tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75928834512344838562024-02-07T21:51:46.504-08:00BonnieviewGardenThis historic Carriage House was built in 1890. Bonnieview is the property name researched from the historical records.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7592883451234483856.post-42958901053652864402014-11-19T14:51:00.001-08:002014-11-19T14:51:24.093-08:00<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> I REPORT, YOU DECIDE.<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> The Buffet Rule<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Salary of retired US Presidents . . . . . . . . . .. . $180,000 FOR LIFE</span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Salary of House/Senate members . . . . . . . . $174,000 FOR LIFE</span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Salary of Speaker of the House . . . . . . . . . . $223,500 FOR LIFE<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is really stupid</span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Salary of Majority/Minority Leaders . . . . . . . . $193,400 FOR LIFE<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ditto last line</span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Average Salary of a teacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $40,065</span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Average Salary of a deployed Soldier . . . . . .. . $38,000</span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">I think we found where the cuts should be made! If you agree pass it</span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">on, I just did.<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Warren Buffet, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best</span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">quotes about the debt ceiling:<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">"I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You just pass a</span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP,<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">demanded it. That was in 1971 - before computers, e-mail, cell phones,<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">etc.<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took one (1) year</span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">or less to become the law of the land - all because of public<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">pressure.<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to a</span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">those to do likewise.<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">In three days, most people in The United States of America will have</span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Congressional Reform Act of 2014</span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1. No Tenure / No Pension.<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">pay when they're out of office.<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Security system, and Congress participates with the American people.<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It may not be used for any other purpose.<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">do.<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">the same health care system as the American people.<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">people.<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">effective <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://7" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7">12/1/14</a>. The American people did not make this contract with<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Congressmen/women.<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Congress made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">to work.<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">take three days for most people (in the U.S.) to receive the message.<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Don't you think it's time?<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you agree, pass it on. If not, delete.