Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.
Linda Schaub
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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Linda Schaub
WALKIN', WRITIN', WIT & WHIMSY 
I don’t blame the snowdrops for not opening and the robin for being unsatisfied. Come on spring, it’s time to arrive!
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I sure agree with you there Barbara – we have a chance for snow Friday into Saturday this week. We have had weather events every Friday going into Saturday for five weeks in a row – the weather folks are also joking about it.
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Hi Barbara – this message is from TD. I want to ensure you got it.
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This reply is for Linda and Barbara,
I was able to read Barbara’s posts this morning and your reply Linda.
I’m working from a new phone with a huge learning curve for me. I use to work in an technology department for a large corporation in Colorado (I retired from that company after eight years to spend more time with my husband at the time who had 5 weeks off and I had only 3 weeks. We were in good financial shape then). Anyway we divorced after four years. And I moved back to Texas. So much has changed in technology.
Barbara I want to send you focus on packing as May is a comfortable weather wise to move and you have the good fortune of new residents wanting to move to your area for work.
Linda, for unknown reasons to me I can still read and respond to your blog post! I’m glad!! When I went onto the website that I think both of you use (WordPress I think) it required me to create a blog!! It’s enough for me to take care of myself with this new challenge in my life. I don’t want to have a blog. I enjoy reading about what writers like to talk about and commenting when I feel well enough to write. I hope that you don’t mind that I commented here to both of you. I’m looking forward to reading more soon! TD
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Hi TD, I wonder if my son’s server being off-line for several hours Saturday morning added to the confusion. I don’t use the WordPress server because my son gives me lots of extra space on his server and manages all the technical aspects of my blogging. He’s something of a computer wizard. (He even writes code!) You should be able to comment on my blog again without any problems now. I have quite a few readers who don’t have their own blogs and who rarely comment. It is hard to keep up with the technology. Even my husband, who used to be on top of all things with software and hardware, turns to our son with his questions. He often reports feeling like he’s been left behind in the dust. Hope you and your new phone get used to each other as time goes on! Back to my packing…
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Technology leaves me in the dust as well. I have not turned on a TV in 13 years, have never used a tablet, nor an iPod – I don’t even text except from my computer to my boss and a few friends. I might be headed for dinosaur status pretty soon.
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I love snowdrops, even when the weather has beaten them down. Thanks for including them.
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You’re welcome Anne – glad you liked them. And now just for you, I will get some snowdrops next February when they are at their perkiest!
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Lovely flowers. Love that Robin. I have had hundreds of Robins in my yard for 5 weeks now. They are eating all my earth worms. Lol
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I like these Snowdrops too Peggy and every year I look for them when I pass a house on the next block. The homeowner planted them under a tree in his front yard. They first bloomed in February and how they look this good after getting pummeled with snow and Ice and rain I sure don’t know. Our Robins don’t seem to migrate anymore as I see them in the snowy trees, but I have to admit they aren’t singing in the depths of Winter. It’s pretty difficult to dig a worm from the frozen ground – it had dirt on the tip of its beak and was scowling.
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I love seeing snowdrops each spring. This year, they bloomed in early February around here. That’s early!
Poor Mr. Robin will have to eat frozen dinners for the time being, I suppose! Hang in there, Mr. Robin. Spring is coming.
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I like seeing snowdrops too Laurie and these bloomed in February and have withstood a few heavy snows, two or three ice storms, torrential rain and lots of gusty winds. They were a little bent over but surviving. The weatherman said today we had 60-degree days in January and February but none in March and likely not happening until April. Strange weather indeed.
Yes, frozen worms in gardens if he can find them as the grounds are still pretty cold here. He was wearing a surly look for sure about his frozen food woes.
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I often think robins generally go around with an irritated look on their faces. 🙂
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Me too Laurie – it is as if they are disgruntled with the world. The funniest thing to see is baby robins with their oversized beaks/mouths that they eventually grow into – it makes them look like they are perpetually mad, even as juveniles!
