Spring... And Miss Fisher....

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"Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer."

~Geoffrey B. Charlesworth

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"Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries."  A fun romp, about a wealthy and glamorous private detective, in 1920's Melbourne.   These tales of "Pry-nee" are a romp, and the costumes are delicious. 

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Blogging muse..... Flown away.... Again.....

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My blogging muse seems to have flown away, again.............

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I seem to only have pretty pictures, to put in my blog entries....

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I don't like to have bloggers simply "go missing" in blog land.  If they are busy, or away, or have simply lost their blogging muse...  I like them to tell me.  :-)

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And so, I say this here.  So no one will worry about me.  So you will know that I'm just lacking my blog writing muse.  -sigh-   Often, when I say she is missing, she comes back again.  Perhaps this will happen, this time.  :-)

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Blog Rating...????????

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Blog Rating...  Have you heard of this?  I just saw it, in this blog.  She was complaining about such blog ratings.  And I certainly agree with her. 

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Do Blog Lists, now show blogs-you-follow, by ranking???

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I didn't know that.

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Happy Pink Full Moon...

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Happy Pink Full Moon...

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"Full Moon names date back to Native Americans, of what is now the northern and eastern United States."

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"– Full Pink Moon – April This name came from the herb moss pink, or wild ground phlox, which is one of the earliest widespread flowers of the spring. Other names for this month’s celestial body include the Full Sprouting Grass Moon, the Egg Moon, and among coastal tribes the Full Fish Moon, because this was the time that the shad swam upstream to spawn."

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Another sign of Spring.......... :-(

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Sigh...  

Another sign of Spring....  

Ants......  

Having to spray and put ant buttons out....   

Sigh.....

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LOVELY weekend.......

Father and son, chatting over the back fence, on a lovely Saturday morning...
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Our grandson, the "squirrel whisperer"...  :-)   This baby squirrel became attached to him.  Crawling up to his shoulders and sitting there, watching the world go by.  When he put the baby squirrel down, it would follow him...

Later, the baby squirrel went to Animal Rescue. 

They already are trying to keep a nest of surviving baby rabbits safe.  Until it's silly mother, takes them away.  -sigh-

All this, with their own dog!!!!
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I grabbed an iron rake, and dug/pulled up the matted dirt and weed roots, which were covering some of the bricks, on our old back patio!  You can see the process, in the above photo.
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And here are results!  I have more to dig/pull up.  And need to sweep or hose the dirt away.  But this is an accomplishment!  Bringing our old patio bricks and rocks back out, into the sun!  :-)
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Air War Games going on, again this morning.  Good thing!!!!  With all the provocation, we are getting, from our enemies!!!

Now, if only we had a Commander In Chief, who had the guts, to act like a man.  Instead of to just wander around, with his nose in the air, and his head, in the clouds.

Grrrrrr.... 

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2nd Season....PREMIERES....Sunday April 17 9/8c :-))))

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Season 2 of 'Good Witch' tv series.  :-)

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"“Good Witch” has charmed audiences in its first season, becoming the network’s most-watched and highest-rated primetime drama in the time period."

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Premieres Sunday April 17  9/8c  Hallmark Channel
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Finally...

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Have been waiting sooooooo longgggggg.

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Do you believe in...............?

I love books like the above.  "The Wild Wood" by Charles de lint.  Mesmerizing...  Beautiful...  Full of possibilities....

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Do you believe in Faerie?

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Not pretty little Flower Faeries.

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Something else..

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Perhaps Nature spirits...

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Nature is nothing like human kind....  So why would Nature spirits, look like human kind?

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Nature spirits would possibly reflect the trees and various growing things, contained in Nature.

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But not cute little human children...

  

Not in my mind....

How about you?????

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Do you ever entertain the possibility of any of this?
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Even a little?

Do you believe in Faerie?

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Happy Birthday to............

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Happy Birthday, Gladys Taber

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Gladys was a delightful author of many books.  Her most famous, were about life in an old reclaimed farm house, in Conn.  She wrote her books, by the Seasons, or the Months of the year.  So one can pick up any of them, flip to the present season/month, and enjoy.  An example...

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"April in New England is like first love. There is the tender excitement of gathering the first snowdrops, the only symbol of life in the deserted garden.  They are the lyric expression of music to come--as the symphony of lilacs will surely come--because I am picking the cool delicate bells of this first flower."

"The Best of Stillmeadow"

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I invite you to become acquainted with Gladys Taber, if you aren't already.  Here are some clickable links, to start you off.

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Friends of Gladys Taber

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Gladys Taber

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On Good Reads

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I never met the lady herself, but have been in Stillmeadow.  Years, and years, and years ago, my husband flew my daughter and myself over to the nearest airport.  (We owned a little plane, at the time...) There we rented a car and found our way...  From "instructions" I had gleaned from reading her books for years.  :-)

We pulled up in front of that (so-well-know-from-her-books) picket fence, and dear house...  I was in a trance, to really, really be seeing it, at last!   Gladys was not there, but her daughter (Connie) and grand daughters were there.  

Connie saw the look on my face, and invited us in.  :-)))  How very sweet of her!  And so I have this wonderful memory.

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Over the years, I have collected all Gladys' Stillmeadow and Stillcove books.  :-)  My only collection. 

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Have a.............. :-)

Wishing you a lovely weekend.  And since we have our Manhattans on Saturday evening, I start with a picture of them.

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Although I love to see lots of pretty little things, on kitchen counters, on Instagram...   My own kitchen counters are kept very, very spare.  My husband,  the "Resident Chef," likes a kitchen, like this.  We both like it, this way.   My one nod to 'pretty,' and not necessary, is the little ambiance lamp he made for me.  :-)

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But our Hearth Room......

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...is not stark!

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Is it so....???????????????

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Well, the snow melted yesterday.  But our temps are still

very cold, for this time of year.  So there is no wish (on

my part) to go outside.   But I do have a wish, to begin

sewing again.  So....  That's the plan....
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Btw, I am not finding post topics, of late.  My muse has 

fled.  Gone on a holiday.  Or something.  -sigh-  Oh I

think of some things, but either they sound boring...
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 Or they sound divisive.  -sigh-
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It makes me wonder if it's so, that "Blogging Is Dead" 

yet again?????

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"We are not amused..."

April 4th...

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Snow...

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Really...

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"We are not amused..."

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-pout-

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Real fringe, finally....!!!! ,-)))))

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A few weeks ago, my hair had grown out long enough, to allow most of it, to get to one length.

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I had fringe cut, and straight sides.  Very short in back.

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I've wanted this style for ages!

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But, "Murphy's Law" and all, now that I want my hair to be straight, one side wants to curl back.  :-(((  I have to tuck my glasses, over it.

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Jean (above) of "The Idiosyncratic Fashionistas"...

has been my model for a long time.  I finally got her round, black glasses frames!  And I finally grew my hair long enough, to have full fringe cut. 

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I still have to "work on" having as lovely thick hair as she has.  :-)  And becoming tiny, like she is.  :-)  I have the being-short part.  It's the diameter-thing, which eludes me.  >,-)

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