Saturday snapshot…
Category: surprises
Wednesday, writing whatever…
Sunday morning when I looked out the door
this is what I saw on my balcony.
It’s a redtail hawk.
They often perch on the railing.
Usually, as soon as they see me at the door they fly away.
But not this guy.
He stayed where he was and watched me watching him.
It was quite a surprise to see that he didn’t take off when I got closer.
He seemed to wonder
who I was and what I was doing. 
He even stayed around when Teddy and Jack walked up to the door.
It was like he was being entertained by me and the cats here at Patricia’s Place.
Then I guess he got bored with us
and started looking around for something more interesting.
And off he went.
It was a wonderful gift
being visited and inspected
by that beautiful hawk.
I know these aren’t the best pictures but
I wanted to share my gift with you.
A vision of bubbles…
I was trying to come up with something for
Tuesday Chatter
and had nada so went and sat on the balcony.
Let me tell you 100* is hot!
Because it was so hot I decided to come inside but
before I did I looked out and saw this
I know the pictures aren’t good but those little dots in the trees are
bubbles!
I tried to see where they were coming from but
saw nothing, no bubbles anywhere but floating in the trees.
The vision made me smile and laugh.
Maybe it was just my brain being fried in the heat and I was hallucinating,
but I swear I saw bubbles in the trees.
The pictures prove it. Right?
Whatever! It gave me something to chat about.
I shopped at the Amazon store…
Today is Two Shoes Tuesday
and the prompt is
sacred and/or store.
I have shopped at the Amazon store
Josie had a drawing to celebrate her
Two Shoes Tuesday 100th post.
And I won!
$100.00 Amazon Gift Card.
So cyber shopping I went.
I have two new things:
A Charging Station for my tablet and phone.
It is great because it eliminates the need for extension cords
to accommodate all the wires needed to charge stuff.
As you can see it has places for three plugs
and what you can’t see is the place for three for USB cords.
My tablet is my alarm clock.
While I sleep it charges, 🙂
and wakes me up in the morning. 😦
Then I got a super-duper Blu-Ray DVD player.
It plays all kinds of discs and has wi-fi.
With the wi-fi I can stream Netflix, Hulu, Pandora,
and other stuff I don’t know about yet.
I can also download stuff from my computer to a jump drive thingie
and then plug the thingie into the DVD player and
Voila!
I can see it on my computer.
As you can see the player is not hooked up.
The charger was simple…plug it in and done.
The DVD player has 17 pages of set up instructions.
I think I will need some time and patience when I tackle this project.
Maybe a bottle of wine.
Of course, the reviews on Amazon say it is easy to do.
But then the folks who posted those reviews
are the ones that survived the process to write about it.
I will let you know how it goes.
Thank you, Josie!
Snow, Ice, Earthquake…
The snow and ice are gone.
\O/
Everything is back to normal
although some folks still don’t have power,
and that is not good…they are not especially happy.
I would be very cranky.
So all is well…but…
last night we had an earthquake.
Really!
It was a 4.1 centered about 60 miles from here.
There was a loud noise and the building sort of vibrated.
No damage and no one hurt.
So all is well.
I have experienced
tornadoes, blizzards, a hurricane, ice storms, and now an earthquake.
I am thankful that I survived them all
with just some inconvenience and no bad stuff.
Wonder what will be next?
Images: 1st and 3rd Google
2nd and 4th mine
Thursday, Christmas cactus gift…
This picture doesn’t do justice to the plant but I tried.
It is a pink and white Christmas cactus,
in full bloom and beautiful.
It was given to me by someone who didn’t know she was giving it away.
My friend, Lucy, and I were at Lucy’s mama’s house.
Lucy’s mama was not home.
While there Lucy showed me her mama’s Christmas cactus collection.
There were several, different sizes and colors, all beautiful.
I told Lucy how much I liked them.
She said, “Do you want one of them?”
Being the thoughtful person I am I said,
“Oh no, I couldn’t take one of your mama’s cactus.”
She said, “She won’t mind. Which one do you want?”
I said, “Okay, I will take that big one.”
Then we left.
I felt sorta bad about taking something from someone’s house
when they weren’t even home.
But it was Lucy’s doing and if it wasn’t okay with her mama
she would have to deal with it.
But I know her mama and I was pretty sure she would be fine
giving me something even if she didn’t know she was.
Not only was it okay with Lucy’s mama, she said that when it stops blooming,
loses its flowers, and starts looking sad I should take it back to her
and she will make it healthy again…for me.
Yep, I can give it back ugly and get it back pretty.
Now that is a special gift!
Thanks Lucy’s mama.
Today, I think I know some pretty wonderous peeps.
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