#Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.
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Linda Schaub
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Linda Schaub
- “Spring is sprung. The grass is riz. I wonder where the birdies is?” ~ Anonymous
- Bewildered and bedraggled Snowdrops. Angry Robin bemoaning frozen worms. #Wordless Wednesday #Weary from Winter #3 years of Wordless Wednesdays for me!
- Ahh – Spring arrives today!
- Why a Duck? Why not a Seagull? #Wordless Wednesday #Marx (Bros.) Madness!
- Humbug Marsh was hummin’, not humdrum on this trek.
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FIFTY FAVORITE PARK PHOTOS
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- Parker noshin’ nuts
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- Fox Squirrel
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- Black Squirrel
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- Parker, my Park cutie!
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- Pekin Duck
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- Mallard Hybrid Duck
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- Midnight munchin’ nuts
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- Mute Swan
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- Goslings
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- Mama Robin
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- Seagulls on ice floe
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- Great Blue Heron
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- Parker chowin’ down
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- Mallard Duck
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- Northern Cardinal
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- Great Blue Heron (“Harry”) fishing for shad
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- Parker: shameless begging
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- Viceroy Butterfly
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- Great Blue Heron
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- American Goldfinch
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- Seagull
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- Robin baby (not fledged yet)
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- Mallard Ducks
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- Robins almost ready to fledge
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- Parker angling for peanuts
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- Robin fledgling
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- Parker making a point that he wants peanuts
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- Parker smells peanuts
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- Parker with a peanut
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- Red-Winged Blackbird
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- Seagull
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- Red-Bellied Woodpecker
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- Pekin Duck
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- Starling
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- Canada Geese family
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- Canada Goose and goslings
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- Red-Winged Blackbird
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- Parker says candy is dandy.
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- Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
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- American Goldfinch
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- Hunny Bunny
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- Parker looking for peanuts
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- The pier just past sunrise
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- Mute Swan
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- Parker in the snow
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- Parker and a treat
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- Great Blue Heron
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- Me and my shadow (a/k/a Parker)
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- Fox Squirrel
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- Seagull
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- Canada Goose
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- Mallard Ducks
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- Mute Swan
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- Fox Squirrel – Parker
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- Northern Cardinal
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BADGES
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- 02-02-2018
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- 03-13-2018
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- 03-25-2018
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- 03-26-2018
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- Year #6!! 02/2019
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- 04-13-2019
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- 11-21-19
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WALKIN', WRITIN', WIT & WHIMSY 
Love those shoes! Congratulations for reaching your goal!
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Yes, our respective steps would be very low if we wore elf shoes wouldn’t they? Thank you Anne and I had concerns about meeting my goal since we had so many bad weather days this year … lots of heavy rain and high winds. How are you and John doing on your miles this year?
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Our mileage took a nose dive several months ago. We used to walk to the creek (2.5 miles) regularly, even with Sadie. John went to the train club in Tennessee twice a month, and I couldn’t handle Sadie going to the creek. I did go to the stop sign, which is half the distance. John began having difficulty breathing, so it has been a couple of months since we went to the creek. Now a new dog has moved into the neighborhood, and Sadie lunges at Rosie. I can’t control Sadie, and she almost pulls me over. Husband and son insisted I not walk Sadie alone. Now I take Sadie out on our street and bring her back before going to the stop sign. I didn’t record walking while Lise was here, and would have helped our stats. I’m proud of you for meeting your goal. Marvelous!
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That’s too bad about the walking tally Anne, but you’ll start again in the new year. You had a lot of things going on this year – your cataract surgery, eye care visits, John’s scare with COVID and lots of visits with family, so the latter is a plus. Too bad about Rosie messing up your morning walks too. Thank you – I’m happy I made my goal because we had a lot of very rainy days and high wind days throughout the Fall. We’ve had snow only twice and it melted the next day – we won’t have a white Christmas, but instead it will rain overnight and throughout a good chunk of the day. The meteorologist quipped that Santa and his elves need ponchos to stay dry delivering the gifts.
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Merry Christmas, Linda.
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Thank you Anne – back at you!
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Congratulations! You’d need a lot of magic to walk with those shoes!
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Thanks Barbara – could you imagine walking or hiking in these elf shoes? I don’t think I’d get to the corner in them before they’d be pinching my toes.
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I’d very likely trip and fall flat on my face before I got too far!
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Same here Barbara – I can’t imagine how people walk in them for the elf costumes. We have a Christmas display in our City. It is an indoor display and features the same Christmas village as has been there for half a century. I volunteered years ago to help set it up, but was too tall to volunteer to be an elf. They have (or used to before COVID), a Santa and Mrs. Claus and elves in full elf regalia running around keeping the line in place to see Santa. When this pandemic is over, I’d like to go over and take photos of it and write about how I volunteered there back in the day. I think it would be a fun post.
