What is it?

Yep, it’s more pictures from the park.

What can I say, I don’t get to many places these days.

So I saw this in the park and thought perhaps a child had stuck a pretzel in the ground.

Upon further and closer inspection, this appears to be an organic growth.

Another one about four feet away.

Fungus, perhaps?

The pink sun looked orange in this picture.

Maybe due to the smoke?

 What odd nature things have you noticed today?

Food

So lately I’ve been eating more vegetables and sometimes I’m mixing leftovers together.

What I’m noticing now  is how similar they all look in photos.

This was leftover stir fry (riced cauliflower, shredded carrots, broccoli, corn) on top of a baked potato with a bit of queso in the middle)

Broccoli and carrots on top of baked potato and some queso!

 

Frozen mix of orzo, lentil, peppers, carrots and broccoli.

Sometimes I add a crunchy option of water chestnuts or chow mein noodles.

Simple lunch at work of sweet potato and a lettuce/spinach salad with crunchiest on top

 (sliced almonds, wonton strips and some leftover croutons.)

What’s on your menu?

Labeling and organization

 So, I’ve been trying to take note of things while I walk. A few days ago I noted that they had marked some of the public area with paint, sticks and flags.  They must have marked electric lines, underground things and areas they were planning to work

Sticks labeled with underground things and those little pink flags.

But I felt like some things didn’t need to be labeled, at least in my mind.

This was in front of the light pole.  Apparently there are people who might need to know 

that this is ... well a light pole.

Perhaps there has been a lot of questions as to whether this is a junction box, or one of the other labeled items.  It made me laugh!

What’s been tickling your funny bone?

A morning in surgery

No, it wasn’t me under the knife, I was just the designated driver. Blueman received a Spinal implant.

It was far enough away that I wasn’t going to drive home so into the cold waiting room I went.  I had planned my goodie bag and I was ready to roll!

A bagel (we left the house at five a.m. y’all) some flavored water, a book and yarn for crocheting.

In the pocket was my ear phones and I spent nearly four  hours listening to an audio book and crocheting.

 

I had started this at the beginning of the pandemic and then left it.  

It was fun to get back to it. I finished the yellow, completed the orange and half of the red.

Blue man came through the procedure just fine and we are both recovering! Him from the procedure and me from these early mornings!

How do you handle long waits?

Recent purchases

 Feeling more secure, I started going out a little more. Masks are worn and hand sanitizer is used. It’s not normal but it’s a step in the right direction, I think.  And let’s face it, sometimes you just want some retail therapy.

A couple more books, these from the used book store.

I need physical books like I need a hole in my head...but I wanted to buy something!

Then I got some fun fabric.

The pumpkins will make cute autumnal masks.

And I just liked the rock fabric.

This fabric made me buy it. It was screaming SO loudly.

Ha! It was purely an impulse buy.  I’ll have time to think about what to do with this lovely.

What found it’s way into your shopping cart lately?

Just some fun things

The maternal unit celebrated a birthday last week. A lady never tells her age, but in a dozen years she’ll reach the century mark!

Pretty flowers that scream “happy”, don’t you think?

She advises that even four days later they look just as pretty.

A friend of mine lent her puzzle out. It turned out quite cute.

We went on a hunt for some used puzzles when in another store we saw new ones for $14. 

We agreed to keep looking. 

But now I know what might make an addition to her next present worthy holiday!

What fun things are you finding today?

 

More mask making

 It seems each time I go into the stash bins to “shop”, I find fabric I forgot I had.  So as we were discussing needing fall and autumn masks, I pulled some fabric out that just might do.  

The small astern in mushrooms, but they remind me of little pumpkins.

Leaves and the only Halloween fabric I have, bought as a remnant. 

Metallic “boos” in different colors.

Folks at work have expressed an interest in this one!

Another pile of masks looking for a home.

I’ve sent some around to friends, taken some to work, given a few to people who do service for us.

I’m guessing I’ve made nearly 100 so far. What can I say? It’s fun and they run up pretty quickly.

What’s in your craft pile?

Everything old is new again?

I braved a department store last week. It wasn’t as bad as I feared. Carts were sanitized before use, the cashier at the self checkout sanitized the equipment before use.  It had been many months since I’d been inside anything other than a grocery store.  So what’s for sale?

Handbags...that kind of look like flower pots hanging  by macrame cords.

These bags also look like things I could have purchased when I was younger.

(Or something I might have tried to make)

I know this style of shoe was popular way back when.

Thinking these things while wandering the store made me feel so old. Add that to the comments I was muttering about short shorts and tight tops worn by other shoppers and I believe my hair began graying right on the spot!

Have you seen any “blasts from the past” recently?

 

Grumpy kitty aka toasted marshmallow

The community cat we’ve been taking care of greets me at the door in the morning waiting for food. This morning grumpy kitty met me atop the car.  I felt this stance was telling me “yeah, I’m here, so what?”

The next morning, the mood was definitely a “dude, I’m chillin’ here” vibe.

So THAT’S where the paw prints on the hood came from!

Who makes you smile at 5:30 in the morning?!

Fun at the park

 

The problem with something being your personal best, it’s harder to get your next personal best!

Last Saturday I managed to get another personal best. And hour long walk and then some shopping, a bit of chores and you too can log 11,000 steps!

I can only imagine the effort it will take to reach 12,000.

Goals are good.  

I like some of the things I see while walking in the park.

This looked like a side portrait to me, perhaps presidential.

Puddle portraits, I call them!

Then sometimes I get a little philosophical.

Footsteps (mine) walking through sprinkler puddles.

Life is like a puddle footstep.

What you walk through doesn’t always have lasting effects even if it’s messy at the time.

To be truthful I felt a little like the invisible woman after seeing this picture!

What are you contemplating today?