<br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You are one of my 20+ - Please keep it going, and thanks</span></blockquote><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></blockquote><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7592883451234483856.post-76693813748235937932013-02-03T08:29:00.001-08:002013-02-03T16:37:45.906-08:00My Hibiscus being protected from the winterI bought two 10 gallon variegated pink/green/white leafed Red Hibiscus, small enough to bring in over the winter. Two years later I repotted them in light-weight large decorative containers and they became huge. Still bringing them in, fourth year now as they are just spectacular in bloom late every summer. Even had some blooming since I brought them indoors. It snowed again last night. <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_XEcLfvmr14va3Y0m4NEBJXFMzOgpYxw-F1dDfqbcJMaqIdtCG42UX6zV-2okxlP-w6s8hLSEdmZD636_HhDF_wqGJthaIbBI6YaOTeUmHjJhXxI4ng_FZJ2Jk3GPWaWVYOsmnyB4QqU/s640/blogger-image--261017950.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_XEcLfvmr14va3Y0m4NEBJXFMzOgpYxw-F1dDfqbcJMaqIdtCG42UX6zV-2okxlP-w6s8hLSEdmZD636_HhDF_wqGJthaIbBI6YaOTeUmHjJhXxI4ng_FZJ2Jk3GPWaWVYOsmnyB4QqU/s640/blogger-image--261017950.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqqr9HynB3xwJmXZwU_s02CsS8Rj4qE6j5is2ibnzVJ2w1zVGQoQQWExEDPMPSftIOSao06VsQhnayrazGl96qxLZVIsezq1CsnmfWfd_k4jbFaC47TTeswV9Ob3OPAF9cc7hv7yZPokk/s640/blogger-image--1351455900.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqqr9HynB3xwJmXZwU_s02CsS8Rj4qE6j5is2ibnzVJ2w1zVGQoQQWExEDPMPSftIOSao06VsQhnayrazGl96qxLZVIsezq1CsnmfWfd_k4jbFaC47TTeswV9Ob3OPAF9cc7hv7yZPokk/s640/blogger-image--1351455900.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVzTVLq1nStOqPjWWO6g3phlhqhuxi-FmjaOTtDk8bds3yWR7yGG63wDFWivsLqKwUXTpBUwJNv7o6en61KeKM01xWKGH3bpkl4upEwv_mmGu5VgvPLFNEHC7JqsBLmOrWmaJsCYCm4Ro/s640/blogger-image-1025242204.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVzTVLq1nStOqPjWWO6g3phlhqhuxi-FmjaOTtDk8bds3yWR7yGG63wDFWivsLqKwUXTpBUwJNv7o6en61KeKM01xWKGH3bpkl4upEwv_mmGu5VgvPLFNEHC7JqsBLmOrWmaJsCYCm4Ro/s640/blogger-image-1025242204.jpg" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7592883451234483856.post-7875527625693704442012-05-07T12:25:00.000-07:002012-05-07T12:25:26.561-07:00Pale Pink Wigelia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt66e9WTe4oQUfYuFhYwAVnQAA-6-ArWwmZvibBPqGN-k-rQ0ZneYc3k67S9bGh7ysh1cYdx086GUz7HQ04PPKK19pF3mrludYLI0KZ6mbzlk8P3hffIBMSQqnSex0M0VH5uBimMe2mcc/s1600/PalePinkWygela.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="300" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt66e9WTe4oQUfYuFhYwAVnQAA-6-ArWwmZvibBPqGN-k-rQ0ZneYc3k67S9bGh7ysh1cYdx086GUz7HQ04PPKK19pF3mrludYLI0KZ6mbzlk8P3hffIBMSQqnSex0M0VH5uBimMe2mcc/s400/PalePinkWygela.png" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7592883451234483856.post-53974443748153196202012-04-11T13:49:00.003-07:002012-04-11T14:01:50.428-07:00Just found a wonderful new gardening site via twitterI follow quite a few gardening advice sites on twitter and today I clicked on this wonderful site that tells you how to save money and propagate plants already in your garden. Sharing it and two more all at @Gardening2009 with you. <br />First is <a href="http://www.freegardeningplants.com ">Free Gardening Plants</a><br />Second site <a href="http://www.flower-garden-know-how.com ">Flower Garden Know How</a> <br />Third: <a href="http://www.gardeningpicturegallery.com ">Gardening Picture Gallery</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7592883451234483856.post-24551447082012176742012-03-28T11:49:00.001-07:002012-03-28T11:51:20.497-07:00Monsanto about to release their GMO corn, Satan respondsDear Friends at Monsanto,<br />I am pleased by the dominion your company has secured over planetary agriculture. Your recent courtroom triumph over small, organic farmers is a good start to extinguish the hopes of people in their quest for healthy sustenance. The organic activists will not back down easily, so I advise you to stamp out efforts of those who seek to label foods that contained genetically modified organisms (GMO), for this will slow your ascent to the top of world’s financial markets.<br />I have been a fan or your creations ever since you delivered the science and components for the A-Bomb and Agent Orange. Your Roundup herbicide (Glyphosate), combined with your numerous patented and genetically engineered (GE) seed creations, will make humans and their livestock weakened and infertile for generations. The greed that drives your company to experiment on the natural world has made you an enemy of the people, but a friend to all of us in power.