, or just two weeds fighting over the same space?

I have no idea, but unless I find out what they are, I know how I’m going to be spending my weekend.

Anybody?

Scrambled or poached?

We found this robin’s nest hidden beneath some brush when we were clearing trees at the lake this past weekend. We waited …

and waited …

and waited …

and waited …

Momma robin never showed up. Since the temperature dropped to zero every night, it was safe to assume the baby bird wouldn’t survive.

Our seven-year-old grandson (who is in a constant state of near starvation, according to him) had a brilliant idea.

Me: Since the mommy hasn’t come back, I don’t think the egg will hatch.

He: So what’s inside it? A dead bird?

Me: No. I suppose it will be like a chicken egg.

He (excited): So can we eat it for breakfast?

Me: EEEEEWWWWWWW!!! :yuck:

Happy Mother’s Day

It’s something every one of us has in common - a mom. We may not all have one now, but we all had one once.

Have a wonderful day.

I’m back

Happy May Day!

I’m back from vacation. I’m exhausted, and I now weigh more than the Goodyear blimp. But … I have a wicked tan :bananadance:

Can you hear it?

It’s the sound of the ocean - the Atlantic, to be exact.

I’m on vacation in sunny - and really HOT!! Florida, so happy that I’m not home where it’s still snowing. I’m lazing at the beach, listening to the sounds of the surf and the seagulls, and trying not to get burned … which isn’t easy when the temperatures are hovering around the 90 mark. Yep, it’s a tough life

I’ll be back at the end of the month, maybe with photos of where I’m staying.

Happy Easter

Wishing all of you who celebrate Easter a wonderful day.

Btw, I have it on good authority that all chocolate delivered by the Easter Bunny is calorie free :bananadance:

Slasher!

Isn’t it the best feeling ever to know you have to rip apart your book AGAIN and try to put it back together? :wall: ::she says sarcastically::

I thought I had it. I really did. I was more than half way through the book that’s been requested and I still haven’t finished. I’d be done in two or three weeks. No problem. And then it hit - block:shocked: After stewing about it for days and days, I realized why. I didn’t have my hero’s GMC nailed. Where was his angst, his pain? You guessed it, he didn’t have any. He was too happy, too content with his life. The kiss of death for a romance hero.

So it’s back to the beginning - yet again. Cutting, slashing, revising, more cutting, rewriting. But I will get this right eventually, hopefully in this decade.

Has this happened to you? Have you had to completely trash and rewrite?

DST

Did you all spri-i-i-ng forward this morning? This year, we’re putting the clocks ahead three weeks earlier than usual so that we’re matching the US dates. I’m not complaning. :bananadance: The earlier the better, imo. I’ll gladly give up one hour of sleep today to get an extra hour of daylight every evening for the next eight months or so - hmm… Now if only Mother Nature would deal with the snow that’s still up past my knees, we could get to real spring:yes:

Lost in cyberspace

The email gods are out to get me :hissyfit:

For the past three days, I haven’t been able to get email from one of the loops I’m on. This wouldn’t be a big deal, except that these ladies as much a part of my morning routine as brushing my teeth.

I’m lost. How did I ever survive without email before computers? What did I do while I drank my morning tea when I didn’t have an in box to check?

Does anyone else have this problem? How do you get through an email drought?

Are you smarter than a 5th grader?

Are they kidding?

This week, I’ve been watching this new quiz show hosted by Jeff Foxworthy. Where did they find these contestants? What were the qualifying criteria - must not be able to multiple 5×2?

Yes, I admit it. I got stumped a couple of times, too, the most embarrassing of which is that 1 tablespoon = 3 tsp. :wall:I’ve always thought 2 tsp=1 tbsp. Obviously I’m wrong, but at least that might explain why my attempts at baking often don’t work out exactly as planned.:loser:

Have any of you been watching? What questions stumped you?