Oh boy am I behind!! AND I have a question....

Question - has anyone else experienced any changes in Blogger?  My pictures used to go where I put them, but lately they've been going to the top of the post and I have to move them to where I want them.  It's always possible I changed a setting, being an impatient clicker, but I was wondering if this happened to anyone else????

FERTILIZER FRIDAY:

For every gardening joy

you will find at least one, maybe more, gardening upsets.  For instance, the Passion Flower (above) is invasive AND the bugs do horrible things to the veggies:

SKYWATCH FRIDAY:

Projectile vomiting cloud

COLOR CARNIVAL:

The Color Carnival meme has changed some of the rules, so I'm not quite sure this can be entered yet, but here it is before I forget it : )  I'll go check later.

SIX WORD SATURDAY:

It's hot here and humid too!

CAMERA CRITTERS:

I asked my DH why it's back was so bumpy and he said it's probably babies - don't look if critters make you squeamish : )

SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY:

Looks kind of Halloweenish doesn't it?

WEEKEND REFLECTIONS:

Look at all the little bitty palm trees along the curves of my car - looks like custom pin striping!!

To join in on, or just look at, any of these fine memes, please just click on the appropriate button(s) to the right.

Sure hope your weekend is going great - and that next week is even better.  Peace.  B : )

Color Carnival, Camera Critters, Six Word Saturday, Shadow Shot Sunday, Weekend Reflections

Happy Birthday to my amazing husband, Victor!! (Sunday)

COLOR CARNIVAL:

Did I use this before?  Can't remember : )

CAMERA CRITTERS:

SIX WORD SATURDAY:

Thank you Vets; we appreciate you!

SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY:

Gotta love St. Francis for he so loved the animals : )

WEEKEND REFLECTIONS:

If you would care to see more of these memes, please click on the appropriate button(s) to the right.  Have a great holiday weekend, and please take at least a minute to recognize and appreciate the reason for the holiday.  Peace.  B : )

Color Carnival, Camera Critters, Six Word Saturday, Shadow Shot Sunday, Weekend Reflections

Holy Camoley, is it the weekend already?  I have to go back to work; this busy retired life is killing me!

COLOR CARNIVAL:
And yes, I forgot to vote again, but the three winners this week are certainly more than deserving!  That one with the thread makes me drool.  Speaking of drooling, here's Mikey's cake for this year -

and it was sooooo good - gotta LOVE a Publix cake!

CAMERA CRITTERS:
Here I was trying to take some good pictures of the White Bird of Paradise.  This is harder than you think because, for one thing, it's very tall, and the flowers are a translucent-irridescent sort of off white color, like those pretty paint jobs on expensive cars.  Except for one petal on each flower which is a pastel shade of, ohhhh, probably periwinkle (check your Crayola box). All around the flowers, the plant is pretty nasty.  Anyway, when I checked the pictures, there was a bird, in every shot.  Can you find him/her in all of them?

Did you find them all?

SIX WORD SATURDAY:
God, please help the oily wildlife.

SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY:
Eeek - is it a monster?  Is it an upside down giant bunny?

WEEKEND REFLECTIONS:

Here is Joy, reflecting on the relections in the pool..reflecting on whether or not she will ever get in it...reflecting on when her Daddy might be not too busy to finish it..reflecting on how her Mommy thinks it is a blessing, finished or not : )

Click on the button(s) to the right to see what these memes are all about.  Hope you have a happy weekend.

Peace : )

Fertilizer Friday, SkyWatch Friday, Color Carnival, Camera Critters, Six Word Saturday, Shadow Shot Sunday, Weekend Reflections

Another busy week, thus multiple memes.  I cannot believe how busy one can be when retired.  To do all I used to do when I worked - well, I'm pretty sure I was SuperWoman....and I know that all of you who are still out there slaving to make a living are SuperWomen too!  And men too, I guess, if you don't have a woman who does it all for you : )

If you would like to look further into these memes, perhaps even join in, please click on the appropriate button(s) to the right.  You are guaranteed to find some fantastic shots!

FERTILIZER FRIDAY - Freaky Peachy

SKYWATCH FRIDAY - tire tracks in the sky??

COLOR CARNIVAL - a napkin from Mikey's birthday party!

