January 1st 2021

I thought these two pictures summed up

our collective apprehension about

ringing in another potentially

volatile year.

Here's hoping for the best.

Cheers!

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This is our beets in the foreground and

broccoli in the back.

Beets

Up close shots of the broccoli

heads.

Bell Peppers

Artichoke

Tomatoes

Parsley

Bay Laurel surrounded

by lavender.

Lucy peeping at me 

through the fencing.

It is designed to keep 

nosy fowl from eating 

the leaves.

(note the bites taken out of the leaves)

So, not really effective.

Nugget doing some eyeballing herself.

She's snacking on the leaves too.

They love broccoli!

Nugget in the foreground

and Pepper in back.

Today's harvest.

3 green tomatoes, 5 bell peppers

and 

2 eggs.

I pick the tomatoes early

because those greedy girls

love tomatoes and they'll peck

at them till they fall off the bush.

 Here's a little PSA,

courtesy of LSU

online Ag site.

Proper temperature is approximately 40 degrees.

🐔

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The CEO hung a prism in the window

to ward off kamikaze birds from

dive bombing into the bay window.

So far its' working.

In the early morning sunlight,

the window faces east,

so,

I get to see a beautiful rainbow of light!

There's dappled rainbows all over!

and...

if i look at it just right,

I get to see different colors,

this is a greenish yellow.

Amazing!

Small things amuse me.

😄

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There seems to be weird "beauty"

trends these days.

I put this in the category of,

I DON'T GET IT.

These nails should be classified as weapons!

Clearly women who indulge in this type

of manicure either:

1) Have no job that requires use of their hands.

2) Have no small children to fear stabbing them.

3) Not effective for hand washing in the age of Covid.

and

4) How, in holy hell, do they wipe their butts????

Answer - very carefully!

And this!

There's so much make up on girls these days!

It looks like it is applied with a putty knife!

Is this stuff easy to get off?

Hopefully they don't sleep in it

because it'd destroy their pillow cases,

and

how do they manage an intimate relationship?

Kissing someone would transfer all that onto

their partners face or removing it might frighten

them when they see the"real" girl.

And this.....

defies logic!

Why would you put glitter so close to your eyes??

No, I do not think this looks remotely good.

Actually looks a tad creepy to me.

There are tons of these "tutorials"

on Instagram, so apparently

people do watch them.

I attribute it to lack of anything better to do.

Ha!

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Observations:

What's with the use of obscure French songs

by Edith Piaf in car insurance commercials?

I don't speak that language and I'd hazard a 

guess that a lot of people viewing the commercial

don't either, so what's the deal??

I Googled the translation.

No connection whatsoever to insurance.

Go figure.

Why do companies say if I buy an item they'll donate

one or a portion of something to some charity or cause?

Just donate the money or item already.

They make way more than I do so

donate the cockadoodie stuff!

I can find my inner altruistic nature elsewhere.

It makes my Spidey-sense tingle.

They are getting their charitable donation 

credits for tax purposes anyway,

just sayin'.

BOGO items. What if I don't want 2?

I rarely shop, but this seems weird to me.

In fairness, there have been a few times

that I've taken advantage to a BOGO,

like in the grocery, but on the whole...

Nope

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Ode to a Dustbuster.

Do you remember these?

I have a next generation one of them,

but the suction just isn't the same.

I have to go over an area several times to

suck up a pesky item.

But...

this old school baby could suck a Cheerio

clear through the cardbox box!

I loved it!

It was especially helpful with 2 young

boys making messes.

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Have you been let down by misnamed

fruit?

I certainly have.

Full disclosure...

these fruits do not represent what they are named for.

Strawberry - nope, no straw.

Passionfruit - seriously?

Grapefruit - you guessed it, no grapes!

Honeydew - wrong on both accounts,

no honey - no dew!

Dragonfruit - don't even go there.

😂

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In this new year,

I'd like to thank whomever reads my blog.

You make my life happy because I can share

my musings and that's an important piece 

of my life right now.

So,

thank you for just being there.

💗