11-MAY-2009
Yay, I got a dumpster!
Not exactly my Mothers Day gift -- I got way nicer presents, for that!
But finally I can get rid of things easily. And, for the record you dumpster divers, it's not worth it. What I'm dumping is true trash! Unless you love dirty old broken chairs and the like.
06-MAY-2009
Lilac Time
They're not quite fully open, but almost. Tomorrow. But, they're lovely today, still. It's nice to be able to be outside again!
29-APR-2009
Monday 5.4.09
Hey, I can still add something to my blog even though I only (by preference) have a mobile connection, now!
January 1st, 2009
'The Fallen' (snow & darkness)
Here's another rerun...
Today is January 31, 2007
This photo was taken on December 15th of 2005. We've had very little snow here this year,
so here's a reminder!
Some of you will longingly reminisce, others of us (yeah, me!) will be reminded to be grateful for what we don't have.
December 29th, 2008
Wishful Thinking
Mmmmmm.... I am so goin' there...!
This pansy photo is from July of 2007, but I just edited it again today, using the freebie tools at picnik.com.
(until I get a pic for the day...
then I'll move this to a new post):
December 29th, 2008
Rocky Jake takes a ride to the vet today
This pic is almost two years old... but I don't have a good recent one.
'Bunbun' makes a trip to his doctor, today. Luckily, he's been a healthy bunny and so he doesn't have to go very often. It's a bit of a project to get him loaded up and on the road. Especially when he insists on doing the driving... heheh, just kidding.
This pic was taken on February 2nd, 2007.
December 25th, 2008
Baby Parakeets
The largest one of the three is almost nine days old, in this photo.
There are a few 'movies' of these babies in the box.net widget below this image (click image to see). Yeah, there's a lot of poo... I'm not able to clean things up without disturbing them.
I've included my YouTube upload anyway, but the quality is very poor. It was better before the upload to YouTube -- but it's just a .MOV made with my digital camera. I guess I need a better format to get the best picture.
December 23rd, 2008
Icicles
This is what I have on my porch roof. NOT geraniums... sigh.
December 21st, 2008
Geranium close-up
This photo and entry is from April 24th, 2007:
I was stunned to suddenly notice this beautiful geranium in bloom today!
I'd jokingly been calling it 'the tomato plant' because it was tall and green but -- no blooms, ever. (Not that tomato plants don't bloom, but, I mean, it was supposed to be a beautiful geranium!) I think I've had the plant for over two years, and it never bloomed until now.
Isn't it nice to look at it now? Since all there is all around is snow, snow, and more snow...!
December 18th, 2008
Settling down into the ice and snow (...brrrr!!!)
I'm a bit too tired at the moment to start working on my plans, but I think soon I'll start shifting around my websites a bit to make the main deal be The Hallelujah Bums (...so, Bellowbelle stuff will be secondary or whatever).
This doesn't mean that I'll delete my various personal sites. Things will just be linked and related differently, that's all. I will still wander around the web thinking I'm 'Bellowbelle.' It's just that, offline, most of my musical efforts these days have more to do with the hbums, at least as far as socializing goes.
As for the ourstage.com sites I maintain... sigh... I like those sites, but since I don't use the sites for competitions (and, technically, am not allowed to due to relative-of-employee rules), a lot of the main features there are of limited use to me/us. So, I may decide to let what I've put there up to now just sorta 'rest in peace.' Dunno. Like I said, I'm tired!
Oh, I almost forgot the big news...
One of Gem's (my parakeet's) eggs hatched early this morning! So there's a little baby bird.
(photo from a few days ago)
December 17th, 2008
Gnome Convention
These are some of my gnomes. They hold meetings in a flower pot on the porch. I'm not sure but I think they talk about me behind my back...
Took this photo several months ago.
Quite cold today, but we're dealing with it. We had such beautiful, warm (for December - and in spite of the ice on the ground) weather the past two days, and that's made it hard to jump right into this cold stuff.
Still dealing with post-ice-storm messes.
Someone at concertina.net complimented my writing this morning, and when I reviewed my post I thought, 'Gee, that IS pretty good, today!' So, I'll add a copy of it, here:
We were hit pretty hard with the ice storm here, lost power on Thursday and just got it back last night. So, four days without power, for us; we're lucky -- a lot of the area still has no power.
Fortunately, we were able to go to relatives' and get warmed up. I stored my concertina and various other instruments and stuff -- parakeets, etc., with them. Slept at home in the cold, though, just layered on more blankets and kept the winter boots on at all times!
We've got tree limbs all over the place, a broken window on a shed, a bit of other damage. Phone line was snapped in two, but that's been fixed. Cable TV line snapped, but we no longer subscribe anyway...
The night of the storm was pretty strange. I thought it was an earthquake, didn't know the rain outside was actually ice and that I was hearing trees falling. Trees and branches fell the entire night. Though all power was out, I managed to text message with my daughter who was about 10 miles away -- things were the same there.
As I sat and played my concertina in the dark with a candle one night, after hurrying to keep my pet rabbit fed and his cage cleaned up, I realized that it wasn't just for fun or romance or meditation that people in pre-electric days played by candlelight. It's because they had to hurry up and do everything else while the sun was still up!
Some grocery stores, etc., have operated by generator. I went to CVS and had to use my flashlight to find what I needed on the shelf. The gas lines were very long at the one or two open local stations, since people needed gas for generators, I guess. Most stations were closed -- like everything else. So, I drove about 20 miles to a station my daughter told me was open and didn't have lines. If nothing else, when stuff like this happens, I want to remain able to GET OUTTA HERE!!! With my concertina, though....
