March 31st

Yay!

It's Tater Day!

My celebration plans are to

bake a couple for dinner.

Who doesn't like a baked potato?

There's so much you can do with potatoes.

Fry them, bake them, mash them, put them 

into salads, stuff them, roast them....

Before I sound like Bubba Gump,

you get the idea.

And,

there's more than 200 varieties 

grown in the US,

with russet being the most popular.

So, 

tonight, celebrate accordingly!

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We recently bought a bag of 

avocados from Costco.

The whole family loves avocados,

so getting a bag of 6 isn't too much.

But,

you have to wait a week for

them to ripen

and then you have to consume them

in a 12 hour window!

Why is that the case?

The time for tasty perfection

to yucky brown slime

is very small.

This got me to thinking....

1) Who first ate one? Was there a debate

about the color or the "alligator like"

skin, or the texture??

2) This is kind of a design flaw

with the ginormous seed.

God should have gone back to the

drawing board here.

The mango is another example.

Surely, if we can put men on the moon,

we can invent a seedless or smaller seeded

avocado and a mango!

Just sayin'.....

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My Amaryllis

Sunflowers

One of the bigger sunflowers.

The petals have died off so

we leave it on the stalk so the birds

can eat the seeds.

Another large head with seeds

eaten off. 

Stargazer lilies

Paperwhite lilies and gladiolas

Gardenia bulbs

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The Blueberry bushes are starting 

to flower.

My English Lavender.

I thought it had died,

but it looks like it is rallying.

Potatoes

Tomato

Flowers on several of our tomato bushes.

Herb garden Angel

Basil, French Lavender, Rosemary, Thyme

Stevia and Mint.

Onions

And the girls...

Hazel

Nugget

Lucy

Ethel

Minew

Yesterday the CEO brought the

chicken girls a treat,

crickets!!

They loved them!

Minew, however, left the area.

No crickets for her.

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So,

I couldn't find my keys.

I looked for over an hour.

I retraced all my steps and still nothing.

I prayed to my Mom's buddy,

St Anthony,

as well as any Pagan gods

of lost implements.

Figured I'd cover all my bases.

Then,

I put my hand into the pocket of my pants...

Yep!

There they were.

Now, 

I don't know if it was

Divine intervention or,

I've conjured a demon,

but I've got the keys!!

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Love y'all!

Thanks for reading.

You make me happy!

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March 13th

I hate time change!

Today is going to feel like it'll never end.

Did you know....

Ben Franklin proposed DST in 1784.

It became law in 1918 then was repealed

in 1919 during WWI because not

all states were on board.

Some states continued to observe

DST on and off but it didn't

become widespread till 1974 during

the energy crisis, but wasn't 

mandated by law.

Hawaii and some of Arizona do not participate.

The time changes at 2am instead of midnight,

to avoid changing the actual date.

Here's a bit of grammar. 

It's daylight saving time

not

daylight savings time,

and

you only capitalize the initials,

not the words.

And,

according to a Stanford sleep study,

our bodies don't naturally adapt

with the abrupt change of 

time vs approaching dawn

better known as our circadian rhythm

It usually takes me a couple of weeks 

 to acclimate to what

the clock says and how my internal

clock feels, 

so let the madness begin!

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Spring is its' usual bipolar self.

One day the temperature is in the '80's,

and the next we're having a freeze.

It is currently 53 degrees,

and I think it is Goldilocks weather.

Just right!

Our sunflowers are still blooming.

This one is welcoming a butterfly and a bee.

This one is growing another flower

from the flower stalk.

It's seeds are almost ready to harvest.

Vidalia onion flower,

Beets

Bibb Lettuce

Herbs

Basil, Stevia, Mint and Lavender.

Amaryllis buds.

The garage grow light

with a bunch of veggie "babies"

waiting to be planted.

I found these 2 yellow cherry tomato holdouts.

They tasted great!

As usual,

my entourage was in attendance.

Minew, 

weaving in between my legs,

almost causing me to trip.

Goofy cat!

Lucy and Nugget

pecking around in the compost heap.

Hazel, just being her curious self.

She's making a little cooing noise 

as she follows me.

Ethel,

giving me the stink eye

so I'll leave her alone to lay her egg.

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I recently thought about this.....

The premise of the movie

Mad Max

was of a future

experiencing societal collapse

due to war while also dealing

with critical resource shortages

and acceptance of murder and vengeance.

Sounds like a typical dystopian sci-fi movie,

but,

don't ya think that

this scenario is a bit too close

for comfort in these trying times??

God Bless Ukraine

and we pray He keeps us

from the all too real

potential of a real-life

Mad Max.

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And,

speaking of God,

He couldn't have painted a more 

magnificent scene than this,

 a beautiful Pacific ocean sunset

on Mission Beach California.

Thanks for the memories

Jeff and Irene!

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Love ya 

Sue

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