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Here are some more photos from our vacation this summer. We are already looking forward to our autumn vacation. :wah:

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along-for-the-ride;1363633 wrote: Hey!

Here are some more photos from our vacation this summer. We are already looking forward to our autumn vacation. :wah:


It looks just amazing there, I really love the water falls, nice shots!:-6

Facts about The month of August

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Beautiful pictures Diana...very peaceful...Thanks for sharing.

along-for-the-ride;1363690 wrote: Facts about The month of August


It's hard to believe the birds are already planning their trip south.

saddening.

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval." -George Santayana

I hope you can try and not be so down today:-4

Odie;1363913 wrote: I hope you can try and not be so down today:-4


are you feeling better today?

I do feel better today. Putting things in prospective helps.

along-for-the-ride;1363983 wrote: I do feel better today. Putting things in prospective helps.


wonderful:-6

Today was one of those special days when I had contact with all my children. I spent the afternoon with my younger son and my daughter. I visited the grave of my first born son and said a silent prayer. And this evening, my older son called from North Dakota. :-4

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along-for-the-ride;1364172 wrote: Today was one of those special days when I had contact with all my children. I spent the afternoon with my younger son and my daughter. I visited the grave of my first born son and said a silent prayer. And this evening, my older son called from North Dakota. :-4


so very sad to see such a little grave, I'm so sorry:yh_flower

I heard this on the radio on the way home from work today. Let's rock...............

along-for-the-ride;1364403 wrote: I heard this on the radio on the way home from work today. Let's rock...............







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:guitarist

A little more Isley Bros..........

how is your hubby doing with the new treatment AFTR?

He just had his third treatment this past Monday. He's doing well, just aches and pains now and then. Thanks for asking, Odie. And I thank Koan for the quote below.

Words to live by: If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

[QUOTE=along-for-the-ride;1364729]He just had his third treatment this past Monday. He's doing well, just aches and pains now and then. Thanks for asking, Odie.

/QUOTE]

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your welcome, you know I' m always concerned.



So good to hear his treatments are going along so well.:-6

hopefully the aches and pains will lesson over time.

While we were up in the mountains, hubby and I bought a couple flower bushes at the flea market in Tennessee. After we returned, we planted them in our front yard. They sure have pretty flowers and are a nice souvenir of our vacation.

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along-for-the-ride;1364843 wrote: While we were up in the mountains, hubby and I bought a couple flower bushes at the flea market in Tennessee. After we returned, we planted them in our front yard. They sure have pretty flowers and are a nice souvenir of our vacation.


they are pretty flowers, what kind of bushes are they?

Odie;1364862 wrote: they are pretty flowers, what kind of bushes are they?


Neither Hubby or I can remember what type of flowers they are................Duh for us :wah: The lady we bought them from named them several times..but we can't remember what.

along-for-the-ride;1365158 wrote: Neither Hubby or I can remember what type of flowers they are................Duh for us :wah: The lady we bought them from named them several times..but we can't remember what.


:wah::wah:

that's okay, thanks hun!

"Hello and I hope your feeling better....it's the weekend!

when you have time, read my two posts, 5 and 7 in your flower thread.

and also read what I said in your feeling lonely thread."

Thanks, Odie. :-6 You have a great weekend too!

I really don't feel lonely. I was just a little down on my birthday. Even the most content of us have the right to have a little "pity party" now and then...we're only human after all. After all is said and done, I still count my blessings. :-4

along-for-the-ride;1366151 wrote: "Hello and I hope your feeling better....it's the weekend!

when you have time, read my two posts, 5 and 7 in your flower thread.

and also read what I said in your feeling lonely thread."

Thanks, Odie. :-6 You have a great weekend too!

I really don't feel lonely. I was just a little down on my birthday. Even the most content of us have the right to have a little "pity party" now and then...we're only human after all. After all is said and done, I still count my blessings. :-4


I know, just read the two flower posts I did in your flower thread when you have time.

we do need our pity and as you just said..then we calm down...



thank you and enjoy your weekend away!:-6

Summer's End

by Holin Kennen

The gates of summer, once open wide like the arms of absent friends

begin to close, haltingly, with rusty hinges creaking in cool mornings.

The fireflies that rose in steaming clouds from humid backyard lawns

have disappeared overnight as though deported to another country,

leaving thrumming cicadas overhead, pulsing like high voltage wires.

Now great baskets of tomatoes, sunset crimson and dusky orange,

delicate raspberries, their jeweled caps painting picking fingers purple,

with seeds like tiny pearls, sweet and tart with days of rain and sun,

await the sauce pots and canning jars to hold their garnet ripening.

Standing at the counter putting up fresh corn long after time for sleep

knife swiftly parting kernels from the cob, white and gold, milk dripping;

the corgi puppy gnawing fiercely at the one cob left for him

scatters kernels, golden beads tossed along the blood red floor.

The pressure of the dimming light to hold to growth and life a while longer

knowing that surrender to the dark will come, that gates must close as well as open.

I lie next to you in bed, just touching, listening to distant thunder by the river,

your steady breathing, the dog, the cat at the foot of the bed, regular as clocks.

Dreaming of red seeds and blood — the corn, the crimson jam and rust red sauce

as my own last blood begins to flow into this jar of late summer night.

