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We still have a home phone to screen unknown callers. If I recognize the voice or the caller identifies himself, I will pick up before the caller hangs up. This has been a good system. Most of our friends and family’s calls are answered.Today my curiosity got the best of me. As the phone rang,Continue reading “Times they are aging September 5, 2022 521 words”

This past week the weather was perfect. The sun was warm only in the afternoon. Early mornings and evenings the air cooled into the 60’s. But when the sun goes behind a cloud the hint of fall is in the air.At the feeder, I had fourteen wrens trying to get a bit of seed andContinue reading “Change of Seasons, August 29, 2022 353 words”

At our disposal, we have many tools to aid in communication. We have I Phones, I pads and computers ,we have come a long way from Alexander Graham Bell’s patent for the telephone. Controversy has surrounded the original invention . Who was the first person to get to the patent office?Bell shares the inventor braggingContinue reading “Hello? August 22, 2022 541 words”

Most of us are not consciously aware of passing time and how we are aging. We can see or hear the changes in our family and friends. Most of us don’t see the changes in ourselves.Because of my lack of vision, I tell my friends that the mental portrait of their appearance is from yearsContinue reading “Aging August ,15th 2022 381 words”

It was a cool spring morning on froggy pond. Early risers were practicing swimming and distance hopping. Occasionally there was a tussle when two frogs tried to catch the same fly. But all and all, There was harmony in the froggy pond. Until the Toad family moved in.The toad was one in a circle ofContinue reading “A Froggy Tale August 8 th. 2022 465 words”

Today is the first day of August. Where did the summer go? The past several weekends, I have had invitations to my family’s reunions. I didn’t travel to my brother’s cottage on the Lake Michigan shoreline, I did visit my husband’s brother, Gene at Brohman MI for a Smolinski family reunion. The family and friendsContinue reading “Lazy Days, August 1st, 2022 422 words”

I sit alone in a changing room, waiting for a MRI brain scan to look for the cause of my stroke. I wait, for someone to tell me what to do. Finally a technician tells me to strip and put on hospital scrubs and white socks.“What do I do with my clothes?”“Just leave them onContinue reading “Wicked Wishes 603 words July 25th 2022”

I come from a long line of gardeners. Both of my Grandparents planted a garden to expand their variety of fruits and veggies. Grandpa Heatley would plant beans, cucumbers and tomatoes training them to grow and hang from strings hung on the back fence. His garden resembled a small jungle.Grandpa Turnbull was more organized andContinue reading “Garden Delights”

I have heard these little frogs for years in my part of the country. They are found in all parts of the world except Antarctica. I ran across them this past week by accident.I was on my bike and a young female biker in full biking garb passed me on the path. I did aContinue reading “Tree frogs July 11 th. 336 words”

On July 4th, I have memories of visiting the graves of family members . Both sides of my family had graves locally. My mother would bring a plant and spend some quiet time besides each plot. My dad would walk among the graves stopping here and there, lost in a memory.As a child and aContinue reading “Connections July 4th, 2022 396 Words”