<br />You are changing the face of creation in short order, the likes which have not been witnessed since the beginning of time. You have helped satisfy the excessive demand for soybeans and corn to produce livestock feed, processed foods and ethanol, resulting in an accelerated destruction of life giving top soil on the Great Plains of the US. If humanity woke up and saw the chemical soup you are feeding them, and the pollution in their air, water and soil, they could not stop the coming tide of tears.<br />You have altered HIS PLAN of natural selection by adapting soy, corn, sugar beets, cotton, rice, canola, sugar beets, and alfalfa with the insertion of foreign genes that enable weed and insect resistance. Products like your impressive Genuity® SmartstaxTM corn with eight added genetic traits, have helped bring on the recent and rapid demise of vulnerable pollinators like bats, birds, butterflies and bees. Your numerous (GE) seed crops and arsenal of associated crop chemicals have created a growing number of super weeds and super bugs. This situation has created a new market for an ever stronger cocktail of chemicals, all of which you will supply. Indebted farmers must buy your patented seeds, which they are not allowed to save. When farmers do save seeds, or when the GE pollen drifts, you sue them for illegally using your patented products. Farmers who buy and plant your seeds must fertilize and spray insecticides and herbicides ad infinitem. I commend you for putting profits before people, ensuring the downfall of innocents and bringing them to me.<br />Using your wealth to infiltrate the US government was pure genius, and your recent success in getting the USDA to accelerate your product introduction is gratifying. You obviously have minions in high places, including the White House, and this collusion with governments has helped you to spread your demon seed and chemicals around the globe.<br />You are in good company with other biotech firms that pervert the natural cycles of life with their products such as Bayer Crop Sciences, DuPont, Aqua Bounty Technologies, Dow, and Sygenta. All do my bidding to bring misery to the human race and their short lived livestock, who suffer greatly. The profiteers of the biotech industry have gained my gratitude.<br />For all your excellent work Monsanto, you are welcome in Hell as honorary demons.<br />Yours in demise,<br />SatanUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7592883451234483856.post-4382635626325003702012-02-18T10:09:00.001-08:002013-02-03T16:41:52.228-08:00Someday I will learn howto program the slideshow to the left with pictures from my own garden.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7592883451234483856.post-73990047084918249012012-01-31T07:53:00.000-08:002012-01-31T08:27:18.955-08:00Garbo, my adored little MaineCoon kitty has departed.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgloNpisEQYf4zCBPz0hXGi0D-dsnMQ8A7MmSVniUyho53sBHy7bcKt-jGuXkRwknYT4HnfKXAvgeNdCRxSw8Tk8kFOn-baxbOuuCGPTX03uzsG7-EUH1c5pGzn2HyHIdFfx0Q_EGvTNM8/s1600/Garbo.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgloNpisEQYf4zCBPz0hXGi0D-dsnMQ8A7MmSVniUyho53sBHy7bcKt-jGuXkRwknYT4HnfKXAvgeNdCRxSw8Tk8kFOn-baxbOuuCGPTX03uzsG7-EUH1c5pGzn2HyHIdFfx0Q_EGvTNM8/s400/Garbo.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703825654909609906" /></a><br />Garbo got put to sleep last Wednesday and once I made the decision the tears didn't stop until the whole process was over. I created a beautiful altar for her in my office and kept her there until Friday night due to the smell of decay setting in. <br />Saturday night my husband Victor gave me a birthday party and my grandson and my son-in-law dug the hole in my garden for me to bury her before they joined the party.<br /><br />Yesterday was the momentous birthday so I decided to just indulge myself while I was home alone and not be sad putting her into the ground. That job get's done today. The book "Weep Not For Me, In Memory of a Beloved Cat" by Constance Jenkins is so consoling and comforting. It is written in the voice of the cat and you are asked to grieve but a short time. <br /><br />So I must get out into the garden and actually have a ceremony as I bury her. Her death is definitely the end of an era in my life.