And I can assure you I was NOT in Margaritaville.  It was a day like any other, with me racing from one thing to another — basically me against the clock, and I just somehow felt my flip-flop stay behind when I took a frantic step onward and, well, there it was.

These were good flip-flops too.  […]

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I went out to take garden pictures, but there was Oreo stretched out in a classic cat pose on the front porch. 

She never flinched at me towering over her, moving closer to her with my much-bigger-than-she-is feet.  Trust.

She stretched as I rubbed the soft fur on her little chest.

She rolled totally onto her back, mostly […]

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Hannah over at Cultivating Home posted a recipe for Orange Julius.  As I commented to Hannah at her beautiful blog, I had forgotten Orange Julius even existed!  Ever had one?  We made a blender full today and what a yummy treat!

I took my break on the porch with my cold drink and watched the one kitten we have left.  […]

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Thoughts on Parenting
People used to tell me when my children were babies and toddlers — enjoy it, because these are the easy years.  I thought they were crazy.  Crazy!  How could these be the easy years?  However, now that my children are no longer little ones, but one a young lady and the other three […]

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We have this old printer’s drawer mounted on the wall as you go up the stairs.  It is full of all sorts of little miniatures and transient pieces of nature.  Sometimes items will disappear for use in play elsewhere and then make their way back to the shadow box. 

I know decor-wise it’s dated perhaps to have […]

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The kittens are about 7 weeks old now.  They were born May 8th/9th.  Up until the last few days, their eyes were a deep blue color, but now they are starting to change.

Isn’t this gray kitty just beautiful!  My sons seem to like this kitten the best.  They call him Socks or Prince.  Yesterday, when […]

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While you are dreaming of the future or regretting the past, the present, which is all you have, slips from you and is gone.  Hilaire Belloc
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Reflections of the Past

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I’m done with elaborate cleaning schedules. 
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My cleaning schedule page is redone.  It’s more a series of thoughts than a […]

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Hopefully this will work out so that you can see Fluffy and her playful kittens this morning. 
 
Lynn

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It just gets hotter and hotter around here, and with the North Carolina humidity, it’s hot.  Nearly 100 degrees today officially.  They predicted the heat index to be 105. 
There are raspberries beginning to get ripe.

Some very nearly ready and some not.  There are raspberry vines jumping across the garden, sending up new sprouts, and repeating the […]

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Oh, you would have to see these little kitties, just beginning to stand up wobbly and then fall over onto each other into a big ball of fluffy fur!!

Then you would know why Princess of the Universe wants to name and keep all of them!!

I wonder what this one’s eyes will end up looking like.  […]

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