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“Bedraggled” – a word that sounds like it means. I want to pronounce it “bed-raggled” instead. As for Mr. Robin, I wonder if he’s even capable of a happy face? 🙂
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I like to hear a word that sound like it means. You should write a post about “onomatopoeia” Dave – maybe when the fuzzy bees are buzzing. Now that you are in South Carolina, you likely already have bees out and about. Ours are still napping in the leaves as no one has started their yard clean-up yet. I find Robins to be the surliest-looking birds, especially when I evict them from my coach light “elbow” every Spring – they will try to put up a nest there if I don’t watch carefully.
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Miss Linda………………………….nice but sad picture of the snowdrop flowers………………….after all these years……………………..I learned that our Robins in this Downriver area……………………..are here all winter eating off the fruit trees………………………..NOW……………..in the spring I see them everyday on the ground looking and “listening” for worms to eat…………..
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Ann Marie – those Snowdrops are in the next block over and I see them every year under a homeowner’s tree that is next to the sidewalk when I walk to the Park. They bloomed in February and have gotten pelted with multiple ice storms, snow storms, rain and gusty winds. March has not been kind to Snowdrops or us either. I read or heard that Robins no longer migrate and I’ll bet it’s because when they are usually ready to go it is so warm here, they think “why bother?” I’ve seen a few Robins in the snowy trees wearing a very disgruntled look. I like seeing them “listening” for worms too. 🙂
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Too much for the snow drops and not enough for the Robin!
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Yes, you’re right Terri … there is no happy medium in nature!
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We had a Robin in our backyard yesterday! the first one I have seen this year, I hope spring is almost upon us!
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Susan, all our Robins seem to hang around all Winter now. I think they get confused how warm the Fall weather is and hang around. I see them in the snowy trees. I have to get a photo (hopefully next year, not this year). They have been stabbing the ground trying to get worms and are out of luck. It was a topic of conversation back in the day saying “Spring is here – I saw my first Robin.” Now it is the Red-winged Blackbird is our first bird back from migration.
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Looks to me that Robin in finding plenty to eat with its large tummy!
Hummingbirds have already arrived this week. It is definitely Spring!!
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I thought that Robin was rather plump too TD! Robins always wear a surly look, especially when I have had to evict them from the elbow of the coach light out front. I’m a nature and animal lover, but I don’t like a nest over my mailbox and in close proximity to my head! They are not amused but I evict them before they get too far in their home building efforts.
I’m envious of your hummingbirds’ arrival. I follow a migration map for ours, but it will likely be late April/early May before I see ‘Hope” the one and only Ruby-throated Hummingbird who visits my feeders. 🙂
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I like & love snowdrop. Lovely flowers. Love that Robin . I hope Robin unsatisfied,, Robin couldn’t found warms.
Beautiful natural beauty. I like, Linda 👍
Thanks!
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Glad you like the photos Raj – is it okay if I call you that since our e-mail? That Robin was mad – it was warmer today, but still not good for digging worms out of the ground. 🙂
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Ok, I wait on💌!
You are most welcome! Glad too, Linda🤠
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Thank you – I will call you Raj from now on in our comments, okay?
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I wait, When & what you call me on my email 📨?keep it’s. God blessing, Linda!
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I posted about snowdrops today too! But no Robin – I have seen them, but can’t get them to pose for me. Rain and flurries again next week, no sign of spring in sight.
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Well, great minds think alike once again. I saw Robins all Winter so I think they were confused when it stayed so warm in the Fall and just stayed here. They aren’t eating worms – the ground is still too frozen. I decided to time it around Spring, though it sure doesn’t feel like Spring. The weatherman says we will have a damp and rainy April. Didn’t that happen the last two Spring seasons? Maybe that is part of La Nina to have a wet Spring. Then it will get sickening hot.
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That’s my fear – we will go from cold to way too hot with no spring in between. Next week here is rain and all around 40 F. We have not had one single springlike day.
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We had 60-degree days in January and February and none in March. And, bear in mind, they say our Winter was not cold enough to kill off all the ticks = tick explosion this Summer.
