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Crazy Old Lame

Posted on May 2, 2020 by mohawkvalleygirl

I was about to make my Friday Lame Post when I decided to mix things up a little with a few pictures. Accordingly, I put on some better footwear and ventured outside. A couple of neighborhood kids were riding their scooters up and down the street. I stayed out of their way. However, looking at my reflection in my Tablet before I got to camera mode, I realized I was in full Crazy Old Lady regalia. I start, therefore, with the last picture I took, just to give us all a laugh.

This doesn’t even show my sweatpants and sandals!

Yes, I have quarantine hair. Regular readers may remember I was supposed to get shaved for a St. Baldrick’s fundraiser, only it got cancelled when all the schools were closed. I shall patiently wait for my favorite stylist at Hot Spot Salon and Spa in Herkimer.

But I digress. The main thing I wanted was a picture of a tree on my street which is just starting to get leaves. I love the delicate green color.

I’m afraid you can’t see the color very well. I will have to try again when the light is different. In the meantime, I got a few more pictures that are worth sharing.

Preview of Coming Attractions.

This will be a tulip, if it does not get eaten before it blooms. I also took a picture of some peonies that are just sprouting.

I think all the green stuff is daisies.

Going out back in search of more photo ops, I tried to get a shot of the sky plus a couple more trees.

I like it.

Next to our garage are some pink flowers that are coming up nicely.

We originally purchased the plant at a garden show at the Herkimer House in Little Falls, NY

These flowers have inexplicably migrated across the lawn, so I took a picture of them too.

Even prettier close up, if you’ll pardon the dead leaves.

So this is my Friday post. I feel a little pleased with myself and can only hope the neighbors do not judge my crazy old lady appearance too harshly.

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Cheery Pictures on Tired Tuesday

Posted on April 22, 2020 by mohawkvalleygirl

One of our talented local artists.

I thought I would open with a picture calculated to cheer myself up. This was some neighborhood sidewalk art I took a picture of a week or more ago (regular readers know I rarely go back and check these things). There was more artwork there recently, but it faded before I got out there with my Tablet. I have been sitting here trying to psyche myself up for at least a Tired Tuesday post. Sharing a picture finally got my mind moving. Slowly, but any progress must be appreciated.

Another bit of cheer.

Here is a picture from last May, of a neighbourhood yard. I hope to have a few tulips in my own front yard. I may purchase more bulbs to plant. When do you plant tulip bulbs? I’ll have to look that up.

I find this impressive.

This is our rhododendron in a previous year, just to share another picture of something I am looking forward to. I guess this makes today’s post a Preview of Coming Attractions.

Irises are so graceful.

I also hope to see my irises again. I really must plant more perennials. Then I will have even more to look forward to in the future. In any case, I have cheered myself up, and I hope I have done the same for you.

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Add more Monster Pictures and Keep Typing!

Posted on April 28, 2018 by mohawkvalleygirl

“You called?”

I am having a Nosferatu kind of a day. By that I mean that I just feel like opening my blog with a picture of my favorite guy (uh, I mean my second favorite guy. Obviously Steven is my FAVORITE guy). And since it is Lame Post Friday, I shall. Oh who am I kidding? When I feel like putting in a picture of a vampire, I do. That is one of the things that makes blogging such a fun hobby.

I have had quite a day. Work was stressful, but that was mostly my fault. Fortunately, this is not a blog about work. After work, I went and worked out. It did not go as well as I could have hoped, but you’ll have that. I feel certain that my body derived some benefit from it. After coming home, having my usual recovery beverage of chocolate milk, and showering, I went out on a mission.

My mission was to find artificial tulips for props for Spring Into Murder. I went to every dollar store in the area and then to Wal-Mart (I know, these are not the kinds of stores I normally plug, but in the interests of accuracy, I mention them). I met success at my last stop. If I have success in constructing the props, perhaps I will write a blog post titled Adventures in Tulips.

In the meantime, this is my Friday Lame Post. Unfortunately, I see now that my picture of Nosferatu is completely unrelated to my post. What to do? Add more monster pictures and keep typing!

But the full moon is not until Sunday!

In fact, I do not intend to howl tonight. I am sitting on my couch, chatting with my husband, and watching Dateline. I believe another episode will follow, or at least one will be available on another channel. I would like to crochet. I think one more monster picture and I will be on my merry way.

Next Friday, I think I’ll go dancing!

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Spring Into Wuss-Out Wednesday

Posted on April 19, 2018 by mohawkvalleygirl

Let’s see if I can finish my Wuss-out Wednesday post before my ride to rehearsal gets here. Rehearsal is for Spring Into Murder, the interactive murder mystery dinner theatre at Morning Star Methodist Church in Ilion, NY on Saturday, April 28. I’ll try to get a number for tickets, in case any local readers are interested. In the meantime, I thought I would write about spring.