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I would enjoy reading your post about volunteering in the Christmas village. I’m so short (5′) maybe I could have been an elf!
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I hope I can get over there then Barbara – I think it would be a fun post too. I worked in the candy house and I had to set up the kitchen, conveyor belt and there were candies that were replaced and had to be sewn onto the moving conveyor belt. The elves are moving as they try to make the candies. To my knowledge they use the same displays. I would like to visit after the pandemic or during a weekday when no one is around. It used to be free but I think they charge $1.00 to get in now and this year, you had to book a reservation as they didn’t want too many people showing up. The second floor of this building is where the Model Train Club meets and they have model trains going around the entire floor – that was not there years ago. You are short! I am 5′ 9″ tall and my parents were very short: my father as 5′ 3″ and my mom was 5′ 2″ tall.
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I found a short video Barbara:
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Thanks for the video, Linda, the Fantasyland looks fantastic! It would be fun to take my grandchildren to something like it. One of my sons was into trains so that model train display brought back some sweet memories…
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Yes, I thought it looked fantastic too Barbara. It was even nicer this year as they held a Festival of Trees “walking path” so extra festive. The model train display is left there year around and the members of the club have been going there for years. I saw the nativity scene was in a new place. It used to be in a room all its own and there was a small entrance and once inside, it was totally black except for a star hanging from above which lit up the stable area. I’m glad the video brought some nice memories for you.
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That’s great news! The pressure is off so you can enjoy the rest of the year at a leisurely pace.
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Yes, I’m excited Kate because Christmas Eve and Christmas are supposed to rain and then the beginning of next week we’re getting a sleety mix … I would not want to be scrambling around. I only finished yesterday. The rest of the miles will be gravy as they say and I’ll make a goal of just one more mile (1,257) than this year’s goal next year.
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Congratulations! I just added up my year-to-date mileage. I still have 28 miles to go to get to 1500 miles with 10 days left to run. It’s gonna be close!
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Thanks Laurie! I just finished yesterday – whew! Like you, I figured I was getting close … too close for comfort in getting it done. We are having some rainy days for Christmas Eve/Christmas, then a sleety mix beginning of the week I hope you finish and if you have rain I know you’ll run anyway … good luck and keep me posted okay?
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Unless I get a sudden illness or injury, I will go out on New Year’s Eve if I have to and get my mileage! 🙂 As of today, I need 18 miles. It shouldn’t be difficult – I typically run about 30 miles/week. I am thinking positive thoughts.
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The weather is not calling for bigtime blizzards, so that is easy for you. Continue thinking positive thoughts Laurie!
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You are a real inspiration Linda and you’re furry friends would be giving you two paws up as well!
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Thank you Wayne! My furry friends say “most of Linda’s miles are walked here, right near us!” So they approve too and often when I go to bigger parks on the weekend, I stop there first and do a mile loop to walk and feed them.
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Congratulations Linda! Good thing you have a few days to spare, as I hear freezing rain out there tonight!
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Yes, I was glad I finished up early so I got my 1,256 miles (2021 km) in and whatever is left over will be “gravy” – I’ll mention it in a New Year’s post, but will just go one more mile for 2022. I’m not taking on any more challenges like I did the end of 2019 … there were a few times I thought I might not make it due to all the torrential rains we had in the Fall. Luckily Winter weather has stayed at bay. We had some icy roads in mid-Michigan and lots of accidents and I heard that forecast too. A sloppy Christmas weekend forecast.
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It’s a good night to be inside. Just got caught up on Reader, but I didn’t comment much. Watching Scrooge – while I’m reading – CBC is showing a Christmas movie at 8pm every night. Will answer your gmail before I go to bed. I hope you get some time off over Christmas! Is your boss taking a long vacation?
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Take your time, I mostly wrote about the stupid mask issue – I ordered some N-95 masks tonight from Amazon as over here they advise no more cloth masks for now, even though I am not planning on going anywhere to stores, etc. or inside places, just on walks. I haven’t seen an update on when Season two of ACG&S starts. I am going to read some tomorrow and a few hours of TV. I am behind a few days in Reader … three I think now. I am off now until Monday – same as next weekend, but that’s it. My boss was going to Mexico, but cancelled the day before he was to leave (12/22) due to Omicron.
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They are replaying season one on PBS Channel 12 now, but I didn’t like it enough to watch it again. Too bad boss didn’t leave! I managed to buy a few masks at the pharmacy this week, but just singles, and I’m not sure how good they are.