Waiting for my womb's gate to close, to hold inside a few precious ruby seeds,

praying I have harvested enough, put by enough, to feed me when I'm old.

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along-for-the-ride;1364843 wrote: While we were up in the mountains, hubby and I bought a couple flower bushes at the flea market in Tennessee. After we returned, we planted them in our front yard. They sure have pretty flowers and are a nice souvenir of our vacation.


Hi Diana,

I believe that flower is called a hibiscus...very pretty!

Oh Diana,

We had that merry go round in my backyard when we were little...fond memories. Oh, I love that song and sing it at our family parties.

Glad you enjoyed the video, Kathy.

Here's another one you may remember.........

Hey Diana,

How's your hubby? Hope he's feeling well.

I forgot where I saw you dancing with Lon....You little flirt you..Hahaha...

That video was absolutely the bomb!!!!! Loved it.

Where's the video again?

Hope all is good with you:-6

Hey Kathy!:-4

Hubby has one more BCG treatment this Monday. He was fine after this last one, just achy and sore.

Lon and I dancing (:wah:) is on my "Let's Dance" thread. I used JibJab to make it.

Here's my horoscope for today:

August 24, 2011

Leo (7/23-8/22)

Your hot new idea is burning up among your most forward-thinking friends -- people like the direction you're taking things and they want to go along for the ride! Get ready for a huge increase in social traffic, as people come into and out of your life in amusing patterns. Visitors from out of town might end up staying longer than planned, but you'll be eager to extend your role as host and tour guide. You have a clear plan and the time you need to carry it out.



How about that? :wah:

Just saying..........

Dear Cracker Jack Caramel Popcorn - The Oatmeal

Today... a true story of role-reversal.

At work, Hubby is a maintenace man and I work in an office with computers.

I used the lady's executive bathroom and found that the commode would not flush. So. I removed the cover and found that the S-hook was not connected to the chain. I reached inside, and connected it and voila!....it flushed.

At home, later, the mouse on my other computer was being erratic, so I took the bottom off , pulled out the ball, and gently cleaned the springs. However, one of the black springs got loose. UH oh! Hubby looked at it after I explained what happened. He unscrewed the mouse and inserted the spring back into the mouse, then the ball, then the bottom ring cover and voila! the mouse is behaving again.

I fixed a commode and he fixed a computer accessory.

One of my favorite commercials:



http://dev.values.com/inspirational-sto ... Wet-Cement



“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”

Saint Augustine quote (Ancient Roman Christian Theologian and Bishop of Hippo from 396 to 430. One of the Latin Fathers of the Church. 354-430)

Sunday morning, Hubby and I watched a little hummingbird slowly dance around our hibiscus flowers. I took a picture, but you can barely see the little fellow. The other evening, we saw a vulture just sitting in a tree by our shed in the back yard. I didn't take a picture of hime, however, as it was starting to rain.



Just had a short motorcycle ride around the block with Hubby, What a rush! I've added a photo of our bike....Hubby's birthday is Sept 12th..so this is an early Birthday prezzie for him which I also get to enjoy.

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I just found out my FG friend Odie passed away today. I am having a hard time typing this. She was a great support to me here. I hope I made her smile and laugh a time or two. I will indeed miss her.

Farewell, my sister, fare thee well.

The elements be kind to thee, and make

Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well.

~William Shakespeare

So today is the 10th anniversay of the 911 tragedy. Most of us will pay tribute to all the heroes and victims silently in our own hearts and minds. A personal thing.

Even though the first day od autumn doesn't officially begin until Friday, today it feels like autumn here. It's gray-cloudy and cool outside. Autumn has always been my favorite season. The bright oranges, reds, yellows and purples against the drab gray sky. The smell of leaves burning. The crunch of piles of dried leaves under your feet. People tend to rush though autumn in anticipation of the Christmas season. But I say, slow down and enjoy the joys of fall.

Just because I can.

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We heard this on the radio on the way to work the other day. Riding in our truck = country music. Riding in our cruiser = oldies but goodies. I like the above song, especially the intro.

I just finished reading the novel, Doctor Zhivago. I had ofcourse seen the movie several times and was anxious to see if there were any other details that were not presented in the film. There were. The book was a bit wordy at times, a but too philosophical for my taste...but I enjoyed it. A classic, tragic story.

http://www.enotes.com/doctor-zhivago

Everytime I hear this song, I think back to when I was 5 years old. I was in my grandparents dining room and sitting at their big table. It was not meal time. My aunt, who was a teenager at the time, was getting ready for a date. She had her blonde hair up in curlers and was busy ironing a blouse. She would flash me a big smile now and then. I was in awe.

along-for-the-ride;1371214 wrote:

Everytime I hear this song, I think back to when I was 5 years old. I was in my grandparents dining room and sitting at their big table. It was not meal time. My aunt, who was a teenager at the time, was getting ready for a date. She had her blonde hair up in curlers and was busy ironing a blouse. She would flash me a big smile now and then. I was in awe.


This song would be playing on the radio.

"The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Ahem.........

So, today is a Saturday in Autumn and I had to work. Overtime!

Still looks more like late summer here; warm winds blowing and too much green. So, I decided to add my autumn clips just for the heck of it. Are you raking leaves where you are yet?

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