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My farmer friend said the ground never really did get a deep freeze, as it wasn’t cold enough, and it’s true we didn’t have many below freezing very cold nights.
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The worst was at Christmas time, over that weekend, from Friday to Monday. I know I had the taps dripping for those four days and kept doing laundry (I have a few old polyester shirts and I keep washing them over and over as it doesn’t matter if they sit in the washer wet until the next time – I did that three times a day. I hope we are done soon, but there is now a chance for a wintry precip on Monday.
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Aw, this post rings out as perseverance to me! Yay for Spring and the signs to remind us that we’ve persevered 🤗🥰 Congrats on 3 years of WW posts!
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Those snowdrops are pretty hardy to endure the weather we have had in March – I wonder if you could grow them in your state? Thank you – WW has been a great way to use oddball photos, or showcase photos I especially like but might get lost when embedded in a long post.
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If they’re that hardy, they might be something that we have growing here.
You’re welcome, that’s a great use of the oddball photos – your clever titles compliment them well!
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Yes, pretty resilient – you should try them, but I don’t know if they are bunny proof! 🙂 Of course your garden is covered over with snow so maybe not a great idea, but the bunny can’t find them! 🙂 Thank you. I was going to put together a whole Spring Wordless Wednesday post in a week or so, but I decided Spring may go from very cold to very hot as usually happens.
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They would need to be bunny proof, that’s for sure!
I remain impressed with your planning of blog posts. I’m not that organized! 🤣
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They are very short, tiny flowers – they would definitely be smooshed by the snow. Well, I do plan for special blog posts and the rest are pretty easy as it’s just writing about a walk. Some posts fall into my hands easily, like tomorrow’s post, which I have to go and edit because they’re back – ugh.
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They sound like perfect prey for the rabbit scoundrels! Or voles.
A roving reporter’s job is never done ;-)!
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Yes, a tough job but what can I say … someone’s gotta do it! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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So true!!
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Great pictures!
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Thanks Jessica – Spring is trying to get here in SE Michigan!
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I never knew that these were called snowdrops. My education continues.
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Yes, probably because they start to bloom in February while it is still snow covered. These bloomed when it was 60 in February, then we had two ice storms, a heavy snow, other snow, torrential rain and gusty winds. I walk past them to go to/from the Park. They are amazing!
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I haven’t seen one snowdrop this winter and that seems sad to me. They are lovely.
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That is too bad Ally. These snowdrops are planted under a tree in a homeowners front yard. I pass them going to/from the Park. They usually bloom in February and this year have continued to flourish despite our harsh Marsh weather.
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I don’t think I have ever seen a Snowdrop before Linda, how beautiful!
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This homeowner on the next block has them under a tree Diane. I used to walk in the neighborhood all Winter to get to/from the Park, then the mechanic said I need to drive more, but I still walk in the neighborhood some days. In the 11+ years I’ve been walking that way, every year they come up in February. These snowdrops arrive before crocuses, hyacinths, daffodils, tulips – very early and the snow/ice has never killed them. By the time the blooms die off, you still have green which looks like ground cover if you have enough of them.
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This reply is for Linda and Barbara,
I was able to read Barbara’s posts this morning and your reply Linda.
I’m working from a new phone with a huge learning curve for me. I use to work in an technology department for a large corporation in Colorado (I retired from that company after eight years to spend more time with my husband at the time who had 5 weeks off and I had only 3 weeks. We were in good financial shape then). Anyway we divorced after four years. And I moved back to Texas. So much has changed in technology.
Barbara I want to send you focus on packing as May is a comfortable weather wise to move and you have the good fortune of new residents wanting to move to your area for work.