<br />I feel relief that she is no longer struggling with advanced kitty age and I kept her alive as long as I did as she seemed to totally still enjoy going outside, drinking water from the pond and eating. The final two days of her life were spent behind the TV in the den lying on bunches of cables. I took her for a walk outside and she followed me around as always. She will remain to live on in my memory. RIP sweet, precious, beautiful, sassy Garbo.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7592883451234483856.post-32200747903528058942011-12-12T11:49:00.000-08:002012-01-24T10:28:50.726-08:00Hot Savory Delicious Vegetarian SoupsA close friend asked me to join a recipe exchange and I declined but I did send my basic soup recipe to her and thought it would be a good addition to this blog. I do make soup a lot. All my soups have the same base.<br /><br />SOUP BASE<br /><br />Chop up two whole bunches of CELERY stalks.<br />Chop up one/two large yellow or white ONIONS or about 6/8 mid size onions.<br />Saute celery and onions together with olive oil until soft and gently browned. <br />In another pot add 2 to 3 cartons of VEGETABLE BROTH and blend in 1/2 cup MISO PASTE (any kind). <br />You can add less or more of any of the ingredients, still taste great.<br />Add sage, oregano, savory, parsley, tarragon, rosemary, chives and my favorite, thyme, depending on your taste and the <br />soup. I also use Herbimare instead of salt with pepper for seasoning.<br /><br />PEA SOUP <br />Add 1 packages of washed DRIED PEAS that have soaked 2 hours to vegetable broth mixture in large pot and all the browned celery & onions.<br />Add cut up POTATOES (depending on size, about 2 cups)<br />Add cut up CARROTS (about one cup)<br />Chop 2 large springs of thyme and/or Rosemary or you can use 1 to 2 tbs dried herbs<br /><br />MIXED BEAN SOUP- cooking time 2 hours. <br />Using dried beans soaked several hours and exactly same soup base as above using your choice of herbs<br /><br />CORN CHOWDER cooking time 1 hour - S<br />tart with base above and add about 6 cherry peppers from a jar<br />2 large bags of FROZEN CORN, (mix white and yellow corn)<br />Corn chowder can be served with shredded cheddar or any cheese on top) cooking time 2 hoursUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7592883451234483856.post-63315313141254579782011-12-07T18:00:00.000-08:002011-12-07T18:13:57.347-08:00Welcome<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiguitLDh08uru6oy9IKjEI6wmTBLS_jqu5yl8N1H-rm2Wfn8AHwaLwdMnRF19XUX9tNV-ttt7qUeVZggZn5XQNjnP5aVU2x5_ymTCQ2s0NrCZ9N73BwdBEeoeQLdCjcmEfYiSroq860LY/s1600/IMG00340-20111114-1503.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiguitLDh08uru6oy9IKjEI6wmTBLS_jqu5yl8N1H-rm2Wfn8AHwaLwdMnRF19XUX9tNV-ttt7qUeVZggZn5XQNjnP5aVU2x5_ymTCQ2s0NrCZ9N73BwdBEeoeQLdCjcmEfYiSroq860LY/s400/IMG00340-20111114-1503.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5683575022813356002" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7592883451234483856.post-31447682596718836442011-10-04T09:44:00.000-07:002011-10-04T10:07:36.287-07:00Bonnieview in color.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV0C74Q8uOLNxvD5DcByx9BK8H2Em76Y8OlB7AgU6Pv1pmPXrwrOLk2NHlf-J03JtYJprw-9N-NU7OYaDcTrZGzi9NQBiqRvvJqvGpTmOY4mMQoCCrlafr2dbPFDFHzAa7jcTmYad5j7o/s1600/IMAG0074.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="225" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV0C74Q8uOLNxvD5DcByx9BK8H2Em76Y8OlB7AgU6Pv1pmPXrwrOLk2NHlf-J03JtYJprw-9N-NU7OYaDcTrZGzi9NQBiqRvvJqvGpTmOY4mMQoCCrlafr2dbPFDFHzAa7jcTmYad5j7o/s400/IMAG0074.jpg" /></a></div>if you notice,it's the tinted picture of Bonnieview in the logo but taken from the opposite side of house. The hot pink Azaleas were planted over 40 years ago. Most of the plants in front of the property were planted by former owners, but not sure when since house was built in 1890. I would love to find old pictures of when the house was an actual carriage house. Maybe a visit to the local historical society could be useful. Adding it to my To Do list.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7592883451234483856.post-50525264260974805472011-08-10T07:11:00.001-07:002011-08-10T07:11:44.722-07:00I am very frustratedI wish I could figure out a way to post multiple albums of pictures on this blog. I have taken so many plus when I post them they lose some of the image quality. Just gorgeous in person.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7592883451234483856.post-51652958735305407342011-06-23T03:50:00.000-07:002011-06-23T04:06:54.917-07:00This cat lover also loves cat eyes makeup<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXVjETKc41wVIGlbKK58v6cCJRWVa1cw5aYIbDcTUG3G3DQis08nfNYOwfMPijPNnZp7ktmy_FCwb2EeSJFFJFUIociMK7JKuNt-60LhiPXjECuMfJEwuYBxGz1eU8LV0x_7lNv6Fy1OA/s1600/Ming+Eyes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="224" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXVjETKc41wVIGlbKK58v6cCJRWVa1cw5aYIbDcTUG3G3DQis08nfNYOwfMPijPNnZp7ktmy_FCwb2EeSJFFJFUIociMK7JKuNt-60LhiPXjECuMfJEwuYBxGz1eU8LV0x_7lNv6Fy1OA/s400/Ming+Eyes.jpg" /></a></div><br />
Today's email from Daily Candy featured a link to a video of a make-up artist Annamarie Tendler explaining how<br />
to <a href="http://www.dailycandy.com/online/video/fashion/105201/How-to-Do-Cat-Eyes">create cat eyes using my personal favorite, <a href="http://www.maccosmetics.com/index.tmpl">MAC</a> cosmetics.</a> Thought I'd share it plus have a permanent<br />
link to it on my blog.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7592883451234483856.post-9456828770852353162011-06-13T13:50:00.000-07:002011-06-13T14:28:47.331-07:00Welcome to my lifestyle blog.Hope you like my garden pictures. I plan on some garden advice and maybe some tales of my five cats,<br />
Garbo, Dino, Camille, Violet, Milo and the kitty I have not caught yet but whom I feed every day, Shoester. I might add pictures of our grandchildren, fifteen year old Ben and 3 1/2 year old Cleo Valentine. My other blog, <a href="http://moonincancer.com/">Moon in Cancer,</a> is my vehicle for my rage about Republicans and their desire to end Medicare, Social Security and any and all social safety nets. Don't get me started. This is my garden site so I must remember that and not get them confused.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7592883451234483856.post-1092966335695940412011-06-13T13:09:00.000-07:002011-06-15T16:32:58.101-07:00Maroon Clematis blooming now.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNgqygTEB6J_MYWNMLsUT60TeZPP4BPe4Xg-TQk7O8T0DHg8WrJtopWnx_vAkIKTkodsXe8C9g6RNTkNmhyphenhyphenogDWcxEKSZVdNlTeqWoXu8z-0iiieFuzc8kDkXsne7nnIuPAJAjtVBxZDM/s1600/IMG_0593.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNgqygTEB6J_MYWNMLsUT60TeZPP4BPe4Xg-TQk7O8T0DHg8WrJtopWnx_vAkIKTkodsXe8C9g6RNTkNmhyphenhyphenogDWcxEKSZVdNlTeqWoXu8z-0iiieFuzc8kDkXsne7nnIuPAJAjtVBxZDM/s640/IMG_0593.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7592883451234483856.post-20736881729653541822011-06-13T12:34:00.001-07:002011-06-15T16:33:31.536-07:00Triple petaled lavendar clematis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvkIJSMl19pZzJNvbYD1ekYof1ViFbXU4rBMtJkZWSk9EdxfJzXVcWqLg9xYMlge4yQ-ub-lHx5JBE4Ap42s1qif4FYg3CDsm9GHsQMdB1fznc7clqwBxoNxi7o3c1A6joCGO7NjIGZUA/s1600/IMG_0591.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvkIJSMl19pZzJNvbYD1ekYof1ViFbXU4rBMtJkZWSk9EdxfJzXVcWqLg9xYMlge4yQ-ub-lHx5JBE4Ap42s1qif4FYg3CDsm9GHsQMdB1fznc7clqwBxoNxi7o3c1A6joCGO7NjIGZUA/s640/IMG_0591.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7592883451234483856.post-31224712779069783512011-06-13T11:24:00.000-07:002011-06-13T11:24:58.660-07:00View from Feng Shui Marriage Corner looking towards house.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuOT1Y-698UhyphenhyphenJkkLtm1gJoESTENzYQlWIHB46TDpRzeQLZZjpEm9Vir41LgZwGZn21wr0GdXjIkyVhyphenhyphenTerZ6HsU1fUX2bsHaZKLIchsuIMtOj_plrEPHnqK5KFxxf4zpFm4Fx_bKH6w8/s1600/IMG_0026_2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuOT1Y-698UhyphenhyphenJkkLtm1gJoESTENzYQlWIHB46TDpRzeQLZZjpEm9Vir41LgZwGZn21wr0GdXjIkyVhyphenhyphenTerZ6HsU1fUX2bsHaZKLIchsuIMtOj_plrEPHnqK5KFxxf4zpFm4Fx_bKH6w8/s640/IMG_0026_2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7592883451234483856.post-56965640964098497062011-06-13T11:11:00.000-07:002011-06-13T11:22:26.432-07:00My oldest kitty, Miss Garbo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4_kXZQZQid2mOUfFOO7oATfN6Uew8tfsD45t4ImLD-pQeoPIEZO4WwZwzvNgAUUU5dQagqDljGY2m6_LYRIaik770QKVqUVfuOpoE8aT6r5NWVlLabyKeJ15ElIJU47z9oqAYX8WYqZ0/s1600/SANY0066.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4_kXZQZQid2mOUfFOO7oATfN6Uew8tfsD45t4ImLD-pQeoPIEZO4WwZwzvNgAUUU5dQagqDljGY2m6_LYRIaik770QKVqUVfuOpoE8aT6r5NWVlLabyKeJ15ElIJU47z9oqAYX8WYqZ0/s640/SANY0066.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />
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