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I just Googled Joni and no wonder they’re replaying season one now – season two starts on January 9th. Maybe I shouldn’t start back on Boston Legal although I watched both series last Winter? I have been fine with cotton and paper mask worn together, but now am concerned, even though I’m outside. No one else masks up. I figured I should order them before more people got the idea and they went on backorder.
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That’s good to know – I’ll try and remember Jan9. I never get any emails from PBS anymore – not sure why?
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I do and I thought you subscribed to them because there was a show they said was similar to Downton Abbey which started a week or so ago and I figured you watched it. (Hard to remember to leave the “w” out of Downtown, like misspelling “omicron” like “omni” … they pronounce it different ways too.
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I’ll have to re-subscribe. They had Bridgerton (sp?) on but I didn’t watch it as I heard mixed reviews about it, and I wasn’t sure I won’t to commit to another series when I had the project to work on. I think I misspell both! Signing off now, good night and get some reading done!
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I can always forward what I get … since I don’t have TV, I didn’t unsubscribe and I need to find the link before the 9th as it took me right to the part of their site to live stream. I am signing off shortly – will see how behind I am in Reader. P.S. – I would not know how to have everything come out of the oven simultaneously – good thing I have the crockpot as I can’t mess it up.
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Thanks Linda!
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I just sent you the last e-mail I got from PBS … it came from an actual e-mail address so I think you can just subscribe that way. I think it was Bridgerton (sp?) they said was so similar to Downton Abbey (and maybe same writers?) and I should have forwarded it to you – I thought you watched a lot of PBS so would know. It was on Netflix too.
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I was wrong Bridgerton is by Rhonda ? somebody who also writes and produces Gray’s Anatomy and a bunch of other shows. It’s set in Regency England 1812 and I’ve heard quite racy – lots of bed hopping. It’s not a time period I have much interest in, and I never was a Gray’s fan. The Julian Fellowes series that we tried to watch was The English Game which is about the history of soccer/football in England, but I found the first two episodes so boring that we didn’t watch any more…..and the Scottish/British accent too hard to follow. Bunch of guys in funny vintage uniforms playing soccer – and the class divide between the classes, poor and rich. You should just try one episode of Downton Abbey to see if you like it – we were hooked right from the start. It starts in 1912 with the sinking of the Titanic and the heir to the estate. Long day – will reply to your gmail tomorrow.
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I hope Downton Abbey is still there when I’m ready to watch it. I will wait until next Summer I think now … have a lot to do in the house and I have to get used to Windows 10 before June 2022 as that is when Microsoft pulls the plug on Internet Explorer, the only browser I can use to remote into work. So I have to get acclimated to Windows 10 – not easy when it is on the top of the stove as I have very few plugs in the house and nowhere else to plug it in. I always was fascinated with the Titanic. I wish I had gone to see the collection of relics when it was at a nearby museum.
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Congrats on reaching your goal, Linda! 😊🎄🎄
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Thanks Tom … I will be posting my final tally on December 31st, but will just set a goal of just one more mile than this year’s goal (1,256 miles/2,021 km). I was a slacker today as it rained. 🙂
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LOL! Me too – not enough traction to walk safely, that’s for sure!!
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And…CONGRATS for reaching your goal!!!! YAY!!!
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Thanks Shelley and as of today, I’m 15 miles over my goal … I’ll still only going add one mile to my 2021 goal to keep it simpler. The 2021 goal was 2,021 km (someone challenged me to do the same kilometers as the year when we went into 2020 and it added more miles. I can add more miles when I eventually retire as I will have more flexibility with walking … now if it is pouring in the morning, I don’t walk and I don’t like walking at night.
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Yay! You’re 15 miles ahead for 2022 then! You’re smart to strategically accomplish your goals and you’re safe while you do so!
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Good thing I finished up early with this weather – yikes!
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YES!! Indeed!
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Can you imagine elf shoes with Yaktrax? Still wouldn’t fly. 🙂 I got that idea about a month before Christmas and even looked on Amazon thinking I’d get a pair of elf shoes (or felt shoe covers if they had them) and take a picture looking down at my feet. At the time they had several styles, all on backorder so I just went with the picture. I’d be klutzy and likely trip over them!
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LOL – that would be funny! The Christmas movies always show the elves running in their shoes, they must have some kind of traction.
Wow – sold out?! On a cargo ship somewhere probably.
I’m with you – I’d be tripping over them for sure.
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Me too – I have to look down as there are uneven sidewalks and I don’t want to wipe out on them, even in good weather, so I have missed a few and made a misstep but not falling down, but have in my day when I was running to catch the bus when I still worked on site. Yes, probably still in the cargo ship somewhere … would have been fun, but this worked well too.
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🤗🥰😊
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