Linda, for unknown reasons to me I can still read and respond to your blog post! I’m glad!! When I went onto the website that I think both of you use (WordPress I think) it required me to create a blog!! It’s enough for me to take care of myself with this new challenge in my life. I don’t want to have a blog. I enjoy reading about what writers like to talk about and commenting when I feel well enough to write. I hope that you don’t mind that I commented here to both of you. I’m looking forward to reading more soon! TD
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Hi TD – no of course it is perfectly fine to leave a message for both of us here. I went back to this blog post and replied to Barbara’s comment to me and copied and pasted your message to both of us. Barbara will see the message tomorrow morning. She generally reads/comments/responds in the early morning. I just checked and you’re only an hour behind our time – I thought it was three or four.
I am still using a Windows 7 computer. It is like an old shoe and I have my original laptop from 2009 – it is missing a few keys and the battery is gone, but I never unplug the laptops anyway, so I use it to store pictures. I am amazed what people do with their smartphones. I think it is a WordPress issue as several bloggers, including me, have found they cannot comment on blog posts directly without logging into their blog. That is something new. Most bloggers use a function called “Reader” where we get all the blogs we subscribe to in one place, but a lot of people subscribe by e-mail too. Just yesterday an e-mail subscriber sent me a message to ask for my blog address as he was not getting posts to his e-mail. It’s always something with technology.
I don’t blame you for not wanting to start a blog … not right now anyway. Too many new things to deal with and nicer weather is on the way, get out as best as you can and take walks with Yorkie, feel the sun in your face.
-Linda
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I agree with you Linda that I think it is a WordPress issue as several bloggers, as I remember pre-hospital some bloggers found they could not comment on blog posts directly without logging into their blog.
I truly don’t think that it had anything to do with Barbara’s son’s server being off-line. Barbara and Tim are Lucky to have such a helpful son!
Yesterday morning I fell in the kitchen when I was planning to gracefully place my coffee cups into the sink and splat the cups and saucers broke as I caught myself reaching for the counter. Broken glass was everywhere and scared Lucy to her sun room to hide. After I cleaned up the mess, I made a decision that I was not going to let falling deter me/us from living the short time that I have left. So I took out Lucy’s lease and jacket to go to the bay front with the convertible top down. It was a gorgeous day! Now, with the congestive heart failure in stage four I knew that I would not be able to walk the long distance that was normal for us. So I took it slow and easy to stop as my lungs needed some blood flow. We made it from the car to the one and only bench. We sat there for a very long time watching the water. I saw a single curlew walking in the grass and Lucy made several small dog friends while I sat content on the bench.
So, yes we made it out to the park on the sea wall! I was exhausted when I got home and had to recuperate in be the rest of the day and night. So I’m not clear if my body was ready for that, but it was very good for our emotional health and mental well being!
I too stopped buying computers, laptop, iPad, iPods. The only technology that I think we have to place are cell phones (unfortunately they are made too complicated for the younger generations). I would definitely go back to a land line if I could find a service provider to install the components which there are none in my area (but there are telephone lines— just nuts).
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Teri –
I am glad you saw that Barbara got your message from yesterday. Your message came through as “Teri” not TD, so I am going to call you Teri here – is that okay with you or do you prefer the anonymity of TD?
I need the landline for work as I speak with my boss several times a day, but I also think I will keep the landline after I retire. I have heard that making an emergency call using a cellphone does not always alert a dispatcher to your location as quickly as a landline does. I wish you could get a landline installed. Even having a landline through an internet provider is not as good … my neighbor had her AT&T landline discontinued and decided to get her phone through Comcast, her internet/cable provider. Well, if Comcast was out, she had no phone, just her cellphone We have Comcast at work – same thing. No phone if the internet is out.
So no one around you has a landline then? Several times in the last four or five years, suddenly my landline had a buzzing noise. A short time later the phone didn’t work at all. I had to call AT&T and it was because a squirrel had chewed the covering off the phone wires and the wires were bare. So they were able to fix it from outside which I appreciated. The repairman called afterward both times and said I was the only one with an AT&T landline on this circuit. I hope they don’t discontinue the service.
I am glad you got out to enjoy the walk … being outside really does put you in a better frame of mind. Good you could get a bench to rest a bit. Would you be able to carry along one of those small chairs – they fold up flat and look almost like an umbrella, but you just open them and have a little seat to sit on if you got tired … I don’t know how secure they are for sitting, but it would be handy if you felt the need to sit down.
