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We’ll Call This a Scattered Saturday Post

Posted on July 11, 2026 by mohawkvalleygirl

Oh dear, look at the time! I was about to begin this post with “That was exhausting!” I got a new phone yesterday. I got it for free for being a loyal TracFone customer (don’t know how to spell it, so you see how loyal I really am; I am just to lazy to change these things once I have them). I think I got my stuff switched over OK, all except for WordPress. Well, I wanted to download (or is it upload?) two pictures I took yesterday to make a fast post today. Full disclosure: I only took the pictures to see if I could email them, because I am off to cover an event for the Daily Sentinel and it is of prime importance that I be able to include pictures.

I do babble on, don’t I? Quick, throw in one of those pictures!

I do love purple!

These are the purple flowers that I am letting live in my front lawn after the daisies and peonies died. Alas, they are not as plentiful, but they have the advantage that I can see them. I was trapped on my couch or transporting to various medical facilities when the daisies and peonies were spreading their joy. I hope other passers-by enjoyed them.

Can you count them? I can’t, so there will be no contest for guessing the correct amount.

These are the little pine cones that grow in profusion on the former Frankentree. I took the picture, because my sister Diane was quite taken with them when she last visited, and I meant to email the pictures to her, since I knew I had her email address on file and was pretty sure she would email back. I wonder if I could do some artsy-craftsy thing with a lot of little pine cones. Additionally, I thought pincecones was one word, but my computer is underlining it, so I guess not.

I must get off my Chromebook and get ready to go to the Annual Wellness Fair at the Town of Herkimer Park. It starts at 9 a.m. and runs till 1 p.m. will lots of vendors, information and activities, for any local readers who would like to check it out!

One Chore Done on Tired Tuesday.

Posted on April 19, 2023 by mohawkvalleygirl

I knew it was Tuesday.

It has been that sort of a day. Not a bad day really, but my list of things I need to get done grows ever longer while my ambition to do them ever shrinks. But one must persevere.

I got one thing done thanks to Basloe Library in Herkimer, NY. I needed to print out a few copies of the script for Shooting at the Grange, the murder mystery we are putting on to benefit Salisbury Grange on April 29 (thus I sneak in another plug for the event). I was a little worried about getting to my email to get to the scripts, which I had sent to myself for the purpose. It seems emails don’t like you to log into your account on strange devices. Sometimes they want you to use two tiered identification or whatever they call it, and that is far too complicated for me.

Well, they didn’t ask to send a code to a cell phone I don’t have, but I still needed help getting to the inbox. The nice people who work at the library helped me. The whole process took less time than I spent worrying about it.

“You know the feeling when you have a huge list of things to get done and you get one thing done,” I said as I paid for my copies. The lady at the desk knew the feeling.

One of my favorite places.

I seem to think the sign is not currently there, but I thought the picture would make a good plug for the library.

Speaking of plugs.

I close by showing once again the information for our murder mystery.

76% Remaining

Posted on January 15, 2016 by mohawkvalleygirl

The computer woes continue, and I sit here trying to think rapidly and type even faster to get this blog post done while the battery lasts. It’s a race against time! Actually, it’s a race against battery. What does that even mean, anyways, “race against time.” Isn’t any race where you’re being timed a race against time? And does time ever go any faster? Now, let’s not get all philosophical about that! Oh well, I guess you can if you want to.

Where was I? Ah yes, Non-Sequitur Thursday. I’m thinking this has been a rather lame week, and I’m pretty damn happy that tomorrow is Lame Post Friday. I tried to write a real post while on breaks at work today. I got over a page written about an old movie I watched last weekend. I don’t know that I would call it a cheesy movie exactly, but I thought I was saying some pretty good stuff (or do I flatter myself? Always a possibility). However, it is not finished yet and I do not have the mental wherewithal to finish it now. Sorry about that.

I have a couple of emails I have to send regarding theatre business. I tried writing them earlier too, in hopes of saving time later. Naturally I am second guessing what I wrote, wondering if I ought to edit further, and obsessing over who I ought to courtesy copy. There’s a social land mine, if you like. What if I cc the wrong people and they send me a nasty reply? What if I don’t cc somebody who thinks they ought to have been cc’d and they yell at me? I hate to be yelled at. What if I cc somebody who doesn’t give a rat’s ass and they roll their eyes at me? In the scheme of things, I suppose having eyes rolled at one is not the worst thing that could happen. Still, I find it unpleasant.

Now I see I am over 300 words of this nonsense. I hope I have at least been amusing. I’ll try to finish that movie write-up so I can post it in lieu of Lame Post Friday (I really like that expression “in lieu of”). Happy Thursday, everyone.

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Boy, Is My Face(book) Red!

Posted on September 24, 2015 by mohawkvalleygirl

I think my readers will be patient with me. I think they understand that I am not a young woman and infinitely resilient (oh yeah, like I was EVER infinitely resilient). Yes, friends, I am indulging in Wuss-out Wednesday.

I wrote earlier today, but it was not a blog post. It was a letter to a friend. I don’t know why, but I am really into writing letters these days. I know, nobody writes letters, and they haven’t for years. Ah, here’s a blog topic: communication between friends.

I remember when people were just starting to get computers and be online, distant friends would say to us, “Oh, I wish you had email. I don’t write, but I EMAIL.” So we got on a computer at Kinko’s (remember Kinko’s?) and got email. Guess what? Nobody really emails. They just forward jokes.

And now there’s Facebook. I know there are other things as well: Twitter, Instagram, texting on cell phones, but I don’t know from technology. I do like Facebook.

However, how much do people communicate via Facebook? I personally enjoy the pictures of people’s kids and grandkids, fun activities, and even their yummy dinners. I like when people post things like, “I just had a cup of coffee and now I’m going for a walk.” I’m not so nuts about the cryptic posts: “Oh, it’s such a big decision!” “My whole life just changed.” “Feeling sad/frustrated/angry/whatever.” One day I posted, “Well, that really sucked,” just to be that way.

All this by way of admitting: I had time to log onto Facebook, check my notifications and read down a few statuses (I didn’t scroll as long as I would have LIKED to), but apparently I do not have time to write a decent blog post. I was about to say don’t judge, but, well, perhaps I deserve it (hanging my head in shame).

Here’s an idea for me: I’m going to get a camera that can transfer pictures to WordPress (did I mention I don’t know from technology?) . Then I can indulge in Wordless Wednesday instead. Tune in again on Non-Sequitur Thursday, when Mohawk Valley Girl says, “In my defense, shut up!”

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