CAMERA CRITTERS - the lizard who thought he was the turtle's tongue

SIX WORD SATURDAY - MOTHER'S DAY GONE; FATHER'S DAY COMING!

SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY - right smack across the picture!

WEEKEND REFLECTIONS - Lincoln is looking at his face in the pool water - look closely and you can see it too.

Hope you are having, and continue to have, a wonderful weekend.  I know, I know, Monday is coming up fast, ugh, but just try to think of it as a new beginning : )  It helps, honest.  Peace.  B : )



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SkyWatch Friday, Fertilizer Friday, Color Carnival, Camera Critters, Six Word Saturday, Shadow Shot Sunday, Weekend Reflections

Another busy post.  If you would care to see many magnificent shots, or would like to share your own, please click on the appropriate button(s) to the right to join in on any/all of these memes.

SKYWATCH FRIDAY:
Zorro in the sky : )

FERTILIZER FRIDAY:
I (heart) tomatoes

COLOR CARNIVAL:
Looks like fireworks

CAMERA CRITTERS:
Nitey-nite big bird

SIX WORD SATURDAY:
GOD BLESS MOTHERS; WHAT A JOB!

SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY:
"Compound" shadows...me, my shadow, Murphy, Murphy's shadow, my shadow again.  This is a shot of a really cute little girl doggie at the dog park - just six months old, named Murphy.

WEEKEND REFLECTIONS:
Gingerbread reflections (maybe some shadows too) on windows, walls, and metal roof.

Have a wonderful weekend.  Take some time to honor all the mothers in your life - they're doing a really hard job.  All of you who are mothers - take some time to relax and realize just how special you are.  Peace.  B : )


I would be honored if you would visit my new on-line store and see some of the cards I have been making. Feel free to purchase some if you would like : ) http://www.shophandmade.com/store/justb

SkyWatch Friday, Fertilizer Friday, Color Carnival, Camera Critters, Six Word Saturday, Shadow Shot Sunday, Weekend Reflections

Edited to add the Weekend Reflections picture - Allhorsestuff, you were right, the shot did not get posted.  I'm pretty sure the problem was between the monitor and the chair : )  Thanks for telling me!!

Sorry, got busy and didn't post Friday, so now there are lots!  To participate in any of these great memes, or just to go look at some out of this world terrific photos, just click on the appropriate buttons to the right.

SKYWATCH FRIDAY:

A lovely early evening view from the patio at our Aunt Doris and Uncle Mike's house.

FERTILIZER FRIDAY:
I LOVE gazanias, just love them.  I had two and lost them in the cold spell, but one had re-seeded itself and it came up with spring.  I decided to get lots of gazanias and plant them all in one place as a startling burst of color, a happy spot, and because if it gets cold again I can cover them all up.  Gazanias go to bed at night.  Here are some shots of the re-seeded gazania, sleeping and awake, and a shot of the TEN gazanias I bought yesterday, all still sleeping this morning.  Hey, they're only 97 cents! : )  When they're open, their colors are brilliant.  They also had a purplish pinkinsh maroonish color, but that wasn't what I was looking for.

COLOR CARNIVAL:

Just look at that sunbeam to the left, isn't that gorgeous?  The funny thing behind the flower is one of those landscape stones, scalloped, that you put in a ring around your trees.  I got it years ago and the kids and I painted it.  It's a scene with a mountain and a rainbow and it says Peace and has the kids' names on it.

CAMERA CRITTERS:
This kind of critter you DON'T want in your garden, and they're hard to locate when the pot is full of lush bushy plants.  Well, it's not anymore, thanks to these guys.  Oh well, the food chain, we all have to live in it.

Sure hope they enjoyed the tomatoes.  You know, the warm weather and all the beautiful plants in Florida are wonderful, but a decent food garden is quite a challenge - and I miss lilacs : )

SIX WORD SATURDAY:

Busy week; maybe I'll relax today!

SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY:
All kinds of pretty shadows amongst the leaves in the pomegranate

WEEKEND REFLECTIONS:
Funny, when I categorized this photo, I didn't even put it in the Weekend Reflections file because I didn't even notice all the reflections.  Pretty silly of me since they're all over the truck, and the cars, and I had the camera on such a close-up setting that I even got that one driver's face in his mirror!  Funny too, the next shot I got was while I was driving by the statue and I didn't even look, just shot and it wound up being a shot up the nurses's skirt, but, no reflections, so you don't get to see it : )

Have a wonderful weekend and peace to you all. B : )


I would be honored if you would visit my new on-line store and see some of the cards I have been making. Feel free to purchase some if you would like : ) http://www.shophandmade.com/store/justb

Color Carnival, Camera Critters, Six Word Saturday, Shadow Shot Sunday, Weekend Reflections

COLOR CARNIVAL:
Is mostly one color this week

which brings us to
SIX WORD SATURDAY:

Happiness - dog feet and yellow flowers.

CAMERA CRITTERS:

This is Jeffie's "glamour shot" hence the low lighting : )

SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY:

For a few days I thought this was a morning glory because we used to have one that color, and kept wondering how it got there.  I finally went out front (I spend most of my time out back) and looked and it was one lonely petunia.  Still don't know how it got there unless an obliging bird planted it for me : )

WEEKEND REFLECTIONS:
Me and the trees in the wheelbarrow under the eaves (free poem today!)

Hope you have a wonderful weekend.  If you'd like to make it better, click on some of the buttons to the right and join in on the meme fun.  Peace.  B : )



I would be honored if you would visit my new on-line store and see some of the cards I have been making. Feel free to purchase some if you would like : ) http://www.shophandmade.com/store/justb

Color Carnival, Camera Critters, Six Word Saturday, Shadow Shot Sunday, Weekend Reflections, AND KUDOS

COLOR CARNIVAL:
My favorite room, and I made almost everything in it, even the lampshade cover.

CAMERA CRITTERS:
A little friend from the dogpark - Hey, where's Dorothy?

SIX WORD SATURDAY:
This may not excite you, but it's a wonderful thing in my world -

JOY'S POO ALMOST NORMAL, THANK GOD!

SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY:

WEEKEND REFLECTIONS:

AND NOW FOR THE KUDOS:
You may or may not know this about me by now, but I truly appreciate good customer service and I find that it grows more difficult daily to find it.  For instance, my bank was taken over and they set a date for the final changeover; some of my bills did not get paid.  When I e-mailed them about any help they could give me I was more or less told too bad. 

However, when I bought a toy for Joy

and she squished all the squeakers (16 of them) in about 20 minutes, Joy had a wonderful time with this toy and just went crazy on it.  The squeakers, you can feel, are VERY heavy duty, so it wasn't their fault.  The lamb still has a rattle in the head and Joy still loves it which is a design coup for the company. I e-mailed the company who made it.  I told them that I did not expect them to do anything about it, I just wanted them to know that Joy loved it so well, it didn't last as long as they may have thought it would.   This company, The Kyjen Company, Inc. sent me a return e-mail very quickly saying they were sorry to hear about this and if I would give them my address, they would send Joy a new toy.  I thought that was fantastic!  When I e-mailed back to thank them and tell them how great I thought that was, they replied saying Joy would be very happy indeed because they were going to send a new toy ALSO that had just been released that day. 

TWO toys and it wasn't even their fault!  Joy was having a very bad day the day the toys arrived because I was witholding food from her for over 24 hours in an effort to cure her poo problems.  When her Dad walked in with the package and opened it up she was jumping up and down.  She took off flying with the skunk and proceeded to just love it to death.  It not only has squeakers, many of them, but it also has like a duck call in it's tail.  Greyhounds are trained with this sound, so she was ecstatic.

Please, do yourself and your pets a favor and click on the link above for Kyjen and go enjoy their site and buy their stuff.  They have much more than toys; they have lots of useful stuff.  There are videos and photos and all kinds of fun stuff.  I got Joy's original toy at Pet SuperMarket, but you can buy on line and at other stores.  I just went there to check out the link and found a Clearance Department - so when I'm done this, I'm going back there!  SHOW A GOOD COMPANY SOME LOVE!!

If you would like to join in on any of the above fun memes, please click on the appropriate button to the right.  To visit Kyjen, click right here.  Peace.  B : )


I would be honored if you would visit my new on-line store and see some of the cards I have been making. Feel free to purchase some if you would like : )
http://www.shophandmade.com/store/justb