Toosdai Critters: How you know
How you knew it wasn't that time at the vet's office. That night, she jumped onto the couch and climbed onto your chest and snuggled deeply into your neck, pressing her cheek against yours, purring.How...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blog: Gung Hay Fat Choy!
It’s the Year of the Monkey! Lucky colors: white, blue, gold Lucky flowers: chrysanthemum, crape-myrtle White For some reason, it’s been hard for me to find a white rugosa rose. Most come in various...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blog - Why do you garden?
It’s snowing today as I am preparing this diary. But I’m hopeful this will be the last of winter and snow as we begin to warm up towards Spring. But on days like today when there’s nothing that can...
View ArticleAuld Lang Syne, dear Tricia
♪ ♫ Shid ald akwentans bee firgawt, n nivir brocht ti mynd?Shid ald akwentans bee firgawt, n ald lang syn? kishik and her pooties have Tricia etched in their hearts forever... ♪ ♫ Fir ald lang syn,...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blogging: Orchidaceae
Rambling a bit while waiting for true Spring. It’s supposed to snow this weekend!! Aghhh… So this is a short diary so we can suffer the snow with colour.*****************I fell in love with orchids...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blogging: Green is the loveliest colour...
Here in the northeast — more specifically, Long Island, NY, Spring has finally arrived. Ok. Spring officially began last month, however it’s been this week where temps have settled enough that I feel...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blogging - Spotting Rainbows in the Garden
Have you ever noticed how flowers and feather colours mimic one another? It’s warbler migration time and, for me, that means prime bird watching season, and at the same time the flowers also putting...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blogging: Flower Portraits
The war on weeds begins, but amidst the overgrowth that I’m slowly moving forward on clearing and thinning, the clematis have been quietly blooming. Over the years, I’ve planted vines tucked here and...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blog: Phone Photos - Bats, Berries and Butterflies
Of late, I haven’t been using my camera except for when I want to capture bird images. Instead, I’ve been using my smartphone camera, especially since I’ll often listen to podcasts, music or...
View ArticleAji still needs a home - can we give some Hope?
Do you know the story of homelessness of one of our own? Aji, who has been a kossack since 2009 and one who contributed to many groups with many diaries of her own, has been struggling to live in a...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blog: August Heat - Bunnies and Scallops and Shrimp,...
After working long hours in the garden, the heatwave and fatigue had me seeing things. Or at least that fatigue allowed some joyful hallucinations to take place.I think it all started with the...
View ArticleThe Fragility of Shelter - Building a home: Aji & Wings
I know that many who are reading this diary already are aware of Aji and Wings plight of homelessness these past six plus years. If you are new to this series of diaries on their dire situation,...
View ArticleWhen I see blue, I see a home for Aji and Wings
When Jemma (pictured above) has strong emotions coursing through her little body, like when she’s playing hard or when she’s purring loud with love, her eyes turn a green blue like the turquoise in the...
View ArticleUpdate on Aji and Wings Homebuilding...
*******************Aji’s goal to continue work next week and to purchase the vigas for the first floor is to reach $14,000. That means (as of the writing of this diary) $2,750. x Embedded ContentHeads...
View ArticleSeptember 11, 2016
15 years. It's been 15 years and I know I will never be who I once was. Not for the time past and growing older, but for the event that wrenched and tore my spirit apart. All the mending over time...
View ArticleHome and Heart: Aji and Wings
When you look at the stone in this ring, what do you see? I love this ring. It’s made by Wings. When I saw it posted on his silver gallery, I felt I needed to bring her home. It’s a simple design,...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blogging 12.38 :: Hoping for Hummers, Got Cats?
WARNING! LONG VIDEO AND PHOTO LADEN DIARY!! PLEASE SET ASIDE TIME TO ENJOY☺☺☺Since experiencing hummingbirds visiting my garden (visibly and regularly) for the first time in 2013, I was determined this...
View ArticleAji and Wings: Hummingbirds, Herringbone and Hope
In the northeast, the hummingbirds are starting their fall migration heading south to their winter homes. As I sit here at the computer, I can see them in my garden where I still have many nectar...
View ArticleAji and Wings: Autumn update plus something special!
*It’s autumn! And here around the northeast it means it’s mums season. Mums sold everywhere- garden centers, farmers markets, supermarkets… Mums in the cooling weather will stay blooming with some...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blogging: Texas Transplants and Critters
Knowing I’ve been rather obsessed with hummingbirds, I was sent a few plants (okay, three boxes full!) from Texas to help me along the way. I’d like to happily report — it worked! As fall begins and...
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