Happy (belated) New Year!

Posted on January 3, 2022 by Patti_is_knittinginflashes

2022 is only three days old and new enough to still wish everyone a happy start to the year.

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything and once again WordPress has changed a few things around on this end. If things don’t look right, I’ll do my best to fix them.

2020 and 2021 are behind us. Thank you, Lord! Let’s hope and pray that the pandemic porn and craziness in the world ends and we get back to normal living. You do your life and I’ll do mine.

This is a new year. So many people designate a “Word of the Year” and try to focus on that word for the next 365 days. I’ve not done that but if I had to pick a Word of the Year, it would be “light”. I want to lighten up my attitude, thoughts, surroundings, and body.

Spontaneity is light, overplanning is not. Looking forward is light, ruminating the past is not. Painting the cement block walls in the basement is light, leaving them as is, is not. Clean dust-free surfaces are light, clutter is not. Eating less and healthier is light, overindulging is not. Walking is light, being a couch potato is not.

Do you have a Word of the Year? If so, what is it? Do you consciously focus on it each day?

Never forget

Posted on September 11, 2021 by Patti_is_knittinginflashes

I’ve known this man since he was four years old. His mother and I took turns carpooling him and my daughter to preschool many years ago. I’ve since lost touch with them though I occasionally see his father at the market.

Jonathan was at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Here is a link to his story.

November 6, 2018

Posted on November 6, 2018 by Patti_is_knittinginflashes

Me vs the robins

Posted on April 27, 2018 by Patti_is_knittinginflashes

Part 2 of the robin saga.

So far the lion didn’t work. Nor the fluorescent marker idea from some other websites. Nor the picture of a cat.

Dirty birds! They sit on the railing and attack their reflection through the screens. Then they sit on the railings and poop then start all over again.

Waxed paper on the outside of the outside of the windows seems to work…until it rains. Our front porch is covered so the waxed paper was still good but…

…not so much on the back window.

I went to our tiny town post office and decided to stop at one of the “dollar’ stores looking for mylar pinwheels to stick in some styrofoam in front of the big window in the back of our house. No pinwheels but they did have a rubber snake and mylar balloons.

I scrubbed the back of the house and window sill before I placed my new friend there. You can see the striped and patterned pillows in the window. I was hoping they would be enough of a distraction to keep the birds from attacking the window. Didn’t work.