WHAT SPRING???? you may well ask. I ask it too. My thermostat said it was 41 degrees out this afternoon. I am in desperate need of exercise, so I went for a walk. I love to walk and thought I might be able to write a decent Pedestrian Post about it, but I’m afraid it was a depressing walk. Everything was brown and crappy-looking. We are over half-way through April, for heavens’ sake. Would a few flowers, maybe some green spouts, buds on the trees be too much to ask for? Apparently so. Additionally, I have some things on my mind which I will not bore you with (Freudian typo: I started to put “now bore you with,” which tells me it is boring of me to mention them at all, so sorry).

When I got home, I thought I saw a tiny flash of yellow in my back yard. Was it… could it be… it WAS! A crocus! I rejoiced. Then I got my Tablet and took a picture:

Note the brown grass. Tsk, tsk.

Then I took a better picture:

It does my heart good.

I went out front, to see if there were any more crocuses. There were not, but I saw some green stuff that might eventually be tulips and lilies of the valley.

I think this is the tulip.

I think these are lilies of the valley.

As you can also see, I have some yard work to do. There are lots of last year’s leaves still to be raked, and some garbage to be picked up. It isn’t my garbage; it blew there in one of the recent wind storms. At least nobody came along and dropped a house on me.

While I was out front, I took a picture of what the sidewalk plow did to us, and to almost everybody else in the village. I had wanted a “before” picture of that, so when I fix it I can see what a good job I did (or not, let’s be honest).

You know, I think those are new cracks in the sidewalk as well. Damn!

Look at me, I’m over 400 words! I think that’s fine for a Wuss-out Wednesday! Now I’d better get ready for rehearsal. There is nothing like a little murder to perk things up midway through the week.

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Nosferatu and Flowers

Posted on May 4, 2017 by mohawkvalleygirl

I wonder if I should make Nosferatu the mascot of this blog. This evening, not wanting to do another Running Commentary and having no other blog post anywhere in my brain, I went out into my yard and took some pictures on my tablet. I used the tablet to transfer the pictures to my blog then went to the laptop to add the words (hoping I could think of some). And look what the first picture was:

Isn’t he charming? I must have tapped the picture by accident.

Being less than computer literate can add interest to one’s life, I find. Getting back to the pictures I intended to use, here are some tulips in our front yard:

They are surrounded by lilies of the valley, which has not bloomed yet.

We did not plant any tulips, but the first spring we were in this house, one yellow tulip sprouted. Yay! It has taken some years, but now we are getting several. The picture doesn’t show it, but there are more buds which have not bloomed yet.

What our front yard had in abundance at first were wild orange day lilies. The stems were long and didn’t have any leaves on them. I thought they looked blowsy. Steven kept mowing them down and eventually they got discouraged. That was when a single shoot of peony came up. That has multiplied in succeeding years as well. Here is a photo of the peony bush so far:

I’ll post another picture when they bloom.

Moving into the backyard, I took a picture of a lovely plant we purchased at a Garden Festival at the Herkimer Home in Little Falls. I forget what it is called.

I like that the greenery is so pretty even without the flowers.

It has grown and spread since the first year, which I do not mind a bit. In fact, a little piece of it magically appeared further back in the yard, near my chives:

Yeah, there’s a dandelion, too, but I don’t dare pull it up, because I read somewhere that dandelions are good for bees.

So this is my yard before I have done any work in it. Since I led with Max Schreck, I wish I could say it looked a little scary, but I think it is actually kind of nice. I hope to post more pictures as it starts to look even better. As always, I hope you’ll stay tuned.

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Lame: Ain’t it Grand?

Posted on May 10, 2014 by mohawkvalleygirl

It does not matter how many ridiculous posts I may have in a week, I still love my Lame Post Friday, home of random observations and half-baked philosophy.

I took my schnoodle Tabby for a walk this afternoon, hoping to come up with some of the former. Mostly I observed tulips in people’s yards. I love tulips. I think I like the orange and yellow ones best. They are blooming late this year, as are most things. Perhaps I should go into some half-baked philosophy here about being something of a late bloomer myself. Then again, most people probably do not want to hear about my bloomers (sorry, couldn’t resist).

I also observed a young couple on the sidewalk a block or two ahead of me, holding hands. Young love, ain’t it grand? My main observation was of their clothing. It seems to me that gender divisions in clothes are becoming more pronounced. The boys’ are getting baggier while the girls’ are getting tighter. Well, I have not exactly done a study.

The warm weather does seem to have people in a better mood (just to put in some more half-baked philosophy). Warm weather, warm hearts? Well, Tabby and I enjoyed it. For the first time since fall, I walked without any kind of jacket.

Wow, this is a really boring post (my next stunning observation). However, my gentle readers will suffer no longer. I’m over 200 words. Happy Friday, everybody.

Mohawk Valley Girl