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Linda, I do prefer the anonymity of TD because it is what I have been using for seven years and the same icon seems to stay with it.
I liked that feature. I will see if this dinosaur can figure that out! I saw Barbara’s comment of the dinosaur emoji. I fit that category too.
This is good information about not using an internet provider if I find a company that could install a landline. The family that I speak with most catty corner across the street, the 85 year old man says he has a landline, but his wife 74 says he is loosing his memory and recently is hallucinating now. They have a 50 year old daughter who has always lived them because she has some sort of handicap which is noticeable but I don’t know that the condition has a name. The daughter depends on the mother. And the daughter is starting to constantly repeat herself. On top of that they have another daughter who was diagnosed with brain cancer and going through a “trial program” all though married living in a different close by city. She comes to visit a lot. The daughter doesn’t know if she is getting a placebo are the actual medication that might give her some relief. They have five children and have live in that same house for 60 years. The wife came over to ask me how I was doing because they have not seen me in my front yard lately. The wife also said that she was extremely stressed out about her husband’s declining health and the daughter repeating herself. I offered her a safe refuge for a way to get away for a few hours that she can come her to rest. She said that she has a close friend that she does exactly that!
There’s also another single woman in her seventies who has a landline that she uses for her son (must be a way of avoidance or something similar). She does not give out that number and is extremely private about her life. She is pleasant to chat with when I was taking my walks around the block. She isn’t anti-social, just prefers privacy on some things in her life. I get it!
I think that a lot of people are struggling with various things.
I do have an old fold up beach chair that I used on my golf cart when I lived on the island. We are allowed to drive on our beaches and the golf cart was fun as I had two dogs then. So that old fold up chair will fit in the back trunk of my VW!! The drive way at the park takes you all the way to the sea wall with a handicap ramp (instead of steps which I cannot do yet without crawling like a lobster). So that is a wonderful idea to just keep the old fold up in the trunk and enjoy the bay sea wall! I love it!! I could easily walk a short distance for Yorker and slowly try to build a little muscle.
I was 163 lbs. When I got out of the hospital I was 112 lbs ( that’s not a typo). They drained that much congestive heart guild from my lungs, feet and legs. I saw the jars they drained it into about a quart. They use a MRI iodine scan before and after to see how much was still in my lungs. Although it all is terribly painful, it is interesting too.
I looked terrible just bone with sagging raisin wrinkle skin. Since then my weight has been increasing 2 lbs per day of the heart fluid. My weight today is 157 lbs and that causes pain.
I cannot afford to pay such hospital costs for constant draining, although I’m sure some people are more financially well than I. The hospital was definitely traumatizing for me that I never want to be in one again. I’ve live a good long life and I would much perfect to do the self care in the comforts of my own home.
I have my will set up that my pets will inherit the property, so whoever is willing to do all the work of closing out one’s property and willing to adopt my pets then they will get whatever proceeds are left. Even if it’s an unknown district attorney. At the time of writing my will in 2015, my estate attorney kept saying what does it matter what happens with your pets… you will be dead. But it did and still does matter to me. I’m a bit of a silly dinosaur, I guess.
Starting at 3:00 today we are expecting rain for the rest of the week! Spring has arrived!
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Hi TD – unfortunately your name, (as opposed to “TD”), shows up in this comment, but this comment only. I think I could respond to you and then delete it later if you’d like. I thought perhaps your new gravatar would show up here too, but it did not. Now, I have to tell you that it was very interesting reading about the weight loss and then gain related to the congestive heart failure. Is there not a way you can go to an outpatient clinic to have this done rather than the hospital? This has been quite an ordeal for you. It must feel strange having such short hair now – that’s quite a difference in length, but much easier to take care I’m sure. I have had long hair for most of my life.
