Birthday Tea Party 🎂
Wil bought me this set for my birthday
in both the full size tea set and the miniature children's size!
The designs are all from the Brambly Hedge books by Jill Barklem,
which I have read to some of the grands. I guess you only turn 65 once!
When I have said my evening prayers
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And Grandad switches off the light
I'll still be 64 years old tonight.
But from the very break of day
Before the grandkids rise to play
Before the sun has turned to gold
Tomorrow I'll be 65 years old!
65 kisses when I wake.
65 candles might be a mistake.
Well, have a happy, kid!
DeleteWhat a great birthday present! Enjoy!
DeleteCongratulations, Young'un.
DeleteMany happy returns!
DeleteWill the 2020 election be like that of 1932? [Click]
ReplyDeleteIt is actually cool this morning, and it seems a little less smokey than yesterday. The sun is a pale pink ball.
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ReplyDeleteInteresting article. Thanks, Alan.
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♥Happy Birthday Listener!♥
ReplyDeleteWe have a Brambly Hedge tea set. It's adorable. It was thoughtful of Will to get you both sizes so you can have tea with the grands.
OHIO: As of Thursday afternoon, there have been at least 134,086 confirmed or probable cases in the state, 4,354 deaths, and 14,164 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
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DeleteRussian national, Ukrainian lawmaker accused of interfering in the US presidential election Surprisingly, this action is being taken by Munchin's Treasury Department and the Trump administration.
ReplyDeleteIt remains cool (by Fresno summer standards); it looks like the high temperature will be around 85F. I don't know how much of it is clouds and how much smoke, but the sky has been gray all day and it seems a bit humid. Miyoko and I have been suffering a little from the smoke, so I changed the furnace filters today (late as always--not my favorite job) and installed ones that supposedly filter out most of the smoke rather than the cheap ones.
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DeleteOn another note, we have realized that since the piebald cat who generally frequented the NW corner of our lot (the side on the river bluff) passed away, we have been visited by more and more ground squirrels. We have realized they are coming from the river bottom, and are quite ingenious about harvesting "our" fruit. For peaches, they developed a method of picking the ripe ones; one squirrel would go up into the tree and start shaking a limb with peaches on it, until one fell to the ground and could be carried off. For the persimmons, one goes up into the tree and gnaws off a twig with a persimmon, which falls to the ground with a ready-made handle for easy carrying. It might be that the the ones up in the trees are working together with the ones on the ground that carry off the fruit--although they could also be competing. I ordered a motion detector activated sprinkler that allegedly scares away critters. I figure there is at least a fair chance that it will prove to be an on-demand squirrel shower, but we shall see.
ReplyDeleteFascinating! Keep us posted!
DeleteLa Nina is here, threatening even bigger blazes and storms [Click]
ReplyDeleteNYT story about western fires, quoted in SF Chronicle [Click] Golly.
Democrats build big edge in early voting [Click] “Democrats are amassing an enormous lead in early voting, alarming Republicans who worry they’ll need to orchestrate a huge Election Day turnout during a deadly coronavirus outbreak to answer the surge. The Democratic dominance spreads across an array of battleground states. . .”
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DeleteGuardian: Five key revelations in Bob Woodward’s Trump book, from Covid to Kim 'love letters' [Click]
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The most dangerous phase of the US Covid-19 crisis may be yet to come [Click] The reference to Gerald Ford’s rushed swine flu vaccine is certainly in order.
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Detroit Free Press: Trump makes wild claims about revitalizing auto industry at Michigan rally [Click] “Wild” strikes me as a very diplomatic adjective.
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ReplyDeleteSeptember 10, 2020 By Taegan Goddard
“A federal court on Thursday blocked a memorandum signed by President Trump seeking to exclude undocumented immigrants from being counted in the census for apportionment, saying such action would violate the statute governing congressional apportionment,” the Washington Post reports.
“A special three-judge panel out of New York wrote that the president’s argument that undocumented immigrants should not be counted runs afoul of a statute saying apportionment must be based on everyone who is a resident of the United States. The judges found that all residents must be counted for apportionment purposes regardless of their legal status.”
Florence’s wine portals from the 17th Century plague [Click]
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