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Everyday Ramblings

by noko

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January 27, 2015

Learn By Doing

So last year about this time I found a snowman on this patch of exposed historical pavement down on the cul-de-sac under the tram line I walk under most days when out and about getting my activi...


January 25, 2015

The Sanctuary of Openness

I took this today. We are having the strangest weather. I bet everybody on this planet can say that right now to some extent. Really, what we had this morning was not fog, it was cloud, cloud at...


January 22, 2015

On the Other Side

This is the hallway on the next to the top floor of The Sorrento Hotel in Seattle that I stayed in last spring when I saw my older sister for what turned out to be the last time. We stayed in th...


January 21, 2015

Quiet and Comfortable

My eldest sister loves old buildings as much as she cares for any person. She is fascinated by the history, every detail of the history of how they came to be. There are amazing stories baked in...


January 19, 2015

Hanging In There

My oldest sister is hanging in there. She had a rise in blood pressure last night and her heart remains strong. She was able to squeeze Kes’s hand at one point. Everybody is exhausted and heada...


January 18, 2015

Hewing Hope

I know, it is the middle of winter…so why am I posting these starkly beautiful pear blossoms? I walked by this tree a few hours ago. The branches are completely bare, preparing for the new life ...


January 17, 2015

Where Ere

This is a bald eagle looking for lunch in winter. Many of them are taking turns sitting on eggs now. I took this out at Sauvie Island. I am going to see today if I can go birding out there next ...


I was just finishing up my post to 750 Words for the day and was thinking about how I was writing about the most mundane things like cleaning the litter box (I am using a litter made out of recy...


Don’t tell anyone, but the sun is out and we can see! Oh hello sun. I know many of you have had about enough of it so it is wonderful you are sending some our way. Thank you. There are robins an...


January 11, 2015

Return Again

Much as I grumble I do know that we need winter so that we can have spring. The storms this season have scoured and prepared the earth and the trees for what comes next. We even had a hard frost...


January 09, 2015

New Room New Beginnings

I was walking through downtown last Saturday thinking about this picture I took at just this time of year a few years back. It is a working of time on things photo but I also very much like the ...


I sure enjoyed the no ads while it lasted… It is always an interesting challenge to pick a picture I have taken that reflects my current mood and the world outside. Right at this moment it is ab...


Taking advantage of Audible’s 2 for 1 credit sale I downloaded a couple of audiobooks to keep me busy and out of trouble. I am about halfway through the series on Western Philosophy and still re...


January 01, 2015

Leap Year!

I know, I know, 2015 is not a leap year in the traditional sense but Carlo wanted me to say that 2015 is the year of the leap. He is going for his personal best. So, the bridge above, this is o...


December 30, 2014

Contentment and Health to You

I love love love the no ads thing! Thank you. This is the boathouse on the river about a mile down the Springwater Corridor multi-use path almost directly across the river from where I live. It ...


December 29, 2014

And the Winner Is…

So yep. They eliminated my Take No Prisoner’s boss’s position and now I report to Mr. Narcissistic Personality Disorder. (Mr. NPD) Other than keeping my job, which is a very very good thing for ...


The most difficult thing about my odd relationship with Mr. Fine China (note the past tense here, he has finally stopped “liking” the intermittent Facebook posts I put up) is that he was a maste...


December 25, 2014

Soon Enough

This is kind of festive in a returning of the light and fertile earth sort of way. I am so looking forward to spring. Not that winter doesn’t have its beauty… it does, but when it is cold and we...


December 22, 2014

Totally Rad

By Carlo T.H. Cat Salute! Lets just get this out of the way…Auntie Kes says that the T.H. stands for “the handsome” and I can’t help but agree. I know I look a little sad in this shot Mom took o...


Yesterday evening we were having record breaking rains in a weirdly warm environment and I was homebound. My oldest sister called. This is indeed a very rare occurrence. The way things work in t...


By Diego T.B. Cat Mom and Auntie Kes have brought me all sorts of toys. I have eight different kinds of rattily balls and colored pipe cleaners and tissue paper. I have mice in various sizes and...


December 15, 2014

She’s an Elderly Lady

It was bound to happen eventually if one is long enough in a particular body. I got on a relatively crowded bus with a cloth bag full of groceries on Saturday afternoon and moved towards the ba...


December 12, 2014

Tis the Season

This is what it looks like outside right now. I took this on my birding class this time last year. Somehow it seems appropriate with the news about sequencing the genome for various classes of b...


December 07, 2014

Shiny Things

Diego likes shiny things; nail clippers, tweezers, the gold mouse laser pointer on a keychain (they clearly have never encountered a laser pointer before coming to live here) my hair… He is a ha...


December 05, 2014

Mr. String and Mr. Bird

Diego apparently has the ability to teleport from room to room, or else he can be in two places at once without being anywhere at all. Kes tells me that my brother calls this site-to-site transp...


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