I am glad you are finding workarounds for your new way of life and overcoming all the setbacks – pat yourself on the back for that. That sounds like a good idea with the seating arrangement – having it handy in case you need it, especially as the temps heat up and become overwhelming. We may have a touch of Spring on Friday as we get to the mid-60s. That said, we escaped the wintry precip last night – it went to the northern part of the state instead. Your neighbor sounds like she has a lot on her plate and your house is a safe refuge for her and a little visit for you as well. I hope you are able to get a landline of some sort. I don’t like your 2015 attorney saying it does not matter about your pets after you are gone. Pets form attachments to us, just like we do to them. That was cruel of him/her to say that. There is a charitable organization that takes senior dogs when their owners are no longer able to take care of them … there are lots of reasons for not being able to take care for your pet – moving in with family members or into a nursing home. It is a wonderful charity and I donate to them and follow them on Facebook. It is called the “Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary” – they are based in Tennessee. It’s difficult to keep up with all the tech these days. That’s okay too. Take care of yourself TD.
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I will have to look into the “Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary” – they are based in Tennessee. That’s great info.
There’s a very nice place in the middle part of Texas that is takes in dogs and cats for owners who pass away. They use A&M students to live there with the pets. It’s a wonderful opportunity for the students too. It’s expensive but they take all the cares of a pet’s life inside and have wonderful grounds. In 2015 the endowment cost $50,000. I don’t know what it would cost now, but it is on my short list to look into. They are well known. That’s where I would want my pet to live. With the proceeds from the sale of this property that would cover the endowment. And it transfers from pet to pet, not singling out to only one named pet.
There’s also “no kill” shelters which the pet would be in an outdoor cage and doesn’t appeal to me for a 4-5 lb Yorkie. She would freeze to her death the first night. Toy Yorkies are very high maintenance and need on doors and lots of attention.
I also have a friend who is a dog lover and has offered to adopt Yorkie, so I have some very good options. He and his roommate have two indoor small dogs now, so that sounds like a good fit! I didn’t want to burden him, but now that I know more of my situation that might be the best solution. At one time they had four dogs; two passed away.
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TD – I was reading about the Toy Yorkies after seeing your comment. I did not know there were smaller Yorkies. I had a friend who had a regular-sized Yorkie and it was small. They look very cute but was reading that they must be treated with kid gloves. I love animals, but no more pets for met as it is so devastating to lose them. The squirrels and birds at the Park can be my pets – I like spoiling them.
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P.S. I don’t have a TV either. I stopped watching it because I think it was stressing me out. I just unplugged it from the wall thinking I could plug it back in if I missed it. When I was back home from the hospital I plugged it back in to learn that to twenty year old TV was broken! So not replacing…
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Teri – I have a TV as old as yours. I didn’t get cable or internet until after Y2K, so after 2000. It is one of those 19″ TVs with the big back that looks like it will tip over. I unplugged it in January 2010 and cancelled my cable TV the same time. I don’t miss it but I have Amazon Prime and have watched some movies and the PBS series “All Creatures Great & Small” on my laptop. I don’t miss it at all. I listen to the news on the all-news station or watch it sometimes online, but that is not enough to convince me to buy a TV right now.
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Hi TD, I wonder if my son’s server being off-line for several hours Saturday morning added to the confusion. I don’t use the WordPress server because my son gives me lots of extra space on his server and manages all the technical aspects of my blogging. He’s something of a computer wizard. (He even writes code!) You should be able to comment on my blog again without any problems now. I have quite a few readers who don’t have their own blogs and who rarely comment. It is hard to keep up with the technology. Even my husband, who used to be on top of all things with software and hardware, turns to our son with his questions. He often reports feeling like he’s been left behind in the dust. Hope you and your new phone get used to each other as time goes on! Back to my packing…
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Our snowdrops have come and gone, Linda. And the robins in your part of the word look very different from the robins in my part of the word.
I’m pleased to say that our spring-flowering bulbs are in full swing.
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I am ready for Spring Hugh, but it is still blah and colorless here unfortunately. I follow a UK photographer and he often photographs robins – your robins are very cute whereas our robins always wear a surly look.
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