NCIS Marathon= it must be Wednesday

Up early for an appointment... All those appointments teachers put off until summer is here. Back home to do some chores, nurse this cold. Took a little nap, but have a computer class back at the Pittsfield Twp Library later this afternoon. Attended a class yesterday at Mallet Creek Library. Actually these classes are kinda fun ;-)

I stopped at a store on the way home--the Wackenhut Gift Shop. (though its inventory rotates. I bought hanging planters there earlier in the summer, now they are selling produce (got a squash to add to my stir fry) and they also are carrying garden glass. I am particularly interested in this artistic blown glass. The artist assured me it would make it through the winter. ? It is quite expensive ($100 a piece) so I'll think for quite a while. Nice to dream none the less.

There was some loud explosion in the neighborhood last night. There was a boom and then the house shook. Jan called and asked if I felt that "yep!" Then Mike got in the act. We all smelled a burning electric smell.....but didn't see anything on fire. Marshall got in his car and drove all around looking but found nothing. I called Alice and asked if the police scanner picked up anything--nothing. Just a mystery at this point. Glad we all felt it and it wasn't just something I did ;-)

My Dad wants to go to see Uncle Lino so I'll try and figure that out. Denise appears to be trying to skip out on the trip. She has several jaunts lined up this month--Wisconsin, Chicago, Ottawa so I can imagine she might not one more thing to do. Dad wants to go on a Tuesday and come back on a Wednesday (Farmer's market day up there--they have a GREAT market) Uncle Lino comes down about every 6 weeks for an appointment at U of M. He stays at my cousins in Detroit. It would be nice for HIM to visit Dad, but that just hasn't happened so.......I'll be the runner. Uncle Lino is in Spring Lake Mi.

Have some new library reading, so in the cool of the afternoon--I'm off to read.

Hope everyone is having as delightful a weather day as I am.

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Broken Hearted

http://www.annarbor.com/news/lodi-township-residents-mourn-deaths-of-trumpeter-swans-authorities-investigate/#comments

I've watched these swans for years. It was one of the joys of traveling Scio Church to school. I'd watch for their return every spring, watch them build their nest, watch the nest get disguised as the weeds grew in the pond, watch the Mom and Dad take turns sitting on the nest--even in pouring rain, watch when the cygnets arrived--watch the Mom and Dad play with the babies--and last Thursday again watched as the Mom and Dad flanked the babies along Scio Church shoulder while the babies napped. I loved watching these birds. They were graceful, loving (they mate for life) and so kind with their young. Who could be so cruel? This person needs to be caught and punished. So sad :-(

Thursday morning

Beautiful chilly morning--about 58 in the night. Nice sleeping weather!!!

I went around and put packing tape on all the holes in the screens. (Mosquito deterent) I had conveniently forgotten about the holes in the front window screens where Houdini would climb with his buddies. Beautiful screens with some kind of soft netting like material--black. I am guessing it will be expensive to replace. Well, most of the packing tape fell off in the night. I am guessing the little buggers were pushing from the outside to get in and sleep in the comfortable brown chair ;-).

Tomorrow begins the "big" 94 repaving. The road commission has posted electronic signs all along 12 telling us to expect delays, increased traffic--strange they would do both east and west at the same time. The 94 rumble can be heard this morning --I imagine the sound will increase tomorrow as it moves closer on Old 12.

Off for breakfast. Hmm--banana muffin anyone? (please!)

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turned out to be

a beautiful day. The humidity of the morning disappeared and it's dry, warm (77) and hosting a cool breeze.

I went to the Farmer's Market prior to Polly's. I found tomatoes, onions, pepper (mine will be ready this weekend), and a cucumber. I've always enjoyed fresh tomatoes, but biting in like an apple--'member that story about what's worse than finding a worm in your apple? ;-)

Went to Polly's and now mashing 3 more bananas. That leaves 20 bananas to entertain. Perhaps I'll surprise you, Jean and send some your way ? ;-) (yes yes I know what they'd look like when you got them)

Jan wants to walk tonight, I think I'll sleep. I think Muffin and her outstretched paw kinda interrupted the flow this morning.

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eggs?

So you need lots of eggs for banana bread??? I made two rounds of muffins and bread (23 bananas to go) and ran out of eggs. My official pj Mary Kay barefoot feet, no makeup and hair pulled into a girlie scrunchie is over. Off to Polly's, cash in hand

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Don't come over!

I'm in my pjs ;-) Rainy grey day and still a bit sticky out. I was up at 4:30am. I was dreaming Tony Randall was on some talk show and as I watched a lioness came up behind him and put its paw around his neck and started choking him. I blinked my eyes open and Muffin was on my bed looking at me with her paw outstretched. I decided to get up ;-)

Currently washing the little banana loaf pans I bought yesterday at Meijer. I guess the banana rama day has come and I'll be up to my elbows in mashing soon. (running the loaf pans through the dishwasher was a nice delay ;-)

Have a kink in my back today--developed over the weekend. After the bake a thon perhaps I'll work on my taxes. Actually I have a list of things I "could" do that I have put off so effectively...one of my friends asked if I would come help her declutter her house and I thought--oh yeah, "declutter"--and looked around here. On some red letter day you'll find me in the cold storage room but for now--it's fun to wear my glasses (allows me to be removed one step from reality) and wander about aimlessly. Sometimes summer vacation is just pure goof off time. I could go walk but it is drizzly and oh those mosquitoes. My toes were pokin' out of the sheets last night and yep--my feet are about 2x their normal size from the nibblin' beasts. So picture this--barefoot wearing a layer of Mary Kay on my feet, prancing about in my summer pjs, with glasses 1 step removed from reality, listening to Big Band music. Ah life is great!

Smiling--hope you are, too

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okay okay

I bought the ingredients for the banana bread--but I still haven't mixed anything up. The temps just don't encourage hard work in a kitchen! Those poor bananas. They really want to do something other than turn brown on my counter.

Got pounded by rain on the way home, but it didn't follow me over the Fletcher bridge. It stayed to the south and never wet my plants. In all kindness I should have donned more bug spray and gone out to water but I just didn't wanna. The mosquitoes are big pigs and I didn't want to donate any more blood. As it is they are floating past this computer screen and look like small humming birds!

I went past 2 of the 63 houses the realtor has forwarded my way. Not interested. The Washington street house is up a hill (I'm done with hills) and the Ashley house is a "fixer upper" --but at $249,000 that wouldn't leave me much to fix her up. It's been a rental for years so, I can imagine the insides. It is also next door to the Washtenaw Dairy = heavy pedestrian traffic.

Saw an ad for the Spring house for rent. I just might schedule a tour. Maybe that's not nice considering I am not going to rent it, but I want to see it so I can say "DARN that's the one!" or maybe "wow, it isn't at all what I thought". Maybe Cynthia would consider going with me. (a partner in crime?)

Had the sweet corn for dinner. YUMMMMMMMMM

Hit the Produce Stations plant clearance sale. Bought a few things to fill in where the deer left holes. We'll see.

Wearing my halo tonight. ;-) Ask Jeanine ;-)

Loving Limeade. Where has this been all my life?

Okay I'm outtie (ala